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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-20
Advice to s,oop.shour,erea p.ovl,

A STOPPING figure is not only familiar
expression OF weakness or old age, but it is,
whom caused by careless habits, a direct
cause of contracted chest and defective
breathing. Unless you rid yourself of this
crook while at school you will probably go
bent to your grave. There is one good way
to cure it. Shoulder-braces will not help.
One needs, not an artificial substitute, but
some means to develop the muscles whose
duty it Is to hold the head and shoulders
erect, know of but one bull's-eye shot
It is to carry weight on the head. A sheep
skin or other strong bag filled with twenty
70 eighty pounds of sand is good weight.
When engaged in your morning studies,
either before or after breakfast, put this
Dag OF sand on your head erect, draw your
chin close to your neck and walk slowly
apout the room, coming back, If you please,
every minute Or two to your book, or carry
ing the book as you walk The muscles
whose duty it is to hold the head and shout
ders erect are hit, not with scattering shot,
but with rifle ball. The bones of the spine
and the intervertebral substance will soon
accommodate themselves to the new atti-
tude- One year of daily practice with the
oag half an hour morning and evening,
VIII give you noble carriage, without in
'erfering moment with your studies.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-20

lie ISN'T THERE NOW.
How n Bill Collector Treated u Bore.-A
Put Up Job.

One of those friendly, good natured fell
lows whom you don't wish to offend, and
yet whom you detest because they bore you,
attached himself to Detroit insurance
agent some months ago. He was not only
asking for loan every few days, with nc
idea of ever paying it back, but he spent
several hours each day at the Office and be.
came in time so much at home that he used
the Office stationery and stamps, and tender
ed his advice on all important matters. The
other day he was asked to mind the Office
while the agent went out, and he had just
opened n new box of cigars to have n smoke
when stranger entered and brusquely
said:
" See here, Blank, l want that money"
You'll have to call again." replied the
bore, as he looked up from his newspaper
% I'll be BANKED if | do That money
was due month ago, and ! won't be put
of any longer !"
" Come in at eleven o'clock :"
g won't do it ~
I'm! Well, Blank isn't in, MS you
seo"
I" You are liar You are Blank, or else
I'm blind, and I think my eyes are good
yet Come down :"
Really, sir, but '
"C-o-m-e down.
But, sir"
The stranger reached ont for the bore
and Topped him on the floor. Then he
ierked him to his feet and slammed him
over table. Then he shook him until both
suspenders gave way and the pegs in his
boots were loosened Then he jammed his
head through the map of Michigan and
kicked him with boot manufactured in
Michigan and finally flung him in heap
and walked out with the remark;
III repeat that dose every day in the
future until you pay that bill %
The bore doesn't hang out in that Office
any more When the agent returned and
found him lying half dead on box of ink
olotters and fire insurance statistics he did
nit seem to extend the sympathy demanded
oy the occasion. Indeed, his cold and I'M
feeling conduct rather led the bore to sus.
pect that a cold-blooded plot had been laid
to deprive him of his valuable life. Detroit
Free Press.
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49, 49, . - -------s=-4
CnhhnRn Tor n ItNins Man.

Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, writing in The
Pittsburgh Dispatch, tells story of hos
pital patient whose life was saved after he
had lain, apparently at the point of death,
for some time. He could not speak above
q whisper, and the doctor, pitiful of his
helpless condition, stopped over him and
sail
Patrick, is there anything you want
that can get your"
In whisper so weak aud hoarse rs to be
inaudible unless the doctor put his eai
down close to the trembling lips, the dying
man answered;
Cabbage
The doctor could not believe his ears.
"Dld you say cabbage ~ he asked in
credulously.
81 did," was the faint whisper.
Cooked or raw Sn asked the astonished
doctor.
Raw" murmured Patrick.
The doctor stood nghast However, he
reflected that Pat was dying and that moth
ing could kill or cure him now; IL seemed
q kindly thing to fulfill his last wishes, so
he went out into tho garden and cutting a
large, fresh cabbage, divided it into quar-
tiers and laid one Of the sections close &c
Patrick's lips, guiding his helpless hand
into a place that propped the cabbage M
against his mouth and then DIR. G. sat down
to watch this extraordinary patient. Slowly
the cabbage disappeared the Irishman's
eyes frightened during the process, and n
shade more of life pervaded his counte-
nance. As the last fragment WAS swallow
ed he said More ~ in quite an audible
tone, but the doctor made him wait q few
moments before the second quarter was
laid in position and eagerly received. To
curtail my story, in the course of the day
Patrick ate all the good part of large cab
bage, began to &c. well from that time and
in week or two left the hospital and went
M trprlr
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soIm Endowments-

A ST. Louis paper says that Jennie Flood,
daughter of the California millionaire, is
extremely homely and has $4,000, 900 in
her own right. 1t is pretty hard to recon-
cile these two statements. There is not one
young man in thousand who could see
anything homely in young woman who 10
worth $4,000, 900. She may not be pro-
fessional beauty, but she can't be ugly
Norristosea Herald.
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POETRY.
Be Pa.lent wl.h ,le Lirlnr.

Be Patient With the Living.
Sweet friends, when thou and art gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be our need of grace
From comrade or from neighbor;
Passed all the strife, the toll, the care,
And done with all the signing
What tender truth shall we have gained,
Alas! by simply dying.
Then lips too chary OF their praise
VIII tell our merits over,
And eyes too swift our faults to See,
Shall no defect discover,
Then hands that would not lift a stone
Where stones We're thick to cumber
Our steep hill path, Will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friends, perchance both thou and /.
Ere love Is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home
Be patient with the living!
To-days repressed rebuke may save
Our bin ling tears tomorrow;
Then patie ace, cen when keenest ei;sl
May whet nameless sorrow.
IT'S easy to be gentle when
Deaths silence shames our clamcr,
And easy TO discern the best
Through memory's mystic glamour;
But wise It were for thee and me,
Ere love Is past foigiying,
To take the tender lesson home
Be patient with the livingi
Good Cheer
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-20

The most extensive cabbage farm in the
world is near Chicago. 1t consists of 100
acres in the "cabbage district" as it is
called, which comprises $500 acres of rich,
heavy SOIL especially adapted to cabbage
culture. 1t requires /, ia, 900 plants to set
the 100 acres, and, counting those used in
resetting, 100000 for the whole district
under cultivation. The bulk of the crop is
sent South in box cars to supply demand
which exists after the consumption of the
Southern crop, which, owing TO the climate,
cannot be stored for future use.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-20
Tanning n Moose.

A half-breed Indian in the Dead River
region has domesticated bull moose and
uses him in his farm work. He is good
worker and lively stopper. In the winter
when he bitches the moose in his sled and
strikes across the pond there is no horse in
the region that can keep up with him. The
half-breed turns his steed into an enclosure
with fence of ordinary height. Once in q
while the moose jumps out and goes on an
excursion, but as he never fails to return
this privilege is not begrudged him. Leaois-
ton (Me.) Journal.
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Cost of Orange Farming In r,or,d.

Cost of Orange Farming In Florida,
The richest land in the state is thought
by some to be hammock. There is high
and low hammock. This land is covered
with heavy growth of timber such as live
oak, hickory, magnolia, water oak, red
wood, and various other kinds of timber.
of the two kinds, high hammock is best,
the danger from frost being less. There are
also two kinds of pine lands, the high and
rolling, aud the low, the latter generally
designated as " flat woods" The high pine
land is best, being not so subject to frost.
The heavier the timber, the better is the
pine land ON which it grows. Land at 81
per acre, ten miles from steamer or cars,
would be dear in comparison with land o.
the same quality within one mile of trans.
portation, at 300, or even 1890 per acre.
To haul one load day of half ton ten
miles through this sand and return will re-
quire strong double team, say at cost of
VI per day. One acre of orange grove in
full bearing will produce ten tons of
oranges; that will require twenty loads
with the boxes, which means twenty DAYS
work at cost of $50 for one year, or $500
for each ten years, without interest But
the orange tree continues TO bear from one
hundred to two hundred years. If, on the
other hand, the orange grove be near q
depot or wharf, the whole product of the
acre may be hauled and shipped by the
same team in single day at the cost of 81,
thereby saving $40, or in ten years $780,
and so on for each ten years Hence it
would be better economy to give hundred
or even thousand dollars an acre for land
within half mile or mile of depot or
wharf than to pay one dollar per acre for
land at distance of ten miles --Jachsoil-
rille, Fla, Times Union.
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Wanted the Apostles.

Little Johnny Fizzletop was in candy
store with bis mother. She bought some
figures made of chocolate. /" Here, Johnny,
are the three graces for you" 90, ma, I'd
rather have the Twelve Apostles. There are
more of IN. -Tsras siftings.
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THE CONSUMPTION OF GOLD.
How the yellow Dust is Being Used in
Various Parts of tho World.

The annual consumption of gold in the
arts amounts to $61, 100000 calling the
consumption of this country $11 900, 900,
as per Burchard), while the present rate of
supply from all the mines in the world is
S93, O00 900, leaving only $32, 10000 for
use as money. In other words, the entire
amount left for coinage does not equal the
product of the United States alone But
the United States retails all the gold pro-
duced here, and is drawing steadily on Eu-
rope. From July, 1884, to July 1885, we
imported about SIS, 900, 900 more gold than
was exported during the year, and in the
years 1880, 81, 50, '83, 's4, and 'S5 the
imports of gold exceeded the exports by
1888, 900, 900. There is also steady move.
ment in gold from Europe to India IL
1884 the excess of this importation of gold
over the expectation is stated to be S26,.
DOC, 900, and in 1883 it was 1923 ,000, 600
Thus India and the United States took from
Europe last year $44, 10000 of gold, while
the total supply of that year available for
coinage amounted only to 1872, 900, 900. 1t is
somewhat singular that two silver using
countries are absorbing from Europe $12,-
100000 annually in excess of the total
amount available for use as money Blu,
the gold standard countries are also suffer
ing the loss of abrasion, which in England
amounts annually to one sovereign out OF
5000 and one half sovereign out of 1900.
Then, too, the English sovereign is being
used to great extent in the currencies of
Brazil, Portugal and Egypt, only to be re-
turned TO Great Britain when its value is
endangered through loss of weight. Under
the circumstances it is no wonder that gold
is approaching rapidly in England, and it is
difficult to see how that country can endure
the squeeze of recommendation much longer.
The theory that gold used as jewelry will
return to the melting pot and thence into
circulation is manifestly deceptive, since ir
these forms its value consists largely of The
labor expended on it, and this would be
wholly lost in coming it into money
Chicago Tribune.
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Hot Soda may now DO obtained at
Groman's Drug Store. Oct. 2S.-tf.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23
Republican State Convention.

A Republican State Convention. to NOM
mate candidates for State officers, and for
the transaction of other business, will be
held at Powers Opera House, in the City
of Grand Rapids, commencing at o'clock
p. M, on "Wednesday, the 25th day Of
August, 1886.
In accordance with resolution adopted
at Grand Rapids, May 10th, 1876. every
county will be entitled TO one delegate for
each 500 of the total vote cast for Govern
or, at the last State election Gn 1880, and
one additional delegate for every fraction
of 300 votes. but each organized county
will be entitled 10 at least one delegate.
Under resolution of 1858, no delegate
will be entitled to seat who does not re-
side in the county he proposes to represent.
In accordance with resolution adopted
AT meeting of the State Convention, at
Detroit June ed, 1880, the secretary of
each county convention is requested 10
forward TO the secretary of the State Cen
trail committee. by the earliest mail, after
the delegates to the State Convention are
chosen, certified list Of such delegates rs
are entitled To sit in the State Convention.
-Shiawassee county is entitled to ID del
egates. PHILIP T. VAN ZILE.
Chairman.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23
"For Governor"
SUBJECT TO THE CHOICE OF TIL
STATE CONVENTION.

(Our readers will remember the
article we printed few weeks since
from the Grand Haven Herald en-
titled prerequisites" The follow.
ing is the sequel to that article from
the same paper, and we commend it
TO the candid consideration of our
readers)
"The institutions of the State read
ily train men for the services it re-
quires. Among those who have been
trained in its schools, who have had
large experience in laborious indus
tries, had large acquaintance with the
affairs of the State, have been in in
innate fellowship with its public men,
have had to do with the management
of the States institutions of reform
and charity and have had many years
experience in its legislation-among
such can readily be found men quail
fed for those duties, honors and re-
sponsibilities which fall to the Gov
ernor of the State.
The difficulty is not in finding such
men, but in determining which Of
them is best fitted for the place, and
as we will frankly say-who of them
can be most certainly elected to that
Office by the Republican party of
Michigan in this current year of our
Lord.
Seen in different lights, looked at
from different points of vision and
with different degrees of appreciation,
several men will be held by their adj
miring friends as the best and most
available man. The naming of such
men, here and there in the State,
fair presentation and candid compar.
ison of them will prepare the way for
intelligent and harmonious action in
the State convention on the a5th of
August at Grand Rapids.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23

Will the Evening News please take
notice that British gold has gone
home to roost, some of it. The CON-
pliments of the Golden Club have
been reoiprocated, as it were, to the
extent of $40: 1000, 900 through the
agency of Morrison's Tariff agita
ton.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23

The Northwest Tribune published
at Mt. Pleasant says, 'Indian Agent
Stevens wholesale larceny charges"
against Brown and others, "will re
suit in 'cry and no WOO as the dell
when he 'ceped the co., and this
has been the opinion of THE TINES
ever since the charges were made.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23

The Herald of Health discredits the
popular impression that cutting the
hair short tends to increase its
growth. 1t says that women rarely
become bald, yet they neverIcut their
hair off as men do.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23
Republican Convention.

A Republican County Convention to
elect delegates TO the State convention to
he held at Grand Rapids on the 25th day
of August next; also TO elect delegates to
the Congressional and Senatorial conven-
lions when called. and for the transaction
Of other important business, will be held
at the Court House in the city of Corunna
on Thursday, the 9Th day OF August 1856
at II o'clock II. M. Each township and
city in the county will be entitled to the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23

With more than usual emphasis we
wish to second the nomination by the
State Republican Of Hon. Mark S.
Brewer, of Pontiac, f)r Chairman of
the Republican State Committee.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23

Dated, July Slh, 1856.
CHARLES HOLMAN, Chairman
FRANK PEACOCK, Secretary.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23

Shiawassee county is entitled to
IS delegates in the Democratic con
vention to be held at Grand Rapids
Aug. 18th.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

Says the Philadelphia Times: The
industrial growth in the South is
only the beginnns Of the wonderful
advancement she is about to make in
adding to her own and the nation :
wealth. Her surplus Of hundreds OF
millions this year. will fit her for
more than doubling that surplus next
year, and the next decade will wit
ness the South closely pressing the
North in every channel available for
her industry. She Will largely null
tiply her demands for coal and iron
within the next few years, and fur
nish iron and coal from her own
mines and furnaces, and the day is
close at hand when the cotton of the
South will he all spun and mainly
woven by her own magnificent water
power and skilled labor, and when
furnaces and cotton mills will dot the
South wherever needed, every form
of diversified industry will follow.
We hazard little in saying that the
next decade will present more pros
peCtivo industry IN the South than
in tire North.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

Two robbers, armed with shot-guns
made cowardly assault on Mr.. John
Callahan, a quiet and peaceabIe citl"
zen living four miles east OF Court
land, on the night Of the eth inst.
They fired into the house, forced an
entrance and ordered the old man to
hand over his money, or they would
kill him. Mr., Callahan happened to
have only Il quarter Of n dollar in his
pockutbo0k and they took both--also
an ovprcoat and two suits OF clothes.
Mr.. Callahan recognized one ot the
men as John West young man of
low character, fernler!y employed by
him; the other was a tOugh-looKing
oue-eyed individual, supposed to be |
one Luke Ford, q Memphis hood-lum.
The rascaIs tried to get the old man
to Join their band and threatened to
kill him if he divulged the robbery
Pamela Star,
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

In the following fable which we
find in an exchange, there is a good
deal of solid sense, and we submit it
to our readers: "Once upon time Il
donkey fell into deep hole, and af-
ter nearly starving, caught sight of a
passing fox and implored the stran-
ger to help him out. III am too small
to aid you," said the fox, "but | will
give you some good advice, Only q
few rods away is big, strong ele-
plant, Call to him and he will help
you out in n iitfy," After the fox
had gone the donkey thus reasoned:
81 am very weak for want ofnourish-
ment. Every move | make il just 50
much additional loss Of strength. If
l raise my voice to call the elephant |
shall be weaker yet No, / shall not
waste my substance that way. 1t Is
the duty of the elephant TO come
without calling So thedonkey set
tied himself back and eventually
starved to death, Long artterward
the fox ON passing the hole saw with
in It'll whitened skeleton, aud re-
marked: "Ifi ii be that the souls of
animals are transmigrated into men,
that donkey will become one Of those
who can never afford TO-
ADVERTISE In the foregoing there Is
more truth than poetry, and we can't
help but admire the Judgment OF the
fox. az he seems to manifest more dis
cretion, In business, than many busi-
ness men,"
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

A Nashville special Of few days
since says that United States Deputy
Marshals arrested a woman named
Mrs. Mary Humphreys, for defraud-
Ing the government, For the past
fifteen years Mrs. Humphreys has
been drawing a pension as the suryi-
wing relative Of federal soldier, not
Withstanding she aoffnC' the weeds Of
widowhood over twelve years ago and
her second husband Is now in Indi-
ana. TO assist the working of the
fraud she left her husband in Indi-
ana, came TO this State and rented a
farm near Vullahoma. Her arrest
created quite a sensation in the
neighborhood where she had been
living. She hns gone to Indiana in
charge Of the marshals. The case is
70 be thoroughly investigated.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

The biennial report Of the sup erin
tendent OF the Mississippi State Pen
itentiary shows that the number Of
conyicts in the penitgntiary is eight
hundred and twelve. OF this num-
Der sis hundred and eeventy,six Gre
colored males; thirty-two are colored
females one Indian male, and one
Numbered and three are white males !;
one hundred and fourteen are sem
fenced for life, and twentY-seFen for
longer periods than ten years. In
1884, three hundred and thirty-tWo
were received by commitment, and
fourteen by re-eapture, and in 1885,
three hundred and six were received
by commitment and eleven by re-
capture. The number discharged in
1884 was one hundred and sixty-fve,
and in 1855, one hundred and fifty;
three hundred and four were colored
males and females, and eleven were
white males. The following figures
show the number of convlcts from
various counties in the State confined
in the pepitentiary for two yeats end
inc first Of last December.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30
silver QleSticn.

we confess We don't know much
about il. 1t eeemsto our dull COM
preAension N yaterioualy ug5terious.
There is enc thing, especially, We
cannot understand, and that is how
65 cts, is made u dollar. We cant
understand how the fiat of q great
Government can make it 50, unless
it ruled the world, Us did ancient
Rome, \ law making S. cts. equal
to a dollar comes in conflict with the
immutnble law OF international COM
mercc that only recognizes a hun
dred cents to be q dollar. How " the
fiat Of the government to manage
this Qbstreperous commercial law 8?
There is one thing that this country
knows by sad experience: politicians
have a way of agitating such gues-
tions merely rs hobbies upon which
to ride into office. The public is
easily mystifed, and therefore easily
led. 1t is great pity the Democratic
party is divided upon the Silver
question. Disaster and defeat may
be the result. So far as the Leader is
concerned, it is inclined to accept the
opinions Of such great statesmen ana
patriots as Cleveland and Lamar on
the question. Such mcompromis-
ingiy honest men cannot be far
wrong, if wrong At all, We shall
never believe chat they are the tools
of the capitalists. Their opinions are
based upon their honest conviction,
CLAY County Leader.
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

We heye seen it stated that the Ill
inois Central Railroad is in the field
as a competitor for Eastern business,
de livering its freights to the Big
Four and Chesapeake g. Ohio. With
in the last few days an immense
quantity of corn has been received
and shipped from Chicago over this
new route, and there are apprehen-
sions that the movement in that di-
rection viii grow into enormous pro-
portions. The pool lines are exceed
ingly exercised over this recent de-
yelopment, as 1t means an outlet
that cannot be controlled either at
Chicago Or on She sea board. .ut
The Grenada gazette., 1886-01-30

Geo. Brown, of Illinois, recently
brought suit against the Pullman car
company for fifty-thousand dollars,
and got the immense sum Of one hun
9tred and thirty dollars in full pay
ment Of his claim. ., .....