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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-05-16

Ladies English solid-color Bril-
liant Lisle Hose, soc.
Ladies' Colored Hose, l2ac.,
hitherto 25c.
Ladies' Long Balbriggan, French
foot, Zoe, hitherto Bic.
Ladies Fancy Hose, fifty cent
quality for 25c.
Mems full regular made (German)
Brown-mixed, l2@c.
Mems English Striped, full regular
made, 1Sc.
Children's full regular made, at Is,
20, 30, 35e., worth donhle.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-05-16

The Madras, Nottingham, An
tique, and Tamboured Curtains are
in usual abundance.
Furniture Coverings begin at
12ac. yard, and some of our Gre
tonne are the cheapest we ever
had.
Handsome Antique Curtains,
$3.50 per pair.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-05-16

Her Majesty is very far from being re-
covered from her fall, and many facts 90
to show that she has, during her illness,
desired the royal children to be not far
from her. The Prince of Wales desied to
attend the coronation of the Gear, but the
Queen would not let him go, though she
has reluctantly consented to allow the
Duke of Edinburgh to attend the cere
anrax
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
A Giant Python.

A chorus of discorda1t screams from
the throats of half a hundred parrots
greeted a New York SIN reporter who
walked into the bird dealers rooms in
Roosevelt street. Wh@rhe had become
accustomed to the rasphlg sounds sufi-
cicntly to hear, the proprietor said:
81 will show you the largest snake in
captivity. Snakes IN shows are usually
disappointing to the by who has read
the cheerful tales of anacondas that swal-
low nothing smaller thdn COW, but here
is n sensation in snakes"
He unlocked the hasp on a heavy
box two and half by four feet
large and foot dfep, and: raised
the cover. There was the snake In
what sailors might call two Flemish coils,
one on top of the other, covering nearly
the whole of the bottom, of tale box, AS
the light shone into th5 box the snake
raised its head, which Swas as large as
mans open hand, ard moved it about
uncasiiy, while n black forked tongue
dartcd out toward the spectators. Its
body was black. nettlel with white
and olive green spots. Tile little, round
black eyes seemed to- look steadily into
the eyes of the keeper and the re-
porter at the same time, and nothing
could withdraw their gaze till the lid
was shut, down.
"It is thirty feet long, and eighteen
inches in circumference in its largest
part, said the proprietor. at was cap
tured about eighty miles back of Cal
cutta. 1t is u genuine python. We
have another one of the same kind about
eighteen feet long, that is probably the
second largest in the country. The
largest one could kill and swallow q
man. 1t could kill horse"
"How arc these fellows captured3"
"By small mesh nets. The natives
spread a large net over any that they find
coicd up. The snake at once jumps
around ! antic efforts to escape, and
becomes lgled up in the net. 1t is
then bound with cords and bands and
carried to the sea, and sold to some ship
captain"
"What is the market price of a
python 2"
"From $25 to $50 for the ordinary
museum snake. That smaller one will
bring $3.50, but the big one will sell for
$500. l am going to South America
soon to get some of the water snakes.
They are said to measure from fifty to
scvcnty-fivc feet in length. None has
ever been captured.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Christmas in Shetland.

Shetlanders do not speak of Christmas
as much as of lulc. Nay, more, if YOU
were asking native why Iule is kept as
n holiday. the chances arc that his reply
woul, contain no reference whatever to
the nativity. He would simply say, it
chad aye been kept by the auld folk"-
meaning his forcfathcrs. BE that rs it
NAV, Yulc is in Shetland the great holi-
day of the year, or at least was so when
/ was boy. But Yulc was not the 25th
of December by the modern calendar,
but the 9th of January for in the ''mclan-
choly isles of the furthcst Thule time
was always rcckoncd according to the
"old stylcn We We're always. therefore,
twelve days behind the rest of the civil
lied world All that, however, is now
passing away. thanks to steamboats, and
electric telcgraphs, and newspapers and
general intercourse with the South; and
| dare say Yulc, the dear luc rcmcm-
ber so WE'LL will ere long be known and
spoken of only as tradition, for, alto
gcther, life in those islands is now very
different from what it was some fifty or
sixty years ago. Chambers Journal.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Musical Fish,

Lieutenant John White says that on
his voyage to China. when his ship was
anchored at the mouth of the river Cam
boya, the sailors were much astonishcd
at she sounds that issued from the
water, resembling the bass of an organ
mingled with the tones of bell. the
croaking of an enormous frog and the
clang of an immense harp. These sounds
swelled into a gentle chorus on both
sides of the ship and were attributed by
the interpreter to school of fish. a
similar occurrence in the South Sea was
described by Baron Humboldt. The
sailors were greatly terrified at about
7 o'clock in the evening by an extra
ordinary noise in the air, like the beating
of tan,bourincs, followed by sounds
which resemblcd the escape of air from
boiling liquid. At Q o'clock these
strange sounds, which it was judged,
proceeded from a school of scioenoides,
ceased. The gizzard shad, known SCI
entifcally as the lorosome, utters a dis
tinct, vibratory, whining sound. The
mullet utters distinct note, often quite
prolonged and accompanied by o dis
charge of air-bubbles.- 1ri6,Mc,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Thr0M I'D Your Chin.

The whole secret of standing and
walking erect consists in keeping the
chin well away from your breast. This
throws the head upward and backward,
and the shoulders will naturally settle
backward and in their true position.
Those who stoop in walking generally
look downward The proper way is to
look straight ahead, upon the same level
with your eyes, or if you are inclined to
stoop, until that tendency is overcome,
look rather above than below the level.
Mountainecrs are said to be "as straight
as an arrow" and the reason is because
they are obliged to look upward SO
much. It's simply impossible to stoop
in walking if you will heed and practice
this rule. You will notice that all round
shouldered persons carry the chin near
the breast and pointed downward.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27

band of robbers, who had no ladder
wherewith to reach the las..tice of a sec
ond.story window. The great lizard
was placed against the roi:gh wall, head
toward the desired point.ands instantly
it began crawling up, eyer aally hauling
one Of the robbers safely Jap, who was
clinging to his tail. A ye,y good story,
if not true, and perhapI possible, as
these lizards of the Nile country have
been known to drown lifge animals in
crossing. n ~
In England-and too, often in this
countrywide ferret is oftet used iii hunt
ing the rabbit, while tie espert rat-catch-
ers of this country value them as import
ant adjuncts to their myst rious business.
In the Caribbean sea somf of the fisher
men use fsh-the remera-in the cap
ture of turtles. The fsi is the we'll
known attendant upon It's shark, having
a disk-like sucker upont5,its head, with
which it clings to large $;shes. The ex-
tent to which this laborssaving srrange-
ment is used is showniin Ghe fact that the
upper side of the fish, That in others is
generally dark, is light and the under
side dark. So powerful is the sucker
that fifteen or twenty poupds can be lifted
by taking the fish by thetail, and by care
fully playing in the wateIa large turtle
can be caught. The fskermen take the
remoras out in tub offfwater in their
boats, and have q leath6. strap attached
to long line that fitted about the tish's
tail. At the approach ota turtle the fish
is turned over, and remembering its old
friend, or instinctively,it attaches itself,
and so the reptile. often towing the boat,
is gradually brought alongside and SUBJ
dued, and the remora placed in the tub to
await the second appearance. The re-:
moras attain length of. foot and half,
and attend sharks and turtles, and have
also been seen about large porgie. Num-
bers of small animals are used indirectly
as lures to game, showing that the eco
nomic value of animals in this respect Is
of no little Importance, even at the pres
ent day.-.st. Louis Gsge Democrat.
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EsUpcrt's Request.
W('omc hitiler. lScrYl.

"Comc hitlcr, Bcryl."
StuyvcSant Nutwood spoke in kindly
tones to his daughter, and yet the girl
noticed, or imagined that she did, Il
slight trcrhor in his voice. but, thinking
it was due to the involuntary loOscning
of his false teeth. glvc the matter no
further attention. She crossed the room
to where her father WIS sitting in his
great arm chair beside the window.
Bcryl had grown up on her fathers
farm almost without society. but not with
out education. for every year she had at
tended the seminary ut Acornville, and
in her eighteenth year had graduated
with all the honorS and prrcalc dress.
And then she had gone back to TIE farm
again. but somehow her life there was not
as satisfactory rs before. There were
times when Bcryl felt Il sense Of ennui
mixed with an indefinite feeling of rest
lcssncss that would cause her to wander
aimlcssly around the place in revcrie
until recalled to the things of this world
by stepping on her ankle. But though
she strovc to conceal, even from herself,
the real cause of this feeling, her heart
would ever and anon give great throb
as she thought Of Rupert Hollingsworth,
who was now a struggling lawyer in
Western town. There had been no words
of love between them, but on the day
Rupert graduated they had met for the
last time, and. standing beneath the shade
of a grand old oak that guarded the en-
trance to the college campus, Rupert had
taken Beryrs hand in his and said to her,
while his dark brown eyes seemed look
ing into her very soul: You will not
forget me entirely, Miss Stuyvesantl'
~ shall never forget you, she. replied,
with grave earnestncss, "as long Us l
live"
He had once stepped on her toes.
When Bcryl had crossed the room her
father motioned her to a seat by his side,
and as she cuddied up costly on has
sock and, placing her arms upon her
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Rules for the Limeki7n Club.

Judge Chewso arose to ask for infor-
nation. He wanted to know how strong
the fraternal ties of such club could be
considered. How far was he obligated2
"Brothcr Chewso," replied the presi-
dent, "I will read de follerin' fur your
beueft:
81. All meet heah on terms of equal
ity, but de member who blacks stoves
en- saws wood am not 'spected to be so
familiar as to ask de barber airnin' SIT
per week to lend him his toof-pick.
"2. If you find brudder in distress,
AID him. Oar am no pertickler objec-
shun to takin' mortgage on his stove in
case he wants to borroy fo' dollars in
cash, but give him leetle show befo'
fo'closin'.
"3. Excuse brudder's faults as fur
as you kin, byt.arter he has spit on your
butes about tffesa-~sshes you kin conclude
dat he aches to be licked.
"a. Speak well of each oddcr; avoid
wrangles an SANDER; be ready to give
good advice; encourage sobriety and In
dustry, but doan let man kick yer dog
simply because he sits on de stool mex
you in Paradise Hall. "-Detroit Free
Press.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
PUMPKIN PIES

Gentle stranger. let me ask,
Did you ever stop to bask
In the atmosphere OF cooking,
When a maiden fair is looking, :.
Asl,ancely from the depths
OF her limpid, azure eyes
AS she shoves in the big oven
Those delicious pumpkin piesf
All, what ecstacies appealing
As aromas gently stealing,
Permeate the rural kitchen
Whose confines hold o fair witch IN,
Fascinating, dainty, rare
To intoxicated eyes!
IT'S the maiden, fonr laden,
Manipulation Of the PIES.
Pumpkin pies What menSaiss riss.
Even to the sunny skies, =
As she opens to your eyes
The big oven she did shove IN
Those delicious pumpkin pies
Golden orbs Of luscioas gloFyt
Never had the world story
Fairer to the heart Of man.
Ay! to hearts Of mortal clan.
Than the manuscript in yellow
Hot and toothsome meath your eyes j
And Ifain would long to spell, OH
Worldly bliss--in pumpkin pies; S.
Quarter, half, the whole, oh, giveit It'll
Icould dwell In bliss and live It
In On hour such as this,
All, forevermore, wis =.
Sitting in the pleasant kitchen
Whose confines hold q fair witch In,
Fascinating, dainty, rare,
Aslancely glanoing from her eyes,
: At me, over pumpkin pies.
H. S. Keller, in Detroit Free Press.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
"That,s Enough-stand Dovn!''
Mistaken Identity.

A farmer, living few miles from Aus.
tin, whose wife was troubled with an
aching tooth, decided to come in town
with her for the purpose of having it ex-
tracted. The pair took seat in the
cars, and soon after the train started the
farmer walked forward into the smoking
car, telling his wife he would be back di.
rectly. While her husband was absent
the conductor came leisurely along,
ticket punch in hand, and approaching
the old lady, reached over for her ticket,
whereupon the victim of the toothache
opened her mouth and taught him, say
ing:
7'You needn't mind giving me chloro'
form, doctor; just pull it right out, any
how. can stand it, and when John
comes back he'll settle with yer."-syt'
1u1R
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Saved Himself by Cutting Of' n Limb.

If there was anything Father Boggles
really delighted in, it was to spin yarn
about the sharpness of his boy Tom.
"Ah," said Bogglcs one day, as he had
fairly fixed his auditor, "To | is the
most remarkable boy ever set your eyes
on. He's like his old dad: you can no
more sarcumvcnt him than you can catch
wccscl asleep. You rccollect that
choice apple-trec by the hedgc2 We'll, I
forbid Tom touchin' those apples; but
he would get 'cm in spite Of me. One
day I caught the young scapegrace up in
the tree stuffin' his pockets with the
fruit, and | determined this time to
punish him for it.
"'Thomas, my son. says I, come
down. l thought I'd be sort of per-
suasive, so it would fetch him; but he
smelt rat and didn't bulge al inch.
al can't, dad, says he, these apples
are in the way
"'Tom,' continued, stcrnly, come
down this mint, or I'll cut down the
tree, and let yer fall
"You sec ny poor limbs wouldn't per-
NIT my shinnin' after the boy.
"'Oh, no, you won't, dad, says Tom.
'Only think how you'd mourn if you
couldn't sell the apples
"That was too much to have my own
boy accuse me of such parsimony. So
what does do but get an AK, and cut
away at the bottom of the tree.
'Tom-Thomas, cried, as the tree
was about half cut off. will you come
down now, and save YOURSELF"
"'Ncvcr mind, dad, said he, I'm
all right.
1T was no use! I couldn't bring him
down that way. So chopped away at
the tree till it began to sway, and fell to
the ground" .
"What! and crushed your own boy"
calculated his horrilied listeners.
"Not by long chalk, said old Bog
giles, winkin. knowingly. You couldn't
get over Tom in any such way. What had
he done but crawlcd out on limb; and
while was chopin at the bottom o
the tree he had been cutting off the limb
with his jack-knifc, and when the tree
fell he was still up there on the limb!'
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27

knees, looked up in his face with woti'
dering expression in her great blue eyes,
Stuyvesant Nutwood felt great thrill o.
sorrow in the knowledge that one day
this beautiful girl, with all her wealth OF
love and bandolire, would leave him for
ever.
IT have received letter from Rupert
Hollingsworth, Beryl," he said. =
The girl gave sudden start, and
wave Of crimson swept over the pure,
sweet face, but she did not speak.
"Can you not guess" he continued,
"what the purport of his letter is2'N
Beryl could no longer look in her
fathers face. She knew full well why
Rupert Hollingsworth had written.
He had gone sway only two years be-
fore, in all the vigor of his glad man.
hood, and his splendid talents had gained
for him success where others had failed.
And now, crowned with the laurel
wreath of victory, he had written to
her father for permission to urge his
suit with her. She knew all thus full
we'll, and yet when her father asked her
the question to which her heart had
already given answer, sho did not reply.
tsYou could never guess, little one"
said Stuyvesant Nutwood, q merry
twinkle in his eyes, ''why Rupert has
written. Do you think you couldF
A deeper blush overspread the pretty
face.
"But I will tell you," he continued,
'because you two were at college to-
gether. STILL perhaps had better be
silent"-and again the laughing light
came into her fathers eyes.
"Tell me, papa" whispered Beryl, no
longer able to conceal her eagerness,
''why he has written"
"He wants something" was the reply.
Scan you not guess what it ISL"
Every fiber Of Beryl's being is throb'
bing with expectancy now. The sun has
passed from sight, and great bands OF
rosy light that stream up from below the
horizons rim cast strange halo over the
silent earth. Beryl feels the solemn in
huences of the twilight hour, but no
word comes from her lips.
"Can younot guess, repeats her father,
"what Rupert Hollingsworth desiresa"
For an instant she does not reply. To
answer the question in the affirmative
would seem bold and forward, and yet
can she deny, even to herself, 3 rknowl-
edge of what Rupert desires9 So she
simply says to her father: s'Tell me what
he wants."
Bending tenderly over his daughter,
Stuyvesant Nutwood whispers with in.
finite pathos in her ear: twenty-five
dollars to get home with. ."-Chicag'
Tribune.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Christmas Celebrations.

The festival of the birth of Christ was
celebrated by different communities of
the early Christians at various periods of
the year, and it was not until the fourth
century that the present season was def
nitcly fixed upon. This is said to have
been the act of Julius l., Pope of Rome,
A. D. 337-352. There can be no doubt
that the end of December does not rep
resent the true anniversary, and there is
reason to believe that the celebration was
transferred from the last month of the
Jewish year, when the birth was known
to have taken place, to the last month
of the Christian year.-AntiQuary.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
HUMOROUS SKETCHES
Near Enough.

A Michigan girl told her young man
that she would never marry him until he
was worth 100000. So he started out
with brave heart to make it.
"How are you getting on, George"
she asked, at the expiration Of few
months.
"Well," George said, hopefully, ~
have saved up ss2."
The girl dropped her eyelashes and
blushingly remarked: II reckon that's
near enough, George"
"That,s Enough-stand Down!''
In contest over will certain wit
ness was giving his evidence as to the
disposition of the testator.
twas he good-natured mana" asked
the attorney.
,'"tNot altogether
"Was he cross, then?"
"Well; yes, rather-in places"
"Was he very CROSSE"
:" Considerably"
Chow cross was he2 Give US an e2-
ample Of his disposition"
HWell, sir, he was that. cross that
when he called up the cows at milking
time it made the milk sour"
"That's enough | Stand down p
Merchant 1rareler.
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| J .-F"S .sS-e2z-tsps -z2.z-tsps t~~--S~~ .---
"Joe, am awake or asleep2"
"Never wider" he answered.
"Apd you'll be no longer lonelyW
sNot bit Of it," he returned, ano
with that he gave her a kiss that almost
deprived her of her breath, so ardent was
it.
"We'll call 1t square, parson," Joe
added, when he had succeeded in getting
his lips away from those of Mrs. Kitty
Smudd.
every WE'LL" responded the minister,
with laugh. ~
When Joe and Kitty returned to the
tenement he was again astounded.
His apartment had, during his absence,
been ghted up, q Christmas tree. set in
a box, in it, and on its branches con-
tributions OF customers and ncighbors,
and lots of useful gifts. Among other
things "too numerous to MENTION" as
the auctioneers say, was gold watch,
and as much like the timepiece he saw
in his dream as one twin can look like
another. And there were also nice
things for Kitty. Her eyes sparkled
when she saw them.
"Kitty, am I awake2" he asked,
doubtingly. "Tell me for once"
"Never wider" was the cheerful re-
ply.
Then the friends of the happy pair,
without pretension of any kind, but loaded
with lots of good things in the way of
eatablcs and drinkables, flocked in, and
presently they overspread the whole
floor, and-didn't they have a jolly time
of it, dancing and singing?
And of the gathering, no one danced
better or more gracefully than the
pleasant faced bride, or sang sweetcr or
more delightfully."- than the good-natured
groom.
Now all this happened this Christmas
eve one year ago, and would you believe
it, although there are three of them
ow-including the olive branch-Joe
and Kitty's honeymoon is not ended, and
folks say it never will be, which is Gu
rious.
If at times the cobbler exhibits little
pctulcncc of temper, as the best men
sometimes will, Kitty addresses him as
Signor Giuseppe Smuddio. That re-
stores him to good humor, and his
rooms-he has more than one now, and
they are on the first stLfy-are instantly
filled with the swcccst of sweet airs, for
Joe Smudd, really and truly, has .
magnificent vocal organ.