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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11

Tendencies to Disease

Seventy tn ousand persons in America
die yearly of consumption alone. Vast
numbers inherit tendency t0rheurna-
tism, epilepsy, insanity, cancer. dyspep-
sia, headache, neuralgia, asthma or TO
early loss Of sight or hearing Probably
some 26, ,000, 900 inherit some constitu-
tional defect.
Hitherto little has been done TO extir-
pate these tendencies. Even when they
have begun to show themselves q course
is generally pursued by friends the re-
verse of what is needed. Moreover,
thoughtless squandering Of vital reserve
is encouraged by the whole force of our
social usages. Hence we-are degenerai-
ing as people. The birth rate, already
lower in New England than in any
country of Europe, except France, is
steadily gained ON by the lcata, aate.
But there is no inhere It uhsirulty i'm
the way of extirpating hereditary dis,
ease. 1t may be accomplished BY by.
gienic care, such as can he wen only
BY medical expert, and such 81. when
downright sick, we all resort to.
A physician thus describes the case Mf
his family: N Consumption on my fathH
er's side, he having lost one. II not two.
sisters by the disease. Mother died 81
1t in her forty-third year Six children
were born to them: All - AliYa nsHNA
healthy, the Youngest being past his'
fiftieth year. They are al free froga azH
signs of tn hercul0Sis, ~ Arc als1 tflfrlN4
one grandchildren aud eleven kFFSs
'grandchil
This i a sample slatonaant 0i nanaN
that might be uiv6n. The sa1Hs N ir. .&l I
cent care would TtnSfal'x f{sa.F " snflHV
i<r@tfjf< ,&'t I'D
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11
The Florida orange Crop.

Sch French, of Jacksonville, Fla, an
old and experienced orange grower,
gives the following as an estimate of
the cost OF an orange grove, according
ito locality: Cost of ten acres of land for
q grove, $50 to 500; cost of clearing,
500 to $3.50; cost of fencing, $50 to SIS;
cost of breaking. $20to S25; cost of set
ting out 500 trees, 5000 to $500; cost of
care and fertilizing. five years, $500 to
81 600; total cost, 1920 to 81 $40. In
addition to this the young trees cost,
ready for setting out, from thirty-fve
to fifty cents each. At the age of nine
or ten years from the seed the tree be-
gins to produce, the average being about
son. oranges to the tree For the next
two years the increase in production is
rapid, being about 1000 oranges per
tree each year. There are quite lot of
trees in Florida that produce 10000
oranges, but these are aged, having been
planted before the war. Oranges, like
apples, have their "off" wears, but at
fifteen years from the seed it is safe to
say that the trees will produce on an
average 5000 oranges each. There are
fifty trees to one acre, according to Mr..
French's figures given above, though it
is usual to set out sixty, which, at 3, 900
oranges per tree, would give l 500. 900
oranges as. the yield of. the ten acres.
These at one and a half cents apiece as
they hang on the tree, the average price
4 this season, would give $22, 500 off the
\ ten acres. This estimate, let it be borne
in mind, is a low one, for some Flori-
dians are this year realizing $25, ,0OC
from six acres. The Florida orange
crop this year is much larger than ever
x hlf0rp From cr1ah nor1nfior oo ave
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11
The Iron Age.

Pittsburg, Pa, uses IL, 900 tons of iron
a week. re As ilss ass
There are forty-six rolling mills in
Ohio, thirty-two of which are in opera
ton. 81 tsfi4l.ri 1..1 t.,a5 = ia. .-..r4. b
The rolling-m mills of Chicago now en-
ploy over 5000 men, and are running
night and day. H.
One firm in Baltimore has made a
contract for 300, 1000 tons of iron and iron
ore, and another for 100000 from Eng
ish ports. s....s
Wheeling. W. Va, makes about a
fourth of all the nails manufactured
in the United States, and turns out over
1000, 900 kegs annually.
st. Louis has 4,6O0 men Employed in
iron mills and fouudries, who turn out
daily 700 tons of finished iron, 100 tons
Of cast iron, 800 tons Of pig and 375 car
wheels.
The number of iron and rail mills of
all kinds in the United States amount
to 100, or about five times as many as
there were in 1856, with a greater aver
age capacity.
1t is estimated by railroad statisticians
that the probable demand on our steel
| and iron mills will be equal to l,5O0.-
600 tons, of which $40. 900 will be for new
stock during the year 1880.
| The production of Bessemer steel rails
in this country since 1867, when they
were first made, has increased to mar
velous extent. In 1867 it amounted to
only 2,555 tons, in 1872 to "a, 1000 tons,
and last year to $40, 600 tons.
Experience has shown at the Pc
troleum iron works. Titusville, Pa,
that barrel Of petroleum will generate
heat sufficient for making ton of iron,
while ton and quarter of coal would
be required for the same result.
An unprecedented quantity of iron
will be made in the United States this
year. In England furnaces are also be-
/ ing rapidly blown in. There is no danger
Of an iron famine. On the contrary
There win be plenty of it, and the pros.
pecxs are it will all be sold at good
j prices Ptts6ssrg Press. A
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11
VOL. II. ]. sao
The Story Of q Life. y.

child in nursery crying-a boy in a cricket
field &c out !" 50
A-youth for phantasy sghing-a man with
ft OF the gout- sssa ks y
OF heart dried up and narrowed-a task re-
peated in vain
A field plowed deep-and- narrowed, but bare
and barren of grain -
Some sense OF experience wasted, Of counsel
misunderstood,
A pleasure bitter when tasted, and pain that
did him no good, 4.
A future hope half-hearted, for dim is the
future now,
That the ripple cord is parted, and death is
damp on the brow. 50. = :
And the debt to pay by the debtor-a doctor,
a lawyer, nurse, s'f df'
A feeling he should have been better, doubt
if he could have been worse;
While the ghostly finger traces its ghostly
message of doom,
And troop of ghostly faces passed on in
a darkened room;
With ghostly shapes to beckon, and ghostly
voices to call, IA ~ s.r S.
And the grim recorder to reckon, and add the
total OF all. u -%-st -4f
A sum OF lite expended-a pearl in a pig
trough cast q t4t T4s3-
A comedy played and ended-and what has
it come to at last?
The dead man propped on pillow-the
journey taken alone
The tomb with an urn and willow, and lie
carved deep in the stone
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11
NO. 20.
Endurance


How much the heart may bear and yet not
break, tf
How much the flesh may suffer and n0t diel
question much, If any pain on ache So sssz
OF soul or body brings our end more nigh
Death chooses his own time, till that u come
=- All evils may be borne. (.
We shrink and shndder at the surgeons knife,
Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel
Whose edge seems searching for the quiyering
lie; se
Yet to our sense the bitter pangs reveal
That still, although the trembling flesh Be
This, also, can Be borne.
We see sorrow rising in our way,
And try to dee from the approaching me-
We seek some small escape, we weep az.
pray, chase.
But when the blow falls, then - having
are still Dins ~ n
Not that the pain is of its sharpness
But think it can be borne. "A
We wind our lie about another lie; ~
We hold it closer, dearer than our oMn---s q
Anon it faints and falls in deadly strife,a r.
Leaving US stunned, and stricken and alone;
But, OH we do not die with those we mourn;
This, also, can be borne.
Behold, we live through all things, famine
thirst, E
Bereavement, pain. an griet aid misery
On soul and body, but we cannot die,
Though we be sick and tired and faint ana
worn; 715x AZ
Lo all things can be boznesA
t- -EEisa5eth .aters -aEten.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11

The Russian ambassador to London,
Prince Labanof, has his horse shod with
silver--nots for vulgar display. but be-
cause he thinks 1t the best metal f7r the
pprpoees 4 x
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11

One hundred and sixty odd entries of
American race-horses in England this
year, l30 announced races in Saratoga,
from July II to September l, the new
Coney Island and other courses, with the
great races at Jerome Park. Long
Branch, and in the South and West,
promise to keep up a pattering of hoofs
to the SHOWS of December. s
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST,"

Among the things that wear Cordu
roy pants. eHs
The wool grower is.s your true
wether- breeder.
Jefferson DaYis's memoirs viii be
published by the Appleton's early in the
fall. sa
Cyrus W. Field has more decorations
bestowed by foreign potentates than
any other American. F
The porter in d -four sto re knows
what it is to roll in wealth; nau ch Of his
time is given to that exercise.
Rome has abandonded the sche me 0f
its proposed worlds fair for 1882, "a
Milan proposes holding great national
fair in the same year.
a two-headed g0bher-snake y is On
exhibition in the museuiR> of the Wood
gardens, San francisco. It 5ssakes food
indiferently through either mouth.
Parnell. the Irish agitator, has 4
mother living near West Point, Ca,
who is famous fruit grower, and owns
an orchard containing 81, 900 peach trees.
A Frenehman has succeeded in mak<s
ing watch which, in addition to the
time of day, indicates the day OF the
week and month, and each phase of the
moon.
Mr.. Ko-Kun-Hun the Chinese profes-
sor at Harvard, is mentioned as being
very fond of society, going TO many pri-
vate entertainments in Boston and Cam
bridge.
A Marathon young man has COM
menced exercises in drawing. He sits
down by his girl and draws her head
over on his MGYdt5o13 hide
pendent. 9 iss
A correspondent writes that President
Chaplin, of Beloit college, in Wisconsin,
is the oldest college president, so far as
actual service goes, in the country. He
was elected in 1851.
Belgians cure rabbit skins so that they
appear to be seal skins. Ten Thousand
rabbits were recently killed on one Eng
lish farm in Essex and the skins were
sent to Belgium.
The first gas ever exhibited in New
York was from lamp erected BY the
old gas company, in 1923, in Franklin
square. 1t caused great curiosity and
was nightly visited by crowds.
Two seasons there are
Which we have to rsgret:
A season tor payment 4, ss a
And seizin' Tor debt.
- Tor onto GrfB. VIZ
During his last voyage across the At
lantic, G. A. Sala asked sailor whathe
thought Of the weather outlook.
g Well" said the son of Neptune, shit
ing his quid, them as likes good din
ner had better get il to day. s 5sti
Mr.. Bliss, conductor on the Rock
Island railroad, was only five feet in
height, and Mr.. Henry. a passenger,
was almost seven. Henry put his ticket
in his hat hand and stood up straight
VIXEN the little conductor. came along.
Bliss could not reach the ticket, even. by
standing on his toes, and his comical
efforts made the passengers laugh up-
roaricusly; but, without changing
countenance, he brought slep- ladder,
leaned 1t against the big man, climbed
up to the ticket, and then went on as
though nothing had happened.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11

The surface of Great Salt Lake. in
Utah, has risen eleven feet since 1867.
Professor King believes this rise to be
due not to the cultivation of the sur
rounding country but to a climatic os-
cillation that began about 1850, and
which is the first OF its kind and extent
that has occurred within at least $50
years. ai aa ed F
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11

According to DIR. Emil Holub, relies
of an extinct race, of amuch higher cul-
ture than now belongs to any native
tribes, have been found in the interior
of South Africa. Among the remains
are seen workings of ancient mines, some
even of gold. and the ruins of rude for
tifcations. These evidences remind the
great traveller of the African empire of
Monomatapa. as mapped on old Portu-
quese charts .--4 --
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11
WOODBURY. N. j.,

Strengthened it out, have yer ?"
asked he, nodding to the spokesman.
The man nodded slowly in return.
&c Wal les have Il than . - N
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-11

We shrink and shudder at the surgeons knife,
Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel
Whose edge seems searching for the quivering
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16

peted. He owns great numbers of
horses and good many cattle and
sheep, and when he goes out, rides in
carriage which was a present from
Ex-Governor McCook. He hires labor
ers from among the Mexicans and In
dlans, and also expects his wife to do
her share OF the farm work. Ouray's
present wife, Chopeta, is kind-hearted
and very much like Ouray in her nature.
being kind and we'll disposed toward
the whites. The Chief had become
very much attached to his present man.
ner OF living, and it is said was DISPOSED
to remain on his farm and surrender
the reins of government to some Younger
man. Speaking before the Commits
sion, OF which he was q member, re-
Gently in session at Los Pinos, on the
10th OF November of the past year,
he said:
II do not want to be chief. 1 grow
old and am tottering. Let some Young
man with the fire of youth in his veins
take my place. have nv farm. which
l would rather cultivate and watch the
seed planted by me grow up to MATURE
ty than to be head chief. They all
cOue u mc Will tuClr CrOuOleS. Know
everything and have all their burdens
to bear. Washington no want me to
give up my position; wants me to stay
and govern Utes. I want only to be
known as Ouray, thefriend of the white
man."
So far as the late difficulty. resulting
in the White River massacre and the
Milk Creek fight, was concerned, Ouray
continued from first to last friendly 70
the whites and an advocate of peace.
As soon a. he learned of the Thornburg
fight he sent runners to White River
ordering that hostilities cease. He also
did everything in his power to secure
the surrender of the captive women,
and when there was prospect of the
Southern Utes breaking out, he sent
timely warning to the white settlers
near. He pursued a straightforward
and manly course and deserved the
honor which the Government corferred
upon him in making him a member of
the Commission to settle the trouble
Dea,Uer Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
A Fight With q Bear.

HANNIBAL Roe of Helena, Montana,
went cheerily over the mountains with
his gun: On turning sharp point of
rocks he was suddenly and without
warning Frustrated by huge she bear,
which reached for him from the bushes,
in which she was nursing two cubs. She
struck Roe on the top of the head.
taking the scalp with it and drawing it
down over his eyes. As he fell the
bear clinched him, and in the struggle
they both tumbled over precipice,
where the bear bit and tore her victim.
and would have killed him outright but
for the crying of the cubs. which called
the mother off. Roe seeing the coast
clear, and with one arm torn from the
socket, blinded with his scalp hanging
over his eyes and his back nearly
broken, one ear off, and otherwise
bitten. scratched, and torn, got up and
walked to the stage road where he was
found and taken to shelter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
The Ibis.

A HUNGARIAN newspaper reports
that the ibis has settled down in great
numbers on the thickly wooded shores
of the Plattensee Nake Balaton), to the
surprise and delight of the sportsmen
of the neighborhood, most of whom
had never before seen their novel WIS.,
itor. The bird has long beak, bright
steel-colored feathers, and resembles
the snipe in its habits. Its flesh is sa-
worry. They build their nests of dry
twigs. or Of peat and reeds. setting
them in long rows close to one another,
and in line as straight as if it had
been laid down by an engineer. To-
ward evening they flock together, like
wild ducks, in great numbers, and they
are generally shot by the sportsmen as
they alig hit. The eggs are nearly as
Large as duck eggs, and of bright sky
blue color.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1T is said that the State of Oregon
will furnish surplus of 250, 900 tons of
wheat this year.
An approximate estimate of the
cotton crop OF Texas this year places it
at 1,SOO, 900 bales.
The English language is spoken in
the civilized countries Of the world BY
over 1000, DOC, 900 people.
Newspaper and periodical publish
ers daily pay about 81 600 for postage
at the New York Postoffice.
The Delaware Peninsula, a part of
the State most devoted to Embarrassing.
shipped 1000, 900 baskets of peaches in
a single week.
-Oshkosh, Wis, has the largest
match factory in the world. It cut up
1000, 900 feet of logs into matches, and
used 100000 worth of revenue stamps
during 1879. Besides, it manu- actured
one-fourth of all the merchant work,
sash, blinds and doors made in the
United States.
Prof. Thurston, testing pieces of
the wire cable of the Paramount Sus-
pension Bridge, recently taken down at
Philadelphia, after being in use about
forty years, found the iron to be fully
equal in tenacity, elasticity and ductili-
ty to the best wire of the same size
found in the market.
In coming $40. 900. 600 in silver and
$22. OOO, QUO in gold at the San Francis
CO Mint in 1873 there was lost only $50.
The carpet, which had been down five
years was taken up last spring, cut into
small pieces, and burned in pans. The
debris was put through the same pro-
cess as mining dust and yielded $2,5O.
The first steel rails made in this
country were rolled at Chicago in 1865.
In 1867 the manufacture of steel rails
was begun in Pennsylvania at the Free
dom Iron and Steel Works. which
failed after being run two wears. Dur
ing the wear 1870 three establishments
OF this character were put into opera
tion--namelv. ona at Harrisburg, one
at Troy, N. Y. and one at Newburg,
Ohio. There are eleven mills in the
United States at which steel rails are
made, five Of which are in Pennsylvania.
three in Illinois, one in New York. one
in Ohio and one in Missouri. Ir 1867
the entire product was 2,277 tons, aud
the price was 1856 per ton. The
product has more than trehled itself
everv three years. and in 1879 it reached
COG, 1897 tons.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
West and South.

The dispatches received on the 4th
and 5th stated that thirteen of the passeu-
gers and crew on board the steamer Vera
Cruz, which was lost in the recent hurricane
near the Florida coast, reached the shore in
safety after having been In the water from
twenty-four to twenty-six hours. All the rest
persisted, including twenty-six passengers and
thirty-one Of the vessels officers and crew.
Much damage was done by the same storm in
the Gulf States.
Miss LIZZIE DAMAN, aged sixteen
years, in the employ of Hale Peirene, at Wis
ncr, Neb., attempted few days ago to start
fire in q stove by the use of coal oil, and
was burned so badly that she died in few
moments after the accident, the flesh actually
dropping from the bones The residence was
destroyed, the family barely making their
escape, taking with them the burned girl
The chimney of house near Upton,
KY. was struck by lightning q few evenings
ago, and q number of persons who had sought
shelter in the building were severely shocked.
One woman was killed, while her four-year-
old child, which she held in her lap, was not
In the least injured.
RUFUS K. GARLAND, q brother of
United States Senator Garland, has an.
nounced himself as Greenback candidate
for Congress In the Second Arkansas Dis
trict.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

We should suppose the best tnms
for bathing dress would be q duck
suit.-Boston Post.
Life is full of bitter lessons, the
simplest of which is that one mans fall
makes forty men laugh. -Detroit Free
Press.
Church choirs are put at the back
end of churches to accommodate the
timid worshippers who cannot face the
music.-N. o. Picayune.
--"Take Back the Heart That Thou
Gavest," is popular ballad. As moth
ing ia said about the liver. it is proba-
BILE that she kept it.--Ni ayo Tribune.
The bathing suit worn by the boys
along the river front fits well and is
very simple and inexpensive. 1t con-
sists of wad of cotton in each ear
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
When an up-country conductor
struck in the smoking-car a boy putting
big cigar, and the lad rendered him q
half-fare ticket. it rather took the rail-
road mans breath away.-Bosto,s Post
There is no apple tree, however watched and
DuI inc SIudu UOy Is Iucre.
-Andrers' Bdznr.
THE fruit he eats, and soon his form is
In wild and keen despair.
- MnrGtllOM Independent.
1t always sounds pretty to say:
''The sun had sunk beneath the western
horizon" but a moments reflection
shows that that is about the only hori-
zon he could sink beneath under the
circumstances. When he feels like
sinking he always selects the western
horizon in this section DEM
OcrGt.
The pupils had got as far as the
word ''hypocrite. None of the chill
dren could explain what it meant. One
guessed that it meant "big feeling"
and another thought ''hypocrite' was
q "big animal that walters in the
mud So the teacher explained: "a
hypocrite, children. is person who
pretends to be what he is not; such
one NAV be pleasant to your face, but
speaks i'll behind your back" '.Please,
marm," cried little boy eagerly, rails
ing his hand, ''then my pa amt hvp-
ocrite. cause he said you was con-
founded old maid. and he iust's lives
tell yer so to yer ace"'--Boston Tran
script.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
Sixty Days Without Food.

A citizen of Cass Avenue was smok-
ing his cigar over the gate the other
evening when "go-as-you-please,"
who looked unusually thin, came scuf-
fling along and halted and asked:
"Do you keep posted on the news?'
Eyes, l think so," was the reply.
"Know all about the Tanner case,
don't you?''
Eyes"
II was down in Indiana during his
first ten days, and since that I've lost
track of him. Did he hold out for forty
days?''
"Oh, yes"
STOOD it right through, did hep"
Eyes"
Say" confidentially remarked the
tramp, as he came closer, "do you
know I began to fast same day as Tan
Ibid YOUR
Eyes, and it is now over sixty DAYS
since l touched food. That beats him
by. over twenty days, and could put in
another ten as well as not. Say?"
Eyes,"
"Do you think such things are of any
real scientific value?''
emo"
That's just my opinion. can't see
where nor how science lis to gain .
cents worth of practical information.
Do you think Tanner will ever become
President?'
"NO."
''Nor either, and I haven't any
hopes of myself. Do you think it will
upset any established theories concer-
ing the treatment of the human
systemP'
.sNo."
Nor l. either. Say?'
"Well-''
"I've been thinking this thing all
over, and 1 can't see how it pays me to
go on with this fasting. It wouldn't
prove anything in particular If I should
put in one hundred successive days."
t.No."
Then guess I'll come to the con-
clusion to stop it."
There was long and uncomfortable
silence. The tramp finally move of,
but halted and returned and said:
Say If a man had tasted for one
hundred straight days in this town you
wouldn't offer him as much as an old
crust when his time was up, would
youp''
''No, sir" was the decided reply.
"Nor you wouldn't give him any of
your old clothes?''
''No, sir.'
.'Nor lend him ten cents to pay for .
lodginga"
mo, SIR"
That's just the conclusion had
. reached and I'll be darned If I don't
fast my hundred days out just to show
you that can get along without any of
your assistance!''
And the indignant faster walked off
with his head up and his eel having
firm grip of the pine planks. Detroit
Free Press