The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-09

was obliged "a run its trains over the Gem
sral. its bridge at Lsndsdown having been
destroyed. At Beach Haven, the lightning
played some angular freaks, ball Of Ere
running down Flagstaff projecting from
window and exploding at . lady's feet,
merely scorching her arm, while in the
room tho fluid passed over lady and
child lying on bed, making three holes
about the size of rife bullets in the wall
It also picked up button-hook from the
bureau and drove that in the wall so firmly
that it could only be drawn out with a
hammer. The occupants of the bed fortu-
nately escaped injury.
The editor of the Atlanta Constitution
evidently don't expect to live to be hum
bred years old. He says the centenarian is
practically dead man for the last fifty
years of life. This is not always true. We
have seen men in this city who were as
active and vigorous at seyenty-five as other
men were at forty. 1t don't depend SO
much on the years man has covered as
what nature has given him to cover them
with. The Constitution says it is a very
easy matter to become centenarian, but
we doubt whether mans inclination or
wish has anything to do with his longevity.
He may live by certain set rules but while
that may prolong his life it can only be for
few years. The chances of his reaching
the prescribed century are not one in a
million.
The attention of Newark residents has
been called to the niggardly economy of
the Morris & Essex Railroad by the recent
accident at Chatham, in this State, by
which three lives were sacrificed. Itwould
be scarcely credible, if it were not known
to be true, that the trains of that corpora
ton traverse some of the most thicky
settled portions of Newark and cross some
of its main thoroughfares. without even the
precautions for safety that the erection of
gates implies The Newark Council, under
the impulse of the recent accident, has
called the officials of the road to an ac-
counting, and will probably insist now that
they do the thing they ought to have done
long ago for the public safety in that city.
The Asbury Park Journal says the bathers
at that place report all kinds of losses-from
a pocketbook to-well, no; there's one thing
they don't report. Numerous sets of false
teeth have been found in the bathing
houses but not one of them has ever been
claimed. There are three dozen sets in the
hotel Office now awaiting claimants and
some of them were very artistic and ex-
pensive. The clerk says in all the time he
has been at the beach he never knew but
two sets to be claimed and the owners were
old people. Young people, especially
ladies, are too sensitive to reclaim such
property. They had rather go the expense
of a new set.
ernor Albeit is one of the most daring of
the bathers at Long Branch. Though We
have never had the amusement of seeing
the executive dignity of the State of New
Jersey done up in bathing suit with big
sunbonnet tied over his head and under
his chin with piece of white tape, we
have no doubt that the Monmouth Democrat
is right about it. Governor Albeit is an
aggressive man, and is not wanting even in
the courage that would put the untamed
ocean on the defensive.
A Newark saloon keeper has had an I'M
pleasant marital experience recently.
About two months ago his wife left
home in company with a boarder taking
with her 1885 that had been accumulated
by the sale of beer. Two weeks ago his
wife returned in penitent mood and her
husband forgave her. Last week she
helped herself to s135 and again skipped
by the light of the moon" with the same
escort. Her husband says he will never
forgive her again, it cost too much money.
have been created without purpose. he
focks mainly in the districts where malaria
is mostly prevalent, and it is said that the
poison of his sting is an antidote to the in
roads Of that terrible debility. We know a
man who says that he escapes malaria in a
malarial region by allowing the mosquitoes
to feast on him. And now comes a lady
who says that mosquito bites cured her
children of an insidious disease that no
doctors medicine could reach.
An east Orange maiden of three years
has not only the regulation father and
mother, but also ten grand and great-grand
parents Thus far the record shows she
has twelve progenitors actually discovered
and the woods are being hunted for two
others who are thought to be still living.
Twelve or fourteen progenitors may not be
anything to boast of, but just think what
almost unlimited advantages over the ordi-
nary girl that child possesses at Christmas.
A recently compiled Directory of the
Bar of New Jersey" put the number Of
living practitioners at the bar at 1903.
This list must include only the more dis
tinguished patrons Of the bar. The host
that flock to the bars in different parts of
the State would not begin to be represent
ed by SO modest total.
Henry Lewis, twepty-y ear-old youth of
Washington, this State, is the latest victim
of the cigarette habit. He has just been
removed to the Morris Plains Lunatic Asy-
lum. The man whose means will allow
him to smoke nothing better than cigarettes
had better quit smoking altogether.