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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
How a Toad Undresses.

A gentleman sends to an agricultural
paper an amusing description Of How a
Toad takes off his Coat and Pants" He
says he has seen one do it, and a friend has
seen another do the same thing in the sam
way:
About the middle Of July I found a
toad on hill OF melons, and not wanting
him to leave, hoed around him; he ap-
peared sluggish and not inclined to move,
Presently l observed him pressing his ell
bows against his sides, and rubbing down
ward. He appeared SO singular that I
watched to see what he was up to. After a
few smart rubs his skin began to burst open
straight along his back. Now, said j,
old fellow, you have done it; but he ap-
peared to be unconcerned, and kept on rub
bing until he had worked all his skin into
folds on his sides and hips; then grasping
one hind leg with both his hands, he hauled
off cne leg OF his pants the same as anybody
would, then stripped the other hind leg in
the same way. He then took this cast
off cuticle forward between his fore legs into
his mouth and swallowed it; then, by rails
ing and lowering his head, swallowing as
his head came down, he stripped off the skin
undt rneath until it came to his fore legs,
and then grasping one of these with the OPP
posite hand, by considerable pulling stripped
off the skin changing hands, he stripped
the other, and by a slight motion of the
head, and all the while swallowing, he drew
it from the neck and swallowed the whole
The operation seemed an agreeable one and
occupied but short time
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
The Health Of Printers.

In the course Of lecture on the Effects
Of Occupations upon Health, recently de-
livered at Leipsic by Dr. Heubner, he drew
attention TO the frequency of lead poisoning
among ypefounders, compositors and press
men. In Leipsic itself, the great metropolis
Of the German book trade, seventy-seven
per cent. of all who are thus affected belong
to the trades enumerated. Typefounders
are poisoned by inhaling the fumes Of the
metal, while compositors and pressmen in
hale minute particles of the same material
Fraught with still greater danger is, how
ever, the frequent practice Of compositors Of
bringing their type-stained hands in contact
with their lips or keeping eatables in COM
posing etc. The great preventiyes
against all such chronic poisoning are clean
liness both of person and in the work-room,
and ample ventilation by the frequent open
ing OF windows, ETC. As regards lung
diseases, too, printers compare tavorably
with most other trades, the proportion OF
deaths from this cause being exceptionally
large. The one safeguard against this
danger also is ventilation, which, as we all
know, is sadly neglected in printing-offic
generally by reason of the almost universal
dread of draughts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
An Epicure's Fate.

Mr.. Rogerson, the son of a gentleman
of large fortune in England, after receiv-
ing an excellent education, was sent
abroad to make the grand tour In this
journey young Rogerson attended to
nothing but the various modes of cook
cry and the methods of eating and drink
ing mxuriously Before his return his
father died, when he entered into the pos
session of a very large fortune He was
now able to look over his notes of epicur-
ism and to discover where the most ex-
quisite dishes and best cooks were to be
procured. He had no servants but men
cooks. Footman, butler, housekeeper.
coachman and grooms were all cooks.
Among those more professionally so
were one from Florence. another from
Sienna, and another from Viterbo, who
was employed for the special purpose of
dressing one particular dish on1y-the
g docce picd1aten of Florence. He had
also German cook for dressing the liv-
ers of turkeys, and the rest were all
French. Mr.. Rogerson had messenger
constantly travelling between Brittany
and London to bring him the eggs of a
certain sort of plover near St. Ma1o, and
a single dinner, consisting of two dishes
only, sometimes cost him upward Of fifty
guineas. He counted the minutes be-
tween his meals, and was wholly alb
sorbed in deyising means to indulge his
appetite. In the course of nine years he
found his table dreadfully abridged by
the ruin of his fortune, and he was verg-
ing fast to poverty. When he had spent
fortune Of S750,O00 and was totally
ruined, Il friend gave him guinea to
keep him from starving; but a short
time after he was found dressing an
ortolon for himself A few days later he
died by his own hands.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22

| A. Il
Mr.. Tyrawley walked into the breakfast
room.
Now here's a gentleman, captain, Mr.
| Tyrawley, who has been all over the
world, and met with some strange adven-
lures. I'll be bound he never saw any
thing to equal the affair last night
You'd a nearish thing of it, captain p
inquired Tyrawley, speaking very slow
| ly. His manner and appearance quite
disarmed any suspicion the captain might
have had of his identity.
Five minutes more, sir, and Davy
Jones locker would have held us all
Begging your pardon, MISS apologizing
to Constance.
The captain had already repeated the
story reasonable number Of times, and
was anxious to finish his breakfast So
Miss Constance gave it all for the benefit
of Mr.. Tyrawley, dressed in her own
glowing periods.
Tyrawley made no observation upon
her recital, but took third egg.
We'll, Mr.. Tyrawley,' said she at
last, what do you think of the man who
swan out to the wreckn
why, | think, Miss Baynton-T
think said he hesitating, that he
must have got very wet. And I sincere
~ nope ne won't eaten cold.
There was a general laugh at this, in
which the captain joined; but it is to be
feared that Miss Constance stamped her
pretty little foot under the table.
Tyrawley turned, and began to talk to
Miss Mellish, who was sitting ON his
right.
As he was speaking, the door on his
left opened, and Lady Grace Ravelstoke
+Ia Id
lady heard him speak-and there are
some voices which woman never for
gets-and the dangerous journey over
the rope had not passed in silence.
She laid her hand upon his arm, and
said, Oh, sir, how can / thank you?'
Tyrawley rose, as in duty bound, say
ing, Do not speak of it. did not know,
when [ came off, that | was to have the
pleasure Of assisting YOU
But the astonishment of the captain
was beautiful to behold.
Why, you don't mean to say,-Well,
Inever; dash my wig,-well I'm-Here,
shake hands, sir, will you? And he
stretched across the table a brawny
hand, not much smaller than shoulder
of mutton.
The grip with which Tyrawley met
his seemed to do more to con-
vince him of his identity than the lady's
recognition of their preserver.
The day was as wet as the preceding
Half an hour after breakfast, Mr.. Ty-
rawley lounged into the back drawing
room. There sat Miss Constance Bayn-
ton, and, by the singular coincidence
which tavors lovers or historians, she sat
alone.
Now Constance had decided that she
would compliment Mr.. Tyrawley on his
gallant conduct.
She had, in fact, arranged neat,
quiet, cold, formal, appropriate form of
words, in which she would give her
views expression And how do you
think she delivered them? She got up,
said, 'Oh, Mr.. Tyrawleyr and burst into
tears.
If woman's pride is a shield to thee,
oh man, as well as to her, against the
arrows of love, remember that if ever
she throws it away-after she has COM
PEELED you to acknowledge its value-you
are both left utterly defenceless.
Frederick Tyrawley capitulated at
once. They are to be married this
month. And if Mr.. Tyrawley does not,
at some future time, achieve reputa-
ton which no mystery can cloud, it will
not be Mrs. Tyrawley's fault
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
Summer Vacations,

Summer vacations have now become a
permanent institution; yet they are of
comparatively recent origin. Our an
cestors never thought of travelling be-
yond the limits of their city, village or
native valley, except when driven by
their affairs or their predatory instincts.
What lay beyond the familiar circle Of
their daily lives was foreign to them,
and rather to be Stunned than sought.
The traveller by choice was looked upon
as bold and foolhardy. Men and women
lived in narrow groves of their own,
and had no desire to emerge into larger
space. But times are changed. The
modern facilities for intercourse and
communication have greatly enlarged
our world. In one sense enlarged. in
another belittled, for while our expert
ence, through personal travel, books and
the reports of friends, has brought the
distant near and interviewer it with the
associations of daily life, it has drained
away the sources of mystery which fed
the Imagination of our ancestors, and
compensated the littleness of their actual
world with indefinite conceptions of the
vastness and wonderful nature Of the
world that encircled it. If the earth, ms
they conceived it, was fiat to us, in
another sense, it is still fiatter. Still,
our new way is an improvement upon
the old, for man needs variety of thought
and action to perfect his intellectual
nature.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
An ExtraOrdinarH Scene.

Three years ago young Christian
Maronite in Turkey killed Musseiman in
a hot-headed quarrel After lying ever
since in prison the mother Of the victim
came forward last February and insisted Oh
his being sentenced to death. What fol-
lowed the Constantinople correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Press thus describes: AS
the crime was proven according 10 the local
jTdicial forms, she obtained from Midhat
Pasha, the governor Of Syria. firman for
the execution, and day was fixed for the
hanging. In vain the notables of all creeds
and races, Musselmans and Christians, ap-
pealed to the old woman to be merciful for
upon her word depended the life III the
Maronite. They represented to her that If
he did do the deed it might have been in
sell defence; that ut any rate his guilt was
not perfectly clear; that he had already
grievously suffered in body and mind ~
his imprisonment, and that the people Of
Beyrout did not want a capital execution
in their midst Neitherthe Turkish uIemas.
the Greek and Armenian bishops or the
Turkish officials could soften the obdurate
heart of this cruel woman. | have the
firman for his execution she said. and his
fate is In my hands. | will not spare him.
In the night Of February 9TH, three houis
after midnight, he was taken from his cell
and led to the place Of execution. An i'm
mense crowd of people gathered around the
scaaold There took place a scene Of the
most extraordinary kind. The woman was
told by the executioner that the mans rela-
tives were ready to pay her any sum in their
power if she would, as custom authorized.
allcw him to 90 free on the payment Il
blood money. She shrieked and loaned ftr
vengeance. For an hour and more she re-
fused to be merciful, notwithstanding the
entr atiss Of the mass OF men, women and
children. In the meanwhile the young
man stood on the gallows with the halter
about his neck, II, milling for his life.
Finally, worn ont BY The prayers Of the peo-
pie, and tempted blythe high figure to which
the relatives Of the Maronite had run
tie bid for il life, she consented u accept
5000 as blood money The hangman Let 70
his hold OF his expected victim, and handed
him 1vsr to his relatives, who carried him
of amid the acclamsticns Of the spectators
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
The Andre Monument.

Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has purchased the
land at Tappan, N. u, where Major John
Andre was executed October 3, 1880, and is
having prepared to be placed on the same a
stone, on the front Of which will be in
scrihed:
Here died, October @ 17S0,
Major JOHN ANDRE, Of the British Army,
who, entering ne American lines
on secret mission to Benedict Arnold,
for the surrender Of West Point,
was taken prisoner, tried and condemned as SPY.
His death.
though according to the stern code Of war,
moved even his enemies to pity,
and both armies moRrned the fate
Of one 50 young and so brave.
In 1921 his remains were removed to Westminster
Abbey.
hundred years after his execution
citizen Of the states against which he fought
placed this stone above the spot where be lay :;
Not to perpetuate the record of strife,
But in token Of those better sentiments
Which have since united two narions,
One in race, in language and in religion:
With the earnest hope that this friendly union
Will never be broken.
-A5thay Pe11lyn Stanley, Dean Of Westminster.
On TIE back
Sunt lacrym@ rerum ct mentem Inortaila tangunt.
VirgA GReid l, 462
Ton the left si6e
The spy OF the neutral ground,
Who died he had lived,
Devoted TO the service Of bis country
-Fsnin0re Cooper,
on the right side-l
' He was more unfortunate tuan criminal
An accomplished man and gallant officer
George Washington
He died universally esteemed and universally
regretted"
-Aleuander Hamilton.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
cawtious bird-The crow.

"A cawtious bird-The crow.
A calico hop-A farmers wife getting
dinner for harvest hands.
1t underwent change The cargo
that was thrown overheard
1t is always well to beprepared for fires
whether we have them or not.
If you have fine toned piano keep it
free from dust to preserve its quality
The base ball season is fairly opened.
Flies are already seen around our office.
Scientists believe that the lightning
rod principle was understood and applied
500 years b. O.
Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes
Booth, is represented to be extremely
poor and out Of employment.
So late as the reign of Henry VIII,
not a cabbage, carrot, turnip OF other
edible root was grown in England
According to the most recent calcula-
tions-those Of Peterman-the population
of the whole world is now l,424,O ,OOO, 900.
A Grand International Exposition is
to be held at Moscow next year. One at
the city of Mexico, and one in Australia.
There are said to be {, COO, 900 or 3,00O,-
600 people in France who eat no bread,
subsisting on chestnuts and vegetables.
Coffee and tea do not have the same
effect on every one. Some they render
wakeful, and to some they prove gentle
anodyne.
An ingenious instrument has been in
vented by the use of which the action of
the pulse is actually measured and pho
tographed.
Picayaale: Life is but a span. Mar
riage a double team. Youth wed ed to
old age is a tandem. A cross old bachelor
is single and sulky.
There are $500 species of grasses, only
about a dozen or fifteen of which are
ranked among the cultivated or more
highly nutritious kinds.
Saying that he took it for lark"
was not held by the justice to be a suf-
ficient plea in bar of Judgment, in the
case of a boy whole stole a pigeon.
The French peasantry are not yet tired
OF shutting about in wooden shoes, and
France produces about four million pair
yearly. They are very economical and
keep the. feet dry. The best are made
of maple, and in provincial towns, ladies
often wear them.
The men engaged in cleaning Monu-
mental park. Cleveland, of the debris
and rubbish, while taking down the spar
rows nests in the trees came across one
in which they found a IS bill neatly
woven. The money was crumpled, but
good, and the half-dozen men quietly
divided and went into the task with
renewed zeal. expecting to find a few
more bills hidden away somewhere in
the nests. Strange to say, they found a
lady's fine gold chain in another, and a
number Of other curiesities Of less value
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
Words of Wisdom.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employ
ment
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly
leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Harmony and good will toward men
must be the basis of every political estab-
lishment.
In order to dispose our hearts in devo-
ton, the active life is to be preferred to the
contemplative.
The happiness of the tender heart is in
creased by what it can take away from the
wretchedness OF others.
Great vices are the proper objects of on
detestation---smaller faults Of our pity; but
affection appears to be the only true source
of TIE ridiculous.
No man has come to true greatness who
has not felt in some degree that his life be-
longs to his race, and that what God gives
him He gives him for mankind.
The very heart and root of sin is an in
dependent and selfish spirit. We erect th
idol self, and not only wish others to wor-
ship it, but we worship it ourselves.
Universal love is glove without fingers
which fitselhhands alike, and none closely,
but true affection is like q glove with fin.
gers, which fits one hand only, and fits close
to that one.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
/" Editorial Edifiers.o

A lawyer keeps his own counsel.
Not hard to take-Garden sauce.
A pretty cornseat-A number one
slipper.
Whoop skirts are much worn on the
frontier.
Fair one, if you don't want some fell
low tosteal your heart, you must steel
it yourself.
A perpetual-motion watching machine
A mother with several marriageable
daughters.
1t is really amusing to examine the
maps of the different railway lines, and
find on each one their own road conyen-
iently represented as direct as the
bird flies" and all competing lines
crooked as a rams horn or the streets of
Boston.
The editor who wrote what he in
tended to be complimentary paragraph
concerning battle-scarred soldier, who
had honored his sanctum with call,
was exasperated beyond measure on
taking up his paper the following MORN
ing, and seeing his fine effort utterly
ruined by the intelligent compositor
making it read, & battle-scared sol
dier. ~ Chicago Commercial Advertiser.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
The Morning Comes Before the Sun,

The Morning Comes before tne sun,
Slow buds the pink dawn like rose
From out nights gay and cloudy sheath,
Softly and still it grows and grows,
Petal by petal, leaf by leaf,
Each sleep-lmprisoned creature breaks
Its dreamy fetters one by one,
And love awakes, and labor wakes
The morning comes before the sun
What is this message from the light
So fairer far than light can be?
Youth stands a tiptoe, eager, bright,
In haste the risen sun to see;
Ali check thy longing, restless heart,
Count the charmed moments as they run,
1t is Ife's best and fafrest part,
This morning hour before the sun.
When once thy day shall burst to flower,
When once the sun shall climb the sky,
And busy hour by busy hour
The urgent noontide draws anigh,
When the long shadows creep abreast
To dim the happy task half tone,
Thou wilt recall this pause Of rest,
This morning hush before the sun.
To each one dawning and one dew
One fresh young hour is given by fate,
One rose flush on the early blue
Be not impatient then, but wait!
Clasp the sweet peace on earth and sky
By midnight angels woven and. spun,
Better than day its prophecy
The morning comes before the sun.
Susan Coolidge
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
Mothers Work.

Dearpatient woman DER your children bending
To leave a goodnight kiss on rosy lips,
Or list the simple prayers to God ascending
Ere slumber veil them in its soft eclipse,
Iwonder, do you dream that seraphs love you,
And sometimes smooth the pathway for your
feet;
That oft their silvery pinion float above you,
When life is tangled and its crossroads meet?
So wan and tired, the whole long day so busy,
To laugh or weep, at times you hardly know,
So many trif1es make the poor brain dizzy,
So many errands call you to and fro.
Small garments stitching, weaving fairy stories,
And binding wounds, and bearing little cares,
Your hours pass, unheeded all the glories
Of that great world beyond the nursery
stairs.
One schoolmate's pen has written words of
beauty,
Her poems sing themselves into the heart
Anothers brush has magic; you have duty;
No time to spare for poetry or art.
But only time for training little fingers,
And teaching youthful spirits to be true;
You know not with what famine woman
fingers,
With art alone to fill her. watching you.
And yet, think you'd rather keep the babies,
Albeit their heads grow heavy your arm.
Than have the poets fair, enchanted may y-bes..
The artists visions, rich with dazzling charm
Sweet are the troubles of the happy hours,
For even in weariness your soul is blest,
And rich contentment all your being dowers
That yours is not a hushed and empty nest.
-yNargaret E. Sangster.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22

Eighteen hundred girls under twenty
years Of age were married in New York
city last year.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22

A case in which romantic girl played
an important part is narrated in the Mis-
souri, papers. She, with other ladies, were
visiting the penitentiary at Jefferson City,
when she was struck with the appearance of
a youthful convict, and his story was told
by the warden. When boy just out of
college he had become implicated in the
embezzlement of trust funds, for which his
family disowned him. Believing him in
nocent, the story kindled her enthusiasm.
and an introduction was followed BY
promises to correspond This she did in
spite of the remonstrances of her family and
friends, and before his term Of imprison-
ment expired she had engaged to marry the
convict. The day he was to be liberated
she appeared in carriage at the entrance
and both parties were ready for an entranc-
ing consummation of their fondest hopes,
when horrid old unromantic officer ar
rested the embezzler on another indictment.
1t has hitherto been the custom of geo
graphers to give the palm to Borneo as the
largest island in the world, but, according to
the Popular Science Monthly, this is decidedly
an error. A careful estimate, founded on
the most recent maps, shows that New
Guinea is considerably the larger, and must
for the future be accorded the first place
In shape this island differs greatly from
Borneo, being irregular and much extended
in north-northwest and south-southeast
direction, so that It's greatest length is little
short of l 800 miles, distance as great as
the whole width of Australia from Ade-
laide to Port Darwin, or of Europe from
London to Constantinople. Its greatest
width is 4l0 miles; and, emitting the great
peninsulas which form its two extremeties,
the central mass is about 700 miles long
with an average width of 32O miles, a
country about the size Of the Austrian EN-,
pire, and, with the exception of the course
OF one long river, an absolute blank upon
our maps"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22
TIMELY TOPICS.

The so-called @Horse Communities " of
Russia flourish in all cities where there are
universities. Most of the poorer students,
who are free from prejudices, live upon
horse-llesh, which can be procured at one
fifth the price of beef 1t is the custom OF
such students to board in parties of from
five to twenty, and hence the name of
"Horse Communities" So many Nihilists
have been found in these communities that
the horse-meat eaters are liable to prosecu-
tion by the government.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-04-22

The Loyal Sons of America" is the
title of an organization which was founded
in 1871, and now lays claim to ten thousand
members in different parts of the Union
The members are all American-born boys or
young men between sixteen and twenty-six
years of age, and their professed object is to
join the American youths together "by the
golden band of fidelity and love" To quote
their constitution, "what we desire to do is
to organize in every town and city in the
country lodge where the strict principles
Of justice, honor and noble deeds will be
carried out, and prepare ourselves for any
position of trust we shall be called upon
to fill They have constitution and by
laws, and wigwams" " in New York, Brook
lyn, Boston and other large cities. Thefrst
wigwam was established at Medusa, near
Coxsackie, and the association intends to
hold grand encampment the next 4th OF
July.