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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-09

The Commissioners of Emigration of the
State of New York have reported to the
Secretary of the Treasury that during the
year ended June so, 1886, there arrived at
the port of New York from foreign ports
1856, 906 passengers, of which number 294,-
0l3 came as steerago passengers, and were
landed at Castle Garden, where they were
examined by the Commissioners. Most of
these were destined to Illinois, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan, Min
nesota, and Wisconsin. During the year
there were returned to the country whence
they came /, 1888 immigrants, Of whom 81
were insane, so we're idiots, were blind,
were deaf and dumb, 81 were cripples, 70
were enceinte," 478 were disabled by
sickness, n by reason of old age, and 435
were without visible means of support.
During the year 1865 immigrants we're
treated at the hospitals in charge Of the
Board. OF these 1873 died, 1888 were dis
charged cured, and $50 remain in these hos
pitfalls. The amount of the immigrant fund
collected under the net of Aug. 8, 1882, was
$142, 2l0, and the expenses Of the Commits
sion amounted to $140,031. The Commits
sioners recommend that the act of Congress
to regulate immigration he amended so as
to provide for adequate penalties for all
violations Of the law.
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Dress Of Gentlemen,

Thore are four garments--the sack coat
the frock coat, the four-button cutaway and
the dress coat. Waistcoats and trousers
will constantly change, but the coats are
fixed and will 30 remain with trivial changes,
until there is total revolution in our APP
parel. The sack or lounging coat is the
most indispensable, as it is the easiest, the
most desirable in active bodily movements,
the most serviceable where everything but
dignity is required. The neatest and really
the nattiest garment that has come into
vogue in recent years is the four-button
cutaway. 1t fulflls the rule That men should
not go about carrying superfucus fabrics
The aim of mems wear should be protec-
ton, simplicity, cut in the style, and cut SO
designed as TO made the best Of the advan-
tages and defects of the figure. The true
tailor, like the true artist, has to idealize,
so as TO make his subject the more real, and
this is what he has TO do with the forms
ihat come into his hands.
In good dressing, the details cannot bc
overlooked. The neck wear must be ap-
propriate, the shirt front must relieve the
upper costume, the cuffs must be of the
right length, the boots must be without
fault-easy, elegant in shape and the neces-
sary outcome Of the trousers Every por-
lion, each article of his outline, must be
the continued expression of his individual
ty. The underwear must also be of the
best and carefully fitted to the person. Ex.
aggerated costume Ia to be avoided. All
extremes are to be stunned.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-09
A Toueu STORY rnom THE WEST.
Red and White Men Who ARE Said to Havo
Died in n Beautiful Mountain Spring.

Every tourist who comes to Wyoming
Territory, is told Of the beautiful but deadly
Rattlesnake Mountain and warned not to
battle in the fomous Clinging Spring. The
spring is in valley Of the widest beauty.
1t is circular in form and perhaps 100 feet
in circumference. The water is clear and
two feet deep. The temperature during the
fall is of blood warmth and during the re-
mainder of the year ice cold. The beautiful
spring entices the tired traveller or the
mountain tramp to bathe in its waters. But
the pleasant temptation conceals q deadly
snare. Many have bathed, but it was the
bath of death. The bottom which, through
the pellucid waters, seems to be composed
of white sand almost mnrble-like in purity
and polish, is In reality q sucking quagmire,
and once within its clinging grasp there is
no such thing as aid or escape.
Men without number have persisted In
this fatal trap some with agonized friends
standing not more than a score of feet away
and utterly powerless. While the spring
is remote from any high road, or even any
general trail all around, 1t is o noted hunt
ing region. Occasionally an unfortunate
stranger finds himself on the margin Of this
fatal spring, and yielding to It's seductions
plunges in and is seen no more. His fate
is a mystery, and is very probably laid to
the account of the savage mountain lion or
the ferocious silver-top bear. Indians relate
that years ago party of red hunters found
the spring at the close of toilsome hunt in
the early fall. One OF the braves decided to
bathe in the tepid waters. The clinging
sands soon seized him, and he cried for
help. This was promptly afforded, one of
the Indians throwing him the moose end Of
stout buckskin lariat. The sinking brave
passed the moose around one arm and his
comrades began to haul on the rope. They
could not even arrest the fearful descent.
A horse was hastily brought and hitched to
the end of the lariat. The good cord held
fast, but in place of the man only his arm
was jerked from the clinging depths, while
the crawling sands choked the death song
Of the buried brave.
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some New England Mines.

Prof. Shaler of Harvard has collected
some interesting information for the Boston
Trade Club in regard to New England
mines. There have been, he says, between
800 and 700 mines, the owners of most Of
which had started paper mill and print
ing press for the production of certificates
for State street and Wall street before at-
tempting to develop the mines, involving q
loss of from SIS 900, 900 to 30, 600, 900. The
history of some of them was very amusing
One mine in Lisbon. N. H., originally start
ed as o gold mine, was unsuccessful, and the
proprietor, with true Yankee ingenuity,
ground up his quartz and sold it the first
year as wonderful fertilizer, and, that fail
ing, sold the product the next year as po-
tato bug exterminator. Another, originally
started as coal mine, had been successful
afterward in the production of stove polish.
He thought that the New England mines
we're of little value at present, as they were
worked, but with economical and prudent
management they would prove profitable if
operated by individuals. One ore heap in
Maine had been used to salt many others.
to the ultimate pecuniary discomfort of
many shareholders. The Ely mine of Yer
mont, although now practically abandoned,
was remarkable exception, and had paid
about 81, 600, 900 in dividends.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-09

Birmingham, the magic city of the South,
was incorporated December 10, 1871, and is
beautifully situated in Jones' Valley, Jeffer.
son County, Alabama, and is the county
seat at present. The former capital town
Of Jefferson County was Elyton, distant
about two miles, now suburb of the city,
containing o number of fine residences.
James r. Powell, John L. Miller, and
Samuel TAFT were the original promoters
and founders of. the new city. They saw
their chance TO make fortune, and had the
nerve and means to go in and win by
buying up the lands about the time the
South and Alabama and Chattanooga Roads
were being built through this then wild and
comparatively unknown section, for until
then little, if anything was definitely
known of the vast mineral wealth here de-
posted.
The gentlemen previously named, after
careful survey of the lands, for the purpose
of ascertaining beyond doubt the extent,
quality, etc., of the coal, iron, and lime
stone were fully assured of the almost in
exhaustible quantity and of the superior
quality of the same. Immediately they set
about to form company or syndicate for the
purpose of developing the lands and bring
ing into market these rich deposits that had
lain hidden for unknown ages. A location
for a city was carefully and judiciously
selected, surveyed, and, as our friend
" Boss" Shepherd would say, laid out in
comprehensive plan with the eye OF faith to
The future greatness of the embryo city.
The reports at first were doubtfully received,
SO incredible they seemed. It was hard
for the staid old iron masters of Pennsyl-
yania and other mineral regions to believe
that such vast deposits Of minerals could
exist in the South, aud that it could remain
here or elsewhere for SO long o time undis-
covered. Shrewd and enterprising iron
men and capitalists of New Castle, Pa, and
Wheeling, w. Va, came on to see for them.
selves, and were convinced Of the truthful.
ness Of the statements made. They
purchased lands and erected furnaces, mills,
etc. The result has been marvellous The
taxable property of the city of Birmingham
was in 1883 50, 6S2, 800, and in 1884 had in.
creased to 50, 1902, 1876,
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cLovEs AND aLoyE.nuyEns.
Lady Customers Most DimcnIt TO SHIT,
Particularly as 20 Color.


" Yes, y said the attendant in charge of
the glove department of one of the uptown
stores, most ladies are very particular
about their gloves, and some of them are so
fussy that it will almost wear ones patience
out trying to please them. Why, they will
make us try on five or six pairs before they
are suited, and ten to one the last pair won't
fit one bit better than the First The color
is tho chief objection that lady will
have against the glove we have
tried on, although she will not acknowledge
it. She will pick out glove of certain
shade, think she will like it, but after she
has tried the glove on she will change her
mind The color does not suit. She will
straighten out her thumb or bend il back as
far as possible, and of course, any glove
will wrinkle little in that position. She
will then declare that it is no fit, SO of it
will have to come and another color or shade
is sure to be..selected. like to sell gloves
to country girls, because they are SO easy
to please. I can always tell one of them,
but not by the shape of her hand, for their
hands are not necessarily large and clumsy,
and ! have seen as pretty, plump and also
small hands belonging to girls of the rural
classes rs were ever shown by any city
young lady who never did a speck of hard
work in her life. A country girl never
knows exactly what she wants, but will
take most anything say is good. In these
respects she is very much like the gentle
men, for they are easily suited. All have
to do when one comes in is to ask whether
he wants dark or light glove and if II ia to
be snug or loose fit. He will always
say loose. will give him the right size,
and tell him the glove will fit and that's the
end of it, unless he wants it tried on, and
then the first pair always suits. Why, l
would rather wait on ten gentlemen than ON
three ladies'.
. 1t is much easier" the lady continued,
:" to fit glove to a large hand than to a
small one, for little hands arc almost sure
to be out of proportion some way or other
Tho average size in ladies' gloves is g and
the gentlemen's *. | can always tell with
in quarter Of an inch what size glove n
person should wear You will take "A.
| will prove IT with the measure" and she
did.
In answer to this question as to what the
prevailing styles in gloves would be for the
coming season, the reporter was informed
that for street wear the mousquetaire-
kind of undressed kid-with embroidered
backs, was the proper thing, and that there
was more demand for the tan shades of
gray, which, it will BIO remembered, were
very popular last spring. For evening the
plain backed glove for both ladies and CON.
tlemen still continues to be in vogue. Sew.
eral handsome pairs of ladies' gloves thirty
inches in length were shown. They ate in.
tended to reach clear to the shoulder, and
are worn with sleeveless costumes at rscen.
tons, balls and parties.
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POETRY.



o Golden-rod, fair Goiden-rod!
You seem to me smile OF God,
Sent down to cheer this earth OF ours
While mourning for her summer flowers.
love to pluck your plumes OF light
And deck with them my robe OF white;
To see them cleaning, fold on fold,
Gold upon white and white on gold.
o Golden-rod, bright Golden-rod!
You spring from out the barren sod;
On WORKOUT places where no grain
May rise to meet the IN and rain,
On battlefelds, once colored red,
Where heroes found their latest bed;
But rich or poor, or new or old,
You offer US your plumes of,gold
All, Golden-rod, rich Golden-rodl
All lips that breathe must kiss the rod;
And mine have drank deaths bitter cup
Since last stopped to pluck you up.
l lay your soft plumes yellow glow
Beside my sable weeds of woe,
And pray my God HIS arms to fold
Around the black, around the goldl
And Golden-rcd, sweet Golden-rod,
When shall go to dwell with God;
When all the weary look is gone
From features now with sorrow drawn,
Once more may friends, in robes OF white,
Decked with your plumes OF golden light,
Enshrine this body, fold on fold,
Gold upon white and white on goldl
Then DER my green and narrow bed
Let these fair blossoms lift their head,
Through all the bright october days
When nature wells with golden haze
The worlds decay. Nor black nor white
VIII mingle with their golden light;
But over me the two will fold,
In natures hues of green and gold
--Mdrp i. Nediy, In the Home Journal
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WONDERS OF THE SEA.
Facts About It's Natural Power. Correct
Soandings-- Deceptive Waves.


The sea occupies three-ffths of the sur
face of the earth At the depth of about
$500 feet waves are not felt The temper
ature is the same, varing only triAe from
the ice of the pole to the burning sun of the
equator. A mile down the water has q pres
sure of over ton to the square inch. If a
box six feet deep were filed with sea water
and allowed to evaporate under the sun
there would be two inches of salt left on
The bottom. Taking the average depth of
the ocean to be three miles, there would be
q layer of pure salt $50 feet thick on the
bed ofthe Atlantic. The water is colder at the
bottom than at the surface. In the many
bays on the coast of Norway the water often
freezes OF the bottom before it docs above.
Waves are very deceplve, To look at
them in storm one would think the water
travelled. The water stays in the same
place, but the motion goes on. Sometimes
in storms these waves are forty feet high
and travel fifty miles an hour-more than
twice at fast as the swiftest steamer The
distance from valley to valley il is said is
generally fifteen times the height; hence, o
wave five feet high will extend over seventy
FIVE feet of water. The force of the sea
dashing on Bell Rock is said to be seven.
teen tons for each square yard. Eyapora-
zion is wonderful power in drawing the
water from the sea. Every year layer of
the entire sea, fourteen feet thick, is taken
up into the clouds. The winds bear their
burden TO the land, and the water comes
down in rain upon the fields, to flow back
ct last through rivers The depth of the
sea presents an Interesting problem. If the
Atlantic were lowered 1854 feet the dis
lance from shore to shore would be half as
great, or 1900 miles, say 10 $50 feet, there
would be road of dry land from New
foundland to Ireland. This is the plain on
which the great Atlantic cables were laid.
The Mediterranean is comparatively shall
low. A drying up of ego feet would leave
three different seas, and Africa would be
Joined with Italy The British Channel is
more like pond, which accounts for ita
choppy waves.
1t has been found difficult to get correct
Vi ttiO n plnuu
of the navy oyercame the difficulty, and
shot weighing thirty pounds carries down
the line. A hole is bored through tho
sinker, through which rod of iron is pass-
ed, moving easily back and forth. In tho
end of the bur n cup is dug out and the in
side coated with lard. The bar is made fast
to the line and sling holds the shot on.
When the bar which extends below the ball
touches the earth, the sling unhooks and
the shot sides off. The lard in the end of
the bar holds some of the sand, or whatever
may be on the bottom, and drop shuts
over the cup to keep the water from wash
ing the sand ont. When the ground is
reached shock is felt as if IN electric cur
rent had passed through the line.-Inde-
pendent.
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Tomatoes ns Food.

II is known that the essence of the tomato
made into pill acts on the liver, and to
that extent must counteract biliousness and
all forms Of fever. The free use of figs is
known to multitudes to obviate constipation
IN great many cases; every intelligent
druggist knows that a tablespoonful of white
mustard seed swallowed without chewing is
useful in tho same direction, has been used
for that purpose for century, and for that
reason is kept in every good drug store for
sale. The seeds pass from the stomach un-
changed, but are supposed to act " on the
bowels delicately. The seeds of the tomato
act in the same manner; hence the frrit,
while it is palatable TO the taste and nutri-
tious to the body, has o health-promoting
effect on the liver and the whole digestive
system. Halls Journal Of Heath.
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MAGNIFICENT SOUTHERN HOMES.
Wonderful Luxuries Tint Arc Unseen by
Cnsmni HisIlurs 20 New OrIenns.


There are many beautiful homes seldom
seen by northern visitors to the Crescent
city Down in French town is one of these,
great square sombre brick building, with
heavy batten shutters, which people pass
day by day without dream Of the beauties
it contains. The hallway--when one does
gain an entrance, and that is not oasy-is
lit with jewelcd cathedral glass that casts
the glow of violet, crimson and gold along
the path your footsteps tread. The great
drawing rooms are rich with the gilded and
doriated furniture of the Louis Quatorze
period. Lovely cabinets are panelled in
plaques of Seyres china, and contain snuff
boxes with kings portraits on them. Every
table, chair and sofa is curled and gilded
and arabasqued and upholstered in great
Powered stuhs. The dining room is hung
with Watteau-like scenes and heads in the
style Of Greuze, and exquisite china and
crystal of past age glitter on the buffet.
Another one of these treasure houses is
found not fifty miles from this city in n
simple looking plantation house, guarded
by the daggers of long files of Spanish
yucca. If one may run this gauntlet there
is to BIO seen within floors black and as pol
ished as mirror, strewn with rich Eastern
rugs and rejecting the cleaning brass and
the gowwood fires of tho huge old fire.
places. The splendors of these rooms are
overflowing. One cannot retail them all.
Priceless bits Of old altar lace cover little
spider legged tables, where fourteenth
century drinking fagons rect. The great
sideboard, with half foot's depth Of cary
ing upon it, blazes with gold service Of
exquisite workmanship. The lace that forms
hangings for beds and dressing tabes in
this house is a study in ITSELF and even in
the garrett is to be found lovely old carved
chairs and tables which there can BIO found
no room for below
Still another one of these homes of col
lectors is q long, low brown house, smoth-
cred in Marechal Mel roses. In this whole
house there is not commonplace piece C
furniture, and its walls are hung with the
most valuable paintings in this State, among
which are Poussn and Lely of extreme
beauty.
In the vestibule are two splendid bronze
vases that are to be shown at the exposition.
Romeo and Juliet, Faust and Marguerite,
in bronze, adorn great oak chiifonier, and
an exquisite brass candelabra lights it.
In the drawing room is a copy in silver
of the famous Milton shield, and the great
horses of Marty romp there in bronze The
dining room is dark with century old oak,
heavy with exquisite carving dainty Sevrc
porcelain and cut glass show fair against IL.
Damascus blades are hung beneath paint
ings of armored cavaliers, and the great
Gothic chairs and sofas are upholstered in
faded tapestries. Outside, in walled pool,
grow the Egyptian papyrus plants, and in
spring the place is odorous with the myriad
blossoms of the many orange trees AID OF
the climbing roses. II is into these olses
that some of the scattered Creole art treas-
ures have drifted. --Nsao Orleans Times.
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Protecting the washington Monument.


The Washington National Monument has
been armed with 200 aluminium pointed
copper tips, 80 arranged on copper wires
along the upper angles that some Of them
point in every direction. These rods con.
meet with the large iron rods in the interior
of the monument which forms the frame
work in which the elevator runs, and con
meet with the earth. To place these rods
and tips in position heavy framework was
built on the pointed top Of the monument,
from which hung movable scafold in
which the mechanics worked, raising and
lowering themselves by block and tackle
Scientific electricians claim that these 200
lightning rod tips will attract the electricity
from cloud passing over the monument,
no matter how heavily charged, and that
they viii receive it quietly, each tip per-
forming its share and conducting it harm
lessly to the ground. Many think, how
ever, that the lightning has never struck the
monument, but that the capstono was
cracked by not fitting correctly. = Washing
ton Correspondence Of tie Boston Budgst
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CHATTANOOGA.
A sou.hern Centre Of Northern Capital.


A devout Albanian should leave Atlanta
once in a while to find out that there is land
and population beyond Peachtree Creek.
lmpacted in the close and absorbing life of
the gate city, his comprehension hardens
from leaf and branch into kernel, sweet but
not expansive. Even his Imagination loses
its edge and indurates toward lessening
centre. -Four hours away he finds Chatta-
nooga, city that in the past month has es-
tablished new banks with as much capital
as Atlanta has in all her banks. A build
ing lot on Market street sold to-day for
$500 front foot. The indications are that
Chattanooga may become the centre OF
Northern capital in the South. The fact
that it is Republican city is likely to help
ii in this direction. The Northern Method
list Church is perhaps its finest church
building.
The battle ground of Missionary Ridge
has been converted into strawberry patch.
Yankee colonists have climbed with hoes
where Yankee soldiers rushed with bayo-
nets, and the earth has Redeemed after each
invasion. On these sunny slopes the gar.
dener finds his ideal home, and the berry
lazily perfects itself Land that went beg
ging few years ago at 80 an acre nov
commands $3.50 an acre, and natives who
starved on five hundred acres now are New
Englanders growing rich on ten acres.
Solid berry trains are run on express sched-
ale to Cincinnati, and the thrifty ridge men
frequently took ten cars in the evening to
be eaten at breakfast in Ohio. II is not un-
usual to get yield of 5000 quarts to the
acre, and 20 cents quart is hardly above
the average price. From Chattanooga to
Bristol there are abundant rumors of freight
and passenger wars that may be long con-
tinued. Passengers have been sent from
Chattanooga to Macon for As cents, and
freight hauled from Nashville to Chattanoo.
go for 81 car load. If the railroad pools
could be permanently broken and competi.
hon permitted in transportation as in COM
merco and industry, the railroads would not
need to appeal to Legislatures for relief
Atlanta { Ga.) Consultation.
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Very Absen. Minded.

Several gentlemen were talking in saloon
about absent-minded people. Gilhooly
said he thought that old Professor Shore,
Of the University of Texas, was the most
absent-minded man in the business "He
was on his way to the train when he fancied
that he had left his watch at home What
do You suppose he did ?" asked Gilhooly.
- have no idea," responded Kosciusko
Murphy. Well, in his absent mindednesa,
he pulled out his watch to see il he had time
to go back home and get it, 7sras SIT
ings.