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is sent out to him every mail in hi.
dispatch bag from Downing street,
London.
a matter of interest to oyster eaters
has been disclosed by Mr.. G.. A. Cam
eron. He lately examined some
oysters taken from tue beds on the
northern shore of the Bay of Dublin,
where the water is very much polluted
at present with excrementitious and
other offensive substances. Tn.
oysters which Mr.. Cameron tested
were taken from a place where the
ude c vered them to a height Of ten
teet, and which was nearly dry at low
water. From the brine of most of the
oysters no offensive odor was emitted
but that of a large proportion gave
forth a distinctly fetid smell, and in a
few cases the brine gave unmistakable
evidence to the nostrils of sewage con-
taminatiOn. The microscope revealed
in the fetid liquid of the oysters whole
swaIms Of micrococei and other low
organisms like those usually present
In sewage. Water taken from the bay
at low tide was found to be highly
charged with sewage. 1t is not up-
fairly considered, therefore, that the
illness which so mary have expert
eneed after eating oysters believed to
have been stale was really due to the
sewage in u e juice of these shellfsh.
The following from the american
architect regarding the corrosi0n of
lead pipe by lime is worth noting:
"A scientific investigation has recent
iy been made into a matter which
many plumbers and Others have had
presented to them IN various WAYS,
but which has been hitherto nm
explained.
1T seems that in Germany theunder-
ground telegraph wires are often car
ried through lead pipes, and ia renew
ing some wires in one of the large
cities the pipes were found to be
eorroded ~irregularly, points OF greatest
corrosion being afterward aseertaiped
TO coincide with certain places where
the cable passed in contact with lime
water or cement. Taking thiz cireum-
az a point of departure, DR..
Rossel has studied the action of various
substances upon lead, and finds that,
while carbonated lime exercises no
action on the metal, the hydrate, as it
exists in mortar, attacks it with con-
energy, and if moisture is
present a sheet one-thirtieth of an
thick may be eaten through in q
The lead is converted into a
carbonate, which flakes away,
leaving holes and indentations. This
corresponds perfectly with the phe-
nomenon, with which many plumbers
are familiar, of the c%orrosiou which
takes place in traps or lead-linei tanks
into which plastering mortaris allow
70 fall. W. have in mind one case
a cistern of consid arable size.
with lead and exposed to the
dropping of particles of lime from the
clustering overhead, was eaten through
after year, to the great perplexity
the owner and his plumber, who
Gould find no explanation IN treatises
chemistry for such action
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Marshal Vendome.
Peculiar Habits of One Of Frances Eninsn,
Off oars

Peculiar Habits of One OF Frances Eminsn.
Officers.
II cynicism had not ceased to rank as
a branch of philosophy, France could
boast of having produced the greatest
philosopher of the last twenty centu-
ries. Louise-Joseph, Duke of Ven
dome, great grandson of Henry ",
was a man of principles. He used to
take a bath on the first day OF every
month, and during the remaining
four weeks avoided water in every
form-his toilet articles bein5 limited
to a jackknite and a piece of beeswax.
On the day of the monthly purifca-
ton, his rooms were also cleansed, his
study with a broom and lis bedroom
with a shovel, for a pack OF hunting
degs shared his couch and often reared
their progeny under his bed. The de-
struction of all earthly laundries
would not have shaken the peace OF
his manly soul; his underwear con-
sisted of "a buckskin shirt and short
socks of the same material, his bed of
a bunk aud three blankets, one of
them rolled up in the shape Of pillow.
AT the table of the Counte d'Am6leve
he often gorged himself till lie could
hardly rise from the chair; but at
home he used to avoid that difficulty
by taking his meals in bed, and there
were weeks when he did not leave his
bed at all. Brushes, combs, looking
glasses, marrisge-rings, prayer books,
handkerchief, soap and wash basins,
were luxuries the noble warrior man
aged to dispense with ceremonies
were his grand aversion, and the de-
merits of the frail sex the subject of
his daily anathemas. But this man,
whom the priests accused of all the
vices mentioned in Peter Lombard's
revised catalogue, was a Mars on the
battlefield, the idol of the army, and,
in the opinion OF Prince Eugene, the
soldier who could nave saved
France If the petticoat-government
had not thwarted him.
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How the Japanese Valu, HUI.
-

IN our items from the native papers
will be found one which discloses
what appears to be an extraordinary
miscarriage Of justice. For some time
ate ppts were made to overturn the
train near Kioto by placing large
stones on the track. Every effort
to detec. the d~astardly perpetrator-as
II was evidently the work Of q single
individual-proved Intellectual until
at last one night he was caught in
flagrante delicto, and marched of to
Jail II will be noticed thet sentence
was now passed upon a ruh IN who
more than once attempted the de-
struction OF a train with its living
freight and the judge marked his
sense of the gravity of the crime by
INJECTING u fine oftwo yen andtwenty-
five sen equivalent to about i've
shillings. -Hte9o NeWs.
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PENIS GROVE. SALEM COUNTY. N. J.. SATURDAY, MARCH IL. 1882

home insensible. A fioCd of recollec-
tions came ove poor Kate, and she
burst into teats.
Mother" che said, raising her
head from the kind encircling arms
that were round her, latter all, Edith,
who never thinks or says anything
about being brave, was a real heroine
to-day. She sat still, and stayed where
father told her, and ! vas frightened
and ran away"
Never mind, my Kate; next time
you will say to yourself Deeds, not
words" and / will h We two heroines
In my family."
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THE BOYS.

There come the boysi on, dear, the poiss
The whole house feels the racket;
Behold the knee OF Cbristie's pants,
And weep DER Berries Jacket
Bot never mind II eyes keep bright,
And limbs grow straight and timber;
We'd rathe lose the trees whole bark
Than ind uusound the timber.
Now bear the tops and marbles ROLL
The ioors-oh, woe betide themi
And I mus watch the banisters,
For / know the boys who ride themi
LOOK well as you descend the stairs,
often find them haunted
BY ghostly boys that max no noise
= lust when their noise is wanted.
The very chairs are tied in pairs.
And made to prance and speri
What swords are Whitfield out of sticks;
What brave hats made OF paper.
The dinner-beil peals loud and well
10 tell the milkman's comingf
And then the rush OF "steam-car trains"
Sets all our ears a-humming.
How Oft 1 say. "what hall [ do
To keep those children quietf"
III could ind a good receipt
/ certainly should try 1t.
But hat to do with these wild boys,
And all their din and clatter,
Is really quite q grave affair,
No laughing, %triling matter.
''Boys will be boys'-but not for long;
All, could we bear about US
This thought how very soon our boys
VIII learn to do without MS.
How soon. and tall, ~deep-voiced men
VIII gravely call us Mother"
Or we be stretching empty hands
From this world to the other.
Mere gently should we chide the noise.
And when night quells the racket,
stitch In but loving thoughts and prayefs
While mending pants AMI Jackets.
EKPKR.
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The Electric Light.

Electric lighting passed from the re-
gion OF experiment into that OF un-
questioned success SO quickly that il
IN hardly possible to note the steps by
which the change was made. There
are many details yet to be perfected,
II Is true, but they do not affect the
general result. 1t Is not AZ an illumi-
nator of streets and houses, however
hat the electric light IL Of most i'm
portance, although 1t will there be
found most generally useful. It Is o
the sea coast that this persistent and
~far-reaching light most clearly shows
Its marked advantage Ofany other. In
March of last year the Freueh public
engineers decided that forty-six light
houses on the coast of France should
be supplied with electric lights. OF
these thirty-eight were Of the first,
class. The light in the Isle Of Planter.
eight miles from Marseilles ia fash
ing with three white aud one red fla h.
1t Is visible during all average state of
the atmosphere for a distance of forty
eight miles, but its <, ographical effect
IL only twenty-one miles. Special
efforts are being made, however, to In
crease the luminous effect In prefer.
ence to distance. A great advance has
been made In this re pect by the use
oil optical apparatus Of special con-
struction. They are provided in their
upper part with a series of l~enticular
rings, which have the effect of throw
ing up a pencil Of vertical rays to a
great elevation above the apparatus.
This pencil illunines the clouds or
vspors that fill the atmosphere, and
Is equally visible itself in clear weather
as the air contains enough of solid par
ticles and vascular vapor to produce
diffusions. The reach and practicalutil-
ity of the electric lighthouse is thus
greatly increased. The cost of the cleo
trio lamp Is only from one-fourth to
one fifth that of oil. But there Is some
thing more important still In favor of
electric coast signals. The present oil
system Ia practically worthless during
$50 days Of the year along the Atlantic
European coasts, and even for l2e days
ia the Sunny" Mediterranean. The
electric only fails on very toggy nights,
or on an average of n in twelve
or N In eighteen on the coasts of
the waters just mentioned. Its power
will reach from twenty-five TO twenty
seven sea miles further than that ofany
existing lighthouse illumination.
On the American coast of the
Atlantic the nee assity for such lights
is scarcely less than along the stormy
shore between Cape Finistere and
Cape Clear. But at our very doors
there Is occasionally urgent need for
precisely this kind of illumination.
In very feggy times the ferry boats
plying between Philadelphia and Cam
den only feel their way along, rs
1t were. An electric light of even
moderate power placed over each slip
that Is IN common use would do away
with what 10 now q frequent source Of
delay and danger. 1t might be ad.
vissble to place lights on Smiths
Island and possibly on the ferryboats
also, but it Is certain that electricity
affords the means to effectually md al
comparatively small cost rob the voyage
across the Delaware at this point Of
all the terrors which fog and dark nss,
now invest 1t with.-Ex.
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Childish Humor.

old, recently ate some maccaroni for
the first time. He liked 1t so well that
he said to his father:
please give me some more"
"Some more of what ?" asked his
father.
"Some more Yankee Doodle I" re-
piled the young person.
Willie went out for a walk, one
morning, and along the roadside saw
several men blasting rock. He watched
the work closely, and learned how it
was done. Some time after this, when
1t was supposed that he had forgotten
all about the blasting incident, his
mother was sitting with him at their
clearinghouse breakfast. table, trying
vainly to cut a tough piece of beef
steak. Seeing, finally, that she was
making ne Roadway, Willie ex-
claimed
Mamma, why don't you blast 1t Pr
A little boy who was walking along
the street with his father saw a sign
which read "Job Printing"
Papa" said the boy, sis that the
same Mr.. Job we read about in the
Bible ?"
In a druggists window, in Chicago,
there was for many years q sign
Artificial Eyes," and Immediately
under it. open all Night" The
latter, of course, referred TO the store
and not to the eyes.
A boy who had lived In a certain
Western town all mis- life, met another
boy, a new IN the street
where do you live? asked the
former.
Stranger-"I don't live"
What do you do?"
II board"
As a mother was putting It's finest
clothes on "a crying baby, y little
brother exclaimed
well, If here isn't a fancy dress
bawl."
Edith Papa, Is it nice to make re-
marks about peoples dresses2
Papa-Why, certainly not, my
child what did you ask that for?
Edith-Nothing, papa only mann
ma said my dress was shabby, and
wondered why papa hadn't noticed 1t
long ago.
Edith had the goods" for Il new
one the very next day.
Harry was al admirer of our Revo-
lutionaTy heroes, and he would never
admit that the American army was
whipped at the Battle of Braudywine.
"Why, Harry" said his father,
when they were talking about 1t n
day, 'our troops retreated after she
battle, didn't they ?"
mo, they didn't retreat" replied
barry ''tney just changed 'front.'
and advanced"
While some Englishmen pronounce
bishop" ''bishop," others say
'biship," or "oishup," or "bisheep."
During a visit of the English Lord
Bishop to a country parish recently, a
wag composed the following humor-
Gus bit of verse, and it actually was
sung by the choir:
why skip ye so, ye little hills,
And wherefore do ye hopf
Is 1t because ye do expect
To see the Lord Bish-opf
why hop ye so, ye little hills.
And wherefore do you skipf
Is It because you do expect
To see the Lord Bish-ipY
"Why hop ye so, ye little hills,
And why do ye jump upf
L. II because yon long TO see
HIS Grace, the Lord-Bish-upf
why jump ys so, ye little hills,
And wherefore do ye leapf
Is it because ys eager are
To zee the Lord Bish-eepf"
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AN Englishman,and y Welshman
disputiug IN whose country was the
best living, ssid the Welshman :
"Tnere is such noble housekeeping In
Wales that 1 have known above .
dozen cooks to be employed at one
wedding dirner." "Ay," replied the
Engiishmsn, "thst was because every
man toasted his W cheese"
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BY putting the IT" In the wrong
place a Richmond printer made she
editor say of a scene at the close of n
burial, "disconsolate tends stood
rivetsd to the sport"
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What a Railroad Car will Hold.

Taking 26, 900 pounds as a fair aver
age load the ordinary railroad freight
car will hold : Corn, $50 bushels bar
ley, 400 bushels; oats, 500 bushels
rye, 400 bushels wheat, AIS bushels
bran, 1000 bushels; iaxseed, $50
bushels apples, $50 bushels potatoes,
$50 bushels whisky, 80 barrels salt,
10 barrels; lime, 10 barrels; flour, 80
barrels -four, 200 sacks; cattle, IS
head hogs, 50 head sheep, 80 head
hard wood, 8 cords soft wood, 7 cords.
solid boards, 5000 feet shingles, 49,
600; nard lumber, 10000 feet green
lumber, 10000 feet jolst, scattering
and large lumber, 1900 feet.
A Sunday.school teacher In Albion,
n. Y, asked her class the question {:
"What did Simon say ?n Thumbs
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
On the Track.

Detective Madison OF Chicago
was in the city yesterday. He
does not state his business, but
it is believed that he is on the
trail of ex-senator Spencer, one
of the missing witnesses in the
star route trial. Spencer has
been hiding about Nevada for
several months, and not long
ago was in Cherry Creek. He
seems to have been able by
means of the receipt of CIPHER
dispatches to keep pretty we'll
posted on the movements Of the
prosecution aud has successfully
evaded arrest. He is now be-
lieved to be somewhere in the
mou ntains about Lake Tahoe.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
Thanksgiving Quotations.

On Thursday there was a gen
eral disposition to load up with
Turkey, and the stock was in
great demand in the afternoon
mahogany board. Claret and
Champagne had the call after
the regular session, and invest
ors laid in all that was offered.
After the board numbers of per-
sons, mostly small boys, got out
on the street anil began to un-
load. Then stocks struck bed
rock Immediately, and there
was no attempt to bull the mar
ket. A number of men joined
a pool and attempted to take in
all the Egg Nog at the variou $
saloons, and the majority loade |
up rather too heavily to handle
the goods. Transactions in
Rummen Gum, Tommen Jerry
and other outside stocks were
active as late as = o'clock yes
terday morning.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
sSfr0fher'S Fence.

The main topic of conversation
in political circles of the Com
stock in the action of MIR.
Strother, late candidate for Gov
ernor, is erecting a forty-foot
fence alongside a neighbours
house, thereby shutting out the
light, heat and beautiful Com
stock landscape. l. is alleged
that he erected the fence to
keep a woman next door from
throwing ashes into the yard.
If that woman has any sort of
that grit which Virginia people
are made of she will rig up a
ladder or a derrick, or some
thing Of that sort and continue
to dump the ashes over the
fence and all over Strother's
house. y good, active woman
ought to be able to keep Strother
building stories on his fence
until it would make land mark
for the weary wayfarer as far
away as the Mound House.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02

Just received Il full assert
ment Of school stationery and
text books, consisting of wire
bound, noiseless and book states:
pencils, spOnges, scholars COM
panions, ticklers, memorandum
pads, composition and copy
books, rulers, pen-wipers, cray
cns, ink, pens, holders and pa
per, all of which parents, guar
dams, teachers and pupils are
requested to inspect before pur-
chasing outfits for the ensuing
term of the public schools in
Carson, Empire and vicinity. A
Stylographic pen given away
with a quart bottle Of Caw's
jet black ink, at the News Depot,
opposite the Postotiice, Carson
au2i
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
Livery and Feed stable.

ID. Gree has now q fine stock
of fast and safe horses and new
carriages and is prepared to fur
nish teams or single rigs at
cheaper prices than any stable
in the city. Horses boarded by
the day, week or month and
given the best of feed. A trial
will give satisfaction, both as TO
the quality and price of services
rendered.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
Dan De 0uille Sastained.

When the tracks at the State
Prison were first discovered Dan
De Quille advanced the theory
that they were not the tracks OF
man, but of a gigantic sloth.
Professor Marsh, an Eastern
SCIENTIST Of considerable reputa-
ton, now holds the same view.
When Dan made his announce
ment it created no impression
to speak of, but that Marsh
makes the same discovery it Is
heralded all over the country as
the weighty opinion Of a great
man. \ man who doesn't have
the " Prof" hitched to his name
need never hope to make any
scientific discoveries which any.
body will be impressed with.
During the past twenty-five
years Dan has carefully studied
meteorological phenomena, the
habits of animals and the geo.
logical formation Of the earth
until it is a safe assertion that
few Of the graduates Of the
scientific schools can tell him
which he has not from
actua, observation studied out
himself. There is much credit
due Mr.. Wright Dan De Qnille>
in this line which has been per-
withheld from him.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
social Gathering.

On Thanksgiving night a
party was given to Miss Matte
Sherman, daughter of the pro-
prietor of the Arlington House.
It was attended by a large
gathering of the young folks
and the affair wound up with a
collation. which was considered
by the guests as fitting sort of
sequel to the general festivi-
ties,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
Dancing School.

At the Opera House. Glasses
every Saturday from l to p.
NJ, and from Z to 9 p. NJ, after
which dancing until II O'Clock.
Terms, payable in advance.
Adult class, per month, SIS
children, under fifteen years,
81. Music furnished for balls
and parties at a reasonable
figure. HAIL d MEDER.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
Crooked Officials,

The Eureka Sentinel has the
following intimation of trouble
ahead i'll Eureka:
\ petition was circulated yes
terday, and quite generally
signed by property holders, to
secure funds for the employment
of attorneys to prosecute certain
county officials for alleged mis-
appropriation of county money.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-02
THE CHILDREN ATE ALONE
Cnsatjsfact Dry Result ~ an Ex-
= - perrin ent IS

| The Dobson and Hobson fam
lilies had a joint dinner or
Thanksgiving day. Dobson
evolved the idea of having the
!! numerous children eat all alone
by themselves at separate
, table. 1t would be harmonious
for the children and allow adults
to talk scandal which would not
be appropriated by young ears.
Hobson remarked
i" Dob, wen try the plan, but
you must caution your boy
Billy to behave himself. You
know h. hasn't the table man
ners OF my boys" -~.
Now ! like that, Mr.. Hob
SON. My children are the best
behaved in Carson and / hope
that they will never be COM
PEELED To learn table manners
from Your boys, who put more
food in their pockets than goes
down their outlets"
The wives of the two inter-
fered at this point and assured
the metz that no two fam
lilies in town had such gentle
manly, bashful and circumspect
children. The dinner came off
on schedule time, and, as soon as
the kitchen door was closed the
youngsters locked ii on the in
side. The trouble appeared to
have begun as to who should
carve the turkey. Owing to
some lack of Il regular under
standing on the part Of the
heads of the families, four boys
attempted the task at once. The
adults heard A noise in the next
room and attempted to get in,
but, owing probably to the
locked condition of the door,
We're unable to do SO.
The noise grew grander and
more diversified as it progressed.
Any practiced ear could tell that
war was between the china
crockery loaned by Mrs. Dob
son and the cheap queensware
furnished by Mrs. Hohson. who
seemed somehow to have lacked
C nfidence in the children. The
noise of the castor travelling
back and forth between the
walls of the room and the sharp,
shriIl war whoop Of William
Hobson, Jr., as he mashed
pickle bottle over the head of
the hopeful Of the other house
was not entirely drowned by the
other noises. The parents
finally got into the kitchen by
the back way and untangled
seven boys from the table linen
and the cranberries.
The children will not be asked
to amalgamate when the fam
lilies eat their Christmas dinners,
unless the new boiler iron
kitchen is completed.