Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-03
MISSING LINKS.

tHe "oIlu. IL comprises over Z,0UU
acres.
An Arizona eagle recently pulled an
eiGht-year-old boy out of the saddle
and dropped him on the ground.
A correspondent of the Omaha Bee
wants the name of that city changed
to Terrace City, OF Gate Beautiful.
Snow banks fully 100 feet high, that
have lain there for many years, the
Alta California says, are to be found in
the high Sierras.
The White House letter paper is of
the first quality, with beautifully print
ed heading Jefferson headed his own
foolscap with quill pen.
Cardinal Newman, the head of the
Roman Catholic Church in England,
has 4 brother, Professor Francis w.
Newman, who is a pronounced agnos-
tic.
Should car be run up and down
the great Washington monument it
will cost the government Sc. 900 year.
The electric lights are in and work is
about to be begun on the iron stair
way.
There is no other journalist in Phila-
delphia who owns trotting-horse
equal to the famous pair belonging to
Mr.. Singer of the Record. He also
owns the best Holstein COW in the
world.
There is no certainy rs to when Bud
dha lived and died. The Ceylon school
of Buddhists fix the end of his career
at 543 B. c. European scholars, how
ever, are inclined to place the date
later by century or more.
A writer in the Bulletin Ge7serale de
Ther0peutiQue says that refrigeration
of the lobe of the ear will stop hic-
cough, whatever its cause may be.
Very slight refrigeration, such as a
drop of cold water, is said to be sutfi-
cient.
Matthew Walker, of New Centerville,
Chester County, Pa, has entirely re-
covered from 4 broken neck, sustained
by being thrown from 4 wagon. Ply
sicians said his life could not be saved,
but slowly the injury healed itself, and
now Mr.. Walker has complete use of
his neck.
Sleeping with the head to the north
and the physical and mental advanta-
ges to be derived therefrom is SUBJ
ject in which interest is being revived.
a German physician of note was quot
ed many years ago us saying that he
believed he had added at least decade
to his life, beside keeping his health
perfect by this practice.
Government officials in Canada, as
Il.
ed private ladies, say that if superior
women between the ages of eighteen
and twenty-five 90 there and submit to
the position OF domestic service they
are almost sure to marry, and marry
well, within 4 short time of their az
rival, especially ii they go far West.
A London journal, quoting statistics
to back it up, presents as Il moral par
adoX the statement that the most poor
ly paid working girls in the metropolis
are those engaged in the work of sew
ing and binding Bibles. 1t adds that
''for every heather abroad who can be
induced to use the sacred volume for
anything else than gun wadding a
dozen OF these girls are driven to per-
diton ut home.
Cloves are not the fruit of the tree,
but the undeveloped flower, the stem
being the calyX and the head the I'M
blown corolla. The strength lies in
the flower alone, although the green
twigs are reported to be ground up
and used rs an adulterant. The Glove
tree grows from thirty 10 forty feet
high, and is green the year round. 1t
is found in the Molucca Islands, in Su-
matra, in Straight's settlements, in
Zanzibar, Reunion Islands, and Cay
enne. The poorest comes from Zan-
Iibar.
In the revised Bible, published at
Oxford. only three printers errors have
as yet been discovered in all the edi-
tions. In the pearl 16mo edition there
Is an error in Ezekiel, xviii, 26, where
an ''e'' is left out of righteous, and the
word is printed right ous." In the
parallel Svo edition there are two mis-
takes. In Psalms, vii, IS, ''shatfs'
appears instead OF "shafts," and in
Amos, v, "A, in the margin, ''overhow-
ing" should be ''everilowng" The
usual guinea will be paid to any per-
son discovering Il printers error in
INC pOoh anu polnllng III out 10 lnc
Controller of the Press before any other
discoverer.
A minoralogist bought at Auburn,
N. T., recently, a quartz crystal, lin
pid and beautiful, with the faces and
angles well preserved, but showing
through Il translucent plane which
made upon the largest face of the crys-
tai peculiar formation, which, he
thinks, knocks geology all askew. Be-
meath the surface are several pieces of
hay or straw stubble. 1t lies perhaps
a fourth of an inch below the smooth
surface OF the crystal. 1t is clear and
bright IN appearance, showing the hol-
low stem of the grass, as well as the
surface of the stems. There can be no
question as to the identity of the hay
OF the straw stubblc. 1t is distributed
quite widely through the crystal, show
ing in fifteen or twenty places.
Says Connecticut newspaper:
George Mayer is the man VINO paints
on the rocks. Most people are famii-
lar with the sentences prepare for