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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
HUMOROUS.

Spell pea soup with three letters
6-O-U-pea soup.-Bost0ss Transcript
According to the Waterloo O6ssrvey
love is 50 heavy THAI IT sometimes break
down the gate.
At this season Of the year most
every man on his way 10 the barber
shop is looking for short cut
k"'Tis the last rows Of summer. as
the farmer said, when he finished plow-
ing his corn.-NetC York Dispatch.
Astronomer Proctor says tho world
will last $4,000, 600 years yet. That
will do. Any man who demands 5aore
is hog.
Medical men say no benefit is derived
from seasickness. IT viii continue 70
be fashionable, owsyer.-Netc Orleans
Picoysue.
AS between a toy pistol and e Cat
ling gun, give us the Gatling gum At
is the safest as parlor ornament
NesO Hapen Register
Two or three hairs properly arranged
on plate of butter viii save # longer
and make it 20 farther than eight pounds
OF oleomrgarine. Bfaghantos Rspnbs
hcd,.
1t takes 800 full-blown roses to make
tablespoonful Of perfume, while TEN
cents worth of cooked onions will scent
whole neighborhood. - De5roaf Free
Press.
81 think the goose has the advantage
of you,D said the landlady to "a inex
pert boarder who was carving. (1HtE Es
he has mum-in age," vas the wltBer-
ing retort.
Falstaff asks, "What,s honorf aa
though it was hard TO tell. But Let one
woman sit behind another in ehusch,
and she'll tell what's on her IN less than
two minutes.
The little ones will keep on saying
things. Six-year-old Mabel is indnstrl-
ously engaged an cleaning ont pre-
serve jar which her mother had luHt
emptied. Four-year-old Bobby looks
at her for while and then blurtN out.
g Say, sis don't you wish You conld turn
it inside out; SOS yon could lick its7
.sYou sit on your horse like
butcher" said pert young officer, who
happened to be Of royal blood, -
veteran general, who was Somewhat
bent from age. q II is highly probable,
responded the old warrior, with q grim
smile, 'sit is because all my life I've
been leading young calves ~ ths
slaughter"
Now whoa my gallant bicycle
My nickle-plated steed
Thou'rt cleaner than an icicle,
Thou art of noble breed
They talk Of Fozhall Iroquois,
And Luke, the Blaekbuln nag
It's stale and ancient stuff, nv boy,
Jockeys maudlin gag
Now fly, my gallant glitterer
No spoke Of thine be seen
Well see who shall be twitterer
When halts my courseH keen
--LouisrilEs Coikrisr-Joarnnl.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
Love and Literature.

This was the sort Of apology the
editor Of . contemporary had to make
to his readers from time TO time.
during the three months that his head
compositor was over head and ears IN
love For sFleshy brown noses, read
freshly blown roses. For 1--WE shall
be hanged, read 1--WE shall be changed,' y
For "rhe enemy was repulsed with
great laug liter, read s.The enemy was
repulsed with great slaughter. = For
Eating coachman, 2 read Beating a
coachman. For sSman OK in q ladv's
pocket" read ASmal box in d lady's
pocket" For nThe lot Of horses, 2
read ssThe lot Of her sex. For sfWith
bending step and lighthouse form, =
read with bounding step and lightsome
form. For nSunbags flag, read "Sun-
beams play. For It's. the broom to
nanny given, rs the boon to memory
given. For Ne'er to face 4 gander.' y
ssNe'er to fade again For Z The bison
is no drum" read ssThe vision is no
dream. 2
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

and half water. Roll it out and
beat 1t In order to break up any Jumps
of suet; line q creased basin with the
paste, reserving sufficient TO make q
cover to the pudding. Cut thick slices
from the chump end Of d foreloin Of
pork, put a layer at the bottom Of the
basin, sprinkle pepper and salt over,
then a layer of sausage meat and layer
Of mutton or pork kidneys cut in quar-
ters, and SO on until the basin is nearly
full. About one pound and half Of
pork, one pound Of sausage meat and
three kidneys viii be enough for quart
basin. Pour in as much stock, water or
gravy made from the bones of the pork
as the basin viii hold; put on the lid
of paste and, having tied the pudding
over with.a cloth. boil it for two hours.
FoR BAKED HoanNY GRfTs. Take one
quart milk, one cupful hominy, two
eggs, and a little salt salt the milk
and boil, then stir in hominy and boil
for twenty minutes ; set aside and fully
cool beat eggs to stiff froth, and
then beat them well and hard into the
hominy bake half an hour.
N1cE LEMON BEER. Slice two good
sized lemons, put with them one pound
of sugar, over these pour one gallon Of
boiling water, and when about milk
warm add one-third cup of yeast. Let
it stand over night and it is ready for
use.
RICE SNowBAILs. -Aoil six ounces Of
rice in one quart of milk, with sugar
and favoring of almonds, until the
rice is tender, adding little more milk
should it dry away too much. When
the rice is soft put it into teacups and
let it remain until cool, then turn the
rice out into deep glass dish, pour over
it one pint custard, and on the top Of
each ball place bright coIored piece Of
jelly. Lemon peel or vanilla may be
used instead Of almonds, but the flavor
ing Of the custard must correspond with
that Of the rice.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
VOLUME III.
what Is Fame ]


Famef Is it to visit Europe,
Study art while in Rome,
Paint, perhaps, q dozen pictures,
Get your name up and come home
Then to have the neighbors ask you
When they see your masterpiece,
Does the knack Of painting pictures
Take much time and elbow grease q"
And is 1t to write poem
Glowing with poetic firs,
Full of passion, and the longing
After something better, higher,
Some time read it to the neighbors,
And then, feeling like q fool,
Here one say, "Iwrote such verse
Very often while in school,
Fame? It is to keep on painting,
Keep on writing if inclined,
Till the world that lies beyond you
Four position has defined.
Is 1t labor, till your pictures
Are exchanged for so much gold
Till your poems, like potatoes,
In the market can be sold.
After you have climbed the ladder,
From the lowest round,
Then the neighbors pat your shoulder,
And your fullsome praises sound.
After having, with your talent, +.
Learned the money making art,
Then they say, eve always loved you;
Always said that you were smart
-Pdul Carson.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
No Need to Drown.

DIR. Henry MaeO Oormac, of Belfast, Ire
land, writes that it is not at all neces-
sary or inevitable that aperson knowing
nothing Of the art Of swimming should
be drowned if be depends simply and
entirely on the powers for self-preserva-
ton with which nature has endowed
him. The pjth of the Doctors remarks
is contained in the following paragraph /:
"When one Of the inferior animals takes
the water, falls, OF is thrown In, it in
stantly begins to walk as it does when
out Of the water. But when q man who
cannot 'sswim" falls into the water, he
makes few spasmodic struggles, throws
up his arms, and browns. The brute,
on the other hand, treads water, remains
on the surface, and is virtually insub-
mergeable. In order then to escape
drowning it is only necessary to do as
the brute does, and that is to tread OF
walk the water. The brute has no ad-
vantage in regard of his relative weight,
in respect of the water, over man and
yet the man perishes while the brute
lives. Nevertheless, any man, any wo-
man, any child, who can walk on the
land may also walk in the water Just as
readily as the animal does, and that
without any prior instEuctior or drill
ing whatever. Throw dog into the
water, and he treads or walks the water
instantly, and there is DO imaginable
reason why a human being under hike
circumstances should not do as the dog
does. The brute, indeed, walks In the
water instinctively, whereas man has to
be told"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
NUMBER 46.


AUNLA ~ A1La
Ye men Of business, ssep fhis WY
Please notice what lave ic aayy
sFis simply this I would advise
DO not forget To advertise.
The efforts Of an honest man.
When made according 70 this plan.
Can scarcely fail success 10 bring,
And wealth viii be certain thing
How is It with the stingy knsTe
Desirous al his cash to saves
he gains 10 wealth, and wins no prize.
Because be does not advertise.
Suppose the cost seems rather high,
Twill surely pay Jon BY and ",
And all the world win soon desp3se
The man who does not advertise.
why should you wait II viii not Pay:
50 send your orders right away
Straight to this sheet, where friendly eyei
Await to seesyou advertise,
This sheet, my friends, is just the thing;
Success it cannot fail to bring.
If you would be admitted WISE
IN this sheets columns advertiHs
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
Fnrn nnd fsarden Note..

Heliotropes need moisture andA heat
to strike root, but potted In a sandy
soil, with glass tumbler placed over
them, they will root quickly in May or
any summer month.
ii old fuchsias are cut down they will
send out quantities Of fresh shoots; but
ii you desire to keep them in good form,
cut off the old branches and pinch in
the new ones, and fresh growth will
soon push out.
The theory that variety OF potato is
limited to about fourteen years is not
new, as some suppose, but may be found
mentioned on page fifty y-seven Of the
" Transactions Of the London Horticul-
tural Society, " as far back as 1907.
Give each fruit tree in the garden at
least few shovelfuls of manure, and if
the same treatment is extended to the
orchard, good return will be made.
The way to obtain abundant crops OF
fruit every year is to manure the trees
yearly.
One of the best remedies for the cur
rant and gooseberry worm is to sprinkle
the bushes with q strong solution Of
copperas water, using gallon of water
to a quarter of pound of copperas,
and applying it from a watering-pot, a
single application killing the worms as
dead as door-nail." !"
Grease is fatal to all insect life. In
sects breathe by means Of mall porest
on their sides. Grease or oil that comes
in contact with the insects closes the
pores and stops the breathing. Mercu-
rial ointment kills as much by the lard
in it as by the mercury-that is, SO far
as the vermin are concerned, but not
as to the animals that lick it off from
their bodies, SO that almost any oily
or greasy application will be destruc-
tive to insect ver1nin that infest ami
mails. if it is applied where it will dc
the most good.
After reading all that has been writ.
ten by the best authorities on the sub.
ject Of deep and shallow plowing
the farmer must still be guided by his
own judgment. In some soils it would
be ruinous to plow deep. Where
there is q rich soil four or 1--WE inches
deep. Immediately underlaid with the
same depth Of sand or gravel, to plow
deep would be to exchange q good soil
for poor one. In all soils Of this kind
go down gradually, and enrich as Won
go. For all grasses except clover,
wheat, barley and oats, the richest soil
must be on the top to give the best re-
suits.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD


The loss OF ammonia in manures Is q
question frequently discussed. The
experiment Of DIR. Voelcker with fresh
horse manure, gathered from the stables
before being mixed with the heaps,
will, no doubt, interest and surprise
many. In one experiment the amount
Of ammonia, which was drawn out by
long-continued boiling, amounted to
6.6 pounds per ton, which, at twenty
cents per pound, would amount to 81 80
per ton. The loss, however, on the
land would not amount to quantity any.
thing like this, for in such case the
ammonia was extracted with boiling
water. A second experiment, with o
sample Of hot, fermenting horse manure,
emitting q strong and pungent odor,
lost in like manner less than two pounds
per ton, or SO 2-10 cents in value. As
the excrement, even as hot as this is,
soon cooled when spread upon the
ground, and as the fresh earth absorbs
the ammonia very rapidly, these expert
ments would indicate loss In practice
of too small value to be taken into ac-
count, when the convenience of time is
taken into consideration. A large
majority of our farmers are frequently
deferred from drawing out mantire at
times when the hauling would cost very
little, on account Of the teams standing
idle in the barns, for fear of loss by ex-
posure, but so small loss should never
be considered when question of con-
venience arises.
Grafters.
Grating is an operation that had bet
ter be done too late than too early.
The best time is when the buds on the
stock are swelling, and If necessary shall
be continued until the trees are in full
bloom. At this season the bark slips
readily, and much care will be required
when saving off limb not to make
bad wound by peeling down. This
can be prevented in great part by cut
ting through the bark with a strong
knife all round the limb where the saw
is to go. Buds should be left upon the
stock until the union of the graft is in
sured, which will be known by the buds
of the graft starting into growth. After
this rub off the buds upon the stock.
The growth of the graft will need some
attention should but single bud start,
and push upward very rapidly, long
slender shoot will be produced, easily
blown about by the wind and thereby
loosened from the stock. All such will
require checking by pinching off the top
SO that lateral branches may be formed.
There seems to be q strong desire to
give the trees the second place on-the
land, and put some other crop first.
Those who do not care enough foran or
chard to devote the land to it, should
not plant one. Young trees, not yet in
bearing, are not injured by having some
hoed crop between them. But when
the trees begin to bear fair crop they
deserve and should havei all the soil.
A clover crop to be fed off by pigs is the
best thing for the orchard and for. the
pigs. This will enrich the soil, as the
only thingis in the shape of flesh, while
a large amount of vegetable matter in
clover roots and manure has accamu,
lated. d.-4m. Agicultaa'is,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

The government has spent s25. 900 in
Investigating Tie locust, army worm and
grasshopper, and tile only result thus
far reported y that none OF them wear
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

The Boston Cou7.i6r thinks that Gle
dentist will be able 10 pun through this
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

A San Francisco correspondent Of
New York paper writes rather alarming
account of the spread of opium-smoking
among the American population in that
city. He says that the bane of opium
smoking in California is seen in the
younger generation. California children
are very precocious they seem to have
an exaggerated desire to indulge in
everything which is forbidden. Every
Chinese wash-house throughout the
State is the center of evil. Young boys
learn there to smoke opium and con-
tract the habit which ruins them body
and soul. The vice is most prevalent
among the hoodlums of the city and the
women of the town, but police officers
and detectives. whose word may be re-
lied upon, declare that the practice is
spreading with great rapidity, and th t
the law viii soon have to be invoked to
check it by heavy fines OF other penal
ties. The correspondent says the most
noted Chinese opium den in that city is
owned by retired American missionary
to China.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

The emigration statistics of Germany
are engaging the serious attention Of the
imperial chancellor, who has submitted
to the Bundesrath tables showing that
during the year 1880 no fewer than III, =
454 young men liable to military service
quilted the fatherland for America. As
the exodus during the past year was
nothing beyond the common, whereas
this season the numbers are assuming
alarming proportions, it seems likely
that the military service viii be deprived
of at least 10000 young men. The
worst feature of the case, of course, is
that the emigration of this class means
a twofold loss to the countey-the
sinew and backbone Of the land are
leaving it, and the aged, infrm and
children are left behind. The chief
exodus seems to be from Prussia.
Bavaria, with population equal to one
ninth of the whole of Germany, only
supplies one-twentieth Of the emigrants,
seeming to demonstrate the fact that
life in the south is not SO unendurable
as In Prussia itself.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

Sitting Bull announces that he is
anxious to secure reservation in
Canada SO that he and his people may
live in peace with the whites. His
spirit is said to be broken, although q
recently successful device to obtain a
supply Of provisions from the officer in
command Of Fort Walsh indicates that
he has not lost his cunning. 1t seems
that even an Indian chief is not free
from the Vaccinations of would-be sons
in-laws, for at this moment Sitting Bull
is grieving over the loss Of ayoung
daughter who has run away with a
brave of his own camp, negotiations for
her purchase at large price in horses
having failed. He has left q still
younger daughter, a pretty little child
about twelve years old, whom he
watches very closely for fear that he
shall lose her too.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14


The Chinese government has come to
the conclusion that its telegraph lines
might better be under its own manage
ment than in the hands Of enterprising
foreigners; and the preliminary steps to
that end have been taken in the estab-
hshment of school of telegraphy in
Hartford. The Chinese embassy at
Washington recently received instruc-
tions to form class of forty from among
the Chinese students in Hartford, and
Mr.. Yung Wing has just chosen its
members and placed them under the
charge of Mr.. Hubbell, late manager of
the Hartford Office of the Western Union
company. A classroom has been fur
nished with every requisite appliance,
and Mr., HubbeIl expects that within
two months the students under his in
structions win be competent to teach
others. AS soon as they have attained
the requisite proficiency they viii be
ordered home, and probably accom-
panied By few skilled Americans to
superintend the construction and oper-
alton Of new telegraph lines.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes
an interesting diagram showing the
changes in the center of population
from 1890 to 1880. In 1890 it was TWEEN
ty-three miles east Of Baltimore in
1900 it was eighteen miles west Of Bal
timore il 1910 it was forty miles north.
west BY west of Washington In 1926
it was sixteen miles north of w Voodstock,
in 1880 it Mas ninekeen miles west h1
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

The latest addition to agricultural
implements in England is the "steam-
digger, (" which is combination Of the
pillow and spade. In the short space Of
an hour, and at working cost of five
shillings, it will turn over an acre Of
ground, and that too in such way as to
produce superior cultivation. The in
ventor claims that it will do as much
work as 10 men in day. It appears
to have withstood very exacting tests.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

A few years ago young man named
Gardner, living at Toledo, Ohio, in
herited some money from his father.
He had been tinkering around from
boyhood with frearm that he was
anxious to patent. When he obtained
his patrimony he went to France to i'm
prove his implement. His was the ex-
perience Of nearly all inventors. His
money was soon exhausted, and at times
he was reduced to the greatest ex-
tremity. But he never lost faith in his
rife. Finally he interested some capi-
talist and the implement was carried to
| perfection. In due time the French gov
ernment was induced to adopt the re-
peater for the army. The British gov
ernment has just done the same thing,
and the Toledo inventor is preparing to
roll in wealth. His arm is said to be
the most magnificent repeating rife in
the world.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-14

AS soon as the death OF the late EN-
press Dowager was announced in China
the mandarins and all high officials of
the empire put on garments of pure
white, and these were worn for twenty
four consecutive days. The regulations
which prescribe official mourning also
require that the red buttons upon their
caps shall be replaced by blue buttons.
On the twenty eighth day they put on
black clothing, which must be worn for
100 days. The same restrictions as to
marrying and indulging In social pleas
ures that apply to the higher classes
apply to them as well.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-20

5bFA The store and dwelling of six rooms, always EiiH been occupied sal on and first rate stand E.U for this business Also the house, No. 16 Gill street, containing Il rooms; also corner of South and Park streets; also rooms in Heers block State street. Apply to
 JACOB HELLER, No 1 vaJa Ray nL R1yild
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-20
TO RENT,

JhEAs, Situated at PA Grown street. For particl
 9s11H lars apply at
 #IU a1s Steod- T KENSINGTON STREET.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-20

officer furnishes the following special bulle-
 tin to the Associated Press: The barometer
 is highest in the northern portion of the mid
 dle Atlantic States and lowest in the Indian
 Territory. The temperature has risen de-
 cidedly in the Missouri valley. Elsewhere it
 has remained nearly stationary. Easterly
 winds continue in the middle and south At- lantic States and the lower lake region, with southerly winds in the Gulf States. Partly cloudy weather prevails in the middle and south Atlantic States and the lake region, ac- companied by local rains in the latter dis trict. The Missouri river has risen three feet in the past forty eight hours at Omaha, where it is two feet and five inches above the danger line. The Mississippi is above the danger line at Keokuk and Cairo and at the danger line at Vicksburg. The Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio rivers are falling. The indications are that partly cloudy weather with local rains will prevail in the middle and south Atlantic States and the lake region dur ing the day and fair weather will prevail in New England and the east Gulf States to day and tomorrow. The Missouri and Missis- sippi rivers will probably continue to rise.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-20
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

The Rev. Phillips Brooks has declined the professorship at Harvard College.
 The evacuation of Candahar by the British troops began on Monday. The new Govern or will take possession in a few days.
 An old reliable engineer on the Pennsylva- mia railway was discharged at Altoona Mon day because he refused to work on Sunday.
 Base ball yesterday: At New York, Metro politans ?, Troys 5; at Boston, Bostons 10, picked nine 3; at Buffalo, Buffalos 10, pick ed nine 1.
 Scarlet fever, diphtheria and measles are prevailing to such a fearful extent in New Brighton, Pa., that the public schools have been closed.
 new line of river steamers Is about to be established on the St. Lawrence river to run between Cape Vincent and Montreal in con- nection with American railways
 William Kirby, who was defeated by Trickett in boat race on the Thames yester- day, has challenged Trickett for another race over the same course for G10O.
 News from the various European bourses is to the effect that much uneasiness is felt regarding the condition of the internal affairs of Russia and Russian securities are conse- quent1y very flat
 William Hyde, thirty years of age, pat day at Fall River, Mass, was instantly killed. The shaft revolved two hundred times 8 min ute. His body was horribly mangled. He leaves wife and two children.