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The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
False Hair.

Statistics on the subject of false hair
are novel enough to be interesting.
The English Journal of applied Sci
ence publishes an Analysis of the con-
tents of a false tress containing 800
hairs. OF these IL hairs were contrib
uted by a Russian woman 2 only by
a Swede; 6S by three different English
girls; 126 by two italian girls; 10 by
a Tunisian girl SO by two German
women-529 hairs, in short, for for
eigners not French. The French
hairs subjected to this analysis resulted
in giving the following account of
themselves: 3l7 were aristocratic-
from the tresses of fashionable ladies' /;
927 were contributed by the middle
classes 518 by servants, working
girls, etc., 1 ,3SS by the demi monde;
10 by a male ~vagabond, perhaps a
gypsy whose hair had grown so long
that he could sell hall of which
makes: 500 miscellaneous hairs, Sill
French hairs, 3 60 total. The numer-
ical preponderance of French hairs is
largely due, of course, to the fact that
Paris is the centre of the capillary
trade,
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
A So-Called Constant Battery

Mechanical agitation has been
adopted sometimes to render the cur
rent from certain voltaic batteries on
slant by disengaging the gases which
collect on the negative plate. Heating
has been recently applied by an italian
engineer, Signor Gaudini, with the
like effect in the case of a cell consist
ing OF a cast iron pot OF vessel contain
ing a porous clay a in which was
placed a plate of carbon, while a zine
cylinder surrounded the vase as a pos
tive electrode. The exciting liquid
was a saturated solution Of chloride of
sodium, and the ~depolarizer a super.
saturated so ution of bichromate of
potash and sulphuric acid. When in
a cool state this cell gives a strong but
rapidly falling current on being work.
ed continuously. II, however, it is
| placed wei a small gas heater SO as to
raise its temperature to about 1908 c.,
the current keeps very constant and is
very powerful. Crystals of bichro-
mate of potash dropped into the depola-
rizing solution from time to time serve
to keep up the strength Of current.
When cool such a cell gave an cleo
tro-motive force of 2.10 volts and an
internal resistance of 082 ohms.
When hot the electro motive force
rose to 2.44 volts, with a resistance OF
OH ohms. Heating, therefore, in.
creases the electro motive force of the
cell and the conductivity of its solu.
tions, while at the same time 1t lessons
the polarization of the electrodes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
JAMES W. LAUGHLlE, Editor and Publisher.
ny SORROW.

1 saw DEATHS angel as 1t came from heaver
Mid cloud md Jiasi;
I said 81 pity those who monrn tomorrow
Mucn co u fort from my own their hearts shall
borrow
When 1t has passed
And taken from the mourning ones their
cherisbed;
When they have seen
Their loved ones suffering, changing, dying
Have look ed their last
Upon them mid the roses in the collin
SO ike-so strange.
Yes, l will comfort them while saying,
With appraised finger,
Turning their eyes 10 the blue sky o'erhead,
Be hopeful T; but a moment you shall finger,
then Join you dead
Mid beauty fadeless and mid Joy e~cstatic,
10 dwell for aye.
This and much more offsith and resignation
My lips shall say;
For all is well that is-the Father orders.
GO stricken one,
Mourn not the dead; they rest nom toll and
danger;
His will be donei
Deaths angel nearer came. LoI my poor cot
tage
He did not pass,
But took from out my arms my cherished
darlings;
And now, alasi
Not one OF all the words can remember
| would have said,
Had death left me my own loved ones INT
taken
My friends instead.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
Animals Not Necessarily
Mortal.

According to The Journal of Science
all animal life is not, of necessity, sub
ject to death. Let us suppose, says
The journal, that we are watching
through a microscope one of these
minute single cell creatures known %
a protozoan. We see it expanding
into an ellipsoidal figure, which be-
comes for q time longer and longer.
1t then begins TO contract about what
we may, for the sake of popular intelli-
gibility, call its equator. 1t assumes
the form of two nearly globular bodies,
connected, dumb-bell like, by q mar
row neck. This neck becomes mar
rover, and at last the two globes are
set free, and appear as two individuals
in place of onel What are the relations
of these two new beings to the antece-
dent form and 20 each other? We ex-
anime them with care; they are equal
in size, alike in complexity, OF rather
simplicity, of structure. We cannot
say that either of them is more mature
or more rudimentary than the other.
We can find in their separation from
each other no analogy to the sepa-
ration of the young animal or the egg
from its mother, or to the liberation
from a seed from q plant. Neither of
them is parent, and neither offspring.
Neither of them is older or younger
than the other.
The process OF reproduction, or
rather of multiplication, must, so far
as we can see, be repeated in the same
manner forever. Accidents excepted,
they are immortal; and frequent as
such accidents must be, the individuals
whom they strike might, or rather
would, like the rest of their COM
munity, have gone on living and split
ting themselves up forever. 1t is
strange, when examining certain in
fusoria under the microscope, to con-
slider that these frail and tiny beings
were living not potentially in their
ancestors, but really in their own per-
sons, perhaps in the Laurentian epoch
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
English Country Seats.

Contemporaneously with that re-
vival of church architecture in Eng
land which grew out Of the OXFORD
movement came the restoration, both
there and in Scotland, of family seats.
! n the reign of George III. many of
these were in a most dilapidated con-
dition. The measures taken By the
earlier Stuarts TO drive away the gen.
try from London were Of 80 radically
vigorous q character that they could
not fail to have the desired effect, but
In the time of Charles ii. a much
MOI Q lenient rule prevailed, and the
younger ard gayer portion OF the aris-
tocracy fiocked to town, AMI the habit
continued to grow in force for a long
DC riod. In fact, from the time of
Cherries II. until the close of the reign
of George Ill, although the gentry
lived In the shires the nobility passed
most of their time in London or at
Bath and Harrogate, and spent little
of their means on their country-seats,
while many of the prelstes-notably
the Irish-absented themselves for
years from their dioceses; indeed
Archbishop Blackburne, of York,
scarcely ever passed a month in the
year within his province. All over
the country were vast mansions dating
from the twelfth century upward in 8
state of more or less decay. Drumlan-
rig Castle, now for many years au-
tumnally the scene OF the princely
hospitality of the Duke of Buccleuch,
where for weeks together rs many as
thirty guests at a time are entertained
In the perfection of sumptuous com
fort, was for years abandoned to care
takers, while scarce a stick OF timber
was left where now fine woods are
waving. Bowood, the name of which
has for forty years been suggestive OF 4
concentration of refined hospitality
and intellectual intercourse, expert
enced a like fate under the presen
Lord Lansdowne's disreputable great
uncle. Alnwick was q very poo
affair compared with the ancestra
castle of the Percys to-day. Briefly
from which it was observed that Lore
Chester field dated but one letter 10 al
hts correspondence with his son, wa
utterly neglected, and indeed has only
: been completed of late years by tn
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
"Witness My Hand and Seal"

A thousand years ago the masses,
the nobility, the poor aud the rich,
were wholly u~nacquainted with the
mysteries of the alphabet and the pen.
A few men, known as clerks, who
generally belonged to the priesthood,
monopolized them as a special class of
artists, They taught their business
only to their seminarlsts, apprentices
and beyond themselves and their few
pupils, no n knew how to read ana
write, nor was it expected of the gene
fality, any more than 1t would be
nowadays that everybody should be
q shoemaker or a lawyer. Kings did
not even know bow TO sign their
names, so that when they wanted to
subscribe to a written contract, law or
treaty, which some clerk had drawn
up for them, they would smear their
right hand with ink, and slap 1t down
upon the parchment, saying, "Wit-
ness my hand" AT a later date,
seme genius devised the substitute of
a seal, which was impressed instead of
the hand, but oftener beside the hand.
Every gentleman had a seal with a
peculiar device thereon. Hence the
sacramental words now in use, wit
ness my hand and seal" affixed to
modern deeds, serves at least the pur-
pose of reminding 10 Of the Middle
! Ages.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
Itemicai.

A cheap paint is made for brick
wall by simply mixing up good n.y.
| draulic cement in water. The natural
| tint is neutral and pleasing, but can
be readily varied. This paint cannot
be washed off by storms, nor peeled
off by the sun.
A Paris company is trying the dis
tribution of power for small workshops
by means Of vacuum. 1t has already
built the service for 700 yards and
operates success fully. A powerful
engine with air pumps makes a vacu
um of about three-quarters of an at
mosphere, with which motors are con-
nected.
NM. Mace de Lepinay and Neati
were some time since on q mountain
excursion and spent some five hours
among the snow. When they returned
they found all artificial light in the
town to appear distinctly green, and
this effect of temporary daltonism in
duced by fatigue lasted about three
hours.
In the rivers rolling to the sea, says
the american Contract Journal are
millions of horsepower daily running
to waste. We do not appreciate the
brook and river because they are 30
near and have been there SO long.
Had they commenced flowing but to-
day we would have hastened to har-
ness them.
A German paper SAYS that cheese is
made in Thuringia and Saxony from
the pulp Of boiled potatoes mixed with
sour milk. These cheeses have their
advantage over other kinds, that they
do not engender worms and keep fresh
for a number of years, provided they
are placed in a dry situation and in
well-closed vessels.
Is iron to go out of fashion ? A
young nan at Pittsburg proposes to
make nails from Bessemer steel to
weigh but half as much as the iron ar
ticle, and yet be so stiff that they car
be driven into the hardest wood and
tough enough to clinch, and has in
vented a machine which is said to cut
them three times as fast as the old
kind are made.
Compound armor plates, iron faced
with steel, will probably be used by
the French Government in building
men-of-wsr. Iron backing gives the
required tenacity and the steel resists
penetration. When steel alone is
struck it fractures and falls to pieces,
and heavy shot easily passes through
a considerable thickness of iron.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
Cremation.

Cremation societies are to be found
in Copenhagen, in Paris, in Holland,
Milan, Florence, Berlin, Dresden.
London, Rio Janeiro, New York, and
St. Louis. The one in Copenhagen
had for a time the Prime Minister for
its President, and it included among
its 2 900 members many Danish aris-
tocrats. Nevertheless, there have been
but few instances of cremation. The
greatest number, $50, has occurred al
Milan, while at Padua and Lodi there
have been twelve. and at Goths
twenty-five. In this country there
have been only fourteen cases. More
protested cremationists have died than
the whole number OF bodies cremated.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
Walnut Trees and Gum Trees.

There is now a great scarcity of wal
nut logs in this country, and it is said
that it will be difficult to obtain a mil.
lion feet of walnut lumber next year,
as, owing to the demand for this wood
in Europe, the supply was greatly re-
duced by last years. cutting. The use
of walnut in the manufacture of sew
ing machines and lead-pencils has al
most cleaned this tree out of our
Western forests. Some farmers have
begun raising walnut trees for the
timber.
An important question for builders
and manufacturers is, what other
wood can be used in the place of
walnut ? There is 8 widespread belief
that no other native wood Is equal to
walnut in certain qualities. 1t has a
fine grain and it cures evenly, does
not readily split or crack, and holds
its color and shape under trying con-
ditions which would warp, shrink and
discolor other woods. 1t takes a bet
ter polish than other woods of native
growth, and more nearly resembles
mahogany and rosewood than any
other timber grown on III soil.
The substitute of cherry dyed to re-
semble ebony has partially succeeded
in the making of light frame work ;
but a broad surface Of dyed cherry is
not so easily obtained. Recently some
experiments have been made with the
wood OF the black gum tree, one OF
the largesttrees grown in the Southern
| States. Its small blue fruit fattens
| the opossum, and bees make honey in
the hollow trunks. 1t is 3 popularity
of the growth of these trees that they
become hollow as they grow old but
there is much sound wood in the
branches, which has been largely
used for railroad ties. 1t hiss been dis
| covered that the wood of this tree can
be dyed through and through. After
it has been dyed it is susceptible of q
fine polish. Its du rability, however,
seems to depend, as does its color, upon
some artificial process, aud this rem
ders its availability as a substitute fol
walnut questionable. There is a great
supply Of gumwood in this country
and if it can be utilized for a few years
the farming Of walnut trees may make
up what is now a serious deficiency In
the supply of timber for manufacture
ing purposes.
One significant fact showing the
scarcity of walnut is the presence in
the West of men who are pulling VI
old walnut stumps and roots to b.
sawed into veneer
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
The Dog.

The dog is a digitigrade carnivorou
manned. This will be news to mos
persons, who always supposed that
dog was simply a dog.
1t has been bruited about that thu
dog is the best friend to man among
the brute creation.
He pants after the thief, and wher
one he gets bold of the thief's pant
he makes breeches.
The dog leaves off his own pant.
during cold weather.
A barking dog never bites that is tt
say, when he begins to bite he stops
barking. Conversely, a biting dog
never barks, and for similar reasons.
The hair of a dog will cure his bite.
This is a cu-e-ious superstition among
hare-brained young men who are fast
going to the dogs.
Dogs are dentists by profession.
They insert teeth without charge.
The dog never banks except when
he is awake. He is always awake.
The dog has no other way to express
his joy than to bark. He always feels
joy when he sees a man. When there
is ne other man to see, he expresses
his joy to the man in the moon.
AS we remarked, the dog Is always
awake. This is no tale, though he
carries a tale in his wake.
The g dog loves his bark. Did you
ever see dog that did not E?
The head of a dog has q dog-head
look.
The bark of a dog is unlike the bark
of a tree. Even a dog wood know
this.
Dogs are not always kind, though
there are many kinds OF dogs.
Every dog has his day, although
dog days last but a few weeks in the
year.
There must be a Sirius error here.
The dogs star is the dogs planet
They planet so that their days come
while the star is in the sky.
They do not fear it. 1t is not a Skye
terrier.
When a dog enters a pitched battle
he uses dogs tar.
Brutus said 81 had rather be a dog
and bay the moon than such a
Roman"
He had seen the dogs roamin'
around on the bay.
They never get over the bay.
Sea?
The Jews considered the dog un-
clean.
And yet the dog will clean out a
crowd, no matter how dirty.
But the dog Spitz.
A living dog is said to be better than
a dead lion. There's no lynn about
this, but a dead dog is dog gone bad.
Tray was a good dog, but tress is
worse than the deuce when it is against
you.
Dogs were the original Argonauts.
They have never given up their search
for the fieas.
The bulldog is a stubborn fellow.
He is not easily cowed.
OF course the gentler sex isthe more
stubborn OF the two. You have heard
of the dogma.
A great many stories about the dog
have obtained currency. The man who
has left a part of his clothing with the
dog has cur rent. See?
Puppies are born blind. They are
not see dogs then.
There are many types o fdog, includ.
ing the doguerrotype.
The dog has four legs two of them
fore legs.
But perhaps we had better paws
here.
Howl this do for the dog?
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30
A Direct Passage From the
Clyde to the Atlantic.

1t is proposed to practically abolish,
by cutting twenty feet wide and twenty
feet teep. the narrow isthmus which,
dividing the east and west lochs OF
Tarbert, Scotland, unites the Null Of
Kintyre 70 the mainland. Such q
canal wouli give a direct passage from
the Clyde to the Atlantic, saving
about 1l5 mics Of the voyage to the
west aud mort, of Scotland.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30

a practice which needs so little arguing
against as this. AT the same time |
should like to ask to what special dan
gers money packages coming to the
United Kingdom are exposed. Is 1t
to be understood that there is less
honesty in England among post Off
cials than on the Continent?
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30

BRoILED MACKEREL.-Split down
the back and clean. Be careful to
scrape all the thin black skin from the
inside. Wipe dry and lay on the
gridiron. Broil on n side a nice
brown, then turn and brown the other
side IL will not take 30 long to brown
the side OF which the skin is. All
fish should have the side on which the
skin is turned to the fire last.
USE either snuff or ammonia to
separate fighting dogs. A pail of cold
water will In most cases answer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30

Some people se always late, like
the Duke of Newcastle, "who lost half
an hour every moaning, and ran after
it all day without bing able to over
take it,n
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-09-30

A six-button hid: A little boy,
proud of his new jacket, informed his
sister that he was q six-button kid.
National Republican., 1882-12-20
The Grrnt Cnn,et.

Prof Frisby, of the Naval observatory, has
just completed calculation of the orbit of the
great comet of 1882, from observations made
on September 10, October s, and November "a,
and finds it to be a very heightened ellipse,
having period Of about 793, and probably
identical with very large comet seen 81
B. G. and 1863 A. d. lust about the time of the
death of Constantine. Its perihelion distance
is only about 100000 miles from the center of
the sun, and it extends outward at aphelion
to about 80 times the suns distance from the
earth. He gives the following results of his
calculation, which he believes to be very near
the truth, although on account of the extreme
length of the orbit the time may be somewhat
uncertain:
Time of perihelion passage September,
II 2.22.2S Greenwich meantime longitude of
node, 346o l. 7."91; distance from perhelion
to node, 500 36' 12."79; inclination to ecliptic,
141o 5g 52."16; angle of eccentricity, so T.
Az no; logarithm of half jor axis, l,933l366
legarthm of perihelion distance, 7.S904739
time of revolution, 793,659 years; so that ii
is not likely to be seen after it passes from
sight by any one now living.
National Republican., 1882-12-20
The Readinsters Win in Court.

PETERSBURG, VA. Dec. 19.-The court Of
appeals in Richmond to-day rendered de-
cision in favor of all the officers elected by the
readjusters' council on July l, 1882, and to-
night arrangements are being made by the
bourbons for surrendering the station houses,
fire department, and other departments of the
city to the readjusters. The court also ren-
dered a decision in favor of Virginius John
son (bourbon democrat), who contested the
right of l.. w. Couch (readjuster) the present
incumbent, to hold the office of city treasurer,
to which he was elected at the municipal cleo
ton in May last. Couch, at the time
of his election, was a member of the
city council, whose vote gave the
readjusters a majority in that body on the
first of July and the power to elect different
minor city officers. After the election of
these officers by the council Couch appeared
before Judge +. NJ. Mann, of the hustings
court of this city, who allowed Couch to
qualify as city treasurer johnson contested
the right of Couch to hold Office to which he
(Couch) had been elected on the ground of
not having qualified at the proper time. The
decision breaks up the dual city government,
and the municipality passes into the hands of
the readiusters,
National Republican., 1882-12-20
nnsinesa EniIurnn.

NEW York, Dec. 19.-Schedules in the as
signment for the benefit of creditors of John
A. Sweeney and William A. Sweeney, bankers
and brokers of Nassau street, to Edwin II.
Brown, were filed to-day in court. They
show liabilities of $7S,522 nominal assets,
$119,393, and actual assets, S23,09s07.
FORT WAYNE, IND, Dec. 19-Goldman,
Aronson & Co., clothiers, have failed. Their
liabilities are 100000.
-, NEW York, Dec. 19.-J. M. Pike & Co., ex-
tensive tea merchants at No. 81 Front street,
to-day assigned without preferences to Morris
Woodward. Liabilities upward of $15o,000; !;
assets unknown,
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-An assignment for
the benefit of creditors was to-day filed by
James McKenny, of Baker & McKenney to
Joseph K. Frazier. Liabilities, $97, 7,519.23; /;
nominal assets, $40, 1915; actual assets, S34,-
ASO Al
National Republican., 1882-12-20

brevet rank and the OBJECT will he 20 rcegate
them back tOservicc US brigadicr generals AS
at present detailed they have three aids with
the rank of captain. AT their actual rank
they will have but two aids, aud those Of the
rank of lieutenant. There are colonels now
serving on their brevet rank, and this could
not be done after the passage of this bill. A
colonel could not command command
greater than n regiment, for in the new army
regulations he has no power to act upon
courts martial, and without that authority he
would he powcrlcss to enforce discipline in
his command Then, too, the limitation as
TO time of service of aids is an item of ih-
interest to officers who are NOW so detailed
and altogether the wearer5 of shoulder straps
are considerably exercised
National Republican., 1882-12-20
suspicions OF Foul plnx.

READING, Dec. l9,-The district attorney
to-day decided to have the body of John
Leininger disinterred tomorrow. Leininger
died on Sunday night, near Womelsdorf, after
being taken from creek into which he had
jumped while suffering from delirious fever
This action is based upon information made
by two brothers of deceased, and the latter's
housekeeper, the housekseper stating that,
after dragging Leininger from the creek, she
went for help, and upon her return he was
dead, and stranger was near by. A wound
was found on his head, and it is thought prob
ably that the skull was fraotured
National Republican., 1882-12-20
Collector pleasants to be Removed.

Commissioner Raum has recommended the
removal of Collector of Internal Revenue
Plasants, at Savannah, Ca, on account of the
of the citizens in his district
of his. management of the affairs of his
office. There was a small amount of money
which Mr.. Peasants failed to satisfactorily
in his accounts, but he replaced the
sum at once. The secretary is being urged to
take prompt action in the matter, and it is
probable that Peasants will be removed.