Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-11-03
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grandchildren.
| The art Of cutting and polishing
diamonds was not known till 1476.
The rice crop Of the Gulf States, Il is
said, will reach 150, 100000 bushels.
A number Of artesian wells have
been bored in Marksville, Louisiana.
Bracelets were given as reward Of
bravery to soldiers in the middle
ages.
Weston has gone to work as a lecturer
for the Church Of England temperance
society.
Russian students eat horsefesh, not
SO much because they like it as because
it is cheap.
A Michigan woman has gone to Eng
land to bring back three hundred
servant girls.
Coleridge and Goldsmith wrote "The
House that Jack Built" and ssGoody
Two-Shoes.'
A street in Paris is to be named after
Madam Adam. OF course then, it will
be called Eve.
An old man lost bis balance by kick
ing at his wife, in Louisville, and was
killed BY the fall.
Old friends are like old clothes, not
SO snowy as the new ones, bat more
easy and comfortable.
At Talladega tAla a man with two
acre patch Of melons made 1907 profit
and good crop of hay.
The New England apple crop is be-
yond first estimations and the specula-
tors will probably suffer heavily.
The Burmese have their good points,
after all. When a medicine-man fails
to cures patient they bury him alive.
Edison is reported to hold s5, 900, 900
worth of stocks in the various companies
formed to introduce his incandescent
light.
Senator Malone weighs but 80 pounds,
while Mrs. Malone tips the scales at
200. Here is a chance for readjust-
ment.
4 Savannah, Ga, has shipped more
cotton to foreign ports since Septem-
Der LIST than any other port except New
Orleans.
The aggregate Of income liable to in
come tax in England has risen from
2,225, 600 600 in 1870 to 80, $50. 100000
in 1880.
The president pro tenn Of the Senate
will draw 100000 year-the salary of
the vice-president. A senator receives
but 5000.
The Augusta Ga.) Chronicle says,
that even General Lee was not out
wardly mourned in Augusta as was
President Garfield.
Fruit is gold in the morning, silver
at noon, and lead at night. Look at
Adam, who got into trouble by eating
an apple after Eve.
Paris and its.suburbs now contain
about $50 miles Of street railways, Or
far more than all the other cities of
France put together.
An ingenious clock set up at Brussels
needs no winding and attains the maxi
mum Of regularity by simple mechan-
ism. It is kept in motion by current
of air.
A bona fida bet of $1,000 was made
by prominent cotton factory in New
Orleans, September %, that the cotton
crop this year would not be six millions
Of bales.
A drunkard took his eleven-year old
boy with him on spree, at Maquoketa,
Iowa, and gave him as much liquor Us
he drank himself. The boy died in the
stupor of intoxication.
j. Stanley Brown, the late President
private secretary, says that all expenses
incurred during the sickness of Mr..
Garfield will be regarded as debts Of
the estate.
An electric headlight has been sue
cessfully used on locomotive in Aus
tralia. It illuminated the track clearly
for 500 yards, but the atmosphere there
is exceedingly clear.
An adventurous party Of scientific
folks have lately hoisted the Stars and
Stripes at the very summit Of Mount
Whitney, the highest point Of land in.
the United States outside of Alaska.
There is a merchant in New York
city who vows that he viii never vote
for president again, as every candi.
date he voted for who was elected died
in Office Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln and
Garfield.
A special effort was made in Massa-
chusetts, in 1786, to encourage domes-
tic manufacture, and an agreement was
entered into by anumber Of the wealth.
lest and most respectable citizens to
discourage importations by wearing
nothing but homespun.
| Little Belgium has more OF an army
than is generally supposed. In time Of
peace it counts 46,277 men and officers.
with 1904 horses and 2O4 field and
siege guns, and on war footing 1OS.-
6s5 men, 1880 horses, and $40 guns,
The militia reserves comprise 10000
men.