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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
A Wealthy chinaman's Estate.

was permitted the very rare privilege
Of passing over the famous Houqua es-
tate, one Of the wealthiest and most i'm
posing homes in this whole empire,
writes a correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean from China. The elder
Houqua died some forty years ago, sup
posed to be worth nearly a million Of
dollars for every year of his life. His
wealth was illustrated by the fact that
when the English demanded a ransom Of
several million dollars for the city Of
Canton, about the time when they were
holding the city, Mr.. Houqua came for
ward and said:
''Permit me the happiness Of donating
s., 600, OOo."
And the citizens cheerfully accorded
him that liberty. OF the sons, grand
sons. great-grandsons now living on the
estate Gncluding, OF course, the servants,
for in China the patriarchal system pre-
walls, and servants are reckoned as mem
bers Of the family, there arc about -four
hundred persons.
For time we strolled about in the
countless courts and outer halls Of the
place, in order to give the family a
chance to take cognizance of our pres
ence. Everything was grand, massive
and gloomy, but not by any means
pretty. We were escorted into a cherry
orchard, where there were perhaps one
hundred trees of Chinese variety of this
fruit, all in full bloom. The odor from
the billowy burden Of blossoms that
hung on the boughs was 50 sweet that
the air seemed to rise and fall in waves
Of perfume. The ground was literally
white underneath with a carpet of fallen
petals.
We now began to encounter represen.
tatives of the family, who focked about
us numerousIy and cordially remarked 5;
''Chin-chin2' in greeting. They were
the finest and most cleanly looking
Gelestials have yet seen in China,
though must reluctantly announce that
the girls affected small feet and the
young men cultivated immensely long
tinger-n nails. These are indispensable
badges of aristocracy, however, Not
only did the wives and daughters peep
cut at US from behind curtained windows,
but they came out in plain sight and
bowed timidly. They were psinted
clear to their foreheads and had their
lips crimsoned with vermilion. Their
feet were invariably small-or rather
mangled-and their attire was exceed
ingIy immaculate The little tots iocked
about Us, not at all afraid, apparently,
reaching out their cute little hands and
piping the salutaticn, "Chin-chin y
Their cleanliness made them the first
native children I have seen in China who
were attractive. Some of them got hold
of the plug hat of Mr.. Seymour aud in
great glee began trying it on.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
Hiccounhs.

The explanation of hiccoughs as con-
vulsiye contraction of the diaphram is
confirmed by the manner in which it may
be stopped. 1t is, namely, only neces-
sary to allow an exceedingly protracted
and at the end forcible expiration to fol-
low long and quiet inspiration. A
remedy which the writer has tested many
times without failure, can always be
used upon person who has the hiccoughs
by someone else, and generally by the
sufferer himself. You say to your friend
something like this: "See how close to-
gether you can hold the tips of your fin
gers without their touching No, keep
your elbows out free from your sides.
You can get yonr fingers closer than that.
Thep are touching now. There, now
hold them so. steadylp By this time
you can generally ask, "Now, why don't
you hiccough n The involuntary ten
dency to breathe slowly and steadily when
the attention is fixed on performing a
delicate manipulation is here what coun-
teracts the conyulsive action of the dia-
pbran1
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
NUMBER 80.
PRINCE LEOPOLD.
Death Of (ue.n Victoria's Young
est Sol in a Fit.
Dying in French WsterioJ Pace
Sketch Of His Career


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fourth and youngest son Of Queen Victoria,
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nays previously 1of tne Dehenb OF hs
health He had been looking in fine
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fOtIA1 'tAN eiASlC 1OAAfO DfpDa1hHDAA -
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
A Testy Philosopher.

Edward King in recent letter says;
@Carlyle's brutality in conversation with
people he did not like is often mentioned,
and heard the other day an amusing
instance Of it. w. III Mallock, the
author Of rs Life Worth Liyingr and
other singular books, is credited with
having curiously high estimate of him
self, and it is related that one day he
dropped in on Carlyle and talked the old
gentleman almost into his grave. The
Scotch philosopher and historian listened
imperturbably to everything that Nal
lock had to offer, invited him to tea, and
had him to smoke in the library after
ward. When at last tile youthful sage
thought proper to take his leave. Carlyle
accompanied him to the door and said /;
Well, goodbye. I've received ye kindly
because I knew your mother; but never
want to set eyes on ye again. y
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
A DISTRACTED PARENT,
Five daughters-rour of them engaged
think l shall 90 madl

Five daughters-four of them engaged
think l shall go mad
For such surfeiting of love
No parent ever had
The very atmosphere is charged
With it; no matter where
I go about the house, l trip
Upon some whispering pair.
At evening when take my pipe
And seek quiet nook
To sit and read my paper, or
Some new and tempting book.
lope, perhaps, the parlor door,
When a familiar sound.
Quite unmistaknble, suggests
1t is forbidden ground.
So then more cautiously I turn
To our reception room;
But, 10! again upon my ear
From its romantic gloom
Comes softly, yet with emphasis
That warning; when start
And leave as Lady Macbeth wished
Her guests would all depart.
My next resort is then the porch,
Where roses trail and bloom;
Hal is it echo that betrays
The joys of yonder roomi
Ah, no! a startled change of base
Reveals the presence there
OF Cupid's votaries, and alas!
There's still another pair.
"But sure think, 'my library
VIII be safe retreat
So there at once with quickened step
take my wearied feet,
Vain hope-that warning sound again
Breaks on my listening ear;
Thank heavenl my youngest hath not yet
Attained her thirteenth year.
Hark there she Isl and bless my heart,
That popinjay, young Lunn,
Is at her side-I do believe,
That she, too, has begun.
Oh, ye who live TO sit and dream
OF future married joys,
Pray heaven with honest fervor that
Your girls may all be boys.
philadelphia Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
AN EARTHQUAKE
shock i'm Georgia sets People 20
PrasfnaE.

A shock i'm Georgia sets People 10
IRA }ing.
News comes from the interior Of Laurens
county, Ga, OF an earthquake which set many
people to praying The hecorrespondentsa says that
he WAS awakene by the shock, which enuse1
the house to treInble as if a heavy freigh
train was passing, but no explosion wa
heard One mai says that the movement
began with a noise ike distant thunder. with
two or three peals In the west, or northwest.
and then 4 loud rt1mhling or roaring sound.
which seemed to come nearer until the
iar. or uuaking, was felt sensibly and
that from thu time he first heaEsl thA explosion
until the house ceased to shake, was pelhaas.
two minutes All testify that ii WA npk u
iarrinz of the house bnt q real shaking
Whether it was the explosion OF meteor
or something more terrible, it was Ger
tairlv different from anything ever felt
in the county before. Persons FROM
nefghborhoeds fifteen miles east make about
the same report One man. having fear af
a cyclone, had a fearful dream Of ona AZ.
preaching, and woke 10 find his house slaaizs
ing and windows gathering. The sky was
clear and none 81 the people saw any haN1 es
light such al sometimes accompanies eHnlaA
sions 1T various bodies
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
Typouraphic Epitaphs.

Mr., William Andrews, in his book of
''Curious Epitaphs, 4" published by Ham
ilton, Adams & Co., gives the following
on noted printer and bookseller named
Jacob Tonson, who died in 1885:
The volume Of his life being finished, here
is the end Of Jacob Tonson. Weep, authors,
and break your pens; your Tonson, etfaced
from the book, is no more; but print the last
inscription on this last page Of deaih, Tor
fear that, delivered from the press Of the
grave, he, the editor should want a title.
Here lies a bookseller, the leaf OF his life
being finished, awaiting new edition aug
mented and corrected.
The celebrated Doctor Benjamin Frank
lin initiated the above, and designed it
for himself:
The body Of B. Franklin, printer, like the
cover of an old book its contents torn cut,
and stripped of its lettering and gliding, lies
here. food for worms But the work shall
not be wholly lost, for it will, as he believed.
appear once more in new and more perfect
edition, corrected and amended BY the
author He was born January IL. 100.
Died, -, II. B. F.
Franklin died on April II, 1890, aged
eighty-four years. After the death Of
this sturdy patriot and sagacious writer,
the following singlar sentiment was in
scribed to his memory;
Benjamin Franklin, the j of his profes-
sion; the type of honesty; the of all; and
although the s5Ty- of death put to his
existence, each Of his life is without ].
On a plain flat slab in the burial
ground Of Christ church, Philadelphia,
the following simple inscription appears
over the remains Of the good man and
his worthy wife:
BENJAMIN r. ~, -
February, 1890.
The pun on the supersession of an old
edition by new and revised one has
often been worked out, as in the follow
ing example, winch is that Of the Rev
John Cotton, who died in New England,
in 1852:
living, breathing Bible; tables where
Both covenants at large engraven were;
Gospel and law in his heart had each it,
| column,
| His head an index to the sacred volumei
His very name title-rage; and, next,
His life a commentary on the text
/ Oh, what a moment of glorious worth,
/ When in a new edition he comes forthl
Without errata, we may think twill be,
In leaves and covers Of Eternity.
We shall bring to a close our examples
Of topographic epitaphs with the follow
ing, copied from the graveyard Of St
Michaels, Coventry, on worthy printer
who was engaged over sixty years as 0
compositor on the Coventry Mercury:
Here
lies inter'd
the mortal remains
| of
JOIN HULM,
Printer.
who, like an old worn-out type,
battered by frequent use,
repcses in the grave.
But not without hope that at some future
time
he might be cast in the mould of righteous
And safely locked up
in the chase Of Immortality.
He was distributed from the board Of life
on the 9th day of Sept, 1927,
Aged 75,
Regretted by his employers,
and respected by his fellow artists
British and Colonial Stdtioner aud
Printer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-04-03
cleayinu Unit, the Dust.

1t has heen remarked that the funniest
object in the world is hen, because it
is so perfectly unconscious. 1t is not
often that an intelligent human being
vies with the hen in this particular, but
the gentleman Of whom the following
story is told evidently made an effort in
that direction:
'sBefore beginning the second psalm
for the day, a Glasgow clergyman reached
down into his pocket, and took pinch
of snuff. Even vet he cannot understand
what there was in the first verse of the
psalm to make the congregation laugh
when he read Ny soul cleaveth to the
dust
Dried orange peel is used for kindiing
n
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-07
Staple Groceries,,

No. and Flour, No. 1 and Rice,
Crushed Sugar, China and Japan Tsas,
Oysters, Clans, Salmon, HOLSTERS,
Finest Table Fruits from the Factory
Pure English Spices, Condensed Milk
Cocoa, SPECIALTlES The Pat
ace Kerosene on, WestoH's Gem
riJu0ai Innings, "A inch, Rubber
Spring and Cdnrds Brake just at
hand, Blake Steam Pump Valves, Pack.
ing, Sc, Blake Boiler Feed, Juice or
Molasses, lrrigating & Vacuum Pumps
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-07

The drias iag Of healihs originated during
the Danish oeel nation Of Britain. The Dance
frequently asbbsl fnglishmen ~hile in the
act u drinking. and IL finally became Necessary
ios the English, in visN Of the constant re-
petition Of this dasiardly nsoae of assassination,
to enter into compact 10 be mutual pledges
Of security ios each others health and pIesera-
uon. Hence the ces,om VI trnking hssiths.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-07

II M. DAT, JR. & co
s . 2 3
StatiOners ana NeWs Dealers.
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE BLOCK. az MERCHAN
Have lust received, ex Mariposa fine assortment
STATIONERY,
Among VIII oh may be found
LETTER PAPER,
NOTE PAPER,
FooLsCAP,
LEGAL CAP,
BILL CAP,
Broad and narrow by the ream blocked, or BY quire
MEMORANDUM BLOCKS, &c. SC, &c
BLANK BOOKS:
Full Bound
Half Bound,
Bound to please.
WRISTBANDS
Bankers large, Bankers small,
IN fact we have Inkstands for all.
POST OFFICE LETTER SCALES.
INKS:
Carriers Combined Copying and Writing.
in quarts, pints, and hali'pirts
CARRIERS WRITING FLUID,
in quarts, pints. half.pints, and cones
VIOLET INK, quarts, pinis, halfpints, and cone'
INDELIBLE INK, assorted.
ARNoLD'S WRITING FLUID,
in quarts, pints, halfpints, and cones.
STAFFORD'S, in quarts and pints.
Egyptian Perfumed Ink.
MUClLAGE:
In quarts, pin,s, hafpints, and cones,
Perfect Mueiiage Bottle.
MAINS COPY BOOKS:
oxia, full bound and half-bound,
ioxI4, full bound and half-bound
Mann's Copying papr
PENS and HOLDERS in great varieties.
Automatic Penels Copying Pencils,
faber's Pencils, Dison's Pencils &c.
DRAWING PAPER, plain and mounted.
Manila Detail Paper.
ENVELOPES 10000 assorted.
Playing Cards. round corner and plain.
MEMORANDUM BOOKS. large variety.
lime Books. assorted,
Cummed Labels,
Shipping Tags, Tourist Tags.
INVITATION PAPER. and Envelopes to match
Ball Programme Cards, pencils and ,assels.
Menu Cards.
LETTER PRESSES, large and small
Rubber Bands. all sisr>.
BASE BALLS and RATS,
Guides and Score Books.
BIRTHDAY CARDS POCKET KNIVES, and
many other arclss too numerous to mention.
IA SUBSCRIPTIONS received for any foreign
paper Magazine publ he'd any lime. Also for all
the Local Papers and Magazines, Ssasides. Brook.
sides, Family Library, etc. always on hand and spe
eial numbers senf Tor to order.
yA SPECIAL ORDERS received for BOOKS, etc
ALSO,
RED RUBBER STAMP AGENCY,
and Agents for The Eneyelopsdia Britannica.
"a All Island orders filled promptly "a
NJ. DAT, Jr.. and CO.,
reoif Gazette Block. ,s Msrchan, Street
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-07
ENVELOPES, ENVELOPES,

/ Nhoi iNHS, ANnS'
RN oLD : WRITING LIZ DIS,
in qts., pts, y pts. and cones.
CARRIERS COMBINED WRITING & COPYING
INK, in qts, pts and y pts
DAVIS DIAMOND BLACK INK,
In qtS., pts, y pts. and cones.
ARNOLD'S COPYING INK, in qts.. pts. and y pts
DAVIS and PEERLESS cone inks in black, blue and
violet and earmine and crimson Fluids from to
ANTOINE'S violet black Copying Ink, qts. and pts
CAW's Black Fluid Ink, pts.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-07

RE- cT'oA l" PRICE.
Householder Take Noticsi
W. all .sn FRANKLIN srovE COAL" IN
casks al
sisso pEn 1000 LIS
And CUMBERLAND COAL 70. Blasl.mi.A.' a.., 4,
1890 per 1000 ps.. q. B.,s. or
sIsso pc. 5000 is.., Ia nag.
c. BREWER 4 co.
Hssolsls, M, ,,,A- .ss. ,~-.l
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-07
A Fight In Congress-.

Albert Gallatin Brown and John A.
Wilcox, members of the House of Rep
resentatives from Mississippi in the
thirty-second Congress, INDUCED in q
rough. and tumble fight on the floor in
March, 1882. Mr.. Brown had made q
long speech.in defence OF the Southern
rights party, to which Mr.. Wilcox re-
piled, abiding to the statement made BY
Mr.. Brown as not having been correct.
Mr.. Brown inquired if he meant to say
that he had said what was not true.
Mr.. Wilcox, advancing towards Mr..
Brown, replied that he had spoken dis
timothy and that his language was not
susceptible of miscouceptiop. "Then you
mean to say" rejoined MIR. Brown,
''that I have said what was false?" Mr..
Wilcox replied that he meant to say
that if his colleague had made the
statement as he understood it, he had said
what was untrue. The words had no
sooner left his lips than he received a
heavy blow from Mr.. Brown, which was
promptly returned, and in q moment
more they had clinched each other and
were rolling on the floor, each trying to
get the better of the other. The nearest
members, however, interfered and pulled
them apart. The sergeant-at- arms was
loudly called for, but he was absent.
After few minutes the belligerents
we're peciied, and they apologized to
the House, but not to each other. Mr..
Wilcox declared that he had meant no
disresrect to the House; and..Mr. Brown
apologized to the House and to the
country, declaring that similar oc
currence would not happen again, I'M
less circumstances should occur to war
rant it, The two combatanec years
afterward served in the Confederate Con
gress.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-07
THE SUICIDE.
Ell FRED. d. ruRnBuIL.

Once wandered by river,
Ofthe summers yellow sunlight ON the calmly dow
In %y heart, oppressed BY SORROW,
Lu1ked . dread to meet the morrow,
And said, "Cannot borrow surcease from the
rivers gleam7
Surely underneath the glowing
Ofthe blue waves brightly flowing
can find 3 peace like heaven. or, II need be. find =
hell
Hell or heaven, woe or gladness,
Naught can greater make this sadness,
Life alone makes more my madness-death is well
come and is well ~
Wildly shrieking, wailing, moaning,
Rushed where the waters foaming
As with fright from being hurled from the height Of
Then moment hesitated,
~ Ere to death my soul was mated
strove to reason, but elated grew my passion as
strOve.
"Coward!" cried the passion in me,
While the water seemed to win ME
With it's gsyly blending babbe, like SIRENS mock
Frenzied, cried to the river,
oh, thou Lethean CLEAN and culver
Promises to end my fevei-gsdly, deeply thee
quaff ~
Then, like banners slashed by rapiers,
Rose scream that pierced the vapors-
Win It's piercing force OF anguish seemed an echo
borne from he'll.
Trem bling, fearing, Unconstitutional
Stood [, while my pulses quickened,
And my hot heart dropped and sickened as the
echoes rose and fell.
Gasping, waing, struggling, moaning,
Vainly clutching at the foaming
OF the waves that madly bole it onward to it's name
BY an anguish bleeding, mangled,
Weighted down by sorrow, strangled
By the ice-cold hands of trouble, saw in the tide
asoul.
In voice forgotten never
Cried it to me from the river:
Cast not here thy SOUPS true beauty, here no ref
uge, here no restI
Learn from my exceeding anguish
That, altho' in sin you languish,
For the hope there is salvation, sinner tho thou
art, thou'rt blest 2"
sh1ieking, struggling, painting, wailing,
Tangled in the rivers trailing,
Whired the soul a-past, beyond ME, far a-down the
Turing tide.
"God, I thank Theel" cried kneeling
'Mong the lilies Demonstrating
That soul Of stainless beauty can by Passions
stream abide.
Oh, the lilies and the river!
Oh, the soul gone past forever
Oh, the strength 1 felt in knowing God 'gains
trouble was shield
Tho forever and forever
Flows this tempting, purling river,
am safe from all its lurings in the rest that Christ
revealed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-07
Rather Rough on Kansas Editors.


The average tourist is disappointed
in Mexico. His mind is full OF pictures
Of doughty picadores, troviatores, and
matadores in brilliant costume, he
expects to see bull-ight almost daily.
But bull. fighting has nominally been
done away with in the Republic, and 8
bull fight may be seen only on the oc.
casion of q great: east. Cock.fghting,
however, is conducted every Sunday,
and hospitals for wounded fowls are nu.
merous. -..
Some tourists edo" town in day,
OF this class were the Kansas editors,
who came down to Chihuahua recently
and camped with their wives and chill.
dren on the plaza. Thinning they were
ventuling among savages, they had
rugged themselves out in their Oldest
clothes and brought rifles and
revolvers along for protection.
The natives gazed at the visitors long,
lean, forms, bad clothes and freckled
faces, and wondered. In the throng Of
spectators was a young girl and bel
mother. The former stared at the
campers for while, and then declared
that If those persons were representa-
tives of the Northerners she did moi
want to visit the United States. HHush,
my child" her mother cautioned. s.Dc
not offend the Americana. These are
not citizens of the United States; they
are from Kansas" '
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-07
For the Household.

Tepid water with little borax. dis
solved in it is good to wash colored
table linen in. Nice tablecloths and
napkins should not be allowed to be-
come really much soiled, so that they
will require vigorous rubbing with soap
or in hot water.
An onion salad makes al appetizine
entree to serve with game. Mix thor.
oughly equal quantities of mashed pota.
toes and onions boiled until they toe
can be mashed almost smooth. Season
with pepper and salt and butter.
Parsley may be started from the seed
now in boxes. It is good plan to dry
parsley, and if you have ever so little
garden do not fail to have bed of pars.
ley. It is economy to do so, for it Car
be used so advantageously for seasoning
so many dishes. 1t can be preserved il
another way also; put it into a strong
boiling hot pickle Of salt and water. Il
will keep green and appear fresh for 6
long time.
When fruit must be scalded to pre-
vent fermentation it should be boiled fol
several minutes; or it will do no name,
of good, and you will have your trouble
for nothing. This applies to chopped
pickle as we'll.
Frames made of gilt moulding, which
have become spotted or discolored, may
be improved in appearance by painting
them with oil paints. If the outer edg,
alone is soiled, paint band of scarle
Or of blue, and leave wide margin O.
gilt on the inside. It takes.. very ittl,
paint, as, of course it does not sink in a