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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

Elizabeth Glover, in her book, Gam
lily Manners" devotes chapter to de-
ploring the New England habit of re-
pressing ones feelings on the matters
nearest at heart, and never allowing
them to find expression in words. She
says:
There was railroad accident, and q
poor farmers wife was taken out, bleed
ing and unconscious. The doctor and o
kind woman were working over her
when her husband came in and stood q
moment, looking on in disturbed silence.
His cheeks were drawn in. his eyebrows
lifted, his hands in his pockets.
Presently, with some effort, he cleared
his throat to speak, and MS the doctor
looked up he asked, eye didn't see new
tin dipper lynn round where ye picked
her up, did yer?
He got no answer from the indignant
doctor, and presently strayed out again
in search of his dipper.
Meanwhile his wife opened her eyes
and at once asked for her husband
"He's safe," said the doctor shortly. She
felt his curt tone, and faint as she was
she OWNED what it meant. "He's a
dreadful feelin man." she said, "but he
don't never say much"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

Sewers says he never saw case with
fatal results before. In giving the PEI
culiar effects of the poison he cited a
medical work which is compiled from
the best authorities over the world:
mo characteristic post-mortem APP
pearances are recognizable. The body
is emaciated and the skin bleached and
parchment-like. Rigor morris begins
early and continues longer than usual,
and putrefaction is delayed in some cases,
but very rapid in others. The mucous
membrane of the mouth and pharynx is
often white, dry and parchment-like or
horny. The mucous membrane is fire.
quently congested and sometimes cachy-
matte. The spleen is sometimes en-
larged, congested and extremely soft and
friable. The blood, as rule, is dark
and contains no foreign organisms or
elements. The corpuscles are una1tered.
The lungs are frequently congested and
oedematous."
"Often," says DR.. Lutte, ''the symp-
toms are the same as in the case of ar
senic poisoning, but this is not always
so."-Denyer News.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

worked hard, though there was little
to show for it, as my wife told me when
she turned over my many sketches.
"What, three shiny poles and lot of
green waterl' she exclaimed. "Was
that all you did in a days Why didn't
you paint whole view2' / do not like
her to criticise my studies. She handles
them knowingly, looks at them upside
down, and says, 'Tf you would only en-
large that and make q picture of it, and
put in some figures, might have the
pink dress, after ALL" Three palaces,
several gondolas and flock of pigeons
mean the pink dress, and six palaces,
more gondolas and more pigeons, mean
Paris.--Von Degen.
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PToMA,hE POISONING.

Cases of Considerable Rarity In the HIs-
tory of the Healing Art.
The husband and two children of the
poisoned family in Highlands are better.
IL il a case of ptomaine noisoning. and
the fact that that kind Of poisoning is
exceedingly rare makes II most interest
ing. II comes from putrid meats and
vegetables. and also exists in cheese. II
is a poisonous salt deyeloped In the proc
ess Of putrefaction. and a case of this
kind of poisoning is rarely seen 40 marked
as this case. because It is seldom that
people eat meats that are pronouncedly
tainted.
In this case the meat was in the most
dangerous stage, and all that ate it were
very sick. An evidence which shows
that this was a case of ptomaine poison
ing resulting from the meat is that the
family upstairs ate some Of the same
meat, which was cooked, and were very
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

The metropolitan area of London ex-
tends over some twelve miles from north
to south. and some seventeen miles from
east to west; within this space thirty
nine governments so rule the houses,
roads, drains Of their three millions and
three-quarters Of subjects that for the
last ten years the death rate has been
only 22i per 1000, Or but per 1000 in
excess Of that Of the whole country. In
the seventeenth century it is believed
that the deaths exceeded the births in
London, and the death rate was then
about 40 per 1000, or more than double
what 1t is now, and higher by far than
the mortality rates Of the unhealthiest
cities of Europe today.--London Tit-Bits.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20
He Had a Eriand ne Court.

A laugh was raised in the United
States district court by the testimony of
John Boye, resident of Lewiston, NY.
Boye is old and somewhat deaf, and gave
his testimony with an air of childlike in
nocence. The following dialogue took
place on cross examination: Ibid Rich
ever sue your ''Yes.p "Did he beat
your" mo" "You beat hiin?' Eyes. y
HE caused you trouble and expenseY'
eyes, little.' "You had to hire a
lawyer mo" "Did he hire lawyer
"Yes." "You did not have oneP" mo-
fare you u pettifogger and try cases
yourself sometimesf'' mo" What die
you do when you were sued, If you did
not get lawyer" 81 got the magis
trate." The laugh that followed this
reply indicated that some of those pres
ept appreciated the Importance of hay
ing the favor of the court.-Utica OBJ.
server.
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wonrlnr .hs Els.a.er osnaas.er.


The decoration Of elevators has be-
come quite an art In some Of the down
town Office buildings. One Of the pio-
neers in this work has transformed an
elevator in the New York Life building
into sort Of japanese bower. He says
he has to spend most Of his life there,
and believes in softening the asperities
Of labor with attractive surroundings.
While he easily holds the lead In this
sort of finery, others Of his kind have
done very well. The nabob of one
caboose down town who is always
on the lookout for fancy prints and gew-
gaws, and who had rather stretch his
legs and contemplate the luxury Of his
apartment than carry passengers, was
presented the other day by tenant OF
the building with one Of the fancy cards
inscribed, "You press the button and we
do the rest" He was so much pleased
with it that he made it a central decora-
tive figure for the rear wall Of his eleya-
tor, bordering it with rosettes and
framework Of gilt.
His tenants admired 1t, commented ON
its fitness for such q place, and praised
his taste in framing it. After it had
been up q day or two 1t was noticed that
a black hnein ink had been drawn under
the words 1.-THE rest" Another line soon
appeared there as mysteriously as had
the first. Then came third and q
fourth, and then some one further en-
phasized the words by drawing a ring of
ink around it. The elevator artist was
In a great stew over it for several days.
for the decoration was too handsome to
lose, and he could not take it down with
out spelling his wall. At last. with rub
Der and metal eraser, he obliterated the
discriminating word, lines and ring, but
only to the increase Of his discontinue.
for his tenants now read the sign. 'sYou
press the button and we do nothing. ~
New York Times.
4
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20
Selling strawberries a. a Proa..

"There are tricks in all trades but
ours" said retail grocer to me recently.
"You wonder how it Is that we are able
to sell Strawberries at less than they cost
us and still make money. LISA puzzler
to the uninitiated, isn't it2 But after all
it is simple enough when you know how.
''For instance, go down to the mar
ket and buy q crate Of Strawberries for
thirty cents box. Now my trade Is
not rich enough to pay me even thirty
five cents box, and at less than that I
make no profit.
"Well, take those berries and empty
them out of the boxes. Then take u
nice piece of white paper. which is much
cheaper than strawberries, and drape,
as it were, tho box. Then take the
berries and arrange them very carefully
in such way that all that are any way
touched with decay go to the bottom and
only the fine, ripe, sound ones are in
sight. BY leaving plenty Of space
between the berries, except the top layer,
I have no difficulty in filing two Of the
draped boxes with the contents of one
of the original, and then they look much
richer and more appetizing and sell
better.
"When this is done, out they go in
front of the store marked twenty cents
u box, and before know it they are all
sold, netting me q nice little profit. II /
had tried to sell them in the original
boxes at thirty-iive cents would have
had good many left on my hands to
spoil.
"Why, some of the bigger dealers in
green groceries and fruits keep man, ut
good salary, simply to repack goods,
and il pays well. New York Herald.
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A cur,ou. Apasb. Bs,,st

The Apache Indians religious belief
prevents them from committing murder
in the dark. II dozen Apaches should
discover q man sleeping by his camp FIRE
ut night no amount of money would hire
them to attack him until the sun came
up. They believe that il they kill man
ut night their own souls will walk in
eternal darkness forever. Knowing this
curious superstition, hunters, scouts,
trappers and others travelling through
the Apache nation move about during
the night and lay by in some safe retreat
during the day.-St- Louis Republic
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

The fact that many of the houses of
Portland, Or, and San Francisco arc
built of redwood is given as a reason for
the few destructive fres that occur In
those cities. The wood is almost unin-
flammable, and, though fire will nnoI-
der in it, it never blazes. The great OBJ
lection to the use Of this wood In the
eastern states is that it viii not stand the
alterations of heat and cold.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

A marvellous feat Is recorded Of q
young Japanese student. He entered
the University of Berlin some years ago
as medical student, being then entirely
ignorant Of German as well as of sci
ence; yet in three months he passed an
examination conducted in German and
including several branches Of the med
ical curriculum.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

The average Florida crocodile brought
north by the tourist is seven inches in
length, and he has sea room enough in .
cigar box. We look at the little cuss,
and then, thinking Of his ancestor whom
we saw pictured in the geography Of our
boyhood days carrying of an OK in his
jaws, we conclude that the Augustan
age, for crocodiles, is past.-Martha's
Vineyard Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20
A Family TIN.

Perhaps you are not aware that had
over dozen proposals Of marrige before
l got yours" said Mrs. McDougall stiff
ly, after little tiff with her lord and
master the other morning.
"And perhaps, madam, you are not
aware that proposed marriage to near
ly a score of women before / became &C
quainted with you," retorted that gen
tleman haughtily. Exchange.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

The word catarrh, as popularity used.
means either nasal catarrh or bronchitis
Nasal catarrh Is often helped by snuff
ing up, SO as to carry it into the mouth,
weak solution of salt and water, re-
peating the operation several times .
day. Where the disease is very persist
emit, 1t is well, when possible, to try q
change of climate. In bronchitis the
case should be attended by q physician.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20
A Worry Careful naan.

William Brown, of this place, has a
pair of old fashioned fringed mittens.
They were knit for his father, Gilman
Brown, forty-six years ago. They are
knit in three colors, red, white and blue.
Mr.. Brown also has q pocket knife that
he has carried for twenty-eight years.
Cor. Dexter (Me.) Gazette.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is complete SCI
curity against suffocation from smoke.
1t permits free breathing, and at the same
time excludes the smoke from the lungs.
1t IL wise thing when travelling always
to keep silk handkerchief within easy
reach for the emergency Of fire. New
York Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20
An Observing child.

Little Boy-Mamma says you were
born with silver spoon in your mouth.
Homely Heiress- That means was
born rich.
Little Boy (after closer Inspection
Was it tablespoon. Good News.
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Clara-That handsome stranger APP
pears to have taken quite shine to you,
Maud.
Maud-Y-e-s; I can't imagine why.
Clara--Nor ].
Maud-rll never speak to you again,
so there.-New York Weekly.
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lf.30 am. tta
Trains from Philadelphia and New For

Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk s27
For Philipsburg and Easton only 6.32 p N week
days.
Leave Frenchtown $50. 1904 a m, 2.07, $50 pm
weekdays. For Phillipsburg and Easton on
Arrive Phiipsburg 9. ss and io.4o m. ESQ. 6 25,
7.44 and 3 sQsp N. sunday $50. p IN.
Leave Phfflfpsburg 7 .26, 9,y6 and 1910 m, ESQ
6.25 and 9.3G p m. sunday $50 p N.
Arrive Belvidere 7.59 1904 and IL .l3 q m, 1926,
6.52 and 9.57 p m. Sunday. 9.67 pm
Arrive Manunka Chunk 8.05 ,10.10, 11.20 m
3.s2, 700 and 1908 m. Sunday 1908 p m.
Additional trains leave Belvidere for manunka
Chunk 7.l5, 40 a. m, and 2.25 p m Sunday, 7.l6
M Returning leave Manunka Chunk for Beiyi-
dere S25 and 1915 No., $50, 7.05, 1905 m. sun
day. 1905 p. m.
Chunk at sos a. m, Belvidere 617 a. m. Martin s
7.O5 a. M. will carry passengers and make stops at
flag stations north of Philiipsburg. Trains leav-
ing Manunka Chunk at S.2b m, and 4.3O m,
will carry passengers to Belyidere.
Connection is made at Manunka Chung with
Delaware Lackawanna a. Western Railroad; Lee
high Junction with Lehigh Valley ,Lehigh Sus-
quehanna Morris Essex and New jersey Central
Railroads. AT Lambertyilew with Pennington Rail-
road AT Trenton with trains to and from New
York Camden, dc.
Forfurther Information see timetables, which
can be obtained az the ticket ofices.
CHAe. E. PUGH, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Genera al Passenger Agent
F. W. JACKSON,
IA DEN lsupt. u r. R. of N j. Div.
WILSON BROWN, Supt. Belvidere Div
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The Tina sa~ s,.h

Tommy latter reading the paper)--
Papa, what's q toryf And have we to-
ries in this country?
Papa-Yes, my son. For instance, at
some seasons Of the year we have fish
stories. -Pittsburg Bulletin.
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A 'sHomeiess''- Novelist.

Mr.. David Christie Murray has been
recounting to the good people of South
Australia how he become a novelist.
On his first arrival in London he found,
like so many others, the difficulty of
getting employment on the press. Be
fore the turn of the tide came, he says,
he had four days wandering in tho
streets, and at nights sat on the benches
Of the Thames embankment in most
curious company. He was at last helped
by the late John Lowell, of the Press
association, afterward Of the Liverpool
Murcury, who Invented" some work
for him, and sent him two guineas in a
pill box, labeled '"ro be taken imme-
diately. London Tit-Bits.
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While the armies Of the British en-
pire cost about SIT, 00O. 900 year. the
German empire costs about $i67, 900 900
. year, and the French army . little
over e140, 000, 900. a
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

Scientific men say that the earth's age
is about half q million years for the neb-
ular and stellar period. and about 25 ,0oo,-
0Oo-of which 100000 are past-for
the period OF organic beings.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

When the ankle has been severely
sprained, iInInerse it Immediately in hot
water, keeping it there for fifteen or
twenty minutes. After it has been taken
out of the water keep ii bandaged with
cloths wrupg ont Of hot water.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20

A $50, 900 home for the young women
attending the Peabody Normal college
Is soon to be erected in Nashville, Tenn.
by the trustees Of the University Of
Nashville.
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CULTURE OF THE SKULL.


There was a case in Philadelphia
hospital not many months ago which
was not dissimilar to the one in London.
An epileptic was relieved, perhaps re-
stored to perfect health, by an operation
which lifted the bone pressure upon GER
tain nerve centers in the brain. Ger
tainly there are mental idiosyncrasies
inherited for generations where the brain
case varies most remarkably in form.
But when we find peculiar trait sud-
denly bursting out in one of our chill
dren, trait unlike parent or grandpar-
emit, are we quite sure that it is not ow-
ing to some modification of the skull
case? Most assuredly, if it is finally de-
terrnined that the pressure of bone on
the brain determines the mental ability,
shapes the character and molds the ten
denotes, we shall have to recast all our
theories Of heredity.
Here, then, represented a new problem.
Is not the question of brain culture
about to become to greater extent a
question of Uranium culture? If it can
be demonstrated that an idiot can he
made by pinching skull, and unmade
by the knife and saw of a surgeon, have
we not new and wonderful field of ex-
pertinent before us? DIR. Brinton tells
us that experiments on the lower ami
mails prove that the skull Is easily mold
ed by trifiing causes; that is, IN the
earlier stages of growth. Darwin found
that he could produce long or short or
non-symmetrical skulls in rabbits by
training
Ethnologists affirm that the skull is
modified even by the cradle and the pill
lows ON which the infant sleeps DR..
Jaralld proves from his own observation
that the skull may be modified from the
head being held in an unnatural posi-
ton.
POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE
If this new line Of investigation can
be pursued persistently and successfully
it will result in disproving the belief
that idiocy in children, outside of cases
of hereditary mental defect, is vista
ton upon the children for the sins of the
fathers, and showing that it is an I'M
natural but essentially durable physical
condition. The ability to cure idiocy
will therefore depend entirely to what
extent the bony case has closed its sutures
and hardened itself to the brain.
DIR. Maurice, the authority quoted at
the beginning of this article, in discuss
ing this range Of subjects, few of
which are embraced in the above, closes
by saying:
The world has of late grown enor-
mously in its tendencies toward the pres
ervation and merciful care of the NAL
formed and helpless. Civilization has
badly overloaded itself by merciful ten
derness toward criminals and diseased.
Are we at last to find relief by discover
ing that crime and disease and idiocy
are all durable? And the next stage,
what will that be? Possibly the marked
decrease in human fertility and the in
crease of our average life quite beyond
what now seems possible. The removal
Of life's social terrors must precede the
largely prolonged and happily continued
existence. Philadelphia Press.
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Ever Devised

have used them in my family and caused
them to be used among my friends and en-
ployes for more than twenty years. To my
certain knowledge many cases of the follow
ing complaints have. been completely and
permanently cured by the use of Ayers Pills
alone: Third day chills, dumb ague, bilious
fever, sick headache, rheumatism. fiux, dys-
pepsia, constipation, and hard colds. know
that moderate use of Ayers Pills, contin-
ued for a few days or weeks, as the nature
of the complaint required would be- found
an absolute cure for the disorders have
named above."-J. o. Wilson, Contractor
and Builder, Sulphur Springs, Texas.
"For eight years was afflicted with con-
stipation, which at last became so bad that
the doctors could do no more for me. Then
beaan TO take
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-05-20
GRANIUM CULTURE.
AN EXTENSIVE FIELD FOR scIEN-
TlFlc EXPERIMENTS.

An Odd Surgical Operation Causes to
Arise the Question. SIS Idiocy Durable
by surEerys"-A Physicians Comment
on the SubJect--Future Research.
''How many Shakespeares have we
lost by skull pinching9 How many
Platos have gone down to the grave as
non compos mentisp Can idiocy be
wholly abolished?" Thus asks some
what prominent medical authority and
newspaper writer.
The world of possibilities in the above
suggestion is the outgrowth Of a recent
surgical operation performed in London
on the skull of an idiot child for the pur-
pose of releasing the brain from the con-
finelnent of malformed bone case. The
experiment was entirely successful. The
subject Immediately began to develop
frightened intellect, while evil effects
upon the nervous system were practically
uhnoticed.
The problem presented by this result
is very wide and very complex one.
If the darkness of idiocy in a few cases
can be banished by lifting the brain
covering, thus permitting the brains ex-
pansion to the limits which nature
doubtless intended, why may 1t not
prove effective in the great majority of
cases of young children now doomed to
live out their lives in eternal gloomP
i To those who delight to wander in the
| realms of the fanciful, and trace still
| greater effects and results from similar
causes, it will not appear unreasonable
to say that the conformation of the skull
is, after all, the incident which deter.
mines whether human being is born
to be Nero or King Arthur, Cleo
patra or Florence Nightingale, Napo-
leon or nobody.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
BEL VTDERE DIVISION
1rains for Ne,c York and Philadelphia
on and after NAV 9TH 1891

Leave Manunka Chunk TAO and 1908 a m, and
1 30, 1853 and 5.47 p m. Sunday, TAO m.
Leave Belvidere 7.46 and 10. 10 m, and 1897
259 and 8 So p IN. Sunday, 7.45 m.
Leave Phillipsburg 7l5 SOC and 1916 m, 90,
rs and o 20 M Sunday, SIG q m.
Leave Frenchtown 7.5l and II Is, m, SO, 3.59,
and $50 p m. Sunday, 80 a, m.
Leave Pennington 7.45 m, l2.35 and 3.55 p m,
week days.
Arrive Lambertville s.i5 m. 1928 and 4.25 p m,
week -days.