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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
RAILROAD CURVES ARE USEFUL.
why Train Cannot Travel ON a
Straight Line GOwu.Grade.

. You may live till the yellow dog fades
from history said conductor the other
night as the train hummed along, but
you'll never see q straight railroad down n
steep hill"
The curious passenger with the wat on
his nose rolled up his eyes in establishment.
My dear fellow" he exclaimed, staring at
the conductor " do not understand what
is to prevent train from running straight
down HILL"
just this" continued the conductor
curves are necessary ON very heavy
grade. Passengers are sometimes struck
with the great number of curves on the
road while it is up among the hills. They
imagine the curves are merely necessary be-
cause the road winds around the hills. This
is only partly true. If the railroad were to
cross directly at heavy grade il would still
be necessary to have the curves. No train
can go at high rate of speed down heavy
grade ON a straight track with safety. The
explanation is simple. The tendency of any
heavy body like train is to move in q
ton is not sufficient to overcome the ten
dency to shoot off where great speed or mo-
mentum has been obtained. Hence, train
flying down straight track on the hillside,
instead Of keeping the track would shoot
off on tangent into space.
The curve" continued the wise man in
the blue uniform, SIS one of the greatest
safeguards in mountain engineering. This
is particularly noticeable in the case of u
freight track. II very frequently happens
that an engine, drawing heavy freight
train, cannot stick close enough to the
track, when going down heavy grade, to
control her speed. An engine going down
hill is really more helpless than the same
engine going up hill. That is, she can phil
greater weight mp the hill than she can
hold back in going down the hill. II is q
very common experience with engineers of
freight engines to have their trains literally
push them down heavy grades at n high
rate Of speed. In such instances every
curve is so much salvation ut the right
time. The curve retards the speed and en-
ables the wheels of the flying train to get a
frmer purchase on the track. Railroad
ing In the hills would be very dangerous
were ii not for the curves sprinklel along
at frequent intervals.
Just then the train went around curve
and the curious passenger was thrown to
one side Of the seat.
" It's wonder to me" he gaspel. that
these measly express trains don't fl, off the
track in going around these heavy curves"
Well sir" aid thu conductor, 1--WE
been railroading for twenty five years aad !
never yet knew or heard of a train jumping
the track ON curve There isn't the slight
est danger on a graded carve, and hardly
any ON fiat curve"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

A SCOEDHNG WIFE.
How She Unwittingly Drove her Hus-
band Into Good Fortune.

Not far from Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1867
Emmerson. Some relative of his IN the
East had put him on piece of land to
make living, but he was sickly, had large
family to support, and between doctors
bills and poor crops was finally ground
down until he was little short of starving.
One morning, after taking the whole night
TO deliberate, Emmerson arose, took rope
from the shed and started for the woods
He had come to the conclusion to hang
hiroself Indeed, his wife, who was fretful
and faultinding under her trials, had often
flung out ut him that any man who could
not make a living for his family had better
choke himself to death with n rope. En-
merson entered piece of woods ON his own
land and WINS looking around him for n con-
venient limb when he saw rabbit run into
n hollow log. Strange as it may seem to
the average render, this tlihng incident
changed the current of his thoughts and
he flung down the rope and ran and plug
ged up the end of the log, SO that the rabbit
S'hiu hpt NStul'ts IL WINS u Iifctty Oiu log,
but the hollow extended only half its length.
The man returned TO the house for his
axe to chop the rabbit out and as he cut
through to the hollow, he heard the cink of
metal against the blade of the axe. A few
more strokes and an investigation brought
to light enough ten and twenty dollnr pieces
to foot up the gross sum of IA 900. The
coins had once been enclosed in n canvas
bag, but only II few decayed remnants of
the cloth remained. Emmorson was an
honest man and let his find be known, but
no owner was ever obtained for il. The in
vestigation by legal authorities discovered
than an old county immigrant who landed
At Milwaukee three or four years before Ind
complained of the loss of bag containing
Is, 900 in gold, but he had long since pass.
ed from sight and no one could tell whittier
he had gone. II il was his money the thief
had taken out 800 for current expenses
and then hidden the rest but as the robbery
occurred between Chicago and Milwaukee
and US the gold was found hundreds of
miles away it would have been difficult to
prove the connection. Emmerson was left
in full possession of his find and he soon re.
moved to distant State.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
BURDE1-rE,s BIG STRIKE.
Fhe Tremendous Tie-Up i'm Master
Minmnn's school and the Result.

hihmhn's school ana the Result.
r. j. b. in the Brooklyn Eagle: These
strikes by the school children are nothing
new. But they don't develop and bring out
and down the strong hand of the ruling
power as they used to- Among the sunny
memories of my own school days there
glows bright and soft rs summer sunset
the picture of the great strike at Humans
in Peoria, away back in 1858.
"Old Human introduced an innovation
-" speaxin' pieces" Upon that we struck
We endured it three weeks, and then We
determined to boycott the whole business
All the boys went into it. Bill Smith and
Hub futile, Rob Gregg, Ed Easton, Steve
Bum, Bill Rodecker, Hen Keener and all
the big boys, too. The first boy called on
to "speak " was to announce the strike. and
as my name came pretty well up in the
alphabet | stood good chance of being
leader, distinction for which was not Mt
all ambitious, being of tender years and OF
ruddy countenance and sensitive feelings.
But boy named Allen, who was called
ahead of me, funked and said his piece,
" Hohenlinden," although we made such
suggestive gestures at him that he forgot
half of ii and broke down and cried.
When was called l refused to speak.
Being pressed for reason, said, in ialter.
ing accents, that 8 there wasn't goin' to be
no more speakin'.n When the old man,
with unfeigned surprise asked me who said
I on ~ g Il. Il 1, -
there would be "a little more speakin, be-
fore the close of the session, and SO he led
me out upon the rostrum. Then and there.
with feelings which | now shudder to recall
did my first song and dance net / had
often performed my solitary cachuca to the
lascivious pleasing of old Humans "
slate frame, but never had | accompanied
myself with words. Boy like, had selected
for my piece poem expressive of those
peaceful virtues most heartily despised, so
that my performance, Mt the Inauguration of
the strike, ran somewhat like this;
"oh, not for me (whack > is the rolling Wv lack y
drum,
Or the {whack, whack y trumpets Wild tyhack)
appeal boo hoop,
Or the cry tBoo hoo > OF (whack y war when the
{whaek) foe Is come,
Or the towD brightly (whaek) flashing steel -
(whack, whackD
cannot convey to the most vivid imagi-
nation the gestures which accompanied the
seven stanzas of ibis beautiful poem. Suf-
fee it to say that they kept pace with the
old mans peculiar system of punctuation at
last, overcome with conflicting emotions
went sobbing to my seat and wondered why
an inscrutable providence had given to the
rhinoceros the hide that the eternal fitness
of things had evidently prepared for the
ccbonlhnv
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
POETRY.
Rest.

Rest.
Ny feet are weafled, ana my hands are tied,
Ny soul oppressed
And desire, what have long desired
Rest-onIy rest
TITS hard to toll, when toll is almost vain,
In barren ways;
tbs hard TO sow, and never garner grain,
In harvest days.
rhe burden OF my days is hard to bear,
But God knows best;
And have prayed, but vain has been my prayer
For rest-sweet rest
It's hard to plant in spring, and never reap
The autumn Yield;
IT'S hard to TIL, and when It's titled to weep
Ger fruitless field.
And SO cry a weak and human cry.
so heart oppressed;
And so sigh weak and human sigh,
For rest-for rest
My way has wound across the desert years,
And cares infest
My path, and through the flowing OF hot tears
pine for rest
Twas always so; when but a child laid
on mothers breast
Ny wearled little head; cen then prayed,
AS now, for rest
And am restless still; twill soon be DER,
For, down the west
LIES sun is setting, and see the shore
Where shall rest.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
THE SUMMER HOTEL.
Genius Like a Generals Needed to
Manage One Satisfactorily.

Manage One Satisfactorily.
II happened to be at the Kaaterskill House
lit might have been at the Grand or tho
Overlook-that the young gentleman in
search of information saw the Catskill sea-
son get under way. The phase of American
life is much the same ut oil these great cara
vansaries. II seems to the writer, who has
the greatest admiration for the military
genius that can feed and fight an army in
the field, that not enough account is made
of the greater genius that can organize and
carry ON great American hotel, with a
thousand or fifteen hundred guests, in q
short sharp and decisive campaign of two
fruits of victory are in the hands of the
landlord, and the guests are allowed TO de-
part with only their personal baggage and
side-arms, but so well pleased that they are
inclined to renew the contest next year.
This is q triumph of mind over matter. It
is not merely the organization and the man.
agement of the army under the immediate
command Of the landlord, the accumulation
and distribution of supplies upon this
mountain-top, in the uncertainty whether
the garrison ON given day will be one hun
bred or one thousand, not merely the lodg-
ing, rationing and amusing Of this shifting
host, but the satisfying Of AZ many whims
ana prejudices as there are people who leave
home ON purpose to grumbie and enjoy
themselves in the exercise of criticism
they dare not indulge in their own houses.
Our friends had an opportunity of seeing
the machinery set in motion in one of these
great establishments. Here was vast bal
loon structure, founded on Il rock. but built
in the air and anchored with cables, with
towers and high pillared veranda capable,
with its annex, Of lodging fifteen hundred
people. The army of walters and chamber
maids, OF bell-boys and scullions and por-
tiers and laundry-folk, was arriving; the
stalwart scrubbers were at work, the store
rooms were filed the big kitchen shone
with its FURNISHED coppers, and an array of
white capped and aproned cooks stood in
line under their chef; the telegraph operator
was waiting at the desk, the drug clerk was
arranging his bottles, the newspaper stand
was furnished, the post Office was open for
letters. It needed but the arrival of a guest
to set the machinery in motion. --Ha,pe,'s
Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
Linco,n,s GRAFTON az Gc,tysburr.

Mr.. Lincoln's Grafton at the dedication OF
the Gettysburg Cemetery was undoubtedly
his masterpiece. A great crowd stood
about the platform in the presence of the
newmade trenchesand graves of the patriotic
soldiers, patiently listening to the elaborate
md highly polished Grafton of Edward
Everett Who faultlessly dressed, with o
modulated voice and graceful action, de.
liyered his well rounded periods. II was a
calm, thoughtful, statesmanlike view of the
situation Only two or three times did the
hearers manifest any excitement. II was
solemn occasion, and oil seemed 70 be sadly
depressed. The North had, after bloody
battle, driven the South back to their homes
that was oil the future was hlexplicable.
Mr., Everett, having at last closed, the next
speaker on the programme WIS Abraham.
Lincoln, President of the United States.
As he came forward his presence never
seemed more peculiar and his ungainlinesa
of figure, his slouchiness of dress and his
angularity of gesture, as contrasted with the
gracefulness of person, speech and manner
which had distinguished Mr. Everett, pro.
duced for the moment a feeling of disap.
pointment, and had the double effect of OK
citing curiosity and sharpening anticipation
Tall, ungainly, but with every line of hit
face expressive of enre and grief the Presi.
dent delivered his short and epigrammatit
sentences in shrill, piping voice, at times
almost shrieking out that grand epic whose
sentiments and words will resound in
titure ages. As Mr. Lincoln proceeded no
face more Enthusiastically mirrored convic-
ton thnn did Mr. Everett's that by these few
and weighty sentences the memory of what
he said was erased. The Grafton of Mr..
Everett, Astounding in classical references
and faultless rhetoric, did not move the
hearts of the people as did Che plain SEN
tentious speech of Mr.. Lincoln. When, at
the close Of the exercise, Mi. Everett con-
yratulated the President, he remarked
laughingly, but with sense of truth,
You have said all ON this occasion that
will be remembered by posterity.p
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

Here is n description of what they do with
their prisoners in tho Canton of Neuchatcl.
A good handicraft is taught to every pris-
oner, and all who are well-behayed are,
after period placed with n master of the
trade which they have severally learned,
under the oversight of the police and of q
member of voluntary committee. This
committee is composed CT 400 active MEM
bers, out of n total population of 100000.
The prisoner, when Professionally liberat-
ed" has to present himself every week to
his patron, who receives the reports Of his
master and of the police. The patron sends
an abstract Of these reports to the Governor
of the prison, and in this way, If his con-
duct remains good, the mans liberty is
gradually restored, and he regains his posi-
ton in society-with the additional advan-
tages of experience of discipline and knowl-
edge of trade nj. de Laveleye, in de-
scribing this system, says that Swiss Cam
ton is in some things century in advance
of the rest of the world.
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rushed back, r,minaging all over the
bit of street between the doors, the halls,
the passages. Igot to the studio. What
should do if the money was really gone,
and the lady waiting fer her change?
thought would at least tell her about
1t. Perhaps had not taken it from her
hand.
+" Madam" began; but there was no
one there. She was gone, but the five
photographs lay upon the table.
1t was mysterious thing altogether. l
made up my mind at last that it was an
actress, who had played this trick to adver-
tise herself, and had cleverly whipped the
money out of my hand. But actresses are
generally generous, liberal, and willing to
pay for what they get, or TO give anything
they can spare; and, on the whole, l did
not think would take the picture out Of
the case.
1t was well did not. Sitters began to
come from that moment, and every one
remarked; That photograph of the blonde
lady in your case struck me as so beautiful.
that l came in '--or words to that effect l
began to make money hand over hand, and
| bore no grudge against the lady, assure
you. would have been quite willing to
give her five photographs, and thank
you into the bargain. And always fel,
that should hear something more abou,
her.
did.
year from the time of her visit a gentle.
man walked into my studio-a tall man of
fifty, wearing large overcoat and travel
lers cap. He was very pale, and seemed
agitated.
Sir" said he, "you have photograph
IF beautiful blonde lady in the case be-
low. Is the name written below it Margaret
Arlington ?"
Yes," said" Yes, sir that is the
name"
:" Do you know the lady :" he asked.
Only through her sitting to me-" said
|. Do you, sir Z"
" II is my wife's portrait" said the gen.
tlcman, land her name but / did moi
know she had had her photographs taken.n
This lady said that her husband was
anxious to have her likeness" said l, land
hat she was going away, and they would
be separated a long time"
The gentleman turned pale.
I" When did this happen ~ he asked.
Z" A year ago." answered.
My wife has been dead five years, J" sale
he gentleman. 6 suppose you will think
me out of my mind but last night dream,
that l saw her, and she said to me: Walk
mp Broadway, and look at all the photo
graphs, and you will see mine 1t was such
q vivid dream that obeyed, and that is my
wife's face at your door, and her name upon
H."
Then sat down aid told him the whole
ttory. 1t was queer one, as you must
think; but We settled it between us that his
vife's spirit really had returned to have
photograph taken. l gave him the five pic
tires, the other he said she had given to me,
aud indeed it is the best show picture /
have ever had, and he insisted on paying
TOR them. refused, but he 10 / hundred.
d5llar bill ON the table.
That is my queer story; everybody has
one. No one else ever believes word of
another's queer story, but assure you that
this is only the solemn truth.
The photographer looked as if he had
been drinking hard. Mary Kyle Dallas.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

An Insect For which a ThOusau,
Dollars Was Offered,


1t is by no means the most beautiful or
striking in color, for it is painted, as you
may say, in single color of grayish brown,
though in many, many tints of that color.
Its form is the more wonderful, for its sec
ondary or hinder wings reach back into
long tails an eighth of an inch wide and
over four inches long, so that the insect
measures about seven inches from head to
lp OF tails and between four and five inches
across. 1t is of the general shape of what is
known as our luna moth, the large, greenish,
white-tailed moth but in the luna the tails
are only two inches long. do not think
any other moth or butterfly has so great
eccentricity of form. But the most wonder
full thing of all is that it is the only insect
of the kind ever found.
Thirteen years ago q son of Professor
Meyer caught it in barber shop in Rio
Janeiro, into which it had flown during the
evening. He went TO his father, who had
been collector for many years. When II Q
box containing II wns opened, and the gre,t
entomologist dropped his eyes upon it, he
almost tainted with delight. and at once
was offered 800 for it.
The news of the discovery of 1t sprea |
apidly everywhere among the collectors,
and diligent search has been made ever
since to find another of its kind, but in vain.
1t stands alone perhaps the last of an al
most extinct Species but surely the only
one that rests in air on nm entomologist's
pin. This fact that it defies duplication,
together with its kingly form, win help to
remove the shudder that passes over you as
you hear its name, Jehovah, for by this
name the prineely insect is known among
scientists Eadamoaia Jehopaa. II should
be stated however, that its happy owner
did not intend giving it this. name, but
somehow the real name, Jupiter, was
changed into Jehovah when IL was being
catalogued, and so il has remained.
II is hard to place value upon this
precious insect, for DIR. Meyer values it al
most rs his own life; but have been told
81 900 would not induce him to part with
it. We can believe this when we are told
that kind of beetle found in the West was
sold, for several years. at BOO specimen.
Professor Meyers entire collection is valued
at SAC, 000.- Congreoatioaalist
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

Senator Hearst took out Senator Beck in
his barouche on his way home after session
the other day, and the appearance. of the
two together gave rise to this dialogue on
the sidewalk: There go the two mil
lionaires." When did Mr.. Beck becorns
a millionaire ?" asked. "Quite recently
was the reply. Indeed !" g Yes, news
paper mentioned him as such. Beck was
better pleased than about anything that has
occurred to him since he first came here.
He read his name over and over with de-
light Then he went home. and greeting
his wife in his most cheerful tone, showed
her the place his name occupied in the list.
Jane, said he, my dear Jane, this re-
port is not to be contradicted under any cir
cumstances : and it never has BEEN"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
u WAY re.

"Thc Casette says there is great In
crease Of celibacy in Boston" said Mr.. Per-
kins, the other evening. "Dcary me ="
sighed Mrs. Perkins, " I suppose it's all on
account of them high east winds. Is it any
thing like dipthcry, john"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02
Apuss of the wildwood as n Pet.

The wife Of an army officer has q pet
wildcat, which runs abouther house as freely
as on ordinary kitten, and is quite as docile (;
but it is an ugly-looking beast, and people
who call there usually keep their eyes upon
the door and are ready to jump in case Of
an emergency
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

It is not every paper that has the honesty
In the choice CT name shown by our
esteemed contemporary, " The Hog" This
Journal is published twice month in Chi
cago and is devoted to the growth and cul-
ture of that noble animal and the packing
of him when he Is finished with this life
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

The only reliable catarrh remedy on
the market to-day is Ely's Cream Balm,
being free from poisonous drugs and Often
sive odors. 1t has cured thousands of
acute and chronic cases where all other
remedies have failed. 1t quickly cures
cold in tho head and catarrhal headache.
Price fifty cents. a.2S-4t.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-13
goetry.
WHAT THE CHOIR SANG ABB UT
THE NEW BONNET.

p - VS. "-& g"
A foolish little maiden bought a foolish
little bonnet, T. p
With a ribbon and feather and a bit OF
lace upon it;
town might know it,
She thought she'd go to meeting the next
Sunday, just to show it.
larger than a dime,
The getting of it settled proved to be a
work of time; III. ftf
So when twas fairly tied all the bells had
stopped their ringing,
And when she came to meeting, sure
enough the folks were singing.
So this foolish little maiden stood and
waited at the door;
And she shook her ruff1es out behind
and smoothed them down before.
"Ha~llelujah! h%allelujah!" sang the choir
above her head.
"Hardly knew you! hardly knew you'll"
were the words she thought they said.
This made the little maiden feel so very,
very cross, ~
That she gave her little mouth a twist,
her little head a toss;
For she thought the very hymn they
S,nu ~ n oil ohont hor hannof
With the ribbon and the feather and the
bit of lace upon it..
And she would not wait to listen to the
sermon or the prayer, .'~#''s
But battered down the silent street and
hurried up the stair,
Till she reached her little bureau, and in
a handbook on it
Had hidden, safe from critics eye, her
foolish little bonnet.
Which proves, my little maidens, that
each of you will find
In every Sabbath service but an echo of
your mind;
And the silly little head, that's filled
with silly little airs,
Will never get a blessing from sermon or
from prayers.
Mary T. Morrison.