The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-06

envy next week. The added novelties
prove especially interesting to
the little ones who attend the after
noon performances and who will
glory in the captivating manner
isIns of the fairy Princess Toto. If
Mile. Bertotto, who plays the wee
princess were TO stand upright in an
ordinary flour barrel, her head would
not appear above the surface, she
being scarcely three feet in height.
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.
In Holland township, Hunterdonc county. 6s.9ss
peach trees have been set out this year. As
SCISSOR Matthias Wean made O special inquiry on
the subject.
Hammonton Mcthodists have torn down their
old meeting house to make way for a new one.
The pastor, the Rev. p. Cline. was an active
workman among the demolishers.
Mrs. Oscar Robinson has a vine in her garden
the seed of which was sent to her by DR.. Mas
sau, who is stationed as missionary on the
Congo River, in Africa. The flower is shell
shaped, of a beautiful shade of blue with a
delicate 1sh ! yellow centre ~ ana resembles some,
shaped like our honeysuckle leaf. The vine is a
vigorous grower but flowers slowly. 1t grows
wild in Africa.
Elmer, Salem county, has the reputation of
raising large cantaloupes. Farmer John Wool
man recently raised one measuring a3x40
inches.
An Italian farmer, B. Albrici, has struck a
rich mine of brick clay on his land near Ham
monton and has already begun the manufacture
of bricks.
A tin cup from some vessel in Delaware Bay
was carried by q recent storm straight across
five miles into the barnyard of Job Cuff, in
Salem county.
New Sheriffs will go into office this fall in all
but three of the twenty-one counties of the
State. The exceptions are Bergen, Cape May
and Somerset.
Newton has a woman that drives a COW around
town with u set of reins running back from the
halter.
A twenty-six pound striped sea bass was
caught at the mouth of Shark River a few days
ago by j. G. Ferry. The fish is considered to be
one of the largest of its species caught on the
Jersey coast since 1888. At that time Frederick
Scott, of New York. caught a t~hirty-two
FOUNDER at Barnegat Inlet.
There is considerable excitement among the
glassblowers of Bridgeton over the report that
ten or twelve more Belgian blowers Will arrive
here this week to go to work at the tank fur
mace of the CohanSey works. Two Belgians ar
rived in that city Saturday night.
One hundred and seventyfive children sent
out from New York by the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund, are spending two weeks with families in
the vicinity of Pennington, Croton, Cherryville,
Oak Grove, R~eaville, Copper Kill, Locktown and
Baptisttown Two dollars a week are paid as
the board for each.
The first big haul of Spanish mackerel made
az llOlS AdAACA lAlo u Ndo Ou luOS0d14
when $50 mackerel were taken from Van Dykes
fish pond. They sold for one dollar each. Old
fishermen VIII saw the school, say they never
saw such a large run of mackerel on the New
Jersey coast.
Mount Holly Herald:-That there is @ future
ahead for the pine lands of this county, Charles
II. Pitn1an thoroughly believes. He has tried
irrigation in the raising of fruits and vegetables,
and has proved tn at it has been successfully
carried on. 1t worked well on low ground with
Strawberries, and a big crop of onions was Sc
cured in the same way, about forty bushels in
all. Strawberries set out last fall bore fruit this
summer
Newport, Cumberland county, has lost seven
ty-five pigs from hog cholera this summer.
Captain Peter Campbell, of Cumberland
county, cleared 500 off one-third acre of lima
beans.
Frank Denise. of Freehold, sold twenty five
barrels of Bartlett pears in Boston at from $40
to S12 a barrel
The Third district Democratic Congressional
convention will be held at Elizabeth on Monday,
September q.
A plague of fieas has spread over Newark, and
the insects infest dwellings, offices, workshops,
churches and theatres. After church hours on
Sunday men and women walking on the streets
had to scratch their arms and necks when they
were bitten. Men who went to their offices yes
terday found soon after they got to work that
their persons were fairly covered with the pests.
In one newspaper office the printers were so
much harassed that they were much delayed in
their work.