Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
NO. 1866

Nth of the kingdom, were visited by
the scourge; %, ,5S7 cases were reported,
Abs OF which terminated fatally, a
mortality Of about so per cent. In
Naples, with population of 945,O0O,
there were Is, ,927 cases and 7, ,968 deaths,
a remedy for the crumbling of stone
when exposed to the action of water
and air has been used to some extent
IN st. Louis and New York. 1t con-
slsts in heating the ornamental stone
work or other part which it is desirable
to treat with small furnace or blow
pipe, and applying melted paraf1ine
with small portion of creosote. When
the stone is heated the paraffine sinks
into it, rendering it absolutely air and
water tight.
The United States Government re-
Gently forwarded a consignment of
catfish to the National Fish Culture
Association of Great Britain, With a
view to their being acclimatized to the
waters of that county. They arrived
in perfect condition, all being alive,
which, considering the long voyage
they had been subject to, is remarka-
BILE. The catfish is a valuable food
fish, and would assume a high rank
among the fresh water fishes of British
waters if cultivated.
| In the gardens of well-known
nobleman's country-seat in the south
of Ireland, painted boards were set up
in different parts of the pleasure
grounds, with this request, please do
not pull any flowers without leave.n
Recently the district practical Joker
passed that way, and at daybreak
| added an IS" to the last word on all
the boards, which had the effect of
making things pleasant-until the
cause was discovered-for tourists and
! strange visitors who cherished a latent
passion for floral gems.
A druggist of Hampstead, L. l., was
arraigned recently, for selling liquor
without a license, and the prosecution
called every member of the board of
/ town officers, all the Justices of the
! Peace, the ex-Supervisor and nearly
every official in the town, all testifying
sfhaving purchased and drank either
slsAiskev or br e7y at the store of the
defendant There was no defence. and
the jury, after some deliberation, Or
dered the druggist to pay all the costs
of the prosecution and Immediately
take out a license from May 1st.
A combination of tent and hotel life
has been attempted at summer resort
on the Pacific coast. Each guest or
family can have a separate tent,
pitched in a grove overlooking the sea,
and provided with the rude furniture
! of camp; but there is also a wooden
hotel, in which an ordinary apartment
is assigned to every visitor, for refuge
in case of storm or sudden dislike of
the canvas. Meals are served in a
! general dining room, or in the tents,
as desired; and the bills of fare include
the primitive dishes of campers as we'll
as the products of French cookery.
Mrs. Grant and family left Mount
McGregor few days since. Colonel
Fred Grant goes to Chicago to at
tend the reunion of the Army of the
Tennessee on September 9th. He will
then return to work on his fathers
book. Mrs. Grant and her daughter,
Mrs. Sartoris, go to West Point
for ten days, and will then join Jesse
Grant at his farm in Westchester
County. Mrs. Sartoris expects to sail
for England about October 1st. The
family will all join Mrs. Grant in New
York in the Fall, with the exception of
Mrs. Sartoris, who will remain in Eng
land.
Southern Brazil, and especially the
province of Rio Grande du Sol, with
the neighboring Uruguay, is the prin-
cipal source of those stones which are
sold under the name of opal, chalcedony
and agate. The trap rocks that pene-
trate the province in many directions,
especially in the strip of high ground
that branches off from the provincial
capital Port Allegro, furnish considera
BILE quantities of the finest agates and
in the greatest variety. These semi
precious stones, which afterward de-
velop great beauty, look very unat-
tractive at first embedded in their dark
colored clay,
The dread disease called 1.-The Siber-
ian plague" has made its appearance
in three different villages within the
immediate district of Odessa Among
Russians, cholera has comparatively
slight terrors to those aroused by the
presence of this disease, which is alike
loathsome, fatal and terribly conta-
gious. The abnormally hot summer,
such as has not been experienced dur
ing the last six years in the south of