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The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-07
Under Water Lamps.

A new method of Illuminating the
tanks at the Royal Aquarium, West
minister, was lately shown by means
of the " Fauren electric battery, and
which, so far as it went, was Of a sac
~cessful character. The lights shown
were, to the number of six, submerged
in the tank at the foot Of the west
staircase with excellent effect, show.
ing up every fish and plant with
great distinctness, a result impossible
to attain under The old system of gas
illumin alton. One of the great advan-
tages of the electric over the gas light
ing system, is that the fish do not
seem to mind in the least the close
proximity of the incandescent lamps,
while at the same time they do not
suffer from the noxious emanations
evolved during the combustion of gas.
Under Mr.. Faure's system, a steady
light of almost any intensity can be
attained, while the engines, which can
be run without cessation during the
whole of the twenty-four hours of the
day, effect a great many savings, by
their power of storing the electric en-
ergy, while at the same time they OBJ
viate the danger of a sudden accidental
extinction ofthe other light employed.
The electricity used for the lighting OF
the tank was generated in Woolwioh,
and carried down to the aquarium,
where it arrived but a short time be-
fore it was used.
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NothingEx Extraordinary

Col. Stuart, when a subaltern at
Gibraltar, was one day on guard with
another officer, who unfortunately fell
down a precipiee four hundred feet
high and was killed. In the guard
reports there is: IN. B.-Nothing
extraordinary since guard mounting"
he meaning of which is, that in case
anything particular should occur, the
officer commanding the guard Is
bound to mention it. Our friend, how
ever, said nothing about the accident
that had occurred to his brother Off
Ger, aud some hours after, the brigade
major came to his quarters, on the
part of tie officer commanding, with
the report in his hand, to demand an
explanation. The brigade major, adj
dressing him. said: you say, cir, in
.your renort, N. B.-Nothing extraor-
binary since guard mounting, when
your brother guard, on duty with you,
has fallen down a precipice, Jour hun
bred feet high, and been killed"
We'll, sir, replied B., 81 dinna
think there's anything extraordinary
n it if he faun down a precipice four
hundred feet high andnot been killed,
| should haze thought it very extraor-
binary indeed, and wad haze put it
down in my report"
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Men and Women as Workers.

Leaving laziness and mere lynn
phatic indifference out of the ques-
ton, men and women differ much in
natural tendency to work. A man
may be very far from idle, and yet
have none of that agreeable instinct of
activity which is born with some
people. We must also distinguish be-
tween activity in a favorite study or
purpose, and mere labor. Absolute toll
We may put on one side. But we must
draw a line every whore between labor
in which the whole of the force and
suggestion has to come from within,
and to which the inducements and
solicitations lie outside. Inclination
being supposed equal 1t is more easy
to get through any course of business
in which n thing turns up after
another to excite the attention and
quicken brain and hands, than to carry
through a task in which the imrnedi-
ate goals of exertion are not near, and
the internal spring OF effort has to be
wound up from time to time without
the help of a tangible, outward Hoo
age.
There is IN old rhyme-which was
probably unknown to Mr.. Mill, for in
his "SUbjection to Women" he treats
the point as a new ohe (which SAYS.
"Thst from rise of morn to set Of sun,
woman's work is never done" That
is quite true but if it is a hardship,
the hardship is mitigated by the fact
that woman's household suites have a
Concentration according which
the solicitation or impulse led
from without, with the a cage
(which also applies to much of mems
ordinary business) that the social feel
ings count for a good deal in the con-
catenation and the impulse. 1t may
he noted, meanwhile, that women get
through all their duties--and, no
doubt, through their highest studies
with less waste of power than men,
and with less apparent concern about
either pain or ~uneasiness. This we DO
not mention rs a discovery, for it is
commonplace, but as a thing to be
borne in mind.-LoadOn Spectator.
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Party Names.

In the matter of partisan d~esigna-
tons the English have been more
sparing than most other nations
which enjoy political freedom. Till
lately they have bad only two parties,
and in successive centuries they have
changed their names from Cavalier
and Roundhead to Tory and Whig,
and then to Conservative and Liberal.
Radical, snd still more, Home Ruler
are modern o~utgrowths.
1t is, however, when we come to
France, a country whose people are
equally prone to resolutions and to
systematic classifications, that we find
party distinctions far more numerous.
In the Chamber, for example, we have
the Centre and the Left Centre, and
the Pure Left and the Extreme Left
and so, OF course, with the Right. Or,
If we divide parties In another way.
we have three distinct kinds of Mon
archists and some hslf q dozen kinds
of Republicans, for there is a kind OF
Republican who thinks Citizen Glenn
enceau rather q slow coach, and would
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Housed Help.

CABBAGE wITH CREAM. - Boil,
drain and cut up q moderate.sized cab
bage. Put in a pan with q COZ.
pie of tablesI oonfuls of butter, a gill CT
cream, a tablespoonful Of -four, sat-
and pepper. Add the cabbage; boil
slowly ten minutes, stirring well.
CABBAGE FRIED WITH BACON -
Boil q cabbage in salt water, drain and
chop. Fry some slices of bacon, take
from the pan and keep hot. Put the
chopped cabbage in the same pan AZ
fry with the bacon fat, adding peppec
Lay in a hot dish with the bacon upon
it, and serve.
STEwED VEAL.-Cut your meat In
pieces, wash them clesn, put them
into the dinner pot, add three pints OF
water, put in one onion, some pepper
and salt; let it stew one hour; then
add potatoes sliced, and then max.
crust of sour milk or cream tartar, and
pvt 1t in and stew till the potatoes arr
~done-about half an hour. Crumbs ii
any kind of fresh meat may be used In
making a stew.
INDIAN MEAL MUFFINs.-TwO cups
of Indian meal, M cup Of Aoui, three
eggs, two and a haaf cups of milk,
three tablespoonfuls of butter, two
tablespoonfuls Of sugar, three
tablespoonfuls of baking powder, one
teaspoonful of salt. Beat the eggs
thoroughly and melt the butter; sift
the baking powder into the meal and
-four while dry, then stir it into the
butter and eggs and beat all togethe /;
put in well buttered molds or rings,
and bake quickly.-Seieoted.
HUsK MAT.-Take the husks mex
30 the ear, for they are the best. goCtS
III warm wates It'll very soft, an
then begin braiding them. Every
time you lap one over put q new one
in, leaving the ends stand up on the
upper side of the braid, while the
underside must be smooth. When
done, trim the husk off one size on the
top, aud pull them in strings with a
husking-peg, but you must first sew
1t around in a large wheel with white
cord. This can be washed.
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The Bird That Has No Nest.

The cuckoo and her mate have nc
home of their own but that does not
Seem to troublethem. They peep here
and there among the leaves, until they
find the nest of some other bird, a lark
perhaps, or a thrush, or a yellow ham,
mer and if the owner of the nest is
away, Mrs. Cuckoo leaves within it a
small egg.
There are some birds that can take
ARE of themselves almost as o as
they are born but Mrs Cuckoo never
leaves her eggs in their nests. Oh no!
she chooses a nest in which the young
birds are well cared for by their
mothers, and fed with food on which
the young cuckoos thrive best.
Why she is too idle to build her own
nest, no one knows. Some people say
it is because sue stays so short q time
in the same country that her young
ones would not not strong enough to
fly away with her, if she waited to
build her nest. Others think it is
because she is such g great eater that
she cannot spend time to find food for
her children.
But the kind foster mothers, the
larks and the thrushes, care for the egg
that the cuckoo leaves in their houses,
although, if any other bird leaves me-,
they will take no care Oft at all, but
root it out upon the ground.
The Scotch word for cuckoo, goVk,
means also q foolish person. But l
think they ought rather to have
named it a wicked person for the
young cuckoo is so %ungrateful and self
ish, that he often gets one Of the other
little birds on his back, and then,
climbing to the top of the nest, throws
it over the edge. These are the Eng
elish cuckoos of which i have been
telling you. | am glad 10 say that
their American cousins take care of
their own children.
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Texas Jack Tramp Typo.

He Is here. We knew it vas only q
question of time when we should see
him again. The last time we saw him,
some ten years ago, he was passing
through the Zenith City of the Un-
sailed Seas, and since then ne has
been a citizen of the world, visit
ing every climate that the printers
art has helped out of barbarism.
"But, you say, "who is he?" He
is known 10 America, Europe. Asia,
Africa, and Oceanica, and we believe
also in New Jersey, as Texas Jack, I"
or the Wandering Printer. Withal,
he is a gentleman, though he has led
a restless, wandering life. He is only
at home when on the road, only hap
Ply when moving. He has assisted
in getting up this issue of the Meas,
and may, for aaght we know, have
d" struck" this identical "take. I"
Some foolish people tell a story about
a fellow called the Wandering Jew"
Well it is all hosh. When Faust was
working his diabolism with wooden
types, among his devils was an
irrepressible Irishman, who would
set on an occasional spree. During
one of these he unfortunately gave
old Faust's secret away, and the boss
measured him up" and sent him
adrift, with the parting curse that he
should roam through " space, F" look.
ing for leases" and finding them not,
till the last trump should sound. This
was Jack McGinty. He's here to-day;
he may be in Honolulu tomorrow.
God speed him wherever he goes.
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Among the interesting people here,
to whom we had letters, were Se1ley
Taylor, who is devoted to Social Sci
ence, and is working up the subject OF
the participation of workingmen in
the profits of manufacture, agriculture
end trade, and Oscar Browning, who
is giving an interesting course of lee
lures, at Kings, on Political Science.
Again, at Trinity Chapel, we saw an
ocean of white gowns, and heard gle
rious music. The Lord Chief Justice
of England was there, in his wig and
der his chain. A day ortwo before,
we had visited the Masters Lodge of
Trinity. where the Queen has twice
stayed. We were told of the approach
ing visit of the Bord Chief Justice,
who always makes his home at the
Masters Lodge, when holding court
in Cambridge. IL. c..
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Horse Lore.

The horse has the smallest stomach
in proportion to his size of any animal.
Fifteen or sixteen quarts is its utmot
capacity. This space Is completely
filed by four quarts of oats and tas
saliva that goes into the stomach wi b
them. Horses are generally overfed
and not fed often enough. FoI a
horse with moderate work, six or
eight quarts of bruised oats and ten
pounds of fine hay is sufficient. This
should be fed in at least three meals
and is better If fed in four. A horses
digestion is very rapid, and therefore
he gets hungry sooner than a man.
When he is hungry he is i~neffectiy 3,
and wears out very rapidly. Wat.r
fills the stomach, lowers the tempers
ture, and dilutes the gastric juice /;
therefore a horse should not drink ina
mediate'y before eating. Neither
should he be watered Immediately
after eating, because he will drink Too
much, and force some of the contents
of the stomach into the large intes.
tines, which will cause securing.
Securing is also caused by too rapid
eating, which can be prevented by
putting half dozen pebbles, half the
size of the fist, into the manger with
the oats. Give only a moderate drink
Of water to a horse. A drink of cold
water, before being driven, will have
a quieting effect on a hor, e.
A race-horse always runs on an empty
stomach. Digesting progresses mod
ere " during exercise, If the exercise
is not SO violent as to exhaust the
powers of the horse.
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A Frisky Quadruped Creates a
Panic.

A highly amusing scere was wit
messed at the Academy of Music at a
recent matinee. About the u iddle of
the last act, while the "Jolly Bach
elors" and "Jolly Maids were about
to make q grand climax, a feminine
shrek was heard in the dress cilcle,
and half a second later, a young la y
was observed to jump up into her
chair, gather her dress about her and
stare at the floor. This was instantly
followed by a chorus of squeals, and
all the ladies in that part of the house,
moved by some common impulse,
climbed into their seats, gathered up
their skirts and GRANTED their necks to
look underneath. Presently a little
scream arose from the other side OF
the aisle, and another young woman
jumped into her chair. Everybody
looked to see what the panic was,
Some of the performers laughed
others were amazed, and all stumbled
through their parts-though that made
no difference, as nobody in the house
was paying the slightest attention ts
the play. 1t was q mouse.
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Odds and Ends.

--
The man who had so elastic a step
wore rubhers.
Epitaph for q successful para
grapher: he never pointed his jokes
with italics
The term Mormon means the NOR
mon-y you have the more wives you
can be sealed to.
A bird that lives on the finny tribe
is a fish-hawk and the man who
sells the finny tribe is a fish-hawker.
Think their feathers pretty A sa-
tirical slave says that tenors usually
put on more airs than they sing.
1t has got so now that the daily
paper is gradually usurping the place
of the sewing circle, as a dissemination
of news.
The rubber sings used by the little
boys are getting to be as dangerous as
the gin sling handled by their daddies.
SOAP makers may give each other the
I've with impunity. In other lines of
business 1t is safer to be a little eau
tiops in this respect.
Baldwin left the Newark Bank
building, because it was the only thing
which, if stolen, the directors would
have missed.
The man who stood in front of his
glass for two hours, getting the right
color on his mustache, said he was
just "dyeing to see his girl.n
1t is said that the laws of New York
very closely resemble sausages. You
have great respect for them, until you
know how they are made.
Jay Charlton wants to know if it is
because so many improvements have
been made in spring beds and mat
tresses that people lie so easily.
81 never argy agin a success" said
Artemus Ward. "When l see a rat
t~lesnaix's head sticking out ov a hole,
/ ] bear off to the left and say to myself,
that hole belongs to that snaix.'"
When Adam was in his bachelor
hood, he found bis nights lonely, and
always welcomed the morn with gisd.
ness. Still, for all that, he was hap
pier when Eve came.
A motherly looking woman, yester-
day, carefully handed the stamp-clerk
at the post-ofice a letter, marked Sin
haste" and inquired if there was any
extra charge for writing that on. "Oh,
none at all" How soon will the
letter go out ?" In about forty min
utes." mo sooner than that ?"
Well, we might hire a special train,
and get it off in twenty minutes"
Would it be too much trouble ?n
tOh, none at all.r She thought for a
moment, turned the letter over three
or four times and finally said ~
guess l won't ask you to hire a special
train, but if you will be kind enough
to telegraph my sister that 1 have
written her a letter, TO tell her 1 can't
come till Monday, aud to be at the
depot to meet me, and that mother
didn't go to Toledo after all, I shall be
ever SO much obliged. Good morn
| iDpp
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How the Weather Indications
are Determined.

At the Signal Service Bureau in
Washington, the weather indications
are recorded at five a. M, eleven a. M
four p. M, and eleven p. M, daily. A
reporter undertakes to tell how the
work Is done, aad this is what he sees
Take a seat in the indication room
with me, and we will see how the
weather is gotten up. 1t is now four
O'Clock, Washington time, and tele-
grams are pouring in from all parts OF
the United States, Canada, British
America, West Indies, Nova Scotia,
and falling into the lap of the sergeant
in charge. The territory covered is
from Olympia, in Victoria, on the
northwest coast of British America,
across to Sydney, above Newfound-
land, thence down to Havana, across
TO San Diego, California, and thence
back again. There's a girdle for Puck.
AT a certain hour of the day-three
O'Clock Washington time observa-
tons are taken at all stations, and then
they begin to conie in, chasing each
other over the wires pell nell, like a
crowd of unruly school boys. These
dispatches are called off to six gentle
men, each of whom sits before a map,
me noting the thermometer, another
the barometer, a third the condition
IF fbn uvaafIar ard an Rn Th.nn 49,
transferred 10 one large map, and then
Old Probabilities makes his appear
ance.
He glances over all sees where a
storm was at ! a. M, and notes where
it vas at three o'clock. He takes into
consideration the wind currents, the
humidity, and all the minor details
which his experience and Learning
have taught him.
Not a word is spoken in the room.
Old Prots il in deep study. In q
moment ne will speak to fifty millions
of people, and a few more over in
Canada. His stenogrspher appears,
anu thC lhNsiNiliObO diC ditldiNI iOl
New England, Their the NJ ddle -tates,
the South, West, Mississippi Valley,
then perhaps,a storm bulletin twenty
four hours in advance, to warn some
special section.
Among the innovations made, is the
furnishing u sections of the country
special reports of floods, the condiiio ns
of rivers s2d their probable rise and
fall, within twenty foar hours follow
ing, at given points. Then reports
are made for Southern States, on the
weather during cotton picking time,
signals being displayHd from the tele-
graph stations, demo- ng clear or bad
weather coming.
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NUMBER ~.
prefer to see Citizeness Louise Michel

prefer to see Citizeness Louise Michel
at the head of affairs.
But at first sight who would imas-
inc that Germany, which some Ave
and-twenty years ago we regarded a
a delightful dreamy cloudland, of BET.
and tobacco, music and philosophy
who would imagine that this once
slow-moving Germany ever beats
impulsive Gaul in the number ofiis
political nicknames? At the recent
election you might range yourself
under at least ten distinct banner
You might be at your pleasure q n g
tonal Libert' a Secessionist, a Pr d.
gressist, q Conservative, a Clerical, a
Pole, a South German, a Protester, u
Guelph, or q Social Democrat. Oi
course this multiplicity of names
cansed. partly, by the still unrepsirs 1
breach between Prince Bismart <
and the Vatican, but still more /
the fact that German unity is, evsn
now, a very new thing. The cemer !
has not yet had time to "set."
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How Far Wrong is this
Old Maid 2"

She had been called an cid maid,
and rather resented 1t. She said ~
I'M past thirty. l have a good home.
( think you know l have had abua.
dant opportunities to marry. 1 have
been bridesmaid a cor of times. ]
ask myself with which one Of tire
beautiful girls that I have seen take
the marriage vow would I exchan e
to-day? Not one. Some are living
apart from their husbands; some are
divorced; some are hanging on TIE
ragged edge of society, endeavoring 70
keep up appearance; some are toiling
to support and educate their children.
and these are the least miserable;
some tread the narrow line beyona
the boundary of which lies the mys
terious land, and some have gone U
in the darkness and unknown horrc.s.
and some are dead. A few there ate
who are loved and honored wives,
mothers with happy homes but, alaAi
only q very few
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Lady Godiva.

Have you ser heard of Coventry,
an old town not very fsrfrom London,
where some Of the streets are so mar
row that no wagons can pass through
them, and where the second stories of
the quaint old mansions jut over
SO far into the street that they almost
touch each other?
1t was lovely morning in Septem-
Der. We had come from busy London,
that immense city where one million
people, every year, ride in the many
railroads that are made under the
houses, saying nothing of the millions
who throng the streets above ground.
All the people know Americans at
Sight, and they looked at us as care
fully as we at them. First we went to
a tall church that Sir Christopher
Wren, the architect, said was a mas.
terpiece. It's tower and spire alone are
three hundred and three feet high: that
is about three times a high as the state
house IN Boston. The church was built
nearly four hundre@ years before Co
lmbus discovered America; and was
given by a great earl to the monks-it
is Protestant now-for ''the rerose OF
his SOUL" / suppose that means that
he might get safely TO Heaven.
But the thing which most interested
US about Coventry, was that here once
lived a sweet and beautiful lady, about
whom the people never tire of telling
you.
She was the wife OF an earl who gov
erned Coventry. He was immensely
rich, but taxed his subjects so, that
petitions came in every day to have
them lowered. Finally, as all their
beseeching did no good, the poor peo-
pie came to his wife, Lady Godiva, to
beg her to intercede for them. Her
heart was touched aud she went to her
husband, bet he was angry, aud bade
her never to speak oft again.
Several months vent by. He had
been away y some wars in the north.
ern.part Of England, and coming home
wasso delighted to meet his wife and
darling little boy that ne clasped them
both to his heart, asking her if she
needed anything to complete her hap
piness. She had money, an e'egant
home, and lived like a queen, but she
could not be happy. She said, "Wbil'
our people groan under oppression thu
most luxurious entertainment can af
ford me no real enjoyment"
LEoFRIo, her husband, again be
came violently angry, but said, sine,
he had promised to do what sh,
wished, he would keep his word bu
she must ride on horseb back, at noon
day, from one end of the city 10 TIA,
other, with no clothing upon her. H,
supposed, of course, hat she woul,
never consent to this. For a momen
her noble, womanly heart sank with
in her, and then she said, ~ will co.
Seeing that her mind was made up
he ordered all the people to darken tn,
fronts of their hoGses, and retire b
the back parts of them, while the de
voted LAZY took her lonely ride. Whe;
the appointed oay came, the Who'll
city was Is still as death. Lady Godi
vas beautiful white horse was brough
to the palace. With a face as blanch
ed as her charger, drawing her lonl
hair like a scarf about her body, sh
mounted, and rode in solemn silenc