The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-08-15

The following is the average of the can
didates who were recently examined at
Belvidere for admission into the u. S.
Military Academy, 500 being the maxi
mum r. G. Tolles, 349 M. G.. Bailey,
3413 IS. S. Childs, 25S e. G. Armstrong,
257 /; VIM. McCue, $50 /; w. w. Carpen-
ter, 207, and U. S. G. Hough, 1880.
Chatham was the seat OF publication of
the first newspaper in New Jersey. The
publishers in Revolutionary time, being
obliged to leave New York, attempted to
set up in Elizabeth, but being followed
too closely by the British they were
obliged to go farther into the country,
and were pushed to Chatham, where
they set up their press and published their
| paper for some time.
The National party held two-days ses-
sion at Asbury Park, last week, and nom
mated Benjamin Urner, of Union county,
for Governor, and adopted a platform as
long as the moral law. The convention
very emphatically sat down upon Mr.. Ca
tor, who wanted to thrust himself forward
as usual, and also rejected a prohibition
plank reported by the platform commit
tee. The platform favors female suffrage.
W LfutUFG, the T6pbEb VI bnt
sanitary commissioner with the Govern
nent of Bombay shows that, among other
causes of death in that presidency in the
year 1881 ,209 persons died from snake
bite. A comparison f the deaths in 1881
with the mean of those of five preceding
| years shows, that, in 1881 at least, the
number had increased. These figures
| prove that one person in 1910 of the
whole population of the twenty four
| presidency districts died from snake-bite.
The Joel Parker .iboom'i for tue DEM
ocratic nom nation for Governor is in full
blast. The gentlemen who have manipu.
lated the Democratic nominations for
some years past have, apparently, not
been able to hit upon any better device
| for the extinguishment Of IN celaneous
crowd of Objectionable candidates, than
to bring forward Joel, the invineible, and
it is understood that, in view of the Presi-
Dental possibilities of next year, the dou-
Bile Ex-Governor does not say may with
| any considerable yigor. The celebrity
| with which the Albrights, the Harden
berghs, the Abbetts, the Cutters, CT Sc
quentes, skip to the rear at the mention of
the name of the ponderous Joel, recalls
the old menageric refrain
1
! The band begins to play
| The little boys under the monkeys cage
Had better get out of the way"
/ Trenton State gazette.
| Professor Goret, of the University of
! Geneva, points out that the function OF
trees in streets is not limited to acting
as screens for snn-shining wayfarers--
| they temper the heat and serve as q
/ protection against dust; the evaporation
| from their leaves tends to keep the sur
roun ding air cool and moist, and, as one
of til best means of refreshing the air
OF a sick room is TO place i'll it plans
aud branches, aud sprinkle them with
water, like effect is produced by trees.
Sunlight is necessary to health; but
trees, if not too thickly planted, do not
intercept snnlight--the continual vi
brations of their leaves and swayiug of
their branches admitting the light every
instant and in sufficient measure serving
moreover, to protect the eyes from the
MONDAY glare. So far from trees i'm
peding the circulation of mir, they help
to purify it: the evaporation from their
leaves determines current from above,
and the fresh air thus brought down
assists in driving away the heated and
dust impregnated gases of the streets.
Another useful property of foliage is
that, while in hot, dry weather it mois
tens the surrounding atmosphere, thus
rendering it filter to breathe, this effect,
which is due to evaporation, ceases in
wet weather.