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mula of which is CO HIS BO3) at ordi'
nary temperatures is q glacial mass,
becoming semi-fluid when warmed
and freely soluble i'm hot water. Ihe
solutions employed by Prof. Bartf In
his mere experiments on foods
vary in strength from one in twenty
to one in sixty parts of water. the
London Times editorially says that
the dlscoverer exhibited to his audi
ence "a table covered with various
articles of food preserved by this
method"-"pigeons, turtles, fruits
from Jamaica, sardines from Spain,
Holsters, herrings, sprats, fowls, pleas
ants. a tongue, oysters, beef and NUT
ton" These had "sll been kept for
periods ranging from a few weeks to
several months, and in none of them,
either to the Taste or smell, was there
the slightest evidence of decomposi-
ton" The value of such a discovery,
by which can be preserved In palata-
bic condition the vast amount OF food
that now perishes with little age, can
hardly be computed.
Though the cost Of the new antisep-
tic solution has not been accurately
determined, it is said that it will prob
ably be less than twenty-five cents a
gallon. Boracic acid is found in large
quantities incrusted in the fumaroles
of the Lipari Islands and Tuscany, on
the lakes of India and Thibet and no
doubt largely in our Pacific States and
the neighboring Territories. There
Eeems to be, therefore, no reason why
the new chemical compound, If fur
ther tests maintain the claims of its
discoverer, should not speedily come
into wide and general use and prove a
boon of inestimable value to the hui
man family.
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The Dispensary.

REMEDY FOR BURNS.-According 10
The Practitioner a simple ami etfee.
tive remedy for removing the pain of
wounds caused by burns or scalds, is a
saturated solution of bicarbonate of
soda in either plain or camphorated
water. To apply the remedy all tina
is necessary is to cut a piece of lint or
old soft rag, or even thick blotting
paper, of a size sufficient to cover the
burned or scalded parts, and to keep it
constantly well wetted with the sodaic
lotion, Sc as to prevent its drying. By
this means it usually happens that all
pain eases in from a quarter to half
an hour, or even in much less time.
When the main part of q limb, such
as the hand and forearm or the foot
and leg, has been burned, it is best
when practicable to plunge the part at
once into a jug, or pail, or other con
venient vessel filled with the soda
lotion, and keep it there until the pain
subsidies, or the limb may be swathed
or encireled with a surgeons cotton
bandage previously soaked in the sat
urated solution and kept constantly
wetted with it, the relief being usually
immediate, provided the solution be
saturated and cold.
MALE AND FEMALE LONGEVITY. -
The recent official returns in regard
to the health and mortality of the
population of Europe have supplied the
statistical department at Vienna with
the means of making some interesting
determinations in respect to longevity.
1t results f1om this, that of 1922 31
individuals who had exceeded the age
of ninety years, 0,303 were womea,
and 4 2,52S men. Again, the superior
longevity of women is exhibited by
the greater chance, it seems, in the
cases of women, of attaining or ex-
ceeding the hundredth year. Thus,
in Italy, there are found 24l female
centenarians for 141 male, and in Aus
tria 229 women for 1873 men. There
are also, in Austria, 1,508, $50 sexage-
narians, or rs per cent. of the popula-
ton.
LIGHT AND COLOR AS AFFECTING
THE VIsIoN.-Dr. Croft, in discussing
the question of color as affecting weak
or deficient eyesight, expresses the
opinion that in some cases spectacles
fitted with yellow glass afford more
relief to the wearer than do those pro.
vided with blue glass. Tests made
with the Argand burner show that it
affords the steadiest and best light,
and it is believed that the arrangement
which is least try ing to the eyes is to
be obtained by the interposition of a
shade so placed as to screen all direct
light rays from the eyes, at the same
time, of course, that adequate illumina a.
ton is obtained at the place required
for work, a tinted paper is found less
fatiguing to the vision than if the
paper is of a pure white color.
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The Growth of Character.

Many people seem to forget that
character grows; that it is not some
thing to put on ready-made with
womanhood or manhood; but day by
day, here a little and there a little. 1t
grows with the growth, and strength.
ems with the strength, until, good or
bad, i becomes almost a GOAT of mail.
Look at a man of business-prompt, re-
liable, conscientious, yet cleaT-headed
andenergetic. When he was boy? Let
US see how a boy of ten years gets up
in the morning, works, plays, studies,
and we will tell you just what kind of
man he will make. The boy that is
too late at breakfast and late at school.
stands a poor chance to be a prompt
man. The boy who neglects his du-
ties, be they ever SO small, and then
excuses himself by saying, II forgot,
1 don't think !" will neverb e a reliable
man, and the boy who finds pleasure
in the suffering of weaker things, will
never be a noble, generous, kind man
IA gentleman.
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Women and the Telegraph.

The telegraph work Of England has
now been very largely conided to
women, and it is calculated that there
cannot be less than 700 employed at
the Central Office. The staff of the
Telegraph Clearinghouse Check
Branch, which supervises the whole
Geographic work of the kingdom, and
acts as a check upon all the clerks in
the department, is exclusively COM
posed of women, to whom is also in
trusted the entire financial business.
Certain branches of the savings bank
department r also in their hands. as
we'll as the dead letter Office. The
number who apply whenever a va
cancy occurs is enormous. None of
the more important offices have yet
been filed by women, which, 1t is
thought, are better differed by thor
oughly competent men.
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Canals on the Planet Mars.

-
The Rev. T. w. Webb, author of
Celestial Objects for Common Tele-
scopes" writes thus to The London
Times respecting Schiaparelli's discov-
cry of "canals" on the planet Mars: 1t
has long been known that the surface
of the planet Mars is so mapped out
into brighter and darker portions as to
suggest the idea of continents and
oceans, and the analogy thus implied
with the arrangements of our own
globe is strengthened by the existence
of brilliant white patches, as of snow
or ice, situated at cr near the planets
poles of rotation, and varying in extent
with its changing seasons, as well as
by occasional differences in outline or
coloripg, which may well be explain
ed by the suppositiou of a vaporous
atmosphere.
In the autumn of 1877 and spring of
1878, a number of minute, straight,
black or dusky bands were detected by
Schiaparelli, traversing and subdivid-
ing the supposed continents in various
directions. These have been called
from their aspect "canals," though, of
course, their scales entities them rather
to the appellation of straits, or very
long, narrow arms of the sea. A few
OF THESE had been previously seen by
various observers, but to the italian
astronomer belong d the credit of de-
v%eloping and ~delineatisg them as a
system. At the ensuing return of the
planet in lS79'S0, they were again
detected and drawn by him, with very
little difference, But during the course
of last January and February he has
been so fortunate as to perceive the
duplication of these dark streaks by
the addition of parallel lines of similar
character and length in no fewer than
twenty instances, covering the equi-
torial region with a strange and mys-
FERROUS network, to which there is
nothing wen remotely analogous on
the earth, and which leads us at once
to see how premature have been our
conclusions in this respect, and how
far We still are from any adequate con-
ception of the real constitution even of
u nearest neighbor but one In the
solar system.
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A Great Chemical Discovery.

A scientific discovery of the greatest
interest to all classes has recently been
announced by an English chemist,
Prof. Barff, to the Society of Arts,
which promises to become a great PR
servative of food. This is a new anti
septic compound, tasteless and odor-
less, and extensive experiment estab-
fishes its efficacy as applied to a large
number of staple articles of human
diet.
Boracic acid combined with certain
other substances has been known to
possess sntiseptic properties, but its
lack of solubility has prevented lis
use. Prof. Barfi, after long investiga-
ton, has discovered a compound which
he calls boroglyceride, consisting OF
glycerine, the water of which has been
expelled and replaced by anhydrous
boracic acid, forming a new com
pounds. The new antiseptc (the for
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Instructive Items.

Cherries were first planted in Britain
100 years B. G.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
Amethysts were found in Kerry,
Ireland, in 1855.
The probe was invented by Eseula-
plus.
The Atlantic cable is 1880 miles in
lsngth.
The ambulance is comparatively a
modern invention, due mainly to the
French. We find no trace of regularly
organized militarS hospitals uutIl the
time of Henry w.
Beer was the common drink of the
Germans in the time of Tacitus, who
wrote his ''Treatise N the of
the Germans" about the end of the
first century.
The city Of London proper covers
an area of 1872 squage intestinal is,
the area under the operation OF the
Metropolitan Local Government Act.
The postal district, however, extends
over about $50 square miles, and the
police district 500 square miles.
Range" in the land system of the
United States, Is a row or line oftown-
ships lying between two successive
meridian lines six miles apart, and
numbered in order east and west from
the principal meridian of each great
survey, the townships in the range
being numbered north and south from
the "base line" which runs east and
west, as Township No, 5, N. range Z,
w, from the third principal meri-
dian.
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Legal Experience.
Good Grounds for Divorce,

Ny first case in Alabama was that
of an elderly citizen, who needed not
wars stern alarums, as he was beyond
the military claim to service; but his
courage took a wider rauge-he de
termined to wed, and he welded. She
was buxom, "fat, fair and forty :" He
agile, but three-score years and ten.
They had been tied in the bonds afore-
said some six weeks, when my client
put in his appearance. 1t was war
times, corn was high, S. a bushel, and
the bride brought a dowry OF six acres
of the cereal. This realty on the one
hand and great force ofyolition on the
other, established In the bride a dispo-
sition that argued "rule or ruin"
hence, she dominated, and Tillston
had the experience, and this is how
it happened: "'Mr. Tillston, drive
Bet out of that corn in the field and
put her in that pen.' Bet weighed
some three hundred pounds and had
tusks that would have shamed a bOar of
the Ardennes. Now, General, here was
q snap. / said to Mrs. T., Il am NOR
tally afraid of that swine, She don't
know me- Mr.. Tillston, if that SOW
amt in that pen in five minutes your
carcass will be spread over this planta-
tion.' This was said under the gleam-
ing light of a foot and a half carver.
My thoughts clattered through my
brain like a troop ofSheridan's eaval-
~. A ~ferocious looking beast in front
that | wished had gone down in the
sea- when the others did, that we
read of in the good book, and in the
rear-Bades hath no fury like a
woman scorned,' and an improve
ment on this is, when she wants a
SOW 'whooped' out of her corn dig
gings, that she proposed in her anger
to defend against the whole brute
creation. 1 advanced upon the enemy
in front keeping one vlgilant optic
upon the consoTt in the rear, when
Bet'-with an expression of hoggish-
ness that appals me ven now-made a
demonstration. l turned at bay, Mrs.
II. was closing up the interval, yell
ing like a dervish, Drive out that
SOW, Mr.. Tillston, drive her l tell
you!" Crashing in front of me, and
howllng IN the cal ivory and steel,
1 shudder, General, at the memory.
Crunching or cold steel. Events were
nearing-the gap was closing" "Well!
we'll |! give us the finale" ut wasn't
exactly that, General, it was a fence
on the right flank, and ] straddled it
quicker than you could scorcb a feather
in the bottomless pit. Shaking it
for a rod to keep clear of the creek, /
found a soft place and lit' with the
wa cry in my in ears of, You Till
ston you Tillston! you Till-ston!
you Till ! I'm afraid Pm going
to have chill, let's take a little per
simmon brandy. Do you think I've
grounds for a divorce ?' eyes! but
you'll lose your interest in the plan
tation." Eyes, but III save my ba-
con-" This conclusion was toe logical
and was an offset against the loss of
the corn patch. AS Saving ones
bacon" in the South meant something.
The divorce was obtained, and Tills-
ton has not ventured his animated
bark amidst the tempestuous pillows
of the ocean of matrimony since
National Union. PkiIq,
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Interesting to Shippers.
Circular.

SlIculAr.
Section 4213, Revised Statutes,
makes it the duty ''of all owners,
agents, co~nsignees, masters and com.
manders of vessels to whom any
receipt for fees shall be given, by any
consular officer, to furnish a copy
thereof to the Collector of the District
in which such vessels shall frat arrive
on their return to the United States. y
1t also makes it the duty ''of every
Collector to forward to the Secretary OF
the Treasury all such copies o freceipts
as shall have been furnished to him,
and also u statement of all certified
invoices which shall have come to his
office, giving the dates of certificates,
and the names of the persons for
whom, a. d of the consular off GERS by
whom, the same is Certified
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The Fall in the Value of Money

The complaint that money will not
go 80 far in u generation as ii did a
generation ago is frequent enough,
although the compens Ating truth that
money, on the whole, is made more
quickly nowadays than it was form
erly is not so frequently dwelt upon.
The general sinking of the value of
money was most instructively and
pleasantly illustrated In a paper read
by M. Avepel a few days ago in Paris
before the Academy of Sciences. HIS
subject was confined to the period of
Louis XIII.-16l0 to 164S. A tOlerably
brilliant housekeeping, with ten ser
wants, could be easily managed, a NJ.
Avenel tells us, upon a yearly income
of 10000 francs. This is proved by the
account books of Cardinal Richelieu's
niece, Madame de Pont Courbay, who
had exactly that income, and main
tanned herself, her two daughters, and
no fewer than sixteen servants In the
style corresponding to the high place
and power of her eminent kinsman.
Anobleman with a revenue of 100,-
600 francs vas held to be amazingly
wealthy. This was the appanage, M.
Avenel says, of CASTOR, the Kings
brother, and also of the Due de Rohan.
The Constable de Montmorenci, the
richest nobleman in France, gave his
daughter only 100000 francs As her
dowry. Queen Henrietta Maria, the
wife of our Charles I. brought about
300, 900 francs into her English home
as her wedding grant. The rents of
the most splendid houses in Paris
were extraordinarily low-measured
by the scale o two centuries later.
Then the English Ambassador in
Paris only paid 1000 francs a year for
the hire of his imposing hotel.
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Inaammatory Rheumatism.

Jacksonville, Burlington Co., N. j.
DIR. CLARK JonNsoN:-I have used
your reliable Indian Blood Syrup for
lntiammatory Rheumatism and various
other diseases arising from Impure
Blood, and have received great benefit.
{ recommend its use to suffering hu-
uanity. JOEL FENTON.
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pyspeps.a ana CONFEDERATION.

Mt. Holly,iBurlington Co., N. j.
,OR. CLARK JoHNsoN:-Haying used
your Indian Blood Syup myself, and
being fully satisfied of its efficiency in
curing Dyspepsia and constipation, i
recommend it to others.
THEODORE A. GIBBS,
West Washington St.
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Debility.
Sunny Side, Hunterdon Co, N.

sunny Side, Hunterdon Co, N. j.
DIR. CLARK JoHNsoN.-I have used
your reliable Indian Blood Syrup for
some time, and can safely recommend
1t to all afflicted with Weakness caused
by Indigestion or Nervous Complaint.
L would not be without your valuable
medicine. ISSAC A. HOFFMAN,
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A Valuable Medicine.

Sunny Side, Hunterdon Co., N. j.
DIR. CLARK JoHNsoN:-Having made
A trial of your Indian Blood Syrup, /
consider it a good medicine. / recon-
oend its use to suffering humanity.
A. p. SHIVE.
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Dyspepsia and Indigestion.

Turnersville, Gloucester Co, N. J.
DIR. CLARK JoHNsoN:--I have used
your reliable Indian Blood Syrup, for
Dyspepsia, and believe it to be the best
medicine in use for that disease.
PETER CHEESMAN.
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For BiIiousness.

Turnersville, Gloucester Co., N. j.
DIR. CLARK JoHNsoN:-This is to Ger
tify that your Indian Blood Syrup has
entirely cured me of Biliousness. l
recommend its use to suffering human
- PERDEN MILLS.
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Cures Constipation.

Mt. Holly, Burlington Co., N. j.
Or. CLARK JoHNsoN:-After suffer
ing from Constipation Of the Bowels
Tor seventeen years, 1 was persuaded
to try your Indian Blood Syrup, a short
trial Of which effectually cured me.
MRS. S. B. GIBBS, Water st.
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Heart Disease.
Smith IS Landing, Atlant

Smiths Landing, Atlantic Co.
DIR. CLARK JoHNsoN:-I have used
|uor excellent Indian Blood Syrup for
Ieart Disease. and have received great
enefit theTefrom. | recommend its
use to suffering humanity.
SCULL ENGLISH.
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Mt. Holly, Burlington Co., NJ.
DR.. CLARK JoHNsoN:-I have used
our excellent Indian Blood Syrup for
Piles and have received great benefit
therefrom. I cheerfully recommend
il to the afflicted.
LIPPENCOOT DENNIS, Water St.
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Greatly Benented

Mt. Holly, Burlington Co., N. J.
DR.. CLARK JoHNsoN:-This is to Ger
ify that your Indian Blood Syrup has
greatly benefited me for indigestion.
g E. 4. IDELL, No. 10 Church St.
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Sunny side, Hunterdon Co., NJ.
DR.. CLARK J~oHNsoN:-I have used
your excellent Indian Blood Syrup for
Dyspepsia, and have experienced great
relief therefrom.
JACOBD. SMITH.
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NEW JERSEY.
Resi Family Medicina

Smiths Landing, Atlantic Co., N. J.
DR.. CLARK JOHNsoN:-This is to
certify that your Indian Blood Syrup
a greatly benefited myself and family.
cannot recommend it too highly.
L. Carlo.
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For Headache
Trentnn- Mercer a \

Trenton, Mercer Co., N. j.
DIR CLARK JoHNsoN:-This is to
certify that your great Indian Blood
Syrup is the best medicine 1 have ever
used for Headache and Weakness.
AIRS. LIZZIE COMPTON,
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A splendid Blood pur,aed.

Sunny Side, Hunterdon Co., N. ].
DR.. CLARK JoHNsoN:-Iha have taken
your Indian Blood Syrup with the most
beneficial results, and can recommend
il as a valuable Blood Purifier.
]. P. HOFFMAN.
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JACOB D. SMITH.
Coughs and Cold.

Sunny Side, Hunterdon Co., N. j.
DR.. CLARK JoHNsoN:-I was suffer
ing with a severe Cough, which threat,
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are Of Physicians, but received 40 re-
lief until | tried your Indian Blood
Syrup, which effectuaIly cured me. -
MRS. JOHN p. HOFFMAN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-07

with financial changes, which wilt give
you an opportunity Of considering both
as to town and county what may be
the proper extent and most equitable and
provident form of contribution from i'm
perial taxes"
Letters from Meshed January Dist,
states that Agent Khan intends to remain
there contrary to the wish of the Persian
Government. 1t is said he is correspond
ing with the Turcomans with the inten-
ton ofpining them in raid into Afghan
llstan. Its reported he has one thousand
horsemen.
At the great meeting at Birmingham
yesterday, letters were read from John
Bright and Joseph Chamberlain, express
ing sympathy with the prosecuted Jews in
Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 1.-The
government is about to publish state
ment which it is hoped will put an end to
foreign agitation concerning the treat
ment of the Jews. 1t will state that the
government has vigorously dealt with the
anti-Jewish movement, and is disposed to
take steps to prevent recurrence Of the
otfenses complained Of
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CL0sING OUT.
A LOT Of green covered Shoe ana
Notion shelf Boxes, at o26O,
worth IS per dozen.
LEUBRIE BROS.
CE0sTNa OUr,
AMUsEMENTs.
''schOOI for Scandals

SherIdan's s'SchOOl for Scandal"
A full fashionable and keenly appreci-
alive audience assembled at the theater
last night to witness Richard Brinsley
Sheridan's brilliant and satirical comedy
school for Scandal" hit at fashionable
foibles in polite society of hundred years
ago. The comedy was produced in fine
style, the features being Miss Fanny Da-
venport as Lady Teazleand Mr.. Geo. Clarke
as Charles Surface, both of whom carried
their roles with q most fitting and elegant
stage presence. Miss Minnie Monk, as
Mrs. Candour, contributed conspicuouslv
to the success Of the evening, especially in
the earlier scenes of scandal-makin0. while
Miss Davenport, in her treatment Of the
celebrated screen scene, was strongly
dramatic and picturesque. AT the close
of this conspicuous scene Mr.. Clarke per-
formed with such legitimate effect that
the audience applauded with enthusiasm
and the fine actor was compelled to return
and bow his acknowledgements, a we'll
earned compliment extended to no
other character in the. COM
edy. In so full composition
Wnero all OF Jne characters must be
handled in the most careful and con-
scientious manner, the slightest defect
mars the beauty Of the whole, and
several of the parts were notably weak.
while the omission Of the usual minuet
dance was regretted. The dressing, how
ever, was rich, indeed superb, and pre-
cisely in accordance with the costumes of
century ago. The part of Sir Peter
Teazle by Mr.. Charles Fisher was fairly
well, his action being much better than
his argument. He, however, developed
numerous skillful touches at various
points, and especially in the quarrel
scene Harry Hawk as Crabtree
was good; Harry Pearson as
Oliver Surface. moderately so, L. Baker,
as Sir Benjamin Backbite, fair, while
Edmund Tearle was quite clever as the
hypocritical Joseph. The audience en-
joyed the entertainment thoroughly. To
night the popular Shaksperian comedy
"As You Like 1t" with Miss Davenport
in her favorite character of Rosalind, q
part in which she has achieved much Of
her artistic reputation.
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THE CAVTNG RIVER FRONT.
An Endorsement Of Congress-
man Moore.

A powerful meeting was held at the
Cotton Exchange yesterday evening to
hear the report of the committee appointed
at former meeting upon the subject of
the best means to check the caving of the
river front from the mouth of Wolf down
the west side of the city. The report is
an elaborate document, and covers the
subject in all of its details The final
action of the meeting was to indorse the
Hon. Vim. r. Moore as Congressman of
perseverance, and energy, in whom the
Cotton Exchange has confidence, and the
turning over to him of the memorial to
urge an appropriation for the protection
of our harbor. Our Senators, Howell T..
Jackson and Isham G.. Harris, are also
politely requested to further the object by
invoking the assistance of the Committee
on Commerce, as well as that of the
Mississippi River Improvement Commits
sion.