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Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

here below for an old maid as for any
body else. Suppose they were without
husbands? Husbands are not always
what the old or young maiden fancy
paints them. No more are wives always
satisfactory. Socrates is credited with
saying that whether one marries or does
not marry, he regrets it. If the Misses
Boggs had married, they might have got
husbands whom they would have had to
commit suicide to get rid of. Women
have done the like, more than once.
But the gravest possible mistake one
can make is to take for granted that his
personal love, personal comfort and
happiness play very large figure in the
plan of this universe. Whoever pursues
these aims alone finds they invariably
elude him at last, like Will o the Wisp.
If the Misses Boggs wanted children,
there was a world full of forlorn, home
less babies, many of them quite as sweet
and pretty as any possible Boggs' babies
would have been. How much they could
have added to human happiness by
adopting four or five little waits and
giving them home and education! Then
there was the whole world of ideas be-
fore them-study, travel, science, art
and music. Humanity stumbles blindly
and painfully on, seeking always the
better way in everything, thankful al
ways to people who show it the better
way. All of lis owe it to the race to give |
some part of our time to aiding the rest. |
In philanthropy, in helping mankind to
prosperity, to better, wiser, sweeter
ways of living, there is work enough for
a million single women, heaven knows!
1t is sometimes necessary to pass
through sea of troubles to find at last
that the only genuine happiness is found
in giving happiness to others. Exactly
in proportion as men lose sight of the
miserable aims that end in SELF" by a
mysterious law friends, happiness and
hope will drift their way. 1t is indeed:
A miserable, petty. low rooted life,
That knows the mighty orbits Of the skies
Through naught save light or dark in its own
nahi
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

How much is Queen Victoria worth?
was question that the inquiring Mr..
Labouchere insisted on having answered
in parliament recently. Well, the frugal
minded old lady has private fortune of
twenty-five and a half million dollars to
begin with. Then she gets salary Of
two million dollars from the British gov
ernment for being their figurehead-not
a very handsome one, either. She isn't
quite pauper, therefore, although she Is
beggar every time one of her numerous
posterity marries.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
Electrical Terms.

In giving his testimony to the court in
the case of Kemmler, the murderer,
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison said he had been
investigating electricity for twenty-six
years. If he were to suggest method
for the execution Of criminals, he would
put their hands in Leyden jars contain
ing caustio potash, the jars being at
tached by wires to the dynamo. He
would then apply an alternating current
Of 1000 volts, which, he believed, would
cause instantaneous and painless death.
Further he testified that the average re-
sistance of the human body to the elec-
trio current was 1000 ohms He had
once applied over wire from his Ia
boratory at Menlo Park one five-hun-
dred-thousandth part of an ampere to
the sciatic nerve of frog in Washing
ton and found very lively effect was
produced.
Being questioned Mr.. Edison said that
o continuous electric current was one
which flowed steadily in one direction,
like stream of water. An alternating
current was like a stream of water which
should flow for given time in one di-
rection, then turn and flow in the oppo-
site direction. In passing through mus
cles there would be a powerful rush of
the electric fluid through the capillary
pores, first che way, then tho other. It
would be something like zigzag light
ming, in short.
There is yet another kind of current,
the interrupted or broken, in which the
course of the fluid can be made to stop
at intervals by mechanical means. The
alternating current is the most powerful
A man could take eight volts Of the con-
tinuous current without feeling it, but
could endure no more than three of the
alternating, according to Mr.. Edison.
Most readers will here ask, What are
volts, amperes and ohms? A volt is the
unit of measure of the electric force or
pressure generated. It is nearly equal
to the amount of electro-motive power
generated by one Daniels sulphate of
copper cell. The word comes from
Volta, the name of the famous old Ital-
ian electrician.
The ampere expresses the force or
quantity of electricity which passes over
the wires. Finally, there is the ohm.
In passing over wire or other conduc-
tor, there Is always certain amount of
resistance in the conductor for the cur
rent to overcome. This resistance is an
important factor in calculating the eff
fects of electricity. The unit of measure
for the resistance is called an ohm. The
word is the name of distinguished Ger
man electrician.
To illustrate: If from battery of
1000 volts we pass over small wire a
current of many ampheres stronger than
the wire can bear, owing to the resist
ance of the wire it will become red hot
and melt. This sometimes happens to
electric lighting wires The smaller the
wire the larger number of ohms resist
ance it has, The effect of great elec-
trio current on an animal body would
be to Immunity it." Mr.. Edison said;
that is, to dry out its fluids
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Itasaay be interesting to our readers
about this time of year to know that the
mosquitoes song is pitched in the key of
A-natural.
An eminent German statistician, DR..
Albrecht, shows that the utilizing of
cheap electric motors for small and light
industries will tend to take various
trades once more into the homes Of arti-
sans. ~ viii tend to decentralize labor
and capital, to disintegrate the great
shops and factories. and may possibly
cause return to the day of small indus
trios
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

carefully, and concluded that change
is going on steadily and that the sea is
encroaching on the land. Lands which
in the early settlement of the country
were above tide level and were cultivat-
ed fields, are now below water. Finally,
within short geological period there
has been a sinking of the New Jersey
coast of from ten to twenty feet. Is 1t
good-by, New Jersey?
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

The growing influence of the laboring
classes is apparent day by day. 1t is
noticeable in the fact that Mayor Grant,
of New York, invited representatives of
various labor organizations to meet him
in conference on the question of the
worlds fair in 1892. That exposition
will not be an affair of snobbish 400,
as the centennial Inauguration was, but
an enterprise of all the people.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

three days exposure to the sun. Da-
guerre reduced the time to half an hour.
Now we have the instantaneous photo
graph. There, in three sentences, we
have the history Of the growth of photo
graph, minister and messenger of beauty
and affection, handmade of science, art,
industry and commerce, sublime reveal
or of the secrets of the sun and stars.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

The Mormons are said to be using
every device of craft and craftsmanship
to obtain possession of Idaho. They will
settle it as unsuspected bigamists, get it
admitted othe Union and pass of course
a non-polygamous constitution. After
wards, having possession of the state,
they can elect such legislatures and en-
act such laws as they please.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
Believes in Trusts.

There is at least one newspaper in the
world that is not afraid of trusts. That
is The Chicago Economist. 1t has the
courage Of its convictions and comes out
boldly in favor Of trusts. 1t presents
their chief beauties under three heads,
as follows:
l. Every objection to the trust system Is equally
valid against the existence Of manufacturing,
trading or carrying corporations.
q They cheaper the cost Of production and the
selling price of the commodities In which they
deal
s. The one thing needtul to the welfare of a ma
ton Is that the selling price Of goods should be
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Desertions have become such an evil
in the army that it is at last proposed to
adopt an old custom that was in vogue
in war time to prevent the re-enlistment
of men three or four times. The recruit
was vaccinated by the surgeon upon an
unusual part of his body. The spot was
of course known to all army surge ons,
and the scar that remained revealed the
story the soldier sought to conceal.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Ever since the Princess Louise-Fife
wedding the papers have been telling
the story that the new duke is not de-
scended from the ancient thames of Fife
at all, but that the founder of his family
was old ''Creelie Duff" who got COM
potency i'll the egg business. Well,
what of it? Wasn't that nobility in en-
bryo? Crcelie Duff was merely Matching
plans for the eggsalted position his pos
tcrity was to occupy in future. Some
people are very hard to please.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Mr.. Powderly's new idea is practically
that of a gigantic trust among working
men. He would have all the various
labor organizations. while not abandon
ing their original societies, form one
powerful combination, which shall be
able to meet and successfully deal with
those who are Interested 10 crushing out
labor organizations.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

The widow of once famous congress
man is now said to be earning her living
at collar making, although her husband
left her so rich that her diamonds alone
were worth $4,000. The trouble was
that the lady was one of those women
who have not been taught how to take
care of property.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine will
be known for generations in this coun-
try as the rain year. Through food and
rain and cloud burst, through destruc-
ton, death and suffering, the months
move on, and none can predict when the
terror will stop.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
Evolution of the Photograph


Evolution Of the Photograph.
One hundred years ago this 1889 was
born near Paris Louis Jacques Mande
Daguerre, discoverer of sun pictures.
These were first called, from him, da-
guerreotypes. Mr.. J. Wells Champney,
the artist, contributes to the August
Harper an attractive and instructive
paper on the growth of photography.
1t seems that Daguerre was 80 years
old when he publicly announced his dis
covery. Mr.. Champney fifty calls those
who had their pictures taken as far back
as 1889 victims" For they had to sit
in the blazing sun half an hour, with the
eyes tight shut and the face busted over
with white powder. Why they had to
keep their eyes shut we are not told, but
it was probably on account of the neces-
sity Of winking. The amount Of wink
ing that would have had to be done in
half an hour would have been fatal to
the picture.
Our own DR.. J. w. Draper, of New
York, was one of the first to improve on
the old process, and was able to shorten
the sitting to few minutes. In fact, to
DR.. Draper belongs the honor of first
making photography practicable for
portrait taking. Americans are moth
ing If not practical.
AS early as 1914 NJ. Joseph Nicephore
Niepce had attempted to take sun pic
lures, and succeeded few years after
to limited degree. He and Daguerre
formed partnership and kept the secret
between them. But Daguerre was much
the more skillful of the two. In 1889
the French government bought the se-
cret and gave the process to the world.
Instantly the attention of the scientific
men the world over was fixed on the
new discovery. They saw as If they
had been seers and prophets what 1t
meant. They saw with clear vision the
heavens and the earth giving up their
mysteries to the new art.
Niepce made his first picture by .
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

The Philadelphia Herald says that
Pennsylvania has more tramps to the
square mile, and more poverty stricken
non-English speaking inhabitants, than
any other state in the Union. The Her
aid oughtn't to tell on home folk like
fhnk
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Mad ell Jumi is the name of the pres
ent dervish leader who is raising the
row in the Soudan. Mad advises Eng
land to surrender to him without max
ing any more trouble, as he is going TO
conquer the worldl
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

The eastern half of Rhode Island keeps
Sunday strictly, while the western half
plays Sunday baseball games Where
upon The Boston Globe calls Rhode Island
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

The wedding of his eldest daughter re-
vealed to many in this country the fact
that the Prince of Wales has chaplain
all to himself That must be the reason
Wales is so good
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

South Dakota has already proved her
fitness to be state. She is in debt $780,
900, which is 100000 in excess of the
amount allowed by her constitution.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Like other American tourists, the mos
quito has gone from our shores to Eu-
rope this summer He was not known
there until within recent years.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

If Governor Lowrey, of Mississippi,
keeps on pursuing the Sullivan-Kilrain
prize fighting people few months
longer, somebody will be hurt yet
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Will be open as follows: Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6; Wednesday
evening, to 8, and Saturday evening, Z 40 10.
]. D. GILLESPIE, Librarian.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
'sessor-D. T. Wheaton
TOWN CLERKS

Framnas-E f Solseth, Jr, Nash PO
Darnen-H Bragg, Morris
Scott-P + Church, Morris
Stevens-John DAILY, Morris
EldOrado-A G Mackenzie. Herman
Donnelly-John Killing, Donnelly
Swan Lake-O N Dohlen, Nash
MoOre-Henry Fels, Hancock
PeppertOn-Peter Pierce, Morris
Baker-Fred DOmarus, Morris
Everglade-F w Heller, Graceville
Synnes-H = Schrapps, Morris
Rendsville-A Young, Morris
Morris-R Hall, Morris
HOrton-Dennis Dewane, Morris
Hodges-C B Park, Hancock
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

Gen. Boulanger has taken pains to
deny the report that he has killed him.
self, or that he is going to do so. Boul-
anger has no need to commit suicide.
The late elections in France prove that
he is dead already-deader than a door
nail Vive Ia reD11bliuuei
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
CuITPCu DIRECTORY

Congregational-Re J b. Fairbank, Pastor
MethOdist-Rev. Ellery, Pastor
Roman Catholic-Rev. Geo. Gaskell. Priest
Scandinavian EvnngI Luth'n-Rev. p. A.
Oietrichson, OF Scandia, Pastor
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

day of each month, in its hall. at 80 p. m
GEO. II. GILTINAN, Pres't
$. "A. FLAuERTY Rec. Sec'y
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

In 1916 the population of Philadelp hia
was 80O,000 In 1892 the estimated pop
ulat;on of New York city, including its
suburbs, is 100000. Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania contributed S1,5O0,000 to-
wards the exposition of 1876. Private
subscription added $2,305, $3.50 more. New
York city and state contributing at the
same rate in proportion to increased
population, and adding the private sub
scriptions, would produce the sum Of
S7,7SO,O00. The total home resources of
Philadelphia in 1876 for the fair, exclu-
sive of rents, were S4,2o5, $3.50. The total
home resources of New York in 1892, ex-
elusive of rents, The Economist esti-
mates will be S9,230,000.
If that is not enough to set going the
most magnificent worlds fair civiliza-
ton has ever beheld, one would Like to
know the reason why.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

A. O. [ W.-Morris Lodge, No. So, meets
each Tuesday evening at their hall
e. w. RANDALL, NJ. W
A. q. SCIIULTHIES, Recorder
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

IT. A. SOCIETY.-Father Matthew Socie-
ty, No. $50 of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Society Of America. regular meetings 1st and
Sd Sundays of each month, in Assumption
Church, Immediately after Mass. Visiting
members respectfully invited.
p. A. MCCARTHY, Pres't
E. =. O'BRIEN, Sec'y
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

JUDICIAL OFFICERS
District Judge-Hon. G. L. Brown
VILLAGE OFFICERS

President-N. II. Spur
Councillors ". Giltinan, Anton
Watzke, H. b. Wolff, SC. Murphy
Treasurer-Samuel Larson.
Recorder-W. W. Griswold
Marshal Peter Gaffney
Justices of the Peace-John ID. Gillespie,
G + Camp
AssessOr-D. Il. Wheaton
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
II. T, BEVANs, Adit

g. A. R-Overton Post, No. 90, meets I'd and
4th Fridays Of each month, at o'clock p m
n. r. SPURR, Com
HIT, BEVANS, Adit
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
"Nothfng for Old Maids"

An eldesly lady once remarked to a
pretty girl that it was very serious
matter for young woman to have a
sweetheart. The girl answered that 1t
was far more serious matter not to
have one. Certainly the two Misses
Boggs, who have committed suicide at
Point Pleasant, W. Va, agreed with the
young lady. The.two sisters were well
to do. There was no reason why they
should die by their own hand, or die at
all, apparently. But they killed them
selves, leaving pathetic note, signed by
both their names, saying there was
nothing in life for old maids"
It's melancholy story, but the sui
ch, twas founded on a gigantic misap-
!; prea snsion Of life. There is just as much
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31
CIVIC SOCIETIES

CIVIC SOCIETIES
A. F. Il A. M.-Golden Sheaf Lodge, No. 1S3,
meets 1st and Sd Saturdays of each month.
&C. HANSON, w. NJ
w w GRISwOJD Sec'y
Morris tribune., 1889-07-31

MT. LEBANON r. A. CHAPTER, No. AZ,
meets first Wednesday of each month.
JOHN HOUSE, H. p
r, H WEIJJSGTOS SeC'y
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-03
Lovers i'm the Monument.

have spoken before Of the oppor-
tunity opened to lovers by the running
of the elevator in the monument,
writes a Washington correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Telegraph. They are
taking advantage Of it. During the
past thirty days nearlp eight thousand
people have gone TO the top of the
shaft 1t is terrible height Few
old folks ascend, and to tho young it is
a delightful sensation to feel the world
slowly dropping from under their feet.
The young BRIDE or She who soon may
be, clingS closer to her companion with
little cry. and shuts her eyes. She
opens them only to look slylv up into
his face At the top he must hold her,
or she may fall. 1t is such a dreadful
way down, and the city looks so small;
the river is thread winding its way
between the hills, and all the country
round is brought into closer view.
They look away off into the world be-
yond! A long ways they look, and he
holds her just little lirmer.
And then they need not ride down,
they may go BY way of the stairs. A
long lliit III taxes, Slcp bN STEP Vouut-
ing the way slowly from this landing
TO that until they are down by the side
Of the old folks ut the base, once more
out of the raretied atmosphere, done
on the common everyday earth. Low
ers, like goats, love to climb TO some
high pinnacle. With all its fame as a
Gretua Green, there were probably
never more bridal couples in Washing
ton ut one time than there have been
during the past two weeks They all
90 up to the tor of the monument, and
the elevator man, who is no longer
young. says he feels the romance of his
earlier DAYS springing in his soul and
he adds, it's great place for lovers,
and We'll. if they aren acquainted
ON the way up they seem 10 get SOFT OF
friendly aforc they come down"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-03
Amy did not attempt to deny her

Amy did not attempt TO DENY her 70.
gard for him. She had never felt such
a deep friendship for any gentleman II
all her life. 1t was more than friepi.
ship, she admitted, with blush-itryas
love. Oh, yes, real love; but not the
same she felt for his rival.
my rival-where is hep" exclaimed
Eugene, turning pale again. Il had
hoped that was only playful mockery.
have seen no rival; where do you
keep himPn
''Oh. he lives with usr' laughed
Amy. ave are inseparable. Who.
ever loves me must love him."
"Amy, | could not have believed
that you were cruelr' exclaimed
Eugene, shocked as well as jealous.
81 congratulate my rival. but fear
you don't understand mans love, as
he may find ont to his sorrow"
II understand hs!' cried Amy. as
the parlor door was slyly pushed open,
and a lovely golden-haired little boy
peeped in, with great, wide-open blue
eyes.
Amy caught up the child and kissed
nm Win ali an eiuef sister euthuslam
for an only brother.
Come and be introduced to this
gentleman, Willie. she said, putting
him on her shoulder. This is my
brother, Mr.. Lorillard," she said de-
'murely, adding, with lovely blush,
''and the only rival in my heart that
you will ever have!"
"Oh, AmyW exclaimed Eugene, a:
a flood Of light seemed to break around
him.
Don't you really think you can love
him?n she asked.
almost rs well rs his sister," sale
her lover, as his arms EMBODIED the
two.
But it must be added that he kisseS
Amy first Saturday Ntght.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-03
Concerning Heredity.

There is no more useful philosophy
than that which has to do with the
laws of life. Profund thinkers and
spectators have occupied this field of
thought for ages, and The theme is
still so fertile that it yields bountiful-
ly under careful cultivation.
Mr.. c. b. Whitford has been plow-
ing his biological field for a number
of years, and here and there he has
turned up to the light some unique
aud plausible theories regarding the
Laws of Breeding" in arecent issue
of the Turf, Field and Frm he has
paper on "Ativism, which goes fur
Their toward showing the manner in
which reversion to ancestral type takes
place than anything of the kind yet
published. The gist of his argument
is that each organism is a double or
ganism, so to speak, and that the
minor organism, which is a copy of
the parent, carries the ancestral pecul-
iarity on to future generations, where
it crops out. The theory is not likely
to be accepted irl all its detail, but the
results are soin harmony with the gen.
eral proposition, and the argument is
so plausible, that his general plan of
ativism will no doubt command a very
respectable endorsement.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-03
Contentment.

Once there lived fair maiden, who was very
sweet aud fair.
who had eyes like purple pansies, and long,
sunny, hOwing hair,
And twas said through all the country she
was loved beyond compare.
Yet she had no wealth nor dower-justa love
ly. smiling face.
Just . kindly. gentle nature and a maiden's
winsOme grace:
But at times she Ionged for Jewels to wear
silk and costly lace,
And It CHANGED she lay a-sleeping in the gar
deI once In June.
And Tie sunlight kissed her tresses, and the
breezes sang Il tune,
Ana the roses were half Jealous all the sum-
smer afternoon.
And she dreamed OF wondrous treasures. of
a castle by The sea,
OF Prince who came 10 claim her, and whose
praise seemed melody
Like the music of the waters flowing on de-
lightfully.
And she longed for Time to pass her like a
sudden spirit flown,
For her youth to vanish quickly, and to be a
woman grown.
That the Prince might kneel before her, and
might claim her for his own.
And in part her wish was answered, for there
came 10 her one day
One who offered wealth and station, and In
dispuiable sway;
Tho she had no love to give him, yet she did
not turn away.
But I've heard a sad eyed woman stand alone
at close of day,
And her heart Is grieved and troubled, let
men praise her as they may,
For her happiness has left her-taken wings
and flown awayl
And think o friends, twere better, in tins
journey here OF ours,
Not to dream of power ard riches, nor of
stately domes and towers
But to live in sweet conteutment, like the lit
tie birds and flowers.
The Independent