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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07
POETRY.


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q or ewes the swectest / ever knew.
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az foroet YIN arc aeaf 10 the vvora. 7 saw
The soui that would answer has cone away.
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Waren darling snS answer me, -
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Sweet Is true love Ia and pansy-bIows
a Al, vct vi,b Inc tsars If tho argats wake
And take them and wear them for loves sweet sake
:
Clasp your nana IN ny own, ana cry
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

How TO CHECK CUUsHs.-Dr. Brown-Se-
guard in late lecture delivered by him,
stated that there are many facts which show
that morbid phenomena Of respiration can al
ways be stopped by the influence of arrest.
Coughing; for instance; can be stopped by
pressing on the nerves of the lip in the neigh
borhood Of the nose. Pressure there may pre-
vent cough when it is beginning. 1t is
GENERALLY known that sneezing may be stop
ped by this plan, but it is new to many that
it can check coughing.
DR.. Brown-Sequard, however, is great
authority, and he asserts it. He added that
pressing in the neghborhood Of the ear just
in front Of the member, may stop coughing.
1t is also preventive Of hiccup, but much
less SO than of sneezing or coughing.
Pressing very hard on the top Of the mouth
inside Is also a means Of stopping coughing,
and, to show that the will has immense power,
he mentioned that there was French nurse
who used to say, 1.-THE first patient who
coughs here will be deprived Of his food to-
day.
It was exceedingly rare that a patient
coughed
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

PHYsIc.-Now, George, before you 60 and
play, are you quite sure you know the lesson
Professor Borax gave you to learn?" "Oh,
YES, mamma" "Well, now, what causes
heat without lght?" "Pickled peppers"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

An Irishman to whom some wonderful
story was toll on the authority Of cheap
paper, declined to believe it, saying that he
distrusted what was in chape prints.
"Why shouldn't yon believe the cheap pas
pers, be was asked, las soon as any other ~
b cause, " was the ready answer, 81 don't
think they can afford to speak the truth for
the money"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

A young lady was overheard telling friend
the other evening that she was dreadfully
put out = because her pa had rented pew in
the third row from the puipit,a she couldn't
see the fashions worth cent without twisting
her neck off almost. "There's no pleasure
in going to church any more" she says
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

A sharp talking lady was reproyed by her
husband, who requested her to keep her
tongue in her mouth. my dear" she said,
"it's against the law to carry concealed
Weapons
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

A witness ia late divorce suit kept saying
that the wife had a retaliating disposition
that she "retaliated for every little thing -
" Did you ever see her husband kiss her "
asked the wife's counsel. Yes, sir, often. !"
"Well, what did she do oil such occasions y
"She always rctaliated, sir"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

" Your young friend stayed uncomnionly
late last night, and | was quite inclined to
como into the par1or and dismiss him., said
an indulgent father to his pet Of sixteen
"Oh, yes, it was pretty late; but we got SO
interested in discussing ritualism that we did
not notice the fieeting hours, papa /" Dis
cussing ritualism?" sternly queried the father,
and then he walked slowly, away, with his
hands under his coat skirts, trying to renem-
Der what they called it when he was young.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

An Iowa paper tells Of a champion Iittlc
girl baby ont there whose face is SO small
that her parents have to kiss her through u
pipe-stem." If this practice had been adopts
ed in this city of kissing grown up babies
through forty rod peneumatic tube, we
shouldn't have to take out our pocket-hand-
kerchiefs and weep SO much as we do. Brook
lin Argus.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-04-07

How rapidly the coal III the bin becomes
the coal that hath been:
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
Curious Trees.

Just beyond the Darbonne of Cllea-
sieu river, in the parish of Caleasieu, is
a white oak tree, about two and a half
feet in diameter. There are no branches
for twenty-five or thirty feet up. About
twelve or fifteen feet up, pine limb or
part of a pine tree, six or eight inches
in diameter, and twelve or sixteen feet
long, runs at right angles through the
center of the tree, sticking out about
the same distance en- either side. It
tapers a little to one end, where are
two or three knots, giving it the appear
ance of tree top. The oak, where it
passes through, is grown closely around
1t. The pine is rich in turpentine, and
will not decay. There is no fork or
hollow in the oak; but it has the ap-
pearance as if hole had been made
and the pine stuck through, after
which the oak closed on it by growth.
The question is, how did the pine get
through the oak, or the oak round the
pine? In Mallet woods there is another
white oak, of considerable size, that
divides into two prongs about one and
half feet from the ground, which, after
running up like pair of owlegs, about
fifteen feet, unite in one round compact
stem. The prongs are about one and a
half feet in diameter and where they
unite above, the tree is larger than
either of them, but smaller than both
together. A man can walk between the
two prongs, and the tree stands on a
land boundary line. Forked trees are
very common but the question here is,
how did the two prongs unite SO per-
fectly into one stem above.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
4 Burning Gas Well.
A Wonder of the Pennsylvania Coal
Regions.

A Wonder of the Pennsylvania Coal
Regions.
The following interesting description
of a burning well in Pennsylvania has
been received by the signal Office in
Washington city from Mr.. S. Cum
mings, of Tarentum, one of the volun-
teer observers for the signal service
On the night of the I'd of February,
1875, I, in company with several others,
paid visit t. the great gas-well, stu
ated abOUt nine miles lrom Tarentum
and fifteen miles south of Butler, at
place called Larden's Mill, on the farm
of Mr.. William Hervey, and owned by
a company consisting of Messrs. Viii
liam Hervey, J. s. Vandegrift and J.
McAllaster. The we'll was tapped about
two weeks ago, as / learned from one
of the prOprietOrs in their search after
oil. They have gone down a distance
of 1, 145 feet, and have inst struck the
first sand rock. The well is located in
a hollow about 300 feet wide, between
abrupt hills. Our party came in the
vicinity of the we'll about nine O'Clock
at night, having seen the vast light
floating in the sky on many dark night
on previous occasions, thirteen miles
distant, but when we came in its imme-
diate influence and saw the trees on
either hand lit up, and their trunks
and branches silvered to their tops by
this burning torch, the scene was be-
yOpd description. On arriving at the
ground we we're met by people from all
parts of the country, who, ike our
selves, flock nightly to see this great
wonder. The first thing to strike the
visitor is the great mass of fine white
flame of intense heat and brightness
and the hollow, rumbling noise heard
as the out-rushing gas plunges into the
atmosphere and lights all around by its
imposing brilliancy. The flame of this
natural torch is about forty feet long
and fifty wide, and keeps at these di-
m 7nsiOns night and day with striking
regularity. Hence the light is both
regular and constant. The heat emit
ted by so large body of flame is very
great. The trees all around, at proper
tional distances, are budding, and the
grass that has not been trodden down
by the throng of visitors is growing
finely, and considering that this is mid
winter, this circumstance Will give some
idea of the great heat / approached
within sixty feet of the flame, and SUD-
posed it to be at that distance about I4O
degrees. The place has the character
of camp-meeting at night in conse-
quence of the mighty crowds who con-
gregate there. The light is grand.
You can see to read with ease a quarter
of mile from this enormous gas-jeA,
and if uninterrupted by trees and the
wind of the road reading could be done
at tde distance of a mile aud half.
The noise as the gas 1ushes out and is
consumed is wonderful.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
Hair.

Hair is not less useful than orna-
mental 1t is bad conductor of heat,
and keeps the head VAIN in winter and
cold in summer. 1t wards off the ef-
feet of the sun; and we find negroes
exposing themselves without head COW
ering to it's burning rays in a tropical
climate without the slightest injury,
and come tribes of wild Arabs
who wear neither tlrboosh nor turban,
are said to rely solely ON their bushy
heads of hair as protection against
sunstroke. 1t may not be generally
known that the state of the hair depends
much on that of the general health. In
perfect health the hair is full, glossy
and rich in its hues, iu consequence of
the absorption from the blood of a nu-
tritive juice containing its proper pro-
portion of oily and albuminous ele-
ments. In persons out of health
it may lose its brilliancy of hue,
and become Iank and straight,
from the presence of imperfect juices :;
in others, again, there may be a total
absence of such nutritive elements, and
the hair consequently looks faded and
dead. Climate exercises great influence
on the curliness of the hair, as may be
illustrated in the difference in this re-
spect between the native of the north
and the south.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19

A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says: "In the beginning of
1916, a year memorable in the history
of tabe-turning and spirit-rapping,
Angelique Coffin was g,rl of fourteen,
living in the village of Bouvigny, near
La Perriere, Department of Orne,
France. She was of low stature, but
of robust frame, and apathetic to an
extraordinary degree both in body and
mind. On January Is of the year
named, while the girl was with three
others engaged in weaving silk-thread
gloves, the Oaken table at which they
worked began to move and change posi-
tiOn. The Workmen were alarmed
work q as for moment suspended, but
was soon resumed. But when Angeli-
que again took her place the table be-
gan anew to move with great violence
she felt herself attracted to it. but, so
soon as she touched it, it retreated be.
fore her, or was even upset. The fol-
lowing morning similar phenomena
were observed; ; and before long public
opinion was very decided in affirming
that Angelique Coffin was possessed of a
devil, and that she should be brought
before the parish priest. But the cure
was man of too much common sense
to heed their request for an exorcism,
and resolved to see the facts for him
self. The girl was brought to the
cures house, and there the phenomena
were repeated, though not with the
same intensity as before the table re-
treated, but was not overturned, while
the chair on which Angelique was seated
moved in contrary direction, rocking
the while, and giving Angelique great
difficulty in keeping her seat"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
wool respirator mentioned by Professor
Tyndall in his paper on haze and dust.
A Royal Funeral In Africa.

When king of Unyoro dies, it is no
the custom to put him in the grave
until the succession to the vacant
| throne has been decided. His sons
must fight for the royal power, and the
civil war entailed sometimes lasts for
years. Meantime, the deceased king
lies unburied. Immediately upon his
death his body is laid out upon frame.
work of green wood, constructed like q
huge gridiron, and is dried over a slow
fire. When reduced to the condition
of a mummy, the body is wrapped in
new bark-clothes, and laid in state in a
large house erected especially for the
purpose. Here it reposes while the
contestants are fighting for the success
sion.
As soon as victory has decided in
favor of one Of the parties, the fortu-
nate son visits the hut where his faith
er's body awaits sepulture, and, APP
preaching the corpse, sticks his spear
upright in the ground, and leaves it
thus near the right hand of the body.
The son now assumes the regal state,
and, as the first duty, superintends the
funeral ef his father.
An immense trench is now excavated,
capable of containing several hnn-
dred people, and is neatly lined with
fresh bark-cloths. A number of
the wives of the dead king are then
seated together at the bottom Of the
pit so as TO bear upon their knees the
body of the defunct. The night be-
fore the funeral the kings own regi-
ment or body-guard surround dwellings
and villages and seize their inmates as
they leave their doors in the morning
These captives, consisting of men and
women indiscriminately, are conveyed
to the brink of the pit, where their
legs and arms are broken with clubs.
Thus disabled they are pushed into
the pit on the top of the dead king
and his living wives.
A horrible din of drums, horns, flag
olets, whistles, mingled with the yells |
of the frantic bystanders, drown the |
shrieks of the miserable wretches,
upon whom the earth is shOveled and |
down by thousands of cruel |
fanatics, who dance and jump upon the |
loose mold so as to compress it into |
a compact mass. Through this it is
for the entombed victims to |
force their way, as their limbs have |
been broken to render them helpless |
and prevent their escape. At length
the mapgled mass of human beings
'' buried and trampled down beneath a
umulus of earth, and all is still. The
uneral is over"
With how much heartfelt fervor
must the inhabitants of Unyoro con-
inually pray, Long live the King
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
A Venetian Experience.

Writing from Venice Charles Warren
Stoddard says: For half an hour
the water has been gurgling under a
palace window; it is often the ONLY
sound that greets the listless ear in the
dream city-this and the deep, sudden
plash of the oar, or the low, melancholy
cry of the gondolier, who sounds his
brief challenge and is silent again. The
small waves have been climbing the
marble steps at the door of the palace
We live IN palace here, of course {:
everybody does-these little waves climb
the lower steps, but turn again and drop
back into the canal once more they
leap on to the gray marble stairs, and
with some spirit this time, but they
only succeed in dashing their heads
against the top step and retreating in
confusion. Now all is quiet. A gon-
dola has just passed, and the narrow
canal feels the broad ripple of it's wake
and reseuts thence this melodious
disturbance. L lean from a stone bal
cony overhanging the water and await
my Iair. She Is III her boudoir. wedding
rose to her bosom and pinning fold.
OF black lace in her hair with pins of
extraordinary size and pattern. You
would think her some new madonna
whose divine head had been p1ercad
with score Of silver daggcrs, bat she
bears her martyrdom with becoming
Sweetness and resignation, While /
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
The Cities of tht World.

Statistical tables show that there are
in the whole world about one hundred
and sixty-fonr cities with 1000 in
habitauts nine with over 900, 900 /;
twelve with from 100000 down to
500, 900; twenty with from 100000 10
400, 600; thirty-three with from 100,
600 to 100000. The aggregate of the
population of these cities comprise
$4,000. 900 of inhabitants-tha is TO
say, the twenty. eighth part of the pop
ulation OF the globe. The average
population of town is reckOned to be
for England, Alto inhabitants; for
France, 30, 251 for Prussia, 1865 /;
for Sweden, 5,849. The density of
population in reference to area is for
Paris, 329 inhabitants per hectare
(about two acres and half): for Lon
don, 103 for Berlin, So The density
varies considerably from one district to
another it is generally the highest in
the poor or manufacturing districts.
Next to these figures come those which
represent the average density in regard
to dwelling places It is in ST. Peters
burg 81 inhabitants for each house in
Vienna, 49.4 in Paris, 80; in Berlin,
80 in London 8,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19

lean from the balcony she approaches
and taps me with fan, that murd -rousf
weapon of woman. I turn suddenly
and behold my fair arrayed all in black,
like an embodiment of night. The red
rose glows upon her bosom it is the
blushing evening star. She unfurls
her fan, wing of the famingo; it is
the brief after-Rlow-her memory of
certain memorable sunset-but that is
between us two The soul of the gon-
dola would appear in this guise were it
to become incaInate. We repair to the
great, great watery threshold of the
palace. The gondolier, with hat in
hand and one foot on the moist and
slippery steps, leads my lady to her
shrine, and then offers his shoulder to
me as support, and I leap into the
rocking cradle, wherein lova is nursed
and sorrow also. and where death some
times enters and pilots the unconscious
body over the still waters to the island
of the blessed, with its multitude of
memorial crosses and it's passing bell,
whose muffied notes are heard ever in
Venice"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
He Smoked Four Tons Of Tobacco
and Died

Mr.. Kalaes, who was known among
his acquaiDtances by the name of the
king of smokers, has Just died near
Rotterdam. He had erected a man.
sion, one portion of which was devoted
to the arrangement of collection of
pipes, according TO their nationality
and chronological order. A few days
before his death he summoned his law
yer and made his will, in which he di-
rected that all the smokers of the coun-
try should be invited to his funeral,
and that each should be presented with
ten pounds of tobacco, and two Dutch
pipes of newest fashion, on which
should be engraved the name, arms,
and death of the decease of the testa-
tor. He requested all his relatives.
friends and funeral guests to be careful
to keep their pipes alight during the
funeral ceremonis, after which they
should empty the ashes from their
pipes on the coffin. The poor of the
neighbOrhood who attended TO his last
wishes, were to receive annually, on the
anniversary of his death, ten pounds of
tobacco and small cask of good beer.
He desired that his oak coffin should
be lined with the cedar of bis old Ha-
vana cigar boxes, and that box of
French capsoral and a packet of old
Dutch tobacco should be placed at the
foot of his coffin. His favorite pipe was
to be placed by his side, along with box
of matches, flint and steel and some
tinder, as he said there was no knowing
what might happen. A correct calcu.
lation has been made out that Mr..
Kaleas had, during his eighty years of
life, smoked more than four tons of
tobacco, and bad drank about 100000
quarts of beer. Troy Times.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19

THE CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO. Not
withstanding the herculean efforts of
the reformei to restrict and decrease
the use of tobacco, official statistics 20
to show that the consumption of the
"weed" in this country makes a steady
increase. Aside from the amount con-
sumed in other forms, it appears by
actual computation, that the average
number of cigars smoked in the United
States each twenty four hours reaches
the colossal aggregate of S., 900.
The smoker not only pays for his en-
ioyment, but contributes heavily TO the
support of the government. which could
hardly get along now without the to-
baccO revenue. For instance, during
the last fiscal year So 150. O60 Il in gold
duties was derived from imported ci-
gars, and S33, 242, S75. 90 in currency
from taxes on domestic cigars and TO
bacco, or grand total of $39, ,S92, 936.G3
Here is an annual revenue nearly equal
to one dollar per capita of the popuIs-
tion of the country, women and children
included.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
The Grand Duke Alexis as Family
Man,

According to a correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, who writes from
Dresden, Mr.. and Mrs. Grand Duke
Alexis are still happy, despite the at
tempts of the Gar to molest them.
During the autumn and early winter
the duke has been touring with his
wife, bringing up finally in Dresden,
where they have taken a modest villa
on Berg Strasse and gone to house
keeping in charmingly simple way.
The young people enjoy bergher life.
They ride about and walk about when
the weather permits, and look as happy
as the tabled doves. The cares of the
household don't seem to trouble Mrs.
Alexis. She comes out in charming
Partisan costume daily, her golden hair
hanging over her shoulders i'll girlish
carelessness. With blue eyes and
creamy complexion, she LOOKS hardly
seventeen, and is only nineteen, while
the prince is twenty four. The Rus
sian court has been doing everything to
drive the young man home, where the
proper machinery may be set in mo-
ton to annul the marriage. The court
of Saxony, of course, looks with con-
sternation upon this amazing breach of
imperial etiquette. The long line of
beverages, while going themselves,
have forbidden the daughters, the
countess this and the baroness that,
seeing the disreputable prince, who has
dared to "throw himself away" The
elders frown up IN the whole story, and
look upon Alexis as an Abandoned
boy, while the younger generation,
especially the young mobiles, applaud
him and express desire to do likewise.
The family Of Mrs. Alexis are enor-
mously rich, and if yearnings for place
do not come to the young man, he need
have no misgivings for the future.
His father-In law gives the bride
colossal dowry, and so far as money
goes the match might rejoice the most
worldly of parents.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19

interest in the little ones, and the babies
have been visited by hundreds of aris-
tocratic ladies from all parts of the city,
by some who live out of it. Physicians
by the score have called to see this phe-
nomenon of nature. After the christ
ening of the babies, each was duly
labeled to prevent confusion as to
(Which was which," something very
likely to happen, as they are as mucn
alike as four peas. So great has been
the crowd of ladies calling that it was
found necessary to announce that at
present the four little sisters would de-
cline to receive any mora visitors. A
purse is being raised by wealthy ladies
to give the little ones a start in life,
and, Judging from the heavy figures al
ready put down, Baltimore is evidently
determined that such enterprise shall
not go unrewarded.