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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19
A CHASE FOR A CHILD.
Little Maggie Pickett Taken by Abduetnrs
Over n Thousand Miles From IIomr.

About ten days since the associated Pres,
told of the kidnapping of foar.year old
child named Maggie Picket from her home
at Latrobe. Westmoreland county. Pennsyl
vania, by a man and woman supposed to be
John Burnes and wife. Last evening the
child was Mt the union depot in this city, in
charge of her uueles John and Enoch Davis
and the story of her recovery reads like
romance, the two young men having follow.
ed her over 800 miles, and al point only
n fau n.ilae from, the Is.4lia,, tr,+.s la.a 49,
was overtnken. and released from the clutch
es of her kidnnppers. The child, who lis n
beautiful little girl not quite four years of
age, was born and raised ut Latrobe, her
parents being well-to-do people of the mid
lie class, aud her beauty was known from
one end of the town TO the other, being Of
that order which made people stop in the
streets and ask who she was II is suppos
ed that this was the cause Of her abduction.
her kidnappers hoping that large reward
would be offered for her return, not, how
ever, by her parents, who were poor, but
by the city or State
The child was stolen on the afternoon of
Friday, December 8, by a man thought to
70 John Burnes, coal miner and his cred
tied wife. Butnes made his way to this city
and last Friday took the train for Wichits,
The following night found the two uncles
bound for the same point, only thirty-six
hours behind the stolen child, and the chase
Ia xuoq
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19
TRUE LOVES SORE TRIALS.

The proverbial villain, whetherintroduced
to the public in the pages of the society
novel or with hating or uncertain strides
challenging attention before the footlights Of
the stage, only attains the zenith of infamy
when the brutal betrayal of trusting heart
is fastened upon him. In the catalogue of
his crimes, there have been written arson,
burglary and murder, but these offences are
dwarfed in the more absorbing infalny IN.
yolyed in the betrayal of the trusting heart
that was hired by the subtle influences of
speech or the attraction of rich
and costly habit The female counterpart
Of Ethe villain is pronounced whimsical,
tickle and undeserving, but the poor man
whose heart palpitafes in unison with her
queer humors is regarded as dolt for his
devotion.
A story comes from Altoona which will
serve good purpose if it directs attention
to the palpable Partially of this public senti-
ment. A young man resident of that noun
tain city has been in the habit OF testifying
his deyotion to the idol OF hia heart hs ,oen-
| Quoting her regularly to the door Of the
church she patronized and then awaiting
the conclusion of the exercises to escort her
back home. These attentions seemed salts
factory to the lady. But in the spirit of
reform the City Council enacted an ordi.
nance making standing at the church door
q misdemeanor characterized rs sloafng "
and instructed the officers of the law to ar.
rest and commit any offender against the
statute. On the succeeding Sunday night
the young man in question took his
ace ustomed station The minion of NUM-
cipal authority ordered him away but with
an eanestness worthy a better girl he refused
to desert his post. For this he was arrest.
ed committed and compelled to spend the
night in the ealaboose.
Upon his release he hastened to the side
of the charmer for whose sake he suffered
the indignity, but she vowed the disgrace
of his incarceration had wiped out the love
his consistency ought to have magnified
Then his aunt, from whom he expected n
rich inheritance, took n similar view of the
affair and announced her determination to
cut him ont of her affections and her will.
Thus the young man has been completely
crushed by the whimsical maiden upon
whom his affections conferred, unless the
suit against the city (which he threatens to
institute-shonld reach favorable issue. -
PIilade{Dhi0 Times
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19
GLASS IN HISTORY.
How this Moterlai Was Used in Ancient
Times.


Like marvellous fairy tale would his
tory of the wonderful improvements of re-
cent years in the art of glass making, togeth-
en- with q knowledge of the varied and extern
siye field in which productions of the brittle
fabric play an important part, seem to our
credulous ancestors way back in the feudal
times, or even of modern period, could
they, by u special dispensation of the Deity,
become acquainted with the same. Glass
making, it may not be generally known, is
one of the most ancient arts, dating back
three thousand years before Christ Rough
fashioned urns were commonly made in
some sections OF Greece and Egypt but as
a rule the knowledge Of glass MAKING in
early days was confined to few. The
necromancers of old Egypt and ancient
Chaldea found in articles fashioned of glass
most favored objects for the conduct of
their mystical incantations. Thus to glass
there were attached many magical virtues.
'fncAe ettffbutea csuu{t 10 W untsf INC Ndtoufe
Ages, when, if possible, they received the
more pronounced Endorsement, in this re-
hpect VI uituy truNulo NTllefh. III Iuct,
Hollineourt in book now exceedingly rare,
gave utterance to some singularly grotesque
remarks as to the qualities of glass. Among
other things. he gravely asserts that in the vex.
cd and troubled times in which he wrote, ifsa
knight possessed q glass drinking cup he
was indeed a most favored man, because il
was impossible to poison his wine, as glass
would Immediately dissolve il poison was
pouredtherein. He also relates, in all seri-
BUSINESS, nm account of Frenohman who
had discovered how to make precious stones
from glass, and speaks of another who was
on the point of discovering the elixir of life
by the use of certain trituration-of molten
glass. One could speak for hours on the
degree of skill and artistic merit acquired by
the chosen artisans OF Venice in the old Days
or might revert to the feat of that master
workman of ancient Greece who fashioned
an arm of glass; the texture was such that it
could be bent and designed like tin and then
restored TO its original shape. Unhappy
was this consumption Of skill to the invent
or's genius, for when 1t was presented by
him to one of the Roman Emperors tho lat
ter straightway had him beheaded to pre-.
vent him from making known his dis
covery to the world and thereby cheapening
gold
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MISCELLANY
CARP CULTURE.
How the Fish are Raisedin Washington.

How the Fish are Raisedin Washington.
There was quite a collection of gentlemen
interested in fish culture present to witness
the drawing off of the water in the carp
pond, Immediately north of Rips Island,
west of Babcock Lake. The water was set
flowing Saturday evening, and by Monday
morning the larger portion had been run off
in the natural way, when steam engine
and pump of large capacity WAS set to work,
and the water, which could not be reduced
by the natural flow was soon pumped ont at
the rate of 400 gallons per minute The
increase of fish in these lakes has been inn
mense the past season. 1t will be impossi-
BILE to arrive at the number of young fish in
this pond for several days Professor Baird,
who was present most of the time, thinks
the proportion will be quite equal to that of
the Babcock Lake, Immediately east of it,
which was run off few weeks since This
latter lake produced fully 100 600 young
carp from the fifty couple placed in there
last year after il was cleared ont. In the
pond first named there were forty couple
of the wo-year-old carp put in for breeders,
and these were nearly all recovered and
placed in the sinks on the islands prepared
for the purpose of keeping them during the
work of asserting. These breeders not only
showed their capacity for multiplying, but
have increased in size and condition i'm
mensely, some of them weighing from ten
to twelve pounds, although they are but
three years old. These are the leather carp
and have but few scales on them These
scales are growing less in number as they
grow older, and is one of the desirable re-
suits of proper care and treatment. The
scale carp are not so desirable as food fish
and do not thrive so well.
Professor Baird Is sending these young
fish off daily by train to all parts of the
country, and general interest is being
taken in the culture of carp, especially in
the Southern States, where the temperature
of the water is higher aud more uniform.
Thus far the success in rearing them has
been more marked in the Southern waters,
where they grow faster. Dr. Carey, State
Fish Commissioner OF Georgia, was present,
and saw the operation of drawing off this
lake, aud thinks the increase every way sat
isfaetory. He takes mnch interest in the
subject and tells some remarkable instances
of success in the ponds Of his state. The
exhibit of carp at the resent fair at Atlanta
was one Of the wonderful features of that
occasion. DIR. Hassel, superintendent in
charge of these lakes, under Professor Baird,
is making some excellent improvements on
and about the island, and the numbers of
fish will be increased largely from year to
year. 1t viii not be long before this most
delicious fish will be found in all the mar
kets of the country. Washington Star.
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THE cow HUNTERS.

The New London Telegram tells this
story: In the rear of certain residence
on Truman street there is e large lot In
this lot the owner and occupant Of the resi-
denee keeps two or three cows during the
day and Mt night they are sheltered in barn
in the yard. The cows have been let ont of
the yard each night 80 long that they are
generally waking at the gate for the man to
open II. when they march to the barn in
Indian file az all good cows should do. One
night last week "they failed to connect"
that is, the COWS were not at the accustomed
place at the usual time. The owner of the
notwithstanding animals became alarm-
ed, rushed into the house, and exclaimed
that the COWS were not in the lot and had
probably strayed away. He summoned his
son and it was resolved tint they should &c
in search of the missing animals. Two
horses were saddled, and the father and son,
scions of Burch, mounted them and drove
of in different directions. thorough
search was made out Town Hill and Cape
Ann Lane way but the cows could not be
found, and at midnight the horses were
driven home and the father and son retired
with the understanding that the search was
to be renewed at daylight. An hour be-
fore daylight the owner of the COWS was un
and dressed and sat nj u back window gaz-
ing out in the darkness in the direction OF
the pasture Finally the man fell asleep.
and when he awoke it was daylight. lie
rubbed his eyes, looked ou1Ato the lot, and,
to his surprise saw his CONVEYING down in
corner OF the lot innocently chewing their
cuds. The thought flashed upon his mind
that he did not look for the cows in the lot
the night before, and that he and his son
had been ON a wild goose chase. The own,
er OF the cows declared that the next time
they failed to meet him at the grte, he will
search for them in the lot before ne scours
the suburbs.
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Poisonous HoNEY. people know
that in seasons honey is apt to be poisonous.
This arises from the fact that i'll such sea-
sons the bees are often obliged to gather 1t
from poisonous flowers Great care should
be taken to remove all poisonous plants
from the neighborhood of the hives. A
specimen Of honey from Trebizond, gather
ed from the rdododendroa poaticum, which
is common in that neighborhood, was sent,
in 1874, by Mr.. Keith Z. Abbott, to the
Geological Society of London, and in 1859
it still retained its poisonous qualities. In
1890 great many people in Philadelphia
died from eating honey gathered from the
flowers of the kalmia iatJoRa. In good
Seasons the bees avoid poisonous plants
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19

TEACHING tins INDIANS TO WoRK. Major
W. L. Lincoln was three years ago appointed
agent at this point. The Indians were at
that time a lazy shiftless lot, but Major
Lincoln has effected q wonderful improve
ment He assigns to each family so many
rows Of potatoes, turnips, etc, and teaches
the Indians how to care for them. On the
farm cultivated in this manner more than
$4,000 worth of vegetables and grain were
raised and harvested this year, the Indians
doing all the necessary labor. Besides this
work the Indians have dug large root hous-
ses, lined them with stone and made them
secure against frost. Fifty cents day is
ths wages paid by the government for labor
and there are many who are employed stead-
ily AZ have learned to work to advantage.
But tho best of all is that the young mon,
the most intractable usually, are taking as
kindly to the new order of things as their
elders. = Beatoa (Hontana) Record.
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Low WITHOUT KISS. The Philadelphia
Times says Love without n kiss would
be like the harp without the hand, the rain
bow without it's hue, the brook without its
babble, the landscape without its color, the
tea rose without its odor, poetry without its
rythm, or marriage without love" The
Times might have continued its COMPARE
sons, and likened love without kiss to
hand organ without crank, an egg without
salt, a Goldfish without flavor, society
young man without money, boil without
poultice. an oyster without its health, cir
Gus without clown-but they wouldn't
have sounded SO poetical - Noristoscn Her
aid
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POETRY.
IN Already.

Years ago across the sea
Dwelt child In Already:
Pulled the petals OF flower
Just 10 While away an hour,
Saying as the petals fell,
" Tell my fortune. truly tell;
Who is coming now to me.
Prince or peasant viii he be-"
For maidens questioned there, you see,
Even there in Already.
Presently lover came,
But she never asked his name.
Only smiled when he grew sad,
And said: "l'm but a peasant lad /"
Only nestled to his side
" Dearest, Will be your bride,
Prince or peasant, what you be,
You are all the world 10 me.o
For love was only love, you see,
Long ago in Already.
we have Still in Already,
Where true hearts alone may be,
Spite OF all the greed and strife,
or this restless present life,
Wealth and tatters there abide,
Prince and peasant side by side,
Never growing hard or old.
And the key IS not OF gold,
For whereso'er Love deigns 10 be,
That is always Already.
Frederick &. weatheriy
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DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE
An exchange dryly observes that me-
chanio in search of work is tout of job" a
clerk in the same predicament is /" disengag-
ed and a professional man similarly plac-
ed is sat leisure" The mechanic ssgets
work" the clerk g connects" himself with
some establishment, and the professional
man resumes practice" The same rule
holds good in some other things besides en-
ployment. When one of the upper ten !"
has high time over night, it is said the
next day that he was " slightly elevated
The middle society man, under similar cir
cumstances, was g little intoxicated;" but
the laboring man was beastly drunk"
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THROUGH THE DESERT.
The Horrid Expsase Of Desolation.


A Bedoun riding past us, at full speed,
carrying long spear, was in sight for more
than an hour and half. He took all kinds
of fantastic shapes, and, MS regards tho dis
lance, he was off at any moment the best
range-finder ever invented could not have
localized him. At one time he was split up
into three, with space of something That
looked like surface of shimmering water
between each part-the legs of the camel
dancing along over the plain without any
body attached to them, and high over them
~" i.alu- of tiA@=--.->- .--s.--o
through the dir, and above them again the
tuft of feathers sunnounting n spear, look
ing like bird in the air, What added great
ly TO the dreariness of this horrid waste was
the total absence Of animal life; not fish
jump ruflied the surface of the CLASSY lakes !;
not even the proverbial and familiar pelican
of the wilderness was to be seen by tho
side of them; no wheeling vultures over
head; even tho swarms of flies properly be-
longing to the caravan deserted The car.
cases of camels which we passed had the
flesh dried on 10 the bones AZ hard as wood.
| shall never forget one corpse--that of a
mani nationality quite indstingnishabe
The body had first distendod to about three
times its original bulk and then dried in that
form. ] turned IL over az it lay on the
stand and il was so light that | could have
lifted il with ono hand. 1t made a creaking
and drumming noise rs I moved II, very
like TIE sound of shaking e rolled up hide
of solo leather. / arrived at two conclus
ions with reference to that region. First,
That the refraction of light by the DIR was
so remarkable that artillery would be render
ed practically ineffective. Secondly, that ]
would never go q Sabbath days journey
into IT again until could do 1t on bicycle,
and have relays of caravans sent on loaded
with lemon squashcs. -Reanes Journey TO
Medindh.
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NELAros ON HunnYNa The great Paris
surgeon Notation used to say If You have
the misfortune to cut carotid when per
forming an operation, remember it takes
two minutes for syncope TO supervene and
as many more before death occurs. Now,
four minutes are four times the time re-
quired for ligature, provided you don't
hurry youiself-never hurry yourself
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19

Stow ELEcTRICTy.--At the recent cleo
trical exhibition in Paris chickens were
Matched by electricity, but the fluid was ut
terly unable to gain an iota over the regula-
ton twenty-one days required when the job
is cared for by the old hen herself. Taking
1t all in all we get this down as the slowest
piece Of work ever accomplished by electric
ity.--Nso Hagen Register.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19

A KENTUCKY STATESMAN. his way
from the Governors banquet last night one
of the members from the mountains was
asked how he liked the menu. He replied
that he didn't see any of it on the table, and
shouldn't have eaten 1t if he had. Louis
cille Cosrier-J Journal.
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THE FIRST MORMON SERMON.

The first mormon preacher was man
named Aldrieh. l heard his first sermon.
When he got up in the school house he said
That he would not preach the new gospel
unless Gabriel bowed his horn as q sign
TINT he Endorsed his views. just then a
loud blast of a horn was heard and then he
began his preaching The horn business
had peculiar effect upon some of the con-
gregation, and as it sounded night after
night, just before he preached many of the
Ignorant were converted / was only
schoolboy then but myself and other school
boys determined 10 watch the place where
the sound came from, aud in grove OF
trees not far from the school house we found
Gabriel NJ u tree with a fish horn under
his coat. We made him come down and
found him to be u worthless fellow whom
Aldrieh Ind hired to toot for him. One day
when Alflrich was preaching he blew his
horn and lot OF old women came out,
thinking the fish aud clam wagon was COM
ing. We exposed the horn tpick and It was
Ihe t 2pR CHI 95 Ct h2 ot tQ@ lar vi Mas ufsa
a fish horn, so That people need not rush
ont expecting CLAIMS. The most astonishing
til & about the matter was TINT, although
the fraud was fully exposed and the man
who played the part of Gabriel was caught
dozens of times behind hedges and outbuild-
ings blowing his old horn for Aldrich to
preach from, there were lots of people who
beliaVa1 thnt tho ral;.sia,, ,voa {l,a oplx t,.,a
religion, and plenty of people joined the
Church, and gave up all their property to IL.
SAT- Late Tribune.
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A SQuAw's LOAD. Citizens of Virginia
City, New, were for the moment attracted.
few days ago, by the sight Of medium
sized Indian squaw passing through the
streets carrying on her back stove weigh
ing fully $50 ponnds 1t was sustained only
by a marrow band passing over her forehead,
and she had carried it thus nearly two milss
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-04-19


NEWSPAPER HuMoR. There are n number
of solemn personages who have habit OF
sneering at American newspaper humor,
charncterizing it as extravagant, blasphe-
nous, frivolous, personal and so forth.
They want Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith
served up on toast all the time. 1t took
Charles Lamb one entire week to write
funny letter, and Sidney Smith prepared his
after dinner jokes as carefully as Mr.. Evarts
does speeches. American newspaper humor
simply aims to please the passing fancy, TO
brighten the solemn pages of life, to act as
sauce to the daily intellectual solids. 1t is
thrown OFF lightly and rapidly, and it does
its readers--such readers at all events as
have the ghost of a laugh in them-we are
very sure, great deal of good.-N Y.
Commercial AdpertiSer.
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A WOMAN LAWYER IN COURT.

The forbiddmg aspect Of the front row of
attorneys in Judge Rix's Court recently was
somewhat modified by the smiling face OF
Laura De Force Gordon The champion of
woman's rights represented one @. M. Me-
Nay, who was charged with having unlaw-
fully appropriated silver watch worth 1926,
the property of a pale and nervous youth
named L. NJ. Williams The prospect look.
ed very black for Mckay until the modern
Portia shook her radiant cnrls and leveled
an intinidating foreinger and lead pencil at
the complainant.
You let the defendant have the loan of
the watch 81 said the champion of distressed
woman
The witness cast terrified glance at
Judge Rix, and, receiving no encouragement
from the Court, blurted out g Yes,
num-"
"And there was no specified time for the
defendant to return the watch Z" said the
medium-haired advocate.
mo; but"
Don't 'bnt' me, sir There was no spe-
Gifted time 7"
"N-n-o, mum"
"And you saw the defendant wear the
watch, and did not protest against his doing
sogn
tt"
"Dont L me- sir"
Prosecuting Attorney Bhney, with his
characteristic gallantry, was about to remark
that the prisoner could not help cycling the
fair advocate, but she shut him off with a
prompt repetition of the assertion:
"You did not protest, sirY'
N-n-o, mn"
"Nor ask him for the watch %
"N'um'
Nor tell him You would have him ar
rested y
MANN"
"The case is dismissed said his Honor,
decisiyely = San Francisco Chromtcle
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The young man wrote the words, " other
attentions, without the slightest idea as to
their reference. Only he supposed there
must have been other attentions, and there
fore felt justified in expressing himself to
that effect.
While he was in the act of sealing the Jnis~
sive, Arthur Whitney passed by on the
street below and glanced up at the windows
OF his friends room.
II have great mind to run up and ex.
plain to Alan" he thought. Perhaps there
is more m it than know Of"
He hesitnted awhile, and then passed
slowly on, just as little GRAND boy, bear
ing a square, white missiye, came down the
steps and hurried OFF in another direction.
1t was two weeks before Arthur Whitney
learnt how much depended on his explana-
ton, and it was too late then; at least too
late TO prevent the first blind mistake.
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S4MUE Il. PERRY,
Attorney-at-Law Solicitor.
MASTER AND EIA MINER IN cAANcRRf
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
oHiee--fn Masonic Hall (seeond aoorl, Bridge
street l.ambertylle, n. J.
April 2. 1879.