Woodstown register. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 187?-1892, 1871-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

~ towards woman suffrage. -,
Mrs. E. Upper Wilkes, the Minnesota
clergywoman, has a salary Of $1,000 a
year, and is to get more. ss5ss vast
although they are the very ones who are
obliged to go out in "mistys moisty"
weather-that indulge in this graceful
Weekday costume.
A Galesburg farmer, whose pew rent
was raised to $25, exclaimed: "Great
Caesar, here's q nice state of affairs-the
gospel going up and pork going down.
What's to become of us 7"
An eccentric citizen of st. Louis died
recently, and left in his will $1,000 to a
man who, 10 years before, had run away
with his wife. One Of the last thingshe
said was that he never forgot favor.
Columbus, Ohio, has On exhibition a
hotel porter who until within q few.
years ago was as black as black could be,
but who by q gradual peeling process is
becoming the palest of blondes. saA'eea
The Washington Star tells us that the
ladies at the Capitol have to a great ex-
tent banished wines from their parties,
and are now beginning acrusade against
cigars in the gentlemen's dressing-rooms.
It is a good argument in favor Of the
appointment of women to political Office
that among the two hundred OF more
postmistresses in the United States, not
one has, so far, been charged with defal-
cation. ia
A newly-arrived contraband from
South Carolina who asked, for lodgings
at the New Haven Station House, the
other night, wore no less than six coats,
and in the pocket of one a bottle con-
tanning q taste Of "Jersey lightning"
was found. When it was produced, the
exclaimed, Who put dat dar bottle in
my pocket? De man dat did dat ar am
no friend of mine" .
A Chinese laundryman at Kansas City
has got an editor there, who is q bache-
lor, down on him, and there will proba-
bly, be a second Bill Nye riot. The edi--
tor had his washing returned to him as
follows: They sent home with u
washing yesterday q thing that branches
off in two Ways a little below the top,
like a railway junction, and has quicker
ed frills edged with tatting" on each
end of the divide. We don't know what
it is, and we're a poor friendless man,
with only our virtue, and none but vii
lains would seek to injure that.
It is commonly believed that iron and
steel become brittle by exposure to frost,
and accidents on railroads in cold wealth
er are often attributed to this cause. Re-
cent experiments made in England go to
show that the idea is not well founded,
and that if there be any difference in
elasticity in metals at high and low tenn
peratures, it is in favor of the latter.
One investigator, Mr.. Spence, subjected
some cast-iron bars to q trial of strength
at go degrees and at zero, and found that
the reduction of temperature, other
things being equal, increased their pow
er of resistance. It is urged, too, that
quite as many breakings Of axles and
rails occur in summer as in winter, and
that the true cause of them is bad werk-
manship or methods of manufacture.
The New Orleans Picayune tells the
story of a printer, who, when his fellow
workmen went out to drink, beer during
the working hours, put in the bank the
exact amount which he would have
spent if he had gone out to drink. He
kept to this resolution for five years. he
then examined his bank account and
found that he had on deposit $52t sc.
In the five years he had not lost . day
from ill-health. Three out of five of his
fellow-workmen had, in the meantime,
become drunkards, were worthless 8
workmen, and were discharged. The
water-drinker then bought out the
printing Office, went on enlarging his
business, and in 20 years from the time
he began to put by his money was worth
100000. The story, whether new or
old, teaches a lesson which every young
mechanic should lay to heart.
The Cincinnati Gazette crises to, ex-
plain" its views about q popular poem,
and the duties of the modern newspaper
thereanent, in the following language:
1--WE thought we were going to get
through the winter without having a
call from the poem entitled Beautiful
Snow but the falling fakes yesterday
brought out A Lady Subscriber who
desires to see it in print ono more. 1t
is wonderful poem-one of those des-
tined to live forever, and occupy q warm
corner in the heart of all womankind.
We have published it twice every winter
for the past ten years, but must decline
this winter. We do not wish to wear
out a good thing. 1t is q beautiful
poem. It was written by Major Sigour-
ney, Charles Faxon, Dora Shaw, and q
man named Watson. One or two other
persons may have assisted, but they are
not worthy of mention."'0 eel4 ia
Col. P. FL. Raiford of Texas has laid
before the st. Louis Board of Trade the
plan of a new water route for steam
ships from the Mississippi to the Attain
TIC The proposed route begins six and
a half miles below New Orleans, and
comprises a succession of canals, lakes,
rivers, and bays, terminating at Charles
ton. According to the Colonel's esti-
mate only 125 miles of cutting would
be necessary on the entire route, and
the total cost of the whole canal when
completed, he thinks, would not be more
than $12,0 ,OOO, or g little more than
twice as much as the cost of the new
bridge across the Mississippi at st.
Louis. The st. Louis merchants think
favorable of the project, and expect as
the result of its execution an immense
trade in grain, cotton, sugar, lumbar,
rosin, pitch, and ~turpentine. They be-
lieve that, with the combined advantage
of Railroads canal and the Gulf Stream,
wheat raised in Omaha can be conveyed
to the leading ports Of Europe at To-
half the cost required to put it in the
city Of New York by rail, and fondly
cherish the ;daa that altar fhA e-n<arnrisn