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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16
LOCAL ISSUES IN BROOKLYN.

The announcement in The TRIBUNE on sat
urdav that Mr. William Kingsley favored the nominal
lion and election of Judge Brown to the vacancy on the
Supreme Court bench created by The retirement Oh
Juege Gilbert, and opposed the election OF Judge
Tracy created some excitement and surprise III BROOK
lyn some doubling the truth Of tie statement ana
Others boldly denying it, 1t is fact nevertheless MI
Kingsley is warm personal friend OF Judge Brown,
aud two years ago, when the convention winch holl'
mated Judge Cullen met, Mr.. kingsley personally III
Auenced Judge Brown not to contest the nomination o
Mr. Cullen pledgIng himself 10 support him before the
convention Of this year. That was before II was even
thought or suggested that Judge Tracy would DE the
Republican candidate. Judge Tracy was in the city on
Saturday, and au ling 20 THE Tribune article sad lie
was at loss TO understand why 1t was expected tlat
Nr. Kingsley. Democrat, would support IL IN as q Re
publican candidate There was, he sala NOT the Snen
est reason expect any such support ne hu DCen
MIR Kingsiey's counsel for year. Dut Lie pau pecn pam
for ms gal services III lees HOT IrleHsH'F Va Po
support. - .,,, ~, Iud,,. prou,,
the Democrats who are LED by NJ hlhs'ei anu MI
Kinsella a. opponents OF Boss McL&uaEhh ana tIe
Ring" mad really beaten the latter IN ai
Mclaughlin desired inc holh1toi "a ~, - al he
ton but the Iatters defeat has GtlcE es NiO an nc
long TO the Ring" heartily adopted judge Brown ana
viii strongly support hm. lie VIII, therefore nave hOI
only tne sn1port OF Mr. Kugoleys followers, bat asO
that OF the Ring" The fact that Jndge Brown Is iAe
Brooklyn Rings candidate, and mat 100, loI
judicial Importance OF the one iOf "h1ch nc
is running viii LEAD many Oi me DSt'cf GloaS VI ,i
crats, who believe tut ju lcid Offices shOuIl DC me
without regard 10 poGcs 10 refuse 20 support MN anu
Tue registration far in Brooklynis uncomnonly
large of an OF year" and Is believed That II The last
day'E registration ito day. /. prOpOnoBatey great,
that the VIII b. the largest ever made III brOohyh'
This is held by many 10 Indicate tHat very ucIlIina
ting vote for al The Oices ana particularly
for The tIdIcal positions. ,,.
II is generally conceded that the nomination for CITY
Jude would be given by the DEMOCRATS TO " NJ C!e-
Incnt, a popular young lawyer. MI Needtr Is under
stood moi 10 desire the nomination, and NJ Weinberg
cannot nave 1t.
W E. DODGE NOT ANXIOUS TO BE MAYOR.
The Manhattan Temperance Association met
yesterday afternoon in the Masonic Temple. letter
was read from William t. Dodge declining the nominal
ton Tor Mayor the association rendered him last
Sunday After considerable di ,cussiOn a committee was
appointed to make arrangements for prohibition con-
venon TO be held in the hail OF the Cooper Union some
day this week Addresses were delivered by the Kew
DIS Peek, JAghlburue, MinSDs and 10y RCDer cuiAef-
land known 10 Tue variety stage as senator BOD hafl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16
STEAMERS DELAYED BY THE STORM

Last weeks storm the Atlantic coast has pre-
vented several steamers from arriving ut ths port
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16

An engineer named George T.. Mahar employed on
the Vanderbilt gram elevator arralgned in he
YOrkyllc Police Court yesterday on the double
charge of arson and assault and battery. The
prisoner, it appears, has been drinking heavily Of
lale, and at O'clock yesterday morning was Wis
tied by physician 1t his residence, No. 80 West
FIfty-ninth-st. The building is large double tenc-
mrnt-hOuse occupied by sixteen iamicg comprising
some sixty seventy persons. Shortly after 8
o'clock the landlord, John Pcinas. who occupies
the first floor as beer-ShOp, was startled by the
cry of fire." Rushing into the hail. he found it
flied with smoke winch pouring from the
doors and windows of MahaT's room. Hastily seiz-
ing pail of wafer he attempted to enter the TOOm
but found that NahaT had closed the door, which
fastened with a spnng lock, and was standing in the
hallway. Pleinas at once prepared to break his way
ill., when seeing what he intended to 90, Mahar
attacked him with "a spIttOOn, striking him blow
on The head and causing Il slight wound. The other
tenants of the house seized Mahar and the door
broken open. 1t then found that he had de-
hbeialcly set fire to the bedding. BY this time an
alarm had been sent out. and the iiIeInen arriving
the lire WAS quickly subdued. Mahar was given IN
charge OF Oh,er GOetZgeT OF thei went ySeCOnd Pre-
cincL In court the prisoner made a rambling state
ment that he lad been sick six days, and that men
were constantly gathered aDOut his bed and IN
fenced TO murder hun. They poured liquor down
hls throat, and then lie found the bed saturated
with some KIND Of liquid he set tire to 1t to
his life Justice kIlOre, IN committed HIM without
Da to answer to the charge Of arson, and held hun
i'll 800 bail to answer The charge OF assault.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
tn EXCESSIVE TAXATION.


Corporation Counsel Whitney has begun suit in
the name of the City of New-York against the state
OF New-York to resist the further payment Oh ua1es
alleged TO have been unlawfully assessed anu aso
to recover the amounts which, it Is alleged, nave
been unlawfnly collected. The summons ana COM
plant have been served upon the Attorney -OcncIhl
The complaint reviews the manner OF leVylnB tnAcs
by the State Board of Equalization ana Lhe IaWs
relating to the same The State Board OF Equalzl-
tiOn raised the assessed valuation OF real estate III
this city from 1910 735, 190 the amount agleeo
upon by the Board of Aldermen OF Ihs 90 C5'S r1 o
81, 1903 564 707-an increase OF $126,o29, 0Oo; ihe
State tax Is at the rate of 2.45 mills on the dotar
This makes the citys quota OF tno @Ia 5o
tax S3,2l6305 l4-an increase OF ToIo, 10 20
ing the assessed valuation of city reat estate
the Board OF Equalization acted illegally anu arp
trarily having evidence that the assessments lo
turned and certified by the Board OF Aldermen Welo
less in proportion to the true taxable property IMAM
were returns of other counties. 1t Is also allegeG
that the Board Of Equalization carried out none VI
the statutory PROVISIONS required OF IT, ing lJtu a
male by the Board of Aldermen ~ declared to nave
been just lawful and the only legal basis Tor ASSESS
ment
The complaint further sets forth that since the
wear 1860 the city has been obliged to pay IRON -
treasury large sums intended for other than lOCih
purposes III lieu of taxes levied on behalf Oh inc
STATE. these sums amounting in the aggregate 10
s. 302, 0J4 So. These sums PAID by the CITY 10 INC
State were Tor various causes some OF them were
because individual taxpayers dedlnsoyent, because
properly had been uulawfully taxed, because Tue
property assessed found to be without the urls-
dIclon OF the city. and because taxpaj ers were re-
lieycd from the payment of ssmcntS. Inc pam
tin asks that it il be adjudgCd and dcrecd that the
city is not Obliged to pay the State for the present
hscal year upon taxable and personal estates any
sum IN excess Of I2,0O5,J72 50; that credit Dc
gwen 10 the city for past oyeTpaymenis; tat SlaIe
officers be restrained from levyIDg or collecting inc
excessive assessment and That the city Officers De
restrained from payment. Deputy COnstaDeS
Michael a. StoIrs and Francis S. Bangs certify 10
the correctness of the complaint
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16
NEW-JERSEY.

HoBoKEN.--Wilham Schroeder age fifteen 81 II
Galden-st, between Sixth and Seyenth-sts, ~.
into the North River at the foot OF Flfhst. yeser
day and was drowned. The body has not YET Vee5
recovered. james sullivan an ex-Adermao ~ y,
the Fourth Ward. was thrown from his casfss
while riding on the Boulevard yesterday, ana 50
tanned serious injury
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20
The T0othpick in Public.

Every civilized man, woman and child
has the right to use toothpick but have
they the right to use toothpicks to the
discomfort of others? And to fine or
CARNATIONS the visible use of the tooth
pick is a source of disgust. A man who
uses toothpick in public shows either
that he is not aware of the annoyance
which he gives to others, or he defies
good manners and prefers to be set
down indelicate and gross. The same
rule applies with double force to a
woman, for women are the natural and
conventional guardians of good man
ners. When sensible men are in doubt
on matter of politeness or fine pro-
priety, they consult lady. What,
then, can be said of lady who carries
a teothpick in her mouth? She might
as we'll rinse her mouth or brush her
teeth in public.
The truth is, that the associations of
a toothpick are necessarily indicate,
for the toothpick reminds. one of bad
teeth or food particles held in the
wrong place. The toothpick is, there
fore, toilet article, and ranks with the
toothbrush, the nail-cleaner or the ear
spoon. These articles have to be used.
but not in public. Every hand is marred
by unclean finger-nails, but tie nails
ought not to be cleaned in public. Nor
should teeth be brushed or picked in
public. In hotel lobbies there are al
ways mon not really gentlemen ard,
alas, occasionally women, with tooth
pick in their mouth. Quite likely these
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20

cultivators of the earth, 65.57. active
mechanics abroad, 53.05; professional
men, 51.27: merchants, fnanciers.
agents, ETC., 1906; active mechanics in
shops, 1897; laborers, no special trades,
47.91; employees on the ocean, HIS;
inactive mechanics in shops, 44.45; fe-
males, 1872; factors laboring abroad,
37.42.
This table shows that the farmer lives
over fourteen years longer than the
average person, and over twelve years
longer than the class next below him in
longevity, and fourteen years longer
than the professional man. Bat it does
not follow that farmers wives and chill
dren are longer lived than those of men
of other ca Ings, for farmers wives are
too often brought underinfluences tend
ing to shorten life. The science and art
of sanitation, which are doing so much
to proiong human life, should especially
brighten the farmers home. Early
deaths everywhere diminish as the
science of sanitation advances. In
Geneva, Switzerland, the statistics
show that the average length OF life in
that city in the sixteenth century was
2I2l years; in the seventeenth. 1857;
in the first half of the eighteenth
27.75; in the last half, 1925; while to-
day it is about 43 years. This progress
will surely continue as men study the
causes of disease and the means of pre-
venting it.-NeaC England Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20
now THE KING LOST HIS GROWN.
BY ]. ]. TRowBRrDGE.

The Kings men, when he had slain the boar,
Strung him aloft on the fishers oar,
And, two behind and two before,
In triumph bore him along the shore,
An oarl" says the King; tits trifie! Why
Did the fisher froWn and the good wife sgh?"
"A tritie, sirel was the fools reply;
Then frown or laugh who viii; for l.
Who laugh at all and am only clown
VIII never more laugh at trifies"
runner next day leaped down the sand
And launched skin from the fishers strand;
For he cried An army invades the landl
The passes are seized on either hand
And must carry my message straight,
Across the lake to the castle gatei'
The castle is neared. but the waves were great,
The Hanged rocks foamed like the jaws Of fate;
And, lacking an oar, the boat went down;
Inc turies laugh at tries.
The swimmer against the waves began
To strive as a valiant swimmer can;
@Methnks" said the fool, "twere no bad plan
If succor were sent the drowning mani!
To succor periled pawn instead
The monarch, moving his rock ahead,
Bowed over the chessmen, white and red,
Gave check then looked on the lake and said !:
"The boat is lost the man will drownl
Oh, King, beware OF trifies!
F To the Lords and rafrthful danes the bard
Was trolling his latest song the guard
Were casting dice in the castle yard:
And the Captains all were drinking hard;
Then came the chief of the halberders
And told the Kings astOnished ears:
AN army every side appears!
III An army with banners and bows and spearsi
..~& They have gained the wall and surprised the
Our fates are woven of trifesl
The red usurper reached the throne;
The tidings over the realm were blown:
And flying TO alien lands alone
,s With trusty few, the King made moan.
But long and loudly laughed the clown;
We broke the oar, and the boat went down,
And 80 the messenger CHANGED to drown,
The messenger lost, we lost the town;
And the loss Of the town has cost a crown;
And all these things are trifesl"
Our Continent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20
Mount Etna.

Mount Etna is one of the celebrated
historic fre-mountains of the globe.
The first recorded eruption of Etna,
mentioned by Diodorous Siculus, is
supposed to have occurred about the
time of the Trojan war. Three terri
BILE eruptions are recorded by Thucy-
dides as having occurred in the fifth
century B. G. Altogether there have
been about seven outbursts, the most
important of which were those of 1859,
1869, 1755, 1877, 1892, 1862 and 1868.
The mountain is situated on the eastern
coast of Sicily near the bay and city of
Catania. The apex of the great conical
mass is 1885 feet above the sea level,
and the crater, which is just below the
apex, is in the midst of q plain nine
miles in circumference. Around the
base of the mountain is fertile and de-
ightful country. Towns and villages
are clustered in this region, and in the
rich soil of the decomposed lava and
tufa are fourishing plantations of
olives, vines, grains, fruits, and aromat-
ic herbs Though these have from
time to time been destroyed by the
eruptions, a delightful climate and pro-
ductive soil, quick to restore the rava-
ges of the tire-giant which burns above,
have sufficed to overcome the fears of
people familiar with danger. The low
er TANKS of the mountain are covered
with magnificent groves of chestnut,
cork, olive, oak, beech, poplar and
pines, many of them of immense size.
The region of desolation begins about
six thousand feet above the sea, rough
and black with the beds of cinders and
lava, OF white with snow and ice, as one
climbs to the upper SUBMITS. The
great crater is in the snowy tract,
rising in cone eleven hundred feet
high, and is about half q mile wide,
with depth of eight hundred feet.
Sulphurous smoke and rumbling
noises arise from it continually. There
are about eight secondary craters on
the side of the mountain.
The eruption of 1869 destroyed four
teen villages, about thousand lives
and utterly devastated the country A
fissure twelve miles long opened in the
mountain flank and poured forth sea
of fire, and afterward five other parallel
assures opened which emitted smoke
and laundering detonations. The wall
of Catania, which had been raised sixty
feet high on the mountain side, was
oyertopped, and a cascade of liquid fire
poured into the city. The lava current
was so hot in Catania eight years after
ward as to burn the hand approached
to its cracks Tt flowed into The sea for
width of six hundred yards, and les
sened the depth of the water for more
than a mile from shore about forty
feet This eruption was accompanied
by a tidal wave and earthquakes
Another eruption in 1855 was little less
terrible in It's results-"A World Of
WOndefs"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20

soft like cookies and cut with a biscuit
cutter, cutting out the center with
small wine glass.
DRIED APPLE CAKE.-Soak one cup
dried apples over night in warm water.
In morning, drain, chop and simmer in
one cup OF molasses, add one cup sugar,
one egg, one-half cup butter and one
tablespoon soda dissolved in one-half
cup buttermilk, one teaspoonful CHINA
mon, one nutmeg, flour to make stiff
mass, as for any fruit cake.
PoTAToEs ALA DUcHEssR.- These are
now the most fashionable, and, if a
really good potato is capable of being
improved, perhaps this is the best
method. Take cold, well-seasoned
mashed potatoes, roll out and form into
little biscuit-shaped cakes "a little flour
may be used to form them, but do not
mix -four with the potato); arrange
cakes on pie-plate, glaze them over
with beaten egg, and bake to delicate
brown.
Potato puff, with the addition of
little cold meat, makes an excellent
breakfast dish. To two cups of cold
mashed potato allow two well-beaten
eggs, two tablespoonful of melted but
ter and one cup Of sweet milk; beat all
together until very light, then add the
cold meat, chopped very fine. After
m king thoroughly put it in shallow
pudding-d sh, and bake for from twenty
minutes to half an hour. If preferred,
You can bake it in weii-buttered gem
pans.
AN appetizing salad can be made in
this way: Put in the bottom of the
salad-dish layer of cold boiled pota-
toes, sliced thin; sprinkle pepper and
salt over the slices, then put layer of
boiled lima beans, and so on, alter
nately, until the dish is full; season
each layer with pepper and salt, and
over the top, few minutes before
serving, pour enough vinegar to flavor
the salad mix a little melted butter
with the vinegar; mustard or curry
powder may be added to suit the taste.
AN excellent sweet-potato pudding is
made Of one pound of mealy sweet-po-
tatoes, one-half cup of butter, three
quarters of cup of white sugar, one
! tablespoonful of cinnamon, one tea
spoonful of nutmeg, four eggs, the
/ whites and yelks beaten separately, one
lemon, and one glass of brandy. Par
boil the potatoes and CRATE them when
perfectly cold rub the butter and sugar
to a cream; add the yelks, the spice and
lemon; beat the potato in gradually I'M
til light, then the brandy, and stir in
the whites of the eggs, and bake in a
deep dish.
"CHATTY Brooks" in Arthur's Home
Magazine, gives her method of preserv-
ing grapes. She says "The way we
preserve grapes is to put into a clean,
new crock or jar layer of grapes and
layer of sugar, until within an inch of
the top, placing sugar enough over each
layer Of grapes to cover them well /:
when filed stand in an oven which is
not hot enough to bake bread. Let
them remain in there until they are
cool. Do this for three days, letting
them heat enough to barely simmer.
This is the best and most satisfactory
way we know of it saves labor and is
easily done. The last time they are
heated, take a spoon and stir gently
from the outside into the center.
When cold sprinkle over with sugar,
and tie strong paper over the jars.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Abstract of the Report of the Commits
soner OF the General Land Office.
The Commissioner of the Land Office. in
his annual report, states that the lands now
embraced within the limits of the public do
main amount to 900,0cO,0O0 acres, including
Alaska. He recommends that the Pre-emp-
ton law be abolished, as the Homestead laws
cover all cases now arising Public sales of
land last year amounted to 1888 acres, en-
bracing 5, 016 acres near Toledo, Ohio, which
were sold for SIG, 135, an average of $3. So per
acre. Respecting the forfeiture of railroad
grants the Commissioner says: ''The status
poses where roads have not been
constructed within the time prescribed
by law was reported to Congress
March % last The absence of legislative &C
ton touching the renewal of these grants or
declaring the forte ture thereof seriously
embarrassed the work of this office. 1t is
not deemed expedient to certify additional
lands to the railroad companies, nor to
award to the companies lands in dispute be-
tween them and settlers or other claimants,
pending the determination of Congress in
the premises. Large numbers of settlers oc-
cupy such lands, and it is important to know
whether they can receive their titles from
the United States, or whether they viii be
required to purchase from the railroad
companies. Commissioner Mcfarland sub
nlits an estimate for the salaries and contin-
gent expenses of the next fiscal year,
amounting i'll the aggregate to 1853 $40
which is an increase of the amount appro-
priated for the current fiscal year of $50, $40.
The increase is distributed generally among
the bureau officers, and includes $1,000 for
an Assistant Commissioner
In accordance with an act passed at the
last session OF Cong ess, the Commissioner
of the General Land Office is now preparing
for publication volume containing the cod
fled Land laws and the history of the public
domain of the United States, compiled and
prepared by the Public Land Commission,
with all of the subsequent Land laws passed
up to the day of adjournment OF the last
Congress There will be limited number
OF volumes published for general dstlibu-
ton, and many applications for them have
already been received from lawy ers and per
sons engaged in til land business, to whom
the book will be of much value
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20
Mistakes,

It is mistake to suppose that intel
igent, immortal and responsible beings
were placed in this world simply to eat
and drink, having no higher enjoyment
than those enjoyed in common with the
brute creation.
1t is a mistake to infer that one man
is better than another, simply because
he was born in favorite country, that
he has brains simply because he wears
fine clothes belonging to the tailor, or
that wealth is a guarantee of good
breeding and good behavior.
It is sad mistake to suppose that
young ladies were made simply to be
arrayed like peacocks, to receive cox
comb beaux in the parlor, while the
mother is drudge in the kitchen
Gust good enough to wait upon" such
a daughter-the one living in luxurious
ease, and the other toiling to support
an unworthy daughter, and that on ac-
count of such pride and selfish indO-
lence, she will make good wife for an
honest and poor young man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20
A Woman in the Wafer.

A swimming match in Chicago
prompted this paragraph: "Who
could have swan more skimmingly over
the lakeIet, like the goddess of beauty
in her sea-sheil, than the cheese-cloth
clad, model-shaped and raven-haired
mermaid, who captured the costliest
prize and courteseyed so gracefully to
the applauding spectators. AS she
stood dripping at the end OF the spring
board, her eyes flashed with triumph
as brightly as the diamond ring prize
that newly .circled her finger, and--but
away she had sprung into the air,
describing curve of beauty, and now,
cleaves the water with
prow-like hands as noiselessly and with
as little splash as though a thin, fiat
stone had fallen from the nights. And
how long she stayed under, too and
fully forty feet away it is where the
sea-weed hair of jet slowly floats on the
surface again, welcomed by renewed
shouts"