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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-23

CMHFucterlStfc8 rs Seen Upon the
The Cubans are the cleanest people re-
garding their dress ever knew. A steve.
dore will load molasses on vessel whole
week and you will hardly find a spot upon
his white linen suit when Saturday night
comes. Somehow your sense of propriety
is not offended when You see cash-boys, er-
rand-boys and keepers of all sorts in skin
tight, loosely-woven cotton shirts, and airy
breeches and slippers. Often, too, for
change, there will stand three or four
negroes, packers or boxers or something of
the sort, with bare feet, spotless white
pantaloons held by gay sash and with
naked, cleaning waists, arms and Shout
ders. But they oil fit naturally into these
shop scenes and nobody faints away but an
occasional visitor out of those few wonder
full American women who are naturally hor-
riaed at this, but whose tea-party fortitude
Is equal to assisting in stripping character
to the skin--and under it. One class you
will miss in Cuba not only in shops, but
everywhere eise-is the women workers
women can be found occupying places Of
| public trust in American establishments and
offices, and it is not rare that these sanle
women are brighter mentally than those
who employ them and in every respect
sruer ladies than good proportion Of the
females who throng fashionable establish
ments to pay out their money and fine airs
over those Of their own sex who to-day hap.
pen to be on the other side of the counter,
but who year hence may have in every
good, womanly way outdistanced them.
In oil Havana but one establishment wa
noticed where women are employed. The
young women here were scraggy lot in
| deed. Women in Cuba are Indies, washer
women or demi-monde. The shopping Ia
done by tho fair senoras and senoritas in
the afternoon, and one will certainly then
see beautiful women. They are not flippant
Or trifing in their purchases as In some
countries. No salesman would dare gossip
with them, or enter into their affairs. Nor
do they inform shop-keepers Of their own
or their neighbors' intentions. They seem
to know just what they want and go
straightway and get 1t. The turnouts are
very gay; thousands of women meet
mingle and pass greetings, but there seems
to be IN understanding here that shop g
not just the place in which lsdies should
entertain one another This may arise from
the fact that Spanish women are we'll bred,
and well-bred women set some store upon
the home.
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Protection from sun.,rokc.

One Sunday morning started with some
gentlemen on long horseback ride. They
wore wide sombreros, and little round
cap which had no brim. The longer we
rode the more peculiar my head felt, and
when we stopped at fonda for some re-
freshments became deathly sick and I'M
conscious. There was no doctor within
thirty miles Of us, so they did what they
could in their fright to help me- knew
in moment what had done 1.-THE warm
sun. The instant stepped into the shade
chill ran over me, and fell. BY putting
wet cloths ON my head and making curtain
around my cap with o handkerchief man.
aged to reach home. After was again able
to ride bought lnrge straw sombrero,
and when we were going to start requested
one of the gentlemen to wear q small stiff
hat. He, not knowing my motive, wonder
ingly obeyed, and before we had gone half
the distance had ridden the former day
he stopped and said he could go no further,
as he felt 80 strangely sick he must get into
the shade. He believed he was poisoned.
knew what was wrong, and l followed
him into the shade and saw him faint and
behave like did the previous day. had
spoiled our ride, for We Immediately return
ed home, but lead.
The broad sombreros shade and protect
the spinal cord, and that keeps one from
taking sun stroke. If you expose the
spinal cord TO the sun 1t is going to make
IA I'm
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The Edgar gas well at Canonsburg, Ia,
which has been burning furiously since
Saturday, WINS extinguished by Superintend-
snt Butler Of the Manufacturers Company.
The well Is by far the largest one which
ever took fire, and the extinguishing of the
flames was attended with no little difficulty.
President Charles Meyran of the company
visited the well, and after inspecting 1t ex-
pressed the opinion that no ordinary means
would be of any avail in extinguishing the
flames. Gas experts fully agreed with him.
Theeoncussion produced by the escaping
gas shook the windows of the houses and
made Che ground tremble for mile around.
The roar could be heard eight miles, and
the gas burned fully 1876 feet above the
ground. Superintendent Butler laid track
up to the mouth of the well, and then, taxi
Ing heavy iron carriage, he fixed smoke
stack upright on it. Then, while the stack
was supported by guy ropes, the carriage
was moved gradually toward the well.
When II was almost over the mouth sud-
den jerk Of the ropes set the stack squarely
on top of the escape pipe. The flow Of the
gas kept it from falling over. Then the
stack was jerlxed over suddenly, and the
work was done. The same plan had been
tried before without the carriage, and the
stack had been blown twenty feet by tho
pressure Of the uaa
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Narrow Escape of a Hunter.
+" We were taking band of wether once
I'VE had 10, 900 in the band--from Umatil-
la county, Oregon, to Cheyenne" said
shepherd to q correspondent, and had
three men beside myself, each man with a
dog. We had several horses, guns and
campaigned out, of course.
One hot day about noon the sheer
anchored on us and while they we're lying
In the shade we went down to the water to
cook dinner. This was in the Blue Noun
tains, on the middle fork of the John Day
river, at sort of horseshoe bend about a
quarter Of mile around II did not look
like white man had ever been there be-
fore.
Some Of the boys went in swimming
and went across the river ON the inside of
the bend. They found thousands Of tracks
of oil kinds of game in the sand-deer, elk,
coon, bear and goose tracks.
Them goose tracks, interposed q
voice, was beaver tracks. A beavers hind
foot is webbed and makes track like a
goose's.
That's so. found that out afterward.
The river was full of mussel shells, with
mussels in them at that. You could have
scooped up a wagon-load of them in little
or no time.
They saw right fresh track of bear
and cub where they had been after those
mussel and gone into the brush.
81 tried to get them not to go into the
brush after the lear, but no, they were
bound to go.
They stationed me on point that came
down between the cogs of the horseshoe
and commanded the underlying fat CON-
pletely.
Then they to took the dogs and their
guns and went into the brush. A man
could just crawl through the brush and TINT
was all.
1.-THE bear was there, you bet, and the
dogs bayed her before they had gone hum
bred yards The men could not tell from
the barking where she was. They kept as
near together as possible, Bill Sloane in I'D
vance. Presently Bill shot and the bear
made lunge and was on top of him and
got him down. The other man rnised his
gun to shoot, but was so close that the bear
struck his gun from his hand and knocked
1t clear out of his reach. He got away from
her and he went back and stepped around
ON top of Bill, who was about half dead
The third man opened on her and she would
drop down every time he hit her and he hit
her every shot. He called for help and
hurried there as fast as / could. had q
collie bitch that was rs timid MS hare
around you, but for fighting game / never
saw an nnimal so big that she was afi..id to
tackle II. She went to the bear a-fying.
The other dogs were simply barking around
IT, Dixie seized on TO the bear from be-
hind and made ii so lively for her that she
left Bill and was worried by the dogs until
she died from the effects of the wounds she
had received.
1--WE got Bill out, packed him ON horse
10 the nearest town, which WINS 100 miles
away, and Il was three months before he
was able TO be up and ont again"
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POETRY.

A Perfectly AyyfulIy Lovely story.
There was once perfectly modern girl
With perfectly modern ways,
Who saw perfection In everything
That happened to meet her gaze.
such perfectly lovely things she said,
And perfectly awful, too,
That none would have dared to doubt her wore
SO perfectly, perfectly true.
The weather, she said, In summer time,
Was perfectly awfully warm;
The winter was perfect, too, when there came
Some perfectly terrible storm.
She went TO perfectly horrfd school,
In perfect horrid town;
And the perfectly hateful teachers there
Did things up perfectly brown
The lessons were perfectly fearfully long,
But never perfectly said;
And when she failed, as often she did.
Her face grew perfectly red.
The church she attended was perfectly mag
With perfectly heavenly spIre,
And perfect crowds go there TO hear
A perfectly charming choir.
me iatesg styae b perfectly sweet
The last the perfectest out:
The books she reads are perfectly good
Just here we raise doubt)
ride she took was perfectly grand,
On a perfectly gorgeous day,
With perfectly nobby friend OF hers
Who happened TO pass that way.
the perfectly elegant falls she'd seen
When on her way TO the lake,
And the graphic description she gave as all
Was simply modern mistake.
The perfectly splendid roam dashed up
In perfectly killing style,
And the perfectly terrible waves came down
In perfectly lovely pile.
might go on with this perfect poem,
And write TO the end OF time;
nut fearing to wear your patience out,
WIN bring to an end my rhyme.
--Loulspfile Courier. Journal
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a DOMESTIC USE FOR DYNAMITE.
Hts Value I'm Destroying Stussps u Fine
scenic Effecas of the Operation.

Hts Value In Destroying Stunsps Fine
Scenic Effects of tIae Operation.
The Chicago Socialists have brought
the subject of dynamite prominently before
the public again, and the result is to preju-
dice people generally more than ever
against it, remarked an official of leading
dynamite Company" =" But there isn't
one person In hundred" he added, "who
knows how useful the material Is to farmers
and others for stump blasting the clearing
Of stumps from now land. But land owners
are, however, rapidly learning that the
quickest and best way to got rid of these
old settlers is by what we call blasting,
that is the firing Of q charge Of explosive in
the earth underneath tho stump. Two
brands are chiefly used for this purpose.
One that is used by railroad builders and
quarrymen and also for throwing out the
largest trees, stumps and boulders, is put
up in waterproof bags, containing 81 and
12t pounds each. The other brand is pack
ed in waterproof cartridges of any diameter
from ( of an inch to inches, and oil
inches long"
Does one blast remove the entire
stump"
Yes, if properly managed. A gentle
man in New Jersey who has had many
stumps removed from his land in this way,
writes that the explosion itself is fine
sight, and that one never tires of it. In his
letter he says, there is that kind OF excite
ment and uncertainty about 1t that is always
attractive. A heavy, irregular-shaped col
umn of earth is thrown fifty feet into the air,
sending still higher from its sides and sum-
init sprays of fine dust, through which
whirling pieces of roots and stumps are
plainly discernible. Where the stump once
stood there is gaping hole about eight or
ten feet in diameter by some four or five
feet in depth, with broken ends Of roots,
like as many scraggy teeth sticking ont Of
Its mouth. These roots are well loosened
up and can be readily cut away with one
blow Of the axe. The surface roots are also
drawn out and scattered. The stump itself
is split into as many fragments as there are
main roots to it. These lie at varying dis
tances from the hole. The smaller pieces,
weighing from ten to twenty pounds, and
up to fifty pounds or so, are, at times,
blown 80 far away as $50 feet, while the
larger pieces will be found at closer quar-
ters, according to their size. The very
large pieces, those weighing several hundred
pounds, are never thrown very far, il the
charge has been kept within prudent limits. "
But isn't the work very dangerous 7"
"Of course, man must have a clear
head and know what he Is about, but with
proper precaution there is little to fear.
Guns and gunners must be kept away from
the vicinity. The percussion of shotgun
nearby or Of ride or pistol will fire away
nitro-glyccrine powder. Another very i'm
portant precaution Is regarding misAre. II
should always be ascertained positively that
It is misfire. A fuse is sometimes faulty
and may hang FIRE, consequently the charge
should be left alone for half an hour before
any attempt is made to put In a fresh prim-
ing cartridge"
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Few historic women have been more mis-
understood than Mrs. Washington his
"dear Patsy" as Gen. Washington address,
cd her in his letters. She was what would
now be known as society woman. She
was beautiful, rich, talented, high-brsd,
and, II must be admitted, shrewish. II II
fact little known that the immortal Wash-
ington was very much hen-pecked, and the
man whose contemporaries all agree that
never was there SO much grandeur in any
mans personal bearing got as many cur
tain lectures in the course Of the year a.
any man.
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A thief in Fort Valley, Ga, hired little
negro to go down the chimney Of certain
store and open the back door, promising
him fifty cents and half Of what he could
carry away. The boy went down several
feet and then stuck fast and he could 60
neither way. He yelled for long time be-
fore no was heard, and seemed very glad to
60 from the chimney to the lookup.
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incident 81 ! Bull rlghs.

At a Mexican bull fight just across the
Rio Grande from Brownsville one Of the
bulls broke through the enclosure and be-
gan climbing up the benches. Women
screamed and tainted. men scrambled TO
get out Of the way, and general fusillade
began, every man near enough popping
away at the bull, who succumbed with thirty
bullets in his body.
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ssrlhe Coz a pls. d San. PORK.

s~s - ASsSs - ~s>ss 49,
It Is pleasant to hear Of strike which In
volved no contest. A lot Of woodchoppers
who worked for Mr.. S!ockbridge In the
Hudson Highlands stopped work the other
day and sent a spokesman to their employer
who said that the men were satisfied with
their wages and most other things, but
didn't like "your fresh meat; that's too
fancy and hadn't got strength into it." Mr.
stcckbridge gave them salt pork three times
day and peace at once resumed its sway.
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The american Architect says: 1.-THE
Southern pine seems TO be the natural habi-
tation In this country Of the elmer lectularius,
or bedbug, which is found in immense
numbers under the bsfK Of old trees Of that
species. II the wood contains natural clefts,
the insects and their eggs remain in these
after saving, and are often carried In that
way In the seams Of large timbers into
buildings. It 10 worth noticing that living
trees Of yellow pine sometimes keep houses
near them infested with the verlnin, which
stray In all directions from their home"
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An Excellent Judge Of Character.

Mr.. Armour prides himself on the men
he picks out to do his work, and naturally.
He no doubt believes himself that his fac
ulty in reading faces contributes great
deal to his money-making power. Armour
gets down to business at "a. NJ, and while
he does not require everybody to be on
hand at that hour, early Corners are appre-
ciated. There is o capital fellow In the
Office who was rewarded for this very thing
not long ago. He had been out all night
so much OF the night, at any rate, that ct
dawn it was question whether q cat-nap
wouldn't be more fatiguing than restful,
and SO he decided to clear up his head and
clean out his body by o Turkish bath. II
was o'clock when this sobering-up process
was over, and not O'Clock when he turned
up at the Office as smooth as silk and fresh
as q daisy. At z Armour came in. His eye
fell on that Turkish bath young man.
Say" said Armour, "you're the kind
of fellow like to see. You just go to-day
and get the best suit Of clothes you can iind,
and charge 'em to the old man."-- Chicago
Mil
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White hands are coming in fashion again,
lawn tennis boating, and oil the masculine
accomplishments having for time caused
women unnecessarily to redden their hands.
Chapped and red hands IRE never pretty.
Tho daughters of fashion now have disLes
of hot water, shaped like flower leaf, on
their toilet tables, in which they steep their
hands for while before going to bed, then
anoint them with vaseline and put on gloves
lined with a preparation Of cold cream.
These gloves should be of wash-leather, and
several sizes too large for the hand. In the
morning wash the hands with almond pow
der in water, and in hot water at TINT,
afterward dipping them for moment In
cold water to prevent chapping. Then rub
them-from the finger tips back to the wrist.
II manicure Ia not brought in for3the mills
an ivory instrument should be used for the
pushing back Of the skin from the root Of
the nail, and each nail carefully trimmed
with sharp knife, then rubbed with soft
pad Of chamois skin.
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The safe recently used in The Post
Office-large and of extra make-is for
sale. Apply to CLARK PrERsoE.
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THE best line and makes OF Refriger-
ators, including the "Ridgway," at Van
Horn Bros. June 1921
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WALTER II. uAYHUKS1,
CaunselIor-at.Law

SOLICITOR. AND MASTER IN cHAEchRI
AND NOTARY PpBLIo
OFFICE 81 NORTH UNION srhEET
LAaBERryILLR, N. J.
March 8. 1880.
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SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER.
REAL EsrATE AGENT, de.
utFee-B bridge 81. adjoining Lansertsis House,
LANBkRTvILLR, N. J.
Ali legal business promptly attended to. Special
attention given TO the settlement OF Estates fore
closures and collections.
May 20, 1883.
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MISS EMILY PIERSON,
Teacher of Piano & Organ

cunYELL STREET. EAST OF UNION.
LAMBERTvILLE. Nj.
Feb. IL, 1884
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Assisting Nature Il Little Bit.

When the resources of Nature have
become retarded, no matter from what
cause, it is then quite time to help the
Liver and Spleen, and other organs, to
perform their thorough duty--or we
Shall soon De quite i'll. In such cases
there is no more natural remedy than a
mild cathartic, one which will he sure
to perform its duty without injuring
the system in the least. Such, let us
say in all candor, is Simmons uepatic
Compound. 1t will gently move the
bowels, without irritating them in the
least; when the medicine works, the
bowels are soothed and healed like a
charm-yet the medicine is more effec-
tive than Calomel; one of the principal
ingredients possess all the good qualities
of that poisonous drug, without any of
it's constituents. \ dose of Simmons
Hepatic Compound every night on
going to bed, will infallibly restore
health. Testimony OF, the highest con-
sideration from every portion Of the
country, and from all classes Of people,
abunfiantly substantiate this fact. The
Importance of this treatment cannot be
over-estimated, and it should be tried
by all means.
DR.. J. 6. Wannamaker, Wholesale
Agent for Orangeburg County.
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Cure for Piles.

Piles are frequently proceeded by
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing the
patient to suppose he has some atfec'
tion of the kidneys or neighboring or.
gans. At times, symptoms of indiges
ton are present, tlatulency, uneasiness
of the stomach, etc. n moisture like
perspiration, producing a very dis
agreeable itching, after getting warm
is a common attendant. Blind, Bleed
ing and Itching Piles yield at once tc
the application Of DR.. Bosankos Pile
Remedy, which acts directly upon the
parts affected, absorbing the Tumors
allaying the intense itching, and effect
ing a permanent cure. Price 30 cents
Address the DR.. Bosanko Medicine Co..
Piqua, O. Sold by DIR. j. &. Wanna
maker.
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Aug. Limo
\ Healthy Growth. I.

.TNUE SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF
the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso-
citation is marvellous in the annals OF life
insurance enterprise. Its name mas DC
come a tower of strength, and has been
we'll earned by the untiring devotion of
President Harper and his associates. Its
astonishing prosperity has provoked attacks
which are best rcpellcd by frank and full
exhibit of its greatly increasing line Of
business. Up to July !, 1885, this shows a
gain Of no less than S13 Oh, $50 over That
Of the corresponding period last year.
In June alone its mortuary receipts eX-
cceded $3.50, 900, of which over $50, 600 went
into the Reserve Fund-that triple buttrcsS
upon which the association justly prides
itself. This reserve now amounts to S42j,-
600, and is employed for three purposes
onlv-to pay death claims, if any should
occur in excess of the American Experience
Mortality Tables; to make good any poSS-
ible deficiency in the Death Fund Account,
and to be apportiOned among those who
have been members of the A, sociatiOn ilf-
teen wears, etc. as the first and second
contingencies named are hot likely to arise,
the third object is the one upon Which tile
fund is practically expended. 1t is full OF
other good points, among which may be
mentioned the economical salary list--lcss
than $50, 1000 for carrying on the whole work
of the vast institutiOn-and payments to
widews and orphans at the rate OF over
s., 900 cash cash day.-From the old and
conservative New York Daily Journal of
Commerce, July 10, 1885.
With the Annual Report Of the above
Company is attached large number Of
Death claims paid from February 1882 to
February 1st 1886, representing all parts Of
the Union, amounting to 81 ,Gs5, ,2O0.0 90 from,
this list we take claims in South Carolina
which have been paid:
Valentino K. Jordan, West Watcrce, ST.
900.
Jno. S. Small, Grahams. $3.50.
Henry L. Krsuse, Port Royal, s1,2e5o.
j. Z. Todd, Due West So,
VIM. II. Whidcn. Jacksonboro', $1,000.
E. Parker, Abbeyille, $1,000.
\. S. Barns, Waterford, $500.
Emil Nchenlias, Beaufort, $1,000.
Us. ALBERGOTTI, Agent.
Feb. 2j-GmS.
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Active, Pushing and Reliable.

DR.. J. G. Wannamaker can always
be relied upon to carry in stock the pur-
est and best goods, and sustain the
reputation of being active, pushing and
reliable. by recommending articles with
well establlscd merit and such as arc
popular. Having the agency for the
celebrated DR.. Kings New Discovery
for consumption, colds and coughs, will
sell it on a positive guarantee. 1t will
surely cure any and every affection Of
throat, lungs, or chest, and in order to
prove our claim, we ask you to call and
get a Trial Bottle Free.