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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-10-15
LAMBERTvILIE N. j.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1890
Fine villas at Newport.

The large number of very wealthy
men at Newport who have now been
ornanenting that city for twenty or
thirty years, and in measure been COM
peting with each other for style and
taste, has led to an especially finished
look about all the villas there. Their
foliage is superb. Some of the lanes are
deeply shaded and have solitary look,
even at midday, and these are said to be
the resorts Of the English nurses and
French BONES. The pine tree grows at
Newport in considerable perfection, and
other varieties of the FIR, and the elm is
there seen in all its magnihcence, the
most spreading of all trees. not excepting
the oak. ft
Three of the Vanderbilts, two Of the
Astors and two Of the Goelets are
among the villa owners at Newport.
The house that William K. Vanderbilt
Is now putting up (and he has been at
work upon it for more than three years.
is made of great slabs of white marble
almost as pure as italian marble, and
the walls and lodge are of the same ma
terial. There are lodges and even hen
houses at Newport which would be re-
markable ornaments in some of our large
cities. Most of the houses in the FASH
ionable part Of Newport are made Of
stone mixed with wood, the gables fire.
quently made of cement and pebbles
with exposed wooden skeletons, and
some of the chimneys are made of hewn
stone, others of rough stone and ashlar,
and many others of brick, lofty and of.
fective. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Girl with the sailor Hat.

Are women growing mannish?
That they are advancing there Is no
longer any question, but in the minds of
men who have to deal with them there
is feeling that the finer edge, the sub
lime femininity, has become blunted and
is rapidly disappearing altogether.
Said a Madison avenue street car con-
ductor; 81 have to grab hold of three
women out of every five and four ont of
five girls that ride with me to keep them
from jumping off and breaking their
neclSs.
''They SIMPLY will not wait till the car
stops. Getting on they jump into my
arms, and the minute they reach their
street they prepare to step off-always
backward. Few of them take kindly to
my cautious restraint, and there is moth
ing for me to do but grab them by the
arm and hold on until it Is safe to let
them off. Then let them go, and the
TRADE ceases. AS for thanks, am glad
to escape being scratched or kicked.
There Is one class of woman who always
attempts the mannish- wears a
sailor hat and shirt front, and has tc
be looked after. New York Letter.
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Hay Fever Preventive.

DIR. William Thompson, Of Fourth
avenue. il n hnv fever Victim. aud s,,ffa,.a
terribly about this season every year.
Before the 10th of August in each year
he lays In five or six dollars worth of
medicine. The fever was two or three
days late this year, but after calling on
Frank Calhoun to exchange notes, and
hearing him sneeze, DIR. Thompson be-
gan also. He has invented a device
which he thinks will eventually save
him the yearly infection, but he didn't
have 1t perfected in time for this season
It is a padded steel spring, or clamp,
which, fastened on the nose. prevents
the entrance Of the pollen OF the rag weed
bloom.
The doctor caught this idea from wit
Messing prize fighters whose noses were
like those of the heather gods the psalm
list talks of--they smelled not---being
rendered useless in the business prose
cuted by the pugs. The doctor thought
that If prize fighter could breathe per
manently through his mouth there was
no reason why he couldn't during the
short, time Of the reign Of hay fever.
Hence the invention.-Pittsburg Dis
natGh
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A special SIX inch gun has just been
made at the naval ordnance foundry at
Washington, and the ordnance officers
are ticlxled half to death over the fact
that 1t has been constructed in ffty-two
days. aaa
1t is small gun, as guns go nova
days, and 1t wouldn't be worth much
for defense against first rate power.
But If such power should attack us II
would take at least fifty-two days to
make another one like 1t.
And In fiftyrtwo days from the declara.
ton of war a foreign feet would have
bombarded New York and Boston and
Baltimore and Charleston, and sailed
away again. In these days nations dom
wait year after declaring war before
beginning to fight. 'o
The obvious moral Is that we must
prepare for contingencies while there ia
time and opportunity. Norwich Bulle-
Nm
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Trassss frossa IhtIadeIphta and !

Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk S.24
1888 m, 1.35, 5.28 and 1898 m. Sunday 1888 m.
For Phillipsburg and Easton only $50 p IN week
days.
100 m. weekdays.
Arrive Phillipsbnrg $50 and 1894 m, $50, 6 .25
7.38 and $50 p m. Sunday, $50. m.
Leave Philiipsburg 7.26, $50 and l0.S4 m, ESQ
6.25 and $50 m. sunday $50 pm.
Arrive Belvidere 1859, 9s66 and li.07 q m, 1925,
652 and 9.57 m. Sunday, 9.67 pm
Arrive Manunka Chunk sos, 1908, Il.l6 IN
1882, 700 and 1908 p m. Sunday 1908 pm.
Additional trains leave Belvidere for Manunka
Chunk 7.15, q. m. and $40 p. m. Sunday, 7.15 M
Returning, leave Manunka Chunk for Belyidere
705 and 10 05 m. Sunday, 1905 p. m.
Freight mixed trains leaving Manunka
Chunk at los a. M, Belvidere GIT a. nj, Martins
Creek at 6.46 m, arriving at Lehigh Junction at
705 M, will carry passengers and make stops at
flag stations north OF Phillipsburg. Trains leay:
ing ManunkasC Chunk at S.25 81 m, and 430 p M
will carry passengers to Belvidere.
Connection Is made at Manunka CHUNK with
Delaware ,Lackawanna 4 Western Railroad; LIE.
high junction with Lehigh Valley .Lehigh 4 Sus.
quehsnna Morris 4 Essex and New Jersey Contra.
Railroads: At Lambertville with Pennington Rail
road AtTrenton with trains to and from New
York Camden, &c.
Forfurther Information see timetables which
CHAs. E. PUGH, ] R. WOOD,
espeTsi NJ Ms s1 espsralP Passenger Agent
Gen'lSupt. U. R. r. of N. j. Div.
w. HEYWARD MYERS. Supt. Belvidere Div
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Tho Absorption Of Now england Farms.

Tho Absorption. of New England Farms.
Some fifteen years ago. in the early
days Of the Mount Desert summer travel,
met on the beach at Newport, R. l., a
shipwrecked sea captain from Bar Har-
Dor, who talked In eloquent astonish-
ment of the rapid changes coming over
the ownership of real estate in that re-
gion. at does jest beat ALL" he de-
clared. Folks will come along from
New York or Philadelphy and they'll
kinder take q fancy to a mans farm.
They'll end in givin' him more for 1t
than he ever thought O. aslrin' for 1t; and
then they'll pay him more for Twin on
1t In winter to take care of 1t than he
ever made off of it."
This duplex good bargain, this gain in
both principal and interest at the same
time, seemed quite too much for my
weather beaten friends comprehension.
Yet the same process has been going on
for years, in manner less conspicuous,
along the whole New England coast, and
through all the mountain region of the
Appalachian range. Side by side with
that crowding into cities in winter,
steady providing out of cities for sum-
mer residence; and this is in many cases
displacing the original resident of the
soil and substituting new ownership.
In the region where now find myself
one may look from the hills over many
thousand acres, not one of which now
belongs to permanent resident of the
town. Farms have been bought and
united. one man owning 900 acres, an
other 700, and so on, in a region where
200 acres was once regarded as large
farm. - arper's Bazaar
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Tapped a volcano.

Intelligence has Just reached here Of a
remarkable phenomenon FIVE miles west
of Goodland, 1. T., and about thirty
miles northwest Of this city. Some time
since white man named Charlie Good
ing employed an Iishman named Mike
Duhaney to dig well on his place. A
depth Of sixty feet was reached at
noon. After noon Duhaney started
to go down to resume work. When
about twenty feet below the surface he
screamed to his assistants above to haul
him out quick, as he was burning up.
He was pulled up In an unconscious con-
dition, and 1t was two hours before he
revived.
The poor fellow was literally blistered.
A coat which had been thrown across
the windlass was scorched till 1t crum-
bled to pieces. The rope was also burned
until it fell apart. People of the neigh
borhood are much puzzled over this
freak of nature, and many are greatly
alarmed. Others take more hopeful
view, and believe that 1t is natural gas.
No scientific investigation has been
made, but it looks as IL the internal fires
Of the earth are about to find an outlet
at that point in geyser or volcano.
Paris (Tex.) Cor. New Orleans Times
Democrat
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There died a few weeks ago in San
Francisco an old man who, generation
ago, was known In New York as 'Tur-
key Levy" His name was Aaron Levy,
and in ante-bellum times he kept So
loon on Chatham street, near Baxter.
The great attraction of Levy's place was
big cage on araised platform, In which
were confined three solemn turkeys. An
old chap with cracked violin would
begin toplay tune, and the turkeys
would dance, first with slow and stately
measure, gradually becoming more ami
mated as the fiddler fiddled faster, and
eventually ending with aludicrously wild
and frenxied motion, which created in
tense surprise and amusement. Old Levy
kept his secret until one night party Of
inquisitive toughs upset the cage, and
found underneath charcoal furnace.
The bottom of the cage was of metal, and
when the old man fddled he kept time
with his foot. This put bellows In
motion, the fire burned bright, the metal
began to get hot and the turkeys began
to dance. Turkey Levy" has never had
a successor. --New York Word.
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The bills for taking the census next
year have been published. For the most
part the arrangements are much the
same as they were nine years ago. The
census day is fixed for Sunday, the 9th
Of April. The particulars to be asked
for in England and Wales are the name,
sex, age, profession or occupation, condi-
ton as to marriage, relation to head of
family and birthplace Of every person
who abode in any house on the night of
the census day, showing also whether
any such person was blind or deaf and
dumb or imbecile or lunatic. The only
new question to be put is one recon-
mended by the census committee-name
ly, where the occupier is In occupation
of less than FIVE rooms, as to the number
of rooms occupied by him.
One particular that was asked for at
the last census and is now omitted, In
accordance with the committees recon-
mendation, Is the frank" of each person.
In Scotland the matters to be inquired
into are the same as those In England,
except that the new one does not relate
to the number of rooms occupied, but Is
whether any person speaks Gaelic only,
or both Gaelic and English. Neither in
England, nor In Scotland, nor in Wales,
1t will be observed, is any question to be
put as to religion. In Ireland, however,
the religious profession" of each person
Is, as before, to be asked for rs ~
The other information to be obtained
In Ireland includes the sex, age, birth
place and occupation. However, there
is provision in the Irish bill that the
constabulary are also to take an account
of all such further particulars az by the
instructions Of thelo neutenant's chief
or under secretary they may be directed
to inquire into.--London Times.
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A Hot Weather yo,.a.

One week when the thermometer was
running wild one of our Main street
merchants perpetrated a joke which
puzzled, If it did not alarm, those who
consulted his glass to learn how hot
they We're He took the tube from a
large mustard thermometer" and fixed
it to the board of smaller sized one Of
the same make, thus bringing about a
wild disagreement of the fluid in the
tube with the registration alongside of
it. People who consulted it were amazed
to find that 1t was 1870 dogs. in the shade,
but had to believe their own eyes. "
They "never had known 1t so hot be-
fore; -neverip and actually seemed to
feel warmer while looking at the glass
until the joke was explained. old Col
ony (Mass.) Memorial.
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a New Mny to Flsh.


Quite novel mode of catching fish
was invented by. youth in Michigan re-
Gently.
He was bathing, when he perceived in
the water little way beyond him a fish
of unusually large proportions swim
ming along within a very short distance
of the bank and rapidly approaching
him. AS. he saw-the- magnificent spool
men of the sturgeon species the thought
of securing 1t without the usual imple-
ments flashed across his mind, and he de-
termined to make one effort to secure
the monarch of the lakes
AS the fish approached the bank on
which the boy was standing the latter
prepared to dive, and before the sturgeon
was quite opposite the youth gave a
leap, plunge and dived beneath the
water Ere the astonished sturgeon
could either escape or recover from the
CONSERVATION caused by the sudden dis
turbance of the waters he was prison
or in tho arms of the youth, who could
with difficulty retain his hold of hi
slippery customer
The struggles of the now desperate
sturgeon were now pertinacious ant
nearly crowned with victory, though
they became almost entirely Intellectual
and were rendered completely 80 by TIN
aid Of companion of the boy, who raj
to his assistance yfkAag aSt
Their united efforts soon completed TIN
victory over his sturgeonship, and lait
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DR.. webb and jay Gould.

The abrupt manner In which Vice
President Webb treated a representative
Of the Knights of Labor who called az
mediator between the company and the
men has recalled the fact that all the
Webb boys are disposed TO be perempto-
ry in business dealings. even with elder
and stronger men than themselves.
In the very older days OF Dr. Seward
Webb as railroad man he attempted
little show of authority with Mr.. Jay
Gould. which that gentleman treated In
his dry, sarcastic way. Itseems that w.
II. Vanderbilt was just dead when his
son-in-law. DIR. Webb, in business letter,
called Mr.. Gould rather peremptorily to
account, and presented his tiltinatum In
matter concerning some exchange Of
business between the Vanderbilt and
Gould roads. - Ws as
DR.. Webb's idea was to hurry Mr.,
Gould to settlement. But Mr.. Gould
was not to be hurried, or even brought
to a consideration OF the case, and he
wrote short note to Mr.. Webb In
which he simply said that his sorrow
over the death Of Mr.. Vanderbilt three
or four days before had been so poignant
that he was unable to consider any bust
ness with his son-in-law at present. It
is probable that Mr.. Gould has not heard
from Dr. Seward Webb since.s Phila-
delphia Press. t
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No. 989

His Congregation Never Deserted Him.
A clergyman was lamenting the fact
that his Congregation Appeared to be
restless during his sermons, and de-
clared that many of the members Of his
flock would get up right at time when
he fancied himself most impressive and
would leave the house.
That's bad" answered young
preacher, "but I must say that do not
experience any such, annoyance Not
single member Of my congregation geta
mp and goes out during services"
"You don't say soF' the FIRST spealrer
exclaimed. f.How do youmanage itt''
81 don't manage it at all--seems to
manage itself"
Don't they complain when you preach
o. long sermonP" 8 assTs ssI3
mo, I've never heard word Of COM
plant"
THAT is indeed singular. Your PEG
pie must have been exceptionally well
brought up"
'No, think not $40
"Then you must be one Of the moss
eloquent of men. What Is the style Of
| your preachtngp
's0h, rather dry, l am compelled to
admit. do not possess the faculty Of
drawing an interesting illustration or Of
throwing out a bright idea"
well, we'll have never heard of
anything 30 wonderful. And you tell
me that no one ever gets up and goes
outr'
Eyes, that's what I tell you.
well, don't understand 1t at all.s
"Oh, 1t Is easy enough to explain.
am chaplain at hepenitentiary. /" Pitts
burg Dispatch.
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Told by a Gentleman of Massaohuset

Told by "a Gentleman OF Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Odds, a gentleman from Massachu-
sets, now residing ON the st. Lucie
river, tells remarkable story. While
clearing a homestead ON the east side Of
the river by the seashore he went to
battle in the surf, but on putting his feet
in tho waves found the water icy cold;
he tried it again with the same result,
tho water was just like ice; he then
walked along the beach and found
piles OF froaoaA issh. II 40 surrnaed that
huge mountain of ice from the South
seas became dislodged and foated with
the current to this shore before the
warm waters of the gulf had time to
melt it. However, this is only specula-
ton, and to many 1t still remains mys-
tery.-Cor. Florida Times Union.
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THE BELLS OF THE CITY.

The bells of the city sound aloud
Over the heads Of the hurrying crowd,
Marking surely the flight Of time.
Ringing out a melodious chime,
Calling loudly through the busy hum.
Comet comei comet comei
The minstrel group from Trinity caIl DIR
To the belfry band In the city hall,
And the echoes fly at a lively pace
To meet with the charming cheribs OF Grace,
And all Join in the tuneful song.
~ Ding dongl ding. dongi
Now a melody--now prayer
Woven In through the hArps OF air.
Finds its way to the prisoners CELL
To the homes Of the rich and poor who dwell
So far itssounds like drowsy hum,
Comet comei GOMEZ conne a
know the bells are endowed with speech,
And have a message they bring to each,
And none can give the signal clear
That is meant for another persons ear,
Or guess what memories throb and throng-
Ding, dongi ding, dongl
But bells of Trinity bells of Gracel
2Ring out like birds from lofty place
A song of JOY and not OF woe.
Ger the pretty scene in the church below,
And call aloud through the buzz and hum.
Comet comet comel comei
They come to the altar, bride and groom,
She with her cheeks like a rose In bloom,
While the organ tells with its tuneful swells
That the bealrx Of the city ring the bells:
And echoes awaken through Christendom;
Ding. dongi Comet comet
New York Ledger
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The Old whaling Towns picllnr Up.

The Old Whaling Towns Picking UP.
According to The Providence journal.
an interesting and gratifying disclosure
Of the census .is.that Of tharevival.oS the
old Whaling towns. The whale fishery
centers, where once the coming and go
ing of busy ships gave a lively air of in
dustry to the wharves and streets, felt
the decadence of this fishery as an al
most fatal blow, and in the decades Inn
mediately succeeding the fifties remained
sorrowful monuments toa great indus
try's decay. Now, however, they seem
to be recovering their old time energy,
and 1T is not unlikely that an inheritance
of the same enterprise which character
lied them in the past will once more
push them steadily forward New Bed
ford. formerly the greatest whaling port
on the whole coast, now boasts "A, popu-
lation Of Al, 044, gain Of more than 80
per cent. since 1880, and New London,
the second port In Importance, has gained
some 30 per cent. or more In the same
time. isaH sfi y aa4
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rAttie Reprobntes.

Nine juvenile prisoners, whose ages do,
not aggregate 100 years. were IN Chi
cago court the other day charged with.
raising riot. Six Of them were girls.
A large woman, with a big lunch basket
on her arm, was the accuser. She owns
vacant cottage which was invaded BY
dozen children who proceeded to ..play
house" She drove the crowd out with
"shoe," and refused to give them their
playthings She overturned her basket
on the courts desk and out rolled large
collection Of pebbles, decayed lemons
and old shoes, which she said had been
flung at her cottage. She could not
point out tho exact infant who did the
throwing, however, and 50 the court
discharged them, They trooped out Of
the dock with suppressed giggles
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A nlr Rnttler.

The boss snake is a monster RATHER on
exhibition at j. F. Bottoms store, In
Americas, Ca Hissnakeship isinore than
six feet in length and measures twenty
inches in circumference In the middle
while his caudal appendage is orna-
mented with fourteen rattles and a but.
ton. The hideous object was killed In O
sedge field on the Huguenin plantation
by Alfred Fields, a colored laborer, who,
aftar Bvalss ae,i~A ~ --,--ss,,.,i s4is4s,fao
knocked him on the head with fence
rail. Mr.. Bolton had the snakes hide
stuffed and hung up In front of his
store.
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doubt of it, viz: Country blackboard
and spawned horse at $3.50 a half day;
old dugout or punt for malarious frog
pond Nake Glimmerglass in ADVERTISE
ment), at fifty cents an hour; lunch on
veranda (not including mosquitoes, bugs
and BATS, 81 extra: use of croquet set.
fifty cents an hour--and SO forth, do
not blame the industrious farmer for
making hay while the sun shines, but
when It comes to advertising nice coun-
try board and then Systematically send
ing all the fresh butter, eggs and chick
ems to the store to sell to the city people
draw the line. The next time l want
nice country board shall stay home"
Detroit Free Press.
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Baron Hirsch, of Paris, who lately
made the munifcent permanent bequest
of $4,000 a month to aid poor immi-
grant Hebrews in the United States, Is
coming to America duringthe autumn.
He is reputed to be the richest private
person In Europe, and has been con-
spicuous figure. in London fashionable
circles during the late season, as the
particular friend Of the Prince of Wales,
who has introduced him everywhere.
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Iniuriou, Eneots of Odors,

You can kill man quicker by an evil
smell than any other way in the world
If you know how to go about it. and all
evil smells are in greater or less degree
poisonous and reduce vitality where they
do not destroy outright.
The London Lancet gave the case Of a
gentleman In railway car detained
alongside cars Of hogs in an offensive
condition about fifteen minutes He
was taken Ill with symptoms Of prostra-
ton, though previously in health, and
died shortly after, poisoned by the intol-
cradle dor.-Shirley Dare.
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Country Board.

81 never realized before" remarked Q
gentleman just returned from q vaca-
ton, chow the city people are gulled by
their brethren In the country, especially
ON holiday OCCASION You can say all
you please about the credulous farmer.
but It was my experience that those OF
our rural friends who are In the summer
resort business are many times more
clever In the financial way than are
their brothers in the city"
How is that?"
"Oh, Idon't care to go into details.
took a little run last week downtto
country resort. The. place was miles
from civilization, and i had been led tt
think that accommodations would b
fairly cheap. They were. There is ne