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The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
GOtham's Growth,

The new city directory contains some 5000 more names than last years. This is supposed to represent an increase of about 10000 in the population. If we keep on at this rate, it won't take us long to catch up with Paris. In 1875 we had total of nearly 100000. Next years
 census will probably give us fully l,250,- City as part of New York, as they really are, the total population now must be very close on to 2, 2,00O,000. The increase in the city proper was somewhat aug mented during the past year by the rapid transit roads These brought back good many families who had gone away on account of the difficulty of get ting up town and down town. The roads have done some good in bringing few of the emigrants back. at all events. They will also do good in keeping others from going away. But when this is said their praises are pretty much Exhausted. Ks neighbors, if 1 may so speak of them, they are downright nuisances. Now that warm weather obliges people to keep their windows open day and night, the horror of living near them is fully realized. I am whole block away from one of them myself, yet the roar of the trains at night often keep me awake fully an hour. Itcomes rolling over the roofs of other houses like the roar of the surf,in aastorm, and overcomes all the noises of tlie day or night. And as if it. were not enough to have four of these nuisances in full blast all the time, we are threat ened with a fifth. Mr. Vanderbilt pro poses to build an elevated road down Fourth avenue from his big depot at Forty second street. The outcry against it is vigorous and angry, but tllatiwon't prevent Vanderbilt from building the road if the Common Council gives him permission. .-NeaO York Letter. 's@
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
How Much a Menagerie Costs.

1t may be interesting to a large class
 of readers to know justwhata menagerie would cost them. There are, no doubt. says the Detroit Free Press, many de- serving people in this country who would like to add tiger or hyena to their list of househ old pets, if they only knew where these docile creatures could
 be obtained, and what the expense would be. England does large trade in wild animals and they are rather cheaper there than in this country
 Still the unhandiness of getting them
 here more than makes up the difference
 Don't expect to got and snakes such hings by mail; they dislike to be stamped by the active clerk, and the clerk generally feels embarrassed when the package breaks open. A tiger or lion can be had for $400 each; Sl50 gets a very good article Of leopard, although Sl00 will buy an inferior kind; black partners cost S750; clouded tigers come as high as $1, 800, and economy would suggest 8 sparing investment in animals of his class; q lynx in England costs $50, but they can be had for nothing in Canada. One hundred and twenty-five dollars will get you polar bear, and $50 a brown bear; brown be ar is just as satisfactory as the others and much cheaper; sloths cost $50, but you can get plenty Of them Tn Amerlca, Slttlng around groceries and talking politics :; $25 gets very good wolf, although many persons can get them cheaper, in fact, they have hard work keeping the wolf from the door. Aard wolves cost as much as $500, no doubt because they are so Aard to get. Monkeys cost from S2 up to $500. Of course for the latter price regular Darwin can be had. A zebra will cost you $500. Be sure and get one of the right stripe. Kangaroos cost from $50 to $500. Feed them on hops. Every family needs an elephant, and will be pleased to know that one three stories nigh can be bought for the trifie of S1, 800. A two-story elephant costs S75O, cottage elephant $500, while any amount of shanty elephants, for parlor pets, can be bought for $500. Now we come to luxuies. A rhinoceros should
 not be indulged in unless the purchaser has good bank account. A very ordi- nary rhinoceros costs $2,O00, while a pretty desirable article comes to over $5,oO0. A person must have the rhino to indulge in rhinoceros. Now go ahead and make your seclections.. You pays your money and takes your choice. :"
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
Man a Fighting Animal.

Do what we will with him, man is naturally a fighting animal. There is 8 curious autobiography to be found in Southern book-shops, written by an old hunter who was born about a cen tury ago.. % #%
 The most amusing example is where the old man tells how he and his sons once trained some young dogs to hunt bears.
 "I put on the skin of an old bear," he says, :" and crawled about on all-fours, while Elisha and Job drove thepups on. They were scared at first, but presently the whole six attacked me furiolIsly, bit my calves, tore my hair, hung on my ears.
 "I begun to shout 'Enoughn but 'Lisha cried, Don't, dad, don't! It's the life of the pups
 He adds, "Of course I stayed. I had consideration for the dogs"
 It takes a good deal of training to root out this instinct from men who inherit it. Everybody knows the history of the {" ighting Quakers during the revolu- tionary war. Many of the staid sons of staid sires of the same faith, slipped out of meeting during the last war, to shoulder musket.
 One venerable old Friend in German town, Pa, found that three of bis sons had gone to this conflict against which his creed arrayed him. The youngest felt that he too must go, but feared to tell his family. M R E# N
 He took his gun one day, and began to clean it, placing himself in his fathers way. The old gentleman saw him, and paced slowly up and down, but said nothing. Presently.he approached the young man.
 Charles" ," he said, deliberately, ''if the devil has made thee feel that thee needs one of those worldly instruments, spare. not thy money, but get the. best :"
 Alexander Campbell, most com bative of Scotch reforiners and theologians, once submitted his head to the fingers of phrenologist, who had no knowledge of MT. Campbell's calling. The man finished the examination with the words, From your executive ability and love of fighting, sir, you are or ought to be a great soldier"
 The aged clergyman. heaved a sigh. "No, sir, no. Circumstances were against me. But according to my op- portunity, I've done what could've done what I could.n
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
COney Island.

A New York paper discusses about the city's great watering place as fol-
 lows: Coney Island has become, since it's rehabilitation, not the seaside. resort of Brooklyn, New. York and adjacent towns ard cities merely, but of the country at large, indeed of the whole continent. At the Manhattan and named, with a view of dissociating them from the rather unsavory reputation ac- auired by the island in years gone by, may be seen, on any hot day, people from nearly every State in the Union, from the Territories also, and from Canada, Mexico and the West Indies
 Hardly any great city on the globe is so near the sea as New York. London is forty miles up the Thames;, Paris, III miles from the mouth of the Seine; Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, are near the center of the countries of which they are capitals. Hamburg is seventy miles from the sea; Bremen is so inaccessib ble to large vessels on account of sand in the Weser that Brcmerhafen has been built for their accommodation, and is really, as its name indicates, the port of the city, Rome and St. Petersburg are further from the Mediterranean and Baltic than New Y York from the Allan tic. Philadelphia and Baltimore are, strictly speaking, river towns; but this city is only eleven miles from the open ocean, and offers such facilities for reach ing it that it may be said to be at our very doors. At no other seaside place on the globe are there such crowds as there often are at Coney Island on Saturdays, HSundays and k- holidays. Twenty or thirty thousand people make no show, and 60,00 and 70, ,000 have been reported there again and again. On two or three days last summer the throng was estimated at from S0,000 to 100000. Another resort so popular and populous can scarcely be, mentioned. Perhaps Margate approaches nearest to it x but Margate is seventy miles from London, and can very rarely exhibit sGach concourse as Coney Island can on a sweltering Sunday. The crowds at the beaches are curious and interesting as studies, much more so than the spot itself, or any of its material adjuncts. They furnish endless'sources of observa- tion and Speculation to anybody con- cerned with or about humanity. The island itself is but strip of barren sand
 redeemed and gloriied by the one fac
 that the ocean breaks bountifully on its southern shore. When the. mercury mounts into the nineties, Americans will go anywhere for promise of cool
 ness, especially to Coney Island, which seems to be the most frequented wate,
 ing place in the world. s @ @
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
Painting Fits.
Painting is so common ,y, tl <

Fa1ntlng IS so common with soma nor. sons, particularly women, and the cause of It IS so little understood by non-pro- iesslonal people, that some knowledge on the subJect often proves valuable Faint ness consists Tn temporary failure or the activity of the heart, the blood moi, Delng properly circulated in conseouence
 A lthough 1t does not reach the head. the suiferer loses all clearness of vision. and. II not prevented, may fall, the fail not ln1requently restoring the normal con dltlon. There is no conyulsion. and though he-more probably she-can hardly be called conscious, he is not so profoundly unconscious as to be in- capable of arousal, as happens in epi- lepsy. There are all degress of faintness. rom merely feeling faint and looking somewhat pale to positive and complete SWoonlng. In some cases one faint is no sooner cured than another and an- other succeed, hour after hour, even day alter day. It is scarcely necessary to say tIlab Sucn cases are serious and need pfompttreatment. The causes are vari- ous.,f Some persons are so easily affected that they swoon if they cut their finger or see any one bleed. Their defect is oVer-sensltlVe nerves and weak muscu-
 lar fiber. The heart is essentially a muscle. which is feeble in some. str0no AA NoiA~io hS'DiS III women and strong in men. Whatever weakens the heart and muscles commonly pro- duces faintness, close foul air being m active cause. Whatever greatly affects the nerves, such as bad news or the sight of the disagreeable or horrible, may produce aswoOn; and loss of blood Is another and a serious indictment. Sound health, naturally accompanied by firm nerves and muscles. is the best pre- yentive of faintness. The majority of vigorous men, go through all kinds of severe and painful experiences without fainting, while delicate rian and many women swoon at trifes American women, who used to faint continually in crowds, at bad news, at scenes of dis tress-now faint comparatively seldom; and the fact is ascribed to their relin- punishment for the most part of the habit of lacing, to their increased exer- else in the open air, and their better phy- sical conditions. Not one American woman faints to day where thirty years ago twenty-five women tainted, and the diminution ofthe disorder, always the re- suit of direct causes, is an unmistakable evidence, which other things corrobor- ate, of the marked ameiioration of the health of the highly-organized,- ex- tremely sensitive, but flexible and en- during women of our complex race
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
The Joy of Barren Sand.

A correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, writing from Coney Island, says: As I stand on these arid sands, with not a tree nor shrub, not a green thing i'll sight, and see the Atlantic stretching limitlessly away, and feel the delicious breeze in my face, lnylgoratlng my whole frame. l am 1ree to confess that sterile Coney Island has more to charm than would all the beauties ot the most elaborate garden in a region dis tant from the mountains or the sea. l know that it is insignificant; that it is only d mile and half long and half a mile wide; that it seems little more than an italic mark under Kings county that it possesses nothing save four or hve wooden hotels with their usual accom- naniments. and breakers rolling in boun- teously from the south. But it is this last which is the controlling attraction. Rolling breakers at this time, and With this temperature-I hear that the mer- cury is ninety-eight degrees in town are worth everything else, l would not exchange them for palaces, for statue bordered walks, for classic temples in land. Give me the sandy strip, and the glorious Atlantic tumbling at it's feet, in preference to any amount of art, to any degree of decoration and sweltering de- lights. My views are plainly shared by humanity at large; for there are tens of thousands of people here, not from New York and Brooklyn alone, but from every part of the country, and they are all en-
 oying the coolness and the marine land scape, as your correspondent is, to the fullest degree. On burning day like this one needs nothing more for his su- preme physical satisfaction than to stand or sit on the margin of the ocean and watch it tumbling and roaring at his l feet. Coney Island needs such a blazing day as the present to be completely ap, | preciated.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
In Search of the North PoIe..

During the present generation most of the great geographical points have been solved. The northwest passage was completed more than a.quarter of cen tury ago, the Australian interior has been traversed and retraversed within the past few years, the sources of the Nile have been traced, the northeast passage, begun more than 8 quarter of million of years since, las been made by Prof. Nordens- kjold, who nas shown that with a suit able ship at the proper season this long sought passage Is question of only a few weeks, and now the only remaining 2 Arctic feat, the dash to the North Pole, has been undertaken by the Jeannette expedition, which started fromssSan Fran cisco. and which, it is to be hoped, will sooner or later safely reach its destina- tion. One of the marked features of the expedition is the scientific method in which it is to be carried out. All pre- vious Arctic explorers were guided by the best knowledge they could obtain. When we read of what may be regarded as the blind attempts of such heroes as Cook, Clark, Mcclure an Franklin, we should remember that their expeditions were prompted pot by wild love of ad- venture. but they were guided by the best knowledge attainable at the time. Had it not been for the success and fail ures of Willoughby and those who fol- lowed him, Prof. Nordenskjold would not have met with the success he did, and he was candid enough to acknowl- edge his indebtedness to the English, Dutch and Russian expeditions that pre- ceded his. Efforts of this class should never be treated from q too narrow or utilitarian point of view, for even if they are not immediately attended with any practical good to mankind, they may lead to results that are justly gratifying Fork .Sar.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30

in Asiatic as well as European Russia. and the burning of Irkutsk, the second city of Siberia, and more important commercially than even the government capital, Omsk, is either lamentable accident or a frightful crime. A few years ago the ill-fated city suffered as sorely by water as it has just done by fire. In the winter of l970-I the river which flows through it suddenly burst it's banks and piled up so vasta quantity of floating ice in the narrow part of the channel just below the town as to com- pletely block it's course and menace the whole tow with inundation.. A gallant attempt was made by the soldiers of the garrison, at the imminent risk of their own lives to cut passage through t..e ice dam and let off the water, but the time was too short. About three in the morning a deafening roar announced that the torrent had broken loose. Two thirds of the town was submerged and many lives lost, while the damage done to property amounted to several mil- lions of dollars. # F
 The Krupp gun works of Germany are of immense dimensions. One of the es- tablishments employs $500 workmen, and contains 298 boilers and engines, which, combined, have 10000 horse power, and operate seventy-seven trip hammers, varying in weight from 200 to 100000 pounds each. Since 1877, 1000 cannon have been turned out; 300 are made on an average every month. Daily l8,000 tons of coal and coke are consumed, and 21, 900 gas jets are in use. A railroad track, with twenty, four locomotives and zoo trucks, is in n7operation within the works and between them and the rail way station. The establishment has
 wenty four telegraph statio,.> ,.uu eight
 reengines for protection against con- i. grafton. In the mines connected with these works there are $500 workmen. Iron ore the company gets from it's own lands in the north of Spain to the extent of 100000 tons annually, which five steamers that it owns convey to the fac tories. The company has built 3,278. tenements for it's employees, in which l6,2OO persons live. The grain used in the bakeries that supply these people with bread is bought by agents of the company in large quantities., chiefly in Odessa, the Russian grain port. Four common schools and an industrial school for girls and women provide the ele-. mentary instruction needed by this city Of factory hands.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
Waking mp a Stranger.

Yesterday forenoon gigantic stranger, with fists like footballs and muscle of about four-horse power. entered the gentlemen's waiting-room at the Union depot, flung down his hat, and falling back on one of the benches, roared out: "Tm halfhyena and half-tiger, and banker tor blood! I'm going to sleep, and the man who even moves his foot to wake me up will fool with a cycloner'
 There were ten or twelve men in there, and they sat very erect and hardly dared to breathe for the next ten minutes. Then one of them got chance to whisper to policeman through an open window. When the officer came in the crowd rushed out, believing that he would be eaten up in two minutes. The officer didn't seem to have any fear, how ever, but his face wore a smile as he walked over to the sleeper, tapped him on the shoulder with his baton and said:
 Come, captain, get up."
 The stranger opened one eye, but did not move. z2329
 ''Come, major," continued the officer.
 That man shut that eye and opened the other, but yet did not arise.
 7" Come, colonel, } ou'n be late for the train" said the officer. aisa1ts e.ii
 Did any one call mepn asked the man as he sat up and looked around. .-sqg
 Yes, general, l was saying that you had better wake up or some one might steal your valuables." ~ rssg A
 C Yes-an-that is-of course r lwake up. You are No. l policeman, sir | the finest officer I ever met. Let's shakei I'll go right out with you-of course I'll go!' aH a ai .l.safs
 And no Mary's little lamb could have l looked more meek as he picked up his satchel and took walk out on the wharf rf-Detrom Free Press. ss4 @ih
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30

No postponement on account of the wether," is the way agricultural fairs put it when the big sheep fails to be present at the appointed time.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30

Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch, they may keep together some way up, but at length they part company, and rise into individual, iso- lated peaks. So it is with great men.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30

And no Mary's little lamb could have l looked more meek as he picked up his satche1 and took a walk out on the wharf f.-Detroit Free Press. sl Sia
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30

A medicalpa per has these words to say about theventilation of houses: "A medical officer in the navy has been in- vestigating the ventilation of ships, and finds that when the amount of carbonic acid gas reaches seven parts per thou sand the air acquires disagreeable ,odor-not because of the gas, however, but because of the organic impurities exhaled from the lungs at the same time and proportionate with the carbonic acid gas. Fifty cubic feet of still air are defiled by one man in a minute.' None of our ordinary house rooms are So close as to permit the condition of still air, for the keyholes alone would afford some movement and circulation, but a considerable amount of air circulation is necessary to effect a change of fifty cubic feet each minute. gKeyholes and door cracks are not sufficient for this. Each room should be provided with some efficient means of effecting 3 con- stant change of air"
 Fires appear to be the order of the da6
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30

Fires appear to be the order of the da6
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-12-12
Biloxi Items.

Mr.. l.. Lopez has constructed a
telephone from his place of busl-
ness to his oyster shop OH the
beach.
The weather has been very I'M
favorable for the oyster business
thus far, but Notwithstanding this
our energetic oyster firms are max
ing large shipments daily.
tits rumored that one of Scran-
toms young mel is soon to carry of
one of our young ladies. Hams are
at Par in our town, and as the rail
road is a paying business we con
graduate the happy couple In adj
vance.
We notice a stir among our mer-
chants-preparations for Christ
mas. Now is the time of year
when the olive branches of the
family salute your ears every morn
ing with the momentous question,
to them, GLOW many days to
Christmas
Mr.. Mike O'Brien, of u town,
has IA fine nursery, and as the time
for planting fruit trees is at hand
he should not hide his light under
a bushel, but advertise in the Dem
ocRAT.STAR and let the world
know what he has and what he can
do.
The sheriff paid as his regular
yearly visit this week, and with
smiling c~uuntenance (and by the
way is not "a smiling face), insisted
on our citizens walking up to his
office and handing him some paltry
pelf. 1t is a pleasure to pay taxes
TO such an unassuming gentleman
An the doctor, for he receives your
cash with so much urbanity ant
kindness that he cOnvinces all he
would not trouble us poor unfor
Inmates we're he not compelled 81
to do.
On Sunday, the 7thf Rev. ). b
Hamberlin, Baptist missionary
preached his farewell sermon. Hi
discourse was an elegant one, ant
his words of advice were like ap
pies of gold in pictures of silver
and they should be treasured IL
the minds of all who were tortu
nate enough to hear him. In leav
;no for other fields of duty he car
ries with him the good wishes o
many friends in this com munity
for be is Wen tboaght of by mem
bers of all denominations. Th
places he MAY visit on his mission
ary rounds will, we know. be grea,
IL benefited by the presence G
such IA good man as Elder Hau
berliu.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-12-12
ASsignce'e sale.

Notice is hereby given that tho under
tioned. assignee of William 5. Dodson,
Sr,, acting under the powers i'll him vested
by the deed of assignment TO him exc
cuted on the 2lth day of July, A. ID. 1879
will sell ut public auction, for cash, on
Monday, the 22d day Of December,
AID, 1879, at the storehouse lately oecu-
pied bv w. S. Dodson, ST., in the town oil
East Paseagoula, Mississippi, between the
hours of 10 am. and 2 pm. of SAID day,
in lots, all the following described PROP
erty, lately belonging TO said William .
Dodson, ST., that is to say: e.,
Al the remaining stock of goods IN sas'
store, consisting of Hardware, ship Cg@ssn-
| dlery. Drugs, Notions aud ova opee
and store fixtures. Also sundry book ac-
counts, debts and chooses m actlohi
amounting in all to about W ,hvu nv
five hundred dollars, apa also all the f'
terest lately of W. S Dodson, ST., as
signed and conveyed by HIM to me IN tne
$50 and Iot: said lot being No III, IN
sonare No. !, situated and being ID Eas'
p-ascagoula. jackson county, state OF MIS-
s;Ssinpi. being said W. ;. Dooson' SIS
ann;tr af redemption therein, ana saiu
sqdia will he continued from day TO DAY
sale WI until all of the said Property
is fully disposed OF CITE Ass;onss
December II, ISS