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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
READING. THE HUMAN FACE.
The Character Generally Drawn Upon It
in Unmistakable Lines,

The Character Generally Drawn Upon It
in UnmistakabIe Lines,
Every one knows that mems passions, pro.
pensities and peculiarities, as well as their
cailings, are reflected in their faces, but it is
only the few who have made the study of
physiognomy an especial pursuit who are
gifted with the power Of reading those faces.
Judges who have served long terms on the
bench, lawyers in large practice and doctors
Of eminence possess the power Of interpreting
physiognomies more largely than other
people But any one can acquire the rudi-
ments of the art by dint of study.
1t is as impossible to disguise face as a
hand writing When the expert comes the
disguise is torn off and the face tells the true
story of the spirit inside the body One only
needs TO visit the penitentiary to realize how
undeniably vice write its sign manual ON the
features 1t is not the drimkard only whose
red nose, flabby cheeks and rheumy eyes
betray him; it is the Sensualist whose vice is
read in his lips, the llnave whose propensity
is revealed by the shape of his mouth, the
man of violence who is surrendered by his
eyes. An experienced detective or a trained
jailor seldom needs to ask the crime of which
his prisoner was guilty. He can tell it by
his face.
Ii is quite evident that in the future the
study of phsognomy is going to be pursued
more vigorously than it has been. AS a means
ofipreventing crime, it may prove invalua-
bic. How constantly do we hear of men
failing from grace as the phrase goesl
Yet these men must have carried their crime
in their face for a long time. Ii any one had
been able to read their features the mischief
might have been averted. How often are we
IL. .,a1a ff.N-..r
the perfect confidence of his employers and
the public till the very day of his detection;
an expert physiognomist would probably
have spotted him long before Again, face
reading might be turned to fine account i'll
business. 1t Is well known that every mans
face is more or less stamped by the pursuit
he follows. An experienced observer can
generally detect "A lawyer, or a doctor, or
merchant, or a clerk, or mechanic, or
clergyman, by merely studying his face.
The study might be carried much further.
The same rule which enables an observer to
distinguish a lawyer from merchant will,
when followed out, enable keen eyes TO sepa-
rate able lawyers from lawyers who are in
competent, merchants who are going to make
n fortune from merchants who are going to
fail Men often carry their destinies as well
as their character in their faces. Indeed, the
former depends 50 largely upon the latter
that it would be singular il it were otherwise.
Women, too, will be able to discriminate
among their lovers, and to pick out the man
who will mako good husband from one who
will have to be dragged into divorce court.
All the advantages which Fowler mistakenly
told us we were going to derive from the
study of chronology we may possibly gain
from the older and more mysterious science
Of face reading. San Francisco Call.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
Divorces In Paris.

Chicago has proverbial reputation here
for the multiplicity of its divorces and the
expedition with which they are obtained.
OF course, n slow going old world people
cannot be expected to compete with you on
that score. But | doubt If ever divorces
were granted for more grotesque reasons
than here in Paris. Here, for example, is u
divorce granted to man for no other reason
than that his wife would not let him read all
the letters she wrote and received. A COM
panion case is that of woman who got n
divorce from her husband because he objected
TO her having a lover, and made it unpleas-
ant for the latter to visit her at her house.
Apparently these are considered good and
sufficient reasons, for they excite no comment
on the part of the public. In Marseilles a
man has just been allowed divorce because
his wife refused to give him the money she
earned by taking in sewing. In Lyons a
divorce was based on the inability of tho
couple to agree as to the training of their
children And SO il goes ON. The number
Of divorces granted and the frivolity Of the
grounds ON which they are based increase
daily,-Paris Cor. Chicago Tribune
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
THE LIGHT HEARTED IRISH.
The Love of Dancing Said to BE Inborr
In the Irish Nation.

III inc lfISn Nation.
The dancing master still plies his trade in
the Ireland of today, despite the fact that
politics occupies the mind of the Irishman to
an absorbing extent In the prosperous, or
comparatively prosperous, midland and
southern counties the squeak of cracked
fiddle is a pleasant sound, setting Young
hearts beating and young feet tapping the
ground, and insuring hearty welcome for
the fiddler, who is drawn to the house amid
a hubbub of sounds, of which the dogs bark
ing is not the least noisy, for the dogs have
sensitive ear for music, and the very sight of
the battered old fiddle case sets them whining
and barking in the delight of anticipation.
The opportunity for dance is one delight
eddy awaited of. The fiddler having been
duly refreshed and having unburiened him
self of the pack of news he generally carries
by the way, the profession in Ireland is
usually recruited from the ranks of the blind
seats himself in a commanding position
and strikes up a jig or a reel. IL it be win
ter, the dance is held in the kitchen; if sum-
mer, an adjournment is made to the green
sward before the door Couple after couple
take the floor, and the tireless fiddler works
his arm increasingly till the moon is high in
the sky and it is time for early risers to be
in bed.
The Irish love dancing, and there is no
pleasanter sight than a well danced Jig, or
reel or hornpipe, all performed with a solem-
nifty befitting the people, for they arc a more
serious race than they generally have credit
for. No stately minuet or court dance was
ever carried out with the solemn sense of re-
sponsibility belonging to an Irish jig; the
cheeks may be flushed and the eyes sparkle,
but the lips keep their stern gravity, and,
except for an occasional whoop when the
heels strike tho ground, and the subdued
''more power of the audience, the dance is
conducted in silence.
1t must be the responsibility of the steps
which causes the seriousness, and one is not
surprised, for there are as many as 200 sepa-
rate and distinct steps belonging TO this Won
derful dance. 1t begins by couple interlac-
ing arms lightly, and moving up and down
the cleared space. Then they stand facing
each other, hand on hips; there are q few
slow steps, reminding one of the little false
start with which the thrush begins her song;
then they warm to the work. and advance
and retreat, and turn each other over with
interlocked arms, the girl with her head on
one side and the prettiost modest look, half
shy, half coaxing the man holder and more
rollicking. In curious contrast to the seri-
BUSINESS of the dancing, the music is of the
brislSiest and merriest, as every one knows
who has heard an Irish jig-and who has
nots The names are very often pretty, as,
for instance, 1.-THE Wind That Shakes tho
Barley and "The Green Fields of America.
Magazine of Art.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08


fortunes in the street vending business. have
gone back to Italy and Sicily and started
orange groves
do you think many have made sufficient
for thatin
Certainly. They are economical and
thrifty people, as rule, and have a deal of
hard common sense. Many have scraped to-
gether perhaps several thousand dollars. and
this in Italy is a sumptuous fortune, and will
enable man to live like a lord for the rest
of his life. A few hundred dollars is suffi-
cient to purchase a plot of ground large
enough for an orange grove, and as this fruit
grows in that country almost without cult
walton, you see oranges can be raised very
cheaply, so cheaply, in fact, that they can be
brought all the way to this market, sold
lower than the domestic fruit, and still bring
handsome profit to the grower. New
York Evening Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
Oranees An me WV from I,a,,.

at is wonderful how the Mediterranean
orange trade has developed within the past
ten years." said west side importer to a
reporter the other day
why, remember the time when we
never used to get an orange from Italy after
tina 4th of July until the spring trade opened
again, and now we get them all the year
round. There was time when the Havana
orange was all the go, not SO very long since.
either, but now you never hear of Havana
It's all Florida and Jamaica. The Cuban
groves petered out, and oranges, it was
found could be raised much cheaper both in
Florida and Jamaica. In fact, they ran the
Mediterranean oranges out of the market for
a while, but now they are back again with a
vengeance"
How do you account for thisgp
''Simply from the fact that during the past
ten or fifteen years SO many Italians, who
have come to this country and made little
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
Intelligent coroner,s Jnrles.

death from delirium tremens resulting
from accidental causes,n was the remarkable
verdict returned by o coroner's jury in this
city the other day. This is not the only hui
morous specimen which Mr.. Ashbridge can
point to on the doekets Of his office. A young
man in the last stages of pulmonary disease
killed himself with prussic acid. DR.. Formal
remarked at the inquest:
"He only accelerated his death, which must
surely have come from consumption in a
very few weeks
The intelligent six good men and true in
the jury box astomded the coroner by nrriv-
ing at this verdict: death from consump-
ton, accelerated by prussic acid. n--Philadel.
phia Press.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08

Not satisfied with the usual signs of APP
plause or disapproval of the performers by
the patrons of the new theatre at Constanti-
nople, Turkey, the director of the French
opera company now playing there has con-
ferred upon the public the right of voting
upon the merits Of the members of the com
pany, and maintains that he is entitled to
cancel any contract if the votes of the public
show majority against the fulfillment of
his obligations. If he wants to get rid Of any
actor or other employe to whom he is bound
by contract, he has the public informed be-
forehand as to the nature Ct the response he
expects, and the voting takes place between
the acts Those visitors only are conceded
the right to vote who have reserved seats or
boxes, as they are more easily influenced than
the promiscuous and paying public Of the
lower priced seats Each critic has ten votes.
A songstress and foreign singer were voted
out by majorities Of about 50 to 1.-Foreign
Letter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
rhicIs and Thin so1es.

weather by wearing a shoe with light sole
than thick one With the former the foot
has chance to work, thereby keeping up a
circulation. This, Of course, applies only
when the weather is dry; but when it is wet
and Iubbers are necessary, it is best to wear
single soled shoe inside. In the summer
the thick sole should be worn, for it keeps
the heat from striking through to the foot.
This is all so contrary to the preconceived
opinions Of the public that it is doubtful
whether it will receive much credence, but it
is the fact all the same.-Shoe and Leather
Reporter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
A Grass Eating Turtle.

that eats grass. IL lives in holes in the sand,
which it makes to escape the intense heat
of the sun. You may take stick and get
them out. They are the Xerobates Agassizii,
just lately named for the great naturalist,
a very pretty turtle that gets on good feed
ing to be about ten inches long and TO weigh
six TO eight pounds. A woman down on the
desert last summer where | was had eight or
ten of them in an open pen, which she was
fattening to eat They ate grass like horses.
When these turtles get fat, as they quickly
do on the grass, they beat all the frogs or
roast turkeys you ever ate. An ordinary
one Of these is worth So or $4.-Naturalist in
San Francisco Examiner
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
Large Birds Becoming Extinct

disappear from the earth. 1t is believed that
the lammergeyer, or Alpine yulture has
just become completely extinct in Switzer-
land, solitary female specimen, which has
dwelt on the Biotchhorn during the last
twenty-five years, having at last fallen n
victim to poison. Boston Budget.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
The coroner,a Verdict

A man in western town hanged himself
to bed post by his suspenders. The cor
oner's jury, which was composed Of mothers,
decided that the "deceased came TO bis death
by coming home drunk and mistaking him.
self for his pants. Chicago Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
AWAKE AND ACT.

Up, up my soul the long spent time redeeniing;
Sow thou the seeds of better deed and thought;
Light other lamps while yet thy light is beaminB.
The time
The time Is short.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08

A beautiful bracelet which saw the other
day was a good illustration Of what original
ity can do in the way of jewelry. The trim
ket was composed of some fourteen gems,
varying in size, color and luster, set in solid
gold links. There were no two stones alike,
and but one or two of the whole number had
names which are at all familiar to jewelers.
customers All the stones came from the
cabinet of the gentlemen under whose direc-
ton they were cut and mounted, and num-
Der of them were OF American origin. All
were singularly beautiful and gemmable, to
coin a word. George T, Kunz in Harpers.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
Lambertville Select School.

Thorough Instruction. in English and Higher
Branches Backward pupils receive special atten-
lion. Is years experience
REV W. NJ. WELLS PRIN.
School York St. Residence, ll0 n Main ST.
Dec, IA. 1887 ,-ly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
THE VOICE OF TIME

The only triumph over Time
That Time permits is his who sings;
The poet Time himself defies
BY secret help of Times own wings
Helen Hunt jackson
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08

knows some pussons dat likes ter talk
ter, not becazeI think so much o 'em, but
becaze Wen / verses wild 'em allus thinks
mo- O. mersef
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
A CHANGE OF CROPS.

Like your old farmer, who farms Just as
his father farmed before him, only because
his father faImed that way and thereby left
him as a legacy an over worked, farmed out,
over titled soil, which obstinately and in q
righteous sort of way wouldn't raise wheat,
and will raise only weeds, because nature
needs what you call "weeds' or change OF
crops for a time in order to restore to the soil
what it needs to raise wheat.
Or, like your uninspired, unimproved, lag
behind the times old dog doctor, who insists
on hanging on TO the blue pill, forty horse
power ''heroic treatment" kill or cure stom-
ach cleansing, bowel straining process conf
mon forty years ago, when men and women
thought an energetic cleansing of the diges-
tive apparatus as necessary every spring as
their rough and tumble spring house clean
ing-your old dog doctor who scorns the
mildel' methods of the new schools, which
about every fifteen years gives new names to
old complaints, and administers for the same
inexpensive and harmless bread pills with
even better results and also higher charges
per visit, provided the bread pill is accom-
panied by a stylish doctors buggy, with q
black boy in buttons to hold the reins while
the doctor with new tricks is prescribing, if
not flirting with the sick lady inside, who
imagines she is sick if there's q young and
good looking medicine man within mile of
her house, and who manages to live and en-
dure life by means of his assistance, added to
that of the handsome and recently called
young bachelor minister, who with spiritual
consolation alternates with the wheaton ma
terra medica in keeping her alive.
Sir, these are some new tricks These are
the advantages of learning and practicing
them, and all the new ones are not yet ex-
hausted. There are lots more coming
Prentice milford in San Francisco Chronicle.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
A BROKEN PR0VERB.
"YoU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG
NEW TRICKS"

A Writer Disproves the Dictum-"old
Dogs Who Are Constantly Adding to
Their Stock of Knowledge--Tbe Behind
the-Times People.
"You can't teach an old dog new tricksn
That's what you say at the age of 45 or so,
or SO, when you think that the bloom is
about all off the eye of life, that it's nearly
all up with you and that about all the OBJ
ject you have in living is to prepare for
dying, and shuttle in your old shoes out Of
life as quietly as posSiblc--possibly to the
content and satisfaction of your nearest of
kin, who love you well, and the dollars you
will leave them better
But sir, you have no business to call your
self ian old dog of any sex on persuasion.
You should be ashamed to term yourself a
dog You are a man, or fragment OF
one, and being a man, you are, of course, but
little lower than an angel, or at least little
lower, we will say, than a second hand
angel; worse luck to you!
You are saying now to yourself, and you
are saying it every day that the time is over
for you to learn anything new or do any
thing new, and for that matter think or en-
joy anything new, save the last neighbor-
hood or village tattle and gossip, which you
do enjoy as well as any other old woman.
Your boundary of your own life in your
mind is to hobble down every morning to the
town or village tattle center, and in summer
sun yourself ON dry goods box, and in win
ter warm yourself by the grocery stove, or
somebody's stove, and there rake and scrape
over and gnaw at all the old bones of con-
versation and gossip that you have gnawed
over for the last five, ten or twenty years,
dating from the time when you thought it
the proper thing to commence becoming an
old man, and make it your principal business
to sniff and snuff and find fault with the new
tangled ways of the rising generation, VINO
are learning new tricks and don't suit you at
all, because they do not dress or dance or
travel in all respects in the same rut You did
when you were what you called yourself a
young man, although then You had COM
menced TO fossilize, as so many men and wo-
men do whose bodies ttfe p years old, if, in
deed, they We're not partially fossils and rem
nants of, say the Miocene period when they
were born
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08
OLD DOGS STILL LEARNING.

Sir, You are a dog de you insist on calling
yourself such who can learn new tricks
Gladstone is over 70 and rules England be-
cause he is always learning tricks. Bismarck
is over 10, and rules Germany, and today is
learning new tricks. De Lesseps, who bosses
the canalism of this planet, is over 20, and
never lets up in devices for cutting through
rock or sand from ocean to ocean. Ericsson
is so, if not over, and il by no means through
with new ways and means for making little
ships overcome big Ones on the principle that
wasp may sting an OK nearly to death, and
two wasps, or iron scows, freighted with
guns powerful enough and having their shot
sent to the right place, can sink the biggest
OK of ship in the world overloaded with
men and oyerweighted with eleven inch iron
armor Beecher, sir, never let up until over
20, and he might have been in Plymouth
church pulpit yet had he learned few new
tricks in the art Of keeping young, which
thousands are in the future to learn.
You see, sir, that some old dogs can learn
new tricks, and keep on learning them, so
long as they recognize the fact that to keep
the mind young is TO keep the body young
and as a proof of this fact you may see any
fine afternoon ON Broadway men of so or 60
who look as young and are rs young, fresh,
active and vigorous in body and mind, and
even more so, than you We're at 40, when
you really commenced to grow old, because
you thought you were at or near the down
hill side of life; and, being of what tho world
calls middle age" it was about time to com
mence preparations for sliding down the vale
of years and tobogganing your coffin into the
grave.
It's not the young dogs, sir, who always
learn new tricks. Indeed it's the young ones
who are generally inclined TO learn tho old
tricks practiced by the old dogs and learned
by these old dogs from dogs still older be-
longing to II generation before you were CON
tracted for, planned out and manufactured.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08

A writer Disproves the Diotum--"old
Dogs" Who Are Constantly Adding to
Their Stock of knowIedge--The Behind
the-Times peonle
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-08

Varied Character of the Letters He Re-
ceives-An Sorts of Requests from All
Sorts of PeopIe-Invitation Letters by
the Dozen.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-08-09
Advantages Of Electricity.

This summary of the advan-
tages Of electric motors in ships
and forts over steam, pneumatic
and hydraulic engines, is given
by Lieut.. B. A. Flske: l. They
are simple. 2. There are more
durable. 3. They are more quiet.
4. They are more clean. 5. They
have no smell. 6. They require
less attention. 7. They avoid the
troublesome and very expensive
operation of leading steam and
water pipes through u ship. 8.
The wires take up much less
space than pipes. 8. 4 water or
steam pipe presents . much
larger target than wire, and is
therefore more liable to be struck
in action. 10. fla pipe is struck
in action. the deck is filled with
scaIding steam or flooded with
water under high pressure, and
The engines depending on it are
put hors de combat; whereas a
damaged wire can be repaired
in IL minute by bridging The gap
with another wire. ii. The
electric motor furnishes the best
known means for handling guns,
on account of the readiness with
which il is controlled.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-08-09
Summer Resorts.

If you are going to take vaca=
tion during the hot summer months,
to rest your tired brain and body,
and secure that re-invig vigorallon thnt
can only be obtained by rest in
pleasant, cool. heaIthful surround
ings, far removed from sour busin-
ess anu daily cares. call on or write
any ticket agent of the Columbus,
Hooking Valley & Toledo Railway,
Or tho undersigned and information
relative to the cost Of transporta-
ton, the best routes, time of trains,
how long it will take you to reach
your destination. hotel rates. etc. :.
will be cheeriully gwen you.
Following is snail list of sum-
mer tourist points. to which the G.
Il. Y. s. T. BY i, the best and
quickest route:
Lakeside, Put IL Bay and Green
springs-Ohio. Chautauqua, Buff
f,lo and Nlagra Falls-New York.
Au Train, Cheboygan, Huronia
Beach, Indian River, Grayling,
Mackinuc Island, SauIt Ste-Marie,
Petosky, Oakland, and Marquette,
Michigan Montreal, Quebec and
all points OF the st. Lawrence riv-
cr and White Mountain resorts.
Cedar Lake Park, EIkhart Lake,
Gogerig Lake, Lake Mills, Marlen:
ette, Menrsha, Tomahawk Lake.
Neenah. Oconomowoc, Pelican
Lake, Pewaukee and Waukesha,
Wisconsin. Berkley Springs, Ft.
Spring, and Kanawha Falls-West
Virginia. Alton, Capon Springs,
Cold Sulphur Springs. Daggers
Springs, Healing Springs, Jordans,
Mjllboro, Natural Bridge, Newport
News. Orkney Springs, Rawiey
Springs. Red Sulphur Springs, Rock
bridge, Alum Springs, Salt Sulphur
Springs-Vir and hundreds
of Other POINTS, in New York. Can
ada, Michigan, Minnesota, Dakota,
Colorado Montana, Utah, and OH
the Pacific Coast.
Il. j. FALKENBACN,
Gen. Pass. Agent
july12tfn.