Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-04
TIMELY TOPICS.

excavated a distance of more than fifty
feet. III that can be seen of the work
is small frame building at the foot of
Fifteenth street, Jersey City, surrounded
by piles of earth and bricks. This shed
covers the shaft. The men are working
at depth of sixty feet under the river.
There are three shifts of ten men each,
each shift working eight hours. The
men are admitted to the tunnel through
air locks Thirty-five feet of the iron
framework have been put in place, and
the work of putting in the brick lining,
which is to be three feet thick, was
commenced recently. In May the
shaft on the New York side will be
sunk near the foot of Leroy street.
1t is stated on no less an authority
than that of the lord chancellor of Eng
land that the total sum of money ex-
pended in the United Kingdom last year
for intoxicating drinks was very nearly
double the whole revenue of the coun-
try, or 800, ,000, 900. At this rate, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser, the
national debt of Great Britain-$4, ,O0O,-
O00, ,00O-could be paid in less than six
years with the money thrown away in
sea of ale, wine and brandy. 1t is
rather startling exhibit Of the preva-
lent human drought, and suggests col
lation of similar data in this country,
with an eye to helping DIR. Crosby
arguments by The logic of stern facts
A tax of five cents for every soldier at
the post having been imposed by the
council of administration upon the post
t1-od Mt E-v n1dna {bo1
tion Of its legality was recently submit
ted to the attorney-general, who de-
cides that it is in accordance with law.
as the act of 1876 makes post traders
subject in all respects to army regula-
porting "camp charities" He also de-
cides that post traders confning their
business strictly within the limits of the
army are not subject to taxation by
State, Territorial or coun5 y authorities
New York city is to have Ladies'
Cooperative Dress Association, the
object OF which is to establish a CO.
operative store stocked with ladies' and
children's dress goods, millinery, etc.
The capital stock is fixed at $3.50, ,0D0,
of which 100000 have already been
subscribed. There is similar institu-
ton in England, which was incorpor-
ated in 1877, and has proved so great a
success that, at the present time, it is
impossible to purchase any of the stock.
The absence of Chinese women in the
East has compelled the males to inter
marry with the whites. There are in
New York city at the present time
nearly three hundred Cinnamon who
have white wives. They are mainly
Spanish and Irish women, the Mon
golians preferring the latter on account
of their skill in domestic labor. This
intermarriage ofraces commenced about
six years ago. Consequently a young
China-Celtic generation is springing up,
the Oldest member of whom is about five
years of age.
Mrs. Gov. Lew Wallace finds in New
Mexico what she calls subtle Spanish
essence" pervading everything. Even
the names of the commonest persons she
meets are poetic. She says in the Inde-
pendent: "Perfectio (perfection), q
worthless peon in Navajo blanket,
sweeps the sidewalk; Benito (the good),
shambling Mexican boy, watching his
chance for a spring at the spoons, brings
the daily mail; Mariposa (butterhy),
the si.iest of Slowboys, pushes the baby
wagon; while Angellus, an angel whose
form has lost its original brightness.
lazily watches her. Three old witches,
whom we familiarly call the Macbeths,
were baptized Feliciana, the happy !;
Rosita, little Rose; Hermosa, the beau
tiful.n Mrs. Wallace adds that most Of
the people she meets have Indian blood
IN their veins, and not afew are mix.
ture of Spanish, African and Indian.
Here is a picture of Santa Fe woman !:
"Quiet out of each of the shady trees,
in the fiereest blaze of the sun, sitting
on fragment of the Rocky mountains is
a statuesque figure, which might repre-
sent the Oldest, the most furious of the
Furies. 1t is Blandina, the fair one, the
soft one, of Santa Fe. Her face, like one
of her own foothills, is worn into cutters
and seams. Not like them so nodded
by the action of water, but by exposure
to sharp sunlight and whitening wind,
destructive to beauty, which make even
young persons appear old. Her skin is
a parchment, which looks as though it
might date back to- was about to say
the flood, but that would imply that at
some prehistoric era she had felt the
sanitary influence of a shower bath .