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THE SAND BLAST.

Among the wonderful and useful inven-
pose you desire piece of marble for a
gravestone; you cover the stone with
sheet of wax no thicker than wafcr; then
you cut in the wax the name, date, ETC.,
leaving the marble exposed. Now pass il
under the blast and the sand will cut il
away. Remove the wax and you have the
cut letters. Take piece of fine French
plate glass, say two by six feet, cover it
with piece of fine lace and pass it under
the blast, and not a thread of the lace will
be injured, but the sand will cut deep into
the glass wherever IT is not covered by the
lace. Now remove the lace and you have o
delicate and beautiful figure raised out of the
glass; In this way beautiful figures of all
kinds are cut in glass; and at small ex-
pense. The worlmen can hold their hands
under the blast without harm, even wher
1t is rapidly cutting away the hardest
glass, iron or stone, but they must look
out for finger nails. fer they wisitbe wssIttied
on quite hastily. II they put on steel Thin
BILE to protect tho nails il will do but little
good, for the sand will soon white them
away, but if they wrap piece Of soft cotton
around them they are safe. You will at
once see the philosophy of 1t. The sand
whites away and destroys any hard sub
stance, even glass, but does not affect SUBJ
stances that are soft and yielding, like wax,
cotton, fine lace, or even the humen hand.
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PALACES IN NEW YORK.

The New York correspondent Of the Utica
Herald writes "fhe increase in the SPLEEN
dor of our domestic architecture has for
several years been a matter of surprise.
What an illustration of progress in such mat
tiers is found in the Fifth avenue. Forty
years ago James Lenox built what was then
called palatial residence, but how inferior
does it now appear! The Stewart palace
was for q time worlds wonder, but it is
entirely distanced in size, beauty, and con-
venience by the structure which honors the
name of Vanderbilt The reader need hard
ly be told that the summit of social ambition
in New York is to read ones title clear to
mansion in Fifth avenue. 1t may be said,
however, that most of those who now occu-
Ply the grandest buildings in that center of
fashion began life in very humble manner
Such men as F. W. Stevens, John Hoey, E.
}. Morgan, August Belmont, and even Will
liam II. Vanderbilt lived for years in infer
Tor habitations, and were just as happy as at
the present day. / often look upon the
grand array of Fifth avenue architecture
with the consciousness that it may conceal
some of the foulest social ulcers in the CITY -
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WHAT THE GIRLS SHOULD GAIN.

BY all means let the girls learn how to
cook. What right has girl to marry and
go into house of her own unless she knows
how TO superintend every branch Of house.
keeping, and she cannot properly superin-
tend unless she has some practical knowl-
edge herself. Most men marry without
thinking whether the woman of his choice
il capable of cooking him meal and it is
O pity lie is 80 shortsghted, as his health,
his cheerfulness, and indeed his success in
life depends in a very great degree on the
kind of food he eats in fact the whole
household is influenced by their diet. Feed
them on fried cakos fried meats, hot bread
and other indigestible yiands, day after day,
and they will need medicine TO make them
well. A man will take alcohol to counteract
the evil effects of such food, and tho wife
and children must be pbysicked.
Let all girls have share in housekeeping
at home before they marry; let each super
intend some department by turns II need
occupy half the time to see that the house
has been properly swept, busted and put in
order, to prepare buildings and make dishes,
that many young ladies spend in reading
novels that enervate both mind and body
and unfit them for every day life. Women
do not as general rule get pale faces doing
homework. Their sedentary habits, in
overheated rooms, combined with ill-chosen
food, are to blame for bad health. Our
mothers used TO pride themselves on their
housekeeping and fine needle-work. -Balti-
more Sun.
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A MAN WITH TWENTY SONS.
How an Ohio Patriarch Provided His OFF,
spring With Headgenr.

There is a gentleman here named John
Gallagher, whose father was in the hat bust
ness from 1912 to 1882. when he died. In
1927, there came into old Mr. Gallagher's
hat store man who asked TO look at cap.
He was shown number of caps, and, select
ing one that suited, he stated that he would
take four of them The halter was some
four caps at once, especially as he said he
said he wanted them all the same size
Have you four sons of one size p asked
Mr. Gallaher..
Yes, Sir, l have, and I've got sixteen
others BESIDES" answered the man, The
man went out and shortly returned, chasing
into the store drove of sixteen boys that
looked something like the famous staircase
band you might see in the theatre, if you
ever visit such place.
Hyar they be, mister. These be my
boys, they be-"
beat ALL" calculated the old halter, as he
gazed in wonder at the group of gambling
young fellows who stood there in all sorts
Of awkward attitudes, some staring about in
an absent sort Of way, others giggling like
school girls, and the rest getting all tangled
up with each other in endeayoring to keep
from tramping on the boxes and oil cloth or
mating ON the floor " This ere's Thomas
Dittimus," said the happy father, dragging
forth the oldest of the gang. "He's the
first born, and mighty good boy he is, too
He's about thirty five years old" 40
He was speedily suited with cap and
told TO stand aside. I" This hyar one,p said
the old stock-raiser, lis the next Oldest
His name is Christopher Holmes. y "Step
out here Peter Malander, commanded the
owner of the bunch Of boys At this q third
young men abled out in front of the delight
ed halter, who enjoyed the description.
Hyar's another black-eyed boy, remarked
the boy builder. "You see every other one
is blue-eyed and the rest is black eyed, so
far, and this helps to keep the run Of them
if you understand the SYSTEM
The introducfions kept on and the boys
we're all fitted with cap each, free of cost,
by the good-natured halter. The father
sttteu that There Were no tWlnb III the party
and that they were all the offspring Of one
wife. There was about a years difference
in their respective ages, the youngest being
about twelve. Relative to keeping the run
of tho family the old man stated that his
wife, the mother of the boys, knew them
better than he did great deal-that is, she
could call off their names and ages without
having to stop to think, like he did, at
times.
"What do you propose to do with your
boys?" inquired the halter.
Make farmers of 'em. We're Just trav-
cling through hyar on our way to settle
somewhat, but we don't exactly know whar.'
--Zanesvils letter IN the Cincinnati I'm
Quirsr.
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POETRY.
TIE sEA-MarpEN.

There was lily AMI rose sea-maiden
In marvellous depths OF far-away seas,
Whose eyes were blue, and whose head was laden
With luminous eurls like the honey Of bees
Half hidden by corals and swaying PUSHES
And vines OF the ocean, she sat arrayed
In tremulous veil OF the delicate bushes
And robes OF quiverlng light and shade.
The sun-fish came to worship her graces,
The dog-flsh fingered and marveled beside,
And she gayly smiled In their whimsical faces,
And sung them songs till they laughed or cried
A poet of earth looked down upon her,
And loved and beckoned and told his love;
But her soul was coy with sea-inaiden's honor,
And she would not go to the world above.
SO here he staid by the crystalline water;
He leaned and gazed with heart on fire;
And died at last for the oceans daughter
Died of sorrow and long desire.
And still she sits in the peace OF ocean
The peace OF the mouth of the ocean caves
A damsel without an earthly emotion,
Who cares not for men, their love, or their
graves
Thus, deep in Gains of woman's life, covers
Herself some maiden, on aureate sands
OF duty and innocence, far from lovers,
From beatings OF hearts and readings OF hands
u W. De Forrest In Harper's Magazine.
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THE HABIT OF LATE suppERs.

Speaking of fashionable customers in New
York, correspondent of the st. Louis GLIDE
Democrat writes: Another striking indica-
ton. ia a small way. is the Iberality with
which the many expensive restaurants. Del
M ,nico's, the Brunswick, ETC.. are patronized.
The man who has already spent $50 or $40
for couple of seats to hear Patti or to see
Sarah Bernhard will, of course. not hesitate
to wind up the evening with supper which
will cost So or $40 a head more. Perhaps
no more vivid Illustration of this phase Of
New York life can be obtained than by re-
pairing, after the theatre or opera. to Del
monico's. The scene there Is really extraor-
binary and uneoualed by anythino TO be wit
messed in Paris and London. Delmonioo's
and the Brunswick face each other, and a
number Of large electric lamps food Fifth
avenue at this point with light while the
large electric post tower from Madison
square increases the glare of the illumina-
ton. The avenue is completely blocked up
with carriages, and the shrill calls Of the at
tendants bawling out numbers, and the
shouts of the coachmen asking each other to
move on, keep up a din till after midnight,
and when there are balls at either place.
such as take place every night during the
Winter season till O'Clock in the morning,
the crash in the restaurant is something as
tonishing. If you do not drive very fast
from the theatre ten to one you will be I'M
able to obtain seat, and richly dressed
ladies' may be seen patiently standing in the
lobby of Delmonico's and in violent
draught which must cause many severe colds.
waiting for the privilege of sitting down at
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THE GRAVEYARD OF THE HANGED.

A London correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, describing a visit to Newgate, says
Passing along corridors long and gloomy,
and peeping into cells cheerless and cold and
minus the company of an occupant-for at
this moment Newgate il a sort of purgatorial
prison, allowing the convicted to pass through
a probation of n few hours only while en- route
to their future hades--I arrived OF the cold
! and clammy SPOT In the inferior of tha ;eil-
yard, where lie the mortal remains of many
astrangledhumanbe being. "Them's the gone
uns; the out-and-out convicted, SIR" said
the jailer. l looked, and saw scratched on
very carefully arranged blocks of stone the
index to the names of the "gone 'uns." A
graveyard of murderers Gold, Shiny, and
grimy graveyard Mysterious mound l
must confess to be an arrant cowa I'd where
crime is enthroned or entombed. l felt the
gurgling sensationsa and the convulsive shrugs,
the last horrid twitter and thud of each of
these murderers coming up before me as the
near by ST. sepulchres Church bell tolled its
weird and wondrously described death knell.
asked the jailer If he had seen many cul-
prints hanged. He, in his best Newgato
nonchalant style, replied, "Dozens!"
asked him the character of courage each
displayed at the moment prior to execution.
"Not one on 'em sir, knows IL really; we
generally gives 'em good send-off, well
primed."
i began to have high moral estimate of
this man. 1t was grateful to learn that he
participated in alternating the sufferings of
the condemned. But" said "what do
you call good send-off p" Well, sir,
most of 'em likes GIN" OIL most impotent
conclusion of this mans morality Gin
A good send-of pondered. then ask
ed him to explain. "Why, bless your life,
sir, not one swings sober. We can't refuse
last requests you know, sir; and we pours
down the gin till they don't get sober again
in this world-maybe not in the next And
no ones hurt after ALL Hanging is easy to
'em all with gin. We don't begrudge 'em,
sir, bit"
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SENATORIAL snurF-rAKERs.
"reminiscences Of Bygone Days by the vet-
eran DoOr-keepcr Of the Senate.
The Senate has presented a cold snuff


The Senate has presented gold snuff
box to Capt. Isaac Basse,t, Assistant Door
keeper, who has served as an officer of the
senate for 60 years, and is now an activeand
fine looking old gentleman. III the short
address which CAPT. Bassett made in ac-
acknowledgement of the testimonial he pre-
sented some interesting reminiscen ees about
Senatorial snuff-takers of earlier days.
"When Martin Van Buren, was Vice Pres
ident," said he, he was possessed of a
gold snIff-box. He gave it to me in charge,
to keep well filed with snuff and see that
1t was placed on the vice-P Presidents table
every day that the Senate was in session.
At the end of every week thereafter he
handed me fifty cents to pay for the snuff.
When his term expired gave him the snuff
box, He left the city soon after and forgot
to give me the fifty cents that he had al
ways given me at the end of the week.
Henry Clay was very fond Of pinch Of
snuff, and enjoyed Il very much. He would
often stop in the middle Of his speech and
call page to bring him pinch Of snuff,
and il he could not see any one of the pages
he would leave his seat and walk up to the
Vice-President's table, take up the gold
snuif-box, take pinch, and, returning to
bis seat, resume his speech. Richard NJ.
johnson and John Tyler were neither of
them shutters, and therefore had to furnish
my own snuf-box but when George NJ
Dallas was yice-P President, he brought with
him very handsome gold snutf-box and
gave it to me in charge, aud after his term
expired returned it to him. When Willard
Fillmore was Vice-Presdent he objected to
having snuf-box on the table of the Vice.
President, because, in his opinion, it inter-
fered with the business of the Senate
Senators would come up and stop to CON-
verse each with the other, and disturb him
so much that he could not hear what was
going on in the Senate. Ever since that Pc
Rod there has been placed on each side of
the Senate small snuff-box fastened to the
walln
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THE SILENT BATTLE.

The war that Spring and Winter wage
Goes on In silence day by day;
Strong youth against decrepit age,
New growth opposed to dark decay.
Tine strife OF hope against despair,
Life against death; and morn by morn,
A tender warmth Is In the air,
Ana richer hues and hopes are born.
And 10 ON every side appears
The hurTying host OF Springs advance,
The crowding grass, with hristling spears,
The brookside rushes' ready lance,
The Javelins of daring reeds,
The iris-sprouts' keen bayonet thrust,
With rank and file OF sturdy weeds
Rising exultant from the dust.
Each-day a fresher guidon f1aunts,
Marking the vantage ground by turns;
The arrow-heads OF water-plants,
The hard-clenched lists OF valiant ferns,
The willow pennon, brave and fair,
The wild flags sharp and tender blade,
With every force OF earth and air,
Joins boldly in the glad crusade,
TIL winters sullen struggles cease,
And cold and darkness fall and fee,
And all the hills are fair with peace,
And green with palms OF victory,
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When Mr.. Bellew went away, feeling as D
he were treading on air, Dolly came down
into the wood-shed, where her youugei
brothers eyed her like convicted criminals.
Boys" said she "rye found You out.
/ saw Billy's writing on the outside of that
letter which was mailed to Mr.. Bellew.n
cit was only an April Fool anyhow ~
muttored Billy, turning red.
"No fellow thinks anything of that !"
added Johnny.
You did very wrong" said Miss Brooke.
But you are two darlings land love you
ever SO much - Z
And she kissed and Rugged both the
young reprobates, and then ran away up
stairs, quite unaware that the artful Johnny
had succeeded in affixing large placard to
the back of her dress.
"Girls always are April Fools when they
fall in Lowell" said the juvenile misanthrope.
Nor was he altogether wrong; but per-
haps it was worth the obloquy of the thing
to be very happy as was Dolly Brooke
Helen Forrest Gfaves.
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ROMANTIC SEQUEL TO AN ABDUCTION. "A
romantic story is told of a daughter of Jose
Cordero, who was abducted from her par
ents while little child. She always retain
ed in her memory the appearance of her
mother and the name of her father and the
fact that her home was in Santa Barbara.
Recently she married in Kentucky and in
duced her husband to visit that city. She
arrived few days ago, and joyous meet
ing occurred between the long lost daughter
and her mother. - Tu0lumms (Cal) Union
Democrat.
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odd Bill Bloggers declares he won't
vote for Col silvertongue next fall. Says
Bill; :" Only las week the kurnel were at a
purtection meetin', and the papers said he
made an appropriate address. Las mite he
were at tariff gatherin', and blamed if he
doesn't soy here (alluding to tho paper) that
be made appropriate address on that side,
too. II the kurnel is fur perfection, all
right; but If he's agin tariff, why don't hei
make an inappropriate address like a man
That's what want ter know. Boston
Transcript.
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HISTORICAL AMERICAN FLAGS.
Interesting Facts Abont the banners Use.
During the Revolution.

DWftuE the IltVotuttou.
At the commencement of the American
Revolution there was variety of flags dis
played in the revolted colonies. The Union
flags mentioned SO frequently in the news
papers of 1774 were the ordinary English
ensigns bearing the Union Jack. These
generally bore some patriotic motto, such as,
Liberty" Liberty and Property" and
Liberty and Union" After the battle of
Lexington the Connecticut troops displayed
on their standard the arms of the colony,
with the motto Qui trdnstuht ststinet, and
later, by an act of the Provincial Congress,
the regiments were distinguished by the col
ors of their flags, as, for the Seventh, blue
and for the Eighth orange. The early ships
of New York are said to have displayed a
beaver, the device of the New Netherlands,
on their ensgns 1t is uncertain what flag,
if any, was used by the Americans at Bunker
Hill. The flag displayed by Putnam at
Prospect Hill, on July IS, following, was
red, with Qui tga,astula sustiaet on one side,
and ON the other side an Appeal to Heaven"
This last motto was adopted April 30, 1776,
by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts
as the one to be borne ON the flag of the
Congress of the colony, white flag with a
green pine tree. What fagArnold carried in
his expedition to the Canadas is not known.
The first armed vessel commissioned by
Washington sailed under the "Pine Tree
Flag" The first republican flag unfurled in
the Southern States was blue, with white
crescent on the upper corner next to the
staff, designed by Colonel William Moultrie,
of Charleston, at the request of the Council
of Safety, and was hoisted on the fortifca-
tons of that city in September, l775 The
flag displayed on the east bastion of Fort
Sullivan, afterward called Moultrie, on June
%, 1776, was the same, with the word Lib
erty on it. On the west bastion waived the
flag called the Great Union,n first raised
by Washington at Cambridge, January 2,
1776. They consisted of thirteen alternate
red and white stripes of the present flag of
the United States, with the cross of st.
George and St. Andrew emblazoned on the
blue cotton in place of the stars. This flag
was carried also by the fleet under the COM
mand of Commodore Esek Hopkins when it
sailed from the Delaware Capes February
IL, 1916. Hopkins had the device of a rat
tlesnake in the attitude of striking, with the
motto; "Don't tread on me-" This en-
blem was suggested probably by the cuts
displayed in the newspapers at the time,
which represented n snake divided into thir-
teen parts, each bearing the abbreviation of
colony with the motto beneath -" Join
or De- IMPLYING the necessity of union.
The snake was represented generally with
thirteen rattles. Sometimes il was cooled
around the pine tree at its base and some
time depicted at full length on a field of
thirteen alternate red and white and red and
blue stripes. Philadelphia Times.
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TwIN TREES Down IN GEoRoIA.--At the
residence of II. H. Wilmington, ON the Ma
con road, are two red oaks growing separate
and about three feet apart until nearly six
feet from the ground, when they are united
by limb about the size of mans arm.
The limb appears to be equally a part of
each tree, and itis impossible to tell from
which il originated. It'll genuine Siamese
twin Griffin News.
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CASARrEs AND HUMANITY. Canaries have
one great advantage over the human race.
They can have their dead relatives stuffed
and put under glass case. Poor weak
frail humanity can only be stuffed during it,
Hfetime.--N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
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|, C.. A. d G.. HI. SKILLMAN,
AttOrneys-at.Law,

SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND UNION SITS,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. ].
Collections and all legal business unfinished to
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
ton.
G. A. SKILLMAN, G.. H. SK1LLMAN,
Counsellor-df- Lac. .4norney-af- Lac
July 2 1879
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JOHN LILLY,
Attorney and solicitor.

MASTER AND EXAMINER IN CHANcERY
SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Ofice-No. 80 Bridge street (frst hoor), opposite
the " Lambertvile House,. Lambertville, N. j.
Aug. %, 1877.
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"A @ "A d EM Y
Office !!

Having large stock Of instru-
ments on hand, and being about to
place some new styles upon the mar
ket, we propose to offer the balance
of our present stock of low-priced
Organs at a considerable reduction
FOR CASH until May 1st.
Dealers about purchasing for
Spring Trade will do well to write
rs for prices.
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SAMUEL Il. PERRY,
AttOrney-at-Law, Solicitor,

MASTER And EXAMINER IN CHANCERY
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
ofice.In Masonic Hall (second aoor), Bridge
street. Lambertville n. J.
April 2, 1879.
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A stitch in thyme-sewing up the turkey.
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w. IF. HERR,

W. f. HERR,
COunselIOf-at-LaW,
SOLICITOR IND MASTER IN OHANcERY
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Legal business attended to in all parts of the
State Special attention given to collections.
R4- Office Cor. Union and Coryell streets, Lam
sertyiile, N J. Entrance on Union street.
April, 81, 1880.
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A cooking club--1'he ROLLING pin.
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