Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-01-07
parieties.


-Rampagious small boys stoning the
telegraph wires cost England $50, 900
last year.
-Undeterred by former failures,
California will again attempt the cnl-
ture of cotton.
During the academic year of1877-S
there were 5,035 students at the Medi-
cal School of Paris.
A feather cloak, made of s8 $50
feathers of the quail, prairie chicken
and wild duck, is for sale in St. Louis
at $500.
The New Zealand Government has
sent to New Y ork for three palace cars,
to be used on through route and as
models.
A bullet in q pistol that should
have been loaded with blank cart
ridge killed George Coles, an amateur
actor in Vandalia, Ill.
The value of silk ribbons annually
exported hither from Switzerland has
fallen from four million to one million
collars since 1873.
The Memphis Tenn. Appeal ex-
presses a fear that the appreciation of
the value of correct time has not
reached that city, as there is not a
single public clock in the place.
The experiment made last session
of cultivating cranberries on Bouldin
Island, Cal, among the tules, was so
successful that plants for 100 acres
have been ordered from New Jersey.
A public works loan for e5, 900, 900
has been authorized by the Victoria
Parliament, and the London banking
syndicate telegraphs that it can place
e3, 3,000,0 900 in England if the Govern
ment will promise to borrow no more
for a year.
During 1877 1S1 German vessels
were wrecked, and with them perished
425 men belonging to their crews and Z
passengers. This loss of life was, how
ever, proportionally small, the total
number of persons on board Of the lost
vessels having been over Il, Quo.
The electric light will make valu-
able saving of coal in England. Ac-
cording to very careful estimate made
a few years ago, the quantity consumed
in gas making was set down at 6, $780,,
900 tons, against a production OF coal
OF ia 800, 600 tons. .-..r Wy
The English Church Missionary
Society, acting on the advice and with
the active cooperation of Col Gordon
Pasha, Governor-General of the
Soudan, have definitely decided TO
despatch an expedition to the south
western end of the Albert Nyanza
in Australia the telegraph wires
are preserved from being tampered
with by having device attached which
conveys an electric current to any one
who touches them. Thousands of miles
of wire are thus protected without
watching, the natives being in terror
of the poles
The Detroit Free Press, speaking
Of the necessity Of funeral reform in
that city. says: 'At a funeral at
private residence in the northern part
Of the city, the drivers of the dozen
hacks engaged ran up and down the
walk, wrestled, boxed, pitched pennies,
a I'd behaved in such shameful man
n .ras to seriously interrupt the ser
vices inside. Then, in returning from
Woodmere, those hacks conveying the
mourners were halted in front Of a
lager beer saloon, and kept there ten
minutes, while the shameless drivers
were in the saloon shaking dice and
drinking beer"
What 'Bosh'' means. Ina a lecture
on Jerusalem in New York, day or
two ago, the Rev. DIR. J. p Newman
traced the history of Jerusalem from
the date of the earliest Biblical record
until the present time, and told how its
appearance when he visited it few
years ago compared with what he might
have expected from his Scriptural read
ing. He said that many Of the old
landmarks still remained and some of
the old customs are still in vogue.
One evening, while strolling about, he
met a strange-looking procession,
headed by band of unschooled musi-
clans. At the end Of the line a group
of men were carrying on their shoulders
a rude bower, in which maiden of
thirteen, deeply yelled, reclined.
''What Is this?n he asked of his guide.
SIT is half Of marriage procession, ,,
was the response; land if you come
here at midnight you will see the
bridegroom And sure enough-.sLo,
at midnight the bridegroom cometh"--
he came, youth Of fourteen. The
bride was waiting for him, still yelled,
at his fathers house. He had never
seen her face, the marriage having
been arranged by mutual friend. He
raised the veil and exclaimed tsYes,
thank God, . and his friends went home
rejoicing. Had he meant mo- he
would have said "Boshl'' and his
friends would have gone home sad.