Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-10-20

Mr.. Arthur is the sixth President who
went wifeless to the White House. His
predecessors in this respect were Jeffer-
son., Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler
and Buchanan, Gil but the bachelor
Buchanan having been widcwsrs.
1t appears that If any one wants to go
out in the ocean three miles from the
American or British shore and cut q
telegraph cable he can do 80 with i'm
punity. No country would have iuris-
diction over him. It would not seem
that there could be much danger of
cable-cutting SO far out, but the cleo
trio congress in Paris wants protective
measures taken.
Vaccination as practiced in China has
two peculiar features. The subject il
not operated on the arm or leg. but in
the nose; and the government, while it
does not compel people to submit to
the operation, practically reaches the
same end that it would by doing so, by
offering to parents for every child vac
cinated premium of 100 copper cash,
which amounts to about ten cents, and,
for poor Ohinaman in his own country.
sum not altogether to be despised.
The Mormon priests, in their SER
mons, are telling their deluded follow
ers that if they had been called they
could have saved the Presidents life
simply by laying on of hands. The
Salt Lake Tribune, a fearless paper,
that has for years been painful thorn
in the side of the Mormon church, per-
tinently asks the wise healers: Why
didn't they save their Prophet Brigham
in that way2 Why didn't they save the
sixty Mormon children that died in
Salt Lake in August by that simple
process? The frauds shouldn't all
answer at once"
J. v. Sears, in an article entitled
Housekeeping Hereafter" in the At
lantic Monthly, predicts great changes
in the future in housekeeping methods.
He thinks that every fifty families will
be provided with centralized estab-
lishment, from which heat, light and
power viii be furnished, while the do
nestle supplies of each house will be
delivered through pneumatic tubes.
There will be common oven and laun-
dry. There will be no coal ashes to
take out, and many other present an
noyances viii be avoided. This sys-
tenn, it is maintained, will also result in
reducing expenses.
Is nothing in this world what it
seems Most people would say that
that important member, the nose, was
placed exactly in the center Of the face,
but it is asserted that, as matter Of
fact, it is rarely or never found thus
placed; it is always invariably little
out Of the 'ssQuare," and the fact OF its
being so is often that which lends
peculiar expression and piquancy to the
face. A medical writer points out that
there are anatomical reasons why
slight deviation from the true central
line may be expected, and that the nose
which is thus accurately straight be.
tween the two eyes may, after all, be
considered an abnormal one, the only
absolutely true and correct organ being,
in fact, that which deviates little to
the right or left.
Among other industrial changes in the
Southern States during the past few
years, is the notable one of subdivi
sions of the large plantations. A bulle-
lin issued from the census Office presents
table marking the increase in the
number Of farms in the several States
that formerly were divided into immense
tracts of land worked by one owner, from
1860 up to the present date. This shows
an immense increase in the number of
farms in all the States excepting Della
ware, where the increase appears to
correspond only to the increase of the
population. The increase is also partly
accounted for in Florida and Arkansas
by the.settlement Of regions not per
manently occupied twenty years ago;
in word, the increased number of
farms is to large extent due to emf
grafton in those States. According to
the estimates made in the bulletin re-
ferred TO, most Of the farms do not ex-
ceed 500 acres, while many Of them
comprise less than 100 acres.
An American lady wrote to Andrew
d. White when he was minister at the
court Of Berlin. The lady in question.
a resident of small country village,
calmly informed the American minister
that grand fair was to be held "in our
town before long for the purpose of
raising money to build new church.
She was at work herself on sort Of
autograph bedquilt, and she inclosed
six square pieces Of white linen, on
which she wished the emperor and en-
press of Germany, Prince Bismarck
and other German dignitaries to in
scribe their names in indelible ink.
"Be sure" she added, thoughtfully,
to have them write exactly in the mid
die, so that the pieces will fit right.
When it is remembered that Mr.. White
was expected to march up with these
little patches and bottle of indelible
ink and ask this favor of the heads Of
the most stifHy ceremonious court in
Europe, the reader will probably un-
derstand that the autograph bedquilt
was completed, il at all, without the
desired contribution from the German
empire.
An italian naturalist has been study
ing the eucalyptus tree, and finds it as
valuable for destroying miasma as the
most sanguine Californians have ever
claimed it to be. 1t has extraordinary
powers of absorption, the trunk of
full grown tree taking up ten times its
own weight Of water from the soil in
which it stands. This alone is often
enough to purify fever district, the
superhuous misunderstanding moisture
in the earth being absorbed by the tree.
Experiments with eucalyptus planting
in miasmatic regions have given sur