Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-12-31
Nariefes.

Everybody nowadays is ''lady''
or gentleman. A St. Louis paper
recently informed its readers that 1.-TWO
gentlemen and lady left for the peni-
tentiary last night. y
Very promising nickel mines have
been discovered in New Caledonia, and
an English company has been formed
work them under encouragement from
the French authorities of the island.
The Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania has sustained the decision of the
lower Court Of Allegheny County, that
the employment of waiter girls = in
liquor saloons is unlawful.
"A sixteen-year-old boy and four
teen-year-old girl were married at n orth
Adams, Mass, several days ago, and
just after the ceremony sheriff put in
an appearance to take them home.
Colby University, at Waterville,
Me-, has 155 students, % seniors, 26
junior, As sophomores and 81 fresh
men. An effort is being made to in
crease the endowment from $500, 900 to
100000.
"A new Cunarder, the Gallia, was
launched from the yard Of the Messrs.
Thompson, at Dalmuir. Scotland, on
the 18th ult. She is the forty-frst
steamer built by this firm for the Cum
ard line.
Bishop Simpsons lectures before
the Yale theological students are con-
sidered among the ablest that have
been delivered in the Lyman Beecher
course. The Methodist press are re-
printing them extensively.
"A cat-bird was caught in novel
trap at Canton, Vermont, several days
ago 1t alighted on the half-open shell
of fresh water clam which suddenly
closed on it's claws, holding it pris-
oner till woman set it free.
A simple-minded colored man in
Georgia cut the ''50'' from a ConfeG-
crate bill and pasted it over the ''5,"
ON q. S. Treasury note. The differ
ence was somewhat perceptible, and an
unexpected arrest was the result.
Horace w. Tabor is a lucky man.
In 1854 he was with stone-cutter in
Augusta. In 1859 he went to Colorado
and engaged in mining. He is now
worth two millions, and has been cleo
ted Lieutenant Governor of the State.
"A sea lion, weighing 125 pounds,
three feet eleven inches long and thirty
three inches in circumference, was cap
tured on the west bank Of the Hacken-
sack river, in New Jersey, about two
miles below the town, few days ago.
Since 1874 the shipbuilding in the
Portland Me district has steadily de-
creased from 15,575.95 tons that year
to 4278. SO in 1873. In 1869 it increased
from 2262. 50 to II, 997. .88 tons, and then
fell to an average of about 5000 tons
year.
A race horse was injured while be-
ing transported over the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, and it costs the Com
pany S12,555 to settle it. If they had
only killed a man $4,000 would have
been the extreme measure of the dam
Exchange.
The editor Of the Topeka (Kansas)
Commonwealth recently sued the pro-
prietors of the Kansas City mo. Times
for libel, putting in claim for $40, 900
damages, and the jury in the United
States Circuit Court gave him YER
dict of one dollar.
Canada market quotations note tur-
keys at 35 to so cents pair, fowls 25
cents pair, mutton cents per pound,
and butter 10 to 10 cents per pound.
The Marquis and his Princess can keep
house with reasonable economy at these
figures if she is good manager.
= Manuel Pardo, ex-president of
Peru, who is reported to have been
assassinated in that country, was one
of the most accomplished Of Peruvians.
He was man Of fortune and Of educa-
ton, who was called to the highest post
in the government after the Staying of
President Balta, and the brief butssay-
age ursupation of the brothers Cutter
rez in 1872.
WHATEVER you think proper to
grant a child, let it be granted at the
first word, without entreaty or prayer,
and above all without making con-
ditions. Grant itwithpleasure, refuse
with reluctance, but ct your ref usal be
irrevocable; let no importantly shake
your resolution; let the word 'sno, .
when once pronounced, be wall Of
brass, which child, after he has tried
his strength against it half dozen
times, shall never more endeaVor to
! shake.