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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTE FACTORIES.
What an Englishnan Learned About
Them Hint From an Old Smoker.

The bales are opened as required,
and the various leaves mixed SO that
four different priced qualities result,
the best kind being that in which there
is the least Smyrna tobacco and the
least percentage of large leaves. If
cigarettes are made exclusively of the
best leaves, which are light yellow
brown in color and measure only four
by two inches, the aroma is very pleas
ant, but the smoker gets headache
after about five of them. The middle
leaves when dry, measure about seven
by four and half inches, and the low
est leaves of all are considerably larger.
Cairo air is so dry that leaves must be
damped with water here before being
cut, but in Alexandria this is not neces-
sary. English-made machines cut up
the leaves, and on the following day
the cigarettes are rolled by Greek,
Syrian, or Jewish workmen. A clever
workman can roll as many as fifteen
hundred day.
The cigarettes are then carefully
overhauled by an expert, left week
to dry, and then packed in tin boxes
for sale. They should, of course, be
kept, as is too often the case in Eng
land. So much for the tobacco; now
for the paper. All large Cairo firms
employ one kind of paper only, which
is made by half English company at
Fiume, near Trieste. 1t comes to
Alexandria in foolscap sheets, and is
there cut up in the required size. 1t is
not known how it is made, or whether
it is chiefly rice straw; but the mer-
chants here all VOW that it is the best
they can get. If one is right in sus-
pecting the paper instead of the tObac-
co. it might be well to try to get cigar
cites rolled in tobacco leaves instead
of paper.
The only other ingredient left to con-
slider is the starch for joining the pa
per. This is used with thin stick by
the men who roll the cigarettes. |
may say each workman is allowed to
smoke as many cigarettes (say forty)
as he likes during his work, and Is
presented with ten every night to take
home with him. The first establish
ment that visited only came into be-
ing five years ago, but now has three
branch shops in London and one in
Bombay, Berlin and New York. The
proprietors only sell l per cent of
their cigarettes in Egypt. but export
100000 week to England, besides
400, 900 weekly to India, Europe, China,
Australia, etc.
Ny second visit was paid to a WELL
known purveyor who exports 100000
week to England alone, where | saw
one hundred men rolling cigarettes,
and bales full of the best tobacco
leaves. At the third house [ was
shown several bales of Jobeck tobacco
from Yenidje. This consists of speci-
ally selected leaves, and is the finest
possible from Turkey. This proprietor
sends about $1,000 every week to
England. My fourth visit was to
man | had never heard of before, but
who was keenly alive to the CORES
pondence in the English newspapers.
He sends every week more than $4,000
cigarettes to England, and a greater
quantity to Germany.
Although in smaller line OF bust
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02
Ode on an Empty Pipe.

Pleasant pipe, companionable clayl
Empty-Ike thy luckless masters pockeA
Hreless as cares candle burned away,
Long ere daybreak, to the very socketl
when q cove Is penniless and dry,
Having whitfield the last of his small Wnack.
he
Can do naught but pouch his pipe, and cry,
Heigho 'baccy!
Heigho 'baccy. I tan understand
How the lag" in lonely cell longs Tor thee;
How the stOrm-tOssed sailor, far from lano,
Yearns in nights long watch TO "DloW or
'chor" thee.
Comfortable weedl Out on the churls.
Scientific prigs, and saWbOnes quacky,
Who find mischief in thy fragrant wh1rls.
Heigho 'baccyl
When the Unless toiler draws his belt
With a trembling hand tri1e tighter
To compress that vacuum each has felt
Who with poverty has been fighter,
II his lips may but caress his clay.
Though cash will not run to glass or snack,
he,
with recovered pluck can peg away.
Heigho 'baccyl
When cold care confronts one in life's road,
When bereavement chills thy lonely 1ngle,
When sharp disappointment yields its goad,
When chap is seedy, stumped, sad, single
They however sage ones chide or croak.
Spite of doctor harsh, fanatic cracky.
There is comfort in quiet smOkel
Heigho 'baccy!
Punch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02
On Equal Terms.

"Sir," said she, do you expect me,
a saleslady at Tapely & Jaxon's dry
goods emporium, to marry common
clerk?" 81 am not a common clerk"
he answered; 81 am salesgent." She
fell into his arms and murmured, ~
am thine. "-Terre Haute Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02

and eXtracted-a diamondI x0u
see, the fellow had read that the dig
gers in the African mines sometimes
used this way for concealing valuable
gems, and he tried ii. He was the
most crestfallen invalid you ever saw,
for, besides having had all his suffer-
ing for nothing, he was out about S12,-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02
In Boston.

Mrs. Berkely: Have you seen
those new prayer-rugs at Pherr's?"
Mrs. Ciaundose: Yes, Aren't they
lovely? But do you know since the
Concord school has made the occult SO
popular I'm getting to prefer my tiger
mat for supplicative purposes "-Ii0.e
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
NotlCe to Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE e AT
- the Office of the Board of Street and Water Com
m1SS1oners on Monday, December "a, 1885, at ten
O'Clock a. M. for the Improvement of
LINDEN AVENUE,
from
GARFIELD AvENU
to
OLD BERGEN ROAD,
In accordance with plans and specifications on file
in the office of the Chief Engineer. corner Of Jersey
avenue and Mercer street, where blank forms OF
tanned.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 5000 cubic yards of earth excavation.
About l,00O cubic yards of Sand or gravel filling.
About 5,1D square feet of stone paving.
About 20 lineal feet of new curb stone.
About 100 square yards of repaving.
About 300 lfneal feet OF reset curb stone.
About 50 square feet of relaid bridge stone.
About 10 manhole heads reset.
About 2 basins newl
Time allowed for the completion of the work,
one hundred tlOU working days.
The making of the above improvement and award
Of the contract therefor will be subject to the re-
monstrances OF the owners of the property liza bic
to more than one-half the assessment therefor.
endorsed Proposals for Improvement OF Linden
Avenue" directe to az. A. Dugan, ESQ. Chairman
of the Committee on Streets and Sewers and
handed to the Clerk of the Board in open meeting
when called for in the order OF business relating to
sealed pZOpoSals.
No city oficiaI will be accepted as surety, nor will
a substitution OF sureties be allowed.
Section 10. OF the 'New Charter of 1885," under the
terms whereof no contract shall be binding upon
the city until the bondsmen, offered by the con.
Finance, the President OF. said Board having power
to examine the proposed bondsmen under oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water Com
EoRGE 7. BoUToN..
Clerk.
Dated Jersey City. n. j., December 6. 1889.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
RAILROAD NOTES

The finishing touches have been put on
road in Hoboken. Next spring the old
freight house in the yard will be torn
down and a new one will be built else
where. The train shed will then be
heightened sixty feet. Numerous other
changes will be made.
The. Reading Railroad is buring 200
coal cars per day because they are old
fashioned. Why not give the wood to
some OF its poor employees in the mines?
The railroad from Peapack to Potters-
town is being built by farmers who grade
and furnish ties and will take their pay
in stock. Mendham people had subscribed
literally and will roll up their sleeyesand
go to work in the same manne to obtain
the promised extension of the road from
Peapack to Morristown.
Sixty feet more will be added to the
length of the Hoboken passenger train
sheds in the spring and the old office
building will be torn down.
The Clifton and Guttenburg races are
off until December %, after which they
will be held on alternate days. In conSe-
quence, the special trains by the Erie
Railroad have been suspended until the
date of IecommenCement of the Clifton
races. Ticket Agent Newman says that
will be an extra big day for the road.
An unusually large Western freight was
being handled yesterday at the long shed
south OF the Erie Railroad depot. Ii
consisted of sugar aud syrupS, chiefly,
for the. Chicago market.
A recent notice relative To the Erie
Railroad depot speaks Of passengers com
planning of being unnecessarily detained
in the passageway leading from cars to
the ferry on their arrival at Jersey City.
We have Investigated the matter, and
find the arrangement to prevent crowd
ing and confusion to be wise, and in the
interests of the passengers. The rule is
that when q crowded race train arrives ut
Jersey City, and a boat is just landing its
the gates are kept closed I'M
til after the passengers are landed. This
is lone to prevent a rush, confusion and
perhaps accident, and the officials act
wisely in enforcing the rule.
Freight Conductor Frank S. Brewer, OF
the Pennsylvania road, was found lying
deae on the top of a freight car at Sea
Girt one night last week. He was struck
by a low bridge.
A few days ago a high embankment al
Springtown, on the Central road, slit
outward leaving 200 feet of rails suspend
ing in the air. The washout was discovered
in time to prevent a fast passenger from
being ditched.
Conductor Howard Stanley, of the M
& r. division, has exchanged runs with
Conductor John Lang. He found tina
the night air did not agree with him. Il
his health does not improve he will prob
ably return to The West and remain
there.
In his address tt the Brotherhood o.
Locomotive Engineers. Chieg Arthur saiC
that the membership is over 81, 600, anC
during the year just ended it had paid OH
to widows n orphans and disabled
members $206 GOO, making a total sine,
the organization of the brotherhood .
81 8O6. 1863.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13

wife intense mental a~nguish-and the
Judge annulled our marriage i'll solemn
form.
II went back to New York. In five
years | made my pile. / came back to
England and gave u doctoring. l never
inquired after Aurea-I was a great deal
too angry-and / once more became a
British subject. One day / was walking
through Cornwall gardens, Kensington,
when l met a servant girl who seemed
in a state of great excitement, and who
spoke to me.
"'Oh, SIR said she, where is the near
est doctors? / am a stranger here, and
I've been sent to fetch one, and he was
out, sir, and our little boy is dying
Perhaps 1 can be of use to you," 1
said; "Tm a doctor"
"This way, then, please, sir" cried the
girl, and she began to run, and l ran af-
ter her.
We entered a house, and l followed
the servant girl up to the second floor.
BY the side of a little bed sat a woman
weeping bitterly, her face buried in her
hands. Ny professional instincts were
naturally concentrated upon the C
pant of the bed, a beautiful child of
8, who was apparently at his last
gasp and gradually choking to death.
His face and hands werS blue, his eyes
were bloodshot, and his lips were almost
black. There wasn't a moment to be
lost. I whipped out my pen knife and
improvised a tube from some Indian
reeds which formed a trophy on the
wall. Then I cut down upon the child's
windpipe; l introduced the tube and
carefully secured it. Within five min
utes the breathing was natural. l had
snatched the child from the very jaws of
death; and then | turned to the mother,
who stin sat sobbing at the bedside.
"'Your boy will get well now, madam
l said; I'm glad to have been of use to
YOU didn't take much notice of the
mother. l was still gazing at the child;
he was a lovely boy, and as he looked at
me he smiled, and in that smile and in
those great dark eyes of his there WA
something that seemed strangely ia
miliar.
"sOh, doctor, how can I thank your
sobbed a soft voice. you've saved my
little mans life, and he's all I have in
the world. How a / thank you?
.'And then / turned toward her, and
my heart began to beat within my breast
as if it would break the bony walls. 1t
was Aurea, the woman to whom l had
caused mental anguish the wife who
had divorced me.
"This big, bushy beard of mine was
an effectual disguise. She hadn't the
slightest idea, poor thing, that she was
talking to the man who had been her
husband.
"And then she seized my hand and
covered it with kisses in her great de-
light.
at was my own boys life that I had
saved.
"sYou used to kiss me ON the cheek.
Aurea, once I said simply
"Then she sprang to her feet, gazed
with astonishing eyes into my face and
fell fainting in a heap upon the floor.
"You can guess the end of the story"
said the bearded man. "Aurea became
a British subject, and we were married;
and by English law, you know, no
amount of mental anguish can dissolve
our union. But, indeed, | may smoke
as many cigars as I like now without
causing Aurea mental anguish; she has
quite got over her aversion to tobacco"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13

EVA'S FAMILIAR STORY.

Told in a New Way in the United Presby-
terrain Church.
eva" a musically illustrated sketch
arranged from the ever poprlar drama
"Uncle Toms Cabin" was given last
evening in the United Presbyterian
Church on Summit avenu
That part of the pretty story in which
Eva figures was told by Pastor Biddle,
and was i~nterspersed with singing by the
children. The new entertainment is sure
to become popular.
The first part of the programme in
cluded a recitation by Miss Mamie Scott;
piano playing by Amy Whythe, and q
duet by both young ladies; and a grand
solo by Miss Mattel.
The entertainment was for the benefit
of the Sabbath school.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13

from
to
BOWERS STREET,
in accordance with plans and specifications on Ole
in the office OF the Chief Engineer, corner of Jersey
avenue and Mercer street, where blank FORMS or
bid and agreement of slIetfes must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About t0 cubic yards OF earth excavation.
About lnl cubic yards of rock excavation,
About 40 cubic wards of sand or gravel Filling.
Ahont g. O0 square yards OF stone paving.
About $40 lineal feet of new curb stoue.
About ltl lineal feet of reset curb stone.
About 10 square feet of Bridge stone.
About 5 manhole heads TO he reset.
Time allowed for the completion OF the work
seventy five 90 working days.
The making of the above Improvement and award
of the contract therefor will be subject to the re-
monstranee of the owners OF the property liable to
more than one half the assessment therefor.
No city Official will be accepted as surety. nor viii
a substitution of sureties he allowed
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envelopes,
endorsed Proposals for Improvement of Sherman
avenue directed TO "E A. Dugan, Esq.
Chairman OF Committee on Street and sew
ers," and handle d 10 the clerk Of the
Board in open meeting when called for In the
order or business relating to sealed proposals.
The attention Of bidders is especially called 10
Section IL of the New Charter OF 1881" under the
the city until the bondsmen offered by the con
traitor have been approved by the. Hoard OF Fin
ance, the President OF said Hoard having power TO
examine the proposed bondsmcn under oath.
BY order of the Board OF Street and Water Com
GEO. r. BoUToN, CLERK.
Dated Jersey City, December 6. 1889.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
MONMOUTH STREET

o'clock a. M, for the CONSTRUCTION OF q sewer ia
NINTH STREET,
from
to
in accordance with plans aud specifications on file
In the Office Of the Chief Engineer. corner or Jersey
avenue aud Mercer street. where blank forms OIL
bid and agreement of sureties must ne oDtaiheu.
or QUANTITIES -
About 8S0 lineai feet OF 2Iinch brick sewer.
About 4.0El lineal feet of piles,
About g. U0 feet b. Nj. of stringers-
About TWO new receiving basins.
About lu.UN0 feet b. NJ. of flooring.
About ~ cubic yards OF coucrete.
Time allowed for the completion OF the Work
sixty tGW working days.
The making OF the above Improvement and the
award OF the contract therefor Will pc supJecl 70
the remonstrance of the owners OF the properly
liable to more than one.half the assessment there
for.
No city official will be accepted as surety, nor
will a substitution OF sureties be allowed.
Proposals must he enclosed in sealed envelopes.
directed to 'E. a. Dugan, ESD. Chairman OF Com
mittee on Streets and Sewers" and handed to the
Chairman OF the Board in open meeting when
called for In the order of business relating 10 seatso
The attention OF bidders is especially called to
section Is OF the New Charter of lSS9,' under the
terms whereof no contract shall be binding UPON
the city until the bondsmen offered by tne con
nance, the President OF said Board having power 10
examine the proposed bondslnen under OATH
BY order Of the Board Of street and Water Com
Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
CHERRIES SALE IN cHANcERY IN NEW

SHERIET,s SALE IN cHANcERY IN NEW
Between the Lafayette Mutual Building and
Loan Association of Jersey City, complainant. and
Robert Ffndlay, ct al, defendants.
Fl. IA. tor sale of mortgaged premises.
Returnable February Term, 1880.
Wallis. Edwards and Bumsted. Solicitors.
By virtue OF the above stated writ TO me direct
ed and delivered l shall sell by public vendue az
i. G. WoIbert's Heal Estate and Auction Rooms, No.
AZ Montgomery street, Jersey City, on
THURSDAY, the Twenty sixth day December. A.
D.. 1889,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon, all the following
described stock. land. and premises with the APP
purten ances, being the same described In said
writ. that is to say
Nine shares of the capital stock of the com plain
ant corporation. assigned by William Keeney, to
the complainant as collateral security to the pay
ment OF its said mortgage. and further assigned by
said Keeney to the defendant Robert Findlay, sub
ject to such hypothecation, and that certain mort.
gagged premises with the appurtenances. in the bill
OF complainant in the said cause particularly set
forth and described, that Is to say
All that certain lot, piece or parcel OF land and
premises, situate, lying and being 10 Jersey City, in
The County Of Hudson and State of New Jersey. and
which on a certain map entitled, snap Of Laray-
cite, one mills from Jersey City Ferry, Hudson
County, N. j." filed in Hudson County Registers
Office Is more particularly bounded and descritRd
" side of Halliday street. distant one hundred and
twenty feet northeasterly from the northeasteriy
corner OF Halliday street and johnson avenue.
formerly Walnut street, thence running southeast
hundred feet, thence nortbeasterly and parallel
with Halliday street, twenty five Feet, thence
northwestesiy at right angles to Halliday street,
one hundred feet, thence southeasterly along the
easterly line OF Haliaday street. twenty five feet
to the point or place of beginning. Being lot
twenty seven on block eighteen OF the aforesaid
map.
Dated November 16, 1889.
ROPER DAVIS, Sheriff.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
Fell AMONG New York sharpers.

Albert Cannon, of Seaford, Del, was
a~rraigned before Justice Stilsing this
morning charged with being drunk and
disorderly. He told the justice that he
had fallen into the hands of New York
sharpers on the Bowery who got away
with all his money. He asked the JUS
tice to let him pawn his overcoat to pay
his fine and promised to hustle immedi
ately in the direction of the Diamond
State. He was remanded.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
Notice to Contractors.

SEALEDPRoPosALs WILL BE RECEIVED ATTHE
y once Of the Board Of Street and water Commits
siouefs on Monday, December "a 1881. at ten
o clock a. IN. for the construction off, sewer in
NINTH STREET,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
Notice to Contractors.

"A WILL BE RECEIVED AT
= the office OF the Board of Street aud Water
Commissioners on Monday. December Is. 1883. az 10
o'clock a. H.. for the improvement OF 4
SHERMAN AVENUE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13

For upwards of nifty years Mrs. wiNsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP has been used by millions OF
mothers for their children while teething with
never~failtng safety and success. It Boothes the
child. softens the gums. allays all pam. regulates
the bowels, cures wind collie and is the best acme ~
for dfarrhoea- .MRs. WiSsLowAs SOOTHING SYRup"
Is for sale by druggists in every part or the world
Price twenty-five cents = uottLs.*s'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13

A n ORDINANCE FOR THE RELIEF OF +. A.
IA McCreery In construction of Bay Windows In
buildings $40 and S2 Summit avenue.
as foilows:-
Section J. That !. A, Mccreery shall DO, ana he is
hereby granted permission to construct and main
Tain two bay windows above the frst floor of
buildings $40 and $40 Summit avenue, which win
dows may extend two ca feet six 90 Inches beyond
the building line OF Summit avenue, any ordinance
to the contrary Notwithstanding the work to be
done under the supervision Of the Inspector OF
Buildings,
CHARLES W. ALLEN.
President
JoHE +, SeoFT,
City Clerk.
0REsTEs CLEVELAND.
Mayor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13

UHE MILD WEATHER of
the last few weeks is at an
end, and now we may expect
Winter in earnest.
OUR LADIES need not worry,
nor need they depend on
their worn Garments Of last
Winter, even if their purses
are light.
WE DISPLAY a magnificent
assortment of LADIES'
u. ur,.nnnuo
and K in Plush and
other seasonable materials,
which can be had by the
payment of a small portion
of the price at time Of pur-
chase.
THE FIRM by its clever meth
cd of Credit, delivers the
goods at once, allowing the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-13
Notice 10 Contractors.


SEALED WILL BE RECEIVED AT
Commissioners on Monday. December %, 1859, at ten
O'Clock a. NJ. Tor the improvement OF
AVENUE
from
OCEAN AVENUE
OLD BERGEN "A
in accordance with plans and specifications on file
in the Office of the CHIEF Engineer, corner OF Jersey
bid and agreement of sureties must be Obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 2OU0 cubic yards earth excavation.
About 80 cubic yards sand or gravel fiing-
About 4.50l square yards stone paving.
About ~ lineal feet new curb stone.
About IS square feet new bridge stone.
About 100 square yards repaving.
About l,SuD liueal feet reset curb stone.
About 6O square feet relaid bridge stone.
About receiving basins new.
Time allowed for the com pletion of the work sew
enty-five t5( working days. The making, OF the
above improvement and award OF contract there
for will be subject to the renionstrancc OF the own
es of the property liable to more than pne-haIf the
assessment therefor.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envelopes,
endorsed proposals for the Improvement OF Dan
forth avenue directed to e. =. Dugan. ESQ. chair
man OF the Committee on Streets and Sewers, and
handed to the clerk OF the Board in open meeting
when called for Ia the order of business relating TO
sealed proposals.
No city Official will be accepted as surety, nor will
q substitution OF sureties be allowed.
The attention of bidders is especially called to
terms whereof no contract shall be binding upon
the city until the bondsmen offered by the contrac-
tor have been approved by the Board of Finance.
the President OF said Board having power to exam
Inc the propo, ed bondSmen under oath.
BY order of the Boarc of Street ana Water Com
m1ssloners. GEORGE T. BOUTON,
Clerk.
Dated Jersey City. pecember 6. 1889.