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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-26
ALAS FOR GARDNER !!
A Real Fraud Investiga-
tion to Be Begun by the
Assembly Committee.
THEY WILL TEAR UP ATLANTIC.
Allan 1. McDermott to Be Counsel,
Probably---Actiye Work
Promised.

The committee, appointed by the AS
sembly toinvestigate the frauds practiced
by the Republicans in various parts Of the
yesterday afternoon in Taylor's Hotel.
&ssemblyman Mullone was on hand early
and welcomed his colleagues as they ar
rived. Those who shook his hand were
Fred Marsh and Messrs. Kalisch and
Norris. Mr.. Norris looked lonely with
out his Republican colleague, Mr.. Ward,
but took heart and Joined in the discus
sions of the committee. The meeting was
held in Room No. 49, and lasted but a
short time.
Mr.. Marsh was chosen chairman, Her
bert w. Knight, stenographer, and ex-
Assemblyman Jimmy Beckwith, of At
lantic, clerk.
The committee then adjourned to meet
at Trenton on Monday afternoon, when a
counsel Will be appointed and q plan Of
action agreed upon. 1t is probable that
Allan L. McDermott will be chosen if he
can be prevailed upon to serve, 1t is also
probable that some Republican lawyer
will be appointed to represent the minor
ity.
Foster M. Voorhees,. the leader of
the Republicans in the House
will probably be chosen although
there is some talk of Assent bly,
man James Erwin. who since his advent
in the House has come to be regarded as
one of the ablest of the young lawyers of
the State, being rendered the position.
Mr.. Marsh SAID after the meeting that
the committee would go to work i'm
mediately after the session adjourns next
week and would begin with Atlantic City.
If the House adjourns on Tuesday, as is
now probable, the committee will invade
the home of Gardner on Wednesday At
any rate they will move on that strong
hold of Republicanism on Thursday at
the latest.
The Gardner Circus.
The reaction in the Senate Investigat-
ing Committees proceedings yesterday
afternoon, after the ext ement of the
morning was not marked. The soporific
influence of the testimony extended even
to good natured Senator Adrain and his
bright jokes and flashes of wit were not
as sparkling as heretofore and the last in
ducement to wakefulness being thus re-
moved almost every one went to sleep.
Several witnesses were examined and
gave the old monotonous testimony con-
cerning the men who lived in their heuses
last election day.
proceedings became tee naeneton-
GUS even for Mr. Corhin, and at half-past
four O'Clock he concluded to give it up for
the day. The committee then adjourned
to Tuesday morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-26
Louis slapped niaria's Face.

Maria Osmer is q pretty girl of twenty
years living at No. 1876 South street, Jer-
sey City Heights. Louis Sellman, clerk
of No. 2l6 Bloomfield street, is very ar
dent young lover About six months
ago Sellman met Maria at social gath
ering on the Heights and accom- panied
her home. Before leaving he asked per-
mission to call on her. and although she
refused he persisted in calling at her
house every Wednesday and Sunday
evenings. Finally his attentions became
so persistent that Maria bolted the doQF
and refused to allow him in. This state
of affairs continued for awhile, but Louis
could not bear it, and about TWO months
ago he attempted suicide with poison
but was unsuccessful.
The attempt to posion himself, how
ever, made Maria relent, and she agreed
to accept his visits. For awhile every
thing went smoothly, but Wednesday
night something Louis said did not please
Maria, and she said she would have moth
ing more to do with him. Louis did not
attempt suicide this time, but slapped
Maria's face with no gentle force.
Maria at once went before Judge Wan
ser and had warrant issued for her
ardent lovers arrest on a charge of as
sault and battery. aud yesterday he was
arrested in Hoboken.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-26

Van HouEES's COCOA The original, most
soluble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
A CANDID PHYSICIAN.
How an Honest Medical Man Was Re.
warded for Telling the Truth.

Some people we're disc ussiug the germ
theory of disease a few evenings ago,
ard a doctor who was present laid down
the law very emphatically upon the
germ as being the physical cause, or
rather inseparable antecedent of every
known form of disease. When asked
why, il he knew so much about it, he
and the members of the profession didn't
kill the germs, or al least explain to the
public how such causes of disease might
be exterminated, he just stroked his
beard and said the germ had yet to
be discovered although it was known to
exist. Why" he said, 1--WE are only
at the beginning of medical science.
There's leprosy, which has been we'll
known throughout this world since
the Hebrews left Egypt in the time
of Pharoah, and as yet we dc
not know whether it is heredi.
tary, contagious or communicable in
any way. We know absolutely
nothing about it's causes or its cures
All we seem to know is that it is in
some way connected with such diseases
as cancer, scrofula and rheumatism, and
then little child in the room began tc
break out with whooping cough. 1t was
the beginning of the third weeks whoop.
ing, and every thing that medical skill
and careful nursing could do had been
done to relieve the little one. "You see
there" said the doctor; I'VE can't STOP
the time of that disease by one day. We
may put the child to sleep and soften
the cough little, but the germ has put
in his appearan e and must run his
course. The fact is that medical science
is now employed not so much in finding
remedies as in discovering prerentives.
And, indeed, in truer sense than Sir
Isaac Newton, we doctors are like chill.
dren picking pebbles on the shore, while
the great ocean of truth lies unexplored
before us" The strange part of the
story is that although the lady of the
house admired the doctors candor, she
determined in future 10 call in a ply.
stefan who had more faith in his own
medicines. Chicago Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
FARM AND GARDEN.
PLAIN IRuIhS.
Some OF tho Causes of Failure In
breeding.

some OF tho Causes of Failure in
Breeding.
A reader rises to ask why ii Is that In
many instances farmers who have come
into the possession of well-bred live
stock have not succeeded in producing
as meritorious animals as they had been
led to expect would result from the use
of such blood?"
Well, in the first place, the farmer
who has failed TO attain the requisite
standard of excellence may not have
had really uei-6red animals to begin
with. The terms pure-bred and soeil-bred
should not be confused. 1t is related of
Lord Rivers that when asked how he
succeeded in always having frst-class
greyhounds, he replied: 81 breed many
and hang many" Not every breeder
makes such wise use of limp. Not
all pure-bred animals are equally we'll
bred. The well-bred animal is that
which has inherited genuine merit from
his immediate progenitors, and the more
of his ancestors that were distinguished
in the same direction the better is the
breeding. Not every pure-bred animal
measures up TO this standard. Many OF
them are merely pedigreed weeds,
and the farmer who buys Of the dealer
and ''peddler" rather than the legiti-
mate breeder, while he may get beast
at a low price that can boast a herd-book
entry land therefore pass as pure-bred),
may still fall short of securing we'll
bred beast. This, it is needless TO state,
is a prolific source OF disappointment,
and suggests its own cure.
II we were to limit our reply. however,
to one single point, we should be strong
ly tempted to assert that more good
breeding stock is ruined by poor keep, q
failure to maintain the animals in an
atmosphere conducive to thrift, than by
best specimens OF the various improved
breeds are those that have been gener-
ously reared upon proper foods, allowed
plenty of liberty on pasture, and
handled by men who were too much in
love with their beasts to permit them to
be abused in any way, shape, form or
manner; and to transplant good animals,
highly developed by painstaking men,
to farms where any or all OF these ele-
ments of successful management are
wanting, with the expectation that they
will maintain their excellences and
transmit them to their progeny, is 20
expect the seed from sound, heavy
yielding grain to produce bountiful
harvest when sown in sterile soil and
turned over to the tender mercies of
poxious weeds. In other words we may
amplify the old law of transmission of
hereditary qualities by saying that like
begets like or the likeness of some an
cestor" Under Ike conditions. Neglect
and niggardly treatment will in very
few years undo the work of generations.
So many gruesome tales of woe have
been sung about the evils Of oyer-feed-
ing that some well-meaIing people de-
iberately starve all the excellence out
of their pedigreed animals.-Breeder's
Gazette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
PICKLE WORMS.
One of the Pests That Work In Gardens
How to Get Rid of Them.

One OF the Pests That work In Gardens
How to Get Rid OF Them.
The larvae of the neat cucumber
worm is often found by the wholesale
in some gardens, running the pickles or
cucumbers. The Larvae is easily recog-
nizable; 1t is about an inch long and of
yellowish white color with greenish
tinge. On each segment are few
slightly elevated shining dots, from
each of which fine hair issues. The
head of the larvae is yellow with brown
margin. The illustration herewith rep
resents the cucumber as affected; the
Larvae generally begin to appear about
the middle of July and continue their
depredations until late in September,
feeding on the flesh of the cucumber,
rendering it unfit for use, and causing
premature decay. Often several spec
linens are found On a single cucumber.
When mature. the Larvae leaves the
fruit, draws together a few fragments of
leaves, spins cocoon and in about eight
or ten days the slender brown chrysalis
changes to yellowish brown colored
moth. There is more than a single
brood, and the chrysalis of the last
passes the winter emerging as moth
the following year.
The moth, as shown in the illustra-
ton, has an irregular patch of yellow
on the fore wings, which also consti-
tutes the color of the greater portion
of the inner parts of the hind ones;
the thighs, breast and abdomen are
silvery white, giving the whole of the
under side of the body pearly appear
ance. The lower parts of the legs are
yellow. The body of the female diff
fers somewhat from that of the male:
it terminates in a small, flattened,
black brush, squarely trimmed; the
preceding segment, however, is of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
ANTi-SLAvERY CONGRESS.
A Movement to Break Up the Slave Traf.
fic In Africa.


fic In Africa.
Cardinal Lavigerie's appeal to Amer.
lea for aid in suppressing the African
slave trade should not go UNDECIDED. A
congress is soon to meet in Brussels to
consider some plan Of international
action. The Cardinal thinks that il
would be poetic justice for the emanci.
pated blacks of the United STATES to
send delegates to this congress and as.
sist in it's work This Is a very peril.
nent suggestion, which ought to meet
with favorable response. This move
ment is confined to no race or crerd, and
it deserves the encouragement and as
sistance of all Christendom. The Arabs
are desolating the Dark Continent
Their atrocities are greater, il possible,
than ever before known in the fearful
history of the slave traffic. The Car
dinal, who is especially well-in.
formed on this matter, decla es that
never since the days of Livingstone has
the slave-trade been so active and wide.
spread as at this moment. The reports
of its suppression at Zanzibar, he de.
clares, are false, and he accuses the Sui.
tan of that country OF being in league
with the slave-dealers. 1t is reproach
on the civilization of the age that the
Arabs should be allowed to continue this
traffic in human flesh. Where one
captive lives to reach the coast ten die
on the way. while the old men and WON.
en- and young children are mercilessly
killed at the start. Village after village
is decimated by one of these Arab cara
vans. The Cardinal says that an ex.
penditure of $4,000. 600 would accom-
plish the purpose of breaking up the
traffic. II this is true there should be
no difficulty n accomplishing that very
desirable end. -Philadelphia Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
LEAD PARALYSIS.
A Terrible Disease Frequently Caused by
the Use OF Hair Dyes.

N
the Use OF Hair Dyes.
Loss of color of the hair Is next to
loss OF hair in causing general anxiety.
Good. healthy hair should increase in
intensity of color up to the age Of four.
teen, and retain it's natural shade up to
middle life. The change then should
be very gradual, ard not sudden, and II
should not be entirely white before very
old age.
Premature grazing, or loss of color in
the hair, is caused often in the same way
that badness is brought on, by an un.
healthy scalp. The granular pigments
at the roots of the hairs may entirely
disappear, or lose their power of diffus-
ing the coloring matter in the growth
OF the hair. IL spear of hair is once
colored it never loses its color, but
when they push out of the follicle with
out being colored by the matter, they
never regain it
Local disturbances of nutri ton III
often cause the hair to change color in
spots. The most frequent cause of this
is neuralgia in the head, which runs
along the course of certain nerves, and
ehectually destroys the colorlng pig
mems RE best cure for this is to rub
the scalp in that locality every day, and
apply tonics such as suggested for bald
ness. This will give tone to the mus
cles, and the glands which sccrete the
oil and coloring matter.
A sudden nervous shock will also
often cause sudden loss of color in the
hair. In such cases the roots or the hair
and the glands containing the color.
ing matter are injured, and there is no
way to restore the color, except by dye-
ing. In rcsorting to this method, how.
ever. ono should know beforehand what
kind OF a preparation he is applying.
Lead paralysis has often been caused BY
using hair dyes unfortunately. -
Yankee blade
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
A Most singular story.

Mr.. Chugwater docking over his pa
per at breakfastl-Hello. Here's a
singular story. Beats any thing ever
heard Of (Sips his Coffee
Family interested Read it.
Mr.. Cbugwater-It's too long. can
tell you all about it, though, in few
words. Cutters biscuit.l
Family Gmpatientlyl-Well.
Mr.. Chugwater-It seems that Mrs.
Haggerty. wife OF Reeves Haggerty, a
blacksmith at South Bend, accidentally
swallowed "a takes bite of biscuit. J
Family teagerly)-Swallowed what.
Mr. Chugwater-A hair-pin. Thirty
seven years ago. Takes another bite. J
Never felt any inconvenience from il
whatever, though her husband Otter
consulted the doctors about the case
Last week-now comes the strangest part
of the story-another cup Of coffee, IL
YOU please. Last week She
Family Tin BREATH IS suspense)-Yesf
Mr.. Chugwater spreading potato
with his fork Died of old age.-Chica-
go Tribune
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
FACTS ABOUT pALMIsTRY.
A .Professor'' Tells What He Knows
Concerning the Art.

A sProfessors Tells What He Knows
Concerning the Art.
ook at your hand. Do you read your
character in 1T? Or. study your girls
hand, and be wise.
The science OF chironomy, or the
meaning OF the human hand, always ex.
cites curiosity; but few people under.
stand &c Can mans character DO
read on his hand as we'll as you can read
IL in his face, or by the bumps on his
head? IT'S so claimed, and the science
by which it is done is a pretty one. 1t
has many branches, all Of them we'll
worth studying.
"If the palm of the hand is skinny
ard narrow" said professor" of the
science, lit denotes timidity, feeble
mind ana want of moral and intellectual
force. IL the palm is too thick, big and
strong, 1t denotes a low intelligence
and tendency to brutality. A hol-
low, deep palm always signifies misery,
ill-luck and failure in life. Fingers
which are smooth denote tendency to
act upon instinct impulse or intuition,
rather than by reason calculation and
deduction. Knotty fingers denote a
tendency to order and arrangement.
People with short fingers are quicker,
more impulsive, act more on the spur OF
the moment, than people with long fin
gers. II the fingers are very short il
signifies cruelty and want Of tact
Long fingers denote love OF detail.
Such persons are tidy as to their appoint
ments, easily put out and very careful
about trifies. Workers in small things
always have large hands, and the con-
structors of colossal works have small
hands. Smali-handed people write
large, while large-handed people al
ways write small.
"Thick fingers denote luxury. Twist
ed and malformed fingers, with short
nails, denote cruelty, tyranny and
worrying, teasing disposition. II a
hand is stiff and hard, opening with diff
ficulty to its fullest extent, 1t betrays
stubbornness OF character and avarice.
II the fingers are supple, having a ten
dency to turn back. they denote, as
rule, cleverness and inquisitiveness,
nearly always generosity, ending in ex.
travagance. If the fingers fit close TO.
gether, it is sign of avarice. If twist
ed so as to show chinks between them,
it is a sign of curiosity. II they are
smooth and transparent, they betray in.
discretion and loquacity. indianapolis
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
. THE EARLIEST AMERICANS.

Speculations Concerning Their sur ound-
ings Based on Scientific Research.
In associating man with ancient river
valleys, we are too apt to think only of
the stream, and ignore the surrounding
country. Though largely so, palaolithic
man was not strictly an amphibious
creature; for instance, on each side of
the ancient Delaware river extended
wide reaches OF upland forest, and here,
too, The rude hunter OF the time found
game veil worthy of his ingenuity to
capture, and so powerful that all his wit
stood him well in need to escape their
equally determined efforts to capture
him. While the seal and walrus dis
ported in the river; while fish in count.
less thousands stemmed its floods; while
geese and ducks in myriads rested upon
the stream, so, too, in the forest roamed
the moose, the elk, the reindeer, the
bison, the extinct great beaver and the
mastodon, all OF which, save the elk,
had long since left for more northern
chimes when European man first sighted
North America.
The association OF man and mastodon
is somewhat startling to most people,
but, as has been time and again conclu-
sively shown, it is no unwarranted
fancy. We are apt to consider the mas
todon as creature of so distant a time
in the unrecorded past, that man must
necessarily have appeared much later
npon the scene. The truth is, COM
paratively speaking, the creature so re-
Gently became extinct that, in all proba-
bility, our historic Indians were ac-
quainted with it. Certain it is that, in
the distant long ago OF the great Ice
age, the mastodon existed, and equally
certain that with him lived that primi-
tive man who fabricated the rude i'm
plements we have described. The bones
of the animal and the bones and weap-
ons of the man lie side by side, deep
down in the gravels deposited by the
floods from the melting ice-sheet.-Dr.
C. C. hhott in pnntlar Science Montblv
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
"LITTLE 20 PEEP

had lost her sheep and couldn't tell where to
find them" So the old nursery rhyme says,
and it goes on to bid her Leave them alone
and they'll come home and bring their tails
behind them" All this may be true OF lost
sheep, but if you have lost your health you
cannot afford TO leave that alone. 1t viii
not come back of its own accord. Some
people brag that they never bother about
colds They "let them go the way they
camen Alas ! too often the victims GO
to consumptive's grave. Until very re-
Gently a cure for Consumption, which is
universally acknowledged to be scrofula
affecting the lungs, would have been looked
upon as miraculous, but now people are
beginning 10 realize that the disease IS not
incurable. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery will cure it, if taken in tine and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

"A coarse comb is good to smooth ths
fringe of towels, napkins. tides, etc.
TO take the ''fishy" smell from the
skillet after frying fish, put soap and
water in the skillet and let boil for ten
minutes.
biscuits can be warmed to be as good
as when just baked by placing them in
the oven dry, covered closely with . tin.
1t is great improvement over the old
way of wetting them.-Good Housekeep-
ing.
To keep parsley fresh and green put
it in strong boiling hot pickle of salt
and water, and keep for use. Hang up
and dry in lunches, blossom downward,
in dry store-room. Use in soups, etc.
Bread Cake: One teacupful of bread
dough, one cup of sugar, three table,
spoonfuls of butter or Lard, two beaten
eggs, half cup of rasins, spices to taste,
-four enough to make a stiff batter, let
rise and bake.-Rural New Yorker.
For unique watch receiver, get a
small, globe-shaped basket, glid it and
fasten on one side bunch of acorns,
also glided. tying bunch of bright rib
bon over the joining. Add pieces of the
ribbon ut the sides to hang it up by,
leaving loops where it is fastened to the
basket.-The Home.
"A morbidly sensitive, nervous sys-
tenn is greatly to be deplored, and every
judicious infiue nee should be employed
to calm and equalize it. Every little
child should be trained from its earliest
physical life to its very last days of old
age TO make the greatest use of its ply
steal development to assist mental and
spiritual attainments.-
Oyster Loaf: Take stale loaf of
bread, with a sharp knife take out the
crumbs from the center, leaving the
crust whole. Dry the crumbs on the
stove, and pound. Put an ounce of but
ter in frying pan, and fry the crumbs.
Boil quart Of milk, thicken with lit
tie -four and butter, season with salt
and pepper, add well-beaten egg, take
from the fire. Put layer of the MKT
ure in the loaf, then layer ::of oyster s
and bread crumbs, alternately, until the
loaf is full. Put crumbs on last, lay in
a pan, and bake half an hour. Serve
with sliced lemon and parsely.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Good stocking supporters can be
made for a trifiing outlay which answer
the purpose just as well as those that
cost twenty-five or thirty-ive cents, and
penny saved is penny earned. Sew
on each end Of elastic ribbon piece of
strong double cloth the width of the
ribbon, and of sufficient length to make
buttonhole corresponding in size to a
button on the waist, or the band on the
suit. Fasten one end of the ribbon to
this waist, and the other to a button
sewed on the outside of the stocking
leg. The place where the button is
fastened to the stocking should be
strengthened by small piece of double
cloth.-Ohio Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-02
CHECKED Cattle.

In our last issue we gave two
methods in vogue for relieving choked
cattle. A correspondent of the New
England Homestead has an excellent
as well as humane way for accomplish
ing the same result and he thus de-
scribes it: when an animal becomes
choked, / find the obstruction by feel
ing along the throat with one hand, and
in nine cases out of ten il is found in
the gullet. With a pressure of the
thumb and fingers the obstacle can be
forced out the way it went in. and gen.
orally the animal is ready 20 assist in
its removal A few years ago / had a
heifer that was choked with apples
every few days, and in every instance
removed them in this way without diff
ficulty or danger of injuring the animal.
J think any thing which an animal
gets into it's throat and can not get
down in the natural way should not be
punched or pushed down, thereby en-
dangering the life OF the animal, but it
should be taken out the way it went
in"