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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18
The Ancient News Method.

In the days when the old forms of
government began to weigh heavily on
the lower classes and men set to work
TO shake off or slip out of their letters.
the wanderers who brought news of
the success of any popular leader or OF
the death of a detested foe found them
selves, no doubt as welcome in the cot
tage as the wonder telling pilgrim or
the cunning tumbler vas in the castle
hall, and it is not difficult to believe
that those who were anxious TO sway
public opinion toward their own party
would avail themselves of the surest
method of reaching the heart of the peo-
pie. Preachers, orthodox and unortho-
dox, musicians, iugglers, pilgrims and
runaway bondsmen must In the day OF
Richard III, and his predecessors have
filed the place now occupied by the pro-
fessional newspaper correspondent and
novelist. Sometimes they mingled ro-
nance and reality in their narratives in
a fashion which would be condemned
in modern days but their audiences
were not CRITIC and the story of some
miracle workin amt who had been, or
who was supposed 10 have been, a po-
litlcal martyr might stir up enthusiasm
where the recital Of commonplace
wrongs would leave people unmoved.
1t would be interesting TO learn what
amount of belief the educated classes
gave to the fables which charmed the
ears of the vulgar, and what means they
had OF deciding between fitseh1oI and
truth. Well Informed men must have
experiepCed some difficulty in drawing
a line Between the miracles Of canoni-
zed saiut& and'the wonders worked by
the reliey of those who were saints III
popular Estimation only.
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a Cheap s~ou-in-Law.

Il must not be pat OFF this way, said
young ~Spandling to Judge Pottsmore.
i love your daughter. 1t is all very
well, Judge, for you to take a practical
view of the matter, but, sir, when two
hearts yearn toward each other, why,
sir. it is time for all foolish opposition
to cease
Then, If l understand the situation,
you love PaulIneY'
Il do. Hove her for her worth
That's what | thought, but how
much do you think that She is worth2'
You do not understand me. Your
views are sordid. You are placing
upon my affections a financial valua.
tion.'
Not at all, for your affections are
worth hothing financially
Judge, you are cruel. Say that you
Will consent?'
No use TO say it, for | don't.
rs there no ~inducementp'
None that can see at the present.
writing
what shall l do?' sinking ON tie
sofa.
Better, get up and stir around a lit
tie | reckon. Exercise would help YOU
ooh, iron clad fatel'
Yes, and oh, galvanized destInyl'
Il thought, Judge, that you had a
spot of tenderness2
Il have; I've got the gout,'
What will Pauline say when she
hears of your decision2'
She'll get over it. Her fate has, been
decided several times
What you don't say that she ever
loved any II elsep'
Well, | don't know. She has been
very much concerned on several occa-
sions. She wanted to marry young
Spikenard ONE time ago, and would
have done so had it not been for iron
clad fate. He played with a horse out
in the Indian territory, and he now
slumbers III the red mans soil.'
L know that she loves me, and l
know that she is anxious to be my wife,
No doubt. and | would consent but
for the fact that l am hardly able to
support YOU
'Oh, be relieved. My father failed
in the merchant tailoring business. and
! have clothes enough to last ten years,
Besides | have the dyspepsia and eat
nothing but oatmeal
How much oatmeal have you on
handp'
My grandfather is a farmer. He
supplies me-
We'll, this puts a new phase on the
matter. Clothes enough; oatmeal fur
nished. All right you may have her.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18
Brushing silks and Satins.

Never brush silks or satIns across the
width, as doing 30 causes them to fray
out and spoils them for r%emaking. To
wash or clean silks and satins dissolve
two pounds Of soap in two gallons of
boiling water. Use when cold, Have
four pans Of cold water, with four pals
of water in each. Into one of these
put a small quantity of the dissolved
soap, making a weak liquor. Into an
other dissolve a quarter Of a pound of
tartaric acid for spiriting. The other
two pans are for rinsing. Spread a
width wrong side upwar1 upon a scour-
ing board, being careful that the latter
is quite clean. Pour over 1t sufficient Of
the dissolved soap to wet Ii thoroughly
and well brush it, lengthwise, with a
soft brush; then turn and treat the
right side In the same way. Pass the
silk through the thin soap liquor; then
III one, and then in the other of two
rinsing pans. Handle it well i'll the
spirting pan and then take it up to
drain. Have the board and clean sheet
as in the camphene method, and dry
with clean cloths. After all the
breadths are done, not more than five
minutes being spent over each, they
must be finished In a frame, or on the
stuffed board, one by one. Most silks
require a little stiffening, which is the
last process. For black silks and satins
a size made of old black kid gloves, is
excellent, and as these are the most
useless of all a lady's possessions when
no longer ft to wear, it is comforting
to be able to turn them to account.
The gloves are to be cut up into small
pieces, put into a vessel of cold water,
a stone jar or porcelaln-lined saucepan,
and very slowly simmered for an hour
or two, or until the quantity Of water
is reduced to n half; strain through
fine muslin, and use warm but not hot
water. Another size. that usually APP
piled by dyers, is made of parchment
shayings or cuttings, washed, cleaned
and simmered slowly like the gloves,
n pound Of parchment to four quarts
of water boiled to two quarts and
strained. One teacupful of this to a
quart of water is enough for silk finish
ing. Take the board with the stuffed
covering, lay on it n of the clean
breadths fiat, no wrinkles. Sponge it
carefully and evenly with the size and
water. Pin down the two ends of the
silk on the board, then the two sides.
Two people are required for this pro-
cess, as the silk must be well stretched.
Pms about al inch apart. Rub once
more with the damp sponge and dry be-
fore a brisk Are. Textiles which are
a mixture of silk and wool may be
strained on the board, but no size is
needed. Cotton materials to be ironed
on the wrong SIDE; a box-iron, being the
cleanest, is recommended, Satin some
times requires to be ironed on the wrong
side after being taken off the frame, to
give it brightness.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18

Where have they gone to-the little girls,
With natural manners and natural curls ?
Who love their dollies and like their toys,
And talk Of something besides the boys2
Little old women in plenty I find,
Mature in manners and old of mind
Little old fiirts who talk Of their "beauS"
And vie with each other in stylish clothes.
Little old bellies, who, at nine and ten.
Are sick of pleasure and tired Of men,
Weary of travel, of balls, of fun
And find no new thing under the sun.
Once, in the beautiful long ago,
Some dear little children | used to know;
Girls who were merry as lambs at play,
And laughed aud rollicked the livelong
day.
They thought not at all of the "style' Of
their clothes,
They never imagined that boys were
'beaux'-
"Other girls brothers" and ''mates" were
they
Splendid fellows to help them play.
Where have they gone to? If you ses
One Of them, anywhere, send her TO me.
I would give a medal of purest gold
To one of those dear little girls of old,
With an innocent heart and an open smile,
Who knows not the meaning Of 'hirt' or
"styIe."
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18
AT of Early Rising.

The proper time to rise is when sleep
ends. Doing should not be allowed.
True sleep is the aggregate of sleeps, or
is a state consisting of the sleeping or
rest OF all the several parts of the or
ganism. Sometimes one and at other
times another part of the body, as a
whole, may be the least fatigued, and
therefore tine most difficult to arouse.
The secret of good sleep is, the physio-
logical conditions Of rest being estab-
lished, 50 to worry and weary the sever
al parts of the organism as TO give them
a proportionally equal need of rest at
the same moment; and TO wake early
and feel ready to rise, a fair and equal
start of the sleeper should be secured;
and the wise self-manager should not
allow a drowsy feeling Of the conscious
ness or weary senses, or an exhausted
muscular system, to beguile him into
the folly of going to sleep again when
he has been aroused. After a few days
of self-discipline, the nan who resolves
not to doze, that is, not to allow some
sleepy part Of his body TO keep him in
bed after his brain has once awakened,
will find himself. without knowing why,
an early riser,
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18

France is beginning seriously to pre-
pare for the Exposition in 1889. and M,
Proust, who held the post of Minister
Of Fine Arts in Gambetta's Ministry,
will be appointed Commissioner General
next week. There Ii some doubt
whether the intention of making the
Exposition celebrate the centenary of
the taking OF the Bastile will not
operate to anger the Monarchists of
Europe and thus hurt the chances of
the show. Germany is said to have
promised cordial support and a large
exhibit
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18

There were 92l separate fatal
accidents in British coal mines, as
against $40 In the year 1882. The
total loss of life is reported as 1854 for
the year, and 1926 for the previous
year.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
CUBA IN N RAO VW.w

According to Consul Yickers, who is sta
 tionsd at Matanzas. Cuba Is sn a had -zav
 Since 1873, when the sugar croh amopnted tc
 77O,o0o tons, it has been steadily deereasino
 until in 1883 it barely reached AS. COG tons
 In this age of fertilizers, advanced ,sys.l aE"
 agriculture and improved sugar 4makiu5s -9...
 chinery the Cuban planter hes paaas ao
 progress. His materia1s-foc5, agrtoop 3s
 implements, hardware, oils s6s.-mrx. ,.
 obtained from the merctaot. Payruaas has
 to ke made at the end e the coming spszy
 crop by notes payable on the subsequent crops, upon which he pays not less than twelve per cent. This is the universal -ous tom. If the planter fails, tha merchants fail, bringing all down with general Crash. Merchants being already heavily iavo4esd through previous failures Of piaatsrs, ana knowing the condition Of the couatry, SefuseA to give more credit, anu r4ans estEtes are forced to sell the wood of sAsir lelds, and their cattle, oxen, sheep ana horses at 8 sacrifice, to buy food with which to feed and clothe their laborers, and obtain money to pay their wages. There are estates in Cuba capable of producing 20o0 to 5.ann, hogs 3HI $375, 1000, which art n e..sss.t sssf condition The Cor aal - gSs s.f osYs sslats of 5000 hogsheads wat,h czuno9 borrow $25, 900 to commence gr51dtEg. There are great many others in 8 similar condition. Un- der the new Spanish budget Cuba, with pop ulation of 1,521, 684, is assessed $34, 269, BIO, exclusive of ths municipal taxes, amounting to about 5000. 900. There are of whites but i, ,012, 54l of both sexes, So that, as the whites are the only paysrs, the per capita is about $37. But StaxiaI taxpayers number not more than 125, ,000, and these contribute nearly all the taxes. The taxes are distributed as follows: Estates. large or small engaged in either the cultivation of sugar or tobacco, 2 per cent; small estates engaged in raising cattle, per cent small estates engaged in neither of the above, 6 per cent; all channels of industry, commerce and professions, and city property, Is per cent. exclusive, as in all the above cases, of per oent municipal taxes. There is nothing raised on she island
 ia the shape of vegetables or cereals every thing that the people eat comes from abroad; even potatoes, upon which an average duty of 9 per cent .is collected.
 This is truly dolsful picture They eyi 1ently need Taxpayers association in Cuba and also several other associations which will work for the public good
Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
ORCHEST RO W MATHUSHEk WARERoOMs,
 Chapel &5zv 1Stred-
A GOOD INvEs E EET.

The handsomess dollar in t. lS world is that which is earned by some Ese0GI honest em- pIoyment of the head or hand " edith that comes by chance IS no n1er2s4. re Of the capac- ity of it's possessor, and is never appreciated like that which is carmel Many people are travelling straight to the poo-house by reason of their undue eagerness to go h bhe oppo- site direction, They want rGehas st a bound. They have seen others fiji fheiE chests by some lucky speculative p1aneuvrs, and con clude they can do the same ing. Accord ingly in goes their lit t;e haE, 92lich, ten to one, they never see again.
 The petroleum trade hes swallowed up the fortunes of thousands Of lnvestors-green- horns who depended for tneir success upon the shrewdness of others and got heeced un- der the sheors of the nc Gopolist There are a plenty of safe invsel 1rsa1Its without assum- ing the awful risks of the gambler-notable among these Jr 17,2nsz5s' EcLectrSc Oil, will which yields eooo. dividends every time Especially to thcss suffering from nasal and throas afFectio-as rheumatism, neural gia wounds. spd isueness, we strongly recom- mendedA THr. Ih0mGs' Eclectric OH cure any o>z # these troubles, and is sold by druegisIs every where under GUARANTEE TO GIVE SATISFACTION. Would walk ten miles for it. s. s. Graves, Akron, N. Y. Beats the world: H. c. Hoberman. Marion, Ohio. Keep it what it ought to be--just what it is:S A. Hewitt, Montery, Mich Best of all good medicines; Alfred Carpenter, Ansonia Conn.
 F0sTON, mILBURN Ss CO, Prop's.
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
NEW HAVEN, CONN, TUESDAY MORNIN G,
Tuesday, January l, 1884.
1888.

o0oo
 The year which ended yesterday has not been an exceedingly cheerful year, although the usual number of Happy New Years" greeted it's opening. It has been year of tremendous natural disturbances. There was an earthquake at Murcia in January. In July came the terrible earthquake at Ischia. Java WAS visited by an earthquake in August and Asia Minor and the Islets of Greece were shaken in October. The cholera scouree in Egypt, and number of tornadoes and floods in the western States Of this country, are also among the mournful and destructive occurrences of the year. In the old world there have been several small wars. Ireland has troubled England good deal, and 6 number of Irishmen have been sent to the gailows by British courts. The False Prophet of the Soudsn has done some very bloody deeds, and his case is not yet settled
 There have been few important events in foreign politics. The year opened in France with PriRce Napoleon's proclamation against the republic, which did not hurt the republic much. The Czsr of Russia was crowned without getting killed. ChiIf and Peru con- cludsd treaty of peace. There has been the usual talk about general European war. In our own country there have been no start ling political occurrences. Ben Butler was beaten in Massachusetts Civil Service Re- form has made progress, and the Star Route fizzled out"
 Business has not been very brisk in Eu- rope, and in this country it has not been all that could be desired. Failures have been numerous, and for large amounts Many think that the Happy New Year will bring l better condition of business If it does not | ! great many will not find mach happiness in l it.
 The death roll of the year does not, per- naps, contain as many distinguished names as usual. Still, many famous nea have passed away during the last twelve months. Among hem are Gambetta, Gortschakoff, the Count 1 le Chambord, William Dindorf, the philoIo- | sist, John Richard Green, the Historian, and i Ivan Turgenisf. Among those who have lied in this country are Marshall Jewell, l Blair. Peter Cooprr, General Ord, John D. Baldwin, Senator Raudolph, Dr. J. Marion Sims, Professor William A. l Sorton and Arbuckle, the famous cornetist. |
Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
Price Three Cents

utmost. His oxen not hearing his sccus toned cries to them, stopped also, chewing the cud and ruminating while he stared. AS they disappeared the rustic recovered him self, drew 8 long breath, turned to his crea- lures and yelled, ''What did you stop for, you stupids ?" Then bringing down his whip again shouted, "Haw gee get along didn't you never see nothing afore p
 There is little romance connected with the choice by the Don of his lady for 8 wife. The tradition is that she was 8 very young and beautiful country lass of the blonde, fair haired order, whom he first saw in B rus tie setting somewhere out in Huntington whereupsn Cupid let fly one of his arrows, which penetrated so deeply that the Don at once advanced, plucked this wayside lily bud, and the better to have her grace his home, educated her in one of the finest polishing female seminaries and then married her, so that she blossomed an elegant woman. A queen of fashion and the peer of the proud est. The Don being man of note in his time, Yale college secured his portrait, which now adorns its Art gallery minus those awe inspiring whiskers.
 The occasion of tha visit of Lafayette was one of wild exciter-r..t. On the night of the and everywhers were transparencies on which were the words
 WELCOME LAFAYETTE!
 The ladies the country through while the fever was on sore, calico sdsesses; cn vLich were printed in great prof1sion thGF~ arir=r- joyous words-'tWelcome Lafayette lo The multitude endeavored to take the lf,r,sa from the barouche and draw him fhYopoJ- the streets This he at once forbade, stFiny 1T want no slavery" Lafayette is taersr5 bered as one of the most noble of hurlsp eo. ings.' He was of commanding appearance full six feet in height his oour.to1 sr.s,, beamed with benignancy and his manner wa all heart. He found here many cid revotu- tionary soldiers who seemed almost { } wor- ship him As illustrating how he wss gene rally idol1zed, the people of Bolton wsicol e5 him by placing an arch over the road under which he was to pass on entering their qiI- lage, upon which were the words:
Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01


 gerous bat Pteasaot COid-The City's Ne Coastins Skating, but the Best of SiefghIng.
 MIsSEAPoLIs, Minn., Dec. 26. To the Editor of the JoURNed AND COURIER:
 This is queer climate Last night yze had our Christmas festival The church WAS full of bright happy children. some Of whom, as I know, had to walk mile after service As for ourselves, although warmly wrapped, we had no thought of it's being so very cold But on inspecting the thermometer, it was found to be 12 degrees below zero. This morning, on seeing one of our neighbors at work outdoors in his shirts leeves, we congratulated ourselves that 1t WAS warmer. But our trusty thermometer still marked 10 degrees below zero; and tbere it will stay all day, for s.old probabilities predicts increas- ing cold. And yet how different it seems from the recent cold snap you have had in Nov England and that the papers make such fuss about. Our papers pay no attention to the mercury unless it goes as much as 30 below. Gold as it is to day, men will cheer fully transact their customary business, ladies will make calls and go shopping, and none but sstender feet" will stay et home and ta ke care of themselves. There is no sense, how ever, in trifing with such climate. Old settlers give us new corners plenty of good advice, and we need it. The pure, bracing atmosphere is 50 delightful thas, before one aware Of it. he has frozen his ears or hi
Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
NEW HAVEN'S ELMS AND GREEN. Deseripti ms, Historical Items and An ecdetes of Persons and Th ngs Con
 nectei Herewith.
BY HENRY HOWE.

Copyrighted 1883 by Henry Howel EIN ABOUT THIRTY CHAPTERs-cRAPTER xz- The Sargent Mansion a Noted Dwelling
 Don Ro Forest end His Attractive
 Eamily-Beauty and tEas Woodbridge
 FaEmer-VIsit tf Lafayette to New Ha-
 yeR-VviId Excitement Over Him
 Sketch of Captain Jchn aziles-Hfs Dy-
 ing Words.
 The homestead Of Deacon Mansfield, al- ready mentioned, was on the site of tine Sar gent mansion, which las6 is noted in cur io- cal history. It has been greatly enlarged, but when built about the ye,-- 7al 5y Dav-d c. De Forest, was regarded as tte ss.c.saEtYss est residence in the State. It Va5 noeaisd after the Hoppiu mansion III Providence, and having a sweIled front, Is like in this respect the residences of the eristoeracy of Summer street, Boston, forty years ago. Mir. DeFer- est was popuIarly known as "Don DeFor- est, Connecticut gentleman who vas so- called from having dwelt many years in Bue- nos Ayrea, where he was engaged in shipping produce. When Lafayette came to New Haven August 17, 1924, on the occasion of his visit to America he was handsomely en- tertained by the Don, whom we remember as poWerfuily-bn1it, dark coinpiS4ioneo maa with heavy black whisIzers and Q stern ex- presaion of countenance. As that was day when every man shaved, he sesmed in our child eyes like some naughty Spanish lord. It was generally believed that the Don had made an immense fortune in South America and the town was full of strange gossip about him and his surroundings. Among other things 1t was told that in the cellar of his mansion WAS deep sink or well where-a were hogsheads of doubloons. These w4es guarded by big snakes which he ksp& 9Ss.q for the purpose, and so gre sse shs-g inspired by this statement ;EB' sf5ea children on their way to sch "a ing by the house for fear thSs, aus
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