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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-03-26
THE COMING GIANT.

Some two weeks ago the crowd OF loiter-
struck dumb with amazement at the sight
of a colossal individual emerging from the
ferry gate. Before any one of the crowd
had recovered from their astonishment the
giant walked quietly towards the next slip
and got on board the Petaluma boat. This
crowd hung around the landing for some
time waiting for the rest of the circus, but
were disappointed, and it was soon ascer-
tanned that the Goliah was oil alone. Specu-
lation was rife as to who or what he was
His height wes yariousy estimated at from
eight to twelve feet. Federal officer
stated positively that it WINS Chang, the Chi
nese giant, who had slipped in at some way
port in disguise, so as to beat the restriction
act An Eramiaer reporter solved the mys-
terry yesterday. At Sansome street hotel
he discovered the mammoth, or, as he might
be more aptly termed, the baby giant. His
name is Thomas Robinson, and he is but
seventeen years old. His height is seven
feet in his stockings and he is still grow
ing. He was born in East Canada, and has
always worked on farm. He never rode
on railway until he left home, some two
months ago. His parents are Irish, his
father being nearly six feet high. He states
that he never attracted any attention at
home, because nearly all the men there are
six feet over. He had no idea he was
wonder until he reached Chicago, where he
attracted considerable notice. His weight
is 200 pounds, and he would be taller if no
did not turn up 80 much at the feet, which
ore OF immense proportions. In answer to
question as to what size of boots he wore
he replied eood-nat,iredly s'I don't know
exactly the shoemaker at Omaha said the
next size was the boot box" He has a
pleasant face, blue eyes, and is apparently
very intelligent. His arms are of immense
length, but the hands are comparatively
small. On being asked to take some
thing he called for soda water, saying that
he did not like whisky, because he might
get into . quarrel and fall on some one. A
suggestion thrown out by the barkeepei
that he train to meet Sullivan called forth
the remark, Well, amt so bad with the
gloves as you may think" He has had
many offers to join travelling shows, but he
says he would prefer to work on a farm
San Francisco ESomiNer.
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FEMALE TENACITY OF LIFE.

1t appears from the gathered statistics Of
the world that women have O greater tenaci-
ty of life than men. Nature worships the
female In all its varieties. Among insects
the male perishes at q relatively earlier
period. In plants the seminate blossoms
die earliest and are produced on the weaker
limbs Female quadrupeds have more en-
durance than males. In the human race,
despite the intellectual and physical strength
of the man, the woman endures longest,
and will bear pain to which the strong man
succumbs. Zymotic diseases are more fatal
TO males, and more male children die than
females. Doyerga asserts that the proper
ton dying suddenly is about 100 women to
1870 men; 1,080 in the United States in 1876
committed suicide, to 2S5 women lntem
perance, apoplexy, goat, hydrocephalus,
affections Of the heart and liver, scrofula,
paralysis, are far more fatal to males than
females. Pulmonary consumption, on the
other hand, is more deadly to the latter.
Females in cities are more prone to con-
sumption than in the country. All old
countries not disturbed by emigration have
great majority Of females in the popula-
lion. In royal families the statistics show
more daughters than sons The Hebrew
woman is exceptionally long lived the
colored man is exceptionally short lived.
The married state is favorable to prolonga.
ton Of life among women DR.. Hough pro.
claims that there are from to 9 per cent
more males born than females, yet there are
more than 8 per cent. Of females in the liv
ing populations. From which statistics WI
conclude that oil women ought to marry
and that as men are likely to become Sc
scarce they cannot be sufficiently priced b.
the other sex.
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BRONCO SAM.

Speaking about cowboys, Sam Stewart,
known from Montana to Old Mexico as
Bronco Sam, was the chief His special de-
light was TO break the warlike heart of the
vicious wild pony of the plains, and make
linn the servant of man.
There may be Joy in 0 wild gallop across
the boundless plains, in the crisp morning,
on the back Of fees bronco but when
you return with your ribs sticking through
your vest, and find that your nimble steed
has returned TO town two hours ahead of you,
there is tinge Of sadness about it all.
Bronco Sam, however, made specially
Of doing all the riding himself. He would-
at enter into any compromise and allow
the horse to ride him.
In reckless moment he offered to bet
ten dollars that he could mount and ride a
wild Texan steer. The money was put up.
That settled It. Sam never took water.
THIS was true in double sense. Well, he
climbed the cross-bar of the corral-gate,
and asked the other boys TO turn out their
best steer, Marquis Of Queensberry rules.
As the steer passed out, Sam slid down
and wrapped those parenthetical legs of his
around that high-headed, broad-horned
brute, and he rode him till the feet-footed
animal fell down on the buffalo grass, ran
his hot red tongue out across the blue hori-
zon, shook his tail convulsively, swelled up
sadly and died.
A ten dollar bill looks as large to me as
The Star spangled Banner, sometimes but
that is an avenue of wealth that had not oc-
,urred to me.
4 I'd rather ride buzz saw at two dollars
day and found. Blu Nye, In Puck.
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SCIENCE IN WHAT WE EAT.
fhe Essence Of the Physieians' Latest
Advice on Diet.

We can imagine thoughtful man porting
plate at dinner anu trying to recollect the
component parts of each "This is
potato; it has rs per cent of water and Is
per cent of starch. Starch is turned into
sugar by the act of mastication therefore a
potato, in reality, is nearly all water and
sugar. This is cabbage it contains go per
cent. of water and 4 per cent. of starch,
and, therefore, it also must be nearly all
sugar and water. Eau sucree may not be
so very contemplate after all. This Is
mutton 1t contains A per cent. of water,
the rest is fibrin and albumen, representing
~ per cent of heterogeneous and IA per cent.
OF carbonaceous food with some mineral
salts" If this kind of thing went on
throughout dinner, we fear the contempla-
ave man would be but dull companion to
his neighbor, who, If she is not learned,
will eat and drink with happy contempt
OF science; or, in the alternative, the con-
versation might turn upon per centages,
which would, perhaps, be an improvement
upon some topics not infrequently discuss.
ed, but whether it were interesting or not
would depend good deal upon the tenn.
permanent of the parties. The man who
could follow the rule ought to be happy il
not beautiful for ever, for would he moi
know oil about the constituent parts of his
body, and all about its nourishment? Has
he not in his mind without diagrams) all
the percentages of everything? We cannot
conceive that he could ever suffer from in
digestion, and that alone means long life
and happiness. The general principles
upon which the dietetic value of food is
calculated are the same in all the treatises.
heterogeneous food forms flesh carbonaceous
food gives heat Some foods, like milk,
which is recognized as model food, combine
both qualities in about the proper proper
lions. Advocating an entirely vegetarian
diet for mankind in these days is but crying
in the wilderness. 1t is very desirable to
know that certain vegetable foods, or com.
binations of vegetable foods, contain as
much strength-producing material as beef
or mutton OF half the cost, and the sooner
and the oftener this is preached into the
minds Of the working classes the better;
but DIR. Newman goes very far afield when,
In collection of Essays on Diet,n he
treats OF the land tenure of England. One
OF his arguments is that the demand for
meat enhances its price. This encourages
landowners and farmers to Craze cattle in.
stead of to grow corn, thereby reducing the
demand for agricultural labor and driving
the lnborers into increasing the already too
dense population of the town. He also
argues that there is great waste in the pro-
cess of turning land occupied in the growth
of cereals into grazing land, for the cereals
would support three times as many people
as the cattle and he states that the quantity
of meal used in Cincinnati to feed pigs
would have gone four times as far in feed
ing mankind.
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MEN WHO PICK UP PUPPIES.
The Professional Dog Thief as Seen In th /,
Very Act of Theft.

A symmetrically formed little black-and-
tan terrier, with nickel collar ON his neck,
TO which license tag..was attached, ran hur.
riedly along Baltimore street last evening
smelling at the legs of numerous passers.
The dog was excited and half frightened by
the confusion oil around him, and was eyi.
IDENTIFY lost. A roughly dressed young man
was noticed walking in the same direction
taken by the dog aud it soon became evil
dent that he was accommodating his pace to
the dogs. The animal paused TO examine
some gentlemen standing on a corner and
the young man overlook IL. He gave a
quick whistle as he passed it, and the dog
ran to him and commenced smelling his
feet, then he suddenly picked it up, caress-
ed it and called it Zip" and then walked
away. That man has stolen that dog"
said gentleman who, with the reporter,
noticed the incident. He will take him
home and watch the papers to see If re-
ward is offered for his return
q Are many dogs stole that u reward may
be secured for them ?" inquired the reporter
Ot ponce Ofnclal. f|0
at is done every day. There are men IN
this and all other cities who make business
of it. IL two-thirds Of the cases in which
you see advertisements Offering rewards for
dogs the animal has been stolen with view
to getting reward. Dogs are not fools,
and il they stray away they will generally
find their way home but the. professional
dog-thief is always on the lookout the min
nte they see IL. There are men in the bust.
iess who know almost every pet or valuable
dog In town and who shadow them with aa
much care as detective shadows profess
sional thisf
at is almost impossible to keep valu-
sble pet dog out of the hands OF these
thieves. l know gentleman who had a
Newfoundland dog, to which he WAS strong
ly attached The dog-tlieves ascertained
that fact and stole him three successive times
and received large reward each time The
gentleman then acknowledged they were toe
mu'h for him and sent the dog TO the coun-
try. They often steal pet cats Ms well as
dogs, and know Of case where lady
paid $40 for the return of Maltese cat.
She thought It had strayed away, when the
fact was that the man who returned IL had
discovered that she valued II highly and
stole if."--B0st0n Herald.
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ovERsrRAlNlao PROVIDENCE.
Brother Gardner arose and said.

Drotner 0hfuner arose ana baius
Zone great cause of human misery am de
fack dat mankind expects too much of
Providence. Take de case of Elder Toots,
fur instance. Fur de las sixty Vars he's
bin waitin' fur Providence to stop de leaks
in his cabin roof, an he am waitin' yit He
somehow expecs dat Providence am goin' TO
furnish him pie an cake an oyster soup, an
whei. he sots down TO cold 'taters an TUT
meat he feels as If he had been wronged.
81 Take de case of Bradawl Jalap. He
has allus had de idee dat he would some
day be rich, an as q conscience he sots on
de fence an plans new houses an drives
fast HOSES an wars good clothes. while his
wife goes ragged and his children have cold
toes. What he might arm by honest labor
he won't airn belSase he hopes TO git for
tune widout work.
81 tell you, my irons, de man who waits
fur tosmorrer to sharpens his ak, am sartin
70 do poor chopin De man who sots on
de fence to walt fur ieguuy wifi har MS
wife scrapin de bottom OBJ de -four barrel
every day in dc week. De man who let's
himself believe dat dc world owes him a
libin' am gwine to eat some mighty poo
fodder afore he dies. De world doan' owe
nobody muffin. We am put heah to sot an
starve or git up N dust. Providence won't
pay house rent, buy our Eaters or keep de
cook stove hot. - Detroit Free Press. ssl
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HE MOVED HIS HEAD.

A negro man of this county told us a few
days ago the brief history of the first horss.
he ever owned. He had gotten together by
hard work and close saving the sum of
eighty-6ve dollars. One day In attending
the public sales, he bid of horse that was
blind in one eye, for seyenty-five dollars
The other ten dollars he invested in q big
navy pistol. He was then in his glory and
used TO ride around as if he were monarch
of all he surveyed. But in less than O week
after he had bought his horse hs was riding
over the plantation with his pistol in his
pocket, when he saw large oovey of par
tridges huddling together in the grass right
in front Of him. He pulled out his pisto)
and commenced firing at them, but unfortu.
nately was firing ON the blind sidess of the
horse. That animal behaved very well under
fire, being Of that age when the hot blood
had run low, until finally he threw his head
little too far to the right and swift bullet
from the navy pistol went roofing its way
through his brain. The negro says he is
sure he would have killed bird that time,
for he had dead aim when the horse put his
head in the way. The negro in disgust sold
his pistol on credit, and never expects to
get the money for 1t. M s.
Thus ends the story Of the horse, the
pistol and the eighty-fve dollars but the
negro, a sadder and wiser man, from that
day has let pistols alone forever, and bids
fair to make more money and use 1t more
advantageously. = Washington Gazette.
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THE STREETS OF TOXIC.

The streets for the most part are narrow,
and TEEN from morning. till night with
humanity. There nre no regulations, APP
parently, such as those embodied in the
local ordinances of MOST American cities,
whereby accident may be prevented or the
longevity of public improvements promot-
ed. Heavy teams are driven at terrific
speed over shaky wooden bridges. The
large number of bridges, together with the
rough usage, discourages the municipality
from making proper repairs, and there are
always great many condemned and closed
bridges in The city. There are apparently
no sidewalk ordinances, and this is account
ed for ordinarily by the fact that there are
no sidewalks to regulate. Every manner Of
liberty is taken with the streets instead,
when the sidewalks are thus wanting.
The most incongruous spectacle is that
Afforded by the presence of street-cars here
"a feature peculiar to the capital city
alone. Like all the foreign improvements
here, the street-car lines are English in
style; the cars having four or six wheels
and running upon tracks provided with
groove for the wheel fanges. The drivers
and conductors are, of course, japanese,
dressed in European clothes, but never
more than dccently apparelled- The con
ductors carry ancient-looking leather sat
chefs strapped over their shoulders from
which they sell tickets to all passengers, to
be collected at the door as the passengers
quit the car. There are no bells on the
horses, but horn hangs by the side of the
driver and the latter theoretically toots it rs
his horses dash along at o breakneck speed
down the street. Although these japanese
ponies are abused shamefully in order tc
make them attain speed satisfactory tc
the driver (there are no humane societies in
Tolio), the cars will stop sometimes for ten
minutes at q crossing while the conductor
and driver wait for an imaginary load OF
passengers without the least concern or i'm
patience.
1t is source Of terror to the bravest per-
son to ride by any mode Of conveyance
down some of these narrow Toxic streets.
Every coach and other vehicle carries a
horn in order to keep people ON the look
out, and the streets are an interminable
crush of stages, cars, ginrikishas and port
able groceries. Blockades are frequent
and sometimes disastrous. The, street-car
lines profess to have double tracks running
10 the suburbs Of Hyzeno and Asakusa, but
the streets are frequently 80 narrow that
they have to reduce to one and even then
run quite close to the houses. San Fran
DISCO Bulletin
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THE GREAT PARIS DETEcTivE.
n. Mace, the Chief sf Pebble safety, ths
Original or Eecoca. aal g


The terror of the Paris eyildoer is FIVE
feet in his stockings. His acte dc naissance
declares him to be forty Eight years old, but
he looks younger, although the close-crop-
ped auburn beard is streaked with grey and
his forelock has been taken off by time. He
has candid blue eyes, scarcely concealed by
rimless glasses, a straight nose and a we'll
formed mouth, with magnificent set Of
teeth. The appearance of NJ Mace is a
decided contradiction to the preconceiyed
Idea of detective. The first floor room in
which he sits plainly shows, however, the
owners profession. The faded photographs
on the wall, the portraits of criminals, the
keys, the black velvet mask of Madame Lee
gras, with large glove which belonged to
the same interesting parsonage, go to make
up veritable museum of evidence by which
crime may be traced to its primary cause.
The same remark would apply to the objects
that literally crowd the shelves of an ono1
nous cupboard With glass doors behind tie
comfortable arm chair of the Paris Chief of
Public Safety, repellant fac SMILES of indi.
viduals of both sexes, yard or SO of whip
cord, small and murderous-l looking steel
| hammer, little wooden trnys filled with false
SONS, formidable though miniature array
Of burglars tools in tiny ivory boxes not
unlike those used for rosaries, reduced
model of the gallows fianked by another one
of the guillotine, these are but hundredth
pert of the bric-a. brac of crime that stares
ct the visitor in this melodramatic cabinet.
They are some of the pieces de convictions
which III. Mace has obtained at the yearly
sale. . They'll be nice little mementoes. of
;he past when retire, which ] mean to do
shortly" says NJ. Mace as he points them
out and calmly tells the tales connected
with them. q rmean to grow roses and do
little bit of fishing" continues the Gus
todian of Paris safety. g After thirty years
of hard work, during which have not had
time TO read novel, think am fairly en-
titled to n holiday for the remainder of my
life. PORTS Morning Neaos. $3.50.
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DRINKING DISTILLED WATER.

Il haven't drank drop Of water for
several years" said stock broker the other
day. "That is" he added, rehectively,
Croton water, or well water in the coun-
try, or water at the seaside. I used to drink
gallons of mineral waters, but found their
constant use Objectionable for several rea-
sons, and now drink only distilled water.
II Is true 1t tastes rather fiat and insipid,
bat il is absolutely pure, and few drops
sf-well almost anything will dispel the
iasipid taste. l caught the malaria, and SO
did my wife and children, at country farm
house in New Jersey several years ago from
drinking impure water. I am satisfied that
was the reason, for the ground was high
and the dir delicious. You see the well was
in corner Of the barnyard. When came
home came back TO the old pitcher and
basin in the bedrooms, and you ought TO
see the collection of sediments I have in
bottles. just draw pitcher of water at
night and look at the bottom in the morn
ing. Not any more for me-"
A well-known saloon keeper said that he
bad been buying distilled water for three
years.
Whss for ? Well, TO water my rum with
! found it absolutely necessary in conse
quence Of the impurity of the Croton on,
summer, and have continued it ever since
You see the impurities Of the Croton show
in the liquor after it has been reduced TO
the necessary strength, and customers think
the foreign Substances are in the liquors
themselves. Probably only the Hrst-class
saloons use distilled water to reduce with.
Outside of two or three regular customers,
there Is no demand ns yet for II over the
bar, the run being ON mineral waters.r
A druggist said that there had been in the
.ast two or three years an increased demand
for distilled water. II sold at i24 cents u
gallon at Wholesale to % cents at retail II
was used in reducing liquors, mixing differ
emit kinds of medicines, and by doctors
There were, no doubt, some families who
used it for its absolutely purity, but he did
not think its use intorfered materially with
the sale Of mineral winters Many families
boiled their water before drinking it-NeD
York Sun.
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sMELT AND EEL FISHING.

But few persons outside Of this Immediate
vicinity have any idea Of the amount of
smelts and cells caught at this place in the
winter season. Fishing through the Zoe +"
is regular occupation carried TO perfection.
No sooner does the chilling frosts of Deem
Der make the ice of sufficient strength to
bear them than scores Of little houses
(shanties) make their appearance upon the
bay east of this village. Your correspond
emit yesterday counted more than one hun
dred of these houses, built to accommodate
one person Occasionally two) being from
four to six feet square, and just high enough
to admit of man standing erect inside.
The roofs, and sometimes the walls, arc
shingled The thrifty occupants engaged
in the business often ft up their houses
in style.n Most oil of them have little
stove, in which wood and sometimes o
coal fire is maintained, and there from sun
to sun all day long the toiler ats, with HE
lines dropped through hole in the ice in
aide his house and hauls up the little
sinners. We found one man who reported
hfty-six pounds caught that day and the
day before sixty pounds" Those were
wonderfully good days, however, for the
average Of the 100 or more catchers we
learn Is about twenty to twenty five pounds.
Putting IL at the lower figure, then 100 men
would catch an even net ton per day, which
In New York, at the last reported price, 10
cents per pound, would amount to $780,
Deducting freight and commissions, the
catcher would receive about 10 cents net
OF course the average price for the sea-
son is nothing like that. We should think,
to keep within bounds, five cents per pound
net ut the shipping point (this village, o,
Damariscotta, two miles below, would be
about right. Then 1000 taken daily, Ave
sents per pound, equal to 300 per day,
or 5000 for the weeks work Of six ~ DAYS.
Added to this, going on at the same time,
upon the same day, through holes cut in
he ice, Is the additional industry of CATCH
ing cells, which are marketed same as the
snelts (price per pound we did not learn).
but in its season amounts In cash to nearly
as much as the smelling. Really, the fish.
ing at Damarisootta Mills Is IN industry OF
no mean proportions and is a great blessing
10 the inhabitants, many good dinner,
many warmly clad boy or girl and many
warm fire around which the family gath
srs in comfort, being the results. - Damar-
fscotta Me-, Letter to the Boston 7yace.ssr.