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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20

DR.. w. o. Dawson says in London
Hnolcledge:
Moderation in eating must ever be of
great value as an agent for retarding the
advent of senility. Large eaters more
rapidly bring about these ossifc deposits,
owing to having taken more food into the
stomach than it is able to utilize or ex-
crete, the result being, naturally, more
rapid blockage. According to the re-
searches Of DR.. De Lacy Evans it would
appear that the following articles Of food
contained least Of the earth's salts: /.
Fruits Chiefly owing to their lack Of nj
trogen) 2. Fish and poultry. 8. Young
mutton and veal Old mutton and beef
from age contain a large quantity of
earthly matter. To sum up shortly
what has already been advanced
according to the teachings of modern
science the most rational and certain
means of retarding old age are by avoid
ing ell foods rich in the earth salts, and
BY taking daily two Or three tumblerfuls
Of distilled water with about ten to fifteen
drops Of diluted phosphoric acid In each
glassfull Thus are the inimical salts
held in solution and their excretion daily
effected The means herein advocates
have also another great advantage, viz,
that they cannot possibly do any harm
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
Went Ont Without a Word.

A West Side lady has been much an
noyed the past six months by the driver
of laundry wagon, who insisted on
ringing the front door bell and receiving
the dirty clothes from the servant girl at
that door. The lady had asked the girl
to tell the laundryman to 20 to the back
door for the clothes, but the man would
not do it, and every Monday morning
the clang Of the bell announced the ar
rival of the dirty clothes man, and shirts
were hurried into paper and deliv-
cred to the great man. The lady could
not see why the laundryman should oe
more of a society gentleman than the
butchers young man, or the grocer's
driver, so she thought she would inyesti-
gate. Last Monday when the door-bell
rang the lady went to the door in her
morning wrapper, and told the laundry
man to walk in. He came into the hall,
when she invited him into the parlor with
a quiet dignity, and he could not fail to
obey. He seated himself in the parlor,
blushing and looking toward the hall for
the servant with the shirts, and acting as
though he had got his foot into it clear
up. The lady did not seem to notice his
embarrassment, but acted as though he
was caller that it was her duty to treat
pleasantly. TT is beautiful morning, +"
said the lady, seating berself on small
sofa near the laundryman He said it
was, and then be looked for the girl to
come with the shirts, and great drops of
perspiration appeared on his brow. ''Do
you know" said the lady, appearing en-
barrassed, 81 am at a loss to remember
your name. Your face is familiar, but
we meet so many people in society that
it is no wonder we can not place them
all. Let me see, did l not meet you at
Mrs. So-and-so's reception2 Why, yes,
J remember now Strange that I should
have forgotten you What lovely time
we had But, may ask TO what happy
circumstance l am indebted to this early
visitl" The man stammered, colored up,
and just then the girl came in with the
shirts, and he grabbed the package and
went out without word. The lady
laughe and said to the girl: "He will
come to the back door after this. p
PscEs Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
desperate vaIor of the Arabs.

Further details of the desperate battle be-
tween General GrahaInis forces and the
False Prophets rebals near the Tamai Wells
are full Of interest During the confusion
which ensued, when the Arabs made their
wild rush upon the British lines and caused
them to retreat, the newspaper reporters and
other non-combataats took part in the
fray and used their revolvers freely and
with deadly effect against the enemy After
the battle Osman's camp and three villages
were burned. Among the trophies Osman's
standard was taken, and TeWfik Bey's was
reported The British losses were considerably
heavier than at first reported The
number Of those killed reaches
hundred, while the wounded
were one hundred and fifty. General
Graham's forces returned to Suakim- Osnan
Digna has fled to the hills
The eArabs retired before the English slowly
and sullenIy They were defeated, but not
put to rout. They walked away as il saunter-
ing through a bazaar, with arms folded or
swinging at their sides They were often
shot down, but this did not hasten their COM
panions' speed.
Judges Of native character think that the
Arabs are 50 allied by family ties that the
great loss of life will appal them and break
their faith in FL Mahdi and their sheikhs-
1t was impossible to take prisoners. The
wounded Arabs would lie motionless with
o7t uttering a single cry or moan, and watch
their chance to stab The advancing BRITISH
with knife or spear The victors walked
among the wounded as = so many VI
pers A wounded Arab k. u a British ma
rine during the night Another attempted
to stab Colonel Steward while his aide-de-
camp was giving the wounded man water.
A Suakim dispatch says that during the
Eight the Arabs entered the second square
upon their hands and knees beneath the muz-
lies of the Gatling guns They then com
nenced slashing with their weapons. doing
terrible execution The British were no
match for the rebels at close quarters.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
Mines and Minerals Of Mexico.

The next most important deposits are
the important bed of iron, chiefly in the
form of the magnetic and hematite ores.
The well-known Cerro del Mercado, in
the State Of Durango, has been estimated
to contain sixty million cubic yards of
iron ore, which have a weight of five
billion quintals, and give, according to
an analysis by NJ. h. Borje, of Philadel-
phia, sixty-six per cent. of pure metal.
Lead ores are abundant; copper is mined
at various places; oxide of tin is found
in veins and aIluvial beds at Durango.
Mercury occurs as cinnabar in several
States; and zinc ores, with platinum,
antimony, cobalt and nickel in not large
quantities, are found in chihuahua. The
principal coal-beds are in the States of
Oaxaca Vera Cruz, Mexico, Pueblo,
Neuyo Leon, Tamaulipas and Sonora.
The anthracite bed recently discovered
at Barranca, on the Yaqui river in So
nora, is probably the largest and richest
deposit of coal in the republic Lignite,
or brown coal, occurs in many places,
but is not used to any great extent. The
demand for coal is, SO far, much greater
than the supply accessible to the rail-
roads. Mining is still conducted by
working on the old Mexican plan, and
this system has been found, under exist
ing circumstances, to be more economical
and profitable than a system in which
modern and improved methods are ap-
piled.
Some of the oldest mines in Mexico,
many Of which were worked before the
Spanish conquest, are at Pachuca, in the
State of Hidalgo. There are about $50
Of them, seventy-ive Of which are in the
Real del Monte, affording an ore com
posed mainly Of blackish silver sulphides.
The ore is worked here, as at Guanajuato
by the patio ocess.-Popular Seienc
MonfbJ,f
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
Endurance of snaiIs.

The big pond snails of the tropics have
been found alive in logs of mahogany i'm
ported from Honduras; and NJ. Caillaud
carried some from Egypt to Paris, packed
in sawdust. Indeed, it isn't easy to as
certain the limit of their endurance; for
Mr.. Lajdlay, having placed number in
drawer tor this very purpose, found
them alive after FIVE years torpidity, al
though in the warm climate of Calcutta.
In 1S49 Mr.. Pickering received from Mr..
Wollaston basketful of Madeira snails
(of twenty or thirty different kinds),
hree-fourths Of which proved to be alive,
after several months confinement, in
cluding sea voyage. Mr.. Wollaston
has himself recorded the fact that speci-
mems Of two Madeira snails survived a
fast and imprisonment in pill boxes Of
two years and half duration, and that
large numbers Of small species, brought
to England at the same time, were all
living, after being inclosed in a dry bag
for year and half.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
Siberia.

In the course of lectures on Siberia,
delivered in Boston, Mr.. George Kennan
said: Siberia has every variety Of climate,
from that Of our north Atlantic states to
that of Nova Zembla, and its people are
almost as heterogeneous in origin and
character as those of the entire western
hemisphere taken together. 1t comprises
one-tenth part of the entire habitable
portion of the globe. It covers about
thirty-six degrees of latitude and 100
degrees Of longitude. and has an area,
including the recently acquired territory
in the south, Of 5000, 700 square miles,
If it were possible to move entire coun-
tries from one part Of the globe to an
other, the whole of the United States
could be taken up and set down within
the boundaries of Siberia without any
where touching the boundaries of the
latter country. The territory of Alaska
and ali the states of Europe, except
Russia, could be placed about in the
remaining margin without crowding any
OF them; and, even with all this done,
there would be 900, 900 square miles Of
Siberian territory to spare.
Siberia is country, or rather con
tinental division, Of the globe which
holds cut the promise Of gigantic and
incalcu-able future destiny. Siberia, in
the great social relations of the world is
hardly less important than America. It
has one of the finest river systems on the
globe, and the construction of a canal,
which is now projected between the
headwaters of the-Obi and the Yenesei,
will give to the Siberian trade an un-
interrupted line Of steam communication
from the Urals to Lake Baikal, dis
tance Of 200 miles With its climate,
soil and physical characteristics, South
Siberia should support fifteen or twenty
times its present population. 1t already
contains, in far greater degree than
European Russia, the elements of a
vigorous popular life Its people have
never been serfs; they have been en-
boldened and taught self-reliance by
their vigorous struggle with primeval
wilderness and against injustice and op-
preston. The Siberian Of to-day repudi-
ates the name of Russia, and calls him
self q Siberian and ie nroud of his
country.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
SPINNING.

Like blind spinner in the sun,
tread my days;
know that all the threads viii run
Appointed ways:
know each day will bring its task,
And, being blind, no more ask.
do not know the use or name
OF that spin;
only know that some one came,
And laid within
My hand the thread, and said: Since you
Are blind but one thing you can do.n
Sometimes the threads so rough and fast
And tangled fly,
know wild storms are sweeping past,
And fear that l
Shall fall; but dare not try to find
A safe place, since am blind.
know not why, but am sure
That tint and place,
In some great fabric to endure
Past time and race
My threads will have; so from the first,
Though blind, never felt accursr
! think, perhaps, this trust has sprung
From one short word
Said over me when l was young
So young, | heard
It, knowing not that Gods name signed
My brow, and sealed me His, though blind.
But whether this be seal or sign
Within, without,
Il matters not. The bond divine
never doubt.
know He set me here, and still,
And glad, and blind, wait His will;
But listen, listen day by day,
To hear them tread
Who bear the finished web away,
And cut the thread,
And bring Gods message in the sun,
Thou poor blind spinner. work is done.n
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
A Sect Of Child Killers.

The Noroe Vrensya warns Russian
mothers Of new religious sect which
has given several proofs of its existence.
In Rostov, on the Don, an officer en-
gagged middle-aged nurse for his three
year-old son. She was very attentive
and seemed fond of the child, but after
two months she suddenly left the situa-
ton and the town. The child began to
all the very next day, lost its memory,
and suffered from continual drowsiness.
A week later it died without having been
really i'll. The corpse was placed in the
coffin, when young Jewess burst into
the house, threw herself upon the dead
child, and crying bitterly, said: tThe
same woman poisoned my child. She
was my nurse before, and now she has
murdered your poor boym The woman
spoke the truth. 1t has been found that
in Rostov there is society of child muir
derers, who poison children by means of
narcotics. They are instigated to do SO
by fanatical woman, who says. ut is
every woman's duty to spare the evils Of
life to as many children as possible, and
to make them share in the bliss Of heaven
before the earth has contaminated their
souls
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
oIIIna the Ocean.

Mr.. Shields has taken out patents for
his great apparatus in Great Britain,
France and America, and with natural
anxiety to promote its general utilization
in the work Of saving life and protecting
property, in its efficacy for which pur
poses he is firm and enthusiastic belieYer,
he has had his appliances set in gear about
Folkstone harbor, whittier journeyed some
gentlemen interested in the objects.
The experiments would have had great
er practical results if the sea had been
rougher But the visitors saw enough to
convince them Of the marvellous effects Of
oil in quieting the perturbation Of the
ocean. The white horses" that came
tumbling In from the channel had to
smooth their names and take on demure-
ness as soon as they reached the rayon of
the oil. And not the least surprising fea-
tures of the oils influence is the singulariy
small quantity of it needed to produce the
most marked effect. 1t was told to the
visitors that single drop of oil will
spread over water surface of one square
yard. In an Atlantic storm, in the win
ter of 1882, the captain of the Airlie,
making very heavy weather as he lay
hove-to, determined to try the "oil-
cure" He hung out two canvas bags,
each containing about two gallons of oil.
In half an hour his deck was dry, and for
forty-eight hours not even spray broke
over the bulwarks When the gale
abated he hauled in his bags, the oil in
which had never been renewed, and there
remained still in each bag over quart of
oil.
When the visitors reached the end Of
Folkestone pier they found a couple Of
force pumps rugged there, and we're told
that pipe from these stretched along TIE
bottom in westerly direction to point
on the shore, inclosing a considerable ex-
tent of broken and troubled water Pres
emily the pumps were set to work, and
soon after the oil was seen rising to the
surface, and spreading over it, having es-
capped from the pipe through the valves.
The ''fields' Of oil were at first distinct,
but as they spread gradually over the
troubled surface, they coalesced, and
then that surface, though heaYing in a
languid, heavy manner, was unbroken by
foam crest. The ''pack" or ''feldr of oil
slowly drifted away with the tide past the
pier head, and so eastward in the direc-
ton of Dover, spreading wider and wider
as it difrted, the oil still maintaining its
dominance over the chafng pillows. In
the calm water it made, the Folkestone
lifeboat rode lightly, gently rising and
falling whereas in the rougher water be
yond the influence Of the oil, the gallant
craft had been dancing about like cork.
On the unoiled water her progress had
been slow. notwithstanding that the
lusty crew lay down to their work with a
right good will; but within the region
which the oil had fabricated, she travelled
at speed with much less strenuous strokes
of the oars.-LondOn Nsaos.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
MUSICAL AND DRAMAT N

BoUcIeAULT claims TO have written oyer
49) plays.
STRAUSS Is writing new opera, "The
Gypsy Baron
SINS REEVES, tho tenor, IS seriously IL at
his home in England.
EMMA ABBOTT sings il opera on Sunday
evenings in San Francisco.
HENRY IRvING's gross receipts in this
country win aggregate nearly 100000.
SoNNENTHAI, the foremost leading man In
Germany, has been engaged for an American
tour.
RBroRI salvina and Bernhardt IRE all
coming back to work still further tine mine
in America.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR gave dinner recently
at the White house in honor of Mr.. Henry
Irving and Miss Terry
MISS WHITNEY, the Boston sculptor, is en-
gagged on bust OF Ellen Terry, the English
actress now with Irving's company.
MISS SELESA FErrER, who plays the
heroine of s'The StraZ Zglers of Paris, IS the
Louisville beauty who made 50 hatrering a
debut two seasons ago. She IS said to resem-
be Mary Anderson in physique, and to ex-
eel that favorite in intense emotional en-.
Geavors.
on the register Of the St James hotel New
York, and within four lines Of each other.
one day recently, were to be seen the names
or b. McAulsy, New York, and John +.
Macauley, Louisville, KY. The two men aFs
brothers. one weil-knowh actor, and the
other q prosperous theatre manager. They
hal dispute some years ago about thF
theatre: Barney changed the spelling o.
his rame, and they have since been strangers
to each other
CHARLES BALNER, one OF the best lnusi-
clans in the West, and very able and con,
scientious crstic, thus tells a reporter The
le.f1.- pff
'sfhe style OF the artists is 50 different that
it is almost impossible to make acoinparison.
Certainly, whatever Gerster does sha e1aets
the character She is a conscientious artist
but she has not the facility THAT Fhti hAs
She has equally a. much exc -ution but there
d il something in PATHS voice that IL iudA
scribable The long ani short of it N fhMH
Patti is the greatest artist In the world
IRIS a curious fact that tie French -spesA
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20

The use Of Episcopal wigs has entirely
gone out in England. Sumner, arch
bishop Of Canterbury, was the last to
wear one. He died in 1862.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20

Australian carpenters work only sight
hours per day, and have half holiday
every Saturday.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20

New York has 10000 cigar makers.
and the aggregate amount of wages
gained BY them last year was 5000, 600,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20
NOTICE
DAINTING.
6 PENHocK's g. SONS
Patent Road Machine,

Also the matchless Self Loading Self Dumping
Scraper. Circulars sent free. Machine sent on
trial Satisfaction guaranteed, or no sale
JAMES J. DAVIDSON
Agent for Gloucester County
April Il. 1sS3-5m. Swedesboro, 4 7
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-20

n lis a curious fact that tic FraIich=sreaAs
ing population Of Canada has incren slI
during the last decade at g much eleatzl
ratio than the Enelish. The former q as non
number !. .9s9 e29, seven tenths OF whom ll]t
in the province Of Quebec.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-30
NEW YORK.
Esnecial Telegram to the Globe. [

Especial TELEGRAM to the Globe.
New YORK, Aug. 29.-The market opened
weak and unsettled with free selling OF stocks.
Union Pacific being the leader as usual, with a
decline in it to 451l during the first hour. The
shorts appeared as buyers on the drop, and raj
lies all along the line followed. When the first
support was withdrawn prices dropped and the
appearance was heavier then ever. Transactions
were largely in the Changers, Union Pacific, Del
aware 81 Lackawanna and Telegraph The total
sales up to noon in all stocks were nearly 200,-
900 shares. The feeling was quite unsettled and
the market inclined to be feverish during the
greater part of the day. Good parties began
buying Pacific Mail this morning on a scale,
and say they think it may go to 46.
The settling in the board shows that Woen
shaffer and other large bears are on the top. He
was large borrower of stocks this morning
Cammock and Smith are said to be very beari sh.
The principal bear arguments were the trunk
line situation, the difficulties in the Western
association, and the condition Of the coal trade.
During the last hour the tone changed for the
better with moderate buying of the Changers
and Vanderbilts, which gradually extended to all
the leading shares The bears appeared less
demonstrative and covered good many stocks.
The market acted as though some of the leaders
were picking up shares at the finish and after the
depressions of the past few days it would not re-
quIre any great effort to engineer advance, as
the short interest is quite on item at present.
The market closed steady. Delaware and Hud-
son is quoted ex-divided Ia per cent. A new
bull pool in St Paul is reported
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-30
Law and Order League.

CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-The National Law and
Order league in session at Lake Bluff to-day
listened to address by Rev. H. Barrows and
Andrew Paxton, both of Chicago, in opposition
to prohibition. Speeches were also made by l..
Edwin Dudley, of Boston, and Judge Nourse, of
Iowa. The following officers were elected Ex-
Gov. John ID. Long, of Massachusetts,, presi-
dent; l.. Edwin Dudley, Boston, secretary;
Albert b. Monroe, Connecticut, treasurer !;
Andrew Paxton, Chicago, general agent
The new list of vice presidents is
as follows: Joshua Nye, Maine; E. F.
Thorndyke, New York John B Mead, Vermont;
Gen. o. o. Howard, Nebraska; Rufus S. Frost
Massachusetts; John II. Perry, Connecticut;
X. Fulton Cutting, New York; Arthur NJ Bur
ton, Pennsylvania; Rev. Washington Gladden.
Ohio; jerome T. Cobb, Michigan; C. C. Bonney,
Illinois; LuciIs ". Fairchid, Wisconsin: Right
Rev. John Ireland, Minnesota; Senator Vest
Missouri: c. c. Nourse, Iowa. Jacob Mulvane
Kansas. The following executive committee
was chosen: Geo. H. Foster, Wisconsin; j.. c.
Schaeffer, Illinois; Rev. Lyman Abbott, New
York; A ID. Vose, Rhode Island; Louis D.
Vail, Pennsylvania; C. W. Wyman, Vermont
". r. Dodge, New Hampshire; J. B. Warren,
Maine; Samuel Merrill, Iowa; Rev. d. W. Par
sons, Michigan; Gen. Alonzo Alden, New York !;
B. B. johnson. Massachusetts,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-30
ButterwOrth Asks for the Regular
Order.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.1


WASHINGTON, Aug. e9.-Maj Benjamin f.
Butterworth, commissioner of patents, is evi-
IDENTITY disposed to manage the business Of his
bureau in a spirit Of fairness and justice TO all
concerned An old rule Of the office, which had
been n dead letter under his predecessors, resds:
When an invention is deemed of peculiar i'm
portance to some branch OF the public service,
and when for that reason the head of some de-
partmeut OF the government specially requests
immediate action, the case will be taken up out
OF its order. 1t has been the custom
OF different commissioners for years past to
make all cases special where the
influence brought TO bear was Of political or
personal nature. In this way claim would be
pushed through in q week, where, in the crowd
ed condition of the work, it could not be reached
ordinarily in less than Eve or six months. In s
letter to Acting Secretary Of the Interior Joslyn
yssterisy. Mr. Butterworth sets forth these
facts and complains Of the annoyance TO which
he is subjected by the political firms of inventors
who desire that their cases should be given pre-
eedence OF all others. lie asks IL he shall not be
allowed to enforce the rules peremptorily reguir-
ing all cases TO be taken up in their regular or
der except such as are provided for in the clause
above quoted. Secretary Joslyn replied that he
might do so, and concluded by commencing the
suggestion heartily.