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Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
He Doesn't Like BIoomern.

A farmer in Delaware county has put his conservative sentiments on record by affixing to tree on his premises a notice that "any idiot of the new wom- an species found riding or walking on these premises will be arrested. !" Inter- viewed as to his precise meaning, Agric- ola declares that by "any idiot of the new woman species" he means lone of these fools in bloomer costume on wheel" Three things. then, are neces- sary to expose a woman to his menace: :: CD She must be fool, (2) in bloom CTS, (3) on a wheel. It will be open to any woman against whom the rustic undertakes to operate his terrors to plead that she was not intended by the injunction, because she was not on a wheel. was not in boomers or was not a fool, and the burden of proof will then rest upon the farmer. It seems that his specific grievance against the new woman is that she scares his horse, but 1t would not be practicable to pro- duce the horse before the justice of the peace and to note the effect on him of the culprit. Meanwhile the best course of woman who doubts whether she is an idiot of the new woman species is to keep of the old man's land.-New York Times.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
Billy Florence's Brother.

Inspector Conlin, who Is now acting in Byrnes' place, is grave, serious man, with snowy hair and mustache, thin face and the lisp and voice of his brother, Billy Florence, whose pride in him was an open secret to all the come dian's friends. "There s nothing against Peto," he would say, with growing con- fidence. "God grant there may never bef' I often think how proud he would be these days were he living to know that bis brother is the only one of the old regime left at his post. The last time I ever saw MT. Florence alive was one day, a fortnight before he died, on the street. He stopped me and demanded laughingly where was going ill such haste. "To police headquarters after a story" "To headquarters after sto- ry?" said Mir. Florence, and then, in a joyful tone: Maybe you'll see Peto. If you do, give him my love. " "When did you sec him last?' asked "Yester- day." in all seriousness And his last words called after me were, "Be sure and give Peto my love. New York lattpr
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
Couldn't Name the Flower,

How we walk through the world, blind to the commonest things, was il. lustrated the other day at summer boarding house. A bunch of delicate white flowers was in a little vase on the table. mixed with some wisps of droop- ing grain pods. Somebody wondered idly what made up the bouquet. It was finally decided, though not without question, that the grain was rye, but the blossoms no one recognized. When everybody had admitted that it was 8 species of wild flower that she and he had never come across, their gatherer was called, and the company, with chagrin and humiliation, received the word that they were-potato blossoms. - New York Times.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
THE nNsW" COUPLE.

She was thew" and was constructed the latest modern plan, But she lost her heart, like others, and of course twas lost to man, So at last the two were married and they started married life, AS they thought, equipped and ready, well prepared for any strife. She was posted on his business quite as thor 9ughly as he. She had studied all the details, and, as any one could see, She could run the shop or office, and it also seemed quite clear She could act as his bookkeeper or could serve as his cashier. She could sell goods on commission or could buy on thirty days. She was sharper than most merchants in all proper business ways. She could "take" from his dictation, and die tate to others too. There was nothing round the office that she really couldn't do. So they thought they were well armored for a life of great success, But the outcome of their trial was failure, moro or less. They are doomed to boarding houses, and re- gretfully they roam, For while both can run the office neither one can make a home.
 Chicago Post.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
He Gave It Away.

A few years ago prominent oil produc- CT of Pittsburg was putting down a well in territory that had never been tested for oil. He was keeping the fact pro- found secret, in order that, in case he got a good well, he might without difficulty secure all the leases he desired in the vicin- ity. He was on the ground himself, watching with great interest the indica- tions. Everything pointed to success. Two days before the we'll was expected to i'come in," he was called home. Anxious sbout the result, ho arranged with his con- tractor to telegraph him as soon as the drill reached the sand. He knew, how ever, that secrets will sometimes leak out of telegraph office, and so he told the driller that the sentence, "Pine trees grow tall, ' would mean that he had struck oil. The driller promised to do as he was or dered. The mingled satisfaction and vex ation of the produceE may be imagined when, two days later, he received the fol- lowing telegram: "Pine trees grow tall. She's squirting clean over the derrick" His hope that he should have no competi- tors for leases was disappointed.-Arg naut
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
Fellowship.
An Original Witness.

Some time since, in southwest Georgia, murder case was being tried before a certain judge The state's attorneys had seen the shooting, and they had an old ne- gro on the witness stand The negro be- came intensely interested in the story he was telling His big eyes were fixed upon the lawyer who was questioning him, and he seemed to think there was no other per son In the room. He was trembling with excitement, so much so that he stammered, and he told his story as if he was having a strictly private and confidential converse tion with the states attorney.
 And 'en, boss, he said in solemn and awestruck tones, "j-j-jes' ez Iwar a-oomin roun de cornah, sah, 1 seen him long O de lamppos'. p'-
 "What time was thisP" asked the judge.
 The witness paused just for second, as if something had disturbed him, but then, without turning his head, he wont on:
 "J-j-j jes' as 1 war a-comin roun de cor nah, boss, seen him long O de lamp pos' I''-
 The judge rapped the desk before him snartly with his gayel,
 't6topl" he said "1'he court Is asking you question. At what time did you come around the corner"
 Again the witness stopped and made a motion with his hand as if he was brush ing away fly from his ear, but he never turned around, and again started to tell his story: =.... ..
 "Ez I wuz a-sayin, boss, I rounded dat dilh cornah, an I seen him long O de''-
 Tho judge brought his mdllet down with a noise which almost caused the witness to leap off the stand, and roared out:
 "What do you mean, sir? If you do not answer my question instantly, shall com init your'
 The witness turned, faced the court and said In deprecating tones:
 "L-l-look CT yere, boss, doan' you see I'm talkin to dis gen 'lman?"
 The lawyers were almost convulsed with laughter, the judge bent his head and shook with merriment, and the witness was allowed to finish his story undis- turbed.-Atlanta Constitution.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
Preparing For Q Big Blast.

Preparations are being made at Long Cove, Me, for one of the biggest quarry blasts ever made in this country. The object of attack is 8 miniature moun- tain of granite 76 feet in perpendicular height. In the face of this ledge, at the foot, tunnel is being driven, which, when completed, will be T shaped, the main stem 55 feet long, with two cross arms some 30 feet in length each. Eight tons or more of powder are to be put in these side tunnels, the main tunnel ce.
 mented up and the big charge touched off. It is expected the explosion will make 6 rock pile of the mountain. - Boston Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
For the Suppression of War.

A Paris paper, Les Petites Affiches, contained the following announcement in one of its recent issues: I'M. G, Bouys, 89 Rue d'Aboukir, d Paris, has the honor to inform his fellow citizens that he still holds his plan for the sup pressions of War in Europe at the dispo- sition of the French government when ever it chooses to do him the honor to ask him for it.. " An enterprising citizen of Connecticut once advertised that, on receipt of $l, he would send an infalli- ble recipe for fat persons to become thin His formula was, Don't eat anything for year. :" M. Bouys' plan for the SUD- pression of wars may be, "Don t fight. |"
 Chicago Times Herald
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
A Porcine odditv.

D. K. Persons, farmer of Red Mills, Ark, is the owner of pig that com pletely lays all other freak porkers in the shade, It is perfectly devoid of hair and has double set of eyes, feet like human hands-even to the nails-one very large ear and face which looks more like that of a young baby than it does like that of regulation pig. From between the upper set of eyes projects q proboscis like that of young elephant.
 This proboscis has two holes through it's entire length, and it is through them that piggy gets his supply of air. MT.
 Persons values the freak at 1000, and his neighbors say that he takes greater care of it than all of the rest of the stock on the place St. Louis Republic.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
What the South Can Do.

1t is evident that the south has at hand, and therefore cheap, all the raw materials entering into manufactures !; that its labor and cost of living are cheaper than at the north; that it can, in consequence, manufacture goods of all kinds at less cost than the north or the west; that it cannot only supply the home demand, but also export goods with profit; that in the finer lines of manufactures it Is extending it's opera tions with success, and that, to compete with it, wages in the north must be re- duced. With all these advantages on its side the fault will be with the south if it fails to reach out its hands and take what nature has so kindly offered From Industrial Future of the South, ' by Frederic G. Mather, in North Amer ican Review
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
uoUSAToNIC R. R. ROUTE. Commencing sunday. June 10. 1898.
 ootNa Aou4u

ooINo SOUTH .nve North Adams 20 m, pittsneid ' IS, Canaan %, Arrive New Haven II %. Bridgeport il 20. New York II th. Leave Albany 10 n m, sinte Line s co. Pitts field X 10, Canaan 8 70. Arrive Bridgeport IA 05 p. m.. Newliavon l2 90. NewYork a.oo. Leaye Albany 10 co .. rh.. State Line II tb. North Adams IA ib r. m., pittsneld l 70, CAnRan 2 s2. Arrive Bridgeport co, New Haven c 90, New York g.. Leave Albany 10 70 a. m.. State Iine fI th. Pitts0cld l2 sb P. m,, Canaan 2t1. Arrive Br dgeport 90. New Haven 500, New York 9O0 Leave Albany 22l p. m., Slate Une. 3 so. pittsheld 8 30, CHnaan { ga. Arrive Bridge port S0.' New Haven s co, kes York %. Leave North Adams 8 0o ?. m. piitensld 70. Canaan blg. Arrive Bridgeport 90. New Haven q 60.
 Sundays only) Leave piitsneld ts ?. m. Canaan 8 2b. Arrive Bridgeport 0b, New Haven $ 20. New York 100.
 oorso NORTH Loave Now York co n. m. Bridgeport os. New Haven Jn, Canaan 60, Arrive fitis- field II 05, state Line 10 q, Albany i2 2t ?. nn. saratoga 2 IS, North Adams IA oe. LeRvo New York co a. m., Bridgeport 10 ou. New Haven Q 70, Canaan f2 ss r. m. Arrive pittafield 2 03 D. m, State Line So. AL bany 43 Saratoga 20. Laave New York s01a. m, Bridgeport 10 o0. New Baveu 9 70, Canaan IA go D m. Arrive Piusaeld 30, North Adams se, Albany 4 49, Saratoga 4 %.
 Leave New York co a. m. Bridgeport II 10. New Haven 10 20, Canaan c 10 P. m. Arrive Pittrfeld 10 ib p, m.
 Leave New York Sn0 D. m. Bridgeport 2b, New Haven 30, Canaan bb. Arfnve Pitts field 10, North Adams 9 10. State Llns 8 IS, Albany g 40.
 
 New Haven A 20, Canaan I 2A Arrive Pius- field s 50. State Line lb, Albany Q %. Sundays onlyl Leave Bridgeport T s5 a. m. Canaan 10 IS. Arrive Pittshold II sa.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22
Wednesday, Aur. 2I.

Ex-Senator Ingalls, says he Is willing to be a senator again.
 Eugene A. Mack, molder, committed suicide by hanging himself at Auburn, N. Y.
 The porte has again rejected the demand of the powers that the proposed reforms in Armenia shall be under foreign control.
 Twelve bodies have so far been taken out of the ruins of the Gumry hotel at Denver, and it is evident that the death roll when complete will contain 24 or 25 names, possibly more.
 Patrick Dowdell of Gloversville, N. r., has sued tho Central Hudson Railroad company, alleging that he was thrown from train.
 Ex-Asscmblyman George ". Henry of Camden, N. d., has brought suit for di- vorce against his wife, Sarah Henry, al- leging adultery. The correspondent named is Attorney Weaver.
 Captain Davis of the Salvation Army at Jamaica. N. r., was knocked down by @ bicycle and severely injured. Miss Davis was removed to her home, while bystand- CTS caught the rider, and he was locked up.
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22

Trains stop only on signal. or when oonduo-' tor is notifed.
 Additional Sunday trains leave west winstcd ak5 a m arriving al Ha,tford Hi7 a m. Le VI ,artford T.is D. m arriving at West wtnsted R4Sp m
 Trains leave Pouvhkecpsic for Hopewcli ia N asl and a0 a. m, 70 and 10 ? ID. sunday Trains leave Hopewcll for Pouvhkeopsic S. [ so and 10 ts a in, a and 100 D m sunday
 roNNECrIoNs
 At Hartford with the N Y &N HH.N.Ya IL & H. IL N, Hartford and Valley pivi- si1ns. at simsbury and Pine Moados with Y Y.,N. IT. sH, K k,, Northampton livlKion at wtnstead with N I., N H n, K N, Naur- atuck Division: st Canaan with Housatnnie R R at Millerton and Mt Riga with Harlem Division, N. Y. c. III R R R at Boston cor ners with Harlem Division N, V. Q. All M R n, and N. Y. N. R. R at Poughketpsie with NY. c. &H. R R R. at Rhtneclin with N. Y c 6 RR R., and by ferry Co Rondout wi'h ulster x Delaware R. H at haybrook wlIh Lehi fh S Hudson K h at camnecIl all with &R R. R. and wAitiu Valley R R
 Through cpacn to and from Grand Central station via VI tertan
 Hartford. Conn
Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22

and we sing when they sing; but when we have trouble we like plenty of old folks around. Why? They know how to talk.
 Take an aged mother, 70 years of age, and she is almost omnipotent in com fort. Why? She has been through it all. At o'clock i'll the morning she goes over to comfort young mother who has just lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At 12 o'clock of that day she goes over to comfort wid- owed soul. She knows all about that. She has been walking in that dark val ley 20 years. At 4 o'clock in the after noon some one knocks at the door, want ing bread. She knows all about that. Two or three times in her life she came to her last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she goes over to sit up with some one severely sick. She knows all about it. She knows all about levers and pleu- risies and broken bones. She has been doctoring all her life, spreading plasters and pouring out bitter drops and shak- ing up hot pillows and contriving things to tempt poor appetite. Drs. Aber- nethy and Rush and Hosack and Harvey were great doctors, but the greatest doc tor the world ever saw is an old Chris tian woman. Dear mel Do we not re- member her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood? Was there any one who could ever so touch sore without hurting it?
 Where did Paul get the ink with which to write his comforting epistle? Where did David get the ink to write his comforting Psalms? Where did John get the ink to write his comforting Rev elation? They got it out of their own tears. When a man has gone through the curriculum and has taken course of dungeons and imprisonments and shipwrecks, he is qualified for the work of sympathy.
 When began to preach, my sermons on the subject of trouble were all poetic and in semiblank verse, but God knocked the blank verse out of me long ago and have found out that I cannot comfort
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15

A correspondent Of the Popular Sci
ence Monthly calls attention to a curl
Gus foreshadowing Of the invention of
the photograph In q book published at
Paris in 1853, Of an imaginary visit TO
the states and empires Of the moon
"Histoire Comique des Etats ct Empire
de Ia Lune," by Cyrano de Bergerac.
The author imagines himself, In the
course Of his lunar travel, left by his
guide to pass an hour with some books.
They do not resemble earthly books,
but are little boxes.
"On opening one Of these boxes !
found 1 know not what kind Of metal
similar to our clockwork. composed Of
l know not how many little devices
and imperceptible machinery. 1t was
o book certainly. but a most marvellous
one, which has neither leaves nor char
acters; a book to understand which the
eyes are useless-one needs only use
his ears.
when one wishes to read this book
ne connects 1t by a sort Of little nerve
to his ears. Then he turns a needle to
the chapter that he wishes to hear and
Immediately there energies from the
instrument as from the mouth Of a
man or from a musical instrument. all
the words and sounds which serve the
grands lunaires for language"
The writer adds that Cyrano anticr
pated many aeronautic inventions, and
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15
rohna radr,. neroYsn.

Rather than expose his mother 70
diphtheria, 17-year-old Frank Rock, al
though sick enough to die, tried to walk
four miles to his farm home. Two hours
later he was found beside the road
with blood-soaked clothing, having tai
len from exhaustion, and suffered a Sc
ere hemorrhage. Young Rock Is a son
of Mi. and Mrs. Hyatt Rock, who live
on the Sexton farm four and q half
miles from GAINESVILLE on the Evans
Vile road. He had been complaining
of not feeling well of late, but would
not admit that he was sick. Finally
his mother thought he had better see
n doctor. and took the lad to GAINESVILLE.
Young Rock went to a physician and
was told that he had q severe case Oh
diphtheria. He left word for his mother
not TO wait for him and then proceed
ed on his way home. When the mother
heard Of his act she started In search
of him and found the lad on the road
side. He was moved to the house n
the family took up their residence In the
barn. Although nearly dead from ex-
haustion, the boy Will probably re-
coyer.-Mlwaukee Evening Wisconsin
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15
Disprovine a Common Saying.

1t Is a well-knuwn fact that th,
"bolts of Jove'' seem to have special
spite at certain spots, anc that the
old saying that 'iightning nevel
strikes twice 10 the same place. Is az
false as most of the old proverbs are,
The writer knows a tree that has
been struck by lightning five times
since July 3, 1884, a gate post stand.
ing within two rods of that tree hav.
ing twice been struck since the same
date. During the last seven years
i've horses have been killed BY light
ming on a single knoll ON the French
farm, which lies on the road leading
from Flint to Flushing, Mich, and
nearly every tree on the same farm
Is said to bear the marks of the
s'forked fury" An open lot at East
Great Plains, Conn, has been shit by
thunderbolts, as an old resident OF
that place expresses it, eleven differ.
ent times sipce the spring Of 1887,
and a piece OF woods not o than
half a mile away has been literally
riddled by the electric shots. At
West Heath, Mass, a hill near the
village schoolhouse has been struck
by lightning 30 often that the old
settlers have tired trying to keep a.
record Of the singular occurrences.
Two miles out from the little village
OF Gosport Iowa, two houses and a,
barn have been struck by lightning
one-fourth Of an acre, and several
head OF stock were killed on the same
spot before 1t was fenced for resi-
dence purposes. st. Louis Republic
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15
Love OF che Fantastio.

wr.
~ uenolu 1ue re-
sults opcalneo oy norists VINO prinR
planes, notaoiY roses, pansies q
cnrysanonemuns TO n nignest point
!. cutsisa.ion II osaer 70 increase Q
y 9 y she ploom, we are Hiied with
auinlra.lon, tnas seems a worthy am.
oilion inaeed. but IN the oiden Time
me mania N Tue great gardens oil
palaces ana 9 iateaus was to
torture PLANTS. ana py Trim make
them assume tne forms OF men and
animals Inc Tim expended TO OBJ
am results was great but the results
themselves were not Queer, quaint
are tine qualified terms Of praise that
alone eau pc accorded TO Them. such
gardens are now rare enough, but one
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15

The horror with which the disco
tion Of human bodies by medical stu
dents was almost universally regard
ed a generation or more ago, is grad
ually disappearing. Intelligent pub
lie sentiment now recognizes the me-
cessity OF knowledge In the physician
which he al gaini q no other way,
and In Wisconsin and many other
States, there are statutes providing
means BY which bodies for dissection
can be lawfully obtained
II there v Q was any excuse for
the crime of bodysnatching, there Is
certainly none now; and IL would
seem to be In the interest of the
medical profession as well as in the
interest Of the public for scrupulous
care to be taken to prevent tawless
outrage upon the feelings OF people
who are bowed beneath the saddest
Of earthly griefs-the loss by death Of
a dear relative or friend. No physi-
clan with exalted pride in his profess
sion will willfuliY be a party to what
If generally known would tend to
create in the community a belief that
members Of that profession are de-
void of human feeling and ready to
ruthlessiy trample upon the tender
sentiment of people In deep a~fiiction.
The law providing bodies for dis
section In this State woald seem to
be clear and ample. II not, 1t can be
amended But every physician with
a tine sense Of civic duty and pro-
fessional honor must stoutly stand
for quick compliance with the pro-
visions OF the law, and must be above
collision with bodY-snatchers for the
purpose of obtaining ssubjects."-
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-15
A Wise judgement.

Here il a story which has gone the
OF three enturles and a half.
1t has been credited to many writer's,
but was first told by Rabelais:
In Paris, at q rOast-meat cookery
Of the Petit Chastelet, u certain hum
gry porter was eating his bread and
at the same time smiling the reek
and steam from a fat goose which
was being turned on a spit before a
great fire. thereby gaining sayorY ac-
compartment to his dry ration.
He eat very slowly, that he might
the reeking. smoking sayory as
long IS possible, and when his penny
loaf bad been consumed he attempted
to depart Put the cook was not OF
that mind. The master of the shop
! i'd hold u on him by the gorget
pay for the smoke and
steam of the goose. The porter de-
INJURED. The cook claimed that a
portion Of the meal had clearly been
made from the SAVIOR snuffed up and
swallowed.
1t CHANGED, while the discussion
was going on, that Seyny Jean, the
fool, entered the shop, and the mat.
t-r was referred to him.
"Wilt thou submit to the judg-
ment Of this good c~itizen?" asked the
cook.
"Ay, by the blood Of the goose,
that / will" answered the porter.
The story was then told and the
argued. The fool listened at
tentively and In the end ne asked
the porter to let him take two pieces
Of his money. The poor man drew
from his fob two pieces of copper.
Jean took them and iingled
them awhile between his two hands,
and then gave them back whence he
had received them. Then to the
cook he said; 1.-THE porter did smell
Of thy goose, and thou hast heard
the jingle Of his money. Thou hast
thy goose intact; he hath his money,
as seemeth to me right and proper;
and now this court doth decree, fur
ther. that every n go about his own
business, lest we have too many fools
among US"
A story somewhat similar TO this
appears in the "Arabian Nights"
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