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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-12-01
POETRY.
The TlaresIaing.


1t is not the voice OF the wild wind,
Nor the rush of the noisy rain,
Nor yet the tread of the river,
That sounds across the plain.
For low Is the voice OF the wild wind,
The rain is far at sea,
And soft is the tread of the river,
Whatever can 1t be9
The brown-cheeked country children
WIN tell you, for they know
1t is the noise OF the thrashing
That roars and rumbles so,
Before the breath OF the morning
Had melted the frost-work boar
From the shabby fields and the hedges,
Began the grand uproar.
The thrashers came through the dim lots,
A-whistling up the dawn,
And bright as the CHANGING starlight,
The prongs OF their pitchforks shone.
The garrulous folks in the hen house
Were never In such surprise,
And the cows stared through the stanchlons
With mildly wondering eyes
There were lanterns glancing hlther,
And lights a-blinking you,
And the drowsy horses snorted
To feel the harness on.
IL was hustle and hustle and hurry
Around the windmill tower:
IL was whoaing and having and geeing,
With hitching to the power.
Then rang the voice OF the driver
To the crack OF his snaky lash,
And the teams began to circle,
And the ponderous wheels to crash.
And a rout OF mingled noises
Spread on the peaceful air,
A creak and a groan and rumble
That deepened to blare.
1t is chatter and grind ami rattle,
II is whistle and buzz and burr,
1t is thud and thwack and shudder,
With endless whizz and whrr.
The men on the stacks, like giants,
Loom through the clouds OF chaff;
They are black with the dust OF thrashing,
You could not tell them half.
The sheaves with their severed girdles
Are caught by the great machine,
And the teeth OF the monster tear them
And shake the grain out clean.
1t trickles into the measure,
Each kernel deftly flayed,
And the straw streams up the betting
And falls In Il Wild cascade.
Swelling in perfect cadence,
Marched to a stately rhyme,
p9an sung for the harvest
Is the noise OF the thrashing time.
All day In the gold october,
Through the luminous hazes borne.
Its rythmical roar sweeps over
Tue upands and wales OF corn.
1t sings OF the grand earth's bounty,
or the garner filled with grain,
And 1t mingles in Its measures
The music of light and rain.
H. sings to the hopes that falter,
To the hearts that doubt and strive,
Like the strong voice OF prophet,
That promise is still alive.
Jean BtOt1, Inter Ocean,
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Pleasant for FeathcrIy.

What was it TINT ma said to you, when
you came in y whispered young Bobby to
Featherly, one of the guests. "Oh, sim
ply that she was delighted to see me; that
was all, Bobby" I'm glad Of it, said
Bobby, and look Of genuine relief came
over his face, "'cause she said this morn
ing, that she hoped you wouldn't come"
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Not 90 be trusted.

Old Lawyer Ito young partner) did you
draw up old Moneybags's will? Young
Partner-Yes, sir; and SO tight that all the
relatives in the world cannot break it. Old
Lawyer with some disgust The next
time there is will to be drawn up I'll do
it myself.
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POOLING wi,h a nifle.

Two young men Of Ionia, Mich, were
playing with rifle in barroom. One
put lemon on his head and the other aim
ID at it. He pulled the trigger, quite un-
Intentionally, the gun was discharged, the
bullet knocked the lemon into fragments,
and the young men were nearly scared on
of their wits at the unexpected conclusion
of their fun.
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Chicago Dame: g No, we have conclud
ID to move back to Chicago. My husband
and l are both tired of Omaha it's too lono
w." Omaha Dame: Why great many
# your Chicago friends are living here
iow." Chicago Dame "Yes, know
,ut you see, we miss the familiar faces O.
our former husbands and wives. Oma1s
World.
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A BrIglht Future.

"We can't all be President Of tho United
States, Bobby" said the minister. 9 l
know it," Bobby replied, and his clear,
honest eye shone with lofty ambition, can
1 don't want 10 be. I'm goin' to be drum
major"
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JOHN LILLY,
Attorney and Solicitor,
MASTER AND EXAMINER IN CHANcBRf
SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Ofhee-No 80 Bridge street (frst fioor), opposite
the Lambertyille House" Lambertyiile, N. J.
Aug. ~, 1877.
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MISS EMILY PIERSON,
Teacher of Piano g. Organ

CURYELL STREET, EAST OF UNION,
LAMBERTyILLE, N. j.
Feb. 13, 1884.
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The Lambertyille Record :
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY.
tB- TERMS, So. 90 PER YEAR.
CLARK PERSON,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Square (about II inchesl, time, 20
/" I" g /" times, 1.26
diminished ratio for large advertisements and
for rosa running for long periods.
Dr.. G.. r.. PARE Z,
New Hope, Pa.
Office and residence at the Old Parry Mansion"
OFFICE HOURS J. :; e e g - :. \
New Hope, Pa, June II, 1882.
G. III. &c E. w. LARSON,
Physicians s. Surgeons,
CORNER MAIN AND JEFFERSON STREETS,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. ].
OFFICE HOUSE,. l s'$sES
March 25, 1885,
E. w. CLOSSON, nj. d.,
Corner Main and Bridge streets,
LAMBERTvILLE. NJ,
(offce formerly occupied by DIR. Rice3
OFFICE HOURS: IS e : : s y. \ \:
April /, 1ss5-Iy.
ALBERT ID. ANDERSON,
AttOraey-at-Law,
SOLICITOR AND MASTER IN cHANcERT
Office, No. 80 Bridge Street,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. j.
DR.. THEO. BALDERSTON,
DENTIST,
NEW HOPE, PA
Go Office Over solliday's Jewery Store.
OFFICE Hours: / 50 8 to to Z 2 2 n n
Out of Office Thursdays.
May 5, is86-tf
DR.. s. WILLARD OBEY,
homeopathic,
No. 1O1 NORTH UNION STREET,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. J.
II to o A. NJ.
6 to- p. M.
May 26, 1Ss6-1m
C.. a. Dc G.. III. SKILLMAN,
AttOrneys-at-Law
SOUTHEAST COR BRIDGE AND UNION SITS.
LAMBERTVILLE, N. j.
Collections and all legal business intrusted to
"
ton.
C. A, SKILLMAN, G. II. SKILLMAN,
Counselior-at- LaW AAorney-dt-Lam
July 2, 1879.
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DR.. 8. WILLARD OBEY,
homeopathic,
C.. A. Dc G.. III. SKILLMAN
Attorneys-at-Law,

SOUTHEAST COR BRIDGE AND UNION SITS.
LAMBERTVILLE, N. J.
Collections and all legal business intrusted to
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
tion.
C. A. SKILLMAN, G. III. SKILLMAN,
Counselior-dt- Law. AAorney-dt-Ldin.
July 2, 1879.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
USES OF PAPER.
How Room Can Be Ornamented at the
Exnense of a Few Cents.

How a Room Can Be Ornamented at the
Expense of Few Cents.
Take sheet of stiff white paper, such
as can be bought at any stationer's for
three cents. Cut off enough for hair
receiver of any size wished. Fold it in
the proper shape and fasten neatly with
mucilage. Over the joining, place a
bow of brlght-colored ribbon, in such a
manner as to entirely conceal it. Satin
ribbon of the proper width may be OBJ
tanned for from eight to fifteen cents a
yard. Pass half yard of narrow rib
bon through small hole at the top OF
the hair-receiver, and hang it at the
side of the looking-glaSs. In doing SO,
dispose the ribbon in such manner as
to make a pretty bow and ends. The
ribbon should be of a color to harmonic
with the tints of the wallpaper. If you
have any of the pretty and natural
looking paper. flowers now so much in
vogue, a bunch of them arranged over
the Joining of the hair-receiver might
take the place of the ribbon bow. A sheet
of the paper mentioned will make four
ir-receivers, so that they can be re-
newed when soiled, and the same ribbon
will keep fresh for all four. The mar
row ribbon may be bought for eight
cents ward. Thus four hair-recelvers
may be obtained at an expense of from
eleven to fifteen cents. If the walls of
the room be white, cover the ha;r-re-
ceiver with tissue paper of any color
that may be desired. This can be
bought at the stationer's for from one
to three cents sheet. The ribbon, of
course, should accord with the color of
the tissue paper. The making of one
of the hair-receivers occupies only a
few minutes, and when finished it is
more effective than any one would
imagine. 1t brightens up room other
wise destitute of ornament, charmingly,
as we can testify from experience.
An ornamental but simple splasheI
can be made by covering a piece of the
white paper with tissue of any desirable
color If you are willing to bestow a
little more time and trouble on it, a
very pretty effect may be produced by
laying the tissue paper in small pleats
and fastening lightly at either end with
a needle and thread.
Little earthen jars, like those in
which extract of meat is sold, may,
when emptied of their contents, be
made at the same time useful and orna-
mental by covering them with glazed
paper of any color desired. and then
cutting very small pictures or separate
figures out of illustrated papers and
FASTING them on. The glazed paper can
be bought for five cents sheet. The
lars will be useful to hold tapers, burnt
matches, etc. In summer they are very
,ioo for little hououafS
Small tin cases may be ornamented
and used in the same manner.
The glazed paper is very nice as a
covering for shelves and the inside OF
boxes. If the outside of a small box
be unsightly the paper may be pasted
over it with very good effect, and lit
tie prints added, if desired, as in the
case of the jars. Christian at Work. /
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
ARABIC CiPHERS.
Their Origin and Introduction in the
Western World.

Their Origin and Introduction in the
Western World.
Our existing ciphers. though origin.
ally Indian, are now universally de-
scribed as Arabic, because they came to
the Western world from India and Afri-
ca through the mercantile medium of the
Spanish Arabs. From Spain they spread
to the European nations, though not
without considerable opposition, by the
way, such as invariably testifies to the
goodness and soundness of every genu-
inc human improvement. Whenever
you hear loud popular clamor raised
against any thing as wicked or foolish,
you may be pretty sure it will really
turn out in the end valuable inven-
ton. What every body says must be
wrong This simple conclusion flows
as a matter of course from the familiar
principle, first definitely formulated by
:'poor Carlyle" that there are so many
billion people in the world mostly
fools. Paynim numerals met with
little favor, accordingly, from the me-
daval merchant. The bankers of Flor
ence were forbidden, on the verge of
the fifteenth century. from employing
these dangerous Saracen signs in any
of their account books, and the Univer-
sity of Padua $50 very like our own Ok
ford) ordained that its stationer should
keep list of books for sale with the
prices marked, s'not in ciphers, but in
plain letters The hapless modern
purchaser rather desires. on the con-
trary, that prices should be marked,
not in letters, but in plain eli piers. 1t
is noticeable that the very word cipher,
here employed. is itself Arabic, and its
progeny includes, not only the familiar
French chitre, but also, through Italian
zetro, the much less Immediately recog-
nizable derivative, zero. Arabic nu-
merals were at first confined in use to
mathematical works; they were then
employed for the paging of books, and
it was not till the middle of the fifteenth
century that they first found their way
with any security into general CONNER.
cial society.-CormhaU Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
ALIFE-PRESERvER.

Why an Englishwoman Detests Steam
boat-Traveling on the Mississippi.
s.Do you not like misunderstanding
on the Mississippi" was asked of an
Englishwoman.
NAV, cawn't sol that I do. Do you
know that as came down / came in
cawntact with such beastly and 'orrid
man from Arkansaw. One night dur
ing storm. great alarm prevailed and
it was thought that the 'orrid old boat
was sinking. There was no life-pre-
server in my state-room, so in frenzy
I 'urried to the state-room occupied by
the Arkansaw man. knocked at the door
and cried: oh, for 'eaven's sake and
me life-preserver. All right said
e, and the next moment e opened the
door, showed out black bottle and said:
Ere you are, drink 'earty.' l halmost
tainted, for never knew before that a
bottle was a life-preserver, don't you
knaw. Oh, e. was such an 'orrid
man"
-'What did you do?''
1@Don't you knaw that was so fright
ened that turned up the bottle. Deed
did. Land the 'orrid man 'ad the impudence
to say: Touch 'er light. madam Nav,
eawn't sol that like travelling on that
lawful river. "--ArhansaU Irareler.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
FARM DAIRY BUTTER.
An Article Which, If Properly Made, Finds
a Ready Sale.

An Article Which, If Properly Made, Finds
Ready Sale.
1t seems to be the special province of
many writers and speakers to impress
on the minds of farmers that good but
ter can be produced only at public
'creameries or, as they may properly be
called, butter factories.
.Butter-making is indeed the fine art
of agriculture. 1t consists in a series of
processes and conditions, all of which
must be correct that the result, the but
ter, may be perfect. These processes
and, conditions begin with the COW, and
include good care generally, uniformly
kind treatment, good food and enough
of it and of the right kind, care and
cleanliness in milking, properly strain
ing the milk and proper conditions for
setting the milk for cream raising. that
all the cream may be obtained In the
best possible condition.
When the last result in the above
mentioned series has been attained. that
is. when all the cream has been sepa-
rated from the milk and iA good con-
dhion, and the cans washed. the farmer
has done the greater and by far the
harder part of the work, and if hethas
been Intelligent and pains enough
In doing: all properly thus far. if he has
not the skill to do the balance. he or his
wife can soon acquire it.
There also must be a disposition on
the part, of many interested IN the sale
of apparatus and fixtures for public
creameries or HITTER factories to mys-!
tify the :art.of butter making, and to.
create q conviction in the minds of
farmers that it is beyond their attain
ment. 1t is true, public creameries pro-
duce good butter That the average
public creamery Butter is better than
great deal of farm butter, no one
will deny. But that the highest grade
of butter. selling for the best price, is
produced on farm diaries, one can be
convinced by visiting the Philadelphia
snarket, where butter in prints
from the best diaries within a few miles
OF the Quaker City sells for fabulous
prices.
If every patron of a creamery would
see that each and every part of the
process and conditions above referred
TO was conducted exactly right, even
then the home butter-maker has one
factory. 1t is this: His cream remains
at home. subjected to proper condi-
tons, while that of the creamery is
trundled about for hours, some
of it all day, and many times ex-
posed TO the heat of the sun. |
But all farmers who are patrons of |
factories will not take the pains that they |
should, and that perhaps the best ones |
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
USING ONES SIGHT.
Brin ging the Education of the Eyes to q
High State of Perfection.

bringing the Education of the Eyes to q
High State of Perfection.
How many of us go through life with
out ever realizing that our eyes have to
be educated to see as we'll as our tongues
to speak, and that only the barest out
lines OF the complex and ever-changng
images focused on the retina ordinarily
impress themselves upon the brain?
That the education of the eye may be
brought to high state of perfection is
shown in numerous ways
There are many delicate processes of
manufacture which depend for their
practical success upon the nice visual
perception of the skilled artisan, who
almost unconsciously detects variations
of temperature, color, density, ETC., of
his materials which are inappreciable to
the ordinary eye.
The hunter, the mariner, the artist,
the scientist, each needs to educate the
eye to quick action in his special field
of research before he can hope to be-
come expert in it.
The following story, which is quite
apropos, is related of Agassiz, and it is
sufficiently characteristic of this re-
markedly accurate observer to have the
merit of probability. We are told that
once upon time the professor had oc-
caslOn to select an assistant from one of
his classes. There We're a number of
candidates for the post of honor, and
finding himself in a quandary as to
which one he should choose. the happy
thought occurred to him of subiecting
three of the most promising students in
turn to the simple test of describing the
view from his laboratory window, which
overlooked the side yard of the college.
One said he saw merely board fence
and brick pavement; another added
a stream of soapy water; third de-
tected the color of the paint on the
fence, noted green mould or fungus
on the bricks, and evidences of "bluing"
in the water, besides other details. It
is needless to tell to which candidate was
awarded the coveted position.
HOudin the celebrated prestidigitateur,
attributed his success in his profession
mainly to his quickness of perception,
which, he tell us in his entertaining
autobiography, he acquired by educat-
ing his eye to detect large number of
objects at single glance. His simple
plan was to select a shop window full
of miscellaneous assortment of arti-
Giles, and walk rapidly past it number
of times every day, writing down each
object which impressed itself on his
mind. In this way he was able, after
time, to detect instantaneously all of the
articles in the window. even though
they might be numbered by scores
Scientific american.
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do take; therefore the intelligent and
careful farm butter-maker who does the
entire work in his own dairy house or
room, has at the time of getting ready to.
churn the satisfaction of knowing th at
so far every process and condition en-
tering as factors into the production of
the butter he is about to make, have
been correct. Of this the butter-maker
OF the factory can not be sure, nor can
he hardly expect it.
But it will be said that creamery
butter sells at a much higher price than
farm or private dairy butter This
need not be so, for if the farmer pro-
duces as good an article as he can pro-
duce, puts it up in acceptable packages
or forms, and seeks customers among
good families or hotels, or dealers who
supply such, he will obtain the highest
pri re and always have steady market :;
for good families and hotels, especially
the former. prefer butter at all times
from the same dairy, provided it is good
butter.-Cor. Ohio Farmer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
ANCIENT LAWS.
Some of the Most Popular English and
French Proverbs.

Some of the Most Popular English and
French Proverbs.
We English seem to have selected the
mouse as an emblem in our Gas dumb
as a mousse the French have preferred
a glass, for they say Gas dumb as a
glass. We say LAS deaf as post;''
the French GAS deaf as a pot Gas
dull as ditch water Gallicized becomes
LAS sad as a night-cap." Dom
count your chickens before they are
hatched'' is changed into Don't sell
the skin of bear before having killed
it. Instead of Biting off ones nose
to spite ones face" similarly useless
experiment is illustrated by ''Spitting
in the air that it may fall on one 5
nose The seH-evident impossibility
in the words ''You can't get blood out
of stone' is represented by "One
could not comb thing that has no
hair" (This last also ..goes without
saying" which, as literally translated
from the French. now forms proverb
in our own language.) In the proverb,
"One man may lead a horse to
the water, but hundred can't make
him drink" our neighbors have not
inapproprIately selected an ''ass'' as the
Illustrative animal. "When you're in
Rome, you must do as Rome does"
every Englishman will tell you; though
few, perhaps, could say why Rome was
chosen as an example, and whether it is
more necessary, when in Rome, to fol-
low the general lead, than anywhere
else, is to us a matter of doubt. To
the Frenchman the idea is sufficiently
well expressed. however, by impressing
upon you the necessity of ''howling
with the wolves" easy come, easy
CO. though terse and to the point, is
in itself scarcely SO Ineligible as to the
somewhat longer sentence. THAT
which comes with the flood returns
with the ebb.' That ga burned child
breads the fire. is perfectly true, as
every one will admit; our neighbors go
further than this, and in choosing a
''scalded cat' as the object of considera-
ton, speak of it as being in fear of
''cold'' water even, thus expressing
the natural distrust of the cat, after
having once been scalded, as extend
ing even to "cold'' water. Money
makes the mare to CO." and ''for
money, dogs dance. "-Chambers' Jour.
nal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
VERY AMBIGUOUS,
B1acksmith's Bargain and Wealthy
Citizens 3Ieanness.

Blacksmith's Bargain and Wealthy
Citizens Meanness.
A blacksmith in a little Indiana town
had for customer an ostentatious citi-
zen, Major H., who made dicker with
the smith for his season smithing Ion
account" to be paid for in dried fruit
at one dollar per bushel in the fall sea-
son, the bill amounting to ten dollars.
Late in the fall of the year, the Major
drove up to the smith-shop and an
nounced
"WeIl. Mr.. W., I've got that dried
fruit for you.
"All right said Mr. W, who was
very busy, "just empty it in that large
box" and kept on at work.
The Major deposited in the box one
sackful after another until the last was
emptied, and then the blacksmith, turn
ing to inspect the "''dried fruit" dis
covered that he had ten bushels of dried
pumpkins at one dollar a bushel for pay,
worth in all about two dollars.
The smith. very profane man, grab
bed red-hot iron from the forge and
ran Mai. III. two squares swearing
like an army in Flanders that he would
brand him for life.-Detroit Free Press.