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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

One-ffth of the. immigration to this
port from Europe last year, observes the
New York Sun, was from two countries
which have only recently begun to con-
tribute to our population-Italy and
Russia. The report from Castle Garden
shows that out of $685., immigrants
for the year 43, 6s3 were Italians and 32,-
G37 were Russians. The immigration
from these two countries was as high as
that from Germany, and the immigration
from Italy alone was just about equal to
that from Ireland. We are Informed
that very nearly the whole body of i'm
migrants classified as "Russians' be-
longcd to the Hebrew race, and that they
find life here so much more desirable
than they found it under the Car Of
Russia that they are encouraging their
brethren whom they left behind them to
follow their example in coming to
America. There are several interesting
features IN the Castle Garden report for
the past year.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
WISE WORDS.
Guard against quarrelsomeness.

Guard against quarrelsomeness.
Home is the dearest place on earth.
A guilty conscience makes coward af
US all.
Willfulness is no mark of grace or
wisdom.
1t is the very reason some people are
not happy, because they thirk others are
happier:
No person need make great effort in
the affectation of manners, it is notice
able enough.
1t Is good thing to possess confidence
in others, but much safer to depend
upon yourself.
One of the causes that leads US to mis-
fortune is that we live according to the
example of others.
Everybody is~hackipg and hewing
each other, trying to make a man better
than he was born.
Your goodness must have some edge
to It, else it is none. Nothing is at last
sacred but the integrity of your own
mind.
Public opinion is the strongest factor
in putting down any evil, and it is made
up of private opinion, openly expressed
and heartily followed. ~
Be cheerful; do not brood over fond
hopes unrealizcd until chain, link after
link, is fastened on each thought and
wound about the heart. Nature intended
you to be the fountain-spring of cheer
fulness and social life, and not the
travelling monument of despair and
melancholy.
As it is the manly man who wins and
satisfies good woman, so it is the
womanly woman who pleases and re.
tains the desirable man. She need not
be soft or silly, or weak or neryous-she
may be strong, vigorous, resolute and
brave; but, whatever she is, she must be
womanly in order to pleas.
He who amasses wealth, not as an
equitable return for value given, but by
underhand dealing or oppression of the
poor, or gambling on high or low scale,
has been engaged in no honorable COM
petition. He who climbs into power,
not by proving himself the fittest man to
WELD it, but by pushing Others down and
crowding them out, desecrates the name
of emulation.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
A Coffin on Her Back.

A very dignifed lady of fifty, looking
like Duchess, strobe through, Union
Square, New York. ''That lady" said
one who knew her, carries coffin on her
back. She is Berliner, ana in her
youth she had two lovers. both of whom
She encouraged. Her tickleness brought
OH rivalry between them, and at last one
sent challenge to the other. They
fought q duel, in which the younger OF
them was killed, aud it is the shadow OF
this coffin that she carries through the
streets of New York. After time she
married the rival who slew her lover, but
in a short time he died under dramatic
circumstances. She subsequently be-
came the wife of yet another man, who
brought her to New York, where they
are we'll known to many who do not
know the record Of her career"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
How to Act at q Fire.

In lecture before the Society of Arts,
London, Mr.. a. w. @. Ghcan gave the
following concise and simple directions
how to act on the occurrence of fires:
Fire requires air; therefore, on its ap-
pearance every effort should be made to
exclude air; shut all doors and windows.
BY this means fire may be confined to
a single room for o sufficient period to
enable all the inmates to be aroused and
escape; but if the doors and windows
are thrown open, the tanning of the wind
and the draft will instantly cause the
flames to increase with extraordinary
rapidity. II must never be forgotten
that the most precious moments are at
the commencement of fire, and not
single second should be lost in tackling
it. In q room table cloth can be so
used as to smother large sheet of flame,
and cushion may serve to beat it out; a
coat or anything similar may be used
with an equal successful result.
The great point is presence of mind,
calmness in danger, action guided by
reason and thought. In all large houses
buckets of water should be placed on
every landing, little salt being put in
to the water. Always endeavor to at
tack the bed of fire; if you cannot ex-
tinguish q fire shut the door when you
make good your retreat. A wet silk
handkerchief tied over the eyes and
nose will make breathing possible in the
midst of much smoke, and blanket
wetted and wrapped around the body
will enable a person to pass through a
sheet of flame in comparative safety.
Should lady's dress catch fire. let the
wearer at once lie down. Rolling may
cxtinguish the fire, but if not, anything
(woolen preferred) wrapped tightly
around will effect the desired purpose.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The combined Vanderbilt wealth, ac-
cording to the New York World, amounts
to $274, 900, 900, and the estimated in
come from it per annum is S13, s64, 400.
No other single family in the world is so
rich. If kept intact the total fortune
will at the end of twenty-five years
almost reach $1,000, 600, 900, and this
result will be attained by the simple
arithmetical progression of compound
interest. The rapid increase of the Van
derbilt millions clearly shows how money
begets money.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
Pet Animals Sprea,l. Disease.

"The spread of diphtheria which has
been so great lately" remarked West
Side physician, 'is largely attributed to
b carelessness that is criminal when the
virulent nature of the distemper is con-
sidered. It is the experience of most
physicians that almost all sickness comes
from the ignorance or willful careless
ness of the people, but in no case rs this
so bad as in that of diphtheria, because
of its extremely infectious character.
Once dipitheria is known to exist the
greatest precaution should be taken to
prevent its spread, but instead of that
nothing is done until all the children in
a whole tenement house, or in fact in a
whole block, are infected, or at least en-
dangered, as was the case down on
Tenth avenue lately.
Pet animals are common and con-
slant source of the spread of this distem-
per. Cats and dogs are permitted to be.
around and even to drink the milk left
by a child suffering from diphtheria.
These animals take the disease and then
90 out and spread it among their fellow
animals, which in turn carry it into the
houses where they belong. have known
several cases where o cat caught it in
this manner and infected all the cats in
the neighborhood, and was the cause OF
mum bers of deaths of human beings, fol-
children will play with cats and pet
them if they appear sick. When in that
condition a cat or other ret animal is
more inclined than at other times tc
crawl up on people to get sympathy, and
this makes the danger all the greater.
A remarkable case of this kind occurred
in my own house few years ago. A
little girl residing in the house con-
tracted scarlet fever and died. During
her illness a pet alligator was around,
and soon after the child's death the ami
NAL took sick and also died. A couple
of medical students who were stopping
in the house made post-mortem exami-
nation of the alligator and found oil the
symptoms of death from scarlet fever. ]
made an examination myself, and there
was no doubt whatever that the creature
had caught the fever from the child, and
had died of it. Iknow of no more pro.
life agency in the spread of diseases OF
this kind than the household pets-the
dogs and cats-of which some people
are so fond."-NeW York Mercury.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The inventive genius who got up the
drop-a. quarter. .into-the slot-and take. an
opera-glass device, which has been in
troduced into one of the New York
theatres, has received a bad setback at
the outset. A busy newspaper has in
terviewed the doctors on the subject.
One of them says: "It is certain that
contagious diseases of the eye can and
will be transmitted from one person to
another by the use, as proposed, of these
opera glasses" Several other physicians
concur in this opinion. go
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

ing in her eyes; and Dora's sister saw a
full forgiveness in his.
They laughed together, somewhat
"Where did you get tbe-the things3"
he queried, gazing at her perfect attire.
"0h, the dress was Dora's-she's so
much stouter, you know-and the beads
are the baby's, and I hunted all through
my boxes for the ribbonsl That's what
took me so long"
''And the East Lowville Seminary
you fibbed about that7" Burton ques-
toned, moving nearer to her.
"Yes. Madame Beauce finished me-.
And you fibbed about your engagement
at twelve2"
eyes" Burton confessed, inwardly
wondering how he could have done it.
How pretty she was
s'Then we're even!" said Dora's sister,
laughing with sweet gaiety, as she took
his arm for quiet promenade.
Dora's doubts and anxious question
ings were speedily calmed. Her ire
proachable brother in law not only liked
her pretty sister exceedingly, but her
pretty sister liked him-so much so that
a gay wedding at Gordon Centre that
fall Produced another Mrs. Salkeld.-
Saturday Might.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The livery of the coachman of Count
d'Arco Valley, the German Minister at
Washington, is creating sensation in
that city. Gold and lace seem TO be the
principal part of it. A double row of
silk buttons runs down the front, while
rows of gilt cord are swung across the
breast and fastened upon the right side,
from which depends sword. The tall
blue hat is decorated with a plume and
cockade of German colors. No one
seems to know what the sword is for,
snless it is to "cut behind" at the small
boys, whose republican irreverence
causes them to "steal ride" on the gor-
geous equipage.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

Says the Washington Star: "Phila.
delphia statistics show that the suicides
of the city during the past year reached
the astonishing number of 90, more than
three times as many as the homicides.
The quiet and self-restrained people Of
the City of Brotherly Love destroy their
own lives rather than those OF their
neighbors. Perhaps the monotony of
life and of residence architecture causes
them to grow weary, oh, so weary, and
to wish that they were dead"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
NitrO-Glycerine in Kidney Disease.

Nitro. .glycerine bids fair, says the
doctors, to become an important remedy
for diseases of the kidneys; and expert
ments are now making in cases of
Bright's disease. Nitro-glycerine of a
pure quality, possessing all the explosive
bowers of the substance, is prepared in
alcohol (Which removes the explosive
quality in the proportion of one part of
the nitro.glycerine to uinety-nine of
alcohol, and is then prepared with sugar
or milk in tablets. A patient in Phila-
delphia hospital has had the dose IN
creased until now he is taking eight
grains q day. He has Bright's diseas
and the effects are said to be hig1
satisfactory.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
measures.
The MICHIGAN cattle breeders propose

The Michigan cattle breeders propose
to ask the Legislature to enact that all
meat supplied to State institutions shall
be from animals fatteued and killed in
Michigan. They also ask for meat in
spection law, which shall provide that
all cattle killed for consumption within
towns of more than 5000 inhabitants
shall first have been inspected alive and
nm foot
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

1t has been discovered by the New
York Tribune that the grave of William
Penn is in sadly neglected condition.
There is not even mound above it, and
only q fimsy slab of stone stuck in the
ground, at the head or foot-no one can
tell which. The Friends do not approve
OF the erection of elaborate and costly
monuments, but there surely could be no
objection to some more definite and per-
mancnt marking of such an interesting
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

During 1888 the number Of failures in
the United States was 0,500, against
9740 in 1887. But the aggregate liabili-
ties of the parties failing in 1883. where
about ten per cent. less than in 1887,
while the aggregate assets of the failing
traders are only four per cent. smaller.
This gain in the ratio of assets certainly
''indicates increased healthfulness in
commercial conditions" as leading au-
thority on the subject puts it.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
The Duke Of Edinburgh has won TO

The Duke Of Edinburgh has won for
himself the distinction of being perhaps
the only man who ever despatched ship
on journey to fetch a trunk. The oc-
casion was the recent trip of the Duke
and Duchess 10 Greece, and the trunk,
which contained part of the Duchess's
wardrobe, was accidently left at Malta.
Instead of telegraphing to have the next
steamer bring along the missing baggage,
the Duke sent one of the vessels of the
squadron after it.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The Chinese immigration Bureau of
San Francisco, which has for a long time
been doing large business e1ading the
law and helping Mongolians to land in
this country, has finally shut up shop.
1t would seem, infers the Chicago Neacs,
as though the chinks in the ience had
finally been stopped up.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

Russia built railway especially to Sc
cure the trade of Persia, and is now ex-
cessively angry with that country for
opening the river Karuu to trade, by
nIeans. of which other foreign nations
will be enabled to compete with the
Russians
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28
liennine and Artificial Honey.

Mr.. WorthingtoD G. Smith, the emf
nent microscopist, finds that genuine
honey can be readily distinguished from
manufactured honey by the microscope.
The former has few or no sugar crystals
and abounds with pollen grains, while
the limitations have little else than these
crystals, with rarely trace Of pollen
gra ms. The honeyed taste of the manu-
factured article, he thinks, may come
from honeycomb or bees wax being
mashed up with the article used in the
manufacture. Each class of plants has
it's own specific folm Of pollen grain, and
Mr.. Smith says that any one conversant
with this branch of botany could tell
from what part of the world the honey
came, by studying the pollen grains it
might contain. The honey he had was
English honey, and it abounded with
grains of Leguminosn, especially beans
and clover, the English heath and even
ing primroses. In America, however,
bees freely visit Compost c-not, how
ever, for honey, but for the pollen.
They are, indeed, among the most popu-
lar OF flowers with our pollen gatherers.
As the bees make separate task Of
honey gathering from pollen gathering,
this may account for the rarity of the
pollen grains of this order in honey
NeU York Mdepentsnt.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

1t is proposed to make a new county
for Connecticut from the Sixth and
Twentieth Senatorial districts. The;
name suggested is "Waterbury" County,
and it would include eighteen towns,
with an aggregate wealth of $s2, ass, O93.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

Cremation societies are being aug
mentcd in this country by women of the
better class, who are joining them
rapidly. In New York, Brooklyn and
Boston particularly there arc great
many well-known women enrolled among
the cremationists, and the movement is
endorsed by still greater number who
have not taken pains to become mem
bers.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

With the first of this year Germany
abandoned the old pound weight and
adopted the metric system in its entirety.
America. which set the example of the
metric system in her decimal coinage,
still fingers behind, says the New York
Telegram, in adopting this convenient
and logical progression of weights and
rneosures
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The Bermuda Islands are at last to be
connected by telegraph with the re-
mainder of civ zation. A line from
there to Halifax, $50 miles in length,
will be begun in the spring, and the
British Government will pay subsidy
of $50, 900 per year.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

1t has been noted in the Chicago
Times as a strange coincidence that Ellis
Phelan, an ex-Confederate soldier, was
elected Judge of Probate in Waterbury,
Conn, at the last election, and on the
same day Union veteran was chosen
member of the Alabama Legislature in
the same district where Phelan formerly
1iya6
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

A recent judicial ruling upon, the
question, When is man drunk, is:
'sWhen consciousness becomes modified
in any degree whatever through the
influence OF alcohol, and when, or as
long as, no exercise of independent
nervous force is adequate to restore it to
normal state the man so affected is
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

Boston's January dividends amounted
to sic, 500, 900, a million and half more
than those distributed in Philadelphia.
On an even distribution this would give
every Bostonian $50, and every Philadel-.
phiap S11.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The name "Man Bote," in the laws of
the Anglo-Saxons, denoted the compen-
sation to be paid for killing man. In
King Ina's laws certain rates are fixed
for the expiation of this crime, according
to the quality Of the person slain.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

There were greater number of lynch
ings in this country last year than there
had been in any previous year since
1880, except 1884.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The New York Herald doubts if it is
good policy for any American tourist to
go to Cuba, as lawlessness is rife and
Americans are hated.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The Legislature of Ohio will be asked
to pass law prohibiting any minister of
the Gospel from being present at an exc
cution as the spiritual adviser of the con-
6npnn5
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The Cleveland Plain Dealtr is prepared
to see spectacle makers grow rich out of
the next generation, as so many school
children are obliged to wear glasses.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

During the year 1888 nearly 700 per-
sons disappeared in Philadelphia, a large
percentage of whom were never heard
of
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

The City of Mexico is full of tramps,
and the anti-American papers satirically
refer to them as prominent Americans
visiting the Capital"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

There's d pesUti in the lily
With its lowIy- -ben1.>fg head;
There's poem in the sunset
With its brilliant tinge Of red;
Theresa poem in the forest
In the lofty mountain wall;
But the poem Of the maiden
Is the sweetest Of them all.
She Is tall or she 10 slender
With the lily's face OF white;
She is lovely as the painting
Made by sunsets rosy light;
She Is noble as the forest,
As the lofty mountain wall; .
Ah, the maiden. Of all nature; 9,
Isthe sweetest gem Of nlll
Let the cynic rant on fashion
And its catalogue of whims;
Let him tell of the flirtations
At the church between the hymns;
Let him point at coquettes' costumes
In the operatic stall,
Yet, the maiden, notwithstanding,
Is the sweetest gem Of all.
-Wnl Hosea BalLou, in Journalist.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-28

Well watched-A jewelers. window.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1889-11-23
Information Party.

The newest game takes the form Of an
information party, and is begun by pass
ing to each gentleman card and to the
ladies small pieces of paper, which
should be numbered. Those who dis
cover the same number on their card and
paper are partners for the game.
Each couple must think of question,
sensible or ridiculous, historical or in
regard to tho weather, to be written on
the cards, after which the cards are to
be gathered together, and the leader
reads each in turn, giving a few moments
for the partners to consider the subject
and write the answer, which should be
read aloud in turn. This is where the
fun Of the game begins, as many of the
answers are exceedingly queer.
Those having a correct answer mark
their card 10, a wrong answer 0, and if
the answer is anywhere near right it is
counted 5. When all are added prizes
may he distributed, as in progressive
games for the best and poorest record.
The instructive part of the game is the
discussion which follows the questions
The height of Bunker Hill monument is
what everybody living near it ought to
know, and yet at an information party
held few evenings ago only one person
in a company of twenty was sure of the
exact number of feet.-Boston Traveller.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1889-11-23
prncrcssiya Theology.

A certain evangelist in Western Nir
ginia organized Sunday school, and by
dint of diplomacy obtained goodly fol
lowing of youngsters into whose uncomb
ed heads and plant hearts he instillcd tho
rudiments of religion. Neither did he
spare the corrective rod in case his charge
failed to come totaw with the catechism
Ono Sunday a new arrival was discov-
cred over in the boys corner. He was
called down before the teacher and cross
examined with n view to learning his re.
ligious requirements.
GLOW many gods are thcre?" asked the
teacher.
The boy thought Il moment and ven
tured the assertion that there were two
"Wrong" said tho teacher.
"Thrcc!'
Oh! you must know better than that
Try again. How many gods are there?'
"Four!' whimpered the boy.
"Wrong again" shouted the instructor.
III will give you one more chance. II
you don't answer right this time I'll tan
you. Now, for the last time how many
gods arc there?'
"Five!' walled the unhappy tow head
Smack! The teacher gave him thor.
ough dressing down and sent him from
the room in disgrace. A bclated scholar
found him sitting by the roadside howl
ing at the top of his voice.
whats the matter, Jack:'
Teacher licked me-"
"What for?'
"'Cause l didn't know how many gods
there were"
"Huh! that's easy enough"
"D' you know
Course"
GLOW many are there?"
Gone, you stupid"
"Onc, CHI! Well, you just go in there
with your little one god and you'll catch
it. lowed there was five, and he nigh
killed me. e."-Washington Post.