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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-10-24

Eonlieh girls who. dazzlnd by the CLARA
If the foot-lights, are hankering to appear
IN the stage should read and digest these
confessions of Miss Maggie Mitchell, a sue
,essful actress, written for the North 1meyf-
can ReUie,o.
II would be bold for me to pretend to
decry the chances Of success for the actress
of the future 1t is lottery, this pro
fession of ours, in which even the prizes
after all, are not very considerable.
My own days, spent most of them fai
from my children aud the comforts and de-
lights of my home, are full of exhausting
labor
Rehearsals and other business occupy ms
from early morning to the hour of perform
ance, with brief intervals for rest and food
and a little sleep
In the best hotels my time is 30 invaded
that can scarcely live comfortably, much
less luxuriously. AT tho worst, existence
becomes torment and burden.
am the eager yet weary slave Of my pro
fassion, and the best it can do for me--whe
am fortunate enough to be included among
its successful members-is to barely pallinte
the suffering of forty weeks exile from my
ow. house and my family.
For those of our calling who have to make
this weary round, year after year, with dis
appointed ambitions and defeated hopes as
heir insepaable company, can feel from
he bottom of my heart.
Each season makes the life harder and
irearier; each year robs it of one more pros
peet, one more chance, one more opportun
ity to try and catch the Aeetine bubble il
another field.
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AN INDIAN WEDDING.

Minnie and Chavo waut to mally," sac
Chief Charlie of the Utes, while in Denver
recently. He heap big Injun, she heap
nice squaw. Injun want no preacher ;
Injun want to mally in Injun like Ute
fathers. Mally quick right away. Come"
And everybody went.
Crowded in the tepee were about twenty
five persons. The blushing BRIDE in a
brilliant dress cut en- train, stood by the
side of the young warrior, who had changed
his attire from one of warfare TO that OF
mourning. Ranged on each side of the
tent were the braves, sixteen in number, in
full paint and feather, each with q plug
hat. Chief Charlie directed the ceremonies
In few words he announced in Ute that
the father and mother of the bride had
selected Chavo for n husband and that
jhavo wanted Minnie to darn his socks, sew
on his buttons and such other duties incum.
bent upon the squaw of SO mighty n war.
rior. Turning to the bride and groom he
asked the usual questions. They replied il
Ute, whereupon the chief stepped aside,
The high contracting parties then seated
themselves in the straw in the middle of the
lent, while around them squatted the
braves. Mrs. Sow-no-winch, mother of the
interesting pappoose, placed around the
brides neck an amulet tied with deer sinew,
md then the ceremony was complete. At
another sign from the chief the braves be-
gan to chant, rising in the vocal key louder
and louder, until the dirge grew wild and
weird breaking forth in harmony of
sounds that defed all musical scoring
From grave to gay the group had passed
with but little interim. The assemblage by
this time was metamorphosed so that the
scene was wild aud beyond description.
All Mt once the connection ceased SO sudden
ly as to startle the guests. Exhausted, the
braves sank to the ground, and the warrior
and his newly made wife passed out from
the group, he disappearing first through the
lodge entrance and she following.
After the marriage the whole band took
the next train to the city, where their
pictures were taken. Minnie accompanied
them, but not with her husband. She was
nothing but squaw, and realizing her
position she strolled long behind the
braves as meek as the traditional lamb that
followed Mary. While at school at Albu-
querque she gave evidence of naturally
quick mind, and had she been so inclined
could have stayed and eventually become n
valuable accession to the Governments
corps of teachers. She preferred the wild
life of her people, and to this she was wed.
ded.-Denger Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-10-24
PRISON PETS.

There are numerous instances on record
+ persons in durance vile " making pets
If tho most unlikely animals, nay, even
reptiles and flowers. The instances con-
sidered noteworthy have been generally
hose Of persons of rank. In reality the
passion is not more TO be wondered ut
IN the Count Pieciola of schoolbook noto-
riety, who gained the good-feeling Of
his keeper to respect the pet flower which
had sprung up between the stones Of the
prison yard, than is similar feeling ex-
libited by the deepest-dyed criminal of the
common Jail. In fact it has been noticed
that the feeling If anything, is stronger in
the man Of few resources.
A free man, with hundreds of other mat
tiers to engage his attention, conld not spare
the time necessary TO turn out such marvels
II the tanning art as are to be found among
making or harvesting, mouse is seized,
Iecreted in the breast pocket, and kept in
here by means of handkerchief which
closes the mouth of the pocket.
Mice and sparrows are common prison
pets but what shall be said of rats as things
70 be desired2 We can imagine the horror
If the female portion of our readers who
would, doubtlessly, consider pests a much
more appropriate name than pets. A pris.
,ner given to pet making will tell you thai
;he rat is almost unteachable, the most thai
can DO taught him being attachment to the
person. He cannot be Trusted out Of sight,
but must be always carried out to work.
He evidently enjoys the warmth afforded by
the tamers body, and being neither an
epicure nor fastidious in regard to lodgings,
finds this kind of life preferable to days Of
grubbing among foundations, fearful of
terriers, poison, and gins, in house Of his
own making-in short, he prefers 1t tc
working for his living. We hear That this
rat is too true picture of the habitual Grim
NAL in prison. --CHama5ers' J0u,nal.
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NEVER TRAVELLED BEFORE.

People sometimes wonder at the sharp
answers often given them by the officials OF
railroad ticket Office. If they should stand
for years behind window selling tickets to
people from all grades Of society and from
every nation in the world, they would find
It a severe task to keep their good nature
proof against the foolish questions they
would have SO often to answer. A ticket
seller at the Union Depot remarked to-day
that after thirty years in ticket Office he
wondered that he was able to return polite
answer to any question. He related an in
sident that occurred at the depot An old
lady came to the window and purchased q
ticket for Saratoga, after which she removed
her bonnet, took out her knitting. and seat
ed herself in the waiting room Soon
voice called out, An aboard for Saratoga
and the North but the old lady didn't stir.
Meanwhile the waiting room had been de-
serted, and the train was about to start. /
Still the old lady piled her needle in the
most unconcerned manner. Surprised at
this, the official in the ticket office asked
her if she wasn't going to Saratoga. "Oh,
yes" said the old lady, g I've bought my
ticket" g But the train is about tc start.
said the ticket man. I" Well, I've got d COCO
seat, was the answer to the astonished off
cial. She had never travelled before, and
the hurried explanation of the ticket man
came too late for her to catch the train.---
Troy Times.
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Tho Coming Cow.

"The coming cow is causing good
deal of speculation as to her race, lineage.
and capacity. 1t is very improbable that
this anxiously expected animal will be mucL
different from the past COW. or of any par
ticular breed or kind. Mankind vary sc
much in their tastes, and one man is so par
ticularly averse to doing what another may
do, that things will always be as much mix
ed in regard to COWS us to style of houses
aud wagons, or the way of managing farms.
So that it is probable that the coming COW
will be as much mixed in the future as the
old COW has been, and the present COW is.
There will be little Shorthorn for size and
beef some Dutch and Ayrshire for milk I;
some Jersey or Guernsey for cream and a
good deal of common native stock for con-
venience. But as it has been in the past,
we don't think the twentieth century will
improve very much on the nineteenth in re
spect of dairy cows.--1He (N. 70 Dairy
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SYMMETRICAL FORMS.
The Proportion of Beauty in a Man and
Woman.

In well proportioned figures it is usual
to find the length of the body from head tc
loot to be about eight times the length of
the face says an uptown artist. 1.-THE
length of the hand bears certain proper
ton to the forearm, and this to the arm
from the elbow to the shoulder. The foot
is in length shorter than the leg from the
ankle to the knee-ioint, and this is shorter
than the leg from the knee to the hip. An
idea of the proportion which the limbs bear
10 each other may be inferred from the fol-
lowing numbers, which appertain to fig
nre measuring five feet ten inches from
nead to foot From ground to ankle, two
inches and seven-eighths from ankle to
knee, eighteen inches; from knee to hip,
nineteen and two-eighths; from hip to col.
lar-bone, sixteen and six-eighths from col
lar-bone to top of head, thirteen and one
eighth length of foot, from heel to toe,
ten and five-eighths; hand, fiinger-end to
wrist-joint eight and three-eighths wrist
Joint to elbow joint, ten inches; elbow to
shoulders, twelve inches"
Taking long stick or alpenstock, that
some pedestrian had abandoned in corner
of the yard, the artist continued IF you
wish to test your own symmetry, here's
good method Cut this stick TO exactly your
own length. Then mark it off into twenty.
four equal parts. Number one should mari
about the ankle-joint from the bottom Of
your foot, number seven the knee, thirteen
the hip, twenty the shoulder and twenty.
four the top of the head. The length OF
your foot should be somewhere between
three and four parts, from your middle
inger's end to wrist. joint three parts, to
elbow six and one-half and to shoulder ten.
The female head is smaller than the male
head"
Because it holds less ?n
didn't say that. Only, to measure the
body by length of the head is the method
though common, by no means infallible.
The body is longer in the child than in the
adult figure, to which alone the foregoing
measurements apply. The growth is greater
in the limbs during youth until womanhood.
There can be no settled or fixed measure.
ments employed to decide what should be
the widths or circumference of the chest
compared with the height of the figure OF OF
he limb. In the male figure the circumfer.
ence of the chest should be greater than
that of the loins or about the hips, while in
the female this order is nearly reversed -
Ctard BelleSa Cincinnati Enquirer.
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MISCELLANY.
THEY MUST STEAL.
Curious Capers of KIeptomanlacs Who
Can't Help 1t.

:" And so you thought kleptomania an
elegant synonym for plain stealing ?" said a
wellknown retail dry goods merchant to a
St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter, who had
expressed some doubts on the subjeut.
Oh, no; there are in st. Louis dozens If
ladies', the wives or daughters or wealthy
citizens, who are addicted to kleptomania.
Every prominent dry goods store has several
such customers, and when known they are
followed from the time they enter the store
until they leave it, ana by careful watching,
every little article they abstract is noted
down and included in their bills, which are
always paid without demur.
One young lady kleptomaniac manifsst
her disordered mind in stealing buttons;
everything else is sacred, but she invariably
adges up to the button counter and slyly
slips card with dozen or SO of buttons
INTO her reticule. The boys at the counter
all know her, and place the the commonest
buttons within her reach Any kind Salts
les her; still her bin for buttons during a
year Is something that would surprise You
As her family are good customers we offered
20 take back the buttons. But no, they said
they would rather consider anything she
took out of the store in the light of a pur-
chase. Now the young lady in question is
moiel of probity in all other respects, and
seem to be perfectly unconscious of any
uansgresslon OF the moral law
The wife of a well-known uptown pas
10 81 al, tc
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THE DIRT EATERS.
You say there are dirt eaters Z"

You say there are dirt eaters 2"
Yes, sir; and mean it in its literal
sense. You know the French traveller,
Macroix, who explored the sources of the
River Amazon, found tribe of Indians so
internally lazy that, having eaten up all the
four-footed animals in their reach, includ
ing parrots and monkeys, snakes and creep
ing things, were reduced TO living solely OF
bugs and insects. These Ottomacs ART
fully as bad. They live upon mud balls
when the river is high and fishing ceases.
II is sort of unctuous clay of peculiar
kind, which he finds upon banks of streams.
1t is soft to the touch, like putty. In its
natural state it is of q yellowish-gray color,
but when hardened before the fire it assumes
tinge of red owing to the oxide Of iron
that it contains"
:" Is it nourishingi"
Not in the least. 1t merely fills up
produces safety and satisfies the pangs OF
hunger. have been told by chemists and
medical men who have analysed the little
balls into which they roll it to store away
that it contained nothing nourishing, SIM
ply slick and alumina, with 8 or per cent.
Of lime. He calls these balls pQya, and
stores them up into pyramids, just AZ can
non balls are piled in fort. Each bail is
three or four inches in diameter. When
hungry, he takes ball and softens it by
wetting, and eats about pound a day
There is something in the dirt eating habit
which produces a sort of craving for it. ]
do not think that the habit is confined ex-
clusively TO the Ottomacs, but believe that
it is generally known among the Indians Of
the tropics. | have heard of poor class
of whites living in North Carolina who,
when pressed by hunger, eat the mud
daubings that hide the chinks in their
cabins. Cincinnati Enq,arer.
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POETRY.
LIES seusops


Ruby lips rnat part with baby laughtes,
Heayen-sent eyes that wonder all they say,
Feet that only yet have wandered
Where the primrose hides In woods of MAY,
What In life's great Book is written after?
win those feet press primrose beds for aver
VIII the flowers still bloom where brooks meal
dered?
WIN the linet's warbling sound as gay9
Maiden tripping from the primrose bowers
Into June, whose roses flush thy face,
ife to thee is but a dream Of beauty
Thou hast only started in the race.
Thou hast learned not yet to miss lifes flowers
Let 1t bel In after years thy grace
May by pain be mellowed. Who would show
thee,
Mid earths sufferers, which shall be thy place
Far away where Autumn's red leaves CULVER,
May and June are links OF what is past;
And woman in LIES full September
Ripe with sorrow, wears crown at last
Wears the crown that home ard love doth Civ
her
Brighter than earth's gold for love is vast
md life never can be quite December,
Where DER hearts, loves golden web is cast
Srtnsicd brows and tottering feet descending
To tine grave where all our loved ones 90;
fourneying home to rest, yet thankful ever
For the suffering Gods love doth bestow.
Heaven and earth DER human failure blending,
Golden sunlight kissing Winter snow;
Angels stepping down from God to sever
Mortal ties, and cancel every woe.
Harriet Kendall.
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"what are you doing there ?" demanded
a policeman of man who sat ON fence
bowling That Teller in the house shot
my dog because he howled, and am carry
ing out the dogs contract. am going to
howl here until think the dogs death has
been sufficiently avenged. If he shoots me
my son will howl out my contract, and il
further harm should befall my wife will
come out and howl till he can't get rest.
Oh, but we are howlers. "--Arkansao
Truyeley.
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" See here" said the star to the manager.
" If you are going to have bouquets handed
TO me every night, why don't you get de-
cent ones? Look at this to-night's it's all
wilted. Why can't always have as good a
bouquet as had last nighta' g As good q
bouquet as you had last night?' shrieked
the manager, "why, holy sunnower, its
The same one !"--L0aoeU Citizen.
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Where's Yesterday.


A little boy said, as he rose from his couch,
"There's something I'd like TO know well;
will ask every one until find out
Though think that my mamma could TELL"
"Dear mamma" he cried, ave question to
ask
Where, wonder, did yesterday go?
have thought that perhaps 1t went TO the stars
WIN you tell me If this could be so?"
g can answer you, Willie," said innocent Kate
AS she opened her pretty blue eyes;
4 Why, yesterday went on that fieecy white
cloud
That is sailing so fast to the skies"
But watch, you viii see there will nothing be
left
When the morning wind blows it away
TO make room for the light which came with the
dawn,
Then the sun Will shine through in to-day"
Oh, yesterday, gone like a cloud in ! $ flight,
Borne away with its hopes and Its fears;
Youths eyes never watch for the coming OF
night,
While the sun of to-day still appears.
--Vi,Otqid t. Eliej'd.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said: Gal
healthy things are sweet tempered" We
iiffer with Ralph. Now, we know a per-
;ectly healthy red-headed woman who is
well, she just is, and no mistake about it,
Teas Siflings
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C.. n. Dc G.. III. SKILLM4N,
AttarneYs-at.

SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND UNION STs
LAMBERTyILLE, N. ].
Collections and all legal business Entrusted to
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
ton.
G. A. SKILLMAN, G.. II. SKILLMAN,
Coanseiior-at- Lar. Ahorney-at-Law.
July 2, 1879.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-11-10


For volcano once supposed to be
inactive, Vesuvius has prepared some
lively surprises for the dwellers in its
neighborhood. Its latest surprise has
been to shake up railroad and destroy
several houses. The people of Her
culaneum and Pompeii thought Yesuv-
ius extinct, till one day it proved in a
very thorough manner that it could
still be reused to activity. Since then
no one has been deceived by Its quie-
tude. Other volcanoes besides Vesuv-
ius have from time to time indulged in
what seems to be general volcanic pro-
pensity of creating surprises. Thus no
one would expect to have a mass of
rock of some three hundred. cubic feet
suddenly descend upon them from the
sky. But people living nine miles from
UUtopaxi were ON one occasion treated
to such a surprise. The great eruption
Of Tomboro surprised people for some
$50 miles around, the distance at which
the force OF the explosion was felt.
They wondered what was the matter
until they learned of the eruption from
one of the twenty-six persons who were
saved out of population of 1000. 1t
must also be surprise of a beautiful
kind, though fatal, TO see a fry fount.
tain play TO a height of seven hundred
feet from the side of mountain. Such
a fountain on Mauna Loa. In 1852, was
magnificent lustrati IN of volcanic
tissure, the pressure of lava at the crater
being relieved by this new outlet. The
cracks often seen on volcanoes, which
form dikes radlating from the centre,
are creatad in this manner. But prob
ably the greatest surprise connected
with this subject is the formation of
volcanoes. A volcano is originally
nothing but hole in the ground,
formed often at no elevation by the
swelling and breaking of an earth bub-
BILE. The mountain which springs up
around this opening is formed by ac-
cumulations of successive eruptions,
and the great age of volcanoes may be
readily appreciated from the fact that
Htna had attained almost its present
height when it was observed by Greek
writers $500 years ago.
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very Aged Coins.

One Of the most valuable, rarest and
most unique of private colleuicous of an
tique and modern coins and medals,
that Is now in the possession of MIR.
Charles Tochterman, OF New York, was
seen by correspondent during the past
week. The collection embraces series
of coins from the earlier period of the
Egyptians, from the time of Moses,
thence to the Hebrew shekel, at the be-
ginning of the Christian era, and follow
ing in close sequence down through the
relgns of Roman, Greek and German
emperors. There are coins from the
early period; also of the CaIthagenians,
Assyrians, Medes, Grecians and Mace
domains. A complete set of coins from
the time of Queen Elizabeth down to
the present dynasty. A full set of coins
of the United States from the year
1894, when the first coin was minted, to
date, The medals are from all ma
tions and ages, some of them. it is said,
over 4, 200 yeers old. Mr.. Tochterman
is Go years old. and has spent forty years
of his life making the collection. He
has Travelled from "Greenland's icy
shore" to Africa's desert waste, from the
ruins of Pompeii to the catacombs OF
Rome, and through the forgotten glories
of Egypt, as shown in her ruins, TO the
Aztec mounds of Mexico. In fact, no
country nor cline but Mr.. Tochterman
has seen. In this admirable work Mr..
Tochterman has been assisted by his
charming wife, lady as much and as
enthusiastic numismatist as her hus
band. Through a mutual friend the
writer was introduced to the collector
of the curios, who appointed day when
the coins could be seen, as they had to
be taken from the vaults of the Safe
Deposit Company and brought to his
house.
On the day appointed the writer was
courteously received, and saw spread
out before his gaze collection that has
seldom been shown to other eyes than
the collector and few intimate friends
NOT half-dozen in all. AS the col
lection stands Its value intrinsically is
estimated at between $25, 900 and
$50, 900, They were of gold. copper,
silver and other metallic substances,
and few, taken from the tombs of the
ancient Egyptians. are of stone. The
first to attract the writer's attention was
a splendid English silver medal, nearly
three inches in diameter and one eighth
of an inch in thickness, which was
struck off In honor of the nuptials of
Charles l. and the Princess Henrietta.
The design on one side represents a
marriage scene, with two angels above
browning the parties. The reverse rep
resents field OF battle, with Pailas
coming down and presenting Bellona a
branch of laurel. On the left ls a curl
GUS piece of cannon of peculiar shape,
with its muzzle pointed away from the
two. This is dated May IL, 1641. The
next was q large silver medal represent
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-11-10

Remember, when the timid Dawn uncloses
Her. magic palace to the SUMS bright
beams,
Remember, when the pensive night reposes
Beneath her silvery veil in tender dreams,
When pleasures call thee, when thy heart
is light,
When to sweet fancies shade invites at
night,
List, through the deep woods ring,
Sweet voices, murmuring
Rememberl
Remember, when Fate's cruel hand has
broken
For aye the tie that bound my life with
thine;
When, with long years and exile, grief un-
spoken,
Despairing heart and blasted hopes are
mine.
Think of my love, think of my last adieu,
Absence and time are naught when love Is
true.
Long as my heart shall beat,
Ever it shall repeat,
Rememberl
Remember, when beneath the cold ground
lying,
My broken heart forever is at rest,
Remember, when some lovely flower Is
trying
Its petals soft to open on my breast,
Thou wilt not see me; but my soul, sci
free,
Faithful in death shall still return to thee
Then bark TO the sad means
Of n deep voice that groans,
Rememberl