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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
Wrapping Food in Paper.

1t is matter of daily experience on
the part of every one who purchases
such common necessities of life as butter,
bacon, cheese, sausages, etc., that these
goods are almost invariably wrapped up
in printed or manuscript paper. Per-
haps we might also say that provisions
for picnics and other hampers are slowed
away in similar coverings, and it will,
therefore. not be amiss if we call atten-
ton to the fact that danger has been dis
covered to lurk in these newspaper
wrappings.
In the case of printed paper, the char
acters have often been transferred to the
cheese or butter, and either they are cut
away by the observant cook, or they are
unnoticed, and in due course become as
simulated in the process Of satisfying
hunger. 1t is supposed that the ink or
the paper itself may possibly by some
chance contain something deleterious.
But written paper is even more likely to
be hurtful, inasmuch as in writing the
paper has been in close contact with the
hand, which not improbably may be
giving off perspiration, that may enter
the pores of the paper and may there
ferment, not with advantage to health
in the event Of any portion of the manus
cript being allowed to accompany the
food down unsuspecting threats.
This subject has called forth some
correspondence in German papers. and
though we would not attach absurd i'm
portance to it, it may still be said that
clean unused paper is so cheap that
retail dealers have small excuse for
using either printed or written matter
for wrapping up their commodities
Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
Little Johnnr,s Philosophy.

| There was a dog, and there was cat
and there was a OK. The dog it sed tc
the OK, the dog did:
| That's a mighty long tail you got
there, mister. with nice tossle to the
end, but you can't waggle it when you
meet your MASTER"
| Then the cat it sed to the OK:
" No, indeed, and you can't bio it up
like bloom when you git mad"
| Then the lam it sed:
You amt able for to twinkle it,
either. wen you think of something
| funny
The OK he thot while, and bime BY
he spoke up and sed his ownself:
plade hooky wen | was little boy
SO much that | dident learn them vain
accomplishments, that's fack, but / got
| tolably good bisness edecashun, and ]
CESS mebbe you fellers wude have to cum
to me for to hellep you out if you had to
| fiji order for ox-tail soup.n
Wen Mister Gipple was in Africa he
seen sum natifs, wich is called Hotten-
tops, and they likes their beef raw, like
dogs, and he see EN- cut it OFF of the cat
ties vile they was a life and bellerin.
And sum of the cattles had ben cut I'D a
good deal that way, but not ded. One
day the King of the Hottentops he see
Mister Gipple, and he sed, the King sed
"Did you see any cattles long the
road you cimp Cos mine have strade
away, and can't find 'em."
Mister Gipple he sed:
Yes, sir, jest over beyond that hill is
a porter-house stake with one horn broke
orr, and bout a mile further long yule
find a rib roast eatin the wilers, and near
by | seen two houtehes of bull fitin sum
soop bones, and onto the other side of
the spring / CESS yule see a liver and sum
tripe laYin in the shade and chewin
their cuds.n
But Mister Brily, the butcher, he mock
EN- onto the he'd with axes and cut their
throte in minnit, and me and Billy we
say hooray.
Cows is beef, and calf it is veal, but
little pigs is mutton.
One time l was in Mister Brily's shop
and he had cut OFF a pigs he'd and set it
on the top of barrel, and ole Gaffer
Peters he cum in and seen it, and he sed,
old CATER did:
"Mister Brily, your pig is a Citing
out"
Mister Brily he luked, and then he sed:
'That's so, Gaffer, you jest take that
stick and rap him onto the nose fore he
can draw it in"
So CATER he took up the stick and
snook up real sli, and fetched the pigs
he'd regular nose wipe, hard as ever he
cude with the stick, and nocked the pigs
he'd OFF the barl and you never seen sech
a stonish old man. But Mister Brily he
pretended like he wasent lookin, and old
CATER he sed:
''Mister Brily, you must xcuse me.
but wen l struck at that pig it lodged
and cut its he'd orr agin the edje of the
barl"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
Lit is Better.

1t is better to look up and take pleas
ure in contemplating the good and
great, than to find happiness in low de-
vices and mean acts. 1t is better TO tell
The truth than to tell lie; to do good
than to do mean to save a reputation,
than to blast one; to have charity than
to be critically severe: to love your fell
lows than to hate them; better to lit up
the fallen than to pull down those al
ready up; to speak kind words than to
hiss out the gall of bitterness; to keep
pure than to reek with filth; to be on
the losing side of right than to be on the
triumphant side of wrong; to be honest
than to cheat; to have honest piety than
to be Haunting hypocrite; to be indus
trious than to be an idle vagrant; to be
fair and square human being than to
be an uncertain quantity. With your
virtue worship the true and you may at
tain unto greatness, but you can never
do it in the eyes of justice by trampling
upon, or by despising what is under you.
The poor have as bright eyes and as ten
der hearts as the rich. They are not be-
low your consideration. Natures will
low will bend over them with the same
grace and beauty they will over the
proudest son and daughter ofearth. Con-
UClIiS u uC III llic, OItC6 kJIecU-
wood says: Never unsex yourself for
greatness. The worship Of one true
heart is better than the wonder Of the
world. Don't trample on the flowers
while longing for the stars. Live up to
| the full measure of life, give way to your
impulses, loves and enthusiasms; sing,
smile, labor and be happy. Adore poetry
| for its own sake; yearn for, strive after
excellence; rejoice when others attain iE
| feel for your contemporaries a loving
envy; steal into your country's heart
glory in its greatness, exult in its power,
honor its gallant men, immortalize its
matchless women" How much better
to do these things than to go sulking and
skulking through life like some dishon-
ored curl tits better and-easier to do
right than to do wrong. You go straight
forward to the right, but you approach
the wrong by devious and doubtful ways.
Quincy Modern Aryo.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
The Queen of All.

Honor the dear old mother Time has
scattered the snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep burrows on her cheek, but
is she not sweet and beautiful now? The
lips are thin and shrunken, but those are
the lips which have kissed many hot
tear from the childish cheeks, and they
are the sweetest lips in all the world.
The eye is dim, yet it glows with the
soft radiance of holy love which can
never fade All, yet, she is dear old
mother The sands of life are nearly run
out, but feeble as she is, will go further
and reach down lower for you than any
other upon earth. You cannot walk into
midnight where she cannot see you !;
you cannot enter prison whose bars
will keep her out you can never mount
a scaffold too high for her to reach that
she may kiss and bless you in evidence
of her deathless love. When the world
shall despise and forsake you, when it
leaves you by the wayside to die un-
noticed, the dear old mother will gather
you in her feeble arms and carry you
home and tell you Of all your virtues un-
til you almost forget that your soul is
dis6gured by vice. Love her tenderly,
and cheer her declining years with holy
devotion. .-Erchasgs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
The Giant Cacti Of Arizona.

A writer in the Philadelphia Times,
describing atrip through Arizona, says
We soon, entered the land of giant
cacti. / was never more surprised than
at seeing the wonderful development of
this plant in this region. | am satisfied
that nowhere in the world is such size
attained. The species called Swatara
grows to the enormous height of sixty
feet, and measures six feetin diameter.
There are tens of thousands of this
species. Most of them viii measure from
eight inches to two feet in diameter and
reach height of twenty to thirty feet.
Some have no limbs, and resemble q
high post; others have from one to three
arms. They seem to stand on the top of
the sand, with scarcely any root. and
must receive their nutrition largely from
the atmosphere. They are capped with a
beautiful flower, and later with fruit. Tha
Indians remove the fruit with long
spiked pole, and use it in large quanti-
ties. The center of this cactus is pierced
with hard, tough rod, which supports
it in times of storm. So-firm is this sup
port that one is seldom found broken or
blown to the earth. When in state Of
decay you can extract the centre, which
resembles more than anything else fish
ing-rod.
There are fifteen or twenty different
species of cacei growing in this region.
The pole cactus grows much like large
corn-stalk. Each years growth is indi-
Gated by n Joint, and n rich, tenacious
gum exudes from the surface, causing it
to burn like pine when it is entirely
green. There are two varieties of what
is called the bulb. These grow in the
form of a ball and nearly the size Of a
pint cup. One variety is armed with
thorns half an inch in length, the other
with different kind of thorn, much re-
sembling a porcupine's quill. These
thorns are as sharp as needles. and re-
quire but little pressure to penetrate
their entire length into the foot of a man
or the hoof Of q horse. The variety hav-
ing the short thorns bears red-colored
fruit, about the size of small peach; it
is very sweet, and the juice flows from
gold pen as beautiful red ink. There is
another species which bears a different
kind of fruit, resembling cucumber
about two-thirds matured. The pulp is
of the consistency of the banana, but
much sweeter, and very full Of black, fiat
seeds, the size Of a dime. AS far as /
have been able to ascertain there are
three kinds Of fruit growing on as many
different species of cacti in this desert
land. Another kind, priced more than
all the rest by the Indians, very much
resembles our century plant. The wild
Apaches have for ages depended largely
on this for sustenance- They boil the
root, make it into mush and thus eat it,
and from the rest Of the plant make a
sour drink, which they greatly enjoy.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29

Just Like q Man.

Mrs. Cligho went down to the Sand
wich Springs the other day with some
friends, and after she had departed her
husband looked around the house to see
what he could do to busy himself The
front steps looked rather brown and he
pulled off bis coat, hunted up paint and
brush, and in an hour he had completed
as nice Job of painting as any house
wife would care to see. He had a right
to chuckle over it, and to imagine how
pleased his wife would be; but no one
could tell what an hour may bring forth.
Even before she had opened the gate on
her return the wife got red in the face,
aourished her parasol around, and called
out:
You great big IDIOT Won't you
never learn anythingPn
Wh-what's the matter nowpn he
gasped.
"Matterl Why, l have invited a
dozen people to come in this evening. y
ssYes-well, can't they Gomez"
stCan theyP Hasn't every blessed one
of them got to come in at the side door
and see that sitting room carpet all full
Of holes. and the back hall all torn up
I'll die before Iii let 'ern, and if yOu
don't get s0ap-suds and rae and take
that paint off I'll hire it donew
Mr.. Cligho was just an hour and q
half at the job. and when men went past
and asked him what he was doing, he
softly replied that he was using soap
suds to exterminate red ants Dstr0H
Fres Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
Where He Stored His Money.

A few days ago there died in the town
of Vernon, Winneshick county, an aged
farmer named Carpenter, who left will,
bequeathing to his son an old chest that
had been an heirloom in the family. On
opening the chest the son was surprised
and incensed to find that it contained
nothing of value. He so reported to the
remaining members of the family, when
they persuaded him to make further in
vestigations, which he did in taking the
chest apart. In doing so, two cleats,
each half an inch thick and perforated
with auger holes, were discovered Tear
ing off these cleats the young man found
that they were hollow. and that the
space between the lid and the bottoms OF
the cleats had been filled with gold coins
by the thoughtful parent. How long
they had been stored in such a singular
manner in that old chest is mystery. -
IosDu State Register.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
Hyp0chOndria.

There are mild forms of hypochondria
which never receive that specific name
from the doctors who attend them, but
nevertheless give their victims much
trouble. The nervous man who is visited
with pimple magnifies it into malig-
nant pastule, and his imagination tor
lures him with the morbid picture of
the suffering and sudden death which he
will be called to undergo Many people
are haunted all their lives in this way
without anything serious ever happen
ing, and when they reach old age have,
for sole compensation, the opportunity
of congratulating themselves that not
one of the disagreeable omens they had
was ever realized. But after the hypo-
chondriac is cured of one of his un-
healthy fancies he is sure, sooner or later,
to acquire another. As DIR. Maudesley
points out in his Responsibility in
Mental Disease" though the patient
may seem TO 60 away entirely disabused
of his sick fancies, they return to him or
are supplanted by worse
In very exceptional instances, indeed,
the hypochondriac may take a new de-
parture and with daily supreme effort
of will shake off the encumbrance that
weighs upon him. But this is so sell
dom the case that statistics scarce make
mention of it; and it may generally be
taken for granted that when hypochon-
dria is cured q change of surrounding
conditions is more responsible for it than
is the direct exercise of will on the part
of the patient. his environment remain
ing unchanged. Few men thus afflicted
have the perseverance, and the strength
of win necessary to lift off every day the
incubus which fastens them down and
to think and act Ike well men merely
because they choose to do so.--New York
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
To Mend stockings.

A lady, who finds in the practice of
the homely art that she brings comfort
to her family, gives these suggestions as
to stocking-mending:
Given dozen pairs of wooden ribbed
socks. Select from them the two or
three pairs most worn; cut away the
heels and toes, and lay by the better
parts for use in mending-well, yes, for
patches.
From the best hose retained to be re-
paired, cut out the worn heel, and from
the patches cut new heel precisely like
the old one
First sew the bottom of the heel, then
sew it into the place made vacant. Use
soft cotton, or else the fine, soft mend
ing yarn, which comes, Of all colors, on
spools.
Sew the raw edges over and over, y
about as close as a nice overcast; so that
when the new heel is worn out, YOU
have only to pull the thread and insert
another.
The thread must not be so tight but
that the seam will fiatten and become
imperceptible to the foot. To sew in
such heel will require about one
minute.
If the toe is worn. so that the new
darns seem to take from the old, and the
rent is made worse, cut it off so far from
the instep as it is thin.
From the top of the sock put aside,
cut a new toe like the old. Sew across
the end, and then around the foot, OBJ
serving to make the seam, as before,
fiat and soft
When again worn out, repeat the pro-
cess, till the entire dozen, like the tabled
ducks, have eaten one another up.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

Prof Bencke, of Marburg, Germany,
after measuring $40 human hearts, says
that the growth Of that organ is greatest
in the first and second years Of life. At
the end Of the second year it is double in
size, and during the next five years is
again doubled. Then its growth is much
slower, though from the fifteenth to the
twentieth year its size increases by two
thirds. A very slight growth is then OBJ
served up to fifty, when it gradually
diminishes. Except in childhood, mems
hearts are decidedly larger than those Of
women.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29

A French minister Of finance has a
good word for toads, moles and birds.
For toads because they live entirely on
insect food, and are entirely harmless
for moles because they live on grubs,
larvae, palmer worms and insects injuri-
GUS tc agriculture. it having been pref
ty well demonstrated that the true mole
does not eat vegetable food Ofbirds he
says: Each department looses several
millions annually through insects. Birds
are the only enemies able to contend
against them vigorously. They are the
great caterpillar killers and agricultural
assistants.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
A M1DsUMMER IDrL.


Thou art so near and yet so far,
o filmy, pale mosquito bar
In silent watches of the night
When owlets moan and bats disport
And cats upon the woodshed court,
We stretch our hands to thee so white
To pluck thee round us all about
Lest flies blaspheming find US out
By dawning morning light.
Thou art so near and yet so far,
Coquettsh, vain mosquito bari
Some nail have catehed thee on the fool
Perchance some hook upon the wall
Impedes thy graceful, sheltering fall;
Yet when the dreary night is DER
We find thee splattered on the bed
Entwined about our feet and head
0 clinging, gauzy bore!
DR.. Enward G. Loring speaks in Har-
per'S Magazine of persons not taking
proper care of their eyes as follows:
Whatever an ounce OF prevention may
be to other members of the body, it GER
tainly is worth many pounds Of cure to
the eye. Like a chronometer watch,
this delicate organ will stand any
amount of use, not to say abuse, but
when once thrown off its balance, it
very rarely can be brought back to its
original perfection of action, or, if it is,
it becomes ever afterward liable to re-
turn of disability of function or the seat
of actual disease. One would have sup
posed from this fact, and from the fact
that modern civilization has imposed
upon the eye an ever increasing amount
Of strain, both as to the actual quantity
of work done and the constantly in
creasinO brilliancy and duration Of the
under which it is per
formed, that the greatest pains would
have been exercised in maintaining the
organ in condition of health, and the
greatest care and solicitude used in its
treatment when diseased. And yet it is
safe to say that there is no organ in the
body-the welfare Of which is SO D ersis-
tently neglected as the eye,n
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29

The Charleston (Ill.) Pldisadealer says
that the farmers of that vicinity have
discovered new cure for hog cholera
When the cholera appears among their
animals they cook dead one and feed it
to the Others. and it rarely fails to effect
a cure.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29

In ST. Petersburg more than six hun
dred persons of the noble or privileged
classes are under arrest to be deported to
Siberia without trial. In one of the tenn
porary governor-generalships in the
south Of the empire Odessa sixty
privileged persons have been already
sent to Siberia without trial, and two
hundred persons Of this class are under
arrest to be judged. So great is the num-
Der of persons of this category to be ex-
lied that a practical difficulty is said to
have arisen in connection with their de-
portation. A noble or privileged person,
who has not been .judicially sentenced,
when sent to Siberia, by the orders of
the Third Section, or Secret Police, must
be escorted by two gendarmes, it being
against the laws to manacle privileged
person who is uncondemned. 1t appears
that there are not gendarmes enough
thus to escort the number of persons to
be deported, and the Ministry of Secret
Police has proposed to get rid of this
difficulty by sending the privileged per-
sons fettered like ordinary criminals
On the other hand, the officials are op-
posed to any such course.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

/
| Vegetables are now seen on bonnets.
Is Lawns of a pale green are fashionable
Mexican filigree jewelry is the coming
rage.
The last novelty in fringe is made O
pack-thread.
Carefully-made flies are worn as ear
rings and pins.
Linen serge slippers are cool for home
wear in hot weather.
Dressmakers say that alpaca will bt
much worn this fall. --s.rr
Feathers prevail wherever they car
be used with propriety.
The yoke waists have been superseded
in Paris by the fan waist.
Silk nets are more popular than ever,
especially for young ladies.
The costumes of grenadine over silk
are usually made with polonaise.
Cover a Japanese fan with bit OF
pretty silk and it is quite "chick.n
High colored stockings are the rage
still, and especially for young misses.
A new sort of goods, Glace Mar
guerete, of silk and wool, is much worn.
Linen costumes much embroidered are
worn for morning dress in the country.
A profusion of knife-plaited ruffies
weighs down the new cheese cloth
gowns.
Dresses are worn much shorter in the
streets abroad than they are in this
country.
The flower that lady wears at her
throat should give the KEYNOTE of color
in her dress.
Dresses of the same material as those
worn by their mothers are made up for
young girls.
Ribbons with spotted stripes are the
latest importation, and take the fancy of
nearly all the ladies.
Imitation pearl beads are coming into
fashion this fall, and large importations
from Italy will be made.
Tides made of pink and blue silesia
and bordered with lace are considered
quite the thing just now.
Pointed waists, both back and front,
are being revived, but are far from being
a becoming style for the figure.
Barege dresses for Young girls are
trimmed with cascades of Breton lace.
Imitation Lisle thread gloves, costing
but ten cents per pair, are just as hand
some as the real, which cost ten times as
much.
Some walking suits have long waist
extending nearly to the knee in front
These can be worn without any outside
wrap.
Sewing beads on black lace would be
profitable amusement for idle hours.
Beaded lace is to be fashionable in
the winter.
A Paris idea is to wear fesh-colored
stockings under open worked ones.
Preposterous as this is, it is fashionable
on the boulevards.
Velvet is more used for trimming now
than at the beginning of the summer.
but it is placed on cotton materials
rather than on woolens.
A new hat called the Princess Louise
has made its appearance in London and
New York. 1t is of delicate straw and
turned up one side and back.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29
Watchwords.

WaGclW0rdS.
Through gathering clouds and stormy seas OF
fate
Two golden watchwords guide and comfort
me;
Toiling along my path, early and late,
I cling to patience and fidelity.
In all the weary changes OF my day
strive to follow duty faithfully;
And when talter, fainting by the way,
With subtle influence patience strengthens
So onward, through what suffering God may
send,
walk with faith, and !eet that shall not
fire, Et4
Tn ting VIA p-..ierce, strong unto the end,
To reach at last, oh, Lord, my souls desire.
Helen s. Conant, in Hdrper's.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-29

A Paris correspondent tells a strange
story of the Zulu war In 1868 Captain
Lambert, of the Fourth Voltigeurs of the
French Imperial guard, was caught cheat
ing at cards and was expelled from his
regiment. He decided to drown him
self, but his godfather convinced him
that it would be better try his fortune in
foreign lands. So he went to the Cape of
Good Hope, learned the native dialects
and became a purveyor of ammunition
to tie Zulus, and afterward obtained a
commission in the Zulu army, of which
he finally became commander-in-chief
He died in the service, but it is said that
to him the Zulus owe their knowledge of
military tactics.