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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-11

EsoELThe Greggains-Costello Mill.
Lovers Of fistic sports can look forward
to an excellent exhibition of science and
hard hitting on the evening of the 2sth
inst. when Alex Greggains the undefeated
middleweiRht champion of the Pacific
slope. and Martin Costello, the Buffalo,"
will don the gloves at the Coney Island
Athletic Club Those who have Sc en- Cos
tello are aware of his ability to punish,
especially with his terrible
right which is the "BuffaIo'sn fav-
orite weapon Of offence. If he is
in Las good a condition as he ey-
poets to be. he will give his opponent a
game fight, which few middle-weights
can equal. Greigains, who is tall and
shifty, is q two-handed mechanic, and
has proven himself to be the best middle
weight California ever produced. His
great victory ove George La Blanche, the
Marine in eighteen rounds, speaks for
itself. t7tsea la t
The fight will certainly give the lovers
of ths game of hit and stop an opportun-
ity of seeing who will be the man to fight
the winner of the HallFttzsimm mons con-
te5E. % ElG5 Is
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-11
CURRIERS' CONVENE.
D4aeiorelss -
National Clubs Executive
5 Committee Arranging
ss SSs 3 H. & Dates.
FOOTBALL
Princeton Cancels. its Match With
AK CorneA-Strikes, Spares
Il l &c 9 e& and Breaks.
rs EnTW% ErElI nA e
FOOTBALL

The Executive Committee of the Grand
National Curling Club met last night to
discuss the programme for the season.
The Jersey City Club was represented by
Rohers A. Mcknight.
7Thesfollowing district matches were re-
ported scheduled
LlttlesFalls. n. J..svs. Nutmeg. Portland,
caledoaian,. New York. VS.. Iyanhoe. New Jer-
sey.
Yenkers, N. Y. VS., Empire, Albany, N. Y.
Aloany CITY Albany, n. y, VS., American,
Empire CITY, New YORK, vs.. Utica, N. Y.
Pittston, Pa, vs.. Thistle, New York.
St, Andrews, New York, VS.. John o'Groat'
L~ackaganna, Avoca, Pa, vs.. Jersey City, N. J,
Long Island City Us. Excelsior, New York. +
Caledonian, Brooklyn, VS.. Manhattan, New
tuxedo. New Yorf, VS.. -Four Brothers. To-
New York, n. Y, VS., Thistle. Brooklyn.
Moshoiu, New York, VS.. Newark, Nj.
Milwaukee Wis, VS.. st. Paul, MINI. a e
1t was decided after much argument to
play the North and South of Scotland
match for the Dalrymple medal at Gen.
tral Park, Thursday, January 10, at IL NJ.
AThe Mitchell medal match will be
played0in the Hoboken Rink, Wednesday,
February l. first tie to be called az 10 A..
NJ Van Courtlandt Lake was at first
suggested. sps
oIne Scotch VS.. All Nationalities match
forpthe McLintoek medal was scheduled
TOE wednesday, February /, or within
two weeks from hat date. This is played
by all clubs in the East ard West.
Gordon international match will be
played at Albany this year, and the
Canadian teams are expected to be repre-
sented 4 change made in the rules will
this year permit the use of stones of SO to
A pounds instead OF 80 to so pounds, as
heretofore, thus making possible Il score
of - points. .
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-11

CARQLINE HELEN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-11

Ladies' White. Merino Silk Trimmed
Vests pants to match of this excel
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-11
NOTTCES

James a. 0Neil. Surrogate. once hours s a. m.
to 4 p. m. Saturdays. to Il
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
Fish In All Seas.

1t has been thought that the Dea6
Sea was destitute of fish, as being toe
salt to permit of animal life. The Dead
Sea, which in reality is land-locked
lake, contains twenty-six per cent. OF
saline matter, or more than eight times
as much as that found in the ocean. Ii
has, however, been discovered that in
the Dead Sea, as in other salt lakes, fish
exist in the neighborhood of the inflow.
ing streams, which supply the place of
the water lost by evaporation. In con.
sequence of this discovery the United
States Fish Commissioners made arrange.
ments Tor placing in the Great Salt
Lake,at Utah, upward of million young
shad near the inilowing tributaries, where
the water is comparatively fresh. These
streams reduce the density OF the lake for
n considerable distance from their
mouths SO that the shad, is considered,
may select ut their own free will the
quality of salt water they prefer, while
using the tributaries. for the spawning
season. The waters of the Pearsian Lake,
Urumiyah, which is eighty-four miles
long and twenty-four miles wide, are
much salter than those of the Dead Sea,
and yet, even in that lake, exclusively
salt as it is, small species of jelly fish
has been found. New Orleans Plea.
yune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
A Portable Telephone

One OF the members of the Glasgow
(Scotland) Fire Department has con-
ceiyed the idea of employing the tele-
phone in communicating with head.
quarters concerning the progress of fire.
and consequently each hose cart is sun
piled with portable telephone. The
instrument comprises complete re-
celver, transmitter and call.bell, reauir-
ing no battery, the communication with
the headquarters being made by connect.
ing the wire with any of the street fire.
alarms. The advantage of such sys-
TEN is that the headquarters can at all
times be apprised of the progress of the
fire, and should fire break out in another
section OF the city it is possible to COM
munlcate with the engines at the first
ilre without the uncertainty and loss of
time of employing messenger.
delphia Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

there were thousands of dollars on the
race. The men in the boats work with
a vengeance, too, for not only to the vic.
tor belongs the spoils, but to the con-
ouered belongs the hootings. The race
IS more to compare muscle than to win
the "spuds." One race is sure to bring
on an argument that ends in another, and
so on until every "mess" has had n
round, and the championship of the
crew is settled on some one boats crew.
which championship is held until the
next holiday, when they will have to
work manfully to retain it.
The evenings are closed by all hands
assembling fo'd under the fo'c'sr and
singing the songs so pleasing to a sailors
ears But for song to be properly APP
preciated it must have long, soul-stir-
ring chorus, ID which all hands can ioin
One that has harmonious blending of
all the parts, and then it is entered into
with n vim that makes the welkin ring.
AS the songs grow tiresome the yarns
spring up-yarns that to lubber would
seem ridiculous, but to a sailor sacredly
true. Such as the forsaking of ship by
rats, the heedlessness of the crew that
stay by her, regardless of the forewarn-
ing by the rats; the ship sails and is
never heard of again. Try to talk them
out of it, that the rats, leaving had moth
ing to do with the loss of the vessel and
you would be laughed at
When a vessel is southtou to cross.
the equator those aboard who have never
crossed the line, see and go through n
nautical festivity Of the oldest standing.
THE custom is carried out to the fullest
lexsreme aboard o man of.war. 1t is
about as follows:
One of the oldest salts aboard is
secretly chosen as Neptune, and on the
evening before the line is to be crossed,
he conceals himself away for'rd under
the bowsprit and halls the vessel as
though from the deep:
"Ship ahoy!"
"Hcllow from the officer of the deck.
"What ship is that?"
"The U. s. s."
''Back your main hard and heave to,
4 am going to board you"
Whereupon he comes on deck with
his wife and clerk, all dripping with
water, as though just from the bottom of
the briny deep.
The clerk carries mailbag which
contains the certificates of membership
of the Royal Sons of Neptune" which
are given to every one aboard who has
crossed the line before. Every one who
does not receive one of these certificates
has to be initiated on the following day
Unto membership of the Royal Sons.
Those who do receive them are given
some station for the exercises
to act rs policemen, guards
men, pilots, lookout and barber.
On the following morning Nep.
tune takes complete control of the ship,
puts his lookout at the masthead and the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
Best Time for bathing.

There has been some discussion ms to
the best time for bathing. Undoubtedly
the best time for taking warm bath
is at night Just before going to bed, rs
the danger of cold is avoided. If one
goes from the bathroom after such a
bath directly to bed, the skin is kept
warm for several hours and the com.
plexion may be as much improved by
this ordinary bath as it would undoubt.
edly is by the Turkish bath. It is not
safe, however, to take more than two
such warm baths during the week. as
its more frequent continuance is ant to
prove cnervating. A cold bath, on the
contrary, may be taken daily with benc
fit II person Is in n state of perfect
health; but it should be taken in the
morning on rising and should be fol-
lowed by brisk use of the friction towel.
1t is not necessary to coarsen the skin of
the hands and face by this friction. The
face should be always dried with some
soft, absorbent towel. The internal aids
to clear complexion are known to be q
thorough cleansing and purifying of the
blood. Humors on the face certainly in
dicatc the need of physicians advice as
to the state of the blood, and external
remedies will avail but little. Sometimes
strictly vegetable and fruit diet, avoid.
ing carefully all butter and vegetable
fats, will purify the complexion when
the most carefully regime in bathing and
all the prescriptions Of the physician are
of no avail. Such dieting need be adj
hered to for only a'few weeks and then
one may 60 back gradually to ones or
binary diet, remembering, however, that
an abundance of rich pasteries, cakes and
sweetmeats, eaten promiseuously between
meal times, will tend to ruin the very
best complexion in the world. An old.
fashioned remedy for softening the skin
in the bath was to tie-up two pounds of
bran in thin bag, leave it in soak in a
quart of water for two or three hours
before you in. This is the old fash.
Toned bran-bath used by our grand
mothers as means OF softening and
identifying the skin.-New York Tri.
| bune
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
Lines MinuteIy Drawn

The construction of many of the In.
struments used in scientific investigation
has been brought to q point of almost in
conceivable accuracy. Professor Row
land, the we'll known electrician and
physicist, has just completed perfect
screw for an improved form of his divid.
ing engine. With the machine now in
use he is able to draw 1000 lines reo,I-
larly to the inch. With the new ma.
chine he can draw 1000, 900 lines to the
inch with regularity. The limit of tbe
vision in the microscope is about 100, 600
hnes. With the new dividing engine
gratlngs are ruled on speculum metals.
1t takes the automatic machine six con.
tinuous days and nights to make one
grating of the size used to study the ma.
ture OF the sun.-New York Telegram.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

plan that she had cherished for SOM
time. 1t was that Pet should spend th,
following season with her in foreign
travel. She thought it inadvisable that
young girl should be married with alb.
solutely no knowledge of the world.
She wanted to start in few weeks, and
wrote careful directions to Pet about tile
journey. They would meet, she said,
in Chicago, and Pet was to answer by
telegraph.
1t was her last card; but Pet tele.
graphed, Eyes"
Pet awaited her sister, according to
their arrangement, in the hotel drawing.
room on Wednesday of the following
week. When Miss Murray arrived, the
pretty girl rushed towards her with out
stretched arms, ignoring all the other
people in the room.
"You'rc just lovely, Eloise," Pet
warmly announced. "Paul said-I had
to tell him, you know, about that silly
Charles and Rob-that you were lovely
sister, but he's afraid you are design
ing person. nd-hcre he is" She
produced from somewhere in the room
tall young man with frank sort of
face, and a laugh in his eyes. Giles
going with us to Europe" she said.
1--WE were married this moraipg. "-Har.
per's Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
Where Mud is Important.

There is nothing to make one realize
the importance of mud, indeed, like a
journey up the Nile when the inundation
is just over. You lounge on the deck of
your dahabieh aud drink in geography
almost without knowing it. The voyage
forms apcrfcct introduction to the study
OF mudoiogy, and suggests to the OBJ
servant mind (meaning you and me) the
real nature of mud rs nothing else on
earth that know of can suggest. For
in Egypt you get your phenomenon
isolated, as it were, from oil disturbing
elements.
You have no rainfall to bother you, no
local streams, no complex denudat ion;
the Nile does it all, and the Nile does
everything. On either hand stretches
away the bare desert, rising up in gray,
rocky hills. Down the midst runs the
one long line of alluvial soil-in other
words, Nile mud-which alone allows
cultivation and life in that rainless dis
trict. The country bases itself abso-
lutcly on mud. The crops are raised on
it, the houses and villages are built of it,
the land is MANFRED with it, the very
air is full of it. The crude brick build
ings that dissolve in dust are Nile mud
solidiIied, the red pottery of Assiout is
Nile mud baked hard, the village
mosques and minarets are Nile mud
whitewashed. have even seen ships
bulwarks neatly repaired with mud. 1t
pcrvadcs the whole land, when vet, as
mud undisguised; when dry, as dust
storm.
Egypt, says Horodotus, is gift of the
Nile. A truer word was never spoken.
OF course it is just equally true,i in way,
that Bengal is gift of the Gauges, and
that Louisiana and Arkansas are a gift of
the Mississippi; but with this difference,
that in the case of the Nile the depend
ence is far more obvious, far freer from
disturbing or distracting details. For
that reason, and also because the Nile is
SO much more familiar to most English
speaking folk than the American rivers, I
choose Egypt first as my type of reg
ular mud-lan
But in order to understand it fully
you mustn't stop MI your time in Cairo
and the Delta; you mustn't view it only
from the terrace of Shepherds Hotel or
the rocky platform OF the Great Pyramid
ut Glzeh; you must push up country
early, under MIR. Cooks care, to Luxor
and the First Cataract. 1t is up coun-
try that Egypt unrolls itself visibly be-
fore your eyes in the very process of
making; it is there that the full import
ance of good, rich, black mud first forces
itself upon you by uudeniable evidence.
-Cornhill Magazine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

Line OH w mere awayl" "a
ships length ahead, Sir" 'Cut it,"
SAY, ay, SIR"
Some one runs up to the bow, and,
with sheath knife, sewers the imaginary
line, and the ship glides over the equator.
The policemen are ordered to bring every
one who has not n certificate before the
throne, and though they know the cere-
mony Is rough still the uninitiated have
to come. To conceal themselves is i'm.
possible; ifin the hold they are dragged
out and beaten before the Judge supreme
with stuffed clubs. If aloft even to the
truce he is hauled down without cere-
mony, though sometimes he gives the
coppcrs lively chase through the rig
ging. The 'greenies" are marched in
line before the judge, and the ceremony
begins
Neptunc-"My son, have you ever be-
fore entered my sacred DOMAINE"
First Victim-''No, sir. "Qor if he lies
about it he is caught.)
Neptunc-"Do you desire to become
member of my royal family?"
First Victim-.sYou do me too much
honor"
Neptune-"NIy sons, take him; make
him as yourselves"
lie is seized, placed in the BARRIERS
chair azd prepared for n shave. The
lather is made of molasscs, tar, flour and
grease which is beautifully applied, and
the barber welding great tin razor
about two feet long gracefully scrapes
him and turns him over to The assis-
tants, who turn him over to the seadogs,
waiting just behind, by hosting his feet
ard giving shove. Into the pool he
goes head first and the dogs keep him in
the salt water with constant ducking I'M
til he is proper salt. He is taken out,
given the right hand of fellowship and
joins in the initiation of the other un-
fortunates. Every one has it to endure,
even to the officers, unless they pay their
footing by bountiful treat to the revel-
ers.
This ceremony soAaetimes occupies a
half day, according to the number of
men aboard, who never crossed before.
If there is band aboard they pay their
footing by furnishing music during the
entire time, aud at close all hands are
called to muster, and the newly initiated
brothers are given their certificates as a
safeguard against the future.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

course is laid to the coming of the pilot.
All of his subjects array themselves in
long white robes made of canvass OF
anything else convenient, march around
the father of the waters, and pay him
homage. n pool is arranged near the
feet of Neptune and by tucking up the
corners of large sail and filing tho bag
part Of the sheet with water person of
medium height would be covered to the
breast when in the water. Several of the
members act as seadogs, aud founce
around with delight in this improvised
pool. Directly by the pool is placed
the barber chair, constructed so thut the
seat of it is Il little higher than the pool
sail. When everything is in readiness
the masthead lookout sings out:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
IT'S NO, ~ eowD THAT oLlrTsns

Deed no, yen find yerseif mistaken,
Gin ye expect to find i'll
The grandest scheme that maks men vain
Aye hides some flaw behind it.
The virtues we like best to SEQ
Are no. persistent sitters,
When they're ill-treated sumo they fec
Itsno a gowd that glitters.
The pompous earl who gangs to kirk
Until his wealth increases,
Is no RIGHT soond-gie him jerk,
An he fa's a to pieces
The man who kens the worrs ways bess
Tak's life's sweets WI its btters
An sumo discovers like the rest,
It's no a gowd that glitters
The trouble seems to work clean through
Bath cliqres an corporations.
It's lard TO Ind thing true blue
An free O. complications
Deception noo's q common crime
But guild sense never filters,
1t tak's for granted n the time
ltsno' a gowd that gitters.
After a grumblin' over the cass
Isna COR nearest duty
1t seems it wad be better grace
10 show truths honest beauty.
It's no. sac much hoo ithers act
Or hoo the queer worl titters
Let's look ut hame an be exact
To see that cor gowi gitters
William Lyle, in Detroit Free Press
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

side and the prize at the out board end.
The first to venture know that they are
sure to 90 overheard, still they 90.
They brace up, like man trying to con-
vince his wife he can walk seam, make
a brave start and in q twinkling are
bouncing in the water to the great de.
light of the spectators. The second and
third suffer alike and sometimes rs many
as twenty will take swim before the
greece is worn off two thirds of the way
to the prize. The winner gets the
greatest applause and he is lucky if he
misses riding spar (raiD.
The greasy pole to climb is another
sport, but repetition of the same thing
with no ducking in it.
But catching the greasy pig takes the
cake
The little fellow is shaved perfectly
smooth and creased SO thoroughly that n
fly would slip and break his neck if he
lighted on him. A competitor is chosen
from each 'mcss" to join in the chase.
Each competitor put on his oldest
clothes, fills his pockets with sand, to
enable him to grapple with the victim,
and takes his stand in the row. At n
signal the pig is turned out, frightened
until he runs like the wind, and the
chase commences. Round they go, over
and under obstacle, clawing and scratch
lng with sandy hands at the little rascal
as he lodges under this and behind that.
The scramble is worse than u game of
Football, and between the shricks of
laughter, cheers of encouragement and
the mclodious notes of the swinette there
fs NOISE sufficient to wake the dead.
The race continues until pursuer and
pursued are exhausted, ana the pig is
given to the one who is man enough to
take it from the Others. The mess gets
the benefit.
The most exciting games are the boat
races. One "mess" will race with another
for sack of flour or potatoes, or any
thing else edible, us stake. The race
is conducted with as much pomp as
though the championship of the world
depended upon it, and the lockers ON
are cheering and urging them on like
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
"GoINd HoMEn

~ 4 Ealing day has glorified tho west.
e = utnmn tiuts tho foliage is drest,
s Is barry ones are going homo to rest
s "a, glory cleaning crown the sun,
ing, proclaims daily duty done,
=, }her of life's burden battles won.
7trees bedecked with gold and crimson leaf.
flowing tinge on every blade and sheaf;
Nature soon in rest will find relief.
{he hill isclimbed with trembling, tired feet,
zsbut toll is DER, and going home is sweet,
9SQon, aged form, thy life will be complete.
Inc sun again triumphant shall appear.
All Nature wake to life another year,
Then for the soul OF man why need we fear.
Helen Everett Grant in Chicago Graphic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
An Historic Old House.

A little Italian grocery and lodging
house stands at the corner of Jamaica
avenue and Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1t was in that building, with its
quaint old Dutch architecture, then
known as the Hunters Home, that
Washington laid his plans for the battle
OF Long Island.
The house was built by Jacob Bergen,
for whom one of Brooklyn's longest
streets is named. 1t has passed through
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

ii, I'm utterly dis
coura e e d about
Pet, Mrs. Park
hurst. She says she's
engaged again. "
And Eloise Murray
gave her little
round footrest u
push that sent it
spinning across the
mushroom.
''ls that the way
Won fnn1 INV Jo,.oiI
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

Sugar is being extracted from the sap.
Of the sugar-pine tree in the mountains
of northern California. The sap is light
brown in color, and contains large per
cent. of sacchrine matter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

The South DekoIa wheat crop will
average at present prices ST, 900, 900 to
each county.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

The leading jewelers. say that the most
fashionable finger ring for men is the
diamond.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

The Moscow Russia) missionary
society numbers 1000 members and re.
ceives $150,000 annually.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

New York State, with 20, 500, 600
pounds of hops, produced almost double
the quantity of any other State.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
JACKS JOLLITY.
how HOLIDAYS ARE SPENT ON
THE WATER.
Antics of the Jolly Sailors on :
MISUNDERSTANDING the
Greasy Pig-A Visit
From Neptune.

MoNG the many
sntics cut on legal
holidays aboard
ship these, ac-
cording to George
w. Crusselle, in
the Atlanta Con-
stitution, are the
most prominent.
Walking n greasy
boom rugged out
from the ship s
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

number of widely divergent ex.
periences. The present owner bears the
popular name Sarsoparillo, and it is said
some seventy Italians sleep there nightly.
New York Mail and Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13
HER DESIGNING SISTER,

by MARIE FRANCES UPTON.