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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Tha Rod.

Professor E. Ray Lancaster, having
recently expressed some doubts upon the
alleged powers of a boy ''water finder"
who has been in the employ Of the Grin
ton Mining company, in the north of
England, the chairman of the company,
DR.. Mcclure, has replied to them, deny
ing emphatically that the boy. whose
name is Rodwell, is an impostor. EIe
says that the lad when tested never
failed to either find water or mineral
veins, the lodes having always been
foNnd exactly at the places indicated.
The diyining rod which he holds only
moves in obedience to the muscular con-
fractions of his hands, and a rod of any
kind of wood or even of any material
substance whatever can be used, pro-
vided it be a conductor of electricity.
Rodwell usually walks with his hands
tightly clasped before him, and as soon
as he steps upon a mineral vein of water
he is powerless to u~nclasp them until he
moves away from the region Of the lode
or conduit. The lad is about IA years of
age.-London Times.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Little Child and Big Dog.

An amusing scene occurred on Essex
street, near the Phillips schoolliouse, this
noontinle. Two large dogs, weighing
perhaps 100 and 1870 pounds respectively
engaged in a short and savage battle,
which ended by the 100 pound dog re-
firing, Just as he turned tail a little
girl about G years old rushed in on the
scene, grabbed the 100 pound dog By the
collar, kicked him in the ribs, cuffed
him soundly over the ears, and then
dragged him triumphantly from the
scene, the big brute submitting with a
shame faced air, and his head and tail
down in an attitude indicating that he
realized his naughtiness, and acknowl-
edged the kicking and pounding as de-
served.-Salem News.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24

A most remarkable feat that l saw
performed while on a recent hunting
tour in southern Missouri was that of a
native of that part of the country, who
skinned a coon, or rather removed the
coon from the skin through its mouth,
thus preserving the skin intact, which I
brought home with me and am having
it mounted by a taxidermist. The feat
l considered a most remarkable one.
This is no fish story; it is the truth. The
operator removed the flesh and bones,
even the bones of the tail, feet and fin
gers, through the mouth, using no other
instrument than a sharp penknife.-In-
teryiew ia 81. louis Ci.eG-jensncrat
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Natures Transformations.

There are many wonderful transforms
tons in nature besides those which are
common to the eye of the ordinary OBJ
server. Take for example the Medusa
or common jelly fish. Born of the sea,
the young hydrozoon becomes primarily
a distinct free germ, resembling a grain
of rice. next a fixed cup having four lips,
which subsequently turn to ~tentacles,
and it becomes a hyatine flower, which
presently splits across the calyx into
segments, ~whereupon it is made to re-
semble a pine one crowned with a tuft
of transparent filament. Now the CONF
changes into a series of sea daisies
threaded on a pearly stock, and these
one by one become detached and float
away, each a perfect little Medusa with
purple bill and trailing tentacles. Halls
Journal of Health.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24

A returned missionary, who has been
many years in Japan, has just been
showing some curious effects of culture
in that country. II seems that the
japanese have seized upon the idea OF
secular education with great avidity.
While only 1000 children go to school
where religious knowledge is a part OF
the curriculum, over 5000, 900 attend
where the teaching is purely agnostic.
The young men develop a keen love for
metaphysical doctrine and research, but
their favorite authors are Mill, Spencer,
Darwin and Huxley. AS this tendency
is accompanied by a great demand for
English teachers, however, one would
think that the missionaries had the
means of opposing it in their W hands.
New York Star.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
A New Mode of Cooking.

Apatent has just been taken out for
what is claimed to be a new mode OF
cooking. The process is remarkable for
its simplicity. a very simple form OF
oven is heated by q lamp which is placed
beneath it. The floor of the oven is
covered with a thin sheet of water, in
which the cooker or steamer is heated sc
as to form a water joint. By this meth
cd the inventor claims that no odor is
permitted to escape, and the flavor of
the food is perfectly retained. In cook
ing such articles as fish, cabbage and
other food which gives off an unpleasant
odor, this process is extremely valuable.
New York Telee
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Two Opinions About Ancient Bones.

Clark Brown exhumed at Fish's point,
on the Upper Mystic road, the other day,
what are believed by some persons to be
relics of the first American man, ante
dating, possibly, the age of mound build
ing. There were parts of a human skele-
ton that crumbled at the touch, two
rough copper vessels, mostly corroded, a
smoothly rounded pestle and two pecu-
liarly shaped glass bottles with crooked
necks. Skeptics, however, profess to
think that the things belonged to a pre-
historic apothecary that was swallowed
up in an earthquake. Mr.. Brown may
submit them to the inspection of an an
tiquarian -Stonington Telegram.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Want volapuk in the Boston schools

A petition was received by the school
board from the Volapuk club requesting
school buildings of the city proper for
the purpose of teaching Volapuk. The
club offers to furnish teachers free of
charge for such pupils as shall attend,
with the understanding that the conduct
Of the schools shall be under the super
vision of the school committee. An order
giving the club the permission asked for
was assigned to the next meeting.-Bos-
ton Record.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Look at Your tingers.

Fingers which are smooth denote q
tendency to act upon instinct, impulse
or intuition, rather than by reason. cal
culation or deduction. Knotty fingers
denote a tendency to order ard arrange
ment. People with short fingers are
quicker, more impulsiye, actp.src on The
spur Of the moment than people Will,
long fingers. Ii the fingers are very
short it signifies cruelty and want of
sact.-Philadelphia Record.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Gas and Electric Light.

The influence of gas and electric light
on the colors of textile fabrics used for
furniture coverings, draperies or carpets.
is a matter which should be clearly un-
derstood by every retail salesman who is
employed in stores where such goods are
sold, for to the purchasers of these fab
RIGS the effect they produce under arti-
fetal light is usually a highly important
consideration. In many establishments
oom are arranged for showing fabrics
by gas and electric light, but it is often
desirable for the salesman to be able to
give a customer some trustworthy lit
formation on this subject without re-
moving the goods in question from the
spot where they are being examined.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
100000.

TIE EsTEY ORGAN COMPANY have fur.
1ished the above number. Who can real
re Y When you think of this enormous sale.
remember what II means. 1t means that the
fstty organ and Piano are just what the peo-
PIE want. 1t is the fayorite OF all true lovers
OF music. Sold by GEORGE DARE. Agent.
Grant Street, Salem, Nj. mar-a9ly
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
Distressful Feel.

Much foot sensitiveness could be re-
moved by a daily regular resting of them
in cool water. This simple duty, which
could be utilized as q short reading time,
which obviates much distress, is GER
tainly worth performing. I found this
out last SUMMER by taking swimming
lessons. I really save the value of Chi
ropodists' bills, going out once a month
instead of twice a week to have my feet
treated, while doing twice as much
walking as customary.-Fannie Edgar
Thomas,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24
An Honest inheritance.

Mabel-Father, I really do not half
like that Miss Shearewell. She's an
well, an awful clip.
Father (solemnly>--My dear, do not
blame the poor girl. She came honestly
by her nature. Her father is the scissors
EDITOR of The Sunday Scrapbag.-Pitts-
burg Bulletin.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24

The Deacon and His ~yanquished Squash.
The Small Urchin Is ON Hand, as Usual,
and the Chap with the Trick to Catch
the Gudgeons Is Also There.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10

these figures" says Superintendent
Porter, ''show that the population has
increased between 1880 and 1890 only
727,345 more than between 1870 and
1880, while the rate Of increase has ap-
parently diminished from 30. 0S to H5T."
During the past ten years the immigra-
tion to thfs country was the largest In
any decade in its history, aggregating
5,246,6l3. The proportion of aged per-
sons among immigrants is insignifi-
cant They are generally young and
healthy persons, and the birth rate
among them is greater than among the
natives, BY the operation OF natural
law this number would increase to six
and half millions in ten years, leaving
but FIVE and half millions as the natu-
raj increase of fifty million people in ten
years.
Superintendent Porter confesses that
his enumeration is disappointing. 1t
would indicate diminution in the fe-
cundity of the population or an alarming
increase Of the death rate, neither OF
which can be sustained by reliable data.
Porter, however, takes the bull by the
horns and boldly declares that the cen
sus Of 1870 was grossly deficient, particu-
larly in the southern states, and asserts
that it should have been forty millions
instead of thirty-eight and a half mill
ions.
II it were possible by mere assertion
to initiate the census of 1870 the ratio OF
increase in the two decades would more
nearly correspond and sustain the COR
rectness of the present enumeration
But the fact is too well established that
| the present census is deficient by from
two to three millions.
While the census Office must bear the
odium OF discrcdited work. the response
bility rests on the law and the system.
The work of enumeration, while con-
trollcd by the census Office, was turned
into vast spoils machine for the benefit
of congressman and political workers.
Competency and reliability were not
taken into consideration in the appoint
ment of enumerators. Political activity
was the main qualification, and the re-
suit is shown in work confessedly dis
appointing to the country and unjust to
scores OF cities and states.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

Assuming that one hundred and
seventy-fve thousand will be the new
ratio for representation in the house Of
representatives the vote OF the electoral
college in 1892 will be four hundred and
forty-one, two hundred and twenty-ore
being necessary to choice. tits prob
able that the above ratio will be adopted,
for the reason that if the basis OF repre-
sentation should be made higher several
states, among them New York and Ohio,
would lose at least one member each,
and such states will very vigorously op-
pose ratio that would have this result.
The late elections suggest that 1t may
be necessary TO somewhat change the
lists of states heretofore counted as surely
republican or democratic, and particu
larly to add to the column Of those re-
garded as doubtful. II is highly prob
able, however, that all OF the states which
recently went democratic will return to
the republican party two years hence,
and therefore we place them in the re-
publican column, with the electoral vote
of each under the reapportionment.
They are:
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
4 NEIY MORMON MENACE.

The election in Utah resulted in an
overwhelming victory for the Mormon
candidate for congress. In view of this
throughout the country, the theory is now
entertained fin Utah that the Mormons
will make proposal to the republicans
at Washington that will be fraught with
the gravest danger.
The republican press of Salt Lake City
pose to give the three electoral votes OF
Utah and the senators and congressman
in exchange for statehood. II
says that they would undoubt
edly carry out their agreement
If the republican government would
make the bargain. In view of this men
ace to Utah, the Salt Lake papers urge
that there must be no party politics
in the territory until the Mormons are
routed and the people thoroughly Amer
icanized. They urge that republicans
should stand by the interests of Utah
friends were in power.
This new menace would seem to out
side observers entirely idle, but il
Utah it is regarded as real danger ant
is met by the press in the highest public
spirit, regardless of partisan considera
tions. The sentiment of the country
will come up squarely to the
support of the liberals in thi
emergency The republican party
wants no votes in congress or the electo
raj college that have been purchased a
the cost of American ideas. 1t wants N,
new states stained with the crime o
Mormonism.
Republicans are responsible for abou
all the legislation that has thus far con
tributed to the emancipation of Utah
They have heartily co-operated with th'
| Gentiles in their effort to drown ou
Mormonism with good American citi
zens and to develop the resources of tn,
| territory. The nervous but patrioti
| people of Utah need not fear that re
publican president and congress, for an.
political advantage, will saddle the ney
curse of Mormon state government
| upon them
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
Now for the city election.
ABOUT JVOMEN.

The home of Mary Washington in Freder-
icksburg has been purchased by the Society
for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
for 81, 900.
Mrs Terhune (''Marian Harlan') was Miss
Mary Virginia Hawes, a Richmond, Va, lady,
and a descendant of Captain Smith, whose
life was saved by Pocahontas.
The presidents wife is so well known ia
Washington that she finds itan inconvenience
while shopping. She has lately taken to Wis.,
iting Baltimore 70 make purchases.
The queen Of Roumania was so pleasantly
impressed with Queen Victoria during her re-
cent visit to BalmOral it is chronlcled, that
she intends to write poem about her Britain
mic majesty.
Mrs. Mary A. Lease q lawyer of Wichita,
is said to be the greatest political power and
the best organizer within the ranks Of the
farmers alliance in Kansas, which numbers
10000 members.
Miss Louise Baker is the pastorin charge OF
the old North church of Nantucket Before
entering the pulpit she took thorough course
in theology. Sheis now a powerful preacher
and a graceful writer
Susan La Flesh, an Indian girl, who grad
uated in medicine from one of the colleges OF
New York after going through the Hampton,
Va, school, is practicing among her tribe, the
Omahas, and with reported success.
Miss Harriet Colfax, cousin Of the late
Vice President Colfax, has for nearly thirty
years been keeper of the lighthouse at Mich
gan City, one of the most important beacons
on Lake Michigan. During these years Miss
Anna Hartwell has been her companion and
helper, and an unfailing affection has grown
up between these isolated workers.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the editor of ST
Nicholas has charming country place il
Onteora Park, Catskill Mountains called the
Yarrow Cottage, where she receives every
Thursday afternoon during the summer anC
autumn. In the hall there is large oper
fireplace with this couplet from Wordsworth
carved beneath the mantei shelf:
"Down deep within our hearts we know
There is such place as Yarrow."
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
GOV. THAYERs PREDICTION.
lie Says Republican Principles sfiil
Live and Will Prevail i'm 1902.

Live ana VIII trevoh IN ioOS'
Yesterday morning, Just before Governor
Thayer took the north bound train, he was
asked by reporter fo- his opinion on the
election.
"Whom the Lord lovoth he chastencth,"
replied the governor "and we are now en-
during the chastening experience. tits pretty
rough, but l reckon we can stand it. We
have something for which TO be thankful for
have we not carried Nevada and elected II
republican sheriff in Chcagol 1t reminds
me OF o preacher who caused his hat to be
passed around for n collection. On its being
returned to him no turned II upside down,
anxiously expecting TO SEQ the shining shek-
els tumbling out When lol seven pennies
and about as many rusty shingle mans glngled
moment and thcn exclaimed in tone which
all tho congregation could hear, We'll, I'm
id glad have got my hat back
"Discouragedl BY no means. We live to
fight another day My faith in the justice of
our cause is stronger than ever The re.
publican party will be strengthened and in
vigorated by defeat, and will emerge from
this valley Of humiliation two years hence
with its banners flying and on them in.
scribed, Protection and Victory Truth
crushed to earth shall rise again. You know
the rest do you nott
"Mark this prediction and remember 1t:
Next spring will witness the beginning OF a
new ora oil prosperity IN tniS country WnlCu
mas not been surpassed for many years. Tho
mists and dou BITS and suspicious which haVo
enshrouded the Mckinley bill, as the result
OF the most unconsconable lying
In regard to matter OF legis-
lation ever known, will have been
dssipated Tho people will come to under
stand its provisions ; will witness the bcnefi.
cent results of its operation, and will gradu.
ally be led to believe that II is the coming OF
q new power which is to bring increased
wealth and glory to the country. Ola manu-
featuring establishments will start in with
renewed vigor-new ones will be created
new agencies will bc set TO work in different
departments of human industry, additional
home markets will be opened, invention will
be stimulated, farmers will receive better
prices for the products of the soil, wages of
labor will be increased, strikes will In meas
ure cause.-the whole country will forge
ahead in prosperity and progress under tho
new order of things; and in three years tho
democratic party will De swearing that they
originated and established the present Nc
Kinley tariff law,
'In 1892 the republicans will march back TO
power again. will regain control of the ma
tional house of representatives, and will place
republican president in the white house at
Washington, Let all republicans take cour-
age.O
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10

THE light is breaking through the
clouds. The cat is out OF the bag. The
election African has left the wood pile.
All calculations as to cause and effect
have been purely speculative. We have
groped in the darkness, as it were, and
il remained for perspicacious English
man to lead us out OF the wilderness and
put the country in possession of the
great secret A special cablegram from
Birmingham informs misguided public
that Mr.. Jaffray congratulated the
World Herald on the defeat of that in
iquitous measure, the Mckinley bill"
That settles it. Mr.. Jaffray penetrated
the mists of the avalanche and divulged
the true inwardness OF democratic tri'
umph. The jackass battery wrought all
the havoc. And England is awfully
happy, doncherknow.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
REMARKARLE DOCUMENT.

The official bulletin announcing the
result of the census OF 1890 contains
many interesting and important facts
which were omitted from the telegraphic
summary.
The population OF the United States.
exclusive of whites in Indian Terri
tory, Indians on reservations, and
Alaska, is fixed at 90, 4S0, $40. The in
crease during the census decade was
1891 ,757; during the previous decade,
1l,597,4l From 1870 to 1880 the popu-
lation increased S0.0s per cent; from 1880
to 1890, 2457.
In explaining this marked falling off
in the ratio of increase Superintendent
Porter attacks the accuracy of the CEN
sus of 1870 and 1880, and under the seal
OF the government discredits former
government work. "Upon their face
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
Relics of Gave DweIlers.

What is believed by local scientists to
have been the dwelling place of some of
the members of the singu, ar race which
inhabited this section in prehistoric
times was discovered by party of
Galena sportsmen on the east bank of
the Mississippi river, near the famous
Pilot Knob, about four miles from this
city, says q Galena, ILL.,, special to the
New York Herald.
The opening, which is barely large
enough to admit of the passage OF man
on his hands and knees, is twelve feet
above the foot of u rocky bluff, and is
reached by means of what seems to be-
artificial steps, which we're overgr0wn
with shrubbery
1t was discovered in following a wolf
which the party had started UP, and
was but partially explored, owing to the
lateness of the hour, and yeste rday
the same party paid Il second visit to
the spot and explored it thoroughly for
the distance of about d mile. Among
their discoveries was an immense cavern
some fifty feet lower, than the entrance
above described, the surface of which
was covered by lake of solid ice, which
theparty crossed.
Another room was discovered with
saddle shaped ceiling, covered with cube
mineral, which glistened like diamonds
under the reflection of the lights carried
by the explorers.
Vaulted passages, some of whose
boundaries could not be determined; ir-
regular shaped rooms covered from top
TO bottom with stalagmites, stalactites
and other beautiful geological forma-
tions, and immense crevices that seemed
to be bottomless were among the other
features of the wonderful caves.
The explorers brought back with them
large number OF specimens, including
pieces OF broken pottery, a huge stone
pestle, copper implements of various
kinds, perforated bears claws, several
perforated pearls of enormous size,
though lusterless, and number of hui
man bones, all OF which were found in u
room which: had every appearance Of
having been used as dwelling place.
j. j. Blodgett OF Gresham was in the city
YESTERDAY, at the Mo r hants
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
Color and Quality,

Those who associate color with quail
ity have almost invariably regarded red
as the symbol for strength and for
warmth, for all it's shades are more or
less full of vitality, while nothing is
more emblematic of the strength and
warmth of youth, with all its hopes and
purposes, than that modification Of red
known as rose color.
Blue, again, is universally felt to be
the symbol OF coldness. the ancient con-
sidering the disembodied spirit to be OF
a blue tint, and, while red is a physical
color, blue-the color of the air, of dis
tance, of space, Of the heavens-is an
ethereal and intellectual hue.
Yellow, on the other hand, has had
two entirely different symbolical mean
color OF the sun-it was the emblem OF
virtue, as in the halo of the saints. while
in it's more crude and glaring tint it has
always been used to signify baseness;
Judas is often represented in old works
of art in that form OF the color, and it is
today the color of the dress OF certain
class OF convicts.
Green, again, has always been con-
nected in the public mind with jealousy;
purple, with royalty; white, with purity
and Joy; gray, with sobriety, and black,
with grief.
The system oil heraldry has made
great use Of the symboiical meaning Of
colors-gules, azure, sable, vert and
purpure being their designations.
With all this, the varying civilizations
have never agreed on the color TO be
worn in mourning-these mourning in
black, those in white, others in yellow
and kings in scarlet.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
ACCORDING to the Double Enaer ]

ACCORDING to the Double-Ender har-
mony is assured all along the line be-
tween the alliance party and the demo
cratic party. The opening overture
does not appear TO us to be very har-
monious. There is just one star too
many in that harmonious combination.
Mr., Boyd or Mr.. Powers must WELD the
baton before the legislature orchestra
can proceed, and we rather imagine that
the democrats will insist that Mr.. Pow
ers shall give way to Mr.. Boyd until he
can carom thousand more votes.