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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15
AM F.

A comedy called .'The Editor, was pro-
duced with marked success at Palmer's
Theatre, New York, last week. The daily
press OF New York referred to the comedy
and manner OF its presentation in terms
which left no doubt Of the genuine merit
q the production. It is described as
bubbling over with humor of the richest
md most delightful character, with just
enough Of dramatic and pathetic incident
10 heighten the interest OF the auditor and
make an entertainment complete in every
particular. Louis Aldrich plays the prin-
|cipal part, Colonel John Hawkins, Editor
Of the Tucson, Arizona, American Eagle,
and the supporting companyis made up
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%JoTT1NGs.

ANA wa
T~hesregular weekly Board meeting Of
the Greenville Building and Loan Assoc
citation will be held this evening at the
hall on Linden avenue.
Greenville Council No. 254, c, B. L.,
will hold their annual picnic at Arm
brtster's Schuetzen Park on Decoration
Day.
The florists in the neighborhood of the
New York Bay Cemetery are enjoying a
rushing business inst now.
A large party OF young people enjoyed
d social time at the home of Miss Jennie
Wauters, on Old Bergen Road, Tuesday
evening. Among the m~errymakers were
Misses Katie Vreeland. Florence and
Edith Jones, Amelia ,Wanters, Lizzie
Vreeland, Edith Mcintyre, Annie and
Carrie Krawe, Messrs. Charles and Ed
ward Mcintyre. Thomas Kirkpatrick,
Victor Pilgrim, William and Benjamin
Patterson.
The Greenville branch of the Sexemial
League will not be organized until next
Monday evening.
The Linden Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal Epworth League will elect a pres1-
dent this evening to succeed the Rev. w.
r.. Keifer,
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Come Monday

To the London Clothing House, No. SO
Montgomery street, next to the Weldon
Building, and get a free railroad accident
policy. good for $3.50. The policy is guar-
anteed by the Automatic Box Company,
OF No. 81 Park Row, New York. In case
of any accident your family receives $3.50,
and it costs you nothing, only a call at
the London Clothing House, No. 50 Mont-
gomery street.
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"a Paper Dolr' at the Academy.

IA Fapcr DolF' at the Academy.
Kate Castleton is the same fun maker
as of old, and in her new skit, "A Paper
DOLL she still charms her audience. "a
Paper Doll' has little more plot than the
ordinary Skin. but the part Of Dolly CHR
ruped fits the star. From her entrance
as the maid in a boarding house and
through her accession to wealth and a
father she has abundant opportunity 10
sing songs, new and old, and dance with
her old time grace. Kate will exhibit the
Paper Doll at the Academy of Music next
week.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

ADVICE TO MoTHERs.-MRs WrNsLow's SooTH-
are cutting teeth. 1t relieves the little sufferer
at.once; it produces natural, quiet sleep by re-
iieving the child from pain, and the little cherub
awakes as bright as 8. button" It Is very
pleasant to taste. It soothes the child. softens
the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regu-
lates the bowels. and is the best known remedy
for diarrhesa, whether arising from teething or
other causes. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.s*
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

gloves made to order. The clerk said
no, that they kept six button kid
gloves for children only q few months
old, andtApt recently there had been
quite q sale. Their size,n she said,
is marked 20 o.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

Of persons widely known. OF course, the
scenic and other adjuncts ofsthc produce
ton are Of the elaborate and perfect sort,
as Is everything that is done at Palmer's.
THE Editor viii be kept on for W OF
days.
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OFFICES:

Advertisements, Subscriptions and Newsdeal-
ers Orders received:-
REPRESENTATIVES, and Clinton Streets. ]. D. Sin
clair.
USIos HILI-H. Fischer. No. 60 Palisade Avenue.
BERGEN PoIxr-T. w. Dobson, opposite Railway
Depot.
BAyoN1E-J. II. Brewer, No. 4s1 Avenue D.
FIVE CoRNERs-G. w. Pheiffer, No. 663 Newark
Ayenne.
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Brewer SewelI's Investment.
We offer compliments to Gen
eral Seweli on the excellent invest
ment which he has found in the Home
Brewing Company's plant. There is
no end of money in beer these times,
and we have no doubt the semi-annual
dividends will amply prove the excel
lence of the great Republican leaders
business judgment.
The Generals new venture will
have another good effect. 1t will
serve to clear away an unhealthy
growth-a sort of fungus formation
from the surface of our State politics.
A couple OF years ago the Republican
leaders enormously formed the idea
that the anti-liquor movement was
going to make prodigious strides in
popular favor. They thought rum
would be the issue Of the future, and
that the opposition to it would win.
How fallacious this idea was, sun
dry election contests have shown. The
insane anti-liquor craze has steadily
lost ground. The people have de-
clined to become fanatics to suit any
one, and the principles of personal
liberty have triumphed.
Plainly the Republican leaders have
recognized this result as unalterable,
and they no longer consider it worth
while to strive for votes through a
pretence of anti-rum sentiment. They
were never sincere in their temper
ance" professions, and now that they
can no longer gain anything by them,
they boldly throw off the mask.
OF course, the adherents of Brewer
Sewell will not be able to preach pro-
hibition-nor local option nor high
license. either-while the goat of their
leader proclaims in the window Of
every saloon that his brew of foaming
book foams for all the thirsty at the
usual price of five cents a glass.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

told OF it, and | decided to give him
an opportunity to form my acquaint-
ance. N-Cla2d Belle.
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HELP TAINTED.

TYPEwRITER-A gentleman, hne address, good
J. character, push, executive ability, already an
operator. to self New Model CrandaH Typewriter.
ADDRESS Box 81, WesttieId, n. ).
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TEE JERSEY Cry ~NEws:-Single copies, two
cents; subscription, six dollars per year; postage
free.
The SUNDAY MORNING NEws:-Published every
Sunday morning.; single copies, three cents; sub
scription, one dollar and fifty cents per year;
postage free.
Entered in the post Office at Jersey City as
second class mail matter.
All business communication should be ad-
dressed to Cry PUBLISHING COMPANY; all others
to the Managing Editor
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DUsHELMAN WANTED. COME READY FOR
ID work. 6ternberg s. sherman. No. So Newark
avenue, Jersey City.
A FEW GOOD BRICKLAYERS A z WORK
n at the corner of Summit avenue and Sherman
place.
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Female

vxrANTED-A GoOD GERMAN / FOR
wv general homework. No. SO Sussex street.
MTANTKD-A GIRL 70 DO LIGHT HoUsEwoRK
w and mind children. No. 500 Fairnl0unt ave-
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This paper is democratic In principles
and Is independent IN its vielos on al
local questions.
Hamilton Park Neglect.

The condition of Hamilton Park is
vile. It is a disgrace to the city, and a
scandal to the neighborhood which it
Injuries. 1t has through sheer guilty
neglect fallen lower and lower until
now respectable people shun it. In
stead Of a~ffording refreshment and
recreation to women and children
and tired workers, it has become the
stamping ground of toughs and hood
lums-of the juvenile sort by day and
Of maturer growth by night.
The City Government is distinctly
to blame for this. 1t is the fault of
the officials who do not attend to
their duties properly, and of M one
else.
Why does not Mayor Cleveland
shake them up, and have something
done to redeem the peoples breathing
prolnd2
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TX7 ANTED-A GERMAN GIRL FOR GENERAL.
floor. left.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

THE poor little goose who thinks
he edits the Trenton Times is very
angry.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

General Grub is pronounced as much a hero
in political strife as he was in war. The New
brunswick FredoniGn so terms hhim, in.conse-
quence of his offer to pay all the expenses of
the Senate Investigating Committee, provided
Governor Albeit refuses to approve the bills
Camden Courier.
In other words, General Grubb is
always ready to bleed for his country.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15

A RESPECTABLE YOUNG Girl WISHES WORK
~ by the day, washing and ~stgoning or house.
work. Enquire Mrs. B. Russell, No. 2l6 Railroad
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SITUATIONS 4WD WORR


A SITUATION WANTED AS. JANIToR BY A
n Young c9lored nan and ms WE I'VE years,
Cook street, S. Smith.
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cTrUATIoN WANTED TO DO CHAMBERwo RK
= and take care Of children, or do light house
work. No. i52 Wayne street.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04
Taking the Oath.

The ancient Persians swore by the
sun, which was the common object of
their alteration, while the Scythians
pledged themselves by the air they
breathed and by their scimitars. De-
scending to more modern times the
Saxons pledged themselves to support
their homes and privileges by their
arms and the punishment for perjury
or non-ful fillment of an oath was the
loss of the hand that held the weapon
at the compact. The Spartans were
wont to assemble around a brazier of
fire and, pointing their short swords
to the sky, call upon the gods to bear
witness.to the compact. Swearing by
the sword, in fact, retained its signi-
fcance down to the comparatively
modern times, though in a slightly
modified form. Thus, while the
Pagans extended the point of the
weapon toward the supposed residence
of the gods, the warriors of Christian
ity, after kissing it, directed the hilt-
the true emblem of their faith-to
heaven. A later form of oath was the
pressing of the thumb upon the blade.
Gradually, however, the practice be-
came obsolete, and the kissing of the
hilt, accompanying the words: by
this good swordP' was handed down
almost to the time when the wearing OF
sword by gentlemen was abolished as
one of the strictest codes of civil
honor. Standard.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04
Pretty Dresses for the Home,

Many of the actresses, who are as
particular about their house as their
stage dresses, wear long coat or opera
cloak, tightly girdled at the waist and
left open in front to show a pretty
white pettieoat. A lady up town, a
doctor by profession and something of
a crank on hygienics, wears cheese
cloth yoke dresses that cost 81 each,
and she has a new one every SIX weeks
The neck is yoked, made of silk or vel
vet, to which the straight breadths of
cheese cloth are gathered Three yards
of ribbon, sewed over the shirred belt,
is the only attempt at decoration. One
month she receives her morning pa-
tents in pale blue cheese cloth, worked
with navy blue silk; the next month
the cloth is pink and the yoke maroon
velvet, and just now she is wearing
cream cloth gathered to yoke of
brown velvet Brown ribbon is CIR
died about her waist, brown half shoes
cover her feet, and the whole toilet
shoes, dress, ribbons and all-cost her
$3.50 Pretty woolens can be bought
for forty cents yard, and six yards,
with one and quarter yards of plush
or velvet for trimming, viii make Jo-
sephine dress. Why disfgure yourself
when pattern and days work viii
reproduce the artistic, tidy, easy and
world renowned dress2-NeW York
World.
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Operator and typewriter.

A person who knows nothing Of te-
legraphy cannot imagine what an ad-
vantage to an operator typewriter is.
It is a strange thing to me also that
the operators do not more generally
recognize it An operator, even
though he may be rapid with his pen,
is generally three or four words be,
hind the sender, or even more, and
thus is compelled to carry the word
ing in his head With a typewriter,
if he is even fairly expert, he can keep
up with the sender. and if he is very
fast he will find himself waiting.
This is a great thing for an operator.
If he is carrying message in his
head he is liable to lose it and have to
break In on the sender to repeat it
This gives hima bad reputation Then
mistakes are less liable, as the ope-
rator is taking the dispatch word for
word, and is not liable to write seven
teen instead of seventy or seventy IN
stead of seventeen--New York Tele-
gram
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''The minds of American inventors
are fixed on coast defense guns" said
an expert at Fort Lafayette day or
two ago. 1.-The cream of contempt
rary inventions seems to be found in
field pieces. Dr. Cuttings latest in
vention is police gun, or street piece,
for use In riots. DIR. Calling, by the
way, has promoter who has for years
looked after his enterprises. He is
gray haired, close cropped, rather Wiz
ened looking man of some sixty years
of age, who in New York is generally
found about the Coleman house. His
name is Cormick, and he prides him
self on his wide acquaintance with
public men, Mr. Cormick has one adj
vantage which In promoter is great
one. He easily convinces a hearer OF
his implicit confidence and belief In
his principal. It looks as if the time
were not far distant, by the way, when
no enterprise requiring legislative ac-
ton can succeed without a promoter
selected for his ability and acquaint-
ance. Acquaintance is the great thing.
1t is better to be known unfavorably
than not to be known at all" Just
then Old Tom, an enormous black cat,
who is Fort Lafayette's only steady
garrison, ran out and interrupted the
conversation York World.
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The Midnight Sun,

Imagine yourself On ship at anchor
looking west or straight in front of
you. There is a broad expanse of sea
little to your right hand, behind you
will be the rugged coast, and to your
left the long, narrow ford between
the islands and the mainland that the
steamer has just traversed You watch
the sun as it slowly, slowly sets; the
islands and the coasts look like rich
dark purple, and the shadows cast by
the ships mast, ETC., grow longer and
longer. After bit, when the sun has
sunk apparently twelve feet from the
horizon, it stops and seems to remain
stationary for about twenty minutes;
then the very sea gulls hide away,
while the air all of a sudden strikes
chilly. Each one has an awed, ex-
pectant feeling; the tourist steamer
broods a silence that may be felt.
Soon the sun rises very slowly once
again, and the yellow clouds change
with his uprising to even greater
beauty, first to the palest primrose
and then to blush pink. The sky,
which was just now rose color, be-
comes gray, then pale emerald green,
and lastly blue. Rock after rock
stands out, caught by the suns bright
rays, and the reign of day has begun
once more-'Jubilee Jaunt to Nor
Way."
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She Didn's Appreciate Him

The funny man wrote him humorous joke
and he thought the wit was immense, and he
chuckled, "a big phenomenal stroke. All,
this is genius intenser For the wit was SO
rollicking, weird and wild and of such ORR
ginal power, be lay down and rolled in the
grass like child, and laughed for nearly an
hour. Then he took the joke in to read to his
wife, and said: Snow, wife, listen and hear
the funniest joke you have heard in your life,
prithee wheel toward me thine ear" He
began to read with lusty strength, and her
face, which was round as squash, it stretched
away out to cucumber length as she said,
"What boshl what boshIn And when he came
to the point Of the joke he burst into a loud
guffaw, but she said, In words like thunder
stroke, 'sWhat miserable trash On, pshawp
Then her face grew long as q baseball bat
and as black as the oven door, and her fore
bead stretched up through her towering hat,
and her chin trailed on the floor. But the
joke went forth In the worlds wide throng
and was copied DER and DER, but thereafter
her face remained 80 long that she couldn't
60 through the door.-Yankee Blade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04

The reading room of the Cooper
Union library is open until 10 o'clock
every evening. dropped in there
about the other night to consult an
authority. The big room was filed
with readers. consulted the work
wanted and then waited until 10
o'clock to see how the assemblage
would break up. Suddenly the still
ness was broken by the sound of a
bell Intantly books were closed, the
readers taking an eager parting look /;
chairs were showed back, and the vol
umes carried up to the librarians desk,
where they were exchanged for round
brown checks, which the readers re-
ceive on entering and give up on going
out The system was perfect, and the
order was such as an army might
envy.-New York Star.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04
1t Cured Her.

'Good nightl" said the youth. and a movement
he made
As he would kiss the dear girl;
But her head she drew back.
And it hit the hat rack
With a loud sounding thwack
That made her head painfully whirl
my ownl" he exclaimed, as he threw his strong
arms
Round the form Of the frightened young miss,
For your own darling sake
Don't repeat that mistake,
But a solemn VOW make
That you'll never again dodge kiss"
land there is every reason to think that she
made the required VOW, for no further acct
dents Of this kind have been reported. Chi
cago Tribune.1
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An Inventor Discourses on the Machine
the Future.

HREhtnn N
the Future.
mo, have not been sick: I have
not been drinking, neither am suf-
fering the pangs of remorse."
What on earth makes you so lean
and pale, then2"
The question was addressed to a me-
chanical engineer who has made one
or two hits with his inventions. and is
In consequence well endowed with
worldly goods.
I've been scheming," was the re-
spouse; "scheming for the last three
years on one of the greatest needs of
the times"
whats that2"
"A typewriter that shall be CHEAP.
rapid, compact, light and noiseless.
Why, sir, there's millions in it. posi-
lively millions If I could devise
such machine I'd get all the backing
L wanted In less than an hour. know
a concern in Hartford that has ex-
pended S12, 900 in experiments and
hasn't anything to show for it yet.
There are hundreds of men all over
the country at work on the same prob
lem. For some time the patent Office
at Washington has received more ap-
pllcations for patents on typewriters
than anything else. The man who
strikes 1t will clear fortune.
1.-The machines already in the mar
ket that satisfy the requirements as to
speed cost too much to make it DOS
slble for every man who has much
writing to do to get one Then they
are too heavy and bulky to be carried
around easily, and the noise they
make renders them Objectionable in
offices where conversation has to be
carried on
THE right thing will be struck
some time. 1t always is. Why, the
waste OF tSne In writing-the mere
mechanical labor of writing-is a dis
grace to civilization The average
speed of writing is from fifteen to
twenty words a minute-not more.
What an immense gain it would be if
that average could be brought up to
forty or fifty words minute. And it
Will be done some day. The type
writers of the future-cheap, rapid,
charlottesville do it.
You young men will, / expect,
live to see the day when nine-tenths
OF all the writing done for newspapers
will be done on typewriters. The re-
porter will consider the typewriter
just as necessary an instrument of his
profession as is now the pen or pencil.
Then it viii be a common thing to
rattle off a column in an hour or
three-quarters of an hour or even at a
squirt In half an hour. Then you
newspaper fellows will wonder how
on earth you ever managed to get
along without them"
But you've money enough, why
need you worry yourself sick schem-
ing about it2 Take it easy and let
some poor devil that needs the money
solve the problem"
Cant You don't know what it is
to be cursed and blessed by a talent
for invention. Do you think it is the
money that attracts me2 Not a bit.
The problem has taken possession of
me and can't shake it off. 1t haunts
me when go to bed 1t prevents me
from listening to the sermon at
church. I'll stick to you till you
solve me, is what it says"
II should advise you to seek a doc
tor"
''Oh, hang the doctorl He'd tell
me to let it alone, and that's just what
can't dor'-New York Herald.
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WHEN WIFE'S A-GO'N AWAY.

Somehow yarns around the grocery
Amt so funny as before,
An I'm all the time forgettin'
This or that ere little chore;
When git out in the kitchen,
Want TO hang around an stay;
Guess I'm foolish cause this ev'nin,,
Why-my wife's - M away.
She's a-fi1in' things up for me
With thoughtful lovin' care,
Tellin' me that sometimes here,
An sonethin' else is over there:
Lookin' sober, speakin' low voiced,
Though she hasn't much to say;
Ketch her eyes on me all dim like
Guess she hates TO go away.
Wish twas over-wish twas way OF
Wish we didn't have to part;
That's iist what l keep a thinkin',
An afeelin' in my heart.
P'raps our speerits see much furder
Than the partin' Of today,
An Jest hint what they can't tell us,
When loved ones go'n' away.
Calls to mind another journey,
By an by we all must go.
Wonder who's gettin' ready
For the train that moves so slowf
Brings the tears to think about it.
30 git nigh her an pray
1t may % my time for startin',
Just when she's a-go'n' away.
Omaha World.
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The Sew Gum PoWder.

The British government has at last
settled on a white, almost smokeless,
powder for use In firearms The I'M
portance of this statement Is evident
tn view of the fact that, until the
powder had been decided upon, it was
smpossibIe to ascertain accurately the
LENGTH of the cartridge and, conse-
ouently, the proportions of the COM
inc weapon There is, therefore, no
longer any obstacle to the manufac-
tire of the new magazine rifles, the
production of which viii make rapid
progress. The powder gives out q
very small report-not much greater
than that of an air gun.-
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Understood the Business.

First Dude-How is it that you get
invitations to balls, parties, weddings
and like festivities2
Second Dude-It is the simplest
thing in the world, my dear fellow.
When I suspect that any of my bigbug
acquaintance are going to give blow
out, / tell them that shall be out of
town They imagine it is safe to invite
me. They do so, and 10 and behold, !
bob serenely up. Strategy, my boy.
strategyLTexas Siftings
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04

Teacher to boy who had to be corrected
frequently-Can't you tell me where the
Blue Ridge is!
Boy rubbing his shoulder1-No; but can
tell You where the black and blue ridge Is
He is treated more ngderuuzly than ever
Texas Siftings
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04

A Saratoga man has in his possession
q monster fish somewhat resembling a
sturgeon, but having long, sword shaped
jaws, which was taken from Lake
Champlain- 1t is called fresh water
swordfsh- This specimen weighs eigh-
teen pounds, and is four feet three inch
es long, eighteen inches around the