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MISCELLANY.
LOST OCCUPATIONS.

Half a century ago belows-making was a
thriving trade. Every house had its pair OF
bellows, and in every well-furnished mansion
there was pair hung by the side of every fire.
place. Ipswich, in Massachusetts, acquired
quite notoriety all over New England for the
elegant and substantial articles of the kind It
produced. But as stoves and CRATES took the
place of open fire-places, and as coal was sub
stituted for wood, the demand for bellows di-
minished, until the business as separate trade
quite died out.
The same is true Of flint-cutting. Flints
were once necessary, not only for fire arms
but for tinder-boxes, and tinder-box was as ne
cessary for every house as gridiron or a skill
let. Every one who looks back to the child
hood Of forty odd years must remember the
cold Winter mornings when the persistent
crack, crack of the flint against steel sent up
from the kitchen an odor of igniting finder
and sulphur which pcrvaded the house. ]
have no more idea of what became of the flint
producers than of the old man of sorrowful
memories who thee o. fonr times week,
called at our door with birthstone matches
for sale at cent the half-dozen punches. Both
have as completely vanished from England
and New England as have the red Indians and
the Druids.
Then, again. are gone the pin-makers, who,
though they have been in their graves this
quarter of century, still figure in lectures
and essays to illustrate the advantage of diyis-
ion of labor. Instead of a pin taking dozen
men or more to cut, grind, point head, polish,
and what not, as it used to do pins are now
made by neat little machines at the rate of
three hundred a minute, of which machines a
single child attends to half dozen.
Matchmaking at the forge is another lost in
dustry. Time was, and that this nineteenth
century, when every nail was made on the an
nails per minute are made by machines The
mailer who works at the forge has but a bad
chance in competing with such antagonists
and he would have no chance at all were it not
that his nails are ten-fold tougher than the
former. As it is, the poor men follow an old
but hopeless vocation and are condemned to
live in continual hand-grps with poverty.
In the days of President Madison and Mon
roe, and even later, straw-bonnet making was
practice9 in every middle-class house where
there we're growing families, and straw lait-
ing formed the staple Of domestic leisu ewolk
At my grandfathers, around the huge kitch-
EN- fire place, Caesar, born a slave, who sat
on an oak-bench directly under the gaping
chimney and we boys who crowded upon the
settee, used to pass Winters evenings split
ting straws, while the lasses were plating
them. Then, bonnets were bonnets, covering
the head with margin of foot or to spare,
and presenting short conical shell-shaped re-
cess, in which dimpling smiles and witehing
curls nestled in comfort The work has vanish
ed, and will never reappear, unless the whirli-
gig Of fashion should glide again into the
forsaken track.-Puterson Guardian.
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lBY AurHoRIrY.l
LAWS OF NEW JERSEY.
CHAPTER cxx.

CHAPTER CXX.
An act giving the csent the Legislature of the State
Of New Jersey to the purchase by the United States of
land within this State for public purposes
l. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and General Assembly
Of the State of New Jersey That the consent of the e
iaure Of New Jersey be and the hereby given to
the purchase by the of the United States
under the authority Of the Of any tract piece
parcel of land from any individual Individuals bodies
polite or corporate within the boundaries limits oil
the state the purpose of erecting therein lighthouses
and all other needful buildings to be used lighthouse
purposes and life saving stations only and all deeds
veyances of title papers for the shall be recorded
in other cases the land records of the county in
which the land conveyed may lie and in like manner
may be recorded sufficient description by metes and
bounds courses and distances of tract tracts legal
divisions Of any public land belonging to the United
States which may be set apart by the general
ment for any either of the purposes before mentioned
by der, patent other oifcia document papers
so describing such land and the purposes for which the
same Is to be used the herein and hereby given
being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of the
eighth section of the first article of the constitution
cases made and provided.
2 And be it enacted That the lots parcels tracts
land selected together with the and appur-
tnances for the purposes before mentioned shall be hold
exempt from taxation by the state of New Jersey.
g. And be it enacted That this act shall take effect i'm
medately
Approved March 8, 1873
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4 Plea FoR TEMPERANCE.

Vice-President Wilson thus expressed him
self recently in regard to the duty of the
Church in reference to the temperance cause
: | say here what was said many years ago
in regard to slavery, that, If the minister Of
the Gospel and the members Of the Christian
Church would begin to live up to their profess
sion, this system, this evil, would be, if not
extirpated, arrested, and hundreds of thou-
sands Of our countrymen be saved from drunk
ards graves. hold It, therefore, ii IS she
first and highest duty ofthe clergymen IL Ibis
land, both BY precept and example, from tie
beginning of the year to the end Of the year,
in churches, in prayer-meetings, in their every
day life and conversation, to advocate this
cause. hold it to be the duty Of protesting
Christians, no matter what disregard Of fash
ion, of feeling, or Of taste it may cost; / hold
it to be the duty they owe their country. they
owe humanity, and they owe their Divine
Master, to do what they can to arrest these
evils of intemperance.
'sAnd / say here tonight / have little hope for
the triumph of the temperance cause until
large proportion of clergymen and of the pro-
Tossing christians of this land rise up to the
duties of the OCCASION and speak words that
shall touch the hearts of the people, and live
lives that shall blossom into fruits
Had they done their duty we never should have
had that civil war; we never should have put
two millions of men in the field to save the
Republic; we never should have had three
hundred and fifty thousand vacant chairs in
our homes. The Christian men and women
OF this land largely failed, though they were
reproached for it, to do their duty, and God
smote the people with that war; Now, we
have another evil as gigantic as slavery itself.
we are in the fight; and I call upon every
Christian minister Of this land, and every
member of the Christian Church, every man
and woman, to up and aid this work by pre-
cept and example,"
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BoRRoWINa rRounIE.

The following grand and beautiful thought
is attributed to Rev. Dewitt Talmage, of New
York:
The habit of borrowing trout o is roag be-
cause it is unbelicf Godhas promised to take
care of us. The Bible blooms witt, assurance.
Your hunger will be fed ; your sickness will be
alleviated ; your sorrows will be healed God
will sandal your feet, and shield your heart, and
smooth your path, and along by frowning crag
and opening grave sound the voices of victory
and good cheer. The summer clouds that seem
tlundercharged, really carry in their bosoms
harvests of wheat, and shocks of corn, and
Vineyards purpling for the wine press. The
wrathful wave will kiss the feet of the great
Storm-walker Our great Joshua will COM
mand, and above your soul the sun Of prosper
ity will stand still. Bleak and wave-struck
Patmos shall have apocalyptic visions, and you
sAall hear the cry of elders and sweep of wings,
and triumphs of salvation, and the voice of
hallelujahs unto God forever.
Your way winds along dangerous bridle-
paths, and amid the VOLTS howl and the
ward, till angels guard it, and trees oflfe over
arch it and thrones line it and crystalline foun-
tains leap on it, and the pathway ends at the
gates that are pearl and streets that are gold,
and temples that are always open. and hills
that quake with perpetual sun, and city ming
ling forever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph
and coronation.
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a PARAdRAPH ABoUT BANANAS.

-
ihe urn which imports the most bananas is
composed Oh three brothers, one OF whom SUI
per'heehds Their farm at Aspinwall, whence
lhe s'ock - shipped Two OF the brothers con-
auce the business IN New York. They receive
consighments from Aspinwall by every steam
e. Inc if'lt Is put on board without being
packed and being IN warm temperature RI
pens CONSIDERABLY during the passage. For
tins reason the stocks is plucked while the fruit
isyetgreeh. thus IN partially ripe condition
The trnit arrives in the city 1t is then taken
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POETRY.
HOME.


When daily tasks are done, and tired hands
Lie still and folded on the resting knee,
When loving thoughts have leave TO loose their bands
And wander over past and future free
When visions bright of love and hope fulfilled
Bring weary eyes q spark of olden fire,
One castle fairer than the rest we build,
One blessing mora than others we desire;
home our home, wherein, all waiting past,
We, too may stand together, aud alone;
Our patient task-work finished, and ut last
Loves perfect blessedness and peace our own
Some little nest Of safety and delight,
Guarded by Gods angels day and night.
We cannot guess If this dear home shall lie
In some green spot embowered with arching trees,
Where bird notes joined with brook notes gliding by
Shall make us music ms we sit at ease.
Or IL amid the ciys busy din
Il built the rest for which we look and long,
No sound without shall mar the peace within,
The calm of love that time has proved so strong.
Or if-ah, solemn thought this home Of ours
Doth lie beyond the worlds confusing noise
And II the nest be built in Edcn's bowers,
What do we still but silently rejoce7
We have n home but of Its happy state
We knov not yet. We ngecantrnt 20 whit
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THE ENORMOUS New York OFFICE RENTS.
Some idea Of the value of Office room in New
York city can be had from the amount of the
rent-rolls of some of the most eligibly located
buildings. The Equitable Insurance building
returns about $40, 900 exclusive of the COM
pany's rooms. The new Drexel building, at
the corner of Broad and Wall streets, which
is regarded as the most valuable site in New
York, will have rent-roll not far from $780,
900 per annum, while that Of the new building
corner of Fulton and Nassau streets, will
amount to over 100000. Many other build
ings down town bring in from $50, 600 to $780,
600 to their owners.
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talent seldom find in any journal and the jour
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Boston Trdreiler.
The Bazar commends itself to every member Of the
househod-to the children by droll and pretty pictures
to the young ladies by its fashion plates in endless varie
ty the proyident atron by its patterns for the chill
drens clothes, paamias by its tasteful designs for
embroidered slippers and luxurious dressinggowns But
the reading matter of the Bazdr is uniformly of great
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CHAPTER CCCCXLVII.
An Act relative to the State Normal School
Echniarol,i, E,,uI

l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
the yearly fund appropriated by the sixth sec
ton of the act, approved April fourth, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two,
entitled "a further supplement to an act
entitled An act to establish a system of pub
lie instruction." approved March Twenty first
one Thousand eight hundred and sixty-seyen,
for scholarships until system of scholarships
as contemplated by said act shall be perfected
by the board of trustees of the state normal
school, shall be paid toward and for such pur-
poses connected with the state normal school
and boarding house property belonging to the
state, as in the Judgment of said trustees will
be for the best interest Of the state and the
advantage Of the eau OF education.
2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved April 2, 1878.
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CHAPTER CCCCxIJy.
A Supplement to the act entitled g An Act fl
the better securing the property of marie

A Supplement to the act entitled An Act for
the better securing the property of married
women"
l. BE it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
any married woman who has received or shall
hereafter receive, by gift devise OF bcquest,
fanny real or personal property, or the rents,
issues and profits thereof, may execute, with
out the concurrence of her husband, valid
receipt, release or discharge therefor in the
same manner and with the like affect as if she
were sole and unmarried which receipt, re-
lease or discharge, duly acknowledged, in the
same manner as deeds of real estate are by
law required to be acknowledged, may be re-
corded in the surrogate's office of the proper
county, in the same manner and with The like
effect as other receipts and discharges may be
recorded in said Office.
2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved April 2, 1873.
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CHAPTER CCCCXLIu.

Supplement to an act entitled "An Act re-
March twelfth, one Thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.
/. BE it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New jersey That
all bills of exchange drafts drawn, payable
at no fixed time or period, or on demand or on
presentation at any place within this state
other than those upon banks or banking assoc
Citations, shall be deemed due and payable ut
the expiration Of three days grace, after the
same shall be presented for acceptance.
Approved April 2, 1878.
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CHAPTER cxxyI.

Supplement to entitled An for the organiza-
ton of the National Guard of the State OF New Jersey
approved March ninth, thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
l. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and General Assembly
of the State of New Jersey That the fourth section OF the
act to which this is supplement shall be and the
is hereby amended follows that to say by striking
out the words one surgeon with the rank OF major !"
where it refers to the staff of the briadier general and
inserting In lieu thereof the words surgeon with
the rank of lieutenant colonel"
And be it enacted That this shall be deemed and
taken to be public act and shall take effect immedi-
ately.
Approved March 8, 1873
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CHAPTER cCcCxLyIII.


A Further Supplement to an act entitled F" An
act to provide for the support of the govern
ment of this state, and to fix the salaries Of
public officers, approved April fourth, one
Thousand eight hundred and forty-tive
]. Be It enacted, by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State OF New Jersey, That
the judges Of the inferior courts Of common
pleas IN the several counties Of this state, shall
hereafter each receive a per diem allowance of
five dollars for every day they shall actually
attend In the discharge OF their duties, at any
stated or special term Of the courts, holden III
their respective counties, which allowance the
collector of the county il hereby authorized
and required to pay upon certificate of the
clerk and surrogate of the county of the num-
Der of days they shall SO attend and of the
amount due for such allowance provided,
nothing in this act shall apply to the county of
Camden.
2. And be it enacted, That all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby
repealed.
B. And be 1t enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved April 2, 1878.
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Musical Department.
C1BIVET ORGANS.

CABINET ORGANS.
In this department offer for sale the Instruments of
frsciass makers embracing the celebrated Burdet Or
ans the Tremaine Organ and others, and in in
stances at considerable reduction from price list.
Call and see the Instruments on exhibition.
PIANOS
agent for several Of the leading piano makers and
will sell and deliver Instruments upon favorable terms
Organs and Pianos sold monthly instruments.
s>ecia inducements to Churches Societies and Music
ie~'' GUITARS, BANJOS De-
80, Lao f,r sale Guitars Banjos Accordeons, Music
keep SO I'd VII furnish 70 order carefully selected
m e,o an erso any other instruments that may
: $500 ,sHEET Mr,sn, M's1c gooKs &c.
Co. all the latest sheet music, as - insruct;on
all the most popular music books, incI,'
books for voice and instrument. :. ia
On hand, several hundred pieces Of sheet music as -
strumental and vocal Please call and look over lhe
Discount to teachers.
VIOLIN Guitar and Banjo Strings and other musical
merchandise constantly on hand.
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CHAPTER cxxy

Supplement TO An act for the publication of chancery
and law reports"
l. BE 1t enacted by the Senate and General Assembly
Of the State Of New Jersey, That the provisions OF the
thid section of the supplement to said act approved
March nineteenth thousand eight hundred and fifty
seven be extended TO include the special law judge of the
court of common pleas in those counties of this state in
which such judges are or may hereafter be appointed
And be 1t enacted That this act shall take effect I'M
mediately.
Approved March 8, 1873
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CHAPTER cxyyuI.

Hut1OTIZe puftnhse
and Equity Reports"
Whereas the copies of the law and equity reports OF this
State published prior to the year thousand eight
hundred and sxty-fve, heretofore purchased by the
STAGE, have been disposed of and there Is not now
sufficient number under the control of the state to sup
ply the state officers entitled by law receive them
and whel the several editions of said reports
now neally exhausted.
L. Be IL enacted by the Senate and General Assembly
OF the State of New jersey That the state treasurer be
and he hereby authorized and directed TO purchase for
the of thesate such law and equity reports of this
state published previous to the year thousand eight
hundred and sxty-ve as are now under the control of
the several reporters thereof said reports to be purchased
at the same price per volume and TO be paid for and dis
tributed in the manner the law and equity
ports now purchased paid for and distributed pro-
rded said purchase shall not exceed two hundred copies
of any volume of such reports.
9 And he it enacted That the treasurer shall pay
for such reports the delivery thereof out of any
in the treasury of this state not otherwise appro-
pra.ed and that this act shall take effect hmm diatoy.
Approved March 3, 1878.
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CHAPTER CCcCyLy.

An Act for the safety ofsrailway passengers.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
no train carrying passengers shall be run up
ON any railroad in this state without rope or
cord being attached at one end to BELL
gong or whistle on the locomotive, and said
rope or cord led from there through every
baggage, express and passenger car in the
train, and the other END attached to the rear
part of the rear car of said train
2. And he it enacted, That any corporation
violating the provisions of this act shall be
subject to fine of four hundred dollars for
each offence, to be recovered by any inhabi-
tant of this state who may sue for the same in
any court having cognizance of the same one
quarter of said fine to go to the person suing
for the same, and three quarters thereof to
the state.
3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved April 2, 1873
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MisceIIaneous.

In addition to the articles named above, keep
rety fancy articles and knckknacks unnecessary TO
mention, which may be seen in my showcases.
Engraving done on SiIverware, Rings, &c.
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The most beautiful may be most admired
and caressel, but they are not always the
most esteemed and loved.