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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
The Counting Pelican,

Houzeau de la Hale tells of a pelican
living in a fisherman's family at Santo
Domingo that was fed upon the refuse
of the fish cleaning. Looking for its
food, it went to the shore and waited for
the boats to come back. The fishermen
rested on Sunday, and the bird acquired
50 clear Il notion of the return Of that
day, when it had to fast, that it would
not stir from the tree on which it was
accustomed to spend its time. 1t is not
necessary to suppose that the pelican
had learned to count the six days at the
end of which its masters would not 90
fishing; but, while it really estimated
daily the time when it must make its
excursions to the shore, it was informed
of the return of Sunday by observation
OF what was going on in the house, as,
for instance, by the fishermen putting
on their Sunday clothes; in the same
way as the dog knew when his master
was going to hunt by seeing him with
his gun and game bag. In such in
stances animals show that they have the
faculties of associating ideas, of observ-
ing consecutive facts and establishing a
correlatiye connection between them
things which have been proved by album
dance of other evidence and which
demonstrate not less intelligence than
acquaintance with the ten signs expos
ing the first ten numbers or the use of q
system of enumeration to express larger
numbers. Popular Science Monthly.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Art for PhiliStia.

To begin with, art for the class in qlteo
ton means oil painting and nothing else.
at the great Philistine show there are
rooms for water colors and sculpture,
but these are never crowded, and the
majority of the visitors are those who
come to find a seat. Philistia, as a rule,
is kind to its votary, and gives him what
he wishes to look at-landscapes, with
yellowy green trees and blue gray shad-
ows, with packed up clouds and proper
sized patches of sky thrown in between.
In genre, the poor g%overness and the
fisherman's wife are safe cards. The
Irish peasant at one time was a great
favorite, and it is still almost impossible
to overdo the market with the varying
humors of babyhood and serio-comic
animals.
Portraits must be smooth and pinky-
q little extra carnation thrown in for
the ladies, and for the men guns, with
hybooks lying about for territorial mag
mates or apocryphal sportsmen, while for
the frankly commercial the silver ink
stand and the crimson curtain are still
valuable properties. Any departure
from these canons is liable to cause the
picture to be branded as outlandish, or
fanciful and new tangled; and works to
which such epithets as these can be APP
piled are not often hung upon the walls
of the upper middle class. But for lev
eral years there have been signs that
Philistia is uneasy, and they point to
open revolt within her very walls.
Our middle class gazer, whether he
will or not, has to look at landscape
painted, apparently, in SCOT and water,
with skies the color of the Thames at
Poplar; at haggard faces staring out of
dreary expenses of gray and dirty white
by way of genre, and at portraits in
which the SCOT has again been called in
to denote shadow and the whitening
brush for the high light. The mind stag
gers in contemplating the result, should
this revolt become a revolution; but
Philistia will probably be wise in time,
and not suffer the eccentricities of ge-
MUS to check the cheerful flow of shil-
lings at the turnstiles.-All the Year
Pound.-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Stories of AnImals.

Another absurd story is told in illus
tration Of animal gratitude and mans
-unintentional but fatal lack of compre.
hension. a man was disturbed by a fly,
which would not be driven off, returning
again and again. At last the nan be-
came enraged and killed the fly. He
then discovered a snake coiled up neai
his head, and found, though by what
mea does not appear, that the little fly
had bitten him to save his life. Then
there is the oft repeated story of the old
German dog Sultan, which, in a com
monty narrated European fable, is rep
resented as overhearing its master and
mistress decide that the old dog must be
killed. Sultan objected to the proposal
and went to his friend, the wolf, for aid,
So the next day the wolf made a MOCK
attack at the child in the cradle, where
upon the toothless old dog attacked ant
drove it off, for which act of apparent
bravery old Sultan was respited and al
lowed to die of old age.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Mistaking u Royalty.

One night at a reception at Mrs. Ron.
AIDS while I was perched upon a sofa
watching the brilliant assemblage, | fell
into conversation with a pleasant gentle
man seated beside me, who was very
curious about America and American
life. l told him q great deal about
America, and said that Americans i'll
England would not at one know how to
address people properly. CAS- for me-"
I said, 81 am as green rs a gooseberry on
this subject; even if I supposed you were
one of the nobility I should not know
how to address you" A few moments
afterward Mrs. Ronalds said tome: "Mr.
Wilder, that's a good thing you've been
saying to the Duke of Teek; you've made
an impression upon his highness.a re-
piled: "Why, I haven't met the Duke of
Teck; the only gentleman I've been talk
ing to is standing over there" "'Nell,"
says Mrs. Ronalds, "that is the Duke of
Teck." Gracious! I am q little enough
fellow by nature, but just then you
might have put me in q pint cup.--Mar-
shall p. Wilder's Book.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
A Mind Reading Pavnbroker.

A we'll dressed gentleman entered an
Eighth avenue pawnbroker's, and taking
a silver watch from his pocket said to
the proprietor;
"Id like 50, please"
Cant give but $3.50 on that, was the
reply.
"But you gave 50 before"
THAT may be, but I'll only give S1.50
today"
The gentleman insisted on 81, but
finally took the $3.50 and went out.
"yYhy didn't you give him S2:?" asked
the reporter, who overheard the trans
action.
because l knew he would take $3.50.
The watch is worthS 15. l can sell it for
Sc easy. That's a pretty good profit on
$3.50. The odds are 100 to l that he
won't take it out. The first time he came
l gave him So, and would have given
him s. if he had asked for it. You see,
he is new at it, but now that the ice is
broke he'll not take it out. If he makes
a raise he will buy a new one and let
this go. Over two-thirds of the people
who 'hock' a watch the second time do
not redeem it."
"But you say he is new in pawnbrok-
ing experience. How do you know
that"
my friend. 1 haven't been in this
business thirty years without learning to
read a nan pretty quick. If I swallowed
all the stories told me by impecunious
people I'd be in the poorhouse in six
months. I'm u mind reader New York
Cst9
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
A BOY WHO Saves Lives.

Joseph Brown has reason to congrat-
ulato himself upon his sons. One of
them is a baseball player of some note,
and that alone in these days of the great
American games rage should be glory
enough; but another son, Joseph Brown,
Jr., is developing as a hero. Young
Joseph goes for u vacation every sum
mcr to Camp Lake, Wis, and while
there Il year ago he saved the lives of
two people whose boat had become up
set. At the same place again this sea-
son, and only about two weeks ago, the
Young man saved three lives. A small
party had come over to Camp Lake from
Kenosha and went for q sail upon the
lake. There were five of them and the
boat was capsized. Young Brown
CHANGED to witness the accident and at
once secured q small boat and pulled to
the rescue, assisted by a lad named
Frank Yaw. With much pluck and
GOODNESS Brown managed to ave three
Of the party. Two of them had gone
down, but being an expert swimmer he
plunged into the water and did not give
up his search until he recovered the
bodies of the two who were drowned.
The young man in his modesty makes
very light of his acts, but if it is going
to be a regular thing for him to saw a
drowning party year after year, he will
not be able TO hide his light under q
bushel.-Chicago Herald.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Strategy and Tactics.

A battle does not consist, as many im-
agine, in a grand advance of victorious
lines of attack, sweeping everything be-
fore them, or the helter-skelter flight of
the unfortunate defeated. The historian
must so present it in his descriptions,
the artist in his paintings. Even the
writer of an official account must limit
himself to the presentation of such mo-
ments as demand special treatment. OF
to such episodes as involve important
and instructive tactical movements. All
those events which are less striking,
which pass more quietly, but which,
nevertheless, contribute to the final re-
suit, cannot be reproduced without too
much expansion. Those incidents which
no account of the battle, official or ln-
official, takes any note of, the thou
sand and one events observed only by the
participants, the innumerable cases III
which the direction and control of af-
fairs glide out Of the hands of the officers
these are the little drops of water that
make the mighty ocean of battle and de-
termine victory or defeat.-United Ser
yico
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

DR.. G.. N. Collins, of Upton, Ind, re-
ports to The Medical Record a pair of fe-
male twins united at the center or me-
dian lincof the trunk as one body, which,
however, develops perfect setsof distinct
members and organs FOR two. Each
child has a separate circulation and or
ganism. One will sleep while the other
is awake. The bowels and kidneys per-
form their functions independently. The
spinal column is straight. The children
are bright and lively, have fine heads of
hair and fine features, arc well formed
and at this writing have every appear
ance of living. At birth their weight
was twelve and onc-half pounds, and
they were twenty-five and oneIlalf
inches in length.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

In the matter of hard riding the sea-
soned and expert European will always
beat the Oriental, for the latter is heavi-
ly handicapped by the eastern saddle,
which tires the horseman from the
cramped position he is forced to main
tain; the stirrup feathers are so short
that the knees of the rider are but three
inches below the level of his waist. The
eastern saddle has its advantages; the
rider cannot be thrown, he can rise in
the great shovel shaped stirrups, and.
standing firm us a rock high above his
saddle, can use his curved sword or
spear with advantage, and can actually
fire an effective shot over his horses
Group at a pursuer with gun or pistol,
The sword of the eastern horseman is
curved and highly tempered; it is car
ried not at the riders belt, but under the
surcingle that binds the thin blanket
hatforms his bed at night down OF his
peaked saddle. The reason why the
Oriental horseman is hardly ever thrown
is simply that the pommel of the saddle
is furnished with a high peak, which is
clutched in case of need; these high peaks
are dangerous in the extreme to a Euro
pean's idea, but the Asiatic cannot ride
without them, and among the wealthy
they are lavishly ornamented with sill
yer. gold, enamels and valuable gems.
The eastern saddle, giving a very firm
seal as it does, enables the horseman to
use his gun with good effect. Game is
frequently shot from the saddle, and the
antelope is usually hunted on horseback
and shot. The great shovel shaped
eastern stirrup forms a firm platform
for the foot, and its pointed corner is
used in lieu of the spur throughout Asia.
Spurs are unknown in Central Asia,
though the mention of the spur, the
name of which still remains, is frequent
in Persian poetry.-Good Words.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

A man was arraigned in an Arkansas
court, many years ago, for stealing a
young pig out of his neighbours pen, said
pig, or shoat, being alleged to be worth
q dollar and a half.
The evidence was conclusive, and the
jury, after a brief retirement, brought in
their verdict, Guilty of hog stealing in
tie first degree"
The judge remarked that the finding
was proper enough, except that it failed
to assess the value of the pig, andfurther
that there were no degrees in hog steal
ing. He must ask the jury to retire
again, and bring in a verdict in due
form.
The jury wen out, with pen, ink and
paper, but were badly n~onplused over
that word form" Finally one of them.
who had formerly been a justice of the
peace, drew up a document to which the
other eleven assented, and with which
all hands returned to the court room.
This was the verdict:
"We, the jeurey, pusilanimously find
the defendant gilty in the sum of / dol.
lar and a in favor Of the hog."-Youth's
Companion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

there were keepers or the kings con-
science, Nero gave his voice into the
keeping of a p~honascus. He spoke only
in the presence of this vocal director,
whose duty it was to warn him when
his tones became too loud, or when he
seemed to be in danger of straining his
voice. To the same functionary was in
trusted the formidable duty of checking
the emperor's eloquence when it became
too impetuous; this he did by covering
the imperial orators mouth with a nap
kin. 1t aaust have needed no small
measure of courage to apply this effect
ual method of CLOSURE to the arch ty-
rant of history when intoxicated with
the ex%uberance of his own vocalization.
Contemporary Review.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

Professor Elihu Thompson has per-
fected an invention by which the rails of
street or steam railways may be welded
together by electricity after being placed
in position. \ dynamo propels over tn :
tracks an electric welding machine,
which YIELDS the rails into one continuous
line after it passes over them. 1t is pro-
posed to have at every one hundred feet
Il break, to allow for expansion. Any
kind of rails can thus be welded.--Onco
a Week.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
The Trouble Nero Took.

A useful example of the proper are
Of the voice is to be found in n very UNI
expected quarter. The Emperor Nero,
as is well known, believed himself to be
a great artist, a notion of which those
about were not likely to disabuse him.
His dying words, "Qualis artifex pereoi'
show that he had at least one feature of
the artistic temperament. He sought
fame by many paths, in poetry, liddling,
driving and other branches of the fine
arts, to say nothing of his scientific ex-
periments on the bodies of his nearest
relations, The imperial virtuoso was
particularly vain of his voice, which /
can well imagine to have been soft and
sweet, qualities which often enough ac-
company a cruel nature.
He was proportionately careful of so
precious a possession His system is
worth quoting. In addition to such gen
eral measures as attending to his liver,
and a~bstaining from such fruits and
other food as he fancied to be injurious
to his voice, we are told that at night he
used to lie on his back with Il small plate
of lead on his stomach.
This was probably for the purpose of
checking the tendency to abdominal
breathing, the less perfect way in respi-
ration for singers. In order to spare his
voice all unnecessary fatigue he gave UP
haranguing his troops and ceased even
to address the senate. As in later times
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
DAISY BLOSSOMS.

Down in the clover blossoms
Where the evenings breath Is sweet
Lingering, / pluck the daisies
That whiten at my feet.
Now day with sunsets splendor
Kindling the field and wood,
Kissing the laughing river.
Sinks in a golden food.
The scarlet skies are paling,
Yon rosy streamers die,
Sweet stars, nights heralds. tremhle
Soft in the eastern sky.
But still the laugh Of children,
The reaper's even song,
The music of an evening hymn.
The joyous day prolong.
Till shadows gather darkling
Across the thorny hill
Till toll and pain are sleeping
And all the world is still.
Sweet daisies in the meadow,
/ a to pluck you now;
My heart has filled with sadness,
Icannot tell you how
Sweet dreams and ardent longings
Warnings of jog and pain,
Passions insatiate~ thronging,
Crowd through the troubled brain
Scoring the earth's ambitions.
Squirting the vulgar sod,
Striving for something better,
Climbing to rounds untrod.
And thus, 0 meadows daisiedl
Sweet fields with flowers bright.
gather more than blossoms
Under the stars tonight,
%. J. Stevenson in Toronto Globe.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
obtaining the Necessary Permission

The Young Man (rapturously)-And
ow. Flossie. it only remains for you to
name the happy day. Please make it
soon, very, very soon, darling.
The Young Woman lin the kitchen a
few moments latereBridget, would it
interfere with any Of your engagements
If I should he married three weeks from
next Wednesday evening:-Chicago Tri-
Duue.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
The Population of woodsiow"

is about 1900, and we would say at least
one half are troubled with some af1liction
Of the throat and lungs, as those complaints
are, according to the statistics, more numer-
Gus than others. We would advise all our
readers not to neglect the opportunity to
call on their druggist and get a bottle o
Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs
Trial size free. Large bottle 50c and 81
Sold by all druggists.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Journal.

Italians are net very strong in domes-
tic ties. OF $4,000 Italians that landed
in Castle Garden last year "a, 900 were
males. The emigration of females from
Italy is smaller than from any other
country, averaging but 10 per cent. of
the whole number who landed. From
Germany the percentage is 40; from Ire
land, 45.-Boston Budget.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

Three entire cases, nearly 1000 yards Can
ton Flauncls in short pieces, running from
9 to 10 yards, all perfect, at about 2 cents
a yards less than regular price. This means
that you can buy as many yards III this
way for 81. 0 as you could for $1.25 if cut
from long pieces. T.. b, Humphreys 81
Co. at the Corner Stole.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Sixpence Lost.

There is one prominent and noble
patron of the turf who is said never tc
have made a bet on a race Il on one
occasion. when he betted sixpence against
a horse with his trainers wife. The horse
won, and the sixpence was duly presented
as a brooch set in diamonds Murray's
MAGAZINE
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

TO IsENT-Storen next To MONITOR Office. VIII
be rented for restaurant, provision or y sim
liar business. Apply 10 f. Il. tMPllREAs,
WoodstOWn, Nj.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

II you have any need for dishes see our
immense stock before you buy. We have
nearly all kinds, K. b. Humphreys & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

You can get a 3 Id. box of best Satin
Gloss starch for Is cts, or a 4 ID. box for
30 cts. at Humphreys store.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
100000.

TNIIE EsTEY oIsSAMCoMPANY have fur
L nished the above nnmber. Who can real
ize it? When you thfDk of his enormous sale,
remember what il mestps. 1t means that the
Estcy Organ and PianoAre just what the PEG
pie want. II is the favofate of all true lovers
Grant street, Salem, Nj. mar-29ly
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-18
THE FIGHT AT TALLAHASSEE.
BRANFORD ITEMS.
Some Points About the Presbytery of
Florida Recently in Session.

Some Points About the Presbytery OF
Florida Recently in Session.
BRANFoRD, FLA, April 1.-THE presby-
terry of Florida, which convened here on
April 10, closed to-day.
This presbytery covers the territory from
Jacksonville to Pensacola west. and from
Micanopy to the Georgia line north. Dur
ing the session here Important business to
the Presbyterian church was transacted
Hon. w. M. Mcintosh of Tallahassee was
moderator and w. s. Ivey of Bradford
clerk. There were about twenty five minis
ters and ruling elders present. The reports
in nearly all the branches of religious work
denote marked i'm prOvemeut, notwithsta nd
ing the epidemic last fall, which proved to
be a serious borrier in many places
Among those who preached during the
presbytery we're Revs. Joseph Little of On
tario, Canada, II. S. Yerger of Pensacola
and n. p. Quarterman of Quincy.
The interest in the devotional exercises
was greatly Increased by the contributions
of the choir leader and organist, Mrs. Alice
b. Jay, of Live Oak.
The United States dredge boat, built here
by Capt s. W. Skinner of Wilmington, N
c., was paid for and dedicated to the use Of
Uncle Sam on Saturday. The price was
$4,000.
Ex-Gov. Drew's yacht rWekiva" is be-
coming quite popular with those Of our
citizens who do not regard Sunday excur-
sions out of place.
Live Oak sent to visit US this week Miss
Belle Jones, Mrs. Alice b. Joy aud Miss A.
A. Black burn, J. T. Carroll and J. C. Bats
den. A great many of our citizens are
formally from Live Oak.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-18

1t is said that if the ocean dried up, you
could trade the route Of the trans Atlantic
steamers by rows of empty champagne bot
ties between here and Europe, which is not
surprising, seeing that the Cunard Ii e
alone uses about 90, 600 bottles of champagne
per year. The bar is most important
department on q large passenger ship, and
the profit from this source is said to often
exceed 5000 from one trip. All of its
goods are put on at Liverpool for the round
trip, or at Havre or Bremen. The con-
sumption for one voyage includes l, 100 bot
ties OF champagne, $50 bottles of claret,
5000 bottles of ale, $500 OF porter, 1850 of
mineral water and ESQ bottles OF various
spirits. Lemons are used on an average of
IA per head per day, apples 234 per head
per day, and oranges at the rate Of per
head per day. The groceries for the round
trip include $50 pounds of tea, 200 of cof
fee, 900 of white sugar. $500 Of moist su
gar and $50 of pulverzed sugar.
The round trip takes twenty-five days,
during only oue-half of which are the pas
sengers aboard; yet it consumes on one ship
1900 pounds Of cheese, 1000 pounds Of but
ter, $500 pounds of ham and 1000 pounds
OF bacon. Rough weather is expensive to
the steamship company in the large break
age OF crockery which 1t entails among the
cabin passengers and stewards, aud tue
record of a recent voyage showed among
the broken articles 900 plates, go cups, 43S
saucers, ,2l3 tumblers, 200 wine glasses, p
decanters and 63 water bottles. The steam
ers Of one line running between New York
and Liverpool sell "a, 600 cigars per year,
$1,000 cigarettes aud 35 900 pounds of to-
bacco Among the other items of the yearly
supply which appear in the annual report,
covering the entire fleet OF sixteen ships,
are ~ tons of mustard ard 2 tons of pep
per, 1890 bottles Of pickles, 5000 tins of
sardines. Is tons Of marmalade, % tons of
raisins and currauts, ID tons Of split peas
and Is tons of barley, 80, 900 loaves of bread
of pounds each, "a tons Of ham, 80 tons of
salt, "a tons # oatmeal and 10 tons of yell
low soap Over 100000 pounds of meat
are consumed every year by this one line
and nearly 1000, 900 eggs