Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-05
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The late Serg. Parry, the English law
yer, who was the last of the ancient order
of sergeants except Serg. sBallantine,
1 the others having retired or been raised
4 to the bench, died from poison by the
escape observer gas, his wife having pre-
! ceded him a few hours from the same
cause. He was finished speaker, and,
/ with Mr.. Justice Hawkins, led for the
crown in, the Tichborne prosecution.
He and his wife were both born the
same day, were taken sick the same day,
and died the same day.
The bull fights of Spain are aremnant
of the barbarous ages, at the accounts of
which, even, we shudder. 1t is there
fore q relief to learn that the young
Queen Christine attended one soon after
her marriage only because she regarded
it as a social duty, and that she was very
much shocked by what she witnessed. !"
1 1t is stated, moreover, that the king had
some difficulty in getting her to go at
all, and then was obliged to use all his
persuasive powers to induce her to.
throw the key for opening the bulls
cage. Later, when man and horse had
been wounded, she drew her veil over
her face, and refused to give the sign
which allowed the fight to continue,
although finally, with great reluctance,
she did SO. "a ,3f8pts
A gentleman formerly connected with
the Philadelphia Ledger is said to have
discovered simple form of audiphone,
which he has tried with satisfactory re-
suits, although he is very hard of hear
ing. A few days ago he was explaining
the principle of the audiphone to some
friends, and to illustrate his remarks,
put folded newspaper between his
teeth, bending it over in the form of
the audiphone. To his surprise he
4 found that he could hear as well with
the newspaper as with the audiphone.
He subsequently attended an auction
sale, and putting the catalogue between
his teeth and bending it down with one
hand, heard all that was said, although
without some such contrivance he could
hear nothing. sr xs no Ig snoe
Farmers whoread the papers ought
to be able to resist the establishments Of
the swindlers who are perpetually prey
ing on their unsuspecting good nature,
for the press has taken much pains to
expose the operations of the willy rascals.
But the swindlers are smart. and have
nothing to do but invent and put into
Eoperation new plans for imposing upon
the farmer. The latest plan, which
has been successful to some extent in
New York State, is census-taking.
A gentlemanly fellow appears with a
series of blanks, upon which he is gath
ering for publication the statistics of
the leading farms in the State, and he
I se.sfGown rs the farmer dictates, the
number of cattle, bushels of grain. etc.,
and makes out grand showing very
/ pleasing to the farmer, and apparently
useful to the farming community.
d When the list is completed the gentle
manly operator asks the farmer to sign
his name at the foot of blank space at
the bottom. The rest isseasily guessed
In month or two he is notified that his
note for $3.50 or so, is due at a neigh
boring bank, and being in the hands of
an innocent third party, he must pay it,
and the census becomes the worst
kind of an income tax.
a correspondent of the Journal Of
Education protests against the fun poked
at geographical names in Maine, and
thinks them no worse than the unmusi-
cal and unmeaning names of places in
4ddoSstCuuoScbtS, Il0 say OuI Luuldu
names are descriptive of their location,
as well as sonorous and musical. There
I is Pen-obs-cook. sthe sloping rocky
place;' Ken-ne-beees Z the long-water-
place;' the Andros-coggin, corrupted
from Amos-keagan, the fishing place.
/ the Pres-umps-eot, the-cleft-roek-
places the Saco or Sauk- -tuck-et, the
discharging -tidal-stream; the Piscata-
qua, or Pesca-tuck.ak, the divided
tidal-stream-place > the Cobbsoseeconti-
cook, the place where there is an abun-
dance of sturgeon;' and the musical
name, Abolj oljacarmezuscook, the place
of the infiowing stream" He thinks
that Chelsea is not half so beautiful as
the indian name Winne-simet or Win
ne-askim-et, at the good spring." and
does not see that the badly corrupted
| word Boston is pleasanter. to any one
but native, than its original Indian
name, Wishawmut, at the great ferry
nor that Dorchester is preferable to Mat
tapan, the stopping-plaee. ," Good old
! Governor Winthrop gives us Wennatuk-
set, /" at the beautiful tidal stream, )" but
his descendants must give it the dis
agreeable name of Plympton- Them most
rhythmical name quoted is that of a
brook in Mt. Vernon, n H., the Quo
apssakesassanagnog
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Want Mutual Satisfaction.
The following advertisements are
taken from morning contemporary:
The gentleman who sat down on
cream pie in q Market street car is
known to the lady who had Just pur-
| chased it, and even though he NAV have