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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-04-23


Recently was conyersing with a po-
liceman who is rose enthusiast, and
he told me he had strong bushes of some
of the best hybrid perpetuals upon their
own roots, that he had rooted himself
in way quite new to me. Having OBJ
tanned suitable shoot, or several Of
them, they were placed in an ordinary
bottle which contained some water, and
this bottle was hung upon the wall of
the house in sunny position and there
left, water being supplied to make up
the deficiency caused by evaporation.
In this water, which often becomes very
warm from the heat of the sun, the cut
tings remained, and after short period
they calloused, when they were taken
out and dibbled into pots In the ordinary
way, the formation of the roots soon
taking place.
The above plan was claimed as expedi.
tious, as the cuttings calloused much
sooner in water than they did in the soil.
1t is known that many things root read
lily in water, and oleanders are frequent
ly propagated in that way, whilst some
Sedum spectabile that / have lately had
in a cut state had rooted freely long be-
fore the flowers faded. With the roses,
II cutting is once nicely calloused, success
is almost certainty, and If this needed
state can be brought about by immersion
of the base in water. we then have a
simple and valuable aid to rose propaga-
ton, because it Is much easier to preserve
alive a cutting placed in water than it is
one in the soil during its early stage
Vick's Magazine.
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Rainfall on the Plains.

Professor Frank II. Snow, of the Kan
sas State university, said several years
ago; "But the fact that thousands Of
new corners, from ignorance of the eli
mate, have attempted to introduce ordi-
nary agricultural operations upon the so
called plains. and have disastrously failed
in the attempt, has placed an undeserved
stigma upon the good name of Kansas in
many far distant communities, and has
undoubtedly somewhat retarded immi-
grafton during the past few years. 1t is
time for the general recognition of the
fact that, except in exceedingly limited
area where irrigation is possible, the
western third of Kansas is beyond the
limit of successful agriculture"
The severe seasons OF drought which
have occurred since the above conserva-
tive statement was written show the
whole truth Of the matter to be that the
westward advancing line of settlement
is by no means an isohyetal one, but that
1t is merely q line representing in way
the overflow of the population of our
eastern states. 1t needs but slight
acquaintance among the old settlers
in central Kansas to know that they
fear nowadays excessively dry weather
as much as they did twenty-five years
ago. The people who live farther west
are losing faith in the idea of an In.
creased rainfall, rs Is evidenced by the
fact that over two hundred linear miles
of main canals have lately been con-
structed for irrigation purposes nearly
as far east MS Kinsley, in the Arkansas
valley Of Western Kansas. In the Platte
valley, in Nebraska, largo irrigating sys-
tens are at present being Projected
Stuart o. Henry in Popular Science
MONTHLY.
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Lepro.y Here and Elsewhere,

DIR. Hansen, the Norwegian discoverer
of the bacillus Of leprosy, came over to
this country while ago to trace the his
tory of leper immigrants who had settled
in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota.
or 100 original leper immigrants he was
able to find only 10; a few more may be
living, but nearly lat are dead. or all
their descendants, so far as great grand
children, not one has become leper. In
this country the disease does not increase
nor does it appear to be hereditary. The
failure to spread here is thought to be
due TO the improved conditions of living
which the immigrants are able to secure
on this side of the ocean.
The Sanitary Inspector, in speaking Of
q leper lately found at Brentwood, Eng
land, says that many persons believe that
leprosy has entirely disappeared from
England, yet there has probably never
been year in which a score of lepers
could not be produced, and that, though
England used to have lepers enough,
leprosy has become very rare disease
since English homes and English roads
have been kept clean.-Science.
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The Festivs Frog.

A frog In the first stages of its career
gives no hint as to what 1t will eventu-
ally become. AS far as looks go one
would suppose it was going to be cat.
fish. 1t spends the first days of its ex-
istenee swimming about In some pool,
industriously wagging the small tail
that is appended to one end of his little
round, egg-shaped body. By and by :
pair of legs begin to stick out from
under its vest These it uses for time
to kick with, and then moves them up
close to its collar to make way for its
long and esculant hind legs.
1t is then that the little bright eyed
fellow disclaims any further relationship
with his tail, and even goes SO far as to
cut its acquaintance entirely, and quits
the water forever except for bathing
purposes. Taking up its abode on the
land, it soon grows into an article OF
commerce much sought after and priced
by epicures. philadelphia Times.
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At Rome, in 1892, 1t rained dust. mixed
with blood, for three days, and when the
heavy clouds drifted away it looked as IL
the sun was swimming in sea of fire.
Four years later, in 1926, a snow fell in
Syria, which presently melted and flowed
in carmine rivers of blood, or some fluid
much resembling it in every particular.
Many of the old writers record n three
day shower of blood red rain in the
Island of Rhodes and throughout South
erp Italy in 1896. A monk, writing in
1851, tells of loaf being cut out of
which blood flowed as freely as from a
fresh wound.
In i346 there were many great tenn
pests. Several towns and thousands Of
people were swallowed up and the
courses Of rivers changed or stopped.
Some chasms in the earth sent forth
poisonous fluids, as red as carmine ink,
as at Villach, in Austria. Ponderous
hailstones fell in many parts of Germany
the same year, some OF them weighing
from twenty to seventy pounds. At
Lamech it rained flesh, dust, comets and
meteors; firebrands and coruscations
were in the air; mock suns, with fiery
tails, sailed through the skies. Soon
after these terrible scenes at Lamech 1t
began at Cataya, near the sea, and went
sweeping throughout southern Europe.
An igneous vapor or sulphurous fire
broke from the earth at Caahery, Asia,
and utterly consumed men, beasts,
houses and trees, SO injecting the air
that q great plague followed. Young
serpents and millions of venomous in
sects fell from the clouds.
In 1851 Burgundy experienced the
novelty of shower of blood red rain,
which ensanguined everything it touch-
ed; and in 1868 the Antiura reapers found
all wheat heads to be as red as blood. In
1883 bread put in the oven at Nuremberg
was taken out covered with bloody
sweat. Wurtemberg had shower of
birthstone and ashes in 1884 In 1905
Limerick and Tipperary, Ireland, had
many showers Of soft, fatty substance
resembling butter. 1t was OF dark
yellow color and always fell at night.
The people gathered it and used 1t as an
ointment, reporting many astonishing
cures.-St. Louis Republic.
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ms.ooroiosl.t. and E,nsl.. Tower

French meteorologists, 1t appears, have
just discovered that the Eiffel tower will
prove far moro valuable to them for OBJ
servation than was at first imagined
Indeed, 1t is said that it possesses most of
the advantages of an observatory built
upon mountain. In confirmation of
this it is stated that recently, while Sc
we're frost prevailed in the city, strong,
warm breeze was blowing at the summit
of the tower, and 1t was three days be-
fore this temperature reached the ground.
In no elevated observatory could such
direct vertical observations be made as
here. Photography will be pressed into
service at this elevated position, as a
matter of course.--Journal Of Photog-
raphy.
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MA onls Haven.

All women are in league against the
bachelor-the married women from SYM
patty with their unmarried sisters and
the unmarried from desire to lessen the
number of spinsters, With this league
against him, offensive and defensive, the
unmarried man may find peace in heaven.
but he can scarce hope to find happiness
on earth--this side Of marriage. How
ever, once married, all the bachelors
troubles are over, He is no longer the
subject of interested or designing atten-
tions-except the attentions which pro-
coed from love True, the bachelor be-
comes on his marriage, if not an object
of commiseration to the knowing ones,
an object of comparative indifference to
all women but one; but the superior love
of that one atones for all, and his added
dignity and completeness as a man and
citizen make him wonder how he pre-
viously existed, as one-half pair of
scissors without the other half.-Wo-
mans Cycle.
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DIR. Mendelson furnished the following
dietary table, which is warrented to re-
duce flesh:
Breakfast.-One cup 20 ounces) tea or
coffee, with milk and sugar. Bread, 81
ounces q to slices). Butter, ounce.
One egg or II ounces meat.
Dinner.-Meat or fish. Z ounces. Green
vegetables, 2 ounces Spinach, cabbage,
string beans, asparagus, tomatoes, beet
tops, etc.. Farinaceous dishes, 81 ounces
potatoes, rice, hominy. maccaroni, etc.,
or these may be omitted and a corre-
spending amount of green vegetables
substituted. Salad, with plain dressing,
ounce. Fruit, 81 ounces. Water,
sparingly.
Supper or Lunch. Two eggs, or lean
meat, 8 ounces. Salad (radishes, pickles,
etc.,, ounce. Bread. 4 ounce q slice).
Fruit, 81 ounces Or fruit may be
omitted and bread e ounces) substituted.
Fluids (tea, coffee, etc., ounces.
No beer, ale, cider, champagne, sweet
wines or spirits. Claret and hook in
great moderation. Milk, except as an
addition to tea or coffee, only occasional
ly. Eat no rich grayies, and nothing
fried.-New York Times.
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Rat PInruex.

The plague which the agriculturists of
England are now suffering from the raw.
ages Of rats is not without precedent in
Canada. The nearest approach to this
rat plague is the plague of mice which
visited Prince Edward Island and Nova
Scotia in the early part of the century.
AS long ago as 1900 the undue preya-
lence of mice in Prince Edward Island,
or the Island of st. John as it was then
called, was noted by the French settlers;
and in 1774, both on that island and on
the adjacent main land, complaint
arose that these animals were again too
numerous and too familiar. In the lat
ter year the mice visited the fields and
ate up everything, including the pota-
toes, and having flushed this disastrous
work they turned their attention to liter
AZURE, and consumed the leather binding
Of the settlers books. Ottawa Telegram,
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL %, 1890.


In the Copper Cliff mine, near Sud.
bury Canada, it is said more nickel is
being produced than the entire market
Of the world calls for at current prices.
A little branch off the main line of the
Canadian Pacific railway, four miles in
length, leads out to the mine, which
opens into the face of crag of the brown,
oxidized Laurentian rock, characteristic
of this region. The miners are now at
work at depth of about 800 feet below
the surface. As fast as the nickel and
copper bearing rock Is hoisted out, it is
broken up and piled upon long beds, or
ricks, of pine wood, to be calcined or
roasted, for the purpose of driving out
the sulphur which it contains. The roast
ing process is Of the nature of lime kiln
ing or charcoal burning. Each great bed
Of ore requires from one to two months
to roast. When roasted the rock goes to
the principal smelter, powerful blast
furnace "iacketed" mining phrase
with running water, to enable it to sus-
tain the great heat requisite to reduce
che crude, obdurate mineral to fluidity.
The dross of the molten mass is first
allowed to flow off, and afterward the
nearly pure nickel and copper, blended
together in an alloy called the mat" or
matte, is drawn off at the base of the
furnace into the barrow pots and wheeled
away, still liquid and fiery hot, to cool
IN the yard of the smelter. The mat con-
tains about 20 per cent of nickel, the re-
manning 80 per cent. being mainly cop
per. When cold, the conical pot loaves
of mat can easily be cracked in pieces
by means of heavy hammers. The frag-
ments are then packed in barrels and
shipped to Swansea, in Wales, and to
Germany, where the two constituent
metals are separated and refined by secret
processes, which are very jealously
guarded by the manufacturers.
So jealousy is the secret kept that no
one in America has yet been able to learn
The process, although one young metal
lurgist spent three years in Swansea as
common laborer in the factories In order
to obtain it. At present there are pro-
duced daily at the Copper Cliff mine
about ninety pot loaves of mat, each
weighing near $50 pounds, an output
which yields an aggregate of more than
1000 tons of nickel year.--Manufac-
turing Jeweler.
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The latest device of girlhood is fancy
for stufi1ng pillows with their old love
letters. There is one thing about the
contents of these pillows that can be de-
pended upon with a marked degree Of
certainty-they are suiO to be soft. Now,
the question naturally arises, must the
pillows be stuffed with letters from a
single person, or may missives from John
and Jack and Algernon be tumbled pro-
miscuously in together2 Is it q test Of
loyalty that when once girl really falls
in love, or thinks she does, she discard
from her pillow all the letters save those
Of the object of her deepest affectionT
And how does marriage affect the fate
of the pillow? Do husbands enjoy hav-
ing their wives faces buried in a mass
of soft nothings that other men have
written to them? And what dreams
may come, and what skimpy, fiat little
pillows some poor girls must have; but
how nice it is for the men to reflect that
their adored ones slumber softly on their
words Of love.--Chicago Tribune.
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Lavs In China.

In China, II any prisoner resists an
officer and strikes the latter so as to draw
blood. the offender shall be strangled. II
a criminal who resists an officer is armed,
and the officer kills him to secure his
person, or IL criminal escapes from
prison or is killed while being pursued,
or il runaway criminal destroys him.
self, the officer shall In no wise be an
swerable for the prisoners death. In any
case where criminal Is killed, where
the offense charged against him wal
punishable with capital punishment, and
the officer had no right to assault OF
wound him, the punishment OF the police
officer shall not in any case exceed 100
blows.-San Francisco Alta.
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An Eng ;I.hman on the norsrr.

A cockney wen. into a cheap restau-
rant on the Bowery, one Of those places
that have been aptly called beaneries.
He sat down and adjusted his nnonocle
and beckoned to q waiter, who came for
ward. He was in his shirt sleeves and a
dirty towel was slung across his arm.
He scowled at the stranger
"Wellir'
Jaw, waitah, dontcherno, I want u
brace of chops. an poached egg, an
some buttered toast, an mug of 'alf an
'alf, an, aw, waitah, want napkin,
also"
The man with the dirty towel over his
arm moved back step or two, put his
hand to his mouth, and yelled to the
cook in the kitchen;
'Soy, Chimmie, tell der band to play
God Save der Queen der Prince. of
Wales is come" Marshall P. Wilder.
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A New Invention.

A nickel-in-the-slot machine in Boston
confronts the equestrian who alights at
the sidewalk with the legend written
across its front: drop nickel in the
slot and I'll hold your horse" He puts
in the nickel and the iron hands unclasp
the bride rein is dropped into them and
they close again. There you are. The
horse is held. The rider goes off about
his business. In half an hour he returns.
There is the machine and there Is the
horse But the first legend has disap-
peared and in its place is the inscription
In characters of living light: "Give me
quarter and Ill let him go."-Cor. Chi.
cago Herald
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parnum,s Anclent An.cdo,..

Barnum himself is an infant In arms
as compared with the age Of this story.
1t is about the meanest man on earth.
A grocer and general dealer advertised
drink with each purchase He took
trade. A mean man came In with
an egg worth cent and traded 1t for a
darning needle, also worth cent. Then
he demanded his drink and took sherry.
He said he always had to have an egg in
his sherry and the dealer broke the egg
he had just received from him In the
sherry. 1t happened that the egg had
two yolks, and SO the meanest man de-
manded two darning needles because Of
the two yolks.---Detroit Free Press.
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Fun for Ar,thmetic,.us.

Talk about mathematical puzzles! Here
is one that beats out the hen-and-a-half,
egg-and-a-halfa lgebraical nightmare. On
Rondo street car Alderman Patrick
Kavanagh put quarter into the change
box in the front door. An instant be-
fore young lady had deposited dime
in the same sub-treasury. The driver
returned from the outside two change
packages, a blue and white one, stimuli
taneously. With true gallantry Mr.. Kav-
anagh waited for the young lady to help
herself, which she did, Inadvertently
taking out the blue one, and, by mis-
take, dropping two dimes into the ''Pay
Here" lock box. Kavanagh demanded
his change, but the driver obdurately re-
fused to give any mo-e. Hard words
ensued, to the great embarrassment of
the lady, and the alderman refused to
take the ten cent package, which re-
manned in the possession of the COM
pany. Kavanagh, of course, paid no
more for his ride; the young lady paid
twenty cents, and now how much was
the company ahead on the deal?-C hes-
ter (Pa.) Local News.
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Tremsnaou. Fore. OF Sea Waves.

Some idea of the power exerted by sea
waves may be formed from the follow
ing facts: An iron column. twenty-three
feet long and weighing 5000 pounds
part of lighthouse being built-was. In
course of operation, landed at Bishop
Rock, England, and, n storm coming up.
was left dashed by chain at each end TO
two strong eye bolts. Three days after,
when the storm had abated. 1t was found
that the great column had been moved a
distance Of twenty feet and landed on
top OF projecting rock. A blacksmiths
anvil weighing nearly 200 pounds, and
sunk in pit three and one-half feet
deep, had been washed entirely out of
the sink and landed near the column of
iron above mentioned. 1t had been float
ed nearly. 300, feet after being lifted out
of the hole.-St. Louis Republic.
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n..smhlanee. "a ,rarrI.a oounl....

At a recent meeting of the Photo.
graphic Society OF Geneva, Switzerland,
Professor II. Fol presented paper on
resemblances in married couples. Ac-
cording TO the British Journal of Pho
Biography, lie stated that out OF seventy
eight young couples autographed for the
purpose Of his Investigations, he found
that in twenty-four cases the resem-
blance in the personal appearance Of the
husband and wife was greater than that
OF brother and sister, in thirty cases. 1t
was equally great, and in only twenty
four was there total Of absence Of re-
eemblance.
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A King Detlironetl,

A well known mad doctor has just died
at Vienna. Professor Leedesdorff was
the great king dethroner. No other med
ical man has had so large an experience.
When, in 1876, Sultan Mournd the Fifth
was to be deposed and Abdul Aziz set up
on the throne, the professor was sent for
to Constantinople, examined his royal
patient, and promptly declared him mad
There was no appeal from that decision
Later on, when Louis the Second of Ba-
varia was getting unusually eccentric.
his ministers sent to Vienna for the pro-
fessor. Sometimes he would be sent for
to Petersburg. The Romanoff family
had failings, and the professor had to
give his verdict.-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
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Cost of Heating water.

Water is one Of the hardest of all sub
stances to heat. This furnishes good
illustration OF the law of the conserva-
ton and transformation of forces. To
raise one pound of water one degree In a
minute is required heat which, IL APP
piled to an engine, would raise me
pounds of water or any other substance
one foot high. To raise eighty-six
pounds one degree in minute would be
equivalent to raising eighty-six times
772 pounds to the height of one foot in a
minute. Washington Post.
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A sroRY or The ''RXiiRigroor soY.n

On Haverhill's PLEASANT hin there played.
Some seventy years ago,
In turned up trousers, battered hat
Patches and freckies and ali that,
The barefoot boy we know.
He roamed his berry fields content
But while, from bush and brier,
The nimble feet got many scratch,
His wit, beneath iis homely thateh,
Aspired to something higher.
Over his dog-eared spelling book,
Or schoolboy composition.
Puzzling his head with some hard sum.
Going for nuts, or gathering gum,
He cherished his ambition
Kind nature smiled on that wise child.
Nor could her love deny him
The large fulillment Of his plan:
Since he who lifts his brother man
In turn Is lifted by him
He reached the starry Nights Of peace
Before his head was hoary;
And now at fourscore years again
The blessings Of hts fellow men
Watt him q crown Of glory.
~. T. Trowbridge
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A Chemlat,a Feat.

A foreign chemist lately performed
quite feat. The explosion and fire at
Antwerp reduced to acharred mass bum
die Of 1000 form Austrian obligations.
Without presentation in some identifi-
able form there could be no payment.
The imperiled obligations were given to
the chemist, and he succeeded in separ-
ating the whole of them and finding out
tho numbers, and upon his report tho
money was paid. Exchange.
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The American man wants his cigar
fresh and green. The Englishman. on
the other hand, values his as he does his
wines, the older and dryer the better.
Mr.. William Black, the novelist, who Is
connoisseur in tobaccos. has in his
chambers--the ones on the Thames that
Dickens used to occupy-a much priced
assortment of old cigars, some of which
are fourteen years old. These he guards
with the most jealous care, only at rare
intervals and as mark Of the most dis
tinguished consideration bestowing one
on friend. New York Evening Sun.