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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

OF the a5 Baptist churches in New Jersey,
the Mount Holly Baptist church stands fourth in
size as to membership. When the pastor, the
Rev. r. f. Y. Pierce, came here nearly three
years ago, it occupied the eleventh position.
Since that time It's membership has been greatly
Increased, and the Sunday school has an aver
age attendance of over four hundred. The
church is in n flourishing condition financially.
General E. Burd Grubb has ordered o regimen
tai flag, which he will present to the First ew
Jersey Regiment, Knights of the Golden Eagle.
The flag will be presented to the regiment on
September 2, at which time the knights will have
a parade. General Grubb is d member Of the
Crusaders Commandery, OF burlington.
disastrous fire visited the dog farm at Glenn
enton, Camden county, of the Associated Fan
ciers of Philadelphia, on Sunday. A large bar II
was first fired in some unaccountable way, and
despite the efforts Of the men, the flames spread
to tho outbuildings, and everything was wiped
out saved the kennels. Many valuable dogs
were saved with great difficulty. One horse
was burned TO death. The loss is estimated at
about $1,000, with partial insurance.
Property owners and residents or Plainfield
are much elated over the prospect Of soon hav-
ing one of the finest water supplies in the State;
Some time ago, while prospecting for water, it
was discovered that the city was built over a
subterranean river, the course OF which has
been traced about seven miles. This vast natu'
/ raj reservoir is only thirty-five feet below the
surface, the river itself being nineteen feet In
depth There is a continuous how of pure
| sparkling water.
The Somerset County Agricultural Society
I Oll HUN " hfkhANA AetAt ia fttNeANHANJ tsA~
Thursday, September 10 and II. The eutries fol
the races close September /. There Will be foui
races each day.
Schooner Marguerite, from the Grand Banks
brought 100000 pounds OF Goldfish to Gloucestel
on Monday. This is the largest catch made TIN
season, and one of the largest ever made In on
trip from this port.
The tax rate of Camden has been fixed at SEA
per 800 by the Common Councils Finnnce Com
mittee. The figuring was done on a total valua
ton OF S1S,000,0 600 worth of property, while tn
actual valuation is nearly S2S,00O,000.
A party of white and colored boys we're play
ing 'hide and seek' in New Brunswick, Tuesday
when Willie Carpenter, the eleven-year-old So
Of John Carpenter, colored, ran into an old brio
building. on the alley and dropped through
hole in the lower floor into a deep well, irhe DO,
was taken out in about half an hour. He wa
dead. tsb
The Leake Pneumatic Transportation Com
pany was Incorporated in Camden Tuesday witt
$4,000, 900 capital. The aim Of the company !
to transmit people and freight through pneu
matte tubes. L. L. Leake, John NJ. Bradley
Douglass Leake and Henry L. Candeld, Of Phi
adelphia, hold nearly all the stock.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

CTALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT
y the Office of the Board OF Street and Water
Commissioners on Monday, August 18th, 1894. at
10 O'Clock a. M. for the Improvement OF SIDEWALKS
on
MONTGOMERY ST.
from Bergen ave-, to West Side ave, in accordance
with plans and specifications on 1ie In the ofice OF
Mercer ST., where blank forms OF bid and agreement
OF sureties must be obtained
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 800 cubic yards or earth excavation.
About 100 cubic yards OF earth filing.
About 200 cubic yards OF, sand or gravel filling.
About II, 500 square feet OF new tagging.
About 2 900 square feet OF relsid tagging.
Time allowed FOR the completion OF the WORK,
fortyf4N working days.
The making Of the above Improvement, and
award OF tho contract therefor win be, subject to
the remonstrdnc0 of the owners OF the PROPERTY
liable 70 more than one-hah the assessment there
fer.
Proposals must be enclosed In sealed envelopes.
endorses" Proposals FOR Improvements of sidewalks
on MONTGOMERY ST. !" directed to EA. Dugah ESQ.
Chairman of Committee on Streets ana Sewers .
and handed to the Clerk of the Board In open meet
ing when called for in the order of bushes relating
to sealed proposals.
a substitution OF suretiea be allowed.
The attention OF bidders Is especially called to
Section IS OF the New Charter OF 1883. under the
terms VIII sreof no contract shah pc binding upon
the city until the bondsnen offered by the contrac-
tor have been approved by the Board OF Finance
the President OF said Board having power to ex-
anime the proposed bondsmsn under oath.
BY ordcr OF tho Board Of Street and Water Com
GEORGE T. BoUToN. Clerk.
Dated Jersey City, July 70. 'aah
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
sim tho Gateway Of the continent


The great improvements which have
recently been made and are making by
the railroads on the Hudson river front
at Jersey City do not indicate any inten-
ton to abandon the Jersey shore as a
terminus in the near fnture-uotwith-
standing the Hudson river tunnel and the
projected railroad bridge. !.
The Central Railroad recently finished
an immense and costly station at Com
munipaw, and the Pennsylvania Railroad
has all the plans prepared for an edifice
of the same description to replace the
present depot in Jersey City. The new
building will be of brown stone and GRO
ton brick, and will be an ornament to the
city.
These great improvements are supple
mented by others by all the railroads de
bouching on the Hudson river. showing
the permanent character OF the present
termini. 1t is evident that the railroad
managers have no idea that the gateway
ofthe continent will be transferred, at
least in the next fifty years, from the
Jersey water front to either Manhattan
or Staten Island,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
a New Kind of Insurance.

has been put in operation by the manu-
facturers of DR.. Pierce's medicines. His
Golden Medical Discovery and "Favor-
tic Prescription" are sold by druggists
under the manufacturers posittUe guar
datee. Either benefit or a complete cure
is thus attained, or money paid for these
medicines is returned. The certificate Of
guarantee given in connection with sale
OF these medicines is equivalent to "a
policy of insurance. The Golden Medl-
cal Discovery cures all humors and
blood taints, from whatever cause arts
ing, skin and scalp diseases. scrofulous
sores and s%wellings. The "Fayorite Pre-
scription'' cures all those arrangements
and weaknesses peculiar to women.
DON'T hawk. hawk, and blow, blow,
disgusting everybody, but use Dr.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
Send for
Notice to Contractors.

CEALEDs PROPOS Is WILL BE ECEIV AT
> tho ON ce of tho Board of Street and Water Com
mist toner's. on llo4 lay, August II. leS1 az ~ oclock
4. IN. for tho / npr 5yelnenc OF
WATER AVE.
from Montg mery st. to Union St,
in ACC y with plans and specifications on file
avenue and Mercer street, where blank forms of
bid and agreement Of s~ureties must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About AGO cubic wards of earth excavation.
About 100 cubic yards OF rock excavation.
About 500 cubic yarqs Of earth filling.
About 500 cubic yards OF send or gravel filling.
sout A0O1 square yards of stone paving.
A ut 200 lineal feet Of new curb stone.
A ut ESQ square feet OF new bridge stone
A attc 4.t0) square feet or new nagging.
A ,ut 100 square yards Of r~epaving.
out $40 iineal feet OF reset curb stone.
..ouf 200 square feet OF relaid bridge stone.
About g. 9De squaro feet of relaid nagging.
About IL lfneal feet of crtbbing.
About 2 new basins and connection.
About 2 nianhole heads set to grade.
fine allowed for the completion or the work
one hundred Q0D) working days.
The making of the above Improvement and
the remonstrapce of the owners of the pronartv
liable to more than one-half the assessment there
Proposals. must be enclosed in sealed enve,onas on
dorsed proposals for the improvement OF Water
ave. directed to r. A. Dugan, ESQ, chairman Of
the Committee on Streets and Sewers,s and handed
to the Clerk Of the Board in open niesting wnen
called for in the order OF business relating to sealed
proposals.
a substitution OF sureties be allowed
fhe attention of bidders is especially called to
section IL of the New Charter Of 1897 under the
the city until the bondsmen offered by tho contrac-
tor have. been spproved by the Board Of finance,
the President OF said Board having power TO *,
anime the proposed bondsmon unaer oath.
BY oroer of the Board OF Street and later Com.
missioners-
Dated Jersey City. July IS 1900
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
A Woman Leopard.

She was as black as pure African
blood can make one, her hair having
the kinks of a negro of 100 per cent.
assay, says the Omaha World Herald.
The features and everything were
those of a fuil-blooded negro, but the
hand she extended to greet her visitors
was whittier than that of either of the
two. The fingers and all to a point
about three inches up the wrist par
took of the clear color of the eau
casian, the two shades coming to-
gether abruptly iii violent contrast.
Both hands were alike in this respect,
and her feet were also a clear white.
Above her mouth, in semi-circle Gov
ering all the space between the lip
ard nose, the skin is white. and be-
meath the eyes, in just about the same
position as that taken by a pair OF
blaekened eyes on a white person, the
bleaching had also worked itself in.
is your body subjected to this
change, also?n the woman was asked.
Yes, it was. Perhaps a quarter of
the surface, including breast, should
ers and legs
She stopped telling of the Change
to give her name as Annie Wilson. II
was born in Missouri" said Annie,
..and have lived in Clarinda, Ia. The
people down there never thought
much of me, and | attracted little at
tention, excepting from strangers
How long has this change been
working2"
For the past seven years. 1t first
appeared on my left hand, just back
of the thumb. The folks noticed it
first and / thought bee or something
had stung me in my sleep. The speck
grew, and another appeared on my
other hand and then on other portions
OF my body. But in the last year the
change has been more extensive than
during the previous time"
HAS the change in your complex
ion been attended by any pain or ill
ness?o
mot in the least. / have never
been sick in all this time. The only
inconvenience | have suffered has
been from people looking at me.
When | go out to a party / conceal
the white on my face by using black
ing, and | put gloves on my hands.
1t is a nuisance to have folks staring
at me-" Annie says she is q widow
and has four children, only one OF
which is as black as herself, but the
others are simply of the yellow com
plexion. Her husband was a dark
man. Her parents were both as black
al black could be.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
Don,t Expect TOO Much.

AS the girl graduate will have to
suffer from unreasonable criticism, so
she will often suffer from exaggerated
expectations. 1t will be assumed that
because she has spent four years out
of her twenty years of life-inore or
less-at a college that she will be in
all respects a pattern being as to
knowledge, temper, dress, demeanor,
and grammar. But why should the
four years be expected to count for so
much and the previous sixteen years
for nothing? Boys retain for life the
impress of their childish associations;
the refinement or coarseness, the
knowledge or ignorance of their early
homes will be a source of lasting infiu-
ence. College does something to
equalize, but it cannot do everything.
One may hear not merely the recent
graduates, but the professors who
train them, using inelegancies of
speech or pronunciation which have
chung round them all their lives, the
bequest of childish associations.
Granting that girls are several degrees
quicker in observation and adapta-
ton, yet the same thing will be true
of them. And so in point of charac-
ter. As we see college-bred men en-
gage in public affairs, some of them
with a purifying influence going out
from them, while others Guido their
associates in all mean arts. so there
will be a corresponding variety,
though perhaps less extreme. among
women. No course of study, NO
diploma, can guarantee personal
nobleness, or obliterate the difference
between one type of character and
another. AS years go on. the fact OF
college education will soon fell back
into the past, and become only one
factor in the personal career; but ali
high qualities that have taken root in
the young nature will grow and grow
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

A GREAT TODD is being made over
the taxation exemptions. They are
trnmpeted and paraded as if they
were bankrppting the county. The
idea is, of course, to deceive the public
into thinking that they are the cause
of the bad state of the public finances.
This is pure humbug.
The entire amount of the exemp-
tions in Hudson county this year is
S47A.s5O, and considerable as that sum
is, it is insignificant in comparison
with the vast valuations which the
enormous city and county budgets
render necessary.
Let the public not be deceived. The
enormous valuation and heavy tax
rate of the coming year are purely
the outgrowth of Ring extravaganza.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

let it simmer five or ten minutes. In
the meantime stir it thoroughly; then
put it in a cotton bag large enough to
cover the lungs, and apply to. the
chest az hot as the patient can bear,
when this gets cool apply another.
and thus continue repeating the poul-
tees, and in a few hours the patient
will be out OF MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

But it is odd thta man of the world
like SewelI shout think he could de-
ceive the public. TO everybody else,
this spectacle of beer brewer sup
pressing the sale Officer, is suggestive
of the old image fills Satanic Maj
esty quoting scriptuh.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
STEAMBOATS.
MCE LlNE-

for BOSTON, PROVIDENCE. WORCESTER, and an
New England points. Full nights rest. Shortest
railride.
Steamers MASSACHUSETTS, and ISLAND
will leave Pier ~ N. X, foot Warreg. streeL, az $50
p m. daily, except sundays. arriving Providence
steamer. Tickets and staterooms secured al Nos
l2a, 25sI, 20L SCI 9A and g95s B~rpadway, Astor House,
Transfer Co. N Z. and Brooklyn. who win cali for
tination. Telephone call, cortlandt a.s23.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
The Forum for August.

The August number of the Forum will
contain an essay on ''The Decollete in
Modern Life" by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, which is q text from which the
writer argues an alarming decay in deli
caey in American society; and she traces
the effects of this decay in our art, in our
literature, i'll politics, and throughout the
whole range of American activity.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
Girls, BE

Girls, if you are beautiful at twenty,
and, more beautiful at thirty, you will
be excellent at forty, and as lovely as
-princesses at fifty. Always speak the
truth and speak it in love or else it is
not worth speaking. But you must
not believe it right always to speak
your minds. Our minds are some
times not fit to be spoken. Remember
that silence as we'll as truth is golden.
Many of you are thinking about get
ting married some day. If you marry
we'll and in the right spirit it is a great
thing, but for heavens sake don't be
in a hurry about it. To the young
men / may add, make yourselves
worth marrying. Be faithful in love.
When you get married | hope you
viii marry a man whom you can love
as | love my husband. And may he
love you as my husband loves, or says
he loves me-and I believe him, to be
sure. Hrs. Laura Ormiston Chant.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
Relief in P-neumonia.

The following offers a good help for
pneumonia:-Take ten or twelve raw
onions and chop fine; then add about
the same quantity of rye meal and
vinegar enough to form a thich paste;
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
ANc OFFICES.

~ f oAAANSa OHA AOEbo.
Advertisements, Subscriptions and Newsdeal-
ers Orders received
HoBoKEN-First and Clinton Streets, j. D. Sin
clair.
UNION HInL-H. Fischer. No. GO Palisade Avenue.
bergen PoISr-T. w. Dobson, opposite Railway
Depot.
BAYoSNE-J. II Brewer, No. 4S1 Avenue D,
five CoRNEEs-G. w. Pheiffer, No. 663 Newark
Avenne.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

MURPHY.-suddenly, on Thursday. July "a. 1890
Timothy, beloved son of Bridget and the late
John Murphy. aged twenty-three years. three
months and twenty six days.
Relatives and frienas Of the family, also members
of Court Jersey City, A.o. 7. Of A-sNo. 7.l2s, are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his
late residence, No. 524& Grove street, on Sund ay,
July "a, at one D. m.
Interment in Calvary Cemetery.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

QSt o DUSOf.
How English Ladies Used To Work.
In his History of Domestic Man
ners and Sentiments in England" Mr..
Wright tells us that down to about
the close of the Sixteenth century
women, as a rule, were closely con
fined to their domestic labors, in spin
ming, weaving, embroidering and
other work of a similar kind. A hand
loom was almost a necessary article OF
furniture in a well regulated house
hold, and spinning was SO universal
that we read sometimes of an apart
ment in the house especially devoted
to tia family spinning room. Even
to the present day, in legal language,
the only occupation acknowledged as
that of an unmarried woman is that
OF a spinster. The young ladies, even
of great families, were brought up not
only strictly, bpt even tyranically by
their mothers, who kept them con-
stantly at work, exacted from them
almost slavish Difference and respect,
and even counted upon their earnings.
Remembers Ezen BY Their Neckties.
There is a ticket taker in n of the
large theatres in New York city who
occasionally exercises his memory in
a rather curious way. Generally he
gives each man who goes out between
the acts a return check, but OCCASION
ally he omits this and relies solely on
his memory to recognize those who
wish to re-enter the theatre. A friend
who saw him doing this the other
night remarked that he must nave a
wonderful memory for faces to be able
to perform the feat without making a
mistake. No. answered the ticket
taker, 81 have a very poor memory
for faces. / do not rely on their faces
at all. Indeed seldom look at the
mems faces. What l go by is their
neckties. If you will watch the neck
ties you will observe that no two are
exactly alike, They differ much more
than the mems faces do and they are
easier to remember. l might forget a
mans face, but his necktie, never. /
have followed this rule for years and /
have never made a mistake yet"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

in proportion to the depth of the soil
and to the joint influence of sunshine
and rain.-L. w. HigginSon IN Har-
0ea'S Rnznr
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25

THE JERSEY CITY ~NEws:-Single copies, two
rents; subscription, six dollars per year; postage
free.
The SUNDAY MORNING NEWS: every
Sunday morning; single copies, three cents; sub
s~criptioD, 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 adj
dressed TO CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY; all others
10 the Managing Editor
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
DON'T

COMMENCE THE STUDY OF
sTENoGRAPHT AND TYPEwEITING
way. N. Y. Pamphlets free. Also lessons
by mail. Cut this out.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY.

No. 80 MONTGOMERY STREET
WELDON BULDING.1
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
Yon are Buying BONDS. this
You want INTEREST on your

Bank Balance, this Company
receives money on deposit SUBJ
ject to check. and allows inter-
est on daily balances.
Special Rates on Deposits for
Three Months or longer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
MONEY TO Loan.

From $40 to 500 on personal property and furni-
ture in use. Weekly or monthly payment taken.
Enquiry by m all promptly answered, Business
strictly private. Apply to
w. s. WEED,
No. AZ Gregory ST., Jersey City.
Office open until D. m.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
Notice to Contractors.

Dated Jersey city. July IS. 1907.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-25
History of an Indians Watch.


An ancient silver timepiece, valuable
for its historical associations no less than
for its antiquity, is owned by Daniel
Minthorn, Of Watertown. It weighs
St ounces, and is $50 years old, and it
keeps good time when wound, although
it has not been repaired since 1947. The
watch is of the pattern known as the
British bullseye," and lis II inches
thick. The face is of silver, roughly
chased, and has double row of figures
Arabic and Roman numerals. It bears
this mark, *'Thomas Linhard, London,
no."
A search through ancient directories
of the city of London made by Mr.. Min
thorn at the last London exposition, re-
vealed the fact that this jeweler was in
business on Fleet street between the
years 1888 and 1868. This cumbrous
timepiece was once worn within the
buckskin coat of the celebrated Mohawk
war chief, Joseph. Brant, whose Indian
name was Thayendanega, and regard
ing whose accomplishments as a war
nor, chief and courtier many legends are
related in western New York and Can
ada. His influence during the latter
half of the last century is unprecedented
in the annals Of the Indian race.-Jew-
elers' Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-25
= Oil Upon Troubled Waters.

A suggestion has been made that oil
might with advantage be used at the
most exposed lighthouses to reduce the
force Of the waves. It is thought that
this end might be attained by placing,
say, couple of small steel buoys in the
most exposed direction at distance
from the lighthouse of some $50 feet.
There should be a pulley on the buoy
and slight rope, SO that the bag or ap-
pliance for distributing the oil could al
ways be hauled in when required. The
method is most simple, and can be tested
without great expense!-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-25
Chicago's Fem mime Billiard Experts.

Inc largest number OF women PLAYERS
at any one place may now be found at
the aristocratic Standard club on the
south side. The young women here do
not hesitate to play an even game with
the men, and hold their own, too.
The Misses Goodman are RECOGNIZED
as the best two players on the south
side. On the north side Miss Cool ranks
above all other female players. She can
play too strong game for most anna
teurs, making runs of fifty and sixty
with three balls. Two years ago such a
feat was considered next to impossible
for any woman. Hampered by her
skirts and corsets, there were any num-
Der of shots that she could not make.
These have been overcome, however, by
learning to handle the cue with the left
hand Nothing now seems to stand in
the way of a woman learning to play the
game as well as the average man.
Potter Palmer has table Of UNIQUE
design which is a combination cabinet
The scheme was devised by Mrs. Palmer,
who, with many of her north side
friends, delights in the game. The table
was built after an original design which
she furnished the factory. George M.
Pullman is the possessor Of another hand
some table, and the Misses Pullman are
credited with being able to play a fair
amateur game with four balls. Charles
Schwartz has table that cost nearly
81, 900, and Mrs. Fl. 81. Porter personally
looks after both billiard and a pool
table in her elegant home Chicago
News.