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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-11-11

A half teaspoonful Of soda in half cup
of water will relieve sick headache caused
by indigestion.
A fever patient is cooled off and made
comfortable by frequent sponging with
warm soda water.
Warm mustard water should DO given to
one who has accidentally swallowed poison !;
this will cause vomiting after that give
cup of strong coffee that will counteract
the remaining effects.
When going from warm room out into
the cold air close your mouth and breathe
through your nose to prevent taking cold
A hard cold is ofttimes cured by cup Of
hot lemonade taken ut bedtime, as it pro-
duces perspiration.
Consumptive night sweats may be arrest
ed by sponging the body at night in salt
and water.
Teething children may be relieved of
commissions by being immersed in warm
bath, and cold water applied to the hend.
For Group or pneumonia bruise raw
onions, lay on cloth with powdered gum
camphor sprinkled over it, and apply to
chest and lungs, and cover with hot flannel.
This is sure cure if you take it in time
For nervous headache, when the pain is
over the eyes and the temples are throb-
bling, apply cloths wet with cold water to
the head, and hot baths to the feet.
The juice OF red onion is perfect anti
dote for the sting of bees, wasps, hornets,
etc. The sting of the honey-bee, which ip
always left in the wound, should first be re.
moyed.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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CHEWING GUM ADVISED.
A Southern Physician Who Thinks That
tue Habit Is Beneficial.

"Thinness is physical characteristic of
the fact that they are in new country to
whose climate they have not become used.
Even the descendants of people who came
to America two hundreds years ago are not
fully acclimated. This is true, it matters
not to what country people may remove.
Natural history has demonstrated that at
least three hundred years are required to
acclimatize nation that has taken up its
abode in new country. Now, as thinness
is q characteristic of Americans they ought
to use whatever will make them fat and they
ought not to use what will keep them lean.
Tho habit of chewing gum causes certain
juices whioh aid digestion to flow freely,
unmixed with any injurious substance. The
habit of chewing tobacco also causes these
juices to flow freely, but the tobacco chewer
either expels them from his mouth or swal-
lows them mixed with the poisonous juice
of the weed. l see you have your note
book out just dot down this fact Twenty
years ago the rule was that Southern women
were thin and delicate; ii is not the rule
now. Southern women are not physically
equaled in all North America. Any physi-
clan who is Us we'll informed us he ought to
be will tell you that this is true. This
change is due to the habit of chewing gum.
You may smile, you may even laugh, If you
please, but am telling you plain fact.
As to Southern men, they are as thin and
gaunt as they ever were, and 80 they will
remain until they cease to chew tobacco and
begin to chew gum. Macon Messenger.
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THE BOOKS THEY READ.
Reading Habits of some Prominent Poop

The Star of yesterday prints the follow
ing interview with prominent Washington
bookseller: Send these to Secretary
Bayard, said the bookdealer MS he handed
half dozen current novels to one of his
assistants. That's keeping right up to the
times in light literature, he added paren-
thetically.
:" Does the Secretary read those
No, no. replied the dealer hastily.
The Secretary follows very dignifed
course of reading, but the novels go to his
household. When statesman reads novels
his wife and daughters, if he has any, read
history and politics. If the man is a serious
student they read novels. suppose that's
one of the ways of women-always by con.
traries.'
"' Who is the best reader in the Cabi
oct p
GO Folks soy Lamar is replied the deal
err. He may be, but never heard of his
buying book. If he reads he doesn't keep
pace with the times. reckon Bayard is
the best reader. He buys great many
books and keeps right along with the best
writer's. His reading Is of sober, states
man-like character, and he does lots OF it.
He comes in to buy his own books, and l
have never seen him look at novel. The
President, understand, is good reader
but the only book l know of his having
bought is Blaine's. He bought that few
days after he came to Washington. great
many books go to the White House. Col
Lamont buys many good books and nearly
all the popular periodicals, but don't know
who reads them. | suppose many are got
for Miss Cleveland. Secretary Whitney
reads great deal. He doesn't contine him
self, however, to politics, history or phi
losophy. He is very fond of novels and
reads many. Some are the best and some
are the lightest. He reads such novels as
1.-THE yagrant Wife, The Tinted venus,p
"Called Back, !" " Struck Down." &c. Sec
rotary Endicott reads novels, too. But he
never buys anything in English He al
ways gets French novels and reads n great
many Of them. The other members OF the
Cabinet We don't see so much of. I guess
there is no one in the Cabinet who buys as
many good books as Blaine does. He buys
everything on sober subjects by well-known
authors. He gets much the same boaks rs
Bayard does, only the range of his research
is wider. Logan isn't anything for buying
books"
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Bonner works hard two or three days q
week and then returns to his fast horses
Not content with 100 frst-class animals lie
is ready TO purchase any other that may
excel in speed. Notwithstanding the FIRE.
quent attempts to impose on Bonner, ii is
said that he has never been " jockied in
horse trade. He pays enormous prices, but
he does not allow himself to be deceived.
He is not only mn equine amateur, but is
also student, and he told me that he had
a hundred works ON tie horse, all OF which
he had carefully read. Bonner has first
class assistant in Oliver Dyer, who is one Of
the best working literateurs in the city. He
reads all articles submitted for publication
and this is one of the hardest features 10
literary labor. He told me that no mar
could read judiciously more than two hour
at time, az his brain would then be foggy
Dyer was at one time favorite with Gree.
ley, and had place on the Tribune. This
was third Of century ago, and hence he
is one of the veterans of journalism
Rochester Chronicle.
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safety in Travelling.

II is popular superstition that the CEN
Ire of the car is not only the safest part, but
is also much the easier riding. One of the
greatest trials OF Pullman conductors life
is the fact that about every passenger asks
for lower centre berth the first thing, and ID
frequently indignant because it cannot be
had. II tho centre of the car rides any
easier than the end, then our cars, built as
solid and strong as they are, spring up and
down in the middle precisely as does a
blackboard. II they do not, why should 1t
ride easiera AS for safety, il you are in the
rear of the last car on the train and an
other train runs into the rear, you are liable
TO get hurt. In all other accidents you can
conjure up Ms Liable to occur, it is safest,
II head collision there is nothing back Of
you TO add force to the blow. II the cal
leaves tho track and collides with E-;dge
or any obstruction on side track il will
not be in your end II the train is thrown
down an embankment there is nothing to
land on top of you. Then this location is
tho most pleasant. From ii you can watch.
all the movements Of your fellow passen-
gers, often a good way of passing the hours
Of long, tedious journey. If your eye
happens to catch a particularly fno view
you can, by turning in your seat or stepping
to the door, take it all in If there is o
safest part of train ii is in the last car.
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Steamer. ON n South American River.

The steamers which run from Buenos
Ayres to Monteyideo and up the river to
Paraguay are, to the surprise of every tray-
eller, as fine and gorgeous as those on Long
Island Sound-great, splendid palaces with
no end of gilt and gingerbread work, with
stewards and cabin boys in livery, wine
rooms, smoking rooms, bands of music, and
all that sort of thing. There are two lines
in active rivalry, and they are trying to see
which can set the finest table. The bill Of
fare is as good as that Of first-class hotel
in New York, and two kinds of wine, claret
and Rhine wine, are served without extra
charge. On each steamer are three or four
swell cabins called bridal chambers, each
being fitted up without regard to expense,
and containing all the fub-dubs that can BE-
crowded into them, including pianos, and
sideboards, with well-flled bottles of wine
and brandy in the rack, all included in the
price of passage, which is double that of the
ordinary cabin. The swells always take
these cabins when they start off on bridal
tour
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inc DeciiH0 oil Dueillng In the S0uths
The Savannah Morning Net5s bears en-
couraging testimony to the change that has
taken place in public sentiment of late years
on the subject of duelling. Public opin-
ion," says the NeOs, overwhelmingly
condemns duelling, and the number of those
who advocate or defend this relic of bar
barism is constantly decreasing. The time
when men tried their causes by the ordeal
of battle, or by walking over red-hot plough
shares, has long since passed away, and
duelling will soon be among the customs of
the past in all intelligent countries. The
idea of turning question of veracity, or
any kind of dispute or snarl, into question
of courage cannot long survive in this age
of progress and common sense. About the
only question duel can settle is the fact
that the participants In it have less regard
for the enlightened Christian sentiment Of
the day than for the promptings of mis-.
guided and foolish pride"
1t is now felony in Georgia, as it is in
nearly every other State in the Union, to
send or receive challenge or to aid in any
manner in duel, and the man who kills
another in duel is a murderer in the eyes
of the law as he is in fact.
There is no reason why the duelling class
alone in this country should ever have been
allowed to make laws for themselves in re-
gard to homicide among themselves, and
the changed condition of affairs as respects
duelling amounts to nothing more, at least,
than the stripping of one class of manslayers
of remarkable privilege too long accorded
them, and placing them on the same foot
ing with other men who thirst for the blood
of their neighbors. Charleston Is. o.
NelnS
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In Western city lives an undertaken, by
name Brown, great wag, and always ready
TO play joke also doctor who is joker,
and is always ready to tell on himself, and
monument maker who is Of the same
kidney.
One day the doctor was driving at full
speed down business street when Brown
spied him. Brown was in his wagon with
the sign Of his profession on the side
Whipping up his horse, lie came as close to
the doctor as possible, and glancing round,
be spied the monument-maker. Calling to
the monument-mAker to hurry up, Brown
called out $50 on, doctor, go on; we're
coming"
The doctor looked round, and dismay
was pictured on his countenance. He whip
ped up his horse, but all to no purpose, the
undertaken and the monument-maker fol-
lowed closely. At last the ridiculous part
Of the thing struck him, and leaning back
in his buggy he gave vent to bis laughter,
in spite of the thought, What sign for
prominent physician this is "-Editor's
.Drasoe,, in Harpsr's Magazine.
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TNu HOTEL CLERK.
How Guests Were Served by Military
Drill.


The hotel clerk has disappeared, or is
disappearing. The faithful chronicler must
note this significant change in American
life, for it means the passing away of
whole order of things. And he notes it with
certain sadness. For though this clerk
was feared by the general public, ne was
the admiration of the humorist, There was
never anything in the world before answer
ing to this resplendent autocrat of sleeping
accommodations this darling of the fash
ing pin, perfumed locks, impudent eye, and
lofty condescension. He was the one being
in existence before whom the free-born
American quailed. We have so little real
aristocracy in this country that this domi.
mating person stood out in RELIEF: he had
power to abase the proud, and to make the
humble crawl into hole. But his hour has
struck apd he is passing away, not gone
absolutely, for the traveller can still fluid
him here and there, generally only in those
gorgeous palaces where civilization is new
and has the appearance of lacquer, and is
not of the substance of the life.
In fact, the kind of civilization that pro-
duced the hotel clerk is gone, or is going
also. He belonged to an era Of smartness
and pretenson which the foreign traveller
did not recognize as a growing development
of character, but mistook for vulgarity He
belonged TO what might be called the stean.
boat period, when the steamboat wns n
gorgeous and rs beautiful as q BARRIERS g..
loon, and its clerk had the fine manners
and the striking attire of the gambler. He
belonged to the era of the table in the hotel
dining-room a quarter of u mile long, where
the walters were oil drilled to move like
clock-work at signal from the first officer,
who stood at the head of the table. We can
see them now facing the table in shining
line, half wheeling at the signal, stretching
out simultaneously over the heads of the
submissive guests hundred arms, Selling
the tops of the vegetable dishes and then
tramp, tramp, with the step of the soldier
going down the echoing floor, disappearing
through swinging doors, and anon return
ing with the same military precision to de-
post plate that weighed twgpounds, with
| bang, before each awed occupant of seat
As military evolution it was nearly per-
feet, and the American people were rather
proud of it. 1t was magniicence which
somewhat crushed them, but they felt
| they were somehow part of it, and it is
doubtful if any foreign potentate was ever
served exactly in that way. 1t was very
cheap at five dollars a day, and if there had
been any dinner to match the evolutions,
we might still be in that snowy period of
| our national development The hotel clerk
had so subdued the spirit of tho traveller
that he had not perhaps much appetite
and rather preferred magnifcence to com.
fort. But in Time, with other standards ea
Taste, this pageantry vanished, and the
traveller began TO assert his manhood -
harles Dudley Warner, IN Harper's Maya.
| zine.
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He was nice lieutenant in the army and
in Washington society after a. severe cam
paign of sixty days in Redskin society on
the Plains. The ladies' were compelled to
hear him talk Of his hair-breadth escapes
and thrilling adventures, and one of them
concluded to ambush him at the frst OPP
portunity-and slsy him. he WIS telling
one day about fight with the .'hostiles. !"
"Ah, Misc Virgie," he said, you should
have seen that fight $ We're you there 2"
she asked innocently. Yes, indeed, and
I received bullet in the head" just
one ~ she inquired again, as innoeently as
before. q Just one ?" he repeated in sur
prise; "how many would you expect man
10 receive 2" "Well, don't know exactly.
I have seen some heads which had room in
them for half bushel or more, and then
again haven't" It made the young man
80 light-headed that he almost fell OF the
piazza. Merchant Traveller.
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Flirtations in sealing wax are the latest
racket Red IS for business only; black
wax is for mourning and coincidence; pink
for congratulations, and white for wedding
invitations. Blue means love, and the color
is used in various tints to mark the different
stages of affection. yariegated colors are
said to indicate conflicting emotions. Two
other things are being tried by the station.
ers to make wax work expensive and fash
ionable. They are beginning to use thin.
bles TO bear seals, and hope to make some
designs popular craze. Then scented
WAKES are being imported from Paris, with
a variety of colors, more or less desirable
and costly. It is said one French firm makes
wax, the perfume of which when burning
will fill q room, and last for hours about
the envelope.
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MAKING BICKS.
Discovery OF the Clay and How 1t Il
Baked.


The first process in brick making is the
breaking up CT the clay This is done by
wheel running on an axle and so fixed as to
vary its radial movement at each step, so
that it moves in n sort of spiral line over the
soil. Horse power is generally used to pro-
pei the pit wheel, as it is called, and six
revolutions is about the number usually
given to disintegrate and work the clay.
Some brick makers give more than others.
Brick clay, like dough out of which
good bread is made, must be thoroughly
kneaded to make good brick. After the
clay is worked it goes from there TO the
moulder, who forms the soft brick. He ia
assisted by wheeler who brings the clay
to them, and boy called an 'off-bearer,'
who carries the brick to the drying floor.
These three persons perform task In q
days,work, and a good moulder will earn
from $18 to 800 week, the wheeler
$1.50 or ~ a day, and the boy, boys wages
or more, according ms he is quick and Off
bears the brick rapidly. In the city in q
lays work or task 1900 brick are general
" made; at country yards, $500.
1.-The brick are off-borne % the drying
floor and set on end to dry This process
is dependent on the weather. When thor
oughly dry they are then carefully placed
in the kiln and fired. Some klns hold q
quarter million brick. They are generally
built for about 100 900. The burning in
kiln must be skillfully done or the whole lot
will be spoiled. Fires are kept up for a
number of days until the bricks are burnt
enough, then they are put out the kilns
opened and the bricks taken out and stored
for the market They are sorted and the
good selected. The best handmade brick
are called stretchers, and when we'll made
are almost rs good as the best pressed brick.
Many fronts of houses are now built of
these. Commons are less perfect bricks
Among layers bricks are known as inside
and outside, the latter being the imper.
fectly burned and curled ones and are utilized
in the inside walls. Bricks near the fires in
kilns are burnt hard those remote are
softer and lighter colorm and are then call
ed salmons.' Many machine made brick
are used, and there is great number OF
patent brick machines. One is now to be
seen at the Novelties Exhibition, and the
clay goes in hopper and comes out brick.
Black bricks for ornamental lines are made
by dipping the brick in pitch. Many en-
amelled brick are now made in this coun.
try. It is beautiful art, which has sprung
up entirely since the Centennial; but after
oil, most houses are built Of the Ordinary
brick.
1.-THE clay that now makes the fine
American porcelain in Jersey comes from
near Chadds Ford, in Delaware county.
II is called kao-lin, from the Chinese name
for porcelain clay, as you may recolleet
these Eastern people were the first and best
porcelain makers. A first class brick yard
is always good paying plant as bricks arc
always in demand"
Whore do the broken brick go?"
Indeed, don't know but suppose to
the place where pins once used to go, There
is always demand for new ones, | know"
philadelphia Times.
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HOW AXES ARE MADE.
PIttsburE the Great Centre Of the Mann
facture in Americn.


facture In Americn.
The manufacture of axes in Pittsburg is ir
amount about double that of any other city
n the United States and about equal TO the
combined productions Of oil other places. The
greater part of the trade is reached through
Baltimore, st. Louis, Chicago and New Or
leans as distributing points. Competing
manufactures are located in Boston, Col
linsville, N. H.; Lewiston, Pa, and in
Michigan. The handles are made chiefly
in Ohio and Indiana. Only comparatively
small number are sold with the axes, as
purchasers at retail most frequently prefer
to select handle to suit their tastes. The
demand for axes with handles already nd
justed is said to be constantly increasing.
In the manufacture of axes the material
passes through twelve different operations
before it is ready for labelling and boxing
AT first it is o rectangular piece of iron,
about three fourths of an inch thick, three
and one-half inches wide and about six
inches long. The bit is of STEEL and in
some instances is inserted in slit made in
the iron, and in others it is drawn over the
edge of the iron. There is growing de-
M md for axes made entirely of steel. The
most important part of the process of man
fracture is the tempering. This is really
where the axe is made" said manufacture
or. The grinding and polishing is the most
Iaborious part of the process. 1t is here
that the rough, irregularly shaped sem
blance of an axe is ground and polished un
til it is as bright as q mirror. 1t is said
that the work will prove fatal within five
years to any man who pursues it steadily.
The mir is filled with imperceptible dust
from the stones, and many of the workmen
tie small sponges saturated with water over
heir nostrils.
"A leading manufacture said yesterday
relative to the trade -" 1t has grown won-
aerfully in recent years. In that time it has
extended to the remotest parts of the I'm
ion, and, at this time, is seeking an outlet
ia foreign markets. Axes made in Pittsburg
are sent direct to Australia and South
American markets, formerly monopolized
by England. As yet, however, the trade is
small, amounting probably to not exceed
ing one thousand dozens from Pittsburg.
The export trads is chiefly supplied by
Eastern manufacturers. A new opening il
last developing itself in Mexico. - Pitts5a,y
Times.
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- . =
She Answered..

The dude was visiting charming young
society lady, and as they sat on either side
Of an open CRATE fire his heart was full of
burning desire to say something not only
complimentary, but brilliantly suggestive.
SO, after revolving the matter in his mind
during a ten minutes burst of silence, he
said g. All, Miss Lille, why are those fire.
tongs 80 like Frederick ~ He meant her
to guess, or him to tell her because they
glowed in her service, or were PROSTATE at
her feet,' or something or that kind.] Miss
Lille, looking so solemnly demure that the
clock stopped, said she didn't know unless
it was because they had two thin legs and a
brass head. He was cropping blindly for the
front door before she had recovered from
the shock of her own volley. - Gooda.rs
Sun.