Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-11-11
NO. 2O16
GENERAL NEWS.

as any young horse, and has just cut a
bran new set of teeth
A prisoner in the Santa Clara county
Jail, California, has invented water
wheel which is said to be a great inn
provement on the turbine wheel
The ''Thunderer, the London Times,
attempts a sarcastic allusion to the
dubious past" of the Republican
party, and in its same issue announces
an increased demand for United States
Government bonds!
A Frenchnan is said TO have discov-
cred that the life-like expression may be
restored to the eyes of dead persons by
placing few drops of glycerine and
water in the corners of the eyes. The
effect is said to be startling
Indians are increasing in numbers.
The first official report gave 60, 900; the
last 100000. No fear need be enter
tained by the present generation that
they will become numerous enough to-
outnnmber our ticket scalpers.
A citizen of Minneapolis is building
a genuine log house right in the city.
1t will be a big, rambling dwelling.
with queer corners and quaint win
dows, but it will have all the modern
improvements and will cost $4,000
The present cost of operating the
railroads of the country with steam
power is, in round numbers, 1902. OOO,-
600 per annum; but to carry on the
same amount of work with men and
! horse would cost the country S11. .30S,-
! 500, ,00O
| The strike of the Paterson iron
moulders continues. An order from
South America for $50, 900 worth of
machinery was recently refused be-
cause of the uncertainty as to what the
men would do, and the order went to
England.
There was an old settlers meeting in
Wayne county, ILL.,, recently, where a
silk dress was offered as prize to the
mother of the largest family. A
venerable but vigorous matron who
had reared eighteen sons and daugh-
! ters won the prize.
For fourteen years Thos. Hebden, an
old Englishmen, who lived in a little
shanty in Portland, Oregon, appeared
very poor The other day he was
found dead, evidently having starved
| to death. In box in corner, care
fully concealed, were 1,400.
Baby Heeter of Trenton, Ohio, who
was 20 months old, weighed S5 pounds,
measured 33 inches around the chest,
40 at the waist, and 25 around the
thigh, is dead. He had always been
an apparently healthy child, but died
of fatty degeneration of the heart.
The Philadelphia Gas Company has
entered into an agreement with the
authorities of Belvidere to light the
streets of that town for $75 per annum,
and to furnish gas to private consum-
ers at $3.50 per 1000 feet. The COM
pany is to have protection from com
petition for twelve years.
A North Takoma, w. T., Indian had
his first glass of soda water the other
day, and liked it so much that he at
once proceeded to put nineteen more
on top of it, The next day he drank
thirty-three more, and wanted to keep
it up, but the druggist was afraid that
he'd explode and stopped the supply.
A citizen of Seattle, W. T., has this
card standing in a newspaper there
Whereas, have left my wife and her
tached to another and more attractive
woman, hereby give warning to the
public that will in future pay my own
bills without any assistance from her
whatever"
Blind Bill, a colored inmate of a
Georgia poorhouse, has most re-
markable sense of touch. He can tell
any one whom he has met by feeling
of his hand A man whom he had not
met for ten years shook hands with him
the other day and Bill at once called
him by name, though not a word had
before been spoken.
James B. Kelly, 20 years old, has
succeeded to a dukedom in, Germany.
The estate comprises 1900 acres of
land valued at 100000 francs. The
young man is a draughtsman employed
by the Pennsylvania Natural Gas
Company, and has not yet decided to
resign his position, but will send his
cousin to superintend the estate.
The light from an electric lamp
tower in Davenport, Ia, falls full upon
a flower garden about 100 feet away,
and during the past Summer the owner
has observed that lilies which have
usually bloomed only in the day have