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WOODBURY..
THE HUNTER WAS SURPRISED.

THE HUNTER WAS SURPRISED.
There is man that. works in the
shop who processes to be a great hunter,
although his name has not yet been
placed upon the roll of fame. This
aforesaid worthy hunter left his oc-
cupation to go on hunting expedition
for day or two, last week, and during
his absence some of his artistically in
clined shopmates spent an hour or more
in decorating the place where he
worked. Seventeen squirrel tails and
1874 SQUIRRELS feet were gracefully
festooned about, five squirrel skins
with heads, were apparently climbing
and crawling in various directions, two
coons heads and five coons feet were
placed upon the bench. One\of the
coons was straining his eyes through a
pair of spectacles and an apple was
hung above the bench and stuck full
of quilts from partridge tail.
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CARL BADER,

WASHINGTON DEPOT MARKET
Washington Depot.
At full line of meats always on hand. Gam
in he season. Meats always of prime quality
and prices reasonable.
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ioCIlOOl Opcucu vi NlOiludy VI UIlIS
week with Miss Patterson of Corn
wall Bridge as teacher in the senior
department and Miss Elizabeth F..
Hart in charge of the primary depart
ment.
Miner P. Rogers was in Litchtield,
this week, on jury duty.
Huston COchrane has been in New
York state and Massachusetts after
cattle, spending about week away
from home.
Miss Nellie J. Wolfe spent several
days last week with her friend, Miss
Alice NJ. Hill, at Pond Point Beach,
Milford.
Mrs Miner of Falls Village and Mrs
Dibble of Valley Stream, L. l., were
guests at the Hon l.. J. Nickerson's
this week.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs H. NJ
Pratt on October 2.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Fem ant
daughter, Violet, who have been visit
ing at George H. Beck's, have return
ed to their home at Yalesville.
Invitations are out for the We ddinI
Of Miss Jessie G. Cochrane to Miner P
| Rogers at noon on October p.
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paid purchases
within 30
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To- d THE LADIES TO CARRY AWAY THE
GREAT SILVER cANDLEsTIcKs AS SOUVENIRS.
once. after a slight vol in the vent, bobbed
up serenelv vol-au-vent Raphael Tuck,
INST as the flet Gibbs became the filet Gen.
Williams!
Frederic is undoubtedly double bars
relied gast ronomic expert: but 70 the ner.
vous and the fastilio"s there is something
9isquieting about HE fireworks. Paillards,
Durand's and Larie's are all more or less
on the up.to-date track. with gay special
ties. or these the Rouen duckling always
uT- o-date, but no longer new is most
talked about and oftenest ordered by new.
coming Americans
solemn, idiot declare 10 rapt audience Of
young ladies' lis a young female duck that
that not a drop Of Blood leaves its BODY ',
II Is baked until it Il at its most juicy point
In a porcelain pot-I forget what II is baked
w!th-and then brought to me TO look at"
"Ohl" chornssel the young ladies'
The msi no d'totel then Jumps IL into a
chafng-d ish, slices of the best parts, which
he serves me in the sauce that is to be con-
carcass Ia placed In a steel press whose
force Is so gigantic that flesh and bones are
reduced TO the form and consistency of q
brickbat, while the juices gush out! 10
swith these that the great sAuce is made"
All. we'll, az the manager of Maxim's
saws, 1t is his pleasurel" I have a friend,
n sef-made man we'll on In years, sausa ge
caser from Chicago, who comes to Europe
| every autumn on his way to Asia Minor,
| where he buys up sausage castings from
| The slayers Of goats, asses. horses, dogs
and other quadrupeds. He always makes
| a little stayat Paris and he has had expert.
| ence Of all the best restaurants. Yet the
| last time | met him he was coming from
| Collins table d. o,e in the q .ssa &c Of the
| Orera. where they give a complete dinner,
| from soup TO nuts. wine included, for ono
franc fifty.
Think Of the money II leaves me TO take
TO Georges and the Chatham BARI he ex1
planned i am coma lent" he added, as {
got him into n cab. am confident that
too much money is thrown away on mere
food"
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the field not covered by any player on the
| opposing side.
If the ball touches the bat az all the batter
must run for the nearest place to the left
not to the right as IN American ball games.
| lie must Iua whether the result of the
touch tthe term hit Is not used be what
| would be known In baseball as fair or foul
There are no men stationed on the bases.
but 1t Is the play Of the cutters TO catch OF
| PICK up the ball mo point Ia counted Nv
catching fly balD and TO throw il at the
neeinR batsman so that il will point him.
An American bow would call this burning
or singing. but the soft ball used in town
ball does not hurt
When runner Is hit he Is without" and
SO II goes until all the men of one side are
without. Then the withins take the ir place
in the field and SO on
When man is put without he retires from
the game entirely for that term. or inning,
and thus the number of withins gradually
decreases until there is only one left or
course. there Is no hope for him unless he
can make what we would call a home run
and what they call a round This is not
often done
Every American 10y has in his youth
thrown ball up against q blank wall to
catch II on the rebound The English hoy
mas made game of his which he calls
cry out. In front Of dead wall three sides
OF square are marked on the ground The
square.
The crier Is chosen by the method which
every boy knows, that IL. by hand over
hand on stick, Most American bows
cal this choosing up The one who is
chosen tales his place in the middle Of the
edge. Wy VIZ Wv
The crier then numbers them one, two,
three. Nc. the number of boys on the line
being unlimited. The cricr throws the ball
against the wa sometimes on n slant and
sometimes straight-quite NJ il pleases him.
ne may throw II hard oreasv. IA hc peases.
AZ the instant il strircs he must call out
the number OF some ono of the boys on the
,ihe. II does not matter which one, so
long rs no member is called twice in sue.
cessioI and so long as AL the members
are called in one round.
-, The one who is called must try TO catch
the pail II he does then he b, comes crier-
the hest place in the and remnins
crler until some one catches a ball thrown
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celebrated painters lost the use OF their
legs; The walters had TO carry them
bodily TO cabs
And the ladiee?'
oh, they do not drink nowadays" was
the reply Of the manager of the most femi-
nine night restaurant Of Paris.
There Is nothing in all this to cause I'M
easiness. We who are settled in virtuous
WAYS feel no temptation to break dinner
plates or rend the wires from the piano.
Nor are we constrained to order cham
payne In any Paris restaurant, nor hot =
house fruit nor primsurs Paris il pecu-
nary city OF primcurs; hot-house fruits
ana vegetables inquire on these menus as
commonly as do beans on others.
The mai re dl DEL at Paillard's. did he
dare. would willingly explain TO you that
nothing real is to be gained by plucking
and eating the fruit Of the delightful little
cherry-trees growing in porcelain pots.
The walters hand them round at night when
you happen to have a very pretty girl be-
side you.
Nine dollars! or course, you may take
the tree away with you, IL 81 disposed, and
put II on your balcony: lu an order of
vanilla ice-cream is more filling; and the
walters will be perfectly willing TO serve il
Of course IL may be embarrassing to ask
the very pretty one not to eat Of the fruit
thereof: she will want to pluck it-there
IL great precedent! The obvious way
out, therefore, is not TO take your girl to
Palilar0 =. 10 alone.
You see, il all comes to this: do YOU want
to feed your stomach or your eye-or your
pride' The feeding Of ones pride and
even OF ones eye in supper ~ staurants
comes higher than plain stocking: and one
hears OF grea, deal Of petty gouging in
the sylvan establishments which keep their
doors open 20 late in autumn and early
winter season.
sometimes the victims write to the Paris
papers. Such was Belgian and his wife
who recently had to pay 81 50 for three
poached eggs the fourth being good only
In parts Such an establishment in the
Bois charged friends OF mine g. so for n
melon at time when melons could be had
for so cents apiece
Al the chateau de Madrid in the full
Bots; at the Pavilion d'Armenonvlle, the
very country club Of the fast set; at the
Ami assadeurs, in the Champs Elyse,s
and al Maxm'- and the ,afa de Paris
their strong hold h the spectacle of gayety.
And indeed 1t makes a gorgeous sight to
watch those ladies'" entering with their
lords and masters OF the day or mayhap
with train Of bacchanalian followers
to take their favorite tables, kept for them
by the management on the mere hope that
they may turn up to grace the feast and
advertise the shop.
Their skirts rustic, their gauzy chifyons
sparkle with jewelled pins and buttons
they revel In fantastic collars. row on row
OF pearls. while their corsage is a conste ella
ton OF diamonds and colOred stones and
thor Immense hats poems OF posies.
To see. one must pay fair price, but
there is one device. known and dres ded
by walters and proprietors, whereby the
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ENGLISH BOYS BALL GAMES.
Two Pastines That American Boys Would
Find II Worth While to Try.

In the main the games OF the boys of
England are much the same az those of
the boys of the United States, but there
are some notable exceptions
Most Of the ball games which American
boys play-baseball, one, two and three
old cat, Sc.-are practically not played by
Engand's youngsters, Cricket and vari-
atoms of II take the place of all Of them.
To the average American boy cricket
would seem like very slow game. which
probably accounts for the fact that il has
never gained much of foothold in the
United States.
Still some of the games played with balls
and bats in Great Britain are interesting
enough to make it worth while for Ameri-
can boys 10 try them. For instance, there
il town ball.
This is not played with n ball at all like
an American baseball, bu, with light, hol-
low rubber ball, invariably white in
color. The English boys call this ball a
bouncer
The ba, is called delll, and is fat like
cricket bat, only not 80 wide. IL is Legs
than two-thiros as long "a the American
baseball bat. II would be- easy for any
boy who Is ordinarily clever with his pocket
knife to make one ont Of an old fence picket
by forming handle al one end and sauar-
ing II of the other end and slightly round
NIX lil' 'oiiIeISs Ilt Ddl uOt'S not rpUlllr,.
any such strength rs a baseball bat and
therefore, may be made of soft wood
There Is "a home base much larger than
All American home base. There NAV be-
as many other bases rs the players desire.
Thus, the field may be three-coriiered,
it may be four-cornered; II may be five. six
seven or ght-cornered. In England the
eight-corlcrvd, or octagonal, Aid is Rener-
ally preferred
The distances between the bases, which
IL. k..x, IL. l.
same at those between the bases of m,
American baseball field
The pitcher is placed about the same
a. the American pitcher In baseball He
IL knosn as girer, and his work require,
much less onorgy and skill than that of the
American baseball pit cher. for no merely
throws or gives the hall swiftly overland
to the catcher. aiming to give il over the
right shoulder Of tho boy at the bat.
The batsrnan docs not really strike at
the ball, but holds the Fat bat. or deliIl. In
such q post ion that the ball will strike IL
and glance Cd or rebound to some part Of
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da and SO forth his Very Faithful Majesty.
Happily his visiting cards read simply
The King Of Portugal
From the Hotel Bristol and its simple
heavy cookery, he slips out and up the
Rue de la Paix-he is a heavy man de
lighting his eyes with the pretty shopgirL.
as they go mincing home In the cleaning
Then he turns down the boulevard to the
classical cuisine of the Maison Doree or
the Cafe Anglas or the modern smartness
Of Paillard's
When in funds, the King of This Side
and-the-Other-Side Is a royal spender
IL am to believe what a celebrated Paris
maitre d'hotel has just been telling me
he recently nourished five persons at a
cost Of 5000 francs, or $40 head.
The maitre dhotcl-who wishes 70 be
nameless-gave mo the menu
1Hors d'Puvres a la Russo: Ostend
oysters: potage Borche: consomme bra =
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II was thought II could not be made warm
| enough for public comfort.
Mr.. Bailey treated it as he had treated
the Rotunda in Vienna. He se wered II and
paved it with asphalt. put in boilers, radia-
tors, and electric lights
1T is / 400 feet long and 375 feet wide and
not a column breaks this enclosed space
II Ia made with arches and each arch rests
on wheel so that contraction or expan-
sion due to the weather IL accounted for.
1T was large enough to hold the whole
show. You could have half mile track
In II or football game. II il now used
for all sorts Of exhibitions although. before
our advent, 1t was never used in winter.
For twenty years the Barnum x Bailey
show has kept an agent in Paris az well
as In London. His business is to engage
attractions for the show--freeks, acrobats
and animals. When Mr.. Hamilton reached
Paris in advance of the circus he called
on the agent and told him few OF the things
he intended to do.
But this is Paris" saA the agent. You
cant do those things here"
Aren't they human beings here?" ask' d
Mr.. Hamilton.
Of each newspaper in Paris. The result q,
his American methods was that a speCi !
train carried thir1y-two Paris newspaper
writer's to Belgium to SEQ the show that
was soon to open in Paris, and the nexI
day each paper had column and a half
about the show and the Paris theatre and
show people were as,,u d ID.
'We ran special trains to Paris from all
nearby points," said Mr.. Hamilton. "The
Paris theatres benefited by II. for the printed
reports Of their receipts showed that for
the month they were all greater than for
the same month in the previous year.
a great disaster had been predicted for
US in Paris. They told us that Paris had
seen everything and wouldn't endure.
circus. We made a great triumph and a
great heap Of money"
Making out the route for circus demands
something more than knowing when to
skim the milk. In the early days of this
travelling entertainment James A. Bailey
knew all the post roads OF the country
so that he could lay out route which would
be down hill the whole season through,
which would have been sacrificed had the
plans been made without a knowledge OF
grades and road conditions.
Mr.. Bailey Is now the route-maker for
tho Barnum 4 Bailey show, the Sells Bros
circus and the Buffalo Bill Wild West show.
Tho three enterprises are under one di-
rector. One show Is kept in Europe and
the other two in this country.
The Buffalo Bill show will open in London
Dec. 81. Its route has been mapped out by
Mr.. Bailey and it's path will be one of roses
compared with that Of the first American
circus to invade Europe.
Mr., Bailey now knows the geography Of
Europe and the pecularities OF it's peoples
az well as he knows America. He can tell
Hungary Of more than 10000 people. what
railroads enter II, what season Of the year
Is best TO visit II. when tho people have
most money to spend for such an enter
tainment.
He knows what towns are near. what
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| transportation facilities there are to bring
people to the show place. He has studied
the map OF Europe more proftably than
did Napoleon.
| A route book has been delivered to the
Buhalo Bill show which covers it's tour of
Ereat Britain, Germany, France, Austria
| and Hungary. Over maps Of these coun-
tries Mr.. Bailey had travelled with pen of
red INK, shooting hither and thither In zlg-
| gag fashion 30 that the completed docu-
ment looks as if il might have come from
the hand of st. Nitus IN an hour of his deep
est pain.
An outsider viewing this work might easily
| conclude that Mr. Bailey had wasted much
transportation in his jumps, going early 10
one city and returning 10 another twenty
nve miles away two months later. A.
mileage is one of the large expenses of the
show Mr.. Bailey plans not to travel an inch
| farther than he must. His study of the
individuality Of towns in many countries
has brought him the knowledge of the
harvest time of each.
When Mr.. Bailey Goes home these nights
, no spreads out on the billiard tables OF hs
residence in ST. Nicholas avenue maps of
towns; villages and hamlets. He passes
over these with his trail Of red ink, carry
Ing two separate trails in mind.
He must plan for the coming summer two
routes. one for the Barnum 4 Bailey show
and one for the Sells Bros show, ench TO
conflict with the other or to bring one 10
fields laid barren by the other. 1t is harder
TO do this with two circus shows than
with circus and the Buffalo Bill show
Here's New York State sample of the
man9uvres Of the circus: II visits Water
town in the spring because il is a manu-
featuring town. In the fall, after the
hops are picked, il goes to Malone. twenty
five miles from WATERFOWL. II ii were 10
move from WATERFOWL to Malone il would
play to empty tents, In this way 1t gets
the money.
The circus is so timed that IL always plays
In big city on Monday This Is done
SO that the show will have all Of Sunday
for it's preparations.
The large cities where stay of three
days or a week is made are so strung through
the seasons programme that they AFFORD
a rest In almost evell periods for the horses
and the men. Railroad time and dir
tances are so closely calculated that the
day during the season. No jumps are 80
Ion e that performance il lost
Like good general n circus route maker
must always leave open a means Of re-
treat. Provisional routes are made u.
case II Is found desirable to drop out part
Of the original plan
If the circus is to enter Missouri and the
Mississippi rises and floods part Of the
country the route is changed al once Wheh
American Exposition TO stay a month II
developed in few days that the show
would barely make expenses. Instantly
chang was made in the plans and the show
was lifted TO the South, where II wound up
a very profitable season
The circus never has a drees rehearsal.
The first performance. generally IN Madison
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PARIS. Nov. 8.-No man can eat 500 worth
OF normal food in any Paris restaurant
The returning tourist sometimes has inter-
esting anecdotes Of how he took lady TO
Pallsrd's" in the Champs Eyls4es, where
"a small dinner always vague cost him 300
francs" Or ne has stepped into Voisin's or
the Maison Doree with his wife-the honest
msn-and gave up SIS for "a few baked
nothings."
Will tell YOU great secret these men
have not been To Voisin'- or TO Paillard's or
the Maison Dor6e. They are blufiing land
as they have not experience OF the true
prices they make it strong TO be on the safe
side
The 500 trick-it is a trick or catch. be-
cause one does not regularly think in detail
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don't tell you that "a a fact Indeed, I'm
Inclined TO think It isn't true.
IN Austria the Emperor sent his brother
and his staff TO watch the operation. We
took +s0horses of the train in seven minutes
and took the officers breath away. Their
cars over there will hold only eight horses
The Austrian army has adopted the
portable chairs and tables that we used.
thus you see the Barnum 4 Bailey show has
improved European army.
Our street parade IL 50 elaborate that
We had TO abandon II In parts OF Germany
People who saw the parade could not
Imagine there was anything more to zee.
The circus? Oh, Ne saw 1t this morn
perience in giving the public too much for
nothing"
Mr.. Hamilton toyed with an ice az ne said
80 The native European circus is very much
like the ten-cent show that journeys around
| over here II has no Autographs and il
| does not advertise.
"A man rides throu Oh the principal streets
OF n town on horseback announcing tina,
there is to be a performance. The feature
| Of all these shows Is trained horses, some
| very fine indeed.
| The proprietor Of the circus always
handles the trained horses He comes in
| dressed az ring master and makes seventeen
| bows In the course Of his little exhibition
He hires claque wherever he goes and the
| clauue applauds with everybody
1T is 40 usual over there for the owner of
the show to conduct the horse performance
| that the man who does the first performance
| Of that Kind with our circus was frequently
| pointed out as Mr.. Barnum. Some discrim-
mating ones who had hea I'd that Mr. Barnum
was dead were sure that IT was Mr.. Bailey"
Did you hire claqueT'
Mr.. Hamilton dropped his spoon and II
ratified on the floor
When the trained expression Of surprise
had departed slowly, he said:
THE leader of the claque came to see me
| in Paris. told him did not think we'd
need him. He said:
s'But you are not In New York now. Wait
You will send for me. You are just foolish
| American
I'VE never had a chance to squeeze him
| In, the seat sale WAS 30 uniformly good"
Mr.. Hamilton glowed with delight when
! he told what had been done to the historical
| castles of Europe by his bill posters.
"Koenigsburg castle where the Emperor
William was crowned had stood In solemn
| dignity for years We put a bill board up
where Germany walks uncovered. We
| they had to cut an arch through our bill
board to get into the hall.
But to get back TO France" said Mr..
Hamilton. THE Minister Of War made an
order permitting us to use the army parade
grounds wherever they were practicable
for our use. In consideration Of that court
esy Mr.. Bailey gave from $500 to u 600 to
charity at each place visited by the circus.
eve were treated with dist inguished court
frankly glad to see us and to give us their
money and we were glad 10 take II.
"In Paris We turned the Galerie des
Machines into a place available for ex-
hibitions Of all kinds during the winter
months. II Is made Of glass and iron and