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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-01-28

In the United States district court in
the Federal building no lawyer is better
known than Gen. Butler. The court
officers hear of his appearance with
much the same feeling that they receive
the announcement of the arrival of the
judge.
As soon as his ponderous figure, sway
ing from side to side, appears bearing
down toward the court room they sour
ry about arranging the chair at the
counsel's table and assist him in remov-
ing his outer garments in manner that
shows their regard for him. Gen. But
ler's hat is a curious article. 1t is just
like one that Buffalo Bill would be ac-
cused of wearing out on the plains. It
is probably the most abused of the gem
erals belongings. The manner in which
he jerks it off his head slaps it down on
the counsel's table and drops his heavy
stick upon it determinedly, makes one
wonder why it does not disappear sud-
denly some day out of spite. 1t hasstuck
by him though for years, just like his
faculties of mind, and perhaps will be
buried with him. Boston Advertiser
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The Mnx Ho Got Even.

recently visited certain part of this
world where it seemed as though every
other man and about half of the women
whom l met were the authors of books,
and not few of them entertained the
notion that l must have read or heard
of their volumes of poetry or theology
or romance or criticism or legisties or
piety or science. was often emhar-
raised by the question of new acquaint-
ances, Have you read my bookY' and
always felt indisposed to give offense by
repeating Carlyles reply to the inquiry,
mo; is it big bookY'
On one occasion, however, when a pro-
lessor in the university asked me the ia
miliar question, | bethought me of a way
Of relieving myself from embarrassment
by abruptly, yet hope courteously, ask
ing, Have you read my bookP' The
professor, who had not heard of my
brochure, though it appeared in print
ten years ago, was put in as bad plight
as he had previously put me in, and his
modification over his ignorance was
even more grievous than mine. The
quiddity served me ever afterward when
! met an inquiring author. John Swim
ton
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Why the magnetic needle points north
ward has never been satisfactorily de-
termined, but what perplexes and puz-
zles scientists most is its persistent vasia-
tons. By observations in Paris it was
found that in 1851 the magnetic needle
varied 2 dogs. and 80 minis. to the west;
in 1865, less than 200 years later, 10 dogs.
and 30 minis. to the west. In London,
between 1880 and 1902, the needle varied
from 10 dogs. 10 mins. east to 9 dogs.
west. In Dakota the average variation
is 13 dogs. and 30 minis. east; in Mime
sofa IL dogs. east, while In Montana it
it is 90 degs. east It does not point due
north except in few localities, and at
no place does it continue to point with O
given angular distance from the north
for any stated length of time.
In many places it changes secularly,
annually, diurnally and hourly, and is,
besides, further subject to fluctuations
reducible to no method of tabulation.
In the vicinity of iron in any shape, OF
Of magnetic sands, it is detected toward
the material attracting 1t. The needle
has been known to vary dogs. in q dis
lance Of one mile, and l deg. and 30
minis. in two hours when left stationary
in q certain locality.-St. Louis Re
public.
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Hector lamps. Then he stopped q mo
ment before the plush curtain.
Il almost fear to show you this work,
it is so'imperfect, (" he said
There was no reply.
He waited moment and it grew OPP
pressively still. He stepped to the cur
tains, pushed them aside, looked at his
work moment, and then Joined his
guests, They stood in group at the
other end of the room.
There was not sound, not an excla-
nation of surprise; hardly breath
There before them, from what APP
peared to be solid block of white
marble, rose the magnificent head and
full shapely bust of goddess. 1t was
indeed the Venus of Milo The stone
was placed so as to give but profile
view of the face, but the profile was di-
vine. The left arm of the figure was
broken quite off, while on the right side
the work had not progressed far enough
to disclose the broken member.
So strong was the contrast between
finished and unfinished stone; SO perfect,
so human the finished portion of the
work seemed that it was almost painful
to see the rough, uncut edges of the
marble press into the smooth surface Of
the finished breast. There was an ex-
preston about the face which seemed to
say to those lockers on, "When shall
ever be taken from this cold stone2" And
because they could not answer that ques-
ton they were silent.
The guests glanced from one to an
other, then hurriedly back again to the
statue, lest it should have vanished be-
fore them.
Scott stood by the side of his stone
study Of the Venus and noted their as
constituent. Still no one spoke.
He was growing fearful Of what this
silence might mean, and he ventured:
"Well, is it goodT' His voice sounded
queerly,
There was an audible whisper
"Marvelousi Marvelousr" breathed the
guests. They said no more.
1t was enough. The silent spell had
been broken. They had not detected the
difference in clay
And drawing the curtain before the
image of his heart Clement Scott threw
up the shades, letting burst Of blind.
ing sunshine into tie room.
That fall the most noticeable work of
art at the exhibition of the Society of
American Seulptors was a study in mar
BILE of the Venus of Milo.
1t was by Clement Scott,
And society, when it learned that this
same Scott, whom the winter before it
had so petted, had gone to little sea
town to get him a wife, brought itself
to be forgiven for once when it saw who
that wife was, while the president of
the sculptors said to Clement one day as
he studied the face of Mildred Boday;
"Well, l see, my boy, there is differ
ence in clay. Philadelphia Press.
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THE SWALLOWS.

n mother, win the swallows never conner
Feel my cheek tits hot and burning,
And my heart is sick with yearning.
But I'm always well as soon as swallows come
They brought me in primrose yesterday;
And when primroses are blowing,
Then know that winters going,
And the swallows cannot then be far away
Hark, my old thrush in the garden singing clear
How love his note to follow
But the swallow, o the swallow,
Bringing summer with him, the summer Is more
dear.
And the lambs bleati Could l see them once
again.
With their innocent sweet faces,
And their friskngs, and their races
Once used-but now cannot stir for pain.
Mother, lift me. all this side is growing numb;
Oh, how dark the room isl Fold me
To your bosom, tighter hold mel
Or shall be gone before the swallows come
And the swallows came again across the wave;
And the sky was soft and tender,
With gleam of rainbow splendor
As they laid their little darling in the grave.
And they often watch the swallows by her tomb
And they strain to think but straining
Cannot still the hearts complaining,
''She is better there where swallows never come
And they carved the bird she loved upon hel
stoke;
Joyous guest of summer darting
Hither, thither then departing
In night to joys of other worlds unknown
Spectator
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Herodotus tells us that when Cyrus
had received intelligence that the
Lydians had revolted against him he
was in despair, and indeed had almost
determined to make them slaves, when
Cresus put flea in the august ear Of
the Persian monarch. Command them
to lay aside their arms" said he, land
to wear long vests and buskins. Let
them vie with each other in their make
up. Make dudes out Of them, and it
won't be long before they will be as
tractable as women" Cresus, as the
result proved, had long head. Cloth
Ter and Furnisher
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HEADQUARTERS
OF
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Trenton. NJ. j.

PIANOS :-Sohmer, Mason &
Hanslin, James G Holmstrom all
frst-class Pianos. Tone, pure and
musical; Workmanship and Mater
iats, high grade; Reputation, none
better Styles, Grand, Upright and
Square Cases, variety of designs, in
rosewood, ebonized, mahogany, wal
nut, and oak Prices, right. { A poor
piano is dear at any price, Othe,
Pianos at lower prices, good for the
money.
ORGANS ;-Mason C. Hamlin,
acknowledged to be the best. Other
makes, some good, some not so good;
AU worth the money asked. Buy
ers, come aud see stock, or write for
catalogues, you will find what will
suit you. Sheet music, Books,
Strings, and all musical merchandise,
Remember name and place,
SNEDEkER'S,
No. 5. North Warren St.,
MASONIC TEMPLE. TRENTON, MI.
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CiviIitlea Exchanged

A French gentleman who was staying
at the Bellevue hotel stepped out of the
hotel one morning and walked to the
corner Of Broad and Walnut streets to
wait for Chestnut street car. An or
gan grinder with a monkey started to
play the "Marseillaise." The monkey
tripped across to the French gentleman
and held up his paw. The foreigner
placed therein coin, and the monkey
took off his little red cap.
Without thought the polite French
man Immediately raised his own silk
hat in return to the salute, and the mon
key ran to mis- master chattering with de-
light, broad grin spreading over his
little brown face. Philadelphia Press
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The shortstop.

The baseball field is not the place
where one looks for literary wit, yet
now and then it happens that good pat
saying is heard there which shows not
only readiness but familiarity with lit
erature.
1t was on an occasion when q college
nine was playing the nine from a fitting
school, and the shortstop Of the latter
was an absurdly tall and thin fellow
named Brown, apparently some ten
years older than the boys with whom he
was associated. He played very badly,
muffing and fumbling, until it was sug-
gested that he was only put on the nine
for the joke of having 80 long man as
shortstop.
He is Like the Ancient Mariner" one
of the college nine said; she Is long and
lank and Brown"
"He is more like the Ancient Mariner"
quickly and wittily returned the friend
to whom the remark was made, ''be-
cause he stoppeth ONE of three.
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the Venus was freed from the stone, and
to the wonderment Of Mildred. the face
that she had seen hewed bit by bit from
the cold white marble seemed all at once
to have life, to be real, and more, to be
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Remarrable Memories.

There was Corsican boy who could
rehearse &C, 900 words, whether sense or
nonsense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them in the reversed order
without making single mistake. A
physician, about sixty years ago, could
repeat the whole of Paradise Lost"
without making single mistake, al
though he had not read it for twenty
years. Euler, the great mathematician,
when he became blind, could repeat the
whole of Virgil's "Eneid," and could re-
member the first line and last line of ev-
cry page of the particular edition which
he had been accustomed to read before
hs became blind. Spare Moments.
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Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk s27
$40 M, 1.35, 524 and S33 p m. Sunday 8 SO . m
For Phillipsbnrg and Easton only 6.32 m week
days.
Leave Frenchtown s so. 1904 a IN, 2.O7, $50 and
FOB p IN. weekdays. Sunday sos pm
Arrive Phillipsburg 9.36 and 1910 a M, $50 g. 25
7.44 and 8 30 p IN. Sunday, $50 m.
Leave Philiipsburg 1926. 1886 and 1910 a M $50
6.25 and 9.3J p m. sunday $50 pm.
Arrive Belvidere 1853, 1904 and lib m, 8. rs
6y52 and g5T p M. sunday, 9.57 pm
Arrive Manunka Chunk 500 1910 l1,2O a m
1882, 200 and 1908 m. Sunday 1903 m.
Additional trains leave Belyidere tor Manunka
Chunk 7.l5, $40 a. m. and 2.40 p. m. Sunday is a
m. Returning leave Maiunka Chunk for Belvi.
dere s.25 and 1915 M, 4.S0, 7O5, 1905 m. Sun.
day, 1905 p. m.
Freight or mixed trains leaving Manunka
Chunk at 6.05 a. m. Bevidere GIT a. M Martins
Creek at $40 m, arriving at I.ehigh Junction at
700 a. mr. will carry passengers and make stops at
nag stations north of PhiIlipsburg. Trains leav.
ing Manunka Chunk at $40 In, and 4.3O D M
will carry passengers to Belvidere.
Connection is made at Manunka Chung with
Delaware Lackawanna g. Western Railroad lie.
high Junction with Lehigh Valley Lehigh & Sus.
quehanna Morris Essex and New Jersey Central
Railroads. At Lambertville It'll Pennington Rail.
road At Trenton with trains to and from New
York Camden, &c.
Forfurther Information see timetables, which
can be obtained at the ticket Offices.
caAs. E. PUGH, ] R. WOOD,
General Manager. General Passenger A GEM
F. W.JACKS0N.
Cent Supt. u r. r. of N. j. Div.
w. HEfWAkD MYERS. Supt. Belvidere Div
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The use of beans ii ancient times was

The use of beans in ancient times was
rather more sacred than culinary.
Among the Egyptians it was held to be
crime to look at them. Pythagoras
forbade them to be eaten. In Athens
Judicial as well as sacred character is
attached to them. They are used as
ballots in all affairs in which a vote is
taken, especially in electing magistrates
and in casting lots. In England they
were unknown until 1509.-st Louis
Republic.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1891-12-18

tue year oadins 6spesmber. 50. 1891. this
annual average was excsedsd hy e1al so
80 The value OF free imports during the
was e11e, oes $50 more Ehao the value 81
Tree imports during the correspondiug
twelve months OK the preceding year and
tnere was during the sane period de-
crease Of so ! 81, E0S in the value OF i'm
ports Of dutiAble merchandise The per
centage OF merchandise admitted free Of
duty during the year to which I have
reference, the fret under the new tariff,
was g Is, whilS during the preceding
twelve months, under the old tariff, the
percentage was "a "a, an increase OF IS OF
per cent If We take the SIX months end
ing Ssptemoe 80 Last which covers the
time during which sugars have been adj
mttted free OF duty, the per. cent of value
OF merchandise imported free OF duty ia
found TO be s5-S, which is larger per
centsge OF free imports than during any
prior fiscal year in the history of the gov
ernmenL
II we turn to exports OF merchandise
the statistics are full of qualification. The
whole OF such exports OF merchandise for
the twelve months ending September 50,
1871, was sS23s JSl, 1S6. while for the CORE
spending previous twelve months IL was
1850, la, lis, an increase of te2, eI4O OIL,
which Is nearly three times the average
annual increase of exports of merchandise
during any year in the history of the gov
eminent Rhe increase in the value of
exports OF agricultural products during
tue year ESlCIEcu 70 over the CORES pond
ing twelve months Of the prior year was
S45, S46, 1917, while the increase in the value
OF exports Of manufactured products WAS
$1B, S3S, 40.
There Is certainly nothing Ia the condi-
ton Of trade, foreign or domestic, there is
certainly nothing in the condition of our
people Of any class to suggest that the ex-
isting tariff and revenue legislation bears
Oppressively upon the people or retards
the commercial development of the nation.
II may be argued that our condition would
be better If our tariff legislation were upon
free trade basis; but IL cannot be denied
that all the conditions of pros periJy and of
general contentment are present in a large
degree than ever before in our history,
and that, too, just when it WAS prophecied
they would be in the worst state. Agita-
tation for radical changes in tariff
and financial legislation cannot help
but may seriously impede business. to the
prosperity of which some degree of sta
bility in legislation is essential
/ think there are conclusive evidences
that the new tariff has created several
great industries which will, within a few
years, give employment TO several hun
dred thousand American men aud women.
In view of the somewhat overcro DIVIDED
condition of the labor market of the United
States, every patriotic citizen should re-
1Oice at such q result
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ground for tbs remonstrances which We
have presented 20 R0sstz, while cur his
toric friendship for that government can
not fail 70 give the assurance thas our rep
presentations are those Of . sincere well
Wisher.
Surveys fer the connecting links Of the
projected inter-continental railway are In
progress, not only IN Mexico, but at vsri-
ous points along the course mapped out
Three surveying parties are now In the
field under the direction Of the commits
sioa. Nearly LOO miles OF the proposed
road have been survey ed, ncludinS the
most difficult part, that through Ecuador,
and the Southern part Of Columbia The
reports OF the engineers are very sattsfRc-
tory aud show that no tnsurmountable OBJ
stRciss have been met with.
The death of King Kalikua In the United
States, Afforded occasion 70 testify our
friendship for Hawaii by conveying the
kings body 70 his own land in q naval YES
sci with all due honors. The government
of bis successor, Queen Liioukalana, is
seeking 70 promote closer commercial rela-
tions with the United States Surveys
for the much needed submarine cable from
our Pacific coast TO Honolulu are in pro
gress, and this enterprise should have the
suitable promotion of the two govern
ments. 1 strongly recommend that provi-
sion be made for Improving the harbOr of
Pearl River and equipPing it Is naval
station
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The Tnr.n OnertIon.


The general interest in the operations
OF the treasury department has been muca
augmented during the last year by reason
of the conflicting predictions, which ac-
companied and followed the tariff and
other legislation of the last congress af-
fecting the revenues, as TO the results Of
this legislation upon the treasury and
upon the country. On the one hand II was
contended that imports would so fail of as
TO leave the treasury bankrupt aud that
the prices OF articles entering into the
living Of the people would be so enhanced
as TO disastrously affect their comfort and
napp ness. while on the other it was
argued that the loss TO the revenue
largely the result of placing sugar on
the free list would gain TO the people /;
that the prices of the necessaries OF
life. including those most highly protected.
would not be enhanced; that LABOR would
have a larger market and the products OF
the farm advanced prices; while the treas
ury surplus aud receipts would be ade-
quate 10 meet the appropriations, includ-
ing the large exceptional expenditures for
the refnnding TO the states OF the direct
tax and the redemption OF the ~ per cent
bonds.
length into discussion of the effects OF
the legislation to which ] have referred /;
but brief examination Of the statistics OF
the treasury and q general glance at the
state Of business throughout the country,
will l think, satisfy any impartial inquirer
that its results have disappointed the evil
prophecies OF its oppon' - and in large
measure realized the hopeful predictions
of its friends. Rarely, # ever before, III
the history of the country has there been
a time " hen the proceeds of one days labor
or the product of one farmed acre would
purchase so large amount OF those
things that enter into the living of the
masses of the people. believe that q full
test will develop the fact that the tariff act
of the Fifty-frst congress is very favora-
bic in its average effect upon the prices of
articles entering into common use
During the twelve months ending Octo-
Der 1, 1890, 70 Septem Der 80, 1891, the total
value OF our foreign commerce imports
and exports combined) was 81, 747, SJS. 400,
which was the largest of any year IN the
history of the United States. The largest
in any previous year was in $780, when
our commerce amounted to 81 ,64z 1S9 ,093.
and the last year exceeds this enormous
aggregate by over one hundred millions.
It Is interesting, and to some viii be sur
prising. 70 know that during the year end
ing September 50. 1891, our imports of
merch andise amounted to $S9A us, 97o.
which was an increase Of more than eleven
miIlioa dollars over the value Of the i'm
ports Of the corresponding months OF the
preceding year, when the imports Of
merchandise were unusually large in an
ticipation Of the tariff legislation then
pending.
The average annual value Of the imports
Of merchandise for tho ten years from
1881 TO 1890 wa- S5os 522 ard furi"
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the homestead Law, - - pEoseosted
during the year ensrgy auo
success. In SepteEe ~ vas enabas4
20 open 20 settlemezs 81 - territory os
Oklahoma 600 900 Asess It land, al 81
VIII Oh was talzea up By settlers in . single
day. The rush for these lands was SC
, companied by great dead of excitement
but v as, happily, free from incidents %
violence.
It was g source of great regret that /
was not able 70 open at the same time the
surplus lands of the Cheyenne aud
Arapahoe reservations, amour ting to about
80 1000 acres, by reason of the insult
hciency of the appropriation for making
the aiiotments. Deserving and inpatieus
settlers are waiting 10 occupy these lands,
and urgently recommend that special
deficiency appropriation be promptly made
OF the small amount needed, so that the
anotments may be completed and the
surplus lands opened In time to permit the
settlers to get upon their homesteads In
the early spring.
During the past summer the Cherokee
commission has completed arrangements
with the Wichita, K ckRpOO and 1onkawa
tribes whereby. II the agreements are rat
itedb y congress, over 10000 additional
acres win pc opened 70 settlement In
Oklahoma.
The negotiation for the release by the
Cherokees of their claim to the Cherokee
far as the department is officially advised,
but IL is still hoped that the cessiOn of this
large and valuable tract may be secured.
The price which the commission
was authorized to offer-ope dollar
and a quarter per acre is. in my Judge
ment, hen all the circumstances as to
the title and the character of the lands are
considered, a fair and ndeq uate one and
should have been accepted by the In
dams.