The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-06-21

The MoCKERY or MOURNING The
custom Of putting on mourning for the
dead has been obsolete in England for
some years among the higher classes, and
IS gradually becoming so here. There is
no reason why it should not be. 1t often
entails expense upon families that can III
afford it, is costly, unbecoming and un-
healthful. Not one woman in thousand
looks well in it. | have seen beautiful
woman look piquant in widows cap,
but the recollection that her attractive
ness was born of the grave, that she was
making capital from q corpse around
whose neck her arms had often chung,
turned admiration into another feeling.
Its advocates insist that it is mark
of respect But would not respect y
be shown quite as well by withdrawing
from the public gaze, instead of inviting
4 it at such n time? The fact that the
most intense care is taken that this
mark of respect shall always be in the
/ style of highest fashion somewhat stag
gers the conviction that sorrow alone fills
our hearts, even in the first agony OF be-
I reavement. We bury our dead out OF
sight, bnt not in the abomination of
Grape and bombazine. We lay them
away in white robes and with the soft
j benson of flowers, for we would have the
last look lingef with us an ever pleasant
memory, and in white robes . we hope
I to meet them again beyond the stars. 1t
4 is time that this Haunted advertiser ent of
sorrow, this compulsory demand for
street sympathy, this senseless obtrusion
of ghoul-like caste should take its place
with the fashion of drowning witches,
and the belief that Gehenna is paved with
fIa Ir,,lt IF aba, g..
IN N. y. Times.
A CURE OF HYDRoPHoBiA--An APP.
parently well authenticated cure of by
drophoba by intense sweating and saliv-
alton has Just been reported to the Pa
ris Academy of Medicine by Dr. Dumont,
of the Caen hospital. A man, woman,
and child were all bitten by the same
mad dog. The woman died in convul-
sions, and the child, girl, has not yet
been taken i'll. The man, after show ing
all the symptoms of hydrophobia, was,
DIR. Dumont stoutly asserts, cured by
three sub cutaneous injections of ono cen
tigramme of pelocarpine.
DIR. Hall, in the Journal of Health,
says If a man is hungry within an hour,
more or less, after a regular meal, he is a
dyspeptic beyond question, and it shows
that the stomach is not able to work up
what he has eaten SO as to get nourish-
uent ont of it but to eat again, and thus
impose more work when it could do moth
ing for what had been already eaten, is an
absurdity ; and yet all dyspeptics who
eat whenever they are hungry do this
very thing, and thus aggravate and pro-
tract their sufferings.
We usually leave it to doctors to recon-
mend medicines, but Parker's Ginger
Tonic has been so useful in our family in
relieving sickness and suffering that we
cannot say too much in its praise. -Saiem
Argus. je.T I'm.
Francis j Weed, the wealthy resident
of Newburgh, N. Y, who has brought
suit to recover $3.50, 900 which he lost to
Dir. Hedges and VIM. Scott, in one hand
at poker testified in court on Wed
nesday that he afterwards lost TO Scott
$3.50, in half an hour at faro, in an
effort to have his revenge"
exclusive jurisdiction over the employ
ment of con stables to serve in court.
Judge Woodruff thought differently, and
issued an order for the attendance of a
certain constable, which the Sheriff re-
fused to obey. An order was issued caus-
ing the Sheriff to show cause, on Friday
last, why he should not be adjudged in
contempt of court.
Daniel ID. Reed, once wealthy and
respectable farmer of Monroe township,
in Middlesex county, died in the Poor
House there recently, aged seventy-iive
years.