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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
AN ARKANSAS FROG STORY.

A startling story comes from the south
ern part of Arkansas Some time ago Colo
mel Jim Holmes, editor of the Camden Rea.
ron, while strolling through the woods,
found large petrifed frog. 1t was so per-
feet that the eyes of the frog retained their
original color. When the editor took the
frog to town, where he exhibited 1t, a sort
of flint rock professor offered quite sum
of money for it, but Colonel Holmes, to
whom we'll preserved curiosity is worth
more thin money, refused the offer. He
took the frog to his Office and used it for &
paper weight. The other day while tn,
editor was busily at work on the obituary
of a worthy citizen whom whiskey had slair
he was startled to see the frog wink slyly
and shake his head.
This beats anything ever saw" said
she colonel. Here, Mallory" addressing
The Hon. Sam, who happened to enter the
Office, "this devilish rock frog is winking
at me-"
Holmes, If didn't know you to be q
strictly sober man would swear that you
had been drinking. The thing can't"
He threw up his hands in establishment
The frog leaped from the table and strucl
the floor like o brick.
I" Catch him !" shouted Holmes. "Shu,
The door,"
The door was closed, but the frog jumped
through the window, knocking out two
panes of glass. In proof of this the hole in
the window is daily exhibited. The escape
of the frog is much regretted, and Colonel
Holmes is now melancholy man.--Arkan.
saac TrQpelksr.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
AN INNOCENT MANS PuNISHM EMIT.


The case of Henry Digby, residing near
McLeansboro, in this State, is o peculiar
one, and exhibits in striking manner the
hardships which may be endured without
remedy under our laws as they exist. His
sister, named Eliza Digby, was engaged tc
be married five years ago to thriving mer'
chant named John Sinkler, of the same
town. Two days before the wedding was
10 have occurred, John Sinkler was killed
in his bed at Midnight In his statement
before death he said that he believed Henry
Digby was his murderer that it was ex-
tremely dark when he was attacked, and
that he supposed Digby's motive to commit
the murder was foundered on opposition to
the wedding which was soon to take place.
Digby was tried, convicted, and sentenced
to imprisonment in Chester Penitentiary for
fourteen years. Subsequently Eliza Digby,
The girl who had been engaged to John
Sinkler, married Dick Sinkler, a brother oil
the murdered man. Two years ago Dicl
and was sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. II has since been learned that he and
not Henry Digby killed John Sinkler, his
brother, and that his motive was violent
passion for the girl who was to become his
brothers wife, and whom he afterward mar
ried. These facts served to get Digby's
case before the Illinois Supreme Court,
which decided that the evidence on which
he had been convicted was insufficient for
that purpose, and he was liberated from
prison. His vindication was complete, and
be was welcomed in honor and with rejoic
lngs by his old neighbors and friends
Chicago Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
NOT AS 1T is PAINTED.
The Romnnce Knocked Out of New OrleanA
by n Statement of Fact.


/" New Orleans should be called the City
Of Disappointment, Blakely Hall writes.
" The visitor who arrives imbued with the
vague but charming impression which has
gone abroad about the Crescent City--it ia
really in the form of o parallelogram-
should prepare himself for series of disillu-
sions that will be extraordinary and abrupt.
Cable and an army of romantic, gushing
and effeminate writer's have cast curious
mantle of enchantment over New Orleans,
and people come here dreaming of magnols
trees, Creole girls, orange blossoms, Ian
gushing eyes, voluptuous figures, mando
Inns, hammocks and other Oriental, tropi.
cal, poetical and graceful things, only to
find mud, colds in the head, scrawny and
weak-eyed women with round shoulders,
hand-organs innumerable, miserable brass
bands, damp rooms and prices that would
make the traditional haokmen of Niagara
turn green with envy. The streets here are
muddy, and the mud il of consistency,
depth, tenacity and volume that would re-
duce the mud Of other cities to comparative
dustiness. 1t is only by the use of raised
board crossings that citizens are enabled to
cross the streets, and the sewerage is execra-
BILE. The cutters are veritable pitfalls,
many of them being waist deep and filed
with muddy water, refuse and garbage.
The smells arising from the cutters in the
morning knock oil the illusions about mag.
nolia trees and orange blossoms out of tho
visitors head, and after he has had short
experience with the climate, he sits, with
chilly frame, sneezing and Wheeling miser-
ably, and is usually in condition to pass re-
marks upon the romancers of New Orleans
which are whole-souled, far-reaching and
comnlata y
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
SELLING SPURIOUS aulNrNE.

DR.. Cyrus Edison, of the health Depart.
ment, Inns opened war on the vendors Of
adulterated quinine, and of spurious prepa-
rations which are being sold by retail drug
ysts as the genuine article. About three
weeks ago." said DR.. Edison this morning,
"I was informed that several druggists
were doing lively trade in cinchona, which
is cheap alkaloid made from inferior
cinchona bark. They sell it both in powder
and in pills, charging full prices for it. I
have made purchases in over dozen stores,
and our chemists are now at work making
an analysis of it. Enough has been al
ready learned to establish the guilt of sew
eral of these druggists, and within forty
eight hours it is likely that many arrests
will be made"
" What profits do the druggists make by
vending this cinchona alkaloid ?"
" 1t is not half as costly as quinine, and
an enormous profit must be made from its
sale, as the orders for quinine are mora
numerous than those for any other drug"
&c Is this drug adulterated as we'll as imi.
tated ~
g We have found in several cases that the
powder is being adulterated with sugar OF
milk. This can be detected much more east
ly than the alkaloid, which bears close re-
iemblance to quinine and is possessed of
certain of its properties"
Z" What is the objection to the sale and
use of the cinchona alkaloid2n
" II initiates the stomach and is not SO
easily assimilated. More over, as it does not
possess one-half of the strength of quinine,
its sale is fraud on the public which it is
our duty and our intention TO punish with
all the severity which the law permits"
" What classes of druggists are selling the
,purious article ?"
Some houses which are reported az re.
spectacle are engaged in the traffic. Idonot
think it we'll to give names until the arrests
are made. In Sixth avenue establishment
We found pills made from gum arabic,
mucilage and tartaric acid. "-Neso Yor1
Mail and Express.
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THOUSANDS ON ROLLERS.
A Statistical Rink Manager Says the SAat-
ing Craze Is Only I'm Its Infancy.


"Over $4,000 people are on roller-skates
every evening in New York, paying for the
privilege thereof $50, 200" remarked q statis-
tically-inclined rink manager, as no yanked
pnir of silver-mounted skates off his feet
and wiped the perspiration from his brow,
" But just wait year until roller-skatins
becomes popular here and that number will
be quite insignificant. The craze is in its
infancy here"
How will the number in other cities
loot up" asked reporter.
AT least $50 900 outside of New York
in tho United States are nightly on roller
skates whizzing around The rink has been
popular in other cities quite while, and
New York is the last to fall into line. Bos.
ton, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Phila
delphia and Baltimore have long since in
troduced the pastme and made IL popular
Why, Boston is as far ahead Of New Yorl
in roller-skating as tho latter is ahead of tho
former in rapid transit. What comment
On New York to have to send to Boston for
skates during the Madison Square Garden
roller-skating contest. But the sad fact re-
mains that Boston is ahead of New York
not only in baked beans but stylish roller
skates Now we have here ten Kinks in full
blast every night. Rain or snow the Kinks
are filled with merry skaters. 1t costs 25
cents to enter, rs cents for pair Of skates
and at least rs cents for refreshments. This
foots up the nightly expenditure at 3d..
500. But this estimate is very low. Count.
Ing in the gas, rent and pay of attendants,
something like $40, 900 is spent daily by the
rink managers and the skaters. But my
opinion is that roller-skating will become &C
popular in year that 100000 people will
be on skates every night in New York"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
AMATEuR PHOTOGRAPHERS.
The Valuable Discoveries and Inventions
They Have Made.

The inevitable result of number of PEG.
pie pursuing the same end is organization.
The Society of Amateur Photographers, Of
which Mr.. Frederick G. Beach is president
has membership of eighty-fiye members
This is not mere fun, although there is
social element intermixed. The society hal
undertaken o series of important expert.
ments. One committee reported the other
evening las tests with gelatinized plates.
Another gave an elaborate exposition of
Tests with Crooke's radiometer, for the pur-
pose of deciding the best light for develop
ing. These were between acetate of amyle,
luminous tablets and kerosene lamps Mean
while Mr.. Edison is experimenting in their
interest on en- electric lamp. This is work
the professional photographer cannot afford
to undertake. 1t is curious fact that all
the important discoveries in photography
have been made by amateurs, beginning
with Daguerre. It was Mr.. Fox Talbot who
first produced negative. DIR. John w.
Draper secured the first portrait after Sir
David Brewster said it couldn't be DONE
Mr.. Scott Archer, another amateur, first
made use of collodion, and Sir John Her
schel first used glass plates. DR.. r. L.
Maddox, an Englishman, brought gelatine
into the service, and through the expert
ments with gelatine by rich English hal
manufacturer the gelatinized dry plates
were made known. These are now an i'm
portant article of commerce, and, for ANA
teurs at least, have revolutionized photo
graphy in doing away with the dirty bath
process detested by their wives and moth.
srs.
The discoveries by amateurs are not con-
ined to processes. Mr.. George H. Ripley,
an interested member of the society, brought
before it an improvement in the Phoenix
shutter. This shutter is IN automatic ar
rangement for instantaneous pictures. Mr..
Ripiey's improvement allows for o longer
exposure, and by means of silken thread
in the hand tho operator can take his own
picture. This is intended for amateurs
when alone and desiring, for example,
figure In landscape. Last summer Mr..
Buesch, of the Cincinnati society, tool
photographs of himself in canoe on Lake
George by means of rubber tube and bali
held in his head, but the tube was also pho
tographed. The silk thread is invisible. II
seems that photography has accomplished
everything when man can take his owe
picture.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
NATION OF EGG EATERS.
At Lenst 5O,OOO,OOO Eggs Daily Consume
ed by People In the United States.

There are at least 80, 900, 900 eggs con.
sumed daily in the United States" said
wholesale dealer near Washington Market to
reporter for the Mail and Erpress. "That
Is over A, 1000, 900 dozen and at an average
price will amount to at least $4,000. Think
of the outlay and business activity required
to handle this enormous quantity. The
American people are egg eaters. Asa gen.
eral thing the supply is equal to the de
mand, but about three years ago late after
January we ran ashore on domestic eggs.
What was the result? Europe began to ship
ua picked eggs by the millions. Shiploads
came over. Prices went down, and the
European picked eggs at fourteen cents a
dozen became immensely popular. This al
most ruined our home egg market. During
the months of April and May the eggs are
picked by means of solution Of lime water.
They are kept until November and Deem
Der and then come in to lower the market.
Fresh eggs, though, are worth thirty cents
q Dozen"
"Where do the eggs in the United States
principally come FRONT"
From Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North
and South Carolina and Maryland. The
Western States of course furnish large guam.
titles, but not SO much as the States men.
toned. Nineteen million two hundred
thousand eggs were shipped from Europe &c
this country since the LIST of April to Sep
TENDER. They came from Belgium, Copen-
hagen, Hamburg and the greatest egg mart
in the world, Antwerp. But all these
European eggs are picked, and although not
half so good as the fresh, yet they have the
effect of lowering prices. All of the peas
antry in Germany, Belgium and Holland
raise large quantities of fowl. But in the
United States few farmers only pay atten-
ton to the industry"
"What is the reason that the farmers
in the United States do not raise more
fowl?n
Simple enough. They have been in the
habit Of making large profits from stoch
and grain and other products and thought
egg raising too slow. They see their mis-
lake now, and in less than ten years eggs
will be exported instead of imported"
How will the increase come about?"
If this new experiment of Matching eggs
by means Of heaters proves successful, then
bacon and beef as DEMONSTRATING foods will
perhaps be supplanted. Thus far the re-
suits on limited scale have proven success
full, and the old hen, instead OF wasting
days over dozen or so Of eggs, can be put
ting in her time laying fresh eggs. Thus
double saving will be made. Every farmer
with enterprise will have an egg farm or
hatchery, just as the rich have lighthouses
now, and send millions of eggs to market.
New York, perhaps, will be the greatest
egg centre in the world, and ships will be
chartered by the wholesale 20 do Are export
business"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
The FooI-Ixiller.

sometimes think that if the fool-killer
would give little more attention to his
business and would try little harder to
earn his salary there world be less COM
plant and less dissatisfaction on the part Of
the intelligent taxpayer. Now, for instance,
suppose that he should, prior to each cleo
ton, hold kind of competitive examine
ton of fools, to close with grand tourna-
ment and fool shoot at thirty yards rise; or
The fool could be made to pay each year for
ment, partial fools to pay $50 license,
chronic fools 300 and hopeless fools 5000
per year. I'd like to be instrumental in
getting such law passed, and then get oui
of the country before it went into effect
BIZ Nue.,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
Tragedy of the Corn Crib.

In Twiggs county some of the hands OF,
ID. ). Newby's place went into the crib to
shuck corn and while they were at work Mr..
Newby's little daughter went into the crib
and was holding open bag to put corn in,
when large pile of corn slipped or
" cavsd upon the child, comp etely cover.
ing her up. Just as they were getting he,
out the pile of corn slipped again, covering
her up second time. The negroes became
alarmed and ran off, leaving the child to
her fate. When she was extricated she was
dead, having been smothered by the corn.
-Atlanta Constitution.
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Ho For The Far west,-Reaaoed Rates.

Ho For The Far West!-Reduced Rates.
We sell tickets to all parts of the West
and South, first class limited first.class,
second-class and emigrant tickets. We
check your baggage through to destina-
tion free. Buy your tickets of us; we will
save you money. We write up your route
for you, showing you where to change
cars, &c. We give you letters of intro
duction. II you desire to go to the min
ing districts or to the great farming lands
of the West, come to us. Descriptive
maps and papers sent free to any address.
For full information apply to 8. Innes,
Western Ticket Agent, at the old reliable
Western Ticket Office, Lehigh Valley
Railroad Depot, Easton, Pa. Jy2.-1y
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Rendering Wood Nearly Fire Proof.

Until places of public amusement come
TO be built entirely of fre-proof material
there seems TO be no reason why builders
should not by law be compelled to see to II
that everything made of wood is saturated,
or at least covered, with some of the various
fire-proof preparations which would check,
II not altogether prevent confagration.
Sulphate of iron is an ingredient in most Of
these compounds. Wood properly treated,
according to an English writer, will if sub
jected to high heat, char and consume away
without fame. But the day may not be far
distant when no combustible substance will
be allowed in structures intended for human
occupation.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15

The use of Iodoform or Mercurials In
the treatment of catarrh--whethei in the
form of suppositories or ointments--should
be avoided, as they are both injurious and
dangerous. Iodoform is easily detected
by its offensive odor. The only reliable
catarrh remedy on the market to-day is
Ely's Cream Balm, being free from all
poisonous drugs. 1t has cured thousands
of chronic and acute, where all other re-
needles have failed. A particle is applied
into each nostril no pain; agreeable to
use. Price fifty cents of druggists.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15
POETRY.


an Gn&tuoGEA SAokSs
l.
The hour was ten, the night was dark,
The fast express was late,
And II there is in railroad life
One thing fiereely hate,
IT'S finishing run up like
An owl train or freight
II.
The dear old engine shot ahead,
Though big the load she drew:
Regardless quite Of cloud and night,
She shook herself and few;
And, spite OF grades and curves and cuts
drove the darling through.
thought knew the tricks and ways
OF every one-horse road
That crossed the track, and small respect
To any such showed;
But whistled for the crossings, while
our speed was scarcely slowed.
".
just as we few around curve,
And darted through a cut,
saw sight that made me start
AS II felt shot:
freight train lay before us, like
wagon in a rut.
Across the track its length was stretched,
And not wheel was stirred,
While down the grade my big machine
Went nying like Bird
Ipulled the rope, and worked the valves,
But could not speak word
vi.
did my best, but toward the freight
We speeded like a flash,
With notla hope but what we might
Go through 1t with dash,
And could only stand and stare
And wait the coming crash.
VII
A level head, a lightning brain,
Oh, who can tell their worth?
Above all values wealth can give,
Or rank, or place, or birth;
And such head at such time
0utweighs the solid earth.
1t wasn't mine some other mans;
brakeman on the freight,
Who saw us aiming at his train
And coming for It straight;
And when he got his work in, you
May bet he didn't wait
X
AS quick as thought that fellow jumped
And pulled coupling pin,
And thus he cut the train In two
just where the rails begin.
And signalled to his engineer
TO so ahead Ike sin.
Y.
The engine pufrs and pants; the train
Starts slowly like snail,
And through little space see
Our line OF shining rail
But when We sped across the space,
My very beard turned pale
XI
The buffer OF the fearmost car
We tore away with ease;
But that was nothing down | dropped,
And prayed upon my knees
That might never know again
SO very tight squeeze.
XII
A little matterf Had you stood
Where was standing then,
You might have said that 1t would test
The powers OF tongue or pen
TO well describe that brakemans deed:
one OF million men.
-Drakes Travellers Magazine
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The Law OF Finding.

The law Of finding, says writer, il this
The finder has clear title against the
world, except the owner. The proprietor
of q coach, or a railroad car, or shop has
no right to demand the property or prem.
Uses. Such proprietors may make regula.
tons in regard to lost property which will
bind their employees, but they cannot bind
she public.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15

An Expepsgi Q Luxury.

Are you going to Newport next sum
mer ?" asked one actress of another. "No
don't think will. I can't afford it,
:" Can't afford it? Why, you have made
over $25, 900 80 far this season." "Yes, ]
know; but you seem to forget that have 9
husband to support. Puck.
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valms Of second orow.h wood.

The old idea that slow-grown timber was
stronger than that grown quickly is dis
proved by recent tests in England so far,
at least, as oak is concerned. Second-growth
hickory Is usually more valued for the hand
les of axes, hammers, etc., and the annual
rings show it tc be of swifter growth than
the first stock.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-15

Cold Soda has taken the place of
Hot Soda, and will be on draft every
day. % syrups at Groman's, 5 cents per
glass, 9 tickets 95 cents. Apr. sat.
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buy your Carpets at CARVER &
WILLIAMS. Mar. 1877.
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Cattle Powders, 20 cents pound at
Groman's Drug Store. apr. Sat-