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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-09-17

The Chinese farm house is o curious-look-
ing abode. Usually 1t Is sheltered with
groves of feathery bamboo and thick-spread-
ing banyans. The walls are of clay or
wood and the interior of the house consists
of one main room, extending from tho floor
TO the tiled roof, with closet-looking apart
ments in the corners for sleeping rooms.
There is q sliding window on tho roof, made
of cut oyster shells, arranged in rows, while
the side windows arc nero wooden shutters.
The floor Is tho bare Garth, where at night
fall there often gathers together miscel-
lancous family of dirty children, fowls,
ducks, pigeons and litter of pigs, oil liv-
ing together in delightful harmony. In
some districts infested by marauding bands
houses are strongly fortified with high
walls. containing apertures for firearms,
and protected by moat crossed by a rudo
drawbridge.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-09-17

Standing in tho city of Lima, Peru, one
looks to tho west, on the broad expanse Of
the ocean, and TO tho east, on the ever
snow-capped peaks of the Andes. The
mountains and the ocean play the game of
battledore, continually throwing back gentle
breezes night and morning. 1t has rained
there but twice or three times within the
memory of man, and the temperature varies
but little from 600 TO 00o Fahrenheit
throughout the year. Tho climate is almost
an eternal spring, with sunshine and deep
blue unclouded skies. To add to its salu-
brity and freshness the river Rimac, in cas-
cades, descends from the snow Of the noun
tains through the heart of the city. With
such climate and such surroundings, no
wonder the Limanaa makes tho further
proud boast that " their seniorites are the
fnirest of oil the daughters of Eye."-C Con.
ysspondence Chicago Current.
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A STEAMER ON MEMS SHOULDERS,
The Novel Sea and Lnnd Voyages of n Vessel
Built on the Banks of the Dee.

A remarkable feat is now being carried
out by young Englishman representing
party of English capitalists who have ac-
quired a largo block of lind from the
British Columbia Government in the ex-
quisitely beautiful lower Kootenai valley,
lying just over the northern confines of
Idaho, where the international boundary
line separates the waters of Pend d'Orelle
lake and Kootenai river. This pass, tray
orsed by n narrow Indian trail, which winds
through the almost imponetrable forests
that clothe this great spur of the Rocky
Mountains, known rs the Clarke's forke
range, has never been passed by a wagon,
and now steamer, the hull built of tenk in
one piece, is to be spirited across this mon Z.
tain barrier for distance of forty miles.
large force of Indians belonging to the
Kootenai tribe, n race that has yet remained
perfectly untouched by civilization and
who have never seen white woman, have
been engaged, together with ten or twelve
white men to help In the work.
The little steamer has seen much travel
Built last year ON the banks of the placid
Dee, that washes the Roman walls of beau
tiful Chester, ono of England's oldest cities,
she made summer trip to the rock-bound
coast of Norway, where her owner explored
some of the most inaccessible flords Of that
picturesque coast, bent on salmon fshing
and bear hunting. Brought back to Eng
land, she left Liverpool safely slowed away
on the deck of the Polynesian. ono of the
ocean leviathans, May 81. landed ut Mon
treal, she was placed on the deck of ono of
tho large propellers running from that point
to the western extremity of the great lakes,
Duluth, when, after passing through some
$50 locks that make navigation through the
long chain of great lakes possible and after
narrow escape from being wrecked on
hidden rock, on which the propeller struck
one dark night heavily, sho safely reached
tho litter port, WHOM she was Immediately
placed on flat car, on which, after being
placed in bond to enable her TO pass through
the United States, sho began her long trans
continental journey of fifteen hundred miles
over the Northern Pacific line to Sand Point,
or Lake Pend d'Oreille. --Spokane Falls
CRy0a,cLe.
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PHoTooRApHERs, humans.
Business Thnt Has Been Developed Out
of the Competition In Portrait Taking.

Don't let the reporters see mo until
after dinner" said distinguished foreigner
to the clerk of an uptown hotel the other
day after registering.
&c But how about the photographers ?"
the clerk inquired.
az don't understand YOU" said the
foreigner.
Well, you will very soon. Tho photog-
raphers are more numerous than the report
srs, and are quito as enterprsing, without
being always as polite or as pleasant to meet.
Fherell be q score here before long,
"Bloss my SOUL" said the foreigner !;
" then please refuse me to oil who come
except the representatives of the principal
newspapers"
When the clerk was asked whether what
ne had said about the photographers wa,
true, he replied that the persons he referred
to were not really photographers, but theii
agents. They call themselves interyiewers,
aud their business is to secure ahead Of all
competitors sittings of notable persons. Tho
rivalry between photographers is intense,
80 that whereas two or three yems ago only
q very few establishments employed inter.
viewers, there are now very few prosperous
photographers without them. A candidate
for the Presidency or Presidency, o
party campaign manager, n titled or emf.
nent foreigner, an Arctic hero, an actor who
makes hit, or any person to whom the
newspapers pay much attention for any
reason whatsoever are the ones the
nterviewers 60 for. They oifer, free of
charge, rs many portraits, and portraits in
rs many positions, as the person says he or
she would like to have under one condition,
which is that no other photographer shall
be visited.
These interviewors get cool wages, and
their employers profit largely from their
work. The portraits are sold to dealers all
over the country and in the capitals of
Europe. They are also sold to the publish
crs of illustrated periodicals, or are present
cd to the publishers with the request that
the photographers name be published in
case the portrait is used Tho market has
been extended by those New York news
paper correspondents who now make
practice of sending out stereotyped picture
plates MS illustrations OF the subjects treated
in their letters. One dealer in this city has
recently issued catalogue of tho celebri-
ties whose photograph, he has ON hand 1t
is book of sixty pages, and there are be-
tween thirty and fifty names on each page.
Another dealer mades it his business to So
euro the newest photographs, and to keep
on hand plates made by the photo-englavina
process from those portraits.
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APPEARANCE OF A SUN SPOT,


Professor Langley, of the Allegheny Oh
servatory, will contribute to tho Century
series of popular illustrated papers ON {" The
New Astronomy" His first article, in the
September number, treats of spots on the
sun, and of one of the spots he says "There
were wonderful fern-like forms in this spot,
too, and IN appearance like that of pine
boughs covered with snow; for, strangely
enough, the intense whiteness of the solnr
surface in the best telescopes, constantly
su5l is cold. have had the same impress
sion wildly in looking at tho immense
masses of molten-white iron in great pud-
ding furnace. The salient feature here
is one very difficult to SOC, even in good
telescopes, but one which is of great inter-
est. 1t has been shown in the previous
drawings, but we have not enlarged on it.
Everywhere in the spot are long white
threads, or ilaments, lying upon one an
other, tending in general sense toward the
center, and each of which grows brighter
toward its inner extremity. These make up,
in fact as we now see, the penumbra or
outer shade, nnd so-called crystal is real
ly affiliated to thom. Besides this, on closer
looking We SEQ that the inner shade, or
umbra, and the very deepest shades, or
nuclei, are really made of them, too. We
can look into the dark center, as into fun
mel, to the depth of probably over five thou
sand miles; but as far as we may 90 down
we come TO no liquid or solid floor, ani see
only volumes of whirling, vapor, disposed
not vaguely like our clouds, but in tho singu-
larly definite, fern-like, fower-like forms
which are themselves made OF these fla
ments,' each OF which is from three to five
thousand miles long, and from fifty to two
hundred miles thick, and each of which CAS-
we saw in the first spoD appears to be made
up like rope, Of still finer strands, look
ing, the rare instants when irradiation
makes an isolated one visible, like thread
of gossalner, or the finest of cobweb. These
suggest the fine threads Of spun glass; and
mere there is something more than n mere
resemblance of form, for both appear to
have one casual feature in common, due to
a viscous or sticky fluid; for there is
much reason 10 believe that the solar atmos-
phere, even where thinner than our own
air, is rendered viscous by the enormous
heat, and owes to this its tendency to pull
out in strings, in common with such other
wise dissimilar things, rs honey, or melted
sugar, or melted Qlassn
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FORK IN A HOT FIGHT.
How n Nun Whipped n Bear In n Regular
Tumble Tussle.

L. G. Potter, of this city, who is now so
journing ut North Beach, had an encounter
with bear few days since, which sur
passes any on record and entities him to
the title of the champion bear-fghter OF the
northwest. Mr.. Potter left his camp ON
the beach few days since to work on
piece of land he owns on the ridge. He
worked until noon and then sat down in the
shade OF u fallen tree to cot his luncheon.
While busy with his knife and fork he heard
noise, and, looking up, saw young bear,
which, allured by the smell of the victuals,
had vaulted upon the log in search of
change of diet. Mr.. Potter dropped his
dinner and grabbed tho bear, which scratch
cd and yelled and fought like q tiger, but
his fur furnished a good hold and Potter
chung to him. In a moment he heard some
thing crashing through the sage bushes and
the old bear appeared ON the scene with
distendod jaws, cleaning fanss and rufiled
hair.
But Potter's blood was up and he was
bound TO have his bear or die. He grasped
his dinner fork in one hand and tho cub
in the other and, putting his back to tho
tree, yelled out, "Come on, MacDnif !"
The bear approached and received the fork
up to the hilt in its nose. Then it sat up
on its launches and a regular rough-and-
tumble fight for the cub ensued. Mr.. Pot
Ter, who is an artist with knife and fork,
never used the latter in quito 80 lively n
manner before. The bear clawed and Pot
ter jabbed it in the pose with the fork, every
prod bringing forth nm angry knough .
or snarl from the bear, whose nose soon
looked like pepper box. Potter presented
the appearance of nm insane animated scare
crow, his clothes hanging in tatters and tho
blood flowing from numerous scratches, but
he only chung to the cub the tighter and
piled his fork the faster
At length the bear, with 4 snarl of dis
gust, threw up the sponge and started off
in search of bear doctor. Mr.. Potter did
not wait for it TO come back, but made quick
time for the beach, where he now has the
cub chained up as trophy.--Port'and
Oreq0nfdn.
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ALoNpoN GAMBLING DEN.


We walked towards the Tottenham Court
road that might catch the bus Too late,
howeyer-the last one had gone there was
nothing for me, then, but to make my mind
to invest half dollar ON cab. My COM
panion suggested should go in with him
to his club for half an hour. Agreed. 1
entered, no questions asked; suppose the
fact of my being in members company
was sufficient. He opened door and usher
cd me in and the first exclamation l heard
was Kino" and o grunt OF satisfaction
Silver was rapidly counted and passed along
to this individual. l was considerably
taken aback at the business air Of the whole
concern. Seated OF table covered in green
cloth, and not unlike converted billiard
table, were some twenty five or thirty men,
each intently scanning four or five cards
bearing number of printed figures. The
croupier, banker, what ever he my be term
ed stood at the end of the table facing the
company and rapidly revolving o box not
unlike miniature washing machine At
each revolution he released an ivory or bone
ticket bearing a number, which he quickly
called aloud and placed upon an index or
tablet also in front of him. The gamesters be-
ing armed or provided with any number of
printed cards, for each one OF which they
have to pay Sd. to the proprietor, are also
supplied with quantity of red counters.
The cards, oil bearing different series of
figures, are rapidly scanned by the holders,
and rs number is called by the man in
charge, banker or whatever he may be, a
corresponding number is covered on the
card with counter, until such time rs one
of the card-holdors covers five figures in a
horizontal position or across the card, when
h. immediately calls 6 Kino." His numbers
are checked aud found to correspond with
the bankers and the pool becomes his. One
l noticed more particularly seemed to be
doing very we'll in Offering short odds aud
thus playing his own little game very we'll
indeed, his exclamation every now and
again, in q kind of bastard Yankee twang,
being; go on with the music" My
friend in less than q quarter of an hour
dropped g., although was given to under
stand they were only allowed Is. stakes.
Having no more silver he roso from the
table; he declined the change of a el0 note
which two or three offered to supply. II
was now getting on to l A. NJ Monday
morning We adjourned to the refreshment
bar and had couple of liquors. Some of
the mcrsbers were lying about asleep in the
gaming room, having, supposed, been hit
hard by the latest American innovation
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-09-17

Mr. Alfred Wright says in the London
Times that nothing possesses greater power
to disseminate infectious and contagious
diseases than The common house fly, which
Is generated and which revels in decom.
posing and diseased animal matter. Fly
papers and prepared poisons, when placed
in rooms for the destruction of insects, de-
feat their object, because they attract those
from without. If, however, any prcpara-
ton from which the slightest odor OF
Encalyptol is diltused, be kept in the apart
ment, the inmates will not only have
apleasant disinfectant, but will find them
selves perfectly secure from tho intrusion
OF those troublesome and dangerous visitors.
On the other side, it must be added, that
those who have followed Mr.. Wright's
recommendation are not entirely satisfied
with tho result True, the oil of the
eucalyptus tree is deadly to flies, but its
odor invites fresh relays of tho. insects to
meet tho fate of those that have boon do.
stroyed
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AMONG THE BEES,
Extracting the Ioney-.An Experiment with
SunnOwers.


Each hive contains family of from thirty
to forty thousand bees. These are supplied
with sheet of arti6cially wax
comb on which TO build their cells at the
rate of about twenty-five to the squars-inch.
In each box from five to eight of these
combs are placed and in each comb the
busy little workers store from three to five
pounds of honey.
Now" ladies and gentlemen" said the
bee-farmer, :" il you will step this way we
will look into some of my hives. Put on
your wells II you have them. do not think
it will be necessary, but you may be merry.
Gus, aud if you should be rough with the
bees they nre apt to get angry"
Mr.. Todd, without any covering to face
or hands, lifted the lids of the hiye-boxes,
took out the combs swarming with bees,
handled the little creatures allowed them
to crawl over him and showed no tropida-
ton of any kind.
Do they never sting your he was
asked.
Very seldom. Sometimes, when the
stock of honey runs short and they are hun.
cry, they are not so quiet and amiable, But
they are exceptionally good-humored today.
You see, blow little smoke into the hive.
That frightens them they gorge themselves
with honey in their terror and they are th1i
rendered quiet and comparatively harmless.
All, thore is tho qu9on," he continued,
pointing to q bee much longer than the rest
and with smaller wing. "See, there are
some eggs. II is oil right She is fortified
AT this statement there was considerable OK.
element among the enthusiasts assembled
The apiarist took two frames of comb int,
the house and showed how thu honey was
extracted. He first shaved the covering
from the cells and then placed the combs
into kind of churn, which ho turned very
rapidly. The honey was all elected into the
receptacle and the combs, oncs more empty,
were ready to be again filed by the indus
trious little collectors. Mr.. Todd then took
his visitors to 500 his three-acre sunhower
plantation.
This is an experiment." he said 81
have heard that in Spain and Portugal the
green leaves of tho sunhower are used as
fodder for tho cattle. have tried 1t with
perfect SUCCESS. My bees will obtain an
immense supply of honey from the flowers
and the seed is good feed for the poultry.
shall In that why obtain three crops from
my outlay. 1t is also possible that out O.
my abundance of blooms may send some
TO market for sale, as they are beautiful
flower, and may also make the experiment
Of making bread of the seed flour. That is
done in Spain, where the sunaower receive,
the title of the gift Of heaven
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MEN WHO MAKE SONGS.
Tho Difficulties In the Way Of Theil
Success.

| Few people have any idea of the vast
number of so-called popular songs that
arc annually launched upon the public in
This country alone. A ballad or comic song
that achieves national reputation and is
sung from one end of the land to the other
yields q handsome revenue, sometimes q
small fortune, to its publisher, and, in very
rare instances, to its author as we'll. The
hope of making one of these chance hits is
constant and powerful incentive to the
writing and publishing of songs designed to
catch the ear and please the fancy of the
masses. Successes, however, are as rare as
The songs are numerous, and there are few
writer's among the thousands who attempt it
that ever make more than one or two such
hits in lifetime, while of those few there
are fewer still who ever derive any great
financial benefit from their work.
In popular song writing, as in every othe,
occupation, man is worth little or nothing
till he acquires q reputation. and that he
cannot acquire until ono of his songs has
achieved great success. 70 secure the
publication of that very song he has prob
ably had to sell it for almost nothing and
perhaps he may never write another that
will attract any attention whatever. SO that
though he may receive fair prices for two or
three of his subsequent efforts, yet the pub
fishers soon find that he has written himself
out and refuse 10 purchase his productions.
Formerly the prices paid TO authors were
better than they are now. the competition
not being SO great either am ing publishers
Or composers. A few years ago tho price
usually paid for q song of three verses, witt
chorus, even if it was considered just barrel,
good enough to be worth publishing at ali,
was Sl5, but now for such song not more
than 81 or IS would be paid. Popular
songs, rs a rule, now have but two verses,
instead of three as formerly, the publishers
having found that the third verse is seldom
Or never sung.
Mon who have great reputation as song
writer's can command from 500 to $500
per song, but they generally prefer to retain
an interest in their productions rather than
to sell them outright. They arrange with
some publisher to pay them royalty of SO
many cents upon evory copy Of their songi
that he sells, and in this way some Of then
derive handsome income from their work
The percentage of profit to publishers upoi
he sale of songs is very great Those which
,ctail for thirty five, forty and even fifty
cents per copy would yield profit if sold
at five cents, and hence TO q popular and
we'll known writer, whose song cannot fail
to have largo sale, the publisher can well
afford to give very excellent royalty.
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POETRY.
Tho Little Ones.

The Little Ones.
How Old Is Mary Anderson
That people call her queen7
Is she, like good Victoria,
One hundred and thirteen9
Oh, no, my son, about as old
AS was, at her age,
But people never grow who go
Play acting on the stage.
And the "ooy preacher" Harrison,
Is he so youthful, them
And does he wear short Jackets now
Like me and cousin Ben?
Oh, no, my son, although his age
Is rather hard To fix;
heard him preach In Louisville
In eighteen forty-six.
And the "child violinist," then,
The youngest star alive7
Great Scott he played with Ole Bull
In eighteen twenty-five.
r.. ). B,Vds.te ~ the BROOKLYN Eagle.
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How should He lknow {

How can you account for these fine
stalks of corn coming mp in the fence cor
ners 7" asked man of farmer. g That's
not corn" tho farmer replied. Only
Weeds All, how singular" Don't know
much about farmin', 1 reckin'?" (" Very
little. am the editor Of mn agricultural
paper. "--ArAnh@fso 7ineelkr.
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I" Wild towels are my speciality this
year." said a horist. "and it has been a
very good year for them, too. Golden rod
is coming in plentifully, and tiger lilies,
bachelor buttons, clovcrs, wild asters and
,ecampane are oil sought after. Now ele-
,ampans is flower you would not think
popular it is sort of between n sunHower
and big ox-eye daisy, but it is snowy
punched in largo vases. "-Neao York Mail
aud E1press.
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Accounted For.

Il is asserted that no watch will keep the
same time with two persons. This may ex-
plain why it is that whensyou pay friend
big price for timepiece which has not
varied second in e year, 1t Immediately
begins to jump half an hour u day in one
direction or the other. Philadelphia CAL.
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PoLITENEss REWARDED.

"Will you be kind enough, sir, to hold
the ram for me while I open this gate 1t is
fastened on the inside, and l must climb
over"
This modest remark was made yesterday
by man who was standing at gate on
lonely road running out of New Dorp,
Staten Island, and il was addressed to
stalwart sailor who had just come up. The
only other object visible ON the long straight
road was the largo black ram, whose mas
siye crooked horns were being held by tho
man as the two stood quito still in front of
the gate.
=" Why, sartinly, shipmate,n said the OBJ
liging tar, as he seized tho big horns and re-
lieyed the first holder.
The latter climbed quickly over tho gate.
" l thank you very much. he said polite
ly whom he got to the other side. g You
will be surprised to hear that | mover saw
that ram before to-day. This brute attack
ed me about half an hour ago, and we have
been tussling together ever since. AS long
as you stand before him holding his horns
firmly he can't hurt you much. Good-by.
| hop you will be as lucky in getting away
from him rs have been"
The Now Dorp man, when telling this
story last night, neglected to repeat tho
sailors reply. Ho did not know what be-
came of him.--Neao York Sun.