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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

SOCIAL FALLAc1Es Besides these, we COM
init the still greater error of plunging into
ice-water every morning, then scrub all the
skin of with horse-hair brush OF coarse
towel; sit down TO breakfast Of oatmeal
sawdust; dine of tablespoonful Of wheat
and two berries, and make supper on oatnip-
tea, then be put through Russian bath Of
five hundred degrees sleep under an open
window when the thermometer Is at zero ;
wear long hair; dress the women in panta-
looms; make all our property over to them,
then sit down in the kitchen corner and nurse
the baby, and when it is asleep, wash up the
tea things, and go to bed at nine o'clock to be
tout of the way" What will become Of us
men2 Surely we have fallen ON evil times.
A better and truer mode of life Is to have
plenty of everything that is good to eat and
drink, which imparts nourishment and
strength, and as much of it as you want.
The idea Of getting up from the table hungry,
is unnatural and absurd, and hurtful-quite
as much SO as getting up in the morning be-
fore your sleep is out, on the mischievous
principle that "early to rise, makes man
healthy, wealthy and wise.'
Early rising, in civilized society, always
tends to shorten life. EARLY rising of itself
never did any good. Many farmers boy
has been made an invalid for life by being
made to get up at daylight before his sleep
was out. Many young girl has been stunted
in body and mind and constitution by being
made to get up before the system has had its
full rest. All who are growing, all who work
hard, and all weakly persons should not get
up until they feel as if they would be more
comfortable to get up than to remain in bed
that is the only true measure Of sufficiency of
rest and sleep. Any one who gets up in the
morning feeling as if he swould give any
thing in the world to remain in bed while
longer" does violence to his own nature, and
will always suffer from it--not Immediately,
it may be, but certainly in later years, by the
cumulative iii effects of the most unwise prac-
tice. In any given case, the person who gets
up in the morning before he is fully rested
will lack just that much of the energy re-
quisitc for the days pursuit.
As a people, we do not get enough sleep, we
do not get enough rest, we will not take time
for these things, hence our nervousness, OUT
instability, our hasty temper, and the
premature giving out of the stamina of life.
Half Of us are three-score, the very time q
man ought to be in his mental, moral and
physical prime. Half Of our wives, especial,
in the farming districts, die long before thei
time because they donot get rest and sleep pro
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

/ SEA MIcE.--The sea mouse is sone Of the
protest creatures that lives under water. It
sparkles like diamond and is radiant with
all the colors Of the rainbow, although it lives
in the mud at the bottom of the ocean. 1t
should not be called a mouse, for it is larger
than big rat. It is covered with scales that
move up and down as it breaths, and glitters
like gold shining through fleecy down, from
which fine silky bristles wave, that constantly
change from one brilliant tint to another, SO
that, as Cuvier, the great naturalist, says, the
plumage of the humming bird is not more
beautifuls Sea mice are sometimes thrown
up on the beach by storms.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

WHOSE Boy is THAT?-He may be seen
any day, in almost any part of the village
he never makes room for you on the sidewalk,
looks at you saucily, and swears smartly II
asked anything he is very impudent, and
often vulgar to ladies who pass he delights
in frightening and sometimes does serious in
jury to little boys and girls he lounges at
the street corners, and is the first arrival at
dog fight or any other sport or scrape he
crowds into the post Office in the evening, and
multiplies himself and his antics at such
rate that people having legitimate business
there are crowded out he thinks himself
very smart, he is certainly very noisy lie can
smoke and chew tobacco now and then, and
rip out an oath most any time I'VE ask whose
boy he is ? Mother, is he yoursP We think
he is, for there are many good qualities In the
lad, and we do not think that you know what
he does on the street. Look after him, moth
er keep him more at ho.ae. Train him, and
you will have son to be proud Of
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15
POETRY
SONG OF TIE CRUSADERS.
AN ODE 10 RUM.

AN ODE TO RUM.
Let not thy devotee extol thee,
And thy wondrous virtues sum,
But the worst of names I'll call thee,
., thou Hydra-Monster, RUM ~
Pimple-maker, visage-bioater,
Health-corrupter, oilers mate,
MiSchicf-breeder, vice promoter
Credit-spoiler devils bate.
Alms-house-builder, pauper-maker,
Trust-betrayer, SORROWS source,
Pocket emptier, Sabbath-breaker
Conscience sitter, quilts rccource.
Nerve-enfeebler, system shatterer,
Thirst-increaser, vagfant thief,
Cough-produeer, treacherous fatterer,
Mud-bedauber, mock relief.
Business blunderer, spleen-disti.ler,
Wo-begetter, friendships bane,
Anger-heater, prison filler,
Debt-involyer, toper's chain.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, honor-wrecker
Judgment-warper, blue-faced quack,
Feud-beginner--rag bedecker
Strife-enkindler-fortune wreck.
Summer ooler--winters-warmer
-pelluter-specious snare,
Embellishments transformer,
gamblers fare.
Speech-bewraggely-- headlong-bringer,
Vitais-burner--deadly fire.
observation-disclosures,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sire.
Sinews-robber--worth depriver,
Observation-Disclosures foe,
Observation-Disclosures,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS woe.
yile-seducer--joy -dispeller,
-blackguard guest,
observation-disclosures
Observation-Disclosures pest.
Utterance-baggler-
Strong mans sprawler-fafal drop,
-raiser-venonl-spittcr,
th-inspirer--cowards prop.
acknowledgements
Heart-corrupter--foys nurse,
t-babbler--body- maimer,
Thrift-d.f observation-disclosures cursc.
Wit-destroycr-joy-i mpairer
Observation-Disclosures scourge,
Senses bfunter-youth ensnarer,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES verge.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. deceiver
Spite-dispayer-sot's delight,
se-exciter--stomach-he HEAVIER,
d-spreader-scorpion's bite.
Quarrel-plotter, rage-discharger.
Giant conqueror, wasteful sway,
Chin-carbunkler, tongue-enarger,
Malice-yenter, deaths broad way.
Temper-scatterer, window-smasber,
Death-forerunner, hell's dire brink,
Ravenous murderer, wiudpipe-slasher,
Drunkard's lodging, meat and drink
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

A few years since, there pervaded in
Chicago speculator in grain, the bolduess
and magnitude of whose operations were
worthy even of that city. This gentleman,
Mr.. Richard H., had gone into one cornering
operation in wheat by which he became
slightly "hurt." In abiding to it few
weeks ago he remarked with characteristics
blandness and frankness, II lost in that
speculation one million five hundred thousand
dollars, and the worst OF it was that fifteen
hundred dollars Of u aoas good money that
put In on the start
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

No, my dear-goodness DO thankful no
person can say that have scandalized any
one, not even my worst enemy, no matter
what he Or slo may do I've had chances
enough to talk, II had mind to, as every
ono IN the town knows full wen. OF course.
living here right ii the High street 81 tho
town, emit help seeing great many queer
things; aud when our windows are open and
the blinds shut, in thc summer time, can
hear them tool But never repeat them. /
scorn to make mischief. never lisp word,
except when get hold Of some safe person
like you, my dear, that i know can trust.--
And If body is not to open her mouth.
among her own intimate friends, why. the
world isn't worth living in, Is it? But that
isn't scandal you know. I hate and abhor
that just as much as you do, and Idon't think
any one can say I was ever guilty of it in all
my life.
But then, as said before, it isn't for want
of chance. Why, only last evening as ever
was, who do you think saw walking up here.
in the bright moonlight, as brazen as YOU
please, but Miss Lennox and Colonel Parkc /
Fact, as you sit in that chair! And they
walked close together, and talked so confiden-
tial.
! suppose yon know all about that disgrace
full affair with the school girlsP No / My
dear, you must really live in the ark why.
they have been writing lot of anonymous
letters to people here in the town, and the
postmaster suspected what was up at last, and
he kept quiet lookout, and caught some of
them putting the letters in. don't know
what Miss Clarkett will do. Expel them, I
hope great girls like those have no business
to act so
There's Mrs. Price going by. presume
she has been down to cheaper fowl, or get
halfpenny or two taken off joint Of meat.
She's the stingiest thing, my dear it woald
really make your heart ache to hear of the
way she manages and contrives And there
is her husband, one of the richest men in the
town, and folks do say that he can't get a de-
cent meal of yictuals in his own house.
Wouldn't you
What going Can't you stay any longer |?
Well, do come again very soon won't you p
Good-byl
Thank goodness, she has gone I really
| thought she was going to stay all night. /
heard a nice story about her, by the way, last
week-how shamefully she treated all her ser
wants suppose she thinks / don't know
it. might make mischief enough in her fam
lily, if chose. But abhor scandal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

The old gentleman who spent fortune en-
deavoring to hatch colts from horse chestnuts,
is now cultivating the egg plant with a view
to raising chickens from it.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

No person ever got stung by hornets who
kept away from where they were. It is SO
with bad habits.
The latest thing in hats-Heads.
If your brain is on FIVE blow 1t ont.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

Mr.. Beecher has discovered a remedy for
somnolency in church. 1t consists Of sitting
down at home in rocking chair, about the
time the second bell rings, and taking out a
nap there.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

UNDERoRouND Observation-Disclosures
the city of London is certainly the most won
derful in the world. II is labyrinth Of drain
pipes, and underground railways There are
points in the soil Of London where it would
be extremely difficult to find room for another
pipe. One company alone--the Gas light and
Coke Company supplies two districts with
nearly 400 miles of pipe, varying in diameter
from three inches to four feet These are the
main pipes merely, and from them. every
house and street lamp receives on an average
six or eight feet of small piping. In addition
to these and the underground electric tele-
graph wires, there are no less than 2 800 miles
of drain pipes of various diameters Less IA
miliar to us, but no less important, are the
lead and iron tubes-leaden pipes with outer
castings of iron--along which written mes
sages, packed in little felt and guttapercha
cases, are blown from station to station. The
convenience Of these messages is immense
A steam engine forces in a blast of air, and in
about minute it travels about $50 Yards
There are at present thirteen stations on the
underground railway, and, as the people walk
upon the streets of London, electricity is fash
ing messages above their heads and little
missives are whizzing and darting just under
their feet. As many as 1900 messages pass
TO and fro in day. The drainage system of
London presents world Of under ground
streets, some two or three thousand miles in
extent. All the drains empty into three great
sewers running parallel with the Thames,
which sewers connect in the neighborhood of
Victoria Park, and through Barking creek dis
charge into the river. Men are constantly
employed keeping these drains in repair. Lon
doners never pour pail Of water down
drain but at the depths Of that mysterious
aperture somebody is making way for it. A
stranger properly costumed, can explore these
depths which resemble vaulted galleries, in
the sides of which are traps forming various
small channels. When the storm waters come,
as they sometimes do during thunder plump,
the torrent is fearful-so much so that upon
several occasions men have lost their lives.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-07-15

Out in Montana, when they start man
down hill in barrel, they speak Of his e Up.
pearancs in new role"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
Emperor William and His Military
Bal Ina the RetchstaG.


Bal i'm the Reichsta8.
There is a vague possibility that the most
unlikely Parliamentary body in the world may
become presently a centre of some political
interest If the Reichstag stand firm we shall
have on hand very pretty conflict between
two powers, the strength of which respectively
and as tried against one another is in doubt.
The determination of this doubt presents
one of the deeply interesting problems of the
immediate future of Europe. William we
know and Bismarck we know; but the liberal
power or the capability of resistance to these
two in the German Reichstag or in the coun
try is an unknown quantity. Just how far a
Parliamentary body may imagine its powers
to go against government that is resolutely
absolute; in how great degree liberalism
will raise its head at the possibility of differ
ence and, indeed, whether, in view OF the
recent history of Germany. there is real
spirit of liberal vitality left in the country
all this is shadowy and uncertain. William,
by the mouth Of Moltke, presented to his
people in Parliament his will as to the army.
He never meant by this that the people should
pretend to review his addition or sug
gest even whisperingly change Of
the numbers. He let them know the
numbers, in order that they might be informed
how many soldiers there were to feed. and so
how much money it would take. But his
people ventured to have an opinion of their
own, and thought that, instead Of Williams
four hundred thousand soldiers they would
rather feed and pay three hundred and sixty
thousand, and they voted down the govern
ment bill, which established the larger num-
Der. Now, however, we hear the reply. Will
liam will diSplve the Reichstag if it does not
reconsider the vote and enact the law as he
framed it He will tumble the Parliamen-
tarians out of their new palace and send them
home in hurry unless they play to his lead.
In this distinct difference and clear issue be-
tween the Emperor and the Parliament upon o
cardinal point in national policy the part the
Emperor takes can excite no surprise. It is
consistent and characteristic He does not
stand to dispute with the creatures of his will,
and he cannot believe that any resist
ance they may make is real power.
It is factious only, he deems 30 he will dis
solve this Parliament and confidently call an
other. But the course of the Reichstag in
voting down the government bill was re-
markable sign of growth Of opposition to
the militarism that threatses to swallow up
the whole vitality of Germany, and it will be
curious to watch how far this will go. Just
now we believe the Parliament will yield and
pass the bill but if it should resist and be
dissolved, William will have on his hands o
power more troublesome than France.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
Value OF Our Commerce with the
South and Cuba.

Value or Our Commerce with the
south and Cuba.
The advance statement of the Chamber OF
Commerce as to the commerce of the country
and New York, published yesterday, presents
some remarkable facts worthy OF special
notice The total domestic exports for the
year ending June &c. 1873, amounted in value
to $649, 1913, 563, inclusive of $73, 9O5,546 in
gold and silver The balance is reckoned In
currency, and, therefore, to reduce the whole
to specie value ten to twelve per cent must be
deducted from the s649, 123,563 Of this
amount Of domestic exports cotton alone
brought tho enormous sum of $227, 243, O69.
This shows the value of the South in our COM
mercial affairs. and the folly of government in
neglecing that section OF our common
country, or, what is worse, in keeping
it crushed by misrule The vast sum
realized from cotton exports is equivalent to
gold. But this Southern product supplies also
our own manufacturers with the raw material,
and is not less valuable for that than for the
foreign market Then the greater part of
the business connected with the cotton trade
is done through New York or the means it
furnishes. Of the imports, amounting to
1868, 617, 147 not less than 500, 0OO 600, prob
ably, come from Cuba. The imports of sugar
amounted to $77,994, 1888. OF coffee to
$29, 800. OBS and of tobacco and cigars to
50, 961, 723. The total value of these tropical
products, by far the greater part of which
were Cuban was Sill, 1854, SAG. Valuable as
the products Of the States and countries south
of us are to our commerce, they could be
made much more SO by liberal and compre-
hensive policy. We should by all means
foster the growth of trade with Cuba and the
American islands and territory to the south,
and, above all, should promote the industry
and development of our own Southern States
There is far more wealth to be extracted and q
much more profitable trade to be reached in
that direction than in any other part Of the
world
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
Portents Dire.

Illinois has o hurricane, Nova Scotia has
mild earthquake and North Carolina and East
Tennessee are troubled Mechanically. There
is evidently something going on or coming of.
It is a case as clear as the one in ''Tam
OShanter," for from evidences like these
chiel may understand
The de'i has business on his hand.
Learned men will tell us what it all means
half century after it is over--if we re-
spectfully to suggest to such as have not made
their wills, nor even repented, that a line from
Bold Mountain, in Western North Carolina, to
anywhere in Nova Scotia, would run near this
city. It is our earnest wish that nobody may
get more rapid transit than is agreeable; but
we live in an age when nothing should sur
prise us. If North Carolina and Nova Scotia
are respectively the ends of certain subterranean
lines of mmunication-dreadful grooves,
full of red hot what dye call it-and the fire
or gas is equally ready to burst out at either
place, why, no doubt it may, scientifically
speaking, cut across lots and come out any,
where between. Already great deal of gas
has come out at great many places between
these points, and if the fire should follow, we
shudder to contemplate what may happen-that
is, we shudder now-though if it happens, of
course we will have staff of trained reporters
on the spot. Our desire is, however, to be let
alone; though there are plenty who would
secretly delight in any event that would make
real estate cheap in this city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
The Western Tornado,

The telegraph brings US accounts of the
terrific tornado which, at three o'clock on
Wednesday morning, swept over Cairo, III.
This is the first tornado of the incoming sea-
son, and is striking corroboration of the
article in the HERALD of Tuesday on the equi-
noctial outlook, presagipg the premature ar
rival of spring. This terrible hurricane seems
to have followed the course of the river, COM
ing like the March tornado which desolated
East st. Louis in 1871, from the Great River
Valley and following approximately in its
groove. Fortunately there is no long list of
killed and wounded by this last storm, as was
the case with the Missouri tornado.
These fearful meteors are invariably pre-
coded by excessive heat instead of by any
barometric indications, and are attended
by lightning and thunder and frequently
by hail The toraaases seem 70 b en-
gendered only on the outside Of larger
storm centres and to prevail only at periods
when there are marked thermal contrasts
within small areas of country. Their provision
would be of incalculable value to the exposed
cities Of the West, and it is believed that with
an increased number of meteorological sta
tons the thermometric observations may one
day enable science to forewarn endangered
points of their approach
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

january, our Twenty-second of February
and, with the present tendency to build
statues over most mem who die, and in honor
of some who are still alive and not yet in Jail,
no one knows how many more anniversaries.
So that in time we shall have two or three
parades day, and the business of life will be
to splash up Broadway behind dreary bands
OF music and to dine amid the splash and
surge of persistent oratory.
Seriously, we think we have had something
too much of this. The motherland is worthy
of her sons affection even in these distant
lands but is she not mother-in-law, after
all, and have not Americans some rights at
their own hearthstone? This is America, and
we want American festivals. The banks Of
the Lee are very charming; green are the
hills of old Erin. But should not our Irish
fellow citizens find the Lee and the Shannon
in our own rivers and greater glory of green
mountain side in this chosen land? Far be
it from us to question the right of any citizen
or any number of citizens to parade in honor
courage any spirit of intolerance or Native
Americanism, or to mock at the love which
every man must feel for the land
which gave him birth. But are they not
mere baby's play, the professions and
celebrations of events that represent nothing
but the passions and national prejudices Of
the past When citizens come to America let
them leave the traditions and enmities Of
Europe behind them. We have seen in the
past what came of these demonstrations. We
have witnessed the strifes of the orange and
the green even to bloodshed. What we saw
then we may see again. If citizens of one be-
lief parade on March II others may parade on
July IL; and what useful, noble purpose is
served? Only collisions, heartburnings, con-
troversies, murder and an incentive to the
Native American feeling which at one
time swept over the country and
was with difficulty suppressed by prudent,
patriotic men. What interest has the American
citizen in these festivals? st. Patrick has
gone to his reward, and William of Orange
sleeps-in peace, we trust-in Westminster
Abbey. What value have they to us, and
why should citizens who come here as
Americans, to make this land their home and
the home of their children, exult over the
dark memories and feuds and strifes they
represent? Ireland has been cursed by the
wars of the orange and the green why trans
fer them to America? The whole anniversary
business is the play of children. Let us be
Americans in that complete and generous
sense which leaves the dead past to bury the
past, and lives only in the glories, the duties
and the festivities Of this our country and our
home
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

TIE DOWNFALL OF SPANISH DOMINION IN
CUBA is to be expected from the gradual
breaking up of everything like financial and
commercial credit in the island. Captain
General Jovellar has found it inconvenient to
enforce what Is facetiously called the law for
the part payment OF customs duties in gold,
and the paper currency of 1.-THE Spanish Bank"
is becoming more and more worthless. In all
this there is nothing surprising except that it
did not come sooner.