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The news., 1882-12-12

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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02

The police, sent to break up Captain
Conforto's den in Margin street, found
nothing and nobody there but a mild
old gentleman in spectacles, reading
the papers, who had charge Of letting
the premises. He had never heard Of
Captain Conforto- neither was the fat
woman, who had acted as volunteer
guide to Flora, to be found up stairs or
down.
cts bad block, this 'ere," said the
policeman to Mr.. Fountain. "They calls
it Swindle row. But they're that
slippery here as nobody can lay a
finger on emp
So began and ended. poor Flora's
dream Of an India shawl. And the de-
lusion Of worshiping Mrs. Penrith Duke
is wearing away also, especially since
that high-toned lady gave a soires dan
saate, and neglected to invite Miss
Fountain, observing, languidly, that
"one couldn't fill ones drawing-room
with nobodies |"
And Flora has come to the conclusion
that perhaps the Gates, and the Plum
ers and the Hazels of life are as desir-
able as the Penrith Dukes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02
The Criterion Of Sanity.

What is sanity ?" is about as stupen-
dous an inquiry as 'sWhat is truth p
No man has ever answered the latter,
and no man can ever answer the former,
The fact Is, there is no wen established
criterion of sanity.
Specialists, who have written on the
subject Of insanity, have attempted to
define it, but as definition Of insanity
involves one OF sanity, they have not
succeeded thus far.
Who is sane in q given community IL
hard to determine. A Hindoo mother
may throw her children in the Ganges
as an offering to her God, and no one in
her community viii ever dream Of
thinking her insane; yet, we doubt not
that if mother in this city were guilty
of throwing her child into White river
in order TO appease her God, most Of
the people Of this city would deem her
insane. Why is the one sane and the
other insane? The question Of sanity
or insanity must always be On individual
inquiry.
Nations are never sane or insane. but
individuals are. But how are we TO
Judge of an individuals sanity a. any
given time2 The only way it can be
done is to take the individuals whole
life into consideration, ante and post
natal, and from all these facts determine
whether or not the particular act involved
ia discussion il in keeping with tile
acts of sane men under the same cir.
cumstances. Ii other words, III
Of the person whose insanit
toned must be squared BY -
sense of sanity which is sur
somewhere in the mind oxIAhS.
nifty. No certain criteriorShere
case depends upon its ca F.stofsca iH'sia FHS
stances. Indianapolis Herd 'Hy TFsg5z gssos
4cror NJ.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02
Wonderful Railroad BuiIdinq.

The greatest feat in railroad track
laying, it is believed, ever accom-
plished, has Just been performed by the
Southern Pacific Railroad company on
the western section of the road, east of
Gomez. Forty miles Of steel rails were
laid in twelve days. This is an av-
erage of close upon three and nalf
miles per day, and it is said that no
faster work In the aggregate and in
similar given time has ever been done
in railroad building anywhere. Lord
Beaumont, who, with General mellow
ell, accompanied Charles Orocker on a
visit to the end of the track, is stated
to have remarked. on seeing tbe way in
which the material was handled and
the rails laid, that he could not have
believed it possible to have laid a rail
road track with such surprising rapid
-ity.
The gentleman who furnished this
information, an Official OF the COM
pany, further stated that the country
all through that section was entirely
destitute Of water. To provide it the
Southern Pacific company have four
steam well-boring machines boring for
water at different points along the line
of the road. The deepest was 200 feet,
but no water had been obtained at this
depth. The well-borers in charge of
the work, and who are said to be ex-
perienced men, say that twill be neces-
sary to 90 down 500 feet, and in some
places as much as 1000 feet, before
striking water. In well which was
being sunk at Lordsburg, the workmen
got down 500 feet, when, through an
accident, they lost their tools at the
bottom of the bore. When boring this
woll it is represented that they ran
through silver ore bed. Specimens
Of the ore were at once secured, and it
is alleged asssyed as high as from $50
to 800 ton.-Sasa Francisco Bulletin.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02
Thought in a DoQ and a Wasp.

a small-sized but feet running dog
chased large raccoon from wheat
field, and overlook him on the bank Of
creek, about a rod from the water.
The raccoon faced thedog and sat upon
his launches for battle. The ydog seized
him just below the fore-legs in front
and tried to shake him, but could not,
for he was heavier than the dog. The
animal Immediately set his long, sharp
teeth in the side Of the dogs head and
clasped him in his claws. The dog,
whining with pain, tried to pull away
and shake off the raccoon, but was held
fast, when he turned to the creek and
dragged the raccoon, which still clung
to bin, into the creek, where he held
him under water. adroitly keeping his
own nose out, till the raccoon became
SO exhausted that the dog shook him
Of, and then seized him by the throat
and mastered him.
The occupant Of room with the door
open into the street was startled one day
by the entrance, with buzzing noise, of
large blush wasp Of the kind which
captures spiders to place in their nests
for their growing wasps to feed upon.
After flying around the wasp went to a
corner Of the room where large house
spider had made broad web near the
ceiling, with long, close hiding-place
extending down in the corner. The
wasp few under the web and examined
this hiding-place closely, apparently to
see if the spider was at home, and then,
as il satisfied Of this fact, few out into
the room. and turning, dropped down
On the center OF the web, buzzing and
tiuttering like caught fly. Thereupon
the old spider rushed out in great haste
to capture his prey, and as soon as he
came within reach the wasp picked him
up and flew away with him. Wasit reason
or instinct that caused the action Of
these two animals under the circum-
taneess
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02

The Czar of Russia attends church
with great regularity and il very fond of
music. He maintains two fine choirs ut
PeterhoH.
A great revival is in progress in tho
Hawaiian Islands. The missionaries
say there has been nothing like it since
the revival OF 1888.
During 1881 1872 Congregational min
listers were ordained Oh installed, 20
were dismissed. and "a died. Eighty
nine churches were organized.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to 60
to Paris to conduct revival services
there by request Of committee under
the presidency Of MIR. R. W. McAll.
During the past twenty years l50new
churches have been built in the Diocese A
Of London, Of which number more than
100 have been promoted By the Bishop
Of London's fund.
The North China Methodist Mission
at its annual session just held reported
Z missionaries 2 / II assistants, 2
native ordained pre-ohers, 21Omembers,
and 151 probationers.
The Association for the Propagation
of the Faith is the chief missionary
society Of the Roman Catholic world.
It received last year from Europe, Asia,
Africa, America, and Oceanica only
s1,2O4, OO5, Of which S21, 79o was con
tributed in America. The great bulk
Of the receipts was raised in Europe.
The Moravians report IL missions,
3O5 missionaries, 9S stations with 15
out-stations, 1,481 native agents, 80, IT'S
baptized adults, 1886 baptized
children, under instruction 4,44O, an
increase OF 1.O44. All the missions
report an increase save Jamaica and st.
Thomas. The former lost 500, the
latter u. The expenditures were $92,
570
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02
Alpine Climbing a Trade.

Alpine climbing has within the last
twenty years become science and a
trade. Alpine clubs accumulate expert
ence which is at the disposal Of all the
world. They have their newspapers
and their annual dinners, and their
monthly meetings. There are shops
where every mountaineering requisite
is sold, and SO numerous are the guides
that it is hard nowadays for even the
best of them to make living. These
natives of the Alps make mountaineer-
ing easy. They point out to us the
safest roads, and warn us against the
most dangerous rocks. They cut for
the daring adventurer step in the ice
slope, and after he has put his foot in
it they even assist his upward journey
BY friendly push behind. Any danger
of falling into crevasse is avoided by
the party being tied together, and a
precipice is brought within reach of
the average tourist by rope ladder.
Hence, unless the ascent is entirely a
new one, there is really little danger
to encounter. The ordinary mountain
eer climbs for pastime and applause,
and he must be spiritless caitiff in
deed who knows not the zest which
such danger as the usual, but now and
then inevitable, avalanche imparts to
what is one of the tamest of sports.
The Alpine climber, it is true, some-
times sets up claims to be reckoned
among the pioneers Of science. He
now and then prints a dull drawing
room book, with pretty pictures, and
fondly imagines that he ranks with
Saussures, Tschudes, Schlan- -Gentweits,
Forbeses. Payers and Tyndalls, who
were first attracted to the Alps by q
love of what Bacon called natural
knowledge" but their work was carried
on at elevations which the Alpine
athlete would not condescend to visit,
and where there is less peril. The
people who insist on writing letters to
the papers about the necessity Of look
ing after these reckless folks waste
their sympathy The average Alpine
tourist is perfectly able to take care of
himself. When be foolishly courts
danger, the verdict must be that after
all he has right to choose his own
way Of making his exit from world in
which he cannot otherwise achieve dis
tinction.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-02-02

The English birds are more domestic
and familiar than ours /; more directly
and intimately associated with man
not, as class, so withdrawn and lost in
the great void Of the wild and the un-
reclaimed. England is like continent
concentrated the waste land, the
barren stretches, the wiIdernesses left
out. The birds are brought near TO-
gether and near to man. Wood birds
here are house and garden birds there.
They find good pasturage and protec-
tion everywhere. A land Of parks, and
gardens, and hedge-rows, and game
preserves, and climate free from vio-
lent extremes-what stage for the
birds, and for enhancing the effect Of
their songsI How prolific they are,
how abundantl If our songsters were
hunted and trapped, by bird-fanciers
and others, as the lark, and gold finch,
and mavis, ETC., are in England, the
race would soon become extinct. Then,
as rule, it is probably true that the
British birds, as a class, have more
voice than ours have, or certain quail
ties that make their songs more strik-
ing and conspicuous, such as greater
vivacity and strength. They are less
bright in plumkge, but more animated
in voice. They are not SO recently out
of the woods, and their strains have not
that elusiveness and plaintiveness that
ours have. They sing with more conf.
dence and copiousness, and as if they.
too, had been touched by civilization,
Then they sing more hours in the
day, and more days in the year. This
is owing to the milder and more equa-
BILE climate. heard the sky-lark sing
ing above the South Downs in October,
apparently with full spring fervor and
delight. The wren, the robin, and the
woodlark sing throughout the winter,
and in midsummer there are perhaps
three times as many vocal throats as here.
The heat and blaze Of our midsummer
sun silence most OF our birds. !" :
On the other hand, there are certain
aspects in which our songsters appear
to advantage. That they surpass the
European apecies in sweetness, tender
ness and melody have no doubt, and
that our mocking- bird, in his native
haunts in the South, surpasses any bird
in the world in compass. variety and
execution is highly probable. That the
total effect of his strain may be less
winning and persuasive than the noe
turne Of the nightingale, is the only
question in my mind about the relative
merits of the two songsters. Bring our
birds together as they are brought to-
gether in England, all our shy wood
birds-like the hermit thrush, the veery,
the winter wren, the wood Eagtail, the
water wagtail, the many warblsrs, the
greenlet, the solitary viero, etc.-be-
come birds Of the groves and orchards,
and there would be burst of song IN
deed.-John Burroughs. IN The Century