The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-30

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or black hair and blue eyes. ~ nurses
regularly. but has not increased a frac'
tlon OF an ounce in weight, the plotnei
says, since its birth. The baby 10 abepl
ten inches in length, with The hniesl o.
hmOs, pink with health.
The mother says that she is always
fearful when she bathes it. THAT is the
most trying moment to me-" she con
t1nued. IT am so afraid that 1t might
break it, The parents, Margaret iar-
rington and John A. Harrington, nave
peen married for eleven years, ana hase
had nine children. The smallest, except
Annie Louise, weighed nine ppunqs.
They have living at present Fred, eight
Years old; Charlie, one year 2 siEn'
months, and Annie Louise. Mrs. Har-
rlngton is a large, powerful woman Wnllo
her husband is Of slender build, tnough
OF excellent physique and
strong, He works as q helper on an lce
team.-EUcning Sun.
New Novels Announced.
"Whiskey Straight" by the author Oh
(which Shall 1t Befn
''The Siamese Twins" by the author OF
IAN Unnatural Bondage !.
Ear From the Madding Crowd"
"A Boiled Egg" by the author OF bad
to Beat.n
DANDY Rivers" by the author Of
.sT6ee White Horse blythe author of
"Red as u Rose is She.p-IefTe Hdute
Express.
TO Be Taken in Water.
Uncle Tim Sullivan, ~ex-chairman OF the
County Board, runs a farm IN the
western part of the county. Uncle Tim
is one of the most robust of Western far
mers, and although well advanced in
years, has never known a sick day up 70 a
few days ago, when feeling a little under
the weather he concluded to go TO Gfana
Forks and consult a doctor.
A prescription was compounded at @
drugstore and Uncle Tim was given q
small vial with instructions to take a tea
spoonful of the medicine in water every
three hours. He took the medicine home,
but his wife had gone out to visit a neigh
Dor, so he concluded to take the first dose
during her absence. A rain barrel nlled
with water stood at the corner OF the
house, and, stripping off his clothes,
Uncle Tim got into the barrel up TO MS
chin and was about to pour out q tea
spoonful of the medicine when his wife
returned.
"For. goodness sake, father, what are
you doing therein she exclaimed, as she
saw his head at the top of the barrel.
Sure, Pm following the DOCTORS or
ders," said Tim. He told me to take a
teaspoonful of the medicine in water
every three hours, and Pm just going to
take my first dose"
Mrs. S. saw tie joke, and it was too
good to keep. She told the boys when
they came to supper, and Uncle Tim will
never hear the last of it. - CrO0kstott
Times.
Poison Ri,~a
In Italy the poison ring was carried to
the perfection of malicious imagining.
The "Anello della morte' was occasion
ally resorted to as a means of putting an
enemy out of the way. A hollow point
in the bezel, worked by a spring, com
municated with the receptacle behind for
the poison in such q way. that its villain
Gus Wearer could, in giving his adversary
a hearty grasp of the hand, intict a NOR
tai scratch. The point was fastened to
look like an ornament. So deadly and
enduring was the poison contained in
these rings that some twenty or more
years ago death was nearly occasioned by
handling n unwittingly. A curio fan
cier was turning over gems in q shop in
Paris, when he fell fainting and was with
difficulty restored. 1t was found that he
had been wounded by a poison ring. This
instrument of destruction was also worn
in p%erilous times, in order that the owner
might commit suicide rather than fall
into the enemy's hands. Another kind
was furnished at the back with a slide,
which could be slipped back by the
wearer, who could drop the poison into
the wine he offered to a hated guest. This
kind was affected by Caesar Borgia, whose
own signet ring bore an inscription little
suited to his characteristics &c que dois
dUicn que p0trTG, Another form Of
poison ring was the one which had for it's
bezel the key to q casket. The wearer
would hand his ring in a confidential
manner to q visitor, and desire him to
hand him some article from his jewel box.
The key, in being turned in a somewhat
stiff lock, would give the unwary con-
fidant a prick, which had for him fatal
results. -London Standard.