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The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-05

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CAPTURING MONKEYS Tho mon
key is frequently captured 10 nooses
and traps built in the shape of houses.
The only entrance is trap door in
the roof, which communicates with a
trigger set upon the ground Food is
spread about inside, the monkeys en-
ter and skirmishing around, disturb
the trigger and the trap, shuts them
in. Another method of catching
them is most ludicrous one. An old,
hard cocoaDut is taken and very
small hole is made 10 the she'll Fur
nished with this and pocketful Of
boiled rice, the sportsman sallies into
the forest and stops beneath a tree
tenanted by monkeys. Within full
sight Of these inquisitive spectators,
he first eats little rice, and then
puts quantity into the cocoanut with
all the ostentation possible. The nut
is then laid upon the ground, and the
hunter retires to convenient ambush
The reader may be sure that no SOON
ersis the man out of sight than the
monkeys race helter-skelter for the
cocoanut. The first arrival peep in.
to it, and, seeing the plentiful store Of
rice inside, squeezes his hand in
through the tiny hole and clutches a
handful. Now, SO paramount is greed
over every other feeling connected
with monkey nature that nothing will
induce the creature to relinquish his
hold. With his hand thus clasped
be cannot possibly extract it the
thought that if he leaves go one of
his bretbern will obtain the feast is
empowering The sportsman soon
appears upon the scene; the unencum-
bered monkeys fly in all directions,
but the unfortunate brute who still
will not leave the rice,is thereby handi-
capped beyond hope with a cocoanut
as large as himself.
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MANSFIELD, PA, May q

MANSFIELD, Pa, May %, 1878.
! have customer who has carried one
of Boss Patent Cases fifteen years and l
knew it two years before he got it, and it
appears good for ten years longer
r, E. OLNEY.
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The clock strikes without stopping
work. This keeps the hands employ
ed, and enables them to go on tick.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-05
Many are sssfers,sg from colds

Dry, parched, sore throat, losing flesh,
bronchial and asthmatic attacks. Ali
these dangerous symptoms are entirely
cured by "Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry" The first dose gives
relief, and the worst cough and sore
lungs yield to its healing properties.
Sold by all druggists at rs cents and 81.
The large size is the most economical.
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Of shop at given price per barrel,
takiog the risk Of what they will yield,
Whenever shop floor is to be taken
up and renewed, il is always calculated
that the dirt accumulated 10 the crew.
ces viii more than pay the price of q
new floor. Jewellers say that the value
Of the shop dirt is owing to the dust
of metals that is blown about the place,
and not from any carelessness of work.
men. Even after the assayers have
got through the loss on jewellers stock
is generally about two per cent This
includes whatever may be taken, if
anything, by dishonest workmen.
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Is Anything FIT TO EAT.-From
the objections that are made to one
after the other of the commouest arti-
cles of diet it would appear that there
is among us number Of base persons
who are conspiring to make trade for
grave diggers. There is not a single
dish in common use but is soundly
abused by some one; bread is said to
be worthless because it lacks the glu
ten Of the wheat, butter is said to be
the cause of biliousness, salt chickens
the blood and makes the user cross,
milk softens the muscles and bones,
bsefsteak contains prussic acid, NUT
ton is unfit to eat unless it has been
kept 50 long that it is unfit to smell,
pork means trachin@, fish thins the
blood, tomatoes produce cancer, ber-
ries sour on the stomach, the coats of
which are ruined by rhubarb stalks
in pie or sauce; green beans produce
boils. and the dreary list might be
extended indefinitely. Between ell
these calamitiesa and death by starva-
ton there is not much choice, unless
one prefers to prolong miserable
existence by using some Of the alleged
foods that are put up in bottles with
attractive labels.
Yet somehow people go on eating
all these dreadful things and living,
and when any particular food product
fails and another is substituted the
health of the public does not seem to
suffer BY the change. If the people
who buy family stores viii pay less
attention to talk about the healthful
ness of various food, and more atten.
ton to such methods OF cooking as
will make food most palatable and
easy Of digestion, there need be very
little fear Of the natural quality of the
rough materials brought to cook. II
is the dry, tough steak, the leathery
slices of fried ham, the underdone
vegetables and overdone meats, the
greasy pies and heavy cake that play
the mischief with the American diges.
ton, health and temper
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MALTER A. BARRoWs

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Main street, above Water, Mount Holly, N. J
July 3, 1579-ly
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deem Il Mn Dutu TO Tell

what DIR. Swayne's Compound Syrup
of Wild Cherry has done for me.
had a violent cough, night sweats,
sore throat, great weakness, with Sc
we're attacks of hemorrage, gave up
all hope ofrecovery. ! am cured, "a
sound and hearty man.
EDWARD Fl. HANSON.
Engineer of Sweeney's Pottery,
1884 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.
Over twenty-five years have elapsed
and / still remain hearty man.
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EDWARD b. JONES,
II GRADUATE IN PHARMACY
Has removed the Drug Department of his
business to the store
Cor. Of Main d Washington Sts. !,
Where he will keep full line of
Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Fan
cy articles, &c.
PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALITY,
and will be carefully and promptlyprepared
at all hours by competent persons only.
she patronage of the citizens OF Mount
Holly and vicinity is solicited.
N. B.--Hardware. Glass, Lamps, Paints.
&c. In great variety OF old stand. 20.
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CHARLES E. HENDRICKsoN,

q = -'---' 0''''''A''01'
Counsellor at Law Solicitor in Chancery
Special Master, Supreme Court Com
missioner and Notary Public.
OFFICES Main ST., nearly opposite Clerks
office, Mount Holly, Burlington county, n. ].
AS-Member of U. s. Law and Collection
Union for Burlington Co. Collections prompt
iymade in all the states. July 8. f79-1y.
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W ID. TROTTf,
COR. OF MAIN AND GARDEN STS..
Mount Holly, N. j.

Vesses AWUsge Ns ~
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, GROCER
les. CARPETS, &c.
MATING.
We have Mating in plain, check, and
notified; in price 90 to 35 cents per yard.
CARPETS.
Large stock of carpets Ingrains, 81, IS, 40.
45, 80, 80, rs cents, s1.00. for all wool. Rag,
a5, 81. so and so cents for wool stripe.
DRY GOODS.
Dress Goods in Buntings, plain and lace
Cashmeres. Lawns. Ginghams, DeBeiges
&c Muslins, Tiskings and everything tina
constitutes complete stock. Oh Cloths, DC
See our Is cent Isle Thread Gloves. lace
top or with three and four elastics.
We have plenty of that New Orleans Mo-
lasses at so cents per gallon; good body and
color and rich flavor. Try It.
GROCERIES. PROVISIONS, Go.
Nav o. 1heI-v
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-16
Healthy Mnmnn.

4 writer, IN urging the necessity for
more attention to physical culture, notes
as a favorable sign the fact that the pale
and interesting type of female beauty is
fast losing its popularity, aud that men
of position and Influence are declaring
for the healthy standard of womanlv
beauty. such rs was ever recognized by
Greece and Rome.
This is certainly an important and
happy change in public taste, and al
ready the effects of il are 10 he de
tected in an improved condition of
feminine health, for it will hardly be
denied that on an average the women of
to-day are ply ysically superior to what
they were few years ago, when tight
lacing and similar destroying customs
prevailed.
Young women take moro exercise than
they formerly did. They ride and walk
more. and are more in the open air.
| They have not the insane dread of the
suns ravs which they once had. But
| there Is much room for improvement
vet. Many homes are still presided
| over by invalid wives and mothers, who
| furnish constant spectacle of sadness
and misery to their families and friends,
| and are n subject of unlimited expense
| to their husbands. In such homes the
| greatest blessing that could be wished
| for would he the health of the mistress
| restored. but too often 1t Is the one bless
| ing which never comes.
American homes, more than any others.
! perhaps. in the world, are saddcncd by
! sicklv women. If this shall be so no
longer. it viii be a great blessing to the
nation. And the remedy is simple.
American men are as healthy rs men of
other nations; there is no good reason
why American women should not be.
All that is needed is proper attention to
| dress and exercise.
Let women dress, as men do, so that
| their bodies shall not be squeezed and
pressed together, but have free room for
motion, and let them go out into the air
and sunshine as men do, and exercise
their bodies, and the race of American
women will not become extinct rs it is
threatened to do On the contrary, j
will be improved, bnilt up, and beauti
fed, and the time will shortly come when
the healthy man viii not have to hunt
the country over for healthy wife.
We are on the right track now; al
that is needed is to go ahead-and thu
result will be manifest. Women will di'
to be in fashion therefore, let TIN
fashion of female beauty be vigor ant
strength, and all the ladies in the lane
will be swinging dumb bells, practiclnI
archery, riding on horseback, and walk
ing for wager, but they will be In tn
style e-BOstOu Traveller.
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A Narrowing Tale.

4 well-known young society beau,
while travelling on an indiana Railroad
recently, let his gnllantry get the better
part of his Judgment, and got himself
into nice little scrape. When he en-
tered the car at New Albany, be found
it nearly full. md he instantly made for
n seat nearly in the middle of the car,
which was vacant. The seat In front of
him was occupied by lady and a lltt
girl, while lust behind sat young lady.
who seemed TO he alone. The lady and
little girl got off of a small station about
half way to Indianapolis. Just rs the
train was starring from the station, the
Young man noticed bundle OF female
clothing living on the scat at his side.
The idea instantly occurred to him that
the lady who had just gotten out mad
forgotten the bundle. He thrust his
head out of the window and called to
her. but she was Just entering the sta
ton and did not hear him. The tram
had inst started. and the young man
Thought Tint the bundle would be lost II
he did not act quickly, so he picked 1t
ND and threw it out of the window on
the PLATFORM. He then sank back on
his seat with on easy conscience, Halter
ing himself that he had acted with won
derful presence of mind. Things went
along very smoothly until within n few
miles of Indianapolis, when the young
lady on the seat behind him began to
show signs of rcstlessness. She looked
under the seat she WAS occupying, on
the seat behind her, and then on the seat
on which the young man WIS sitting.
This search did not seem to satisfy her.
and In few moments she began to make
inouiries Of him-if he had seen n small
bundle on any one of tue seats. The
Young mans hair began gradually to
stand on the end, and for few moments
he was speechless as he began TO realize
what had become of the bundle. He
did not dare to tell her what he had done,
3 he replied that he had seen nothing
of il. This increased the young lady''
uneaeiness, and she made inquiries o
the conductor, but he had not seen it
A lady ina seat just behind her finall,
asked if II was a very valuable bundla :
q No" replied the young lady in an au
dible whisper, ''but it confirmed m,
only night gown" The young man at
tempted to make some amends whei
thew reached the city, by agreeing T.
hire carriage for the young lady, am
was very attentive to see that none O
her bundles were lost, and that she wen
TO the right hotel.
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CURRENTS.

hHuBARB grows in China, Turkey and
Russian Tartary.
he Nile, in the course of 1850 miles,
receives no tributary.
IHE Laplands suffer more than any
gpat.
SoAfE of the terra-cotta vases found at
herenianeum are thin as the thinnest
glass
osE man has gathered 100. 900 pounds
OF sFled clover blossoms out West for
some famous remedy
lE numeral characters of the Per
slans and Brahmins are similar to Arabic
ehancters in use among us.
In lP.>Sest masonry arch in the
worF Is mat of the nqueduct which
sGn1lses Washington with water.
-NRvff.-the -ereat-e & tras-IFsssixer. has
| thirteen thousand men on his paw rolls.
and is pressed with orders oil the time.
THE mines of Great Britain have 5S.
I44 miles of underground tunneling,
and 37S, l5l persons work it them.
FRoGs have been kept torpid in an
lceAOuse for three years and half, and
have revived when brought out into the
SUI.
HHE Burmese are very fond of eating
variety of winged ants which infesi
tlRir dwellings Just before the rainy
season..
The deepest well IL the world is 5000
feet, or more than three-fifths Of mile
IN depth, and is located at Buda Pesth,
Hungary.
MINERAL oils are not desirable lubri-
cants, since they attack any india-rub-
Der with which they may happen TO
come in contact.
SINGLE pound of cotton has been
spun into a thread seventy-five miles in
lngth the same quantity of wool,
rinety-five miles long
SUcH is the rapidity of the circulation
Of the blood, that if it flowed at an
equal rate in n straight line it would
run one hundred and fifty feet in one
minute.
THERE are 100000 Jews in the
world. OF this number 5000, 600 live in
Europe, 10000 in Asia, 400, 600 in
Africa, 300. 600 IN America and BOO. 600
in Australia. In Roumania 7.44 per
of the population are Jews, and in Nor
way there are only 81 individuals of the
race.
Hollow steel shafting is being intro
duced into France. Is is made by cast
ing the metal round a core of lime, the
ingot being finally rolled into shafting,
the lime core going with it and diminish
ing in the same proportion as the metal,
even when the total diameter is reduced
as low as one-fourth of an inch.
A FRENCH chemist has obtained a
dense black gum from the outer layers
of the birch-tree bark by distillation
1t possesses all the ordinary properties
of gutta- percha, and has the additional
merit of resisting the deteriorating in
huence of air and the corrosive action of
acids, so that it promises, if mixed with
rndla -rTrl.4se- and esutta- lsaroha. 10 make
those substances far more durable.
A PHYSICIAN of Germany, who died
at a great age, asserted that his long life
was due to the fact that he alwas slept
with his head TO the North. He declared
that the iron contained in our systems,
finding itself in the direction of the
magnetic current which continually flows
over the surface of the globe toward
the North Pole, becomes magnetized
and so increases the energy of the vital
principles.
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How a Woman Does It.

Some crusty old cumudgeon thus tells
how a woman goes to work to mail a let
ter. 1t is a libel on the sex. Some Of
the girls will make it red hot for him if
he is discovered.
ANY day when You have time you can
see how she does it 10y dropping into the
post-office. She arrives there with a
letter in her hand. 1t is a sheet of note
in a white envelope She halts in front
of the stamp window, opens her mouth
to ask for stamp. but suddenly darts
away to see if she has made any errors
in the names or dates. 1t takes her five
minutes to make sure of this, and then
she balances the letter on her finger, and
the awful query arises in her mind ::
Perhaps it is an overweight" She
steps to the window and asks the clerk
if he has a three-ce stamp, fearing he
hasn't She looks over every compart-
ment in her pOrte-monnale before she
finds the change to pay for It, The
fun commences rs she gets the stamp.
She fiddles around TO one side, removes
her gloves, closely inspects the stamp
and hesitates whether to lick it, or
wet her finger. She finally concludes it
would not be nice to show her tongue
and vets her finger and passes it over
IilG ellNtlOIt. kOltt 10 81 ltltsS ll' mug hB
the stamp that the moisture is absorbed
and the stamp slides off the envelope
| She tries it twice more with like success,
and getting desperate she gives the
/ stamp lick and it sticks. Then
comes the sealing os the letter She vets
| her finger again, but the envelope flies
open. and after three minutes delay, she
has to pass her tongue along the streak
of dried mucilagc. She holds the letter
a long time to make sure that the en-
velope is all right, and finally appears at
the window and asks:
"Three cents is enough, is it p
Eyes, ma'am"
"This will go out to-day"
Certainly"
"Will it go to Chicago without the
name of the county on"
"Just the same.
What time will it reach there %
Tomorrow morning.
She sighs. turns the letter over anC
over. and finally asks:
Shall 1 drop it into one of thos'
places there p
" Yes ma'am.
She walks up in front of the six oriices
closely scans each one of them, final.
makes a choice and dro s-no sh
doesn't. She stops to see where it vii
fall. pressing her face against the windo'
until she hattans her nose out of shape
and she doesn't drop it where she in
tended to. She, however, releases it a
last. looks down to make sure that It d
not go on the floor, and turns away wit
a sigh of regret that she didn't take on
more look at the su9ersc'iptIon. .-Buy
li,0fOn IN. u Enterprise.
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The Malaria Puzzle.

The people both in town and country
are becoming more and more puzzled
over the definition of malaria and the
results of its effects ON public health.
When it was an emanation that declared
itself in the soil of the Lombardo- -Vene-
tian plains, it took the form of an inter
mittent fever and assumed that gJise in
whatever locality it appeared. 1t is only
of late years that it has assumed variety
of shapes, and is now spreading itself
insiduously in all localities, and is
mainly traceable to emanations from
badly ventilated sewers, and even from
soils that have no connection whatever
with the marsh miasma to which its
prolonged debilitating effects were once
attributable. Indeed it has assumed so
many complexions that even the shrewd-
est pathologists are unable to trace IT to
its origin or to devise means for its eX-
clusion, or to prescribe methods for the
relief of its consequences .-E1chdn9e
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Substitutes for Lumber in Building.


As an indication of the further inroads
that other material than lumber is like
ly 20 make in building operations, an
exchange says that, in view of the many
destructive fires among domestic dwell
ings. We wonder that the use of ligh'
iron ioists and fire-proof floors is not
more extensive than at present. Half
the danger and destruction resulting
from fire in some domestic dwellings
would be avoided by the use of such
floors. 1t Is generally, the case that fires
are first discovered when localized by a
single room, and it is only the rapid de-
struction of the whole of the interior
Of dwelling house that causes the
serious loss which we at present take as
a matter of course We think that in a
few years to come the entire destruction
of dwelling because one room has
clught fire viii be thought as outrageous
as the destruction of a whole row Of
Houses from conflagration in one would
be thought at present. A fire may very
easily be starved out by want of COM
bustil le material. a great deal easier
than 1t can be extinguished by water
when wood or other combustible ma
telial has once caught. In the localiza-
tion Of fire in the room in which il oc-
Cured would lie the best protection to
life and property against FIRE 1t is not
SIS if such protective means need re-
quire excessive outlay. A floor of iron
joists and non-infammable material can
be laid, we believe. almost as cheap as
the present wooden floors. To complete
the i-olation Of each room. the doors
may be made, at no increase of present
cost. of wood so impregnated with chem
icals that it is no longer iphammable.
Thes improvements Will surely come in
time liAe all others, they may be foi e.
told long before the public eventually
receives the benefit of them.-North-
rcsfeIn LltmberIndn.
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HuMoRs OF THE Day.

VINO says the savage can't be civil
ized? Kalakaua fights his wife.
A RECIPE for lemon pie vaguely adds
"Then sit on stove and stir con-
stantly"
"WHY dost thou soar, my love % sings
q poet. Probably it is because he has
been trying to mount the fiery, untamed
bicycle 1t will make any man SORE
Rockland Co,G Ter.
g Now do tell me, Charley, said Miss
| Gigglegush. who was spending the sum-
mer in the country, (which COW is it
that gives the ice cream ! I'm Just dy-
ing to see her. Boston Transcript.
Az said the dairyman, .sthat
shower last night was godsend TO me.
1t was worth more to me than the best
COW living" How's that % asked his
neiohbor Why, it filed up my we'll"
-,SdieDl SiOlbeaD1.
An OLD man of-war sailor, who had
lost a leg in the service of his country,
becsme retailer of peanuts. He said
he was obliged to be a retailer because,
having lost a leg, he could not be q
whole sailor.
s. WHY do we fire cannons and express
anore Joy over Washiugton's birthday
than over mine o. asked an Austin school
teacher. Because Washington is dead
and you amt. was the reply of an II
reverent boy 7leras Strings.
e'Do You think you are going to die %
inquired the Coroner of the dyer who
had fell into a vat of boiling indigo. I" 1
feel very blue, responded he feebly,
"snd / think I'll dye no more. How
ever he Is still olive and the Coroner's
| evidence was not red.
1 .-
7 his shoulders accidenfallv struck ft
against a lsdy's head and nearly knocked
her hat off "The deuce take the
tIay," cried the lady in a passion.
Madam. - said the boy, gravely, +" the
deuce can't take the tray.
A DETROIT saleswoman, on being
asked what was the hardest work she
had to do. replied Standing on my
feet and keeping my temper. She says
bat men are much better customers TO
wit upon than women-for the men al
Was know before they go into the store
wha. they want to buy, whereas the
womea, God bless 'em, want to see half
the stOie displayed to them before they
make up their minds to buy ten cents
worth of ribbon.
4 FEMALE Noarder at one of the Long
Branch hotels, who had made herself
very disagreeable by her ill-natured re-
marks about some of the lady guests,
met her match in a Boston woman, who,
in the presence of slarge company,
boldly said Excuse me, madam Is
that hair all your own ?" " Whose do you
suppose it Is % was the answer. Par
don me" returned the other, glancing
at the offenders husband, little, bald
headed man, Il thought it might be
Mr. G. S. - Brook,yn Eagle.
IF ToU like a nice hot pie that will
come on the table smoking, make il OF
pire plant With this authority the fair
cook viii need no other to-backer.-
Syracuse Sunday Times. And you will
then cigar-lands of steam wreathing
from it Fart Marble. And won't il
require puff paste to make it light
especially for editors? But that snuff
of this joke; weed like to pipe out and
chews another.-DetrOu Free Press.