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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMOTH,

The banks of that great Northern Siberian
River, the Lena, are quite peculiar Those
on the western side are generally low and
marshy, while those on the eastern are often
from sixty to one hundred feet in height.
In the extreme north, this high elevation is
cut into numerous pyramidal-shaped
mounds, which are formed of layers of earth
and ice-sometimes clear stratum of the
latter many feet in thickness.
1t was before such a mound that fisher.
man stopped, dumb with astonishment, one
spring morning, many years ago. About
thirty feet above him, halfway up the face
of the mound, appeared the section of
great ice-layer, from which the water was
flowing in numberless streams; while pro-
truding from it, and partly hanging over,
was an animal of such huge proportions that
the simple fisherman could hardly believe
his eyes. Two gigantic horns or tusks were
visible, and great woolly body was family
outlined in the blue, icy mass In the fall,
he related the story 20 his comrades up the
river, and in the ensuing spring, with party
OF his fellow fishermen, he again visited the
spot. year had worked wonders The
great mass had thawed out sufficiently to
show its nature, and on closer inspection
proved to be we'll preserved specimen of
one of those gigantic extinct hairy elephants
that roamedo rthe northern parts of Europe
and America in the earlier ages of the world.
The body was still too firmly attached and
frozen to permit of removal For four sue.
oessive years the fishermen visited IT, until
finally, in March, 1884, five years after its
original discovery, it broke away from its icy
bed and came laundering down upon the
sands below. The discoveries first detached
the tusks, that were nine feet six inches in
length and together weighed three hundred
and sixty pounds. The hide covered with
wool and hair, was more than twenty men
could lift Part of this, with tire tusks,
were taken to JNkutsk and sold for fifty ru.
bles, while the rest of the animal was left
where it fell and cut up at various times by
the Jakoutes, who fed their dogs with its
flesh strange feast this, truly-meat
that had been frozen solid in the ice-house
of Nature perhaps fifty thousand years,
more or less but SO well was it preserved
that when the brain was afterward com.
pared with that of a recently killed animal
no difference in the tissues could be detect.
ed.
Two yenrs after the animal had fallen
from the cliff, the news reached st. Peters.
burg, and the Museum of Natural History
sent scientist to secure the specimen and
purchase it for the Emperor He found the
massive skeleton entire, with the exception
of one fore leg. The tusks were repurohased
in Jakutsk, and the great frame was taken
to st. Petersburg and there mounted.-O
H. Holder in 81 NiehoLos
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
sTuFFlNo AN ELEPHANTS SKIN.

The Taxidermal Art is the subject of
richly illustrated article in the Cen,ury by
Franklin II. North, which contains the fol.
lowing description of the mounting of an
elephants skin:
Not long ago, Ward dispatched man to
India to shoot an elephant He obtained
permission from the Governor of the Ma.
dras Presidency (for the elephant is protect.
ed by the laws), and after a long hunt, in
which the natives joined, finally secured the
largest stuffed specimen in the country, now
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at
Cambridge, Mass. The elephant was shot
through the head Careful measurements
were first made of the body and limbs, and
then the skin was removed in three sections.
One incision was made at me top of the
neck, along the back 20 the tail another
tivided.the skin from the throat, along the
middle of the body underneath, meeting the
first incision at the tail and third cut
severed the head from the body On the
inside of each leg an incision was made from
the sole of the foot to the abdominal open.
ing. The skin was removed by working
from the latter and the back cuts at the same
time, the legs being cut of at the Joints.
Then the body was rolled over, and the ope-
ration was repeated. Finally the head and
trunk were skinned. The absence of hair
from the skin facilitated the treatment of
both sides with preservatives. Both sides
were washed with arsenical soap aud salt,
and rubbed with fiat stone. The skin was
then rolled up and packed away. Two days
later it was spread out, and The pieces of
flesh adhering were removed After being
again treated with arsenic, it was left uudis
turbed for q week. at tho expiration of
which time the fbres were found to be hard-
ened, and the epidermis thoroughly set.
Powdered alum was now freely used and
the skin left to dry in the shade. Twenty
days after the commencement of the opera.
lion, the skin, then weighing only two hun.
dred and forty pounds, was shipped to
America. Upon its arrival hither, four bars
of wrought iron, each twelve feet long aud
one and n quarter inches thick, were bent
into shape for the legs and firmly bolted to
beam sixteen feet long and fcur inches thick
This was to serve as backbone for the at
'aohment of ribs, pelvis, and scapuln.
5emiciI cular-shaped bones were attached to
the backbone, and laths nailed thereon.
Then wooden pelyis and shoulder-blades
were set and at each joint of the legs a
round piece of wood was fitted about the
leg-iron, and laths nailed from ono joint to
the other. An exact copy of the skull in
wood was bolted on in position. Then the
several parts were wrapped with wisps of
straw, aud the nanikin was covered with the
skin of the elephant. From the measure
ments that had been made the distances be-
tween the various extremties were copied,
and the protrusions initiated by stufling
The trunk was filled with straw, and the
wooden imitation of the skull covered with
clay and nodded into shape. After the skin
was thoroughly dry,-f previous to mount
ing it had been in the relapsing tank, the
seams were sewed together, and the elephant
was complete.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
RESPECT FOR THE JEWS.

Sam Spilllsins is the owner of very fine
dog, which accompanies him in his walks.
He was passing Nose Schaumburgs store,
on Austin avenue, when NOSES attention was
called to the dog.
"Dot ish sphlendid tog, Mr.. Spillkins.
Vat ish his name ?" asked Nose.
Ellis name is Peter"
"Peter2"
eyes, Peter"
Peter--dot ish very shingular name,
Mr.. Spillkins."
Ellis real name, Mr.. Schaumburg is Ju-
piter, but always leave off the Jew part of
Jupiter, and call him Peter, on account of
the high regard l have for Israelites as
American citizens. l don't like TO use the
word jew in connection with the name of
dog. Como here. Peter. Do you see how
he knows his name?'
Nose beamed all over with Joy, and made
some pathetic remarks about how much bet
ter the Jews are treated in this country than
In Russia, and Spillkins think he has laid
the foundation for Winter overcoat ON q
credit basis. 7eras SJtings.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
A souALrp AFRICAN TOWN.

There lies the town of Senegal in the dis.
lance, consisting of, perhaps, hundred
European houses in the foreground and
some three or four hundred native huts be-
hind fort quay, custom house, post
office, church, monastery, school and-will
it be believed Pa hotel An occasional
horse and cart are seen near the beach,
crowd of idlers lounge upon the quay, men
in military uniform are seen fitting about,
and the French ensign waves in the breeze
from numerous little fagstalfs At length
your boat comes Off II is an open lighter,
with sail rs full of holes as the Flying
Dutchman's, and negro Moor-literally a
blackamoor-with tunic, capote, turbau and
scimetar complete, standing at the helm
Your bargain made, you embark, and in ten
minutes you are alongside the quay, well
coined by polite French cavalry officer and
surrounded by throng of negroes. There
must be several thousand natives here.
Such as wear any dress at all wear Moorish
tunics and turbans. There are about five
hundred troops here, all cavalry. After Wis
ting the public edifces and lunching at the
botel we strolled through the town. A large
baobab tree stands in the centre. 1t is
gnarled and deformed, but its size is SO i'm
mense-twelve feet in diameter-that it ex-
cites admiration. The negro huts are built
of cane or wattles, plastsred with mud and
matched with straw. As neither paint nor
whitewash is employed they offer dirty ap-
pearance, which is not dispelled upon exam
nation of their interiors. The only articles
of furniture are chest, which serves for
cupboard, table and a variety of other uses a
wretched pallet thrown upon the bare earth
which serves for floor, calabash or two,
and occasionally rude chair or stool. The
smell is uncomfortable. FranciscO
Chronicle.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
ABsuRpiTIEs IN ADVERTISING.

A Cincinnati correspondent of the Louis
vile Courter-Jou,nai, writing about adver.
Using schemes, snys: The latest is the
plan of clothing house to offe, horse aud
buggy, pony, piano, &c, as premiums te'
tustomers. The show windows are ar
ranged as stalls, and every day there now
large crowds collect to sec a horse and bug
gy in one stall and the pony in another.
1t is big advertisement. Smaller houses
have taken the cue, and one has in its win
dow dozen or more bricks built up in the
shape of a cottage with composition roof
on it, and offers brick house to every Gus
toner another has little tin horso and a
toy house and grounds, and advertises
horse and house and lot to every customer
Another house calls its competitors goods
horse and buggy oyercoats, piano pants,
pony 90 ITS, sewing machine SUITS and SO on,
and puts figures on them dollar or two
higher than ON the same class Of goods 1t
SELLS"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
CURIOSITY GRATIFIED.

b A man from North Bilerica, Mass, bought
o piece of wild land near Lake Hickpochee
because of wonderful natural curiosity
which the land agent pointed out to him. 1t
was n palmetto log wedged into the branch.
es of water oak twenty feet from the
ground. The purchaser moved upon the
place, and spent his time between meals and
grabbing roots in wondering at the log in
the tree. One day last week he solved the
problem II r,ined MS it rains only in the
Everglades, turning flood Of water into
Lake Hickpochee, and his reighbors heard
him shouting three miles away. He hal
looed all night long, and the next morning
they went over in boat and brought him
out. He was sitting in the top of the tree
with his feet in the water, and with long
pole was keeping off floating palmetto logs
hat were endangering his seat by wedging
themselves in among the branches. The
land agent thinks lie can sell the place for
him at profit when the water goes down,
If tho food does not ruin the curiosity
Jacksonville Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
ONLY ECCENTRIC.u

People seem to think that an insane per
son is not dangerous until he or she commits
come deed of actual violence, says New
York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record. / know of a woman whose family
say that she is not insane, but who goes into
the parlor whenever her daughter has COM
pany and drives the terrified guest out into
the streets This singular woman has takei,
an aversion to pie, and for long time there
has been none on the family table; but one
day recently the son, young man of two
and-twenty, felt longing for pic that he
could not resist, and he he'd some sent home
from the bakers. The waiter placed it on
the table with as great unconcern MS he could
muster and stepped back to await results.
The mothers eye fell upon the offending
dish. IA pie" she screamed; "who or
iered pie foi my table ?" " [ did, mother
said the young mGn in conciliatory voice.
" You did, ana you know won't have pie
in the housed" and with that she sprang
from her chair, and, Selling a carving knife
from the sideboard, chased tho young man
from room to room, and would have done
him an injury if he had not escaped to Il
room where no could lock himself in. But
the family says she is not crazy, she is only
eccentric
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25

ELECTRIC CLocKs.--The mechanical clock
with motive power of weights Or springs
lis about being abolished in New York
that is, the public clocks in churches, hotels,
warehouses, railroad stations, Offices, etc.
The Naval Observatory at Washington far
nishes the time to all the new clocks, which
consists of dials and hands only. A central
clock at the capital moves, by electricity and
local magnets, the second hand of these
dials every five seconds, the minute hand
every minute, which carries along the hour
hand. There is no clock-work behind the
lials. Accurate time is furnished at cost
Of twenty-five cents month. For private
use, however, this method is not likely to be
adopted.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25

A Cow VOLUNTARILY TAKE A RnE.-Ai
Oxford, Ala, the other day, COW climbed
up into the front part of Mr.. James Wrights
wagon, which frightened tho mules hitched
to it and they ran of ut full speed. Mr..
Wright finding that there was not room on
the front seat for both him and the COW,
crawled to the hind end and tumbled out.
The COW enlivened the scene by believing
at fearful rate, the mules responding in
characteristic style They ran about mile
and halted, when the COW stepped down and
out. As no damage was done, the amusing
features Of the scene were highly entertain
ing.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25
POETRY.
A WORD.

They were Oh the lake as TIE sun went down,
Growing tie west with golden.crown,
That flashed on the spires of the distant town.
They leaned DER the side of the light canoe,
-Four tell-tale eyes in the mirror blue,
Disclosed secret they only knew.
She mmieked the thrush on the wooded shore
lie whistled odd snatches from "Troyateren
They had sung together DER and DER.
He dropped pebble from his idle hand,
And watched the tremulous waves expand,
TIL they softly fkFed the distant strand.
She dropped in his ear hasty word,
The depths OF his jealous love were stirred
And the ripples widened, unseen, unheard
Alas, for the sting of bitter tone
Alas, for the lover so late her owni
That night she rowed to the shore alone.
s. White Paine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25

I" I'm goveruess, as poor as a mouse. 4
came here with rich family, and n friend
of the son's-he visited them. He is a
splendid creature, good, true, perfect, beau.
tiful but he liked little me- And used to
sing to him-I am quite one of the family
and--I grew to love him; and yesterday, at
twilight, he walked on the hills with me-
Suddenly he told me how he loved me, and
bow he should never be happy, for he was
engaged TO girl whom he must marry
90 Little Violet, he said, ask nothing
of life but the right TO love you and protect
You, and that / cannot have for honor's
sake And he told me how good she was,
and handsome; and nothing nothing to
him beside little ME.
so all night lay awake, and made up
MY mind to kill myself this morning Now
you know ALL Life is nothing to me if Ru-
dolph is lost-married to that girl! Ru-
dolph, who cried when we parted, though
he was a man!n
Rudolph |" cried l.
"Hush - she cried. az did not mean to
say that"
Rudolph Ackland ?n continued
{" never told you," said she.
"No," said 1. 81 am fortune.teller
Violet look into my eyes. Believe mel
know. There is no need of drowning your
self. That girl viii not marry Rudolph
Acklond She loves some one else better
She feels free to marry him now. She
knows that Rudolph's heart will not be
broken. Go home. Rudolph will come to
you"
"What do you ?" asked the girl
d" Are you fortune-teller? l believe you
are-that-t that girl herself"
eve will make no confessions said l.
=" Kiss me and go home"
She put her lips to mine. And then we
went together mp the Strada, and went
home, On the way I met Giovanni. My
heart beat high with ioy-higher yet when
we parted, for we had pledged our faith to
each other.
My chaperon aud Cousin Rudolph wer5
breakfasting together. Rudolph was pale
he said nothing. My chapcron scolied me
But when she left us for a moment l said TO
him:
"Cousin, cheer up. Let us thank Heav-
en- we were only engaged; not married. I
think you had better go aud see Violet this
morning. am going to the Vatican with
Giovanni. We mako excellent cousins.
Let us retain that relation only. Our ro-
nance has como to us otherwise than we
hoped"
think-such is mau-that he WIS hurt
and angry with me, but he went to Violet,
and she is his wife to-day, and Goyannfs.
Aud the seas roll between our homes, or I
have never left Rome, and he transplanted
his Violet to America. -Mday Kyle Da}1as
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25

A NEVADA STocK KINa.--W William Dun
ply is one of the largest raisers and DEALER
in Nevada. His stock range comprises
many thousand acres on the Humboldt, ane
Maggie Creek, where are constantly large
herds of fine cattle from which he selecti
foi the San Francisco market He cut large
quantities of hay from his own lands, be
sides having bought some 5000 tons more
all of which viii be fed to beef cattle during
the Winter. Reno Gazette.
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e.. A. Dc &. III. SKILLM1N,
AttOrnevs.at.

SOUTHEAST COR BRIDGE AND UNION SITS,
LAMBERTVILLE, N. J.
Collections and all legal business Entrusted to
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
tion.
G. A. SKILLMAN, G. II. SKILLMAN,
Couaseiior-at-L dtc. .4norney-af-L Lar.
July g 1879
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-16
THE GREATEST HORROR.
PHONo.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15.-Ben Tice, head
clerk of the Newhall House, made the fol-
10 wing statement to-day, bearing on the
origin of the fire:
Somebody set the building on fire
Down near the foot of the stairs, leading
from the inside of the hotel to the ba. Der
shop, was a little closet used for kindling
separated only by wooden partition from
the shaft of the elevator. The fire was set
in that closet OF course it burned through
the partition into the hatchway before it
went far enough IN any other direction to
be discovered. The inside of the hatchway
was saturated with oil from the machinery.
especially to the third and fourth stairs
The flames, feeding on this oiled wood,
rushed right up the hatchway, bursting
out on the third and fourth stories, where
it was first seen from the outside 1t was
this burning of the oiled wood. all the way
up the hatchway, that made such dense
smoke and terrible heat. Many of those
saved were terribly burned by that heat
although they did not come In contact
with the flames. The flames didn't reach
me and yet you can see how I am fixed. >
Here Tice held up both arms above the
bed in which he lay. His hands are so
burned as to be useless at present, and are
kept wrapped in bdndages. and he is una
BILE to feed himself His nose, cheeks and
ears are badly burned while his hair was
badly singed, showing the correctness of
his theory. Tice was asleep in the sixth
story when the fire broke out.
John Gilbert, the actor, is reported bet
ter He imagines he has been on big
spree, and remarked to the physicians that
This drinking whisky is terrible thing"
1t is thought that he may not survive the
shock of the news of the death of his wife
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-16
GLEANINGS.

The Chinese minister at Washington
has wardrobe said to be worth $780,
900.
ing, have built large Masonic temple
and dedicated it according to the Gus
toms of their country.
Parties in western New York are fur
nishing maple logs to be shipped to
Belgium. They are quite curiosity
over there.
Miss Mary Probyn, the girl author of
many dainty verses, has a new volume
in press. It is entitled Gentleman
Jack, and Other Poems,"
A fine pointer dog died at Charlotte,
n. c., very mysteriously. An autopsy
revealed over quarter of pound of
nails in his stomach.
Sixteen years ago a Syracuse girl in
trusted a lamb to a farmer. A few days
ago she was awarded a judgment of
500 for the. increase of the lamb.
when j was STUDENT said dis
tinguished professor of medicine, II
thought had remedy for nearly every
disease. At present / only wish pos
sessed sure one for single malady."
1t is stated that a carp pond in She
nandoah county. Virginia, has in it
thousands of carp from six and eight
pounds down to those of last summers
Matching. The pond was stocked only
two years ago.
The attorney general of Pennsylvania
has written an opinion to the effect that
the governor has not the power to re-
store TO citizenship person who has
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-16
THE MILE NNIUM.

Rev. J. Hemphill, of San Francisco. be-
lieves that the advent andpersonal reign
of Christ will be after the millennium.
During the millennium he thinks the phys
ical condinions of the world viii be i'm
proved. Sin being removed, pain and
travail will be done away with. The
physical conditions of man will be vastly
improved, and there will exist no pain,
sorrow nor tears, such as ours now.
When that time comes men will live as
long as the old patriarchs before the flood.
Healthy bodies will make healthy minds,
and fer l 900 years the two will be yoke
fellows. The moral and spiritual CON
ditions will be vastly improved and
holiness will abound And during those
thousand years he thinks one language
will prevail throughout the world, for
through the Tower of Babel, or sin. nu-
merous tongues came, and by the casting
out of sin they will go. But what Ian
guage is liable to be odopted2 The sign
of the times is that the honest old Anglo
Saxon of England and America will be the
one, for it is now being Introduced over
not only the civilized, but the uncivilized
world When the glory of the millen-
MUM will dawn he could not venture TO
guess.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-16
How be Tracked the Money.

More than fifty years ago there lived
near London a MIR. Field, widower,
with seven interesting children, and
holding n position in the Bank of Eng
land something analogous 10 That Of
teller, so-called, in the banks Of this
country Making mp his accounts one
day, he found himself nine Thousand
pounds short, about fortYtiye thousand
dollars. As he or his securities we're
liable for all losses or defalc;,tion, this
misfortune was to him absolute ruin.
One who has occasion to visit the
Bank of England TO exchange a large
note for smaller ones, or for gold, goes
to desk and writes his name and adj
dress on the back of the note. He then
takes it to wicket. or opening. and
presents it for examination. A large
card is taken down. and, if correct, a
mark is made on the note. Then TO an
other wicket, where like examination
is made. Then to another place. in
continual line. A small portion is torn
off the note and cast into basket, and
on a slip of paper an order is given on
the next place, aud YOU receive your
new notes, or gold.
Mr.. Field could only imagine that in
giving notes in exchange he might have
given ten one-thouSand notes for one
hundreds, which would leave him minus
nine thousand p and@ He rushed to
the basket OF refuse notes and found
one of one thousand pounds. On the
back was the name of Mr. Brown,
and the address. Turks Head Inn. Mr..
Brown was : traveller. then, and might
be already gone from that house. He
reached the inn, with what speed may
be imagined. and found coach there.
filled with passengers. and just about to
leave the yard Breatlfiess with anxiety,
he approached the window of the coach,
and inquired If any gentleman by the
name of Brown was within.
MY name is Brown said pleasant
face; why do you ask?''
did you change thousand pound
note at the Bank of England to-day?''
Il did,
''Have you the. notes given in ex.
changer
Il have, just as you gave them to
me.''
On examination there were found ten
notes of one-thousand pounds each
much to the establishment of Mr.. Brown.