davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
WE LIVE LONGER NOW.
CURIOUS VITAL STATTsTICs COM
PILED BIZ A SOUTHERN DOCTOR.
Pussy Settled the Sultan Old Lady's
Queer Superstitions - Too Good a
Memory-Wives and Husbands.

Pussy Settled the Sultan Old Lady's
Queer Superstitions Too Good a
Memory-Wives and Husbands.
Dr.. Todd, president of the Georgia
State Medical Society, read at the an
nual meeting of that body, held at
Atlanta recently, a paper on Lon
gevity," which possesses great in
trinsic interest, and'at the same time
is gratifying as showing how much
medical and sanitary science N a
more rational mode of life have done
to prolong the human span, and
how much better in every way
are the conditions of today
than of those good old times, !"
tor the return of which senti-
mentals vainly sigh. The doctor is
modest in his claims, making no eff
fort to monopolize in the name OF the
medical profession credit for a better
ment in which SO many agencies play
ports; but he does claim, and with
reason, that the intelligent physician
has had much to do with the result,
and that death rates Of the various
peoples of the globe bears q ratio very
nearly inverse to the number of quail
flied physicians among them. The
highest death rate in Europe is that
of Russia, ranging from 20 per l,O00
in Courland, and % per 1000 in the
Baltic province, there being many
~ xv,sa,axA H. l~&I It14,ta4c 10 40 in
places where there are but few. But
one-half the children born in
some parts of Russia reach h
seventh year, and OF l,0Oo
male children from 4S0 to 400 reach
the age of 81 years, and of these only
395 are able bodied. Russia, with all
its teeming population, has onlyl5,-
514 regular physicians, and n sur
geon to every 1907 900 population. The
United States, having a doctor of
shows the lowest death rate in the
world, England following. The aver
age life expectancy in the United
among the ruralists 81 years plus.
Russians have a life expectancy Of but
% years, approximately, and Ch1lians
Vi CIle SAME, Willie III Ellooeu, III oiA0
Soudan, % years is a generation. The
average life in the Rome of the Caesars
was 10 years; now it is 40 years.
Within so years the average in France
has increased from % to 454 years, and
in the days of Queen Elizabeth the
English average was but 20 years. DR..
Todd ascribes the great and progress
sive change for the better to advanced
medical knowledge, better drainage
and diet, greater cleanliness, and to
vaccination and the use of anesthet-
les, quinine, and the like. He thinks
that quinine alone has added two
years to the average life of civilized
man. To these agencies should be
added the decrease of war, the O
lenient laws, and the greater tempera-
ture of our day.-EGch0nqe.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
A Queen in a Balloon.
From the London Daily Neqcs.

Queen Christina has given another
proof OF her GOODNESS and pluck which
has created great enthusiasm among
her soldiers. A detachment of the
Royal Engineers, with their officers,
were about to make a first trial OF
some military balloons recently pur-
chased in France, and were working
knee deep in mud in the Royal Park,
some miles outside of Madrid, when
suddenly a royal carriage appeared, in
which were seated the Queen, Count
ess Sorondegui (Mistress of the Robes,
and Colonel Avalon (aide-de-camp).
The Queen picked her way, not
easily. through the mud to where the
engineers were preparing the balloon,
and she astonished everybody by say
ing that she had come for the express
purpose of joining in the first ascent.
Her lady-in-waiting declined to ac-
company her, when Her Majesty
lightly stepped into the balloon with
Colonel Avalon. The order was then
given to let.the cable go, and, held by
two slender ropes, bearing the Queen,
the Colonel and four soldiers, rose to a
height of about three hundred yards.
After enjoying a splendid view of Ma
drid and its %environs, Her Majesty
gave the signalt TO lower the balloon,
which stopped ten yards from the
ground to allow a photograph to be
taken, and the Queen landed, well
coined by enthusiastic cheers from the
soldiers. The balloon has been chris
tened Marie Christina of Hapsburg.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
TER

H a"H -. -| .
Mr.. and Mrs. William Farrier, OF Jer.
sey avenue, have gone on a fishing ex-
petition to Barnegat.
The family of Mr.. Gus Humbrock, OF
Franklin street, are summering on Long
Island.
Mrs. Frederick Davey, of Wayne street,
will spend the remainder of the summer
in South Jersey.
The Rev. Irving F. Davis and family
have gone to Massachusetts to be absent
six weeks.
The Rev. DIR. Parmley will spend the
month of August in Saratoga.
Recorder and Mrs. j. FL. Besher, of Ave
nue. r, Bergen Point, are with friends in
Glen Gardner.
Miss Lou Ferroutt, of West Point, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Davey.
Miss Grace Mosser and Mr.. John Mos
ser, of Avenue f, Pamrapo, will spend a
n. Y.
Miss Christine Parmley, of Paulmier
place, has gone to Vermont for the sum-
mer.
Principal Philip G. Vroom, of School
No. 2, Bayonne, and family have gone to
Someryille for the season.
Mrs. Walker, of Erie street, is spending
the summer at Hohokus.
Mrs. John Ravens and family, of Hobo
ken, are at West Hurley in the Catsk1lls
for the summer.
Mr.. Michael Mullone, formerly of the
argus, has been summering at the Ameri-
can Yacht Club, at Milton Point, L. l..
Later in the season he Wiilgo to Sharon,
Deputy Collector Carsten Pope, of Ho-
boken, will sail for Germany this month
to visit his parents.
Banker Zabriskie and family have re-
turned from Massachusetts and are now
stopping at the Grand Union Hotel, Sara
toga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forman, of G%reenville,
will spend the month of August in Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. Clarence Detwiller, of Danforth
avenue, is travelling in Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Post and daughter
have gone to Saratoga for the season.
Mr.. I. A. Parker, of Erie street, is
spending his vacation at Toms River,
n. j..
Miss Maggie Munzing has gone to Con-
necticut to remain until September.
Mr.. Henry Wulp is spending his vaca-
ton at Lake George.
Miss Mary Haddon, of BramhaH avenue,
has gone to the Catskills for this month.
Mr.. William McCree has gone to AS
bury Palk for the summer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
SHER1rF"s sALE-rN OF NEW

CHERRIES SALEM CHANCERY oF NEW
between Richard C. washburn ct ais. (washburn
Brothers. complainants, and Catherine o'Nein, de-
Fl ia, for sale of mortgaged premises.
Returnable May Term, 1888.
By virtue of the above stated writ to me directed
and delivered, | shall sell by. public yendue at j. @.
Montgomery Street, Jersey City, on
THURSDAY. the First Day of August. A. D. 1889,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon, all the following
anees, being the same described in said writ, that's
to say
premises, situate, lying and being in Jersey City, in
the county OF Hudson and State of New Jersey, In
Joseph +. 'ManginN for John B. Coles, and duly aled
Aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows
beginning at e point ON the north side 9f the Turn
ark Lnow known as Newark Es,n a ,ea thence IS "a
saRpi6ais 5d aE9t 6as RaRa sdEs.a5sl and %afh se We Mssssely u 1ad It t
rssssses a l} RSi1 ~ s iafty b Isl ff Psad ioa saia aSur rrom + the the
block, would strike a point on the n~ortherly side Of
srIS e soTne sev q sain b 5sI fee being frSm e isS gG Feet foar
inches 70 feet 4 i i 4 Ss9lI more ev or less ,S deep f IS, ,ntthh.e
Iiss ssSal sids S & ss sad S S5sis9 as fh' K ! ss{IE Ess' ss liS% s5 n
ark avenue or turnpike. sixty-seven feet seven
e msasi "a along tsss s ! lHp Avenue mV or turnpike pix, tive t%en rayaes q
feet eight inches III feet 3 inchesl more or less, to
of land fronting ON the ~norfherly side of Newark
avenue, twentyseven feet eight inches m feet 8
inchesb more or less, iii width in front, eighty feet
and four inches [S0 feet 4 inchesl more or less, in
depth on the easterly side. twenty-five feet in
[67 feet I inchesI more or less, in depth on the
w;ssteriy cony siasdj Being Hea sas se o9Ssi,l pre Sy
Bernard Meissner and wife by deed dated April
"a. 1875. and recorded In the Registers office OF the
County of Hudson, ON pages 81, etc, in Book 2s4 OF
Deeds for said county, Of which said premises the
said Henry oNeil, died, seized. and which by his
last will and testament, duly admitted to probate
and recorded, ETC., were devised to the said
oNeill, deceased. to have and TO hold to her, her
heirs and assigns forever.
Dated June Y, 1853.
ROBERT DAVIS. Sheriff.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
WHERE CHRISTIANS SUFFER.
Stories of Fearful Persecution Come from
Albania.
BIZ Cable to the United Press.

BIZ Gable to the United Press.
LONDON, August 9, 1SS9.-A wall of dis
tress comes today from the Christian pop
soon be heard in the British Parliament
For years the Christians in that country
have suffered the most revolving cruelties
at the hands of their turkish masters.
When recently these became unbear.
mittee to the Turkish Governor al
Scutari praying for relief. Every mem
Der of this committee, which consisted OF
the most prominent members of the
Christian community, was promptly put
in jail by the Governor, and they are
! there yet. -
Then the aggrieved people put their
| case in the hands of an eminent lawyer.
who undertook to lay the facts before the
government at Constantinople. This
lawyer, Achmet Ali Bey, q Turk and d
| Mohammedan, when on the point of start
| ing on his mission. was arrested by order
| of the Governor and has not yet been re.
leased.
Not content with this, shopkeepers and
| innkeepers who supplied food and drink
| to the unfortunate committees who from
| time to time came to seek Justice are also
| imprisoned, while the Christians them
selves are invariably so treated.
Tit chief cause OF complaint on the
part of the Christians is that the police
| authorities in a large number Of the
towns where they reside are in league
with thieves and robbers, who make q
business of plundering them alone.
More than this, they charge that the DO
| lice themselves organize the bands of rob
bers and cutthroats and direct theil
| operations, taking themselves the lions
share of the booty.
No offense against a Christian receives
any attention, and when the unfortunate
people attempt to defend their persons OIL
their property, they are at once impris
oned. One of these protected robbers re
Gently kidnapped two children aged eighl
and ten, sons of a Christian Of
Tirana, and now holds them foi
a ransom of $4,000 piastres, threatening to
kill both If the money is not Forthcoming,
The matter has been brought to the at
tention of influential members of Parlia
ment, and the attention of the govern.
ment will be called to it in the House al
an early day.
The proposed visit of the Shah to Con.
stantinople has fallen through, all be.
cause of a failure to agree upon the ETH
quette to be observed on the occasion
The Sultan is too high and mighty
a parsonage to go down to the
dock to greet the Shah on his
arrival, as other European potentates
have done, and the Shah is too big a CUR
altogether to make his call at the Sultan's
lodgings. So there can't be any visit anC
the Shah on his return trip will give Con
stantinople a wide berth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02

crows there, it will rain before morn
ing"
A little boy ran into the room, cry
ing out
"Oh. grandma, look! Here's a cop
per | found in the road"
I'm not a bit surprised. Don't you
remember, Tommy, that you dreamed
of finding a nest of hens eggs last
night? ! told you then that you'd
lind some money before a week"
A young woman was washing on a
porch back of the house, and the OLD
lady cried OUT ;,
There, there, Susan, if you haven't
splashed soapsuds all W. the front OF
your dressl And if you don't get a
drunken husband for it Pm wonder
fully mistaken. I've known that sign
to come true often and often. But
you can keep it from coming true by
hanging all the clothes on the line
wrongside out, and you'd better do
it,
So Susan did, as the traveller no.
ticed, to his great amusement.-E~-
change.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02

WE rejoice to hear that there is
harmony again in the Linden Avenue
Church choir. We know some cholrs
where there never will be harmony SO
long as the principles of acoustics re-
main as they are, but Pastor Keifer's
choir, we learn, is not one of these.
In regard to this matter of the organ
lists, we would suggest the eonsidera-
ton that there are many good people
who think that Mr.. Cleveland should
have been President, but he isn't.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
RUN STIRRED THEM UP.
His Remarks About Town Rents En-
ragged Union Hill Officials.

His Remarks About Town Rents En-
ragged Union Hill officials.
When Charlie Ruh-his friends all call
him Charlie-wants to make the town of
Union Hill lively he succeeds. He has at
close intervals been doing this for a num-
Der of years. The last known effort of his
took place at a meeting of the Common
Council Wednesday night, where he made
n of his irrepressible speeches. He ac-
cused some official, so it is said, with hay
ing received and used for his individual
be nefit moneys collected from persons
who have leased some of the town prop
erty.
Mr.. Rub failed to make known the name
of the official, and hence the feeling
among the town government of 81 wonder
if he meant me-"
Every one in the town is talking about
the accusation. but no one seems to be-
lieve the charge to be true. Councilman
Rub, himself, does not, for yesterday he
denied to me in most emphatic terms that
he even alluded to such athing.
Il don't know any official who is receiv-
ing money and not turning it over to the
town, and as | before said, | never made
such a statement" said the Councilman
as he left me at the door.
Wondering what the other Councilmen
had to say | sought j. A. Ross at his
home. He declared as emphatically as
Mr.. Rub had denied that the statement
was made by Mr.. Rub. Mr.. Ross said he
was at the meeting and heard Rub make
the charges and that he was asked to
name the official and refused.
Town Treasurer Braunstein was next
found n he showed me his books and
the entries made OF the money paid by
those who leased property from the town.
Only two persons do this, T. j. Won
Atzingen and George Fieberling, and the
entries on the books show that no rent is
due before October 90 and November 5.
'"This statement, said to have been
Treasurer. "But a short.time ago Mr..
Fieberling called at my office and told
me he had heard a report that he paid no
rent, and / showed him, as | did you, the
books and entries. He owes nothing.
There used to be a third maj who leased
property from the town whose name was
Butt. He has not done so for q long
time, and 1 think that the property he
had is that occupied by Won Atzingen at
present."
Town Clerk Ferdinand Ahles was
more than indignant at the charges of
Mr.. Rub.
81 was at the meeting" said he to me,
land / heard him make the remark. 1t
was unwarranted and uncalled for. The
money due the town for leased property
is all paid to me and turned over to the
Treasurer. There is not a dollar owing
the town for rents, You have my author
ity for saying that / heard Rub say some
official was collecting this money and
using it for his personal benefit"
The Finance Committee of the Council
has begun an investigation.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
A Matter for oongratulation

An interview with Mayor Cleveland,
which appears in another column, in
dicates that the main, if not the only
differences between the city and the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as
to the plan of track elevation, have
been adjusted. The depression OF
the streets beneath the trestles, SO as
to give the needed space in the clear
for the passage of vehicles, would
have been a disagreement of the city
that not even the warmest enthusiast
on the question of track elevation
could have approved.
Engineer Brooks has happily found
it possible to change his plans SO as to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02

leave the chief street grades I'M
touched. Now let the work go on as
speedily as possible. The death traps
at grade crossings cannot be got out OF
the way too soon. If Mr.. Bonn would
only supplement the good work by
fastening the arrangement with the
Erie Railroad for the tunneling OF its
track, the people would have addi-
tional cause for congratulations.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
This paper Is Democratic IN principles
and is Independent IN its vteaos ON all
local questions.
Living Backwards.

In an interview with DR.. William M.
Hammond, the World yesterday
printed a number of interesting and
remarkable statements regarding DIR.
Brown-Sequard's alleged Elixir of Life,
recently discovered.
It appears that the elixir is obtained
by MASKING or pounding in a mortar
certain selected morsels of animal
flesh, pouring a small quantity Of
water upon the mass, and then strain
ing off the fluid carefully. The fluid
is hypodermically injected into the
system of the patient, and DR.. Ham
mond, who has tried it OF himself and
several other persons, says the results
are extraordinary.
We should judge they were, if we
are to literally accept the concluding
utterance of the doctor-not only ex-
traordinary, but also more or. less in
convenient. Says DR.. Hammond
'Dr. Brown-Sequard's calculation is
that a hypodermic injection once a
month will suffice to keep a man
twenty Or thirty years younger than
he really is"
This reminds US of the story of the
man who, having the fullfilment of a
wish bestowed upon him as a magic
gift, wished to grow young again.
No immediate result was apparent,
but in year OIL two his friends began
to notice the development of a giddi-
ness which i'll comported with the
lapse of years. His eye grew brighter.
his skin more smooth and delicate, his
whiskers more attenuated, and still
more 10 until they disappeared alto
gether. Younger and younger he
grew, until the need for sending him
to college was apparent, and there he
slipped away from class to class, UNI
til at last he slipped through the
medium of the entrance examination
back into school. Baseball delighted
him for a year, then tops and marbles,
and about the time he relapsed into
knee breaches, candies and toy whips
and reins absorbed his soul.
Not to waste words, he glided as the
years few by from breaches into kits,
and from kills to swaddling clothes,
with all their accompaniment of
bibs, and caps and what not. He
ceased in due time to take notice."
and at last a serious crisis in his in
fantile history drew near; weeks di-
minished to days, and days to hours,
and the situation became, to say the
least, embarrassing, when a careless
nursemaid solved the difficulty. She
rashly exposed the tender infant to a
draught of air. Pneumonia ensued,
and the poor baby died at a period of
existence equivalent to two hours,
old.
If DR.. Brown Sequard's ideas come
true, by an easy process n may hope
to reach a stage of existence many
years anterior to his birth. Truly the
progress of science is a wonderful
thing.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
ApvE-RrrsrngNrrs UYpER THE HEAD OF
MApnI ANEC AND DEATHS 4


ADvERrIsEMENrs UNDER THE HEAD OF
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
VIII be inserted in the JERSEY CITY NEws anu
the SUNDAY MoRNINa News at the rate OF yen
cents a line for the first insertion; JtUe cents aN"e
tor each subsequent insertion.
DIED.
DAWES-Sudd emily, Friday. August 2 lsS9, An Te
son of Margaret and the late Anure" DH"e''
aged sixteen years and four months
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
~LEONARD.-On Thursday, August l. 1889, Mary 1ne
beloved wife OF Timothy Leonard aged my
seven years.
fully invited to attend the funeral from ner ll.e
residence, No, 217 First street, on saturday aver
noon, August 3. .
McGINNIS.-In thisI city, August ], s89, Edward
McGinnis, aged sixty two years.
Funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon al
two O'Clock.
M~cCLURE-On Thursday. August ], 1889, Mary wire
of Arthur Mcclure, aged ftftyseven years.
Relatives and friends OF the family and members
of Sumner Lodge, No. 1870, l. o. O. f., are inVlIeu "
attend the funeral from her late residence, No, ~.
Belleville avenue, Marion, on Saturday, August ., Nv
two O'Clock p. IN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
O

Pilot Edward Durham, of the Pennsylvania
Ferry, is said to have crossed the Hudson River
oftener than any other man.
Tax Commissioner NJ. j, ODonnell will prob
ably be a candidate for the Assembly this fall.
City Clerk John Scott goes to Asbury Park
every afternoon. .
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
From, the Troy Times.

FROM tHS 1fVB tWeo'
What amount of companionship ex-
lists between the American woman and
the mann He starts for his office as
o on as his breakfast is hurriedly swal-
lowed. He does not come home at
lunch hour. He is barely in season
for dinner. Possibly he belongs to a
club and has an engagement as soon
as dinner is done. Ii not that his
head is in bank or counting house,
and he studies the stock quotations IN
the nights paper and counts as
against a possible rise of wheat the
days gossip with which his wife is
overlooking small potatoes. They
have callers or they go to opera
or theatre. 1t may easily hap
pen that they do not spend
ten minutes in conversation with each
other during the day. American men
are always in a hurry. The con-
ditions of modern life separate them
from women. The lives of men grow
o and more simple-business com.
prehends the whole. The lives OF
women grow more complex-every-
thing which is not business is given
owe to them. A man past the
romantic epoch who honestly enjoys
talking with women is not an average
mortal. The everyday sort of man
takes pains to be detained somewhere
until all the guests have departed
from his wife's six o'clock tea. The
couple live in different worlds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
Jimmy Norton Proteeted.

Assemblyman James f. Norton entered
upon his duties as clerk of the First Dis
trict Court this morning. He has been a
man for years, and a well
informed one, too. Being an employee of
the Police Department he is protected
from removal at any time exception cause
by the Tenure of Office act.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02
NELLIE FALLoN.
Notices to Creditors.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of John w. Harper, Deceased.
Richard t. Battersbee. administrator of John W.
Harper. deceased, by order of the Surrogate of Hud-
son county, dated June II, 1889, hereby gives no.
tice to the creditors OF said decedent to bring in
Their debts, demands and claims, against the es.
within nine months from the date of said order, or
they will be forever barred of any action therefor
against said administrator.
RICHARD T.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-02

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.-Estate of Peter Spring
~ sted, deceased, Emily Springsted, admins
tratrix Of Peter springsted, deceased, by order Of the
1889, hereby gives notice to the creditors of said de-
cedent to bring In their debts, demands and claims
against the estate of said decedent, under oath or
Animation within nine months from the date OF
said order, or they will be forever barred OF any ac-
ton therefor against said administratrtx.
EMILY SPRINGSTED.
NOTICE TO CREDIToRs.- ESTATE OF MARY
IN A. Roney, deceas0d.-Nanc A. Roney, executrix
Of Mary A. honey, deceased, by order OF the Sur
rogate of Hudson county, dated July IlS, 1889,
hereby gives notice to the creditors OF said decedent
to bring In their debts, demands and claims against
the estate of said decedent, under oath or afdrmar
ton within nine months from the date OF said order,
or they viii be forever barred OF any action therefor
asaans' sa'a sAs'uu'N NANCY a. RoNEY.