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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
GAMBLERS SUPERSTITIoNS.
Queer Notions Entertained by Profession
al Ga mesters.

Queer Notions Entertained by PROFESSION
al Ga mesters.
"When used to gamble" said good
,itizen in the Kansas City Star, IF |
won always made it point to buy
new clothes or pay my board month
ahead or buy diamond or something
like that. That's the only sure way to
beat the game. Men who don't do that
get the worst of it.
''All gamblers are superstitious. !
defy any man to handle pack of cards
any length of time and not get lot OF
superstition mixed up with it. Cards
will come SO peculiarly. Sometimes
popularity will last only one night
Il remember playing poker one even
ing and having every hand beaten that
had ten spot in it. Big hands, too,
some of them. had four tens beaten
that night by four jacks and l had seen
an ace in the discard, too. +NssSsssi4A
"Another weakness l can't shake off
is horror for the queen of spades. /
won't draw to queens, anyhow, unless
I've got three of them, but I'm afraid
of the queen of spades especially.
won't draw to hand no matter what
I've got, if the queen of spades is there.
I've tried it and never made win"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
DEMONSTRATION.
Depriving Building of It's Recognized
Sacredness.

Sacredness.
A queer story comes from Evanston,
Ill. Some Methodists, desiring to for IN
new congregation, purchased an edi-
fee vacated by an Episcopal congrega-
ton. On taking possession the pastor
announced that there would be no ded-
ication of the building, inasmuch as
their Episcopal brethren had already
dedicated it to sacred purposes. This
was entirely satisfactory to everybody.
But at the end of six months, says the
Cleveland Leader, it was learned in
some way that the bishop of the Episco-
pal diocese of Chicago, unknown to the
Methodist purchasers, had formally de
consecrated the building. On hearing
this some of the Methodists waxed
wroth at what they called piece of
petty Episcopal arrogance, and others
inquired loosely whether the act of
ieconsecrating church is anything
like the process of demagnetizing a
watch, while others still maintain that
1ot even high church bishop can ex-
ract the sacredness out of building so
ong as it continues to be used for
sacred purposes.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
RED TAPE IN ENGLAND.
Breaking q Chair In Pieces to Secure
Official Recognition.

Breaking a Chair In Pieces to Secure
Official Recognition
A good many years ago, says writer
in the London Speaker, a certain young
clerk who had been fortunate enough
to secure stool in one of the great pub
lie offices of her majesty the queen, was
startled out of his sense of propriety by
spectacle which he witnessed in the
official apartment in which he was serv-
ing the state. He has grown gray since
then in the public service, and honors
have accumulated upon him; but to this
day he remembers with something like
thrill Of horror the astounding scene
which in his vertiaiit youth first opened
his eyes to the realities of the civil
service. This was what he heheld. An
elderly gentleman, who was one of the
senior clerks in the room in which
our young friend was the junior, sud
denly rose from his desk, dragged the
comfortable chair upon which he had
been sitting into the middle of the room,
seized poker, and, attacking the chair
with vigor worthy of an able-bodied
Englishman, succeeded in breaking one
of it's legs.
The chair was in excellent condition,
SO the task was not an easy one. When
it was accomplished, the senior clerk
gave sigh of relief and, flinging the
chair into corner of the room, re-
turned calmly to his desk and his pen.
Our young friends first idea was that
Mr.. X. had suddenly taken leave of his
senses, and he had expected at the first
moment of his attack upon the chair
that his colleagues would forthwith put
some restraint upon him. But, to his
amazement, the other clerks in the
room hardly raised their eyes from
their desks whilst the work of destruc-
ton was in progress. 1t was clear that
they understood all about it, and were
by no means moved by the performance
Of their chief. That afternoon, when
he Office work was at an end, our raw
outh timidly approached one of his
ellow-clerks and questioned him. Scan
on tell me-" he asked, why Mr.. X. be-
aved in that extraordinary way this
morning; l mean when he deliberately
broke q perfectly sound leg off the
chair in which he had been sitting"
''Oh," replied the other with shrug
Of the shoulders, chat was all right. A
castor had come off one Of the legs OF
his chair, and you know, my lords
won't provide new casters; they will at.
tend to nothing less than broken leg
So X. had to break a leg in order to gel
his chair put right again at the public
expense"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
DESERVED A THRASHlNG.
The Fresh Young Fellow Who Slapped
His Man on the Back.

The Fresh Young Fellow Who Slapped
His Man on the Back.
1t was not a kind thing to do, but he
was young newspaper reporter and
was, whether justly o: uajustly. re-
garded as fresh says the New York
Tribune. His city editor sent him up
to meeting, and he started out little
too eagerly, for he got the address
wrong. He was not so familiar with
New York as reporters generally are,
and by the time he got the address
Strengthened out and found the correct
one the meeting was over and he looked
only upon closed doors. .:N. 49,.
On the elevated train he met three
other reporters going down to their
offices, and he told them his dilemma.
sob, it's lucky you got on this train"
said one brother news gatherer. "The
very man you want to see is on this
train. There he sits down there in the
cross seattle old man with the UNI
brella and the gray beard"
"And he's a peculiar old chap" said
second man. "You have to know how
to treat him. He is president of the So
ciety, you know"
"You want to be diplomatic" put in
the third conspirator. you've got to
let him see that you know him You
want to come up behind him, clap him
on the back-a good, rousing whaclS,
you know-and say: Hello, Jenkins,
old boy, how did the little shindy come
off to-night?' Then he'll think he
knows you and will tell you the whole
story"
''Be sure you crack him on the back, -
was repeated.
"Oh, trust me-" said the young re-
porter with smile. Down the aisle he
went, and, reaching the president, "
he gave him terrific thump on the
back. For one second there was an
awful calm. Then Jenkins, old boy
raised his umbrella and started for the
offender. 1t was a chase for the door,
the young man yelling out his apol
ogies, the old man frantically brandish
ing his umbrella and making violent
whacks at the head of his assailant
The younger man reached the door in
advance, however, and darting through
it, slammed it in the old mans face
AS the wrathful old gentleman was re
turning to his seat, red and painting
three young men without conscience.
were letting out howls of laughter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
a MODEL CLERK.
An Old Lady Tried His Soul, But He Kept
on Smiling.

on Smiling.
So much is said about the snappish-
ness and impudence of the clerks in big
dry-goods stores that when one is
found that cannot be made cross by any
combination of circumstance he ought
certainly to have the benefit of that
fact beinr hcraldci abroad, even if for
obvious reasons neither his name nor
the name of the store which is SO
fortunate as to have his services can be
givcn. ~, itore is, however, on Four
tacnth street, and the clerk is the most
accommod tnt one in the whole retail
dry-gools IL trict, SO it may not be a
hard matter for shoppers to identify
him.
1t was on the very hottest day of July
that this clerk was put to his severest
test. r2llt the New York Times. An
old Lady from tha country had, with an
inf amount of trouble, succeeded in
m.l;in u som what extensive purchase
OF Inca ipr he t-.blc. To pass over
the preliminary Incidents of the show
ing of about all the tablccloths and
napkins and traycloths in stock before
the purchase was made, the real trouble
began with the payment. The old lady
empticd out on the counter the contents
of a small handbag. The contents were
dimes AM iivecrnt pieces, and there
was u big heap OF them. The purchase
came to Just uiSter twenty dollars.
After counting it over twice the clerk
had to charter two extra trains on the
cash railway in order to get the money
to the cashiers desk
The old LAZY gave directions for the
doing up of her pa.!sage and then start
ed for the door. she stopped to think,
and came back again She said that
the napkins she hll picked out were
too coarse after all, and she believed
that she would take the finer ones. The
bundle was sent for and the change
was made. More dimes and tlve-cent
pieces were dumped down before the
still smiling clerk.
Once more the old lady started for
the door, and once more she came back.
She thought that she would like to look
at the tabecloths that she had bought.
The clerk laid out her package before
her. but she decided not to make any
change in the tablccloths, and started
away again. But she came back once
more and had the traycloths changed
and the clerk had to fix the bill again.
There did not seem to be anything more
that she could want changed and the
clerk sent the bundle upstairs.
In ten minutes the troublesome buyer
was back again. This time she wanted
package of New York newspapers
sent to be done up with her bundle.
The clerk took them with a gracious
remark that it would not be the least
trouble in the world to have them put
up with her package, and then he gave
his attention to another customer as if
this had not been an incident worthy
Of notice.
OF course stories might be told OF
clerks much more accommodating than
this one, but they possibly might not
have the advantage which this has OF
being strictly true.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
Where Some Slang Comes from.

Many slang terms are corruptions or
notifications of foreign words wrested
from their original meaning. Thus
'cahoot," western term, meaning to
be in company or alliance with, is from
the French cohort, while the bacchana-
liam "spree" is esprit twisted around
and Anglicized, or, rather, American
lied. From the Spanish we get 'sav-
W." from sabe, to know; "vamoose, !"
from vamos, to go, and "cavort," from
cavor, to caper. The German gives us
''loafer," from laufer, an idle fellow,
and bower" the term used in some
card games, from bauer, a card player.
The Dutch or Holland language con.
tributes 'boozy." from buizen, drunk;
'logy," from log, dull; boss" from
bass, a master, and "landlubber," from
landlooper, a vagabond. ~, az
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-12
A SAWYER ON WINGS.
The Mosquito Described by One Who
Knows Him Intim ,tely.

The Mosquito Described by one VINO
Knows Him Intim ,tely.
The bill of a mosquito is a complex
institution. 1t has blunt fork at the
head and is apparently grooved. Work
ing through the groove and projecting
from the angle of the fork is a lance of
perfect form, sharpened with fine
bevel. Beside it the most perfect lance
looks like hand-saw. On other side of
the lance two saws are arranged, with
the points fine and sharp and the teeth
we'll refined and keen. The backs of
these saws play against the lance.
When the mosquito alights with its
peculiar hum, it's thrusts it's keen lance
and then enlarges the aperture with the
two saws, which play beside the lance
until the forl1ed bill with it's capillary
arrangement for pumping the blood
can be inserted. The saving process is
what CRATES upon the nerves of the vic
tim AMI causes him to strike wildly at
the sawyer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

ian Church at Sterling was ended at the
meeting of the Presbytery of Morris aud
Orange, Mt Summit, which found a ver-
dict of guilty on the charges preferred.
The utmost secrecy was maintained. Not
even the accused clergyman was permit
ted to appear. The result Is q surprise to
the Rev. DR.. DIPS friends, who believed
that the verdict Of the court which con-
victed his white capn' prosecutors would
weigh largely with the Presbytery in its
determination. and they urge MIR. Dill to
carry the case.to theNnext Presbyterian
General Assembly. zoe
EARLY next year $3.50, 900 bonds Of the
Newark water debt mature. Owing to
the failure to provide a sinking fund this
debt will nave TO be refunded. The Leg
islature has passed Il law providing for
the ~refundin9 aud also limiting the max
imum rate Of interest to four per cent.
der annum The law also says that tho
new bonds shall not be taxable when
held by taxpayers residing IN Newark.
The ctty's finance department is going a
step farther in The dire tic of making a
popular loan by issuing the bonds In
small denominations, 800, $500 and ST.
000
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22
STATE NOTES.

"A cargo of clans valued at $500 was
taken to New York one day last week, by
Antonius Gibson, of Port Monmouth.
Aaron Willis, OF Rockaway, Morris
county, has killed over forty opossums
this season. and Fred Little has made a
record by killing skunks.
An investigation has been ordered in
The case of Mark Lemanyon, found dead
In the road near Indian Mills. This makes
The second mysterious death In that local
ity within a year..
The Bergen county Democratic Ex-
scutiye Committee have decided by a vote
Of IL to 4 to recommend Peter Bogart, Jr.,
as candidate for Lay Judge to succeed
Garrett G. Ackerson, deceased.
There are five places at Worthwhile, Ber-
gen county, where artificial flowers are
manufactured, and all of them are crowd
I'd with orders. They afford employment
TO a large number of persons.
1t is reported that a syndicate, headed
Dy ex-Mayor Grace, of New York, IL ne.
gotiating for the lease Of the abandoned
Camden ana Amboy Railroad shops at
Bordentown, and twenty-three acres of
adjacent land. An iron foundry, it is
said, will be erected.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morehead, of Elizabeth,
died last week. In just three months she
would have been 103 years old. She was
born in Ireland, but came TO America in
early life. She was sick only a couple OF
hours. She was attending to her house.
hold duties as usual last Tuesday. She
had full possession of all her faculties
until she died. She was the mother of
fourteen children. Three sons and a
daughter are still living.
The Middlesex County Agricultural
Society has come out as a full fledged
political organization. The declared pur-
pose is to enter ~ wedge between the old
parties, but it seems to be a Republican
move to utilize the Granger element.
The bitter contest against the Rev.
Arthur C.. Dill. pastor OF the Ptesbyter-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

amuse anybody I jes got myself into
trouble.
went to bed pretty early on Christ
mas evs so as to give my parents a
chance to get the presents out OF the
closet in mamma's ROOM, where they had
been locked up since they were bought.
! KEEP my close on except my shoes, and
put my nightgown over them so as ia
look white if any of them came near me.
Then / waited, pinchin myself to keep
awake. After awhile papa came into
the room with a lot of things that he
dumped on Tommy's bed. Then NAM
ma came in and put some things on
mine and in our two stockings that were
hung up by the chimney. Then they
both went out very quiet. and soon all
the lights went out TOP.
1 KEEP on pinchin myself and waitin
for a time, and then when l was sure
that everybody was asleep I got up. The
first thing I went into wa my sisters
room, and got her white fur rug that
mamma gave her on her birthday, and her
sealskin cape that was hanging on the
closet door. tied the cape on my head
with shoestrings and it made q good big
cap. Then I put the fur rug around me
and pinned it with big safety pins what
l found on Tommy's carriers. Then l
got mammals new scrap basket, trimmed
with roses, what Mrs. Simmons broid-
cred for the church fair, and piled all of
the kids toys into it. l fastened it to
my back with papa's ~suspenders, and
then l started for the roof.
hurt my fingers some opening the
s~cuttle, but kept right on. 1t was snow
ing hard and I stood and let myself get
pretty well covered with flakes. Then
I crawled over to the chimney that went
down into our room and climbed up ON
top Of it. 1 had brought my bicycle
lantern with me and l lighted it 81 as
Tommy could see me when / came down
the chimney into the room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

There did not seem to be any places
inside the chimney where l could
hold on by my feet. but the cell
and I had often jumped most as far, so
| jes let her go, and I suppose I went
down. Anyway. l did not know about
anything for q long time. Then l woke
up all in the dark with my head feelin
queer, and when I tried to turn over in
bed l found l wasn't in bed at all, and
then my arms and legs began to hurt
terrible, mostly one arm that was
doubled up. l tried to get up, but /
couldn't because my bones hurt so and l
was terrible cold and there was nothing
to stand on. | was jes stuck. Then /
began to cry, and pretty soon l heard
mammals voice sayin to papa:
''Those must be sparrers that are max
ing that noise in the chimney. Jes
touch a match to the wood in the boys
fireplace"
l heard papa strike a light and then
the wood began to crackle. Then, by
jinks! it began to get hot and smoky and
l screamed: -
"Help! Murder! Put out that fire lest
you want to burn me up!"
Then l heard papa stamping ON the
wood and mamma calling out:
Where's Billy? Where is my chile?"
Next Tommy woke up and began to
cry and everything was terrible, special
ly the pains all owe me. Then papa
called out very stern:
William, if You are in that chimney
come down at once!" and l answered,
cryin, that I would if / could. bat | was
stuck and couldn't.
Then l heard papa gettin dressed,
and pretty soon he and John from the
stable went up on the roof and let down
ropes what I put around ms and they
hauled me up.
1t was jes daylight and l was all black
and sooty and scratched and my arm
was broken.
Everybody scolded me e1cep mamma
| had spoiled my sisters white rug, and
broken all of Tommy's toys, and the
what went in through the scuttle
melted aud marked the parlor ceiling,
besides l guess it cost papa a good deal
to get my arm mended. Nobody would
believe that | had jes meant TO make
some fun for Tommy. and my arm and
all my bruised places hurt me awful for
a long time. II live t be a million |
am never goin to play Santa Claus agin.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

fi~re-fighting apparatus. The machine
will cost about SO. SEQ
Last evening members of Bayonne
Council, No. 695, Royal Arcanum, s.eld a
social session after the association "1usi-
ness meeting. Past Regent David Il.
Crispin sang "The Yeoman's Wedding
Song and "Bonuie Sweet Bessie" Prof.
William Till favored with a piano solo.
Secretary William j.. Morrison e a
selection from Longfellow's poems, VIII
liam NJ. Wiltshire. of Greenville, recited
several selections. Joseph Maggie played a
number of melodies upon the either and
S. w. Millner. Of Jersey City, exhibited
his skill upon tine musical bells a the
y~erephone. Orator Joseph II. Wright
was master of ceremonies.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

VNo CLAUS NJ; 4. sCHRoEDER-YoU ARR HERE
l. by notified that TT q public sale made by the
city col!ecto or OF Jersey ny. on the sist day Of
April 1871. l purchased for the sum or ~ffty-six
dollars ana sixty csnts all the lang ana real estate
situate in Jersey City. Hudson County. New Jer-
sey. fronting on Academy street which Is lait
down and designated as lot No. ~ in Block mum
ber l34, upon an assessment map annexed 10 q re.
part made oy Commissioners OF Adjustment
appointed in and for said city BY the Circuit Court
of the County of Hudson, q certified copy or which
report and map was filed IN the on1ce OF the City
Collector or Jersey CITY. on the 9Th day or Arrli.
1884. said export and map amt said sale being made
pursuant 10 tue provisions OF an act OF the Legisia-
ture Of New Jersey. passed March 10Th. 1856. on
titled:
Am Act concerning the settlement ana collection
of arrearagos OF unpaid taxes. assessments
and wa or rate or water rents in cities OF this
state, ard I'M posing ana levying a tax. assess
nlent and lieu In lieu and instead OF such ar.
rear ages, and 10 enforce the payment thereof.
and to provide for The sale OF lands subjected
TO future ta xstion and assessment"
And the SO al supple nents thereto.
And YOU are further notified that you appear 10
have an est ate or interest Ia said land aud real
estate, and unless the said land ana real estate
shall be redeemed, as provided in said act,
before the expiration OF SIX month from ana
after the service hereof. a deed for the same will
be given conveying TO the purchaser the fee SIM
pie OF said land and zeal estate according to the
prov lsions OF the said act.
Dated Jersey City, n. j.. November 20. lsal
h. A. WATSON,
Purchaser.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

no FRANCES S. DAVENPORT HERMAN A
l. burger, George II. Meyers, Francis p. Osborne
Charles Tracy, George ". Whyard
You are hereby notified that at a public sale
made by the City Collector OF Jersey City. On this
2lst day OF April. 1891. / purchased for the sum OF
two hundred and forty dollars ana forty one cents
alt tue land and real estate situate in Jersey City.
in the County OF Hudson and tate OF New JERSEY,
fronting on Vroom street. which Is laid down and
an assessment map annexed 20 a report made by
commits ion ers of Adjustment" appointed in and
for said CITY by the Circuit Court OF the County OF
HUDSON. a certified copy or which report and map
was fIsd In the ofice OF the Citv Collector of der.
sey City on the It'll day Of April. 1880. said report
and map and said sale being made ursuant 10 tho
provisions OF an act OF the Legislature OF New Jer.
sey, passed March Soth. 1856. entitled;
An act concerning the settlement aud coHec'
tim Of dTredtdges Of uapdfd tdres, asses
ments and ddter rate or 1Uater rem s an
cities of thss Stale, and imposing and lety-
mo q Tar, assessment and lien IN tieu and
instead of such dt3eai ages, ard to enforce
The pd M Mt thereof, and to proUide for the
soLe of lands subj cfed to future taxation
and assessments.
Ind TIE SeEerni supplements thereto.
And you arc further notified tina: you appear to
have an estate or interest in said land and real
estate and unless the said land and real estate
shall be redeemed. as provided In sail act. before
the expiration Of six months from and after the
service hereof. a deed for the same will be given
conveying 10 the purchaser the fee simple OF sad
land ana real estate according 10 The provisions OF
the said act.
Lated Jersey City, Y. J.. November 10. 1891.
SEES Purchaser.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22

NOTICE Il EREBY GIVEN THAT A WRIT OF
Az attachment at the suit Of Joseph x. Wells
against the rights and CREDITS. MONEYS and effects.
goods and chattels, lands and OF red
erick =. Ketcnum ana Henry y. Laurencs. part
debtor rs, In Ia e sum OF fourteen hundred and nifty.
forr dollars iss ued oucor the Hudson toanty Cir
cuff Court of the state of New jersey on the
twonty-ninth Gnv of septen Der. A. T.. Gig lteen
hundred and ninety QUE keturnAblel ana re-
turned. duly executed by the sherI1 OF said
county OF Hudson the twelfth day OF tctooer. A.
IL. eighteen hundred and nine ~ one.
DENNI, A'LAUGHLIN.
Clerk.
J. HERBERT PORTS.
Attorney.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22
NOTICE TO ckEDiroRN.

Estate OF oliver Higgins. deceased, George Bill
lingtDn., administrator OF oliver Higgins, de-
ceased, bv oruer OF The Deputy Surroga ate OF Hud son
county. dated ocembcr l. 1881 hereby gives notice
70 the creditors OF said decedeng 10 bring In tbslr
dehts. demands ana claims against the estate OF
said dcceuen6 under osth or affirmation within
nine months from the date OF said order. or they
will DO forever barred OF any action therefor
GEoRG WELLINGTON.