Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-06-10
TIMELY TOPICS.

IUIlGSs.
In many parts of Germany the roads
are lined along the entire distance with
rows of poplars, or Of apple trees, the
branches Of which latter bend beneath
the weight of fruit. A fine of three
shillings is the penalty for plucking the
fruit, consequently it is permitted to
ripen, and the owners of the community
reap the benefit of the foresight in plant
ing shade trees at once beautiful and
profitable.
Horse races were introduced. into the
Grecian games 646 years B. c., and 152
years later, or B. C. 496, race called
the "Calpe," for mares only, was also
introduced into their sports. The date
of the introduction Of racing in England
is unknown. In this country the first
racing is believed to have taken place
almost simultaneously in both Virginia
and Maryland, about the year 1850; but
the first race for public stake was on
Long Island, in 1918. against time, by a
horse called Boston Blue" for $1,000
The value of California's products is
given in these figures from the San
Francisco Journal of Commerce: "We
have wheat crop which will reach at
least twenty millions of centals We
will have a wool crop of forty-fiye to
fifty million pounds. Our vintage will
yield not less than eight million
gallons of wine and brandy Ten mil
lion centals of barley will be raised, and
two million centals ofcorn. The south
will yield four million pounds of honey.
Our gold and silver yield will not fall
short of twenty million dollars. Our
fruit and raisin crop will sell for at least
three millions Of dollars Quicksilver,
coal and copper will yield moderately,
if not in their wonted abundance"
Peculiar and infrequent crimes are
brought to light occasionally in the New
York police courts. A woman was re-
Gently sentenced to twenty days i'm
prisonment for numerically fogging her
twelve-year-old niece, and the child was
given over to the Society for the PreYen-
tion of Cruelty to Children On the
same day, in another court, woman
received four months in the penitentiary
for throwing kerosene over her husbands
body, lighting a match and then trying
to set fire to the oil. Husband and wife
had not lived happily together for years.
One evening he came home, found her
slightly intoxicated and the two had
some words. Just as the man was retiring
his wife threw the oil over him, but was
frustrated in her diabolical attempt and
arrested.
The reported exploits of Mile. Sophie
Won Herzfeld and several other ladies
during the recent Nihilist e7qeute at
kieff, add one more instance to the long
list of female revolutionists in Russia.
During the tumult which dethroned
Peter Ill, in 1863, in favor of Catharine
H., Countess Dashkoff rode at the head
of the Preobrajensk regiment in male
attire, with pistols at her saddle bow
Several ladies of rank took part in the
conspiracy formed against Alexander T.
in 1824-5. Among the political prisoners
banished to Siberia by Nicholas in 1881,
was the celebrated Princess Trubetskoi
One of the principal leaders of the Po-
lish insurrectiono of 1868 was accompanied
everywhere by his young wife, who
made herself conspicuous in every skir-
mish by her reckless bravery. The at
tempt made by Vera Sassulitch upon the
life Of the ex- Minister Of Police, Gen
Trepoff, is still fresh in every ones mem
ory, and two young ladies Of good family
were found among the workers of the
Nihilist printing press recently seized in
st. Petersburg.
In the New York postoffice q force of
six men is employed solely in correcting
blunders of the people who write letters,
and the skill which these men display in
deciphering G blind I addresses is sur
prising. The postmaster gives the follow.
ing list Of a few of the many postoffices
in the United States bearing the same
name: There are eighteen Brooklyns,
twenty williamsburg, five Baltimores,
ten Bangors, twelve Bostons, sixteen
Buffalos, seventeen Burlingtons, seven
teen Charlestons, four Chicagos, eight
Cincinnatis, ten Clevelands, twenty-five
Daytons, fifteen LouisviIles, fifteen
Lowells. three Milwaukees, fourteen
Nashvilles, seven Philadelphias, fifteen
Quinceys. twenty-five Richmonds,
twelve st. Pauls, seven Toledos, thirty
Washingtons, twenty-five Springfields,
thirteen Wilmingtons, five Omahas.
This list might be extended to more
than $50 different and familiar names.
One Saturday afternoon recently after
the heavy mails had been dispatched, no
less than 1000 misdirected letters were
to11pd II, tbn ofiaa II, tho coattpripr and