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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23
FACTS FOR THE cumous.

Orange peel is now said to be col
lected, dried in ovens, and sold for
kindling fires. 1t burns readily, and
with great ferceness, and Is safer than
kerosene.
There is an eating-house in New
York where coffee is sold at cent
cup and meats and stews at three and
four cents plate. There are also two
saloons where beer is sold at cent
glass.
The change Of level Of the Caspian
sea puzzles geographers. Ii has risen
and fallen at irregular intervals since
1870, but was ten feet lower in 1880
than in 1870. In 1922 it was ten and
one half inches higher than in 1880.
The Cingalese will not kill any Hv-
Ing creatures. being Buddhists, and all
who belong TO the fsherman's caste
call themselves Christian. The most
devout Of them, however, have no OBJ
lection to seeing wild animals shot by
anybody else, and they treat their do
nestle animals with the greatest bru-
tality.
Among the costumes shown at the
recent exhibition Of Indian manufac-
lures in England was a woman's robe
Of dark rich stuff. spangIed all over
with little disks Of looking-glass
Another curiosity was a breadth Of
tapestry embroidered by royal Indian
ladies, with representation Of the
battle between the Pandavas and Kau-
ravas.
As early as the time of Alexander
IL of Scotland man who would let
weeds 60 to seed on farm was de-
clared to be the kings enemy. In
Denmark farmers are compelled to de-
stroy all weeds on their premises. In
France man may prosecute his neigh
Dor for damages who permits weeds to
go to seed which may endanger neigh
boring lands.
A great Chinese national holiday is
annually celebrated on August z. On
that day the women Of the Chinese
empire are permitted to worship their
gods on the same plane of equality and
in the same public manner as men.
They go ont for an airing under the
pretense that they are engaged in
religious devotions displaying their
pretty dresses and smiling faces. A
feature of the day is the wholesale
decoration of feminine fingers, wrists
and sometimes ankles with silkeD
threads Of Eve coIors, which are worn
during the festival and for weeks
afterward to ward of evil spirits.
Upon this seventh day of the seventh
moon families are permitted to make
excursions from place to place, but
they must return to their homes at the
close of the holiday.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23
Strange Death by Lightning.

A recent issue Of the Vicksburg
(Miss.) Herald says: Mr.. Robert
Claiborne is brother to Mrs. T. P.
Leathers, wife of the captain of the
Natehez. He is postmaster at Point
Coupee, beside having the agency of
the Pool Line and other boats at that
point. LSst Tuesday evening, while
the steamboat Blanks was lying at the
landing, Mr.. Claiborne started down
the levee toward where she was tied,
followed a short distance behind by
two negro men, mounted on mules,
carrying the mail bags. When nearly
to the boat he was seen to fall to the
ground suddenly beneath white blaze
of light that hovered around him for
an instant, and the two negro men at
the same time were hurled off their
mules to the ground. Those on the
boat who witnessed the phenomenon
rushed ashore, and almost at the same
moment the two negroes recovered
their feet and came up to where Mr..
Claiborne bad fallen. They found
him corpse, black as ink all over.
An examination of the body dis
closed the fact that the electric fluid
had penetrated the body in two cur
rents, penetrating his right and left
breasts respectively, and making two
apertures where they entered, like
bullets would have made. The light
ming trayersed his body, passing down
his legs and tearing off his shoes,
hurling them to a considerable dis
tance from his body. A lot of silver
coins in one of the pockets of his PAN
falcons was melted and fused together
in an indistinguishable mass. The
two negroes felt the force of the shock
sufficiently to be thrown from the
mules they were riding without being
seriously injured thereby. The sun
was shining in an unclouded sky at
the time the thunderbolt came down.
A phenomenon similar in its fatality
and strangeness occurred some weeks
ago, by which two men were killed
under tree near Bay st. Louis, being
struck dead by lightning while the sun
was shining. Silver and gold coins in
their pockets were melted and black
ened as in the case of Mr.. Claiborne.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23
Yenle. and lis aondoIa,.

At the northwest corner Of the
Adriatic gulf a shallow portion was
once inclosed by sand-bank, which
was long since strengthened by solid
masonry. The lagoon is about nine
miles wide, and twenty-five miles long
1t is about as far north as Minneapolis
and Montreal. Here is "Venezia,y y
with her one hundred and thirty or
forty thousand people, on one hundred
and twenty islands. with thrIe hum
dred and seventy-fve bridges, and tif-
teen thousand houses and palaces, and
all within seven-mile circumference.
Venice, to which we are brought by a
railroad through the water, stands two
miles and half from the n a;nland;
SO that in the very approach we get
prospective idea, and are in the ght
mood to realize our dreams, when
eaving the train, instead of the Gus
omary carriage, we find ourselves
gliding to the hotel in a gondols The
stiffness Of the conveyance would make
Venice, if near New York. santa
rum for nerves that are worried by
the striking Of wheels and horse-shoes
upon unyielding pavemerts.
There are Venetians who have never
seen carriage or wagon yet they do
not all go about the city in gon olas.
Easy and convenient is it, as well
as cheap. to walk all over Venice.
Families have their gondolas and gon
doliers, as we our coaches and coach
men Gondolas may lie hired like
cabs. But where thirty thousand OF
the people are extremely poor, AMI
fifty thousanl oilers are net rich, the
luxuries that money must pay for.
either beyond reach, or are used mod
erately. The front door OPENS into a
navigabIe street. But on the opposite
side of the house there is lane Of
land, parallel with the road of water.
BY these lanes foot-rasse-s 60 to the
bridges, and SO traverse the whole
city; city 80 compact ami complete
that we do not think ab Jut islands.
and find tie only novelty that the
streets are the salt sea. Ever since .
Puritan rge passed over Venice, when
rcmp was prohibited, the gondOias
have been black; but they are ri,hly
and effectively trimmed; and with the
peculiar shape Of tie little skin. and
the peculiar attitude of the gondoliers,
who stand bent, with arms cut
stretched, steering and pushing rather
than rowing. the tranquil vehicle adds
picturesqueness to city whose streets
.re canals. -Dio Lezcis' Monthly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23
Worse Than a IhunderhoIt.

$50 you were struck by lightning.
were you?' asked visitor of hospi-
tai patient.
"Yes." YEARLY replied the poor
fellow, who seemed not long for this
world, "but that was good many
years ago.
"Oh, understood that your pres
ent condition was caused by a thunder
bolt"
"No, not exactly. | asked little
fat man the question: is it hot
enough for youY The thunderboltl
l wish it had been. Rochester Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

There are favored days in the week
for marriages, says an English paper.
as well as favored months in the year.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday are the
most in esteem Sunday in the rural
districts and Saturday in the towns.
1t appears however that Sunday wed
dings are generally less numerous than
they were, while Saturday weddings
are on the increase. Friday is deemed
an unlueky day for marriage, as for,
most other undertakings In the county
of Gloucester there were but twenty
Friday marriages in 1881 to two hun
drei and thirteen on Saturday, two
hundred and eleven on Monday, and
two hundred and three on Sunday. In
the city Of Manchester much the same
proportion hollis good. The Friday
weddings were but twenty-four to two
hundred and eighty-seven on Saturday,
two hundred AMI twenty-oae on Sun
day, and one hundred and seventy
eight on Eonday. In Scotland, on the
other hand, Friday is the great day for
marrying; nearly half the weddings for
given year are celebrated on that
day. Sunday in Scotland is practically
dies non for matrimonial purposes,
and the Saturday weddings are exceed
ingly few. The English prejudice
against Friday marriages in general
does not extend to Good Friday-at
least, in certain town districts--for,
whereas the average Of Friday mar
riages in Manchester was, in 1881, but
21s, on Good Friday there were ceIe-
brated as many as thirty-six. There
are no figures. however, to show that
this is common state of things The
one day in the year on which more
marriages are celebrated in Scotland
than on any other is Decent er 81,
which is doubtless explained by the
fact that New Years day is observed
there as general holiday. In Eng
land no one day is in thesame position.
but the fayorite wedding-dsys are
Christmas day, Easter Monday. Whit
sun Monday, and the days preceding
and following them, and then the
August bank-holiday.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23
NUMBER 81.
FUN
A dog's pants need no patch.

A dogs pants need no patch.
"There's plenty of room at the top
Is very true of dudes. Burlington
Free Press.
Make politicians of some tailors and
they viii always be talking about men
and measures s.-P Picoyttne
Paper rowing boats were not the
first aquatic craft thai we're con
structed of that material. Paper cut
ters were made years and years ago.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
CONSOLATION.
l Ilealnsd long ago not to sigh or be sad,
When the woman loved was capricious;
"But. / said to myself, "Tcm, laugh and
be glad.
There are other girls quit, q delicious" F."
A gentleman who had just returned
from Europe was asked how he liked
the trip across the ocean, Not
bit" was the reply. Il felt utterly
retched all the way over Rochester
Post.
al don't see how you city folks live
with no exercise at all" remarked
countryman to his new boarder. mo
exercise r exclaimed the man, guess
you never saw fellow chasing
street car. r.D--Pht1GdeEpiid Netcg.
"Have you got any four-o'elocks in
your flower garden ?" askel one SOM
erville gentleman of another -Four
o'closks," was the reply; "no, sir.
thereis no four o'clock about mine; it
is all day with my flowers; the hens
have been at 'em." ."-SomerriAe Jour
nal.
In one chapter.--Boy- melon
shady spot-secluded nook-yumi
yum! all gone-boy sighs-colic
eomes-boy howls-mother scares-
father jaws-doctor comes-colic goes
boy well-wants more-(notics Of
funeral hereafter. Detroit Free
Press.
Six lovely school MAINS were out
rowing on the placid Monongahela last
evening. A bold, wicked man on
shore, who was bad by few years
ago, instead of taking off his hat as the
boats went by, simply rt marked: " Be-
hold the whaling feet. '-Pittsturg
Telegraph.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

Sewers, cesspools, cisterns and old
wells should never be entered until IL
has been certainly ascerta'ned that
they are not charged with gases and
vapors deadly to human life. To oinsure
the safety of any one compelled to de-
scend into such places it is necessary
to lower, by means of string or wire,
tin pan Cor other fat yessel) con-
tanning small quantity of ordinary
gunpowder. and then ignite that by
dropping live Goals on it. After the
explosion it is wei to lower lighted
candle to the bottom. If it continues
to burn, 1t can be taken as sure test
that all danger is removed, and the de-
scent can safely be made.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

dense that the gaze can penetrate only
a few feet. Pipes filled with steam run
at the bottom Of the watts, keeping the
waters steadily twenty or thirty de-
grees below the boiling point. The
process of evaporation may be briefly
described from its initial stage: First,
the settled water from the cisterns is
run into a set of vats where the tenn
perature is raised to about $50 degrees.
Then it is drawn to asecond set raised
to heat ten degrees higher. Here
the capitalization Of the salt begins.
The hot water presently begins to look
more murky; next white flaky masses
float on top, and gradually as they in
crease sink to the bottom. These are
the salt crystals, which ere long begin
to form white bed on the vat's bot
tom. They are allowed to gather and
sink for twenty-four hours, when a
workman shovels out the salt and
draws off the vat, which is refilled to
continue its work. The salt is shifted
to draining-room, which, filed with
the snow-white drifts, looks like Yam
kee dooryard after windy snowfall;
then, after drying, it is inspected and
packed away, usually in barrels, to be
shipped to marts all over the West.
This process of evaporation, seemingly
so simple, is one that exacts long train
ing and experience, for on it the quail
ity and fineness of the salt crystals de-
pend. The workman must know pre-
cisely the degrees of heat, the proper
moments of shifting, and other occult
points in the manufacture. Usually a
little butter is put in the watts. and in
some way aids in the crystalIization.
Many serious and SON etimes fatal acci-
dents happen at the vats. The foot
ways are wet with steam, and work.
men not infrequently slip to the hot
brine below, which, though not at the
boiling point, has the peculiar quality
of inhicting instantly terrible scald-
ing burn, peeling off the skin and max
ing sores very hard to cure.
At some of the salt-works the prod
uct is solar" salt, made by evapora-
tion under the rays Of the sun; and at
few it is boiled directly in pans
placed over fire. The solar salt is finer
than that made by steam or flame, but
the principle is the same in all the
processes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23
MUSIC IN NATURE.


Far, far away, in fields of waving gold,
hear the tassels' r1stling symphonies,
While myriad insect orchestras unfold
Their rasping medleys in the apple trees.
In seas of creamy clover, white and pink,
Hum tippling bees, all drowsy with per-
fume;
and in tie orchard, one wild bobolink
Breaks the repose of twilight's dreamy
gloom.
The wind wakes solos in the somber pine,
Upon the hillside desolate and lone
And, in the wood, through labyrinths of
vine,
Is heard the brooklet's lisping mono
tone
Which mossy caverns, echoing, repeat;
While DER my soul, in tender changes,
flows
Murmurous, melodious, and strangely
sweet
The subtle musi no musician knows.
-R. Z. Nun EittricI, in the Century.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

The growing interest Of human
people in the health and happiness D.
poor city children Is illustrated by I y
fact that a single issue Of the Lon. '~'
Times recently noticed appeals t'9'''
twenty-four London chnrches '
missions for funds to take 50 "a e''''-
dren to the country for day
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

Maryland has 300 canning factories,
giving employment to l6.000 people
The product Of last seasons pack was
sS, 100000 cans Of hermetieally sealed
goods.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

let's get away from here before we are
robbed again, or possibly worse"
Instead of going back to their camp
they made rapid trip to the village
of Zumal that night, travelling eighteen
or twenty miles in about seven hours
And they have not yet thought it best
to go back to "denounce" their mine
Youths Companion.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-23

An Illinois pickle factory expects to
put up 5000 barrels Of cucumbers
this year.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08

CHUNKS OF WIsDoM.-The Importance of
labor should be taught by both whites and
case that as soon as a colored boy or girl goes
to school, or to some college or seminary,
they give up all idea of manual labor, such
as blowing, cooking, or any sort of service.
They and their parents enormously think
the white people lived and got rich without
work and therefore they (the negro ought
not to work in the field or rkitchen. The fact
is, the only white people who are prosperous
and we'll off are those who worked hard and
taught their children to work. The present
manner Of educating the negro is only spoil
ing him as laborer or worker.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08
Seletted goetrg*

IF
If men cared less for wealth and fame,
And less for battlefield and glory;.
If writ in human hearts, name
Seems better than song and story;
If men, instead of nursing pride,
Would learn to hate and to abhor it;
If more relied on love TO guide,
The world would be the better for 1t.
If men dealt less in stocks and lands. &.
And more in bonds and deeds fraternal,
If loves work had more willing hands
To link this world to the supernal;
If men stored up loves Oil and wine,
And ON bruised human souls would pour 1t
If yours" and ''mine' would once comDlne,
The world would be the better for it.
If more would act the play of life,
And fewer spoilit in rehearsal;
If higotry would sheathe his knife
Till good became more universal;
If custom, gray and ages grown,
Had fewer blind men to adore it;
If talent shone for truth alone,
The world would be the better for It,
If men were wise in little things,
Affecting less in all their dealings;
If hearts had fewer rusted strings
To isolate their kindly feelings;
If men, when wrong beats down the right,
Would strike together and restorelt;
If right made might in every fight,
The world would be better for it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08

AN OUTFIr.-People of this day would be
greatly interested if they could be brought
to imagine clearly what was considered an
outfit for daughter in the olden time-not
so olden, either, after all. Whatever else
the daughter might have, there would be in
the foreground pair of cards and spin
ming Wheel Sometimes the outfit would
consist of Il bed, a coffee pot, a skillet, cow
and calf in addition, but the cards and the
spinning wheel would be foremost. But
gradually these latter articles have been al
most wholly dispensed with, and now it is
not frequent that we hear the hum of the
spinning wheel, or the raking sound Of the
cards. Machinery has come in and the pic
ture las been changed, all within twenty
five or thirty years.
1t would be quite interesting to some of
our young people of this day to witness a
tableau faithfully representing the olden
time, when there were no coOk-stoves and
no sewing machines or reapers, and every
thing was done by hand.
We shall always have the highest respect
for those old-time people who taught their
daughters to spin and weave, and cook and
do whatever was necessary to make home
independent and comfortable. OF course
there was no great amount of learning, but
we rather suspect that these good old people
had the true wisdom which they drew from
the only true Book Of the world, and what
they lacked in knowledge of the outside
world they made up in knowledge of the
inner self.-GreenS6OrO Workman.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08

REFUTING WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED
FACTs.-"Tell me some popular errors in re-
gard to the microscope"
zone very old and one very common one
is that every drop of water we drink Is teem-
ing with animal life. There never was a
greater mistake. 1t is very rarely, indeed,
in lake water that any animalcul4 are to be
found. If little bit of grass or shred OF
meat, or any organic matter, be left in water
for two or three days, there they can be
found. 1t is supposed that peculiar KIND
Of organism, like eels, can be found IN Vlne-
gar. 1t may be that away back in the coun-
try, where they make vinegar out OF aP-
pies, and not out of aquafOrtis, there may be
some, but they don't seem to thrive in city
vinegar. Another thing, people think that
hairs are hollow. The hair is no more hol-
low than fence post, and the coloring mat,
ter, instead of being filled in tube, is mixed
up in the cells Of the hair. The mistake
never would have occurred if it had been
recollected that the harris buta modification
of the epidermis. Then there is another
idea that the human skin is as full OF pores
as sponge"
The fallacy of this idea was demonstrated
by the microscopic taking a slice with ra-
zOr off his hand and putting it on slide.
The reporter was surprised to find that the
pores were very scarce indeed, appearing TO
be about the fifteenth of an inch apart.
THE LEAD PENCIL.--There is no lead
pencil; and there has been none for fifty
wears. There was a time when splracle OF
lead, cut from the bar or sheet, sutficed to
make marks on white paper or some rough,
er abrading material. The name OF lead
pencil came from the old notion that the
products of the Cumberland mines, England,
were lead, instead of being plumbago, or
graphite, carbonate of iron, capable of
leaving a lead colored mark. With the orig
inal lead pencil or slip, and with the earlier
styles of the ''lead" pencil made direct from
the Cumberland mine, the Wettlng of the
pencil was preliminary of writing. But
Since it has become manufacture, the lead
pencil is adapted, by numbers or letters, to
each particular design. There are grades Of
hardness, from the pencil that may be
sharpened to needle point to one that
makes broad mark. Between the two eX-
tremes there are a number of graduations
that cover all the conveniences of the lead
pencil. These graduations are made by tax
ing the original carbonate, and grinding it,
and mixing it with a fine quality of clay in
differing proportions, regard being had to
the use of the pencil. The mixture is
thorough, the mass is squeezed through dies
to form and size it, it is dried, and encased in
its wood cnvclope.-Sientfc american.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08

PLEASE YOURSELF FIRsT.-A certain
married pair were discussing the propriety
of giving wedding present the other
evening, and, as might happen in the best
regulated families, failed to agree as to the
object and price. The lady desired to send
a cut-glass pitcher; the gentleman scotfed
at this idea, declaring that nothing but
silver would satisfy his taste. After a very
animated session, which finally terminated
in the usual way-tears and igars-madame
said she should buy her own present and
monsieur might suit himself. The next
morning, however, repentance seized both
parties though still sulking with each other,
and the gentleman, hoping to "make up''
with his better half, selected on his way
down town gorgeous cut-glass Jug, writ
ing his wife's best wishes on a card and
dispatching it to the eXpectant bride: An
hour later out sailed the wife, only intent
on buying what should please her spouse
and thus heap Goals Of fire on his recalci-
trant head. The result was a costly gold
lined silver salad bowl, accompanied by the
best wishes, &C., written on the gentlemans
visiting pasteboard, which was duly for
warded to the same address as that of the
cut-glass jar. At night nothing was said
of this Joint maneuvre, each one wishing
to surprise the other by showing the note
of acknowledgment when it should arrive.
1t came in due course of time, but it came
not alone! The postman brought two notes,
which so bewildered and mystified the re-
ceivers that they indulged in another de-
bate that ended even more disastrously
than the first. The lady declares she will
never again make concessions, or wedding
presents for that matter, and the gentleman
takes refuge in saying: ut was just, like
a womann' Moral: Don't try to please
anybody but yourself!-Boston SATURDAY
ErpRiRG GQzette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08

INCREASED POSTAL NEEDS OF THE
SoUTH.-It is an excellent sign of the
growth of the South that it leads the West
in the number of new postottices gained
during the past year. The gain for the
Southern States and Indian Territory was
725; for the West $50; for the Pacific Slope
GS. The Middle and Eastern States gain
very few postoffices, and Connecticut loses
one.