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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18
Curious DRINKING customs.

The custom Of touching glasses prior
to drinking healths is common in Eng
land and other countries; especially in
Germany. It is curious to trace how
this custom has prevailed and stu exists
even among savage tribes.
To drink out of the same cup and to
eat off the same plate was one Of the
ways in which the ancients celebrated a
marriage, and the wedding feast contin-
ues to be not ne least important Of the
marriage ceremonies of the present day.
The Indians Of Brazil retain !. custom
Of drinking together little brandy as
sign that the marriage is concluded. In
China similar customs are met with
In the medieval banquets Of Germany
it was the custom to pass loving
cup" from hand to hand, but this grad
ually necessitated that the cup should
be Of enormous size, and thus smaller
cups or glasses were adopted and the old
custom was conformed to by the drink
ers touching their glasses before drink
ing. The ceremony attending the pass
ing and drinking out Of the Glowing
cup as practiced at out great city fes
tivals and at some of our college halls, is
said to have arisen from the assassination
Of King Edward.
1t was then the custom of the Anglo
Saxons to pass around large cup, from
which each guest drank. Who thus
drank stood up, and, as he lifted up the
cup with both hands, his body was ex-
posed, without any defence, to blow,
and the occasion was often seized by an
enemy to murder him. To prevent this
the following plan was adopted; When
one of the company stood up to drink.
he required the companion who sat next
to him to be his pledge-that is, to be
responsible for protecting him against
anybody who should attempt to take adj
vantage Of his defenceless position. This
companion stood up also, and raised his
drawn sword in his hand to defend tie
drinker while drinking.
This practice. in a somewhat altered
form, continued long after the condition
of society had ceased to require it, and
was the origin Of the modern practice Of
pledging by drink. In drinking from
the g loving cup Y as now practiced, each
person rises and takes the cup in his
hand to drink, and, at the same time,
the person next to him rises also, arl
when the latter .akes he cup in his
turn, the individual next to him does the
same.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18
An Electric errI.

The editor of the Progres Medical has
had an electric girl under observation
for the last three years, and calls atsen-
ton to some Of the more intense mani
festations of her condition. Her fingers,
for instance, attract al sorts Of light
bodies, such as ribbons and fragments
of paper, and slight friction applied to
the hair win Cause the tilaments to tepa-
rate in remarkable manner. A pass Of
her hand will cause napkin to adhere
strongly to piece Of furniture, and any
one who attempts to remove the cloth
viii receive a half-lnch spark from 1t.
When portions of the girls garments
happened to come in sudden and close
contact with her skin, bright and crack
ing sparks are perceived and the material
clings lightly to her. Intense emotion
grea ly heightens the electrical effect, and
whenever she hears on affecting piece OF
music, the cracklings Of the electrical
sparks are heard all over her body.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18

In London almost every man who pre-
tends to. be gentleman in certain
sphere wears single eye-glass. As a
rule he does not wear it in his eye, but
contents himself by allowing it to dangle
over his breast from a short black cord.
1t is usually plain glass without rim
and rather small. Everybody wears them
over there, and it attracts no attention
whatever. On this side, says New
York letter, the single glass has always
been regarded as a special badge of
idiocy; until four or five years ago a
man who walked up Broadway with an
''eye glass in his ocular was stared at
on all sides by the crowd, and often
guyed by men whom he passed. Now,
however, the single glass no longer at
tracts attention in the fashionable quar-
ters Of the town, and a man may walk
about with impunity, squirting pain
fully as he goes. In Delmonico's at all
times one may see anywhere from five to
dozen men attempting to eat soup and
hold the glasses in their eyes at the same
time, and il is a rare night that doesn't
witness one or two accidents from this
affectation.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18


Sibley and Ramsey were the guberna-
torial candidates in Minnesota in 1858,
and party feeling ran high, that is, votes
became high, because they were mighty
scarce. The partisans Of each candidate
were worked up to great pitch in their
endeavors to have the honor of electing
the first governor Of the new State.
When the returns began coming in, it
appeared that Ramsey would walk away
with the State. There were few of
Sibley's men who smiled in quiet way
as they sat back and waited for precincts
in the northern part of the State to be
heard from. Away up near the British
line, and just across from Pembina,
Manitoba, one Wilson had been sent
in the interest of Sibley. According
to an organic provision, Indians were
allowed to vote if clothed as legally
qualified citizens. In that locality there
are several thousand redskins, who had
been overlooked by all the politicians
except Wilson, who was a genuine speci-
men of genus of frontier statesmen that
have passed away with the advent of the
baser practices of a more refined civiliza-
tion. He would talk French to the
half breeds from the Hudson Bay
region, Sioux or Chippewa to the
aborigines, who then were spre.d all
over the Northwest. When he
reached the place where the In
dians were the thickest election day was
only ten hours away, and what he pro
posed doing had to be done quickly.
During the night he skirmished around
trying to procure two pairs of pants, but
the settlement couldn't produce a single
spare pair. Wilson was nearly despair
ing of working his game successfully,
when two old whisky-logged frontiers
men volunteered to keep to their shanties
during the lay for couple Of bottles
of the best. Wilson was well supplied
with this, and the next day the two old
topers were missed at the polls, but their
breeches were in the hands of Wilson,
who appeared on the scene as soon as the
sun rose. With one assistant he mar
shaled the Indians in line and in jargon
of Indian and English explained what
they should do. The first savage was
robed in the pants of the old chap who
was then playing old sledge with his
"pard, " robed only in blankets While
this first vote was being cast the other
| pair of pantaloons was being hung upon
the limbs of the next noble red man, and
while this fellow was dropping in His
ballot the breeches were taken off the
first Indian and put on No. 8. So the
entire line was gone through with, and
when the hour for closing arrived those
trousers had covered hundreds Of strange
legs. When that district reported,
Sibley's election was assured, and wher
Wilson arrived from his successful
Northern tour he not only got a grand
reception, but even the sobriquet Of
"Pembina.' that clung to him for years
st. LouisPost-D -DispateA.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18

The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country was made sopn aftet The
war Of 1912.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18
DrHGE.

Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weepl
Merry hours-smile instead,
For the year is but asleep;
See, it smiles as it is sleeping
Mocking your untimely weeping.
IL
As an earthquake rocks a corse
In its coffin in the clay,
So white winter, that rough nurse,
Rocks the dead-cold year to-day;
Solemn hours wall aloud
For your mother in her shroud-
III.
As the mild cir stirs and sways
The tree-swung cradle of child,
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the year; be calm and mild
Trembling hours; she viii arise
With new love within her eyes.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18

When Captain Cook first visited Tahiti
the natives were using nails Of wood.
bone, shell and stone. When they saw
iron nail. they fancied them to be shoot
Of some very hard wool, and, desirous
Of securing such valuable commodity,
they planted them in their gardens
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18

Fanny his voice trembled slignrly
TT wish you you would say it again,
but I know you will not, SO ask you
once more, will you be my wife9n
But if she had answered nationally she
would not have been our Flighty. With
fresh burst Of tears she held out her
hand and pointed to the box,
laconically,-
ssPut it on
While he complied she wiped her eyes
and then held up her mouth invitingly; !;
and as he kissed her the clock in the ad-
joining room struck twelve, and Aunt
Evelyn, in dressing gown and slippers,
opened the door softly, only to retreat
again; for it seemed to her as if her tall
son and the saucy, dark-eyed Flighty had
made up" their last quarrel on that
eve before merry Christmas was born.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18

The first daily paper appeared il l7oe.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-18
Is CENTS

viii buy TREATISE ON THE HORSE AND Hrs
DrsEAsRs- Book Of 100 pages, valuable to
every owner Of horses. Postage stamps
taken, Sent postpaid. New Yosx HoHsE
DoofsCo.. IA Leonard 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-03
REGLS1LKs oFFIcE NOTES.

William II. Vanderbilt has conveyed TO his
son Cornelius Vanderbilt house III East Thirty ST.
near Parkave. The consideration If nominal sum- The
society OF the Roosevelt HOspd! has advanced loan Of
$4,000 TO Rufus Adam, upon property IN the west side
of Th!ri-lye north of NInee-nJhst loan of $4,000
has been made by the Network Institution Tor the Dear
and Dumb 10 Alexander Dowuey on dwelling 10 Forty
uinth-st Just OF Third-lve.
J b. Lord and another have borrowed $4,000 from the
Astor Library upon house ard lot in Thr-aTe. near
Thrty--ixthst MaIceiu- Tia tley who is sand 10 be an
agent for the Equitable Life Assurance society has pur
chased Nos. and 10 Pine--t for 100000 from the
~t,uuau storm estate. Tie Real Estate tx hJlgr ana
Auction Room .mit.d. has -rcurea the building 80. 90
LiOrrty-st rom lidm r. Williams for T1lJ'J Trinity
Church has conveyed 10 Henry Welsh lhc premises No
Az TO t67 Green icl-s and ~ and 20 DcuroS-ts--
for 100000. samuel ]. Tlden has purchaed Tor
81 900 house and lot tie south side OF Thirty
c.hth-sr Yves, of FIftn-ove The Twcnfythird Street
ari~t urch has borrowed 500 900 from the Dry Dock
savings Institution upon property az The northwest
corner Of LcXn.tou-ayc. and Tventythlri--t
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UTICA.
TELEPHONES-INCEN FIRES-CoST OF
FOUNTAINS.
10y TELEGRAPH To THE TRmUNE-l


UTICA, Nav 1.-The Baxter Overland Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company organized here To daY 10
do business in Oneida Lewis Herkimer Counties Its
capital stock is 5000 600 divided into 5000 shares The
ucOrpOraOrs and directors Joshua Mather charles
W. Mathcr. T. J. Gririths, :. :. Lowcry Charles l.
Bartlett James E. Turubull and George NJ Lowery' OF
Utica; Andrew W Mills. Clinton; H. J. Coggeshal,
Watervile; Robert H. Roberts. Boonve' and Frank 4.
Fthcridee Rome. The main office will be in Utica The
company has asked the Common Council for permission
to run lis wires. and viii begin business at once
The war between the Common Council and Utica Water
Works Company continues The latter last year charged
$500 for water for the park fountains but this year re
duccd the price 5000 The Council refuses to use the
water unless the company will furnish it for 800.
Fx-Mayor John Buckley entered on his duties Police
and Fire Commissioner Thursday and result the Board
adopted liberal policy of expenditure II increased
the salary ca-remen from $50 70 500 per year. OF
orenen from Sl2j $50; and Of assistant engineers
from 500 70 5000 II also took action. looking 10 pur
chase OF new steam fire engine additional hose and
three more horses The receipts Of the Board during the
year have been $4,000 ana the expenditures 73O'o
less.
Willie Schuyler Lodge ODD Fellows, was having
sociabe on the third floor Of the Exchange Building.
Monday night some unknown person tried 10 SCI fire 90
at head OF flight OF stairs. The blaze was
extinguished without damage. \ little later there
woud have been no escape for 30 people in the build
ing This is the sixth uccndarv fire IN hallway within
a few months. and the Common Council has requested
the Mayor to offer reward OF 900 for the arrest o the
mcendiary. II will probably pass an ordinance reqnI
mg fire escapes 10 he put on public buildings ana manu-
factories The barn OF j. W. kathhun. IN NeWharIolu
with forty cows and five horses. was burned Monday
night. Loss. $4,000; insured The same night the
dwelling house ana store OF W II. scelye. III New-York
Mills burned. Loss. 5000; insurance. 13.VoO
Both malciousy set atre Arrests have been maze
III New Hartford.
great scarcity Of vacant dwelling hon, prevails in
Utica. Rents are one-tuird higher than LAST year.
About 1000 church people have peuuonod Mayor
sherman to enforce the law closing liquor shops on sun
day.
Burglars are operating extensively in tbs vicinity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-03

Az ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION - BREAKING
GROUND-STRIkING MOI LDERS.
lPUoN OCCASIONAL CoHRE-PONDENT or THE rEinJNFl
ALBANY, May "A bold attempt was made
10 abduct 81 the children IN the Babies Nursery.
named Jessie Hickey. Thursday evening. man intent
on this crime first entered eigb0rng house, under
Misrepresentation, but discovered and made his es
cape While The police searching Tor him, theytweTe
startled b. cries from the Babies Nursery. Examination
showed that the abductor had stolen the child while
asleep IL With several others As he passed
down the stairs, the matTOn reused by the noise.
and gave the alarm The aDdnctor dropped the child and
escaped Suspicion s directed against the chds father
who l. divorced frOm his wife The affair has created
considerable excitement particularly among mothers in
the upper part OF tho city.
Bishop Doane, THURSDAY accompanied by several
prelates. formally took possession Of the
ground Oh which the cathedral is to be erected The
demolition Of the scattered wooden buildings on the
ground will be- begun next week. Great pref aratOns for
the laying Of the June have already
been made over 1000 special invitations will he
out next week under the Bishops direction. Professor
= Albert Jahrey, Organst " All saints ChaI el has be
gun tie composition OF anthem In honor Of the oc-
casion The programme OF exercises ba already been
nged and the event promises 70 De great ecclesl-
astca event IN the history Of the state
The association OF Troy and Albany stove manuiac-
'dIers has again become involved III dAhcu4Iy' Inc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-03
TIE NEU-0RLt4Ns EXP0SITI0N

Major E. 4. Burke, of The Aer- OHcGHs Tines
Democrat Encouragement OF the Wo,d Exposition and
Cotton Centennial TO be- held at Ncw-Orcl-, beginning
in December u,lt.i. 40 the Hotel Bmu. wick. whore
TaiHNL reporter saw him last evening. Concerning The
Exposition. Major Burke said:
The scope las been bIoadened since The inception OF
fo cbcr. to include and secure tine iute- ~ a the
states and a very much larger interest throughout
Europe More interest is being expressed abroad than
we bad expected The Exposition was created by act Of
Congress which declares IL 10 be National and Inicrna-
toua u character The President issued proclamation
the same as in the Centennial Exhibit, and AZ invitation
has been extended through the state Department To- AL
the nations OF The globe. our main rtIrcf Ire viii
rontan lGJ6.3O0 feet M door space Tue London
Worlds Exposition contained only l4OVoOO square icet
Tie roof which is bcu- made at Cincinnati. WI. cover
loo. 900 square feet. The premium list VIII be Tie
complete issue especially ID hul urutulei We
shall include al tropical and -cml-trOpcal plants max
ing wonderful exhibit Matters are progressing finely
for the Exposition ami IL promises 10 be- great SUE
cess
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-03
SYRACUSE.
BUCKET SHOPS-ALUMNI BANQUET-MOR-
MONISM-PERSONAL
rFr Pei PHI Tn rUr rPrnT-NF

lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE rRiBLNE.l
SYRACUSE, May 2.-PrOprietOrs of the various
-hueke shops Of this city six in number are greatly
exercised by the decision Of the Board OF Trade OF
Chicago not to send them any quotations pet-
ton 70 the Western Union Telegraph Company. asking
10 be furnished with them, Is being circulated. The
"bucket shop business Syracuse lar exceeds that Of
the regular stock brokers.
EThe Cornell Alumni Association met Thursday evening
ard decided hold banquet in this city May 25 II is
understood that the repast Will be attended by alumni
from Auburn. Oswego, Utica. Badwn,yile PhGuiX
I;haca, BnghamtOu and other towns In Central New.
YorE. The Alumni Association Of Central Ncw-York
constituted five years ago, Will be reor-aniLed and
pls upon "a hriuer basis
Chancellor sims OF the University. has gone TO the
genera conference Philadelphia. lie viii DE absent
about month. Ii is quite possible Le may be taken
away TO accept Dishourlc.
Tie Rev Richmond Fisk pastor Of the Uuiversalist
Church this city, Who resigned 20 accept Passionate
IN Watcrtown. was given farewell reception go the
thaIch parlors Thursday evening Dr Fisk begins his
Gutcs at Wdtcrt0wn sunday morning
Tie owners OF the Cazeuoyia and CanastoJa Rail
read considering the project Of building branch
road from Chittcuango Falls 20 CAtteuauso station.
Several routes have been surveyed.
private dispatch from Oshkosh states that the
divorce proceedings III the case OF d. willard heApSef
have been WITHDRAWN Dr kempstcr vas formerly a
practising physician in Syracuse
Miss sybn Carter gave a lecture AZ Plymouth Church
last night MOrmOnism she said that the New west
Education Commission IN whose behalf she speaks had
established thirty schools II Utah and the sur
rounding Territories where M0rmonism prevails. sixty
two teachers employ ed, and more than 1000 pupils
yeceive instruction She said also that most OF those at
tending the schools converted and came 10 look
With horror on MormonsIn.
Charles T. Sherlock has resigned his position as city
editor of The ErCHiHg Journal and Will resume Ms CON
nectiou with The standard. OF tLl, city.
One hundred and four pictures from New-York have
been received the decorative art rooms; and every
thing point, toward an interesting exhibition.
Twelve girl, were instructed m the art Of crochotnc
and lacemakIug at the rooms az tie woman Christian
Temperance Union last evening.
DR.. Gregory p Doyle who injured by a fall from
his carriage recently las fully regaiued his health
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-03
TIE COCETS.

CUSTODY OF THE SHERMAN CHILDREN
Charles W. Brooke, before Justice Barrett,
yesterday, supreme Court Chambers, argued On
motion 10 set aside an order of subpoena Issued by the
supreme Court IN Michigan, directing oliver W Vest OF
this city 70 testify before commission IN the SUIT Tor
absolute divorce of Florence B. sherman against Roger
NJ sherman. Mrs. sherman. who lives In Detroit began
her suit in January Mr Sherman ha- an action for de
vorce on the ground OF abandOnment pending In this
CITY tint his wife who left him about three year.
oscuh H. Choate and David r. ogden represented her
Yesterday. Mr.. ogden stated that Mrs sherman was
husband To leave the house dld take lct
children mother Mr Brooke argued also on mo-
ti0u ~ show c1u.e why the two children OF Mr. and Mrs
Sherman now with their mother should NOT ne placed III
the custody of the court In Al state Decision was re
sarvrd
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Dull. UNETENTFCL DAY.
THE BEARS" HAD THE CHICAGO MARKETS UNDER
THEIR CONTROL.
by TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBCNE.1

THE BEARS" HAD THE CHICAGO MARKETS UNDER
THEIR CONTROL.
by TELEGRAPH TIE rRGBCNE1
CHICAGO. May 2.-The pits were barren OF
incident. There neither big buying big selling
I'm wheat Ream became a seller little after the opening
but On great scale Tle cable dispatches were weaker
even than yesterday. The weather was fine
there was news OF no big shipments. All the
Influences were favorable 70 the sellers. June
wheat, after opening at 937-, vaeiated
in helpless fashion now up eighth and now down an
eighth but the Tendency evidently toward Ower
prices The commission houses unusually short or
orders II evident that the country hhd been ned
I'D on the bulge" and not sending IN Such
nood OF purchasing orders heretofore The Liverpool
markets reported lower, aud dispatches from New
York reported absolutely no export demand. on the
whole the bears had control OF the situation.
In there little doing, the corn pt being almost
deserted June declined from % II TO 34e, and
July from 37le 56l2 Provisions also led OF. June
pork declined from 81 80 to az 30, and July from
Ill go 10 81 80.
tuTblng element IN the i-t hour and many local scapcIs
sold grain IN anticipation OF failures IN New-YOrk
The stO Of provisions Was male pa bile tAs morning
by Inspector Mixer. The statement showed that there
were ON hand here lsl,l53 barrels Of regular
pork, about 23,os3,-3O pOunos Or snort
ribs ami 100, 500 ticrces or con
tract lard. The statement was down likely
tO exert bullish influence The stock Of lard was
about such anticipated bur the stock Of meats
was considerably smaller than was supposed the
nlrcs would show. II s said that considerable quanti-
being shipped consignment 20 be sold
against the market most effective shear operation
which, II long and actively continued, would bring the