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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03

An impressionable young gentleman
in a certain country town recently met
a charming girl whose grace and beauty
took his heart by storm. While con
versing with her he made a discovery
which lie fondly hoped would enable
him to make at one brilliant stroke an
elegant proof Of his ready wit and his
bOundless affection. Glancing at d
modest band of gold that encircled her
fair finger,-he remarked, Sweet dam
sci, I pray you present me with the ring
you wear, for I assure you it exactly
resembles my love for you-it has no
end
Indeed, sir" promptly replied the
maiden; you must excuse me if keep
the ring, for it exactly resembles also
my love for you-it has no beginning.
london Tit-Bits.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
MnnLgY PRICES W GLASSWARE.
The Mckinley High TarfT Builds Up d
Truat MlicEl Rafsaa I.rInea w f.I....,..ar..

The Mckinley High TariR Builds Tp 3
Trast Which Raises Prices Or Glassware.
The Herald Gnd.) and Journal (Rep.
Of Boston are engaged in a controversy
about the present price of glassware, Th4
Herald contending that it has been al.
vanced since the Mckinley act went
into operation. The following letter
from leading Boston dealers ii glass
ware, known 70 the trade everywhere.
speaks for itself:
10 the Editor of The Herald.
You ask for facts concerning the nriees of
glassware. The tariff prior 10 1890 On tabIo
and lamp glassware was 40 Der cent. on COM
mon pressed glass and IS on cut engraved ana
painted glassware, with no dufy on packages
~ the Mckinley bill the tariff tax was raised
70 % PCT cent when the duty On packages was
added al same rate a. contents.
Some months ago sixteen Of the large glass
factories were pooled into one large eorDerz-
tion, called the United States Glass t.onlpariv
Of Iittsburg. They, with the Rochester Tnin-
bier company. have advanced the prices of I.
number Of their staple wares most used fully
~ per cent; the advance has been maintained.
and those factories not included in the two
large companies avail themselves Of the ad-
vance as Tar AZ their product j. equal III desir-
ability.
True, they have notified 4 reduction ia some
small items, which, Ia total value. bear q very
small comparison 70 the great item Of common
tumblers, gohlets. etc. used by the masses;
but the fact exists, nevcrt theiess. that in many
items there has been a substantial increase IN
toth Wholesale and retail prices since Isga.
more than any and all reductions made. Tbc
progressive reduction constantly going on by
reason Of improved machinery. fuel saving
furnaces, ete- should show cheaper products
and Lcl9 to increase our exports, which, in
pressed glass, have been increasing for ten
years or more.
That many items arc sold fur less comes
naturally in the accumulation of odd ana un-
desirable patterns in every stock. and arc sold
70 close out at reduced values. but that docs
not alter the fact that new and desirable pat-
terms Of table glassware are fully 10 per cent.
higher than those of equal value were prior 10
lsa, attribute the cause % what you may
JONES McDEFFEE II STRArrOK.
AHRAM FREaCH COMPANY.
NoRCRoss, 9IELI-ES & co.
RICHARD BRiGGs q 90.
GEORGE X. McFAHLIN
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
rheories About DROWNED nodies

1t was a popular theory in days gone
by that the body of drowned man
would float the ninth day, notion
which, Mr.. Henderson informs us, pre-
walls iii the county Of Durham. Sir
Thomas Browne alludes to it as believed
in his time, and in his ~Pseudo-doxia
EpidenncsH there il q discussion 6h this
fanciful notion. 1t was also believed
that the spirits Of those drowned at sea
were dool 70 wander for 100 years.
owing to t--- sites of-burial having never
been properly bestowed upon their
bodies. Notes and Queries.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03

This from ono of our Sam Francisco
telephone girls: III don't think that am
any more vain than other girls. but
am good looking and know 1T, and take
4 good deal cf pride in rny beaHty. One
day / was called to the telephone. and
being angry over something that had
happened III tha Office snapped bark at
the party at the other end Of the wire.
Well, what is itT in a very short man
ner. lin replied Will alaw drawn whis-
tie. sWhe-e-e-s-w. bnt sou must w good
looking can remember yet how my
face burned. IAN Francisco ArEunanA.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
THE PLAYMATEs.

Who are Thy playmates, boy2
MY favorite is JOY,
Who brings with him his sister Peace, Il
stay
The livelong day.
| love them both; but hc
Is most to me-
And where thy playmates now,
o man Of sober browg
"Alasl dear Joy, the merFiest is dead.
But have wed
Peace; and our babe. boy,
Newborn, is Joy
y. 3. Taft in Harper's Young People.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03

Miss De Bonaire And how do you
like progressive hammccking, Mr.. De
Witt.
Mr.. Dc Witz (at his first hamrnock)-l \
should think It perfect, Miss De Bonaire,
if-er-if it were not progressive. DE
troit Free Pres.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03

Mike It's like ovid time to see you
again, Pat. Why did you nivcr wrote
me u letther since last we mits
Pat-OE didnt know your address,
Moike.
Mike Thin why, in tho nameo' sinse,
did We not write fur it, Harper's Bazaar.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03

Uf thc famous English statesman FOX
it was said that il the Bible should get
lost he wonld Ne ahle to duplicate it
from memory. Racine knew by heart
the entire Euripides, Bayle the whole 81
Montague, Hughues Boneau the Corpus
Juris Nvord for word. and Aietastasi0 all
Of Horace and Corteret. Chicago Her
aid.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
Layspg the B.ame.

Miss Antique This picture won't snit
me at all ! was told that sou wOnld be
sure to please me
Smere-No doubt would madam, had
you sat for me twenty years ago oNew
York Evening Sun
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
DoubIy Terrible.

Little Dick-Why are You girls 50
afraid Of bats.
Little Dot-Ooo. a bat is a mouse or
wings.-Good News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-11-03
Do you
understand
the Sheep Question !?

It's furnishing heap of political thunder just
now. 1t furnishes table question the year round
It's full Of Our side of it the al-wool side.
Country clothes used to be reproach. There
the Blue Jeans joke and the homemade spinning
Joke and the homemade making joke.
For over thrty-one years we've been killing
off the jokes by clothing the country about in the
Wanamaker & Brown manufacture of Clothing.
We all-wool cloth into the most perfect
Clothing that be manufactured. We buy 10th by
the carload make Suits and Overcoats by. the
thousand, the five hundred the hundreds
think the goods likely to be popular; and sell
them as near cost as we dare to and insure ourselves
solvent business.
Great and greater sales have attended us every
year in this generous plan of clothing you; and
Ready-Nade Clothing has become the American
standard
Thirty Dollar Suits Thirty Dollar 0vercoats
twenty Twenty
Ten Dollar Suits Ten Dollar Oyercoats
Dress Clothing and Everyday Clothing, of
ualties know be reliable, sold at lower prices
by IS to 20 per cent than prices usual in Clothing
stores, because save profit by manufacturing and
selling the Clothing ourselves.
Wananaker s Brown,
Sixth and Market, Philadelphia.
Our offer to pay your Railroad fare from Woodbur
holds good the year round provided you buy $1,000 worth
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
Some Horrors of Ouackerv.

The old proverb, "Any port in a
Storm" has often found practical illus
tration in the empirical treatment of
disease. Time was when even regular
practitioners in the art of healing in
cluded in their professional armament,
along with many simple remedies of
real value, other matters, the very men
ton of which might almost suffice to en-
gender illness. We may feel thankful
that we have now entered upon later
and more scientific era, and that such
extraordinary drugs as weasels' gizzards,
does hoofs, snails, and other even more
repulsive horrors, do not now find place
in any pharmacop9ia. ..r..
There still exists, however, a species
of medical folklore, and some of its pre-
scribed wisdom available for use in ILL
ness is of the most remarkable kind.
Times of panic, by throwing a popula-
ton to some entent on its own resources
for treatment, are apt to create de-
mand for these survivals of dark age.
This happened lately in Germany, where
o toad cooked with much care was swal-
lowed as cure for cholera. AS to the
result we are not informed. Most of us
would probably choose to suffer rather
than thus attempt our own ef.-Lon-
don Lancet.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
Being Near at Hand.

81 suppose" said an English woman
to two American travellers on the deck
of one of the big transatlantic steamers,
"that you intend to visit Shakespeare's
birthplace"
'Oh, yes" was the answer; 1--WE shall
go to Stratford by all means. You have
been there of course?"
mo; l never have been. Very few
English people go there, but it is great
resort for Americans"
'Why is it that English people take
so little interest, comparatively, in the
town which produced so great genius?'
"Well, l cannot account for it, except
possibly on the theory that one is never
so likely to visit what is always within
ones reach as are those who go to a
strange country with the special object
of sightseeing. Why, on this very
steamer have met an American who
told me that, although his home is close
to New York, he has never visited your
Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central
park except once, while he has been a
number of times to the British museum,
and repeatedly to the Louvre. Now,
fancy that if he lived few hundred
miles from New York, and occasionally
went there to see the sights he would
have much more intimate knowledge
of the museum than he has now, when
it is within his reach every day, or at
least every week."-New York Tribune.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
DR.. Laing's Method of Distilling

Some interesting processes in obtain
ing distilled or lighter products from
mineral oils have been described by DIR.
Laing, of Edinburgh, before the Royal
Scottish Society of Arts. Among these
he names the arrangement of still in
such manner that the oil is continu-
ously being distilled into itself until the
required density is obtained. DR.. Laing
showed that radiant heat is powerful
agent in breaking down oil vapors, and
can be utilized by passing the gases as
they leave the still through a super
heater at a high temperature, placed
between the still and the condenser.
His ingenious method for distilling
under pressure-by means of which a
hold is kept on all the considerable gases
until liquefed-he describes as consist
ing of a relief tank interposed between
the pressure valve and the condenser,
into which the gases escape as they come
from the still, the pressure here getting
distributed over such large area that
it is practically reduced to nil, the oil
running to the receiver at ordinary at
mospheric pressure.
DR.. Laing's new form of still for pre-
venting oils being broken down, as in
distilling for lubricating oils and paraf-
fire wax, is so constructed that the non
conducting heavy residues which are
continually forming under distillation
are constantly being removed from the
source of heat.-New York Sun.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
every" with q Verb.

PLEASED" in the expression Every
pleased" is nothing more than the past
participle passive of ''please" used as an
adjective. Every" SO far as 1 am
aware, is never used with any other part
of verb, and then only when that part
has become adjective by usage. The
following quotation from Pope's ''Dun-
clad" shows its use as an adjective:
Thou triumph'st, Victor of the high wrought
day,
And the pleas'd dame. soft smiling, lead'st
away.
A similar use of the word is when we
say persons face has ''a pleased ex-
preston" This being the case it is as
correct to say Every pleased" as to say
every much pleased" Annandale's elm
perial Dictionary" subject "Very," has:
"Among old writers very was fire.
quently used alone to modify a past
participle, and it is still to some extent
so used; thus, Sir W. Jones has very
concerned Gibbon, very unqualifed;' ;
Sydney Smith, very altered, etc."
AS there is no verb unqualify, un-
qualified can be nothing else but an ad-
jective, and concerned and altered come
under the same part of speech. When
we say, 81 am very pleased" there is no
action implied, but there is simply a
description of the state or condition in
which one is at the time of speaking.-
F. G. Birkbeck Terry in Notes and
Queries,
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
Taking 1t Easy.

"My poor Eugenie," began George
Sand to Delacroix, 81 am afraid have
got bad news for you" "Indeed," said
Delacroix, without interrupting his
work, and just giving her one of his
cordial smiles in guise of welcome.
"Yes, my dear friend, I have carefully
consulted my own heart, and the upshot
isl grieve to tell you-that I feel I
cannot and could never love YOU" Del
acroix kept on painting. SIS that a
fact?" he said. eyes, and I ask you to
pardon me and give me credit for my
candor-my poor Delacroix."
Delacroix did not bulge from his
easel. "You are angry with me, are you
not? You will never forgive me?" Seer
tainly will. Only I want you to keep
quiet for ten minutes. Ihave got bit
of sky here which has caused me good
deal of trouble; it is just coming right.
Go and sit down, or else take a little
walk and be back in ten minutes" Of
course George Sand did not return.-An
Englishman in Paris.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09

The worlds submarine cables now
measure about 143,011 nautical miles,
in 1,16s sections. Different governments
control S93 sections, or 1888 miles,
France claiming 3,269 miles, Great Brit
ain 1889, Germany 1,579, and Italy
1,027 miles. The remaining 3S5 cables,
aggregating 129, ,62s miles, are owned by
r.ivate companies. This great length
of cable has been nearly all made on the
banks of the Thames, but Italy now has
a cable factory, and France will soon
have two. To lay and repair the cables
requires the constant service of spe-
cially equipped fleet of thirty-seven ves-
sells of Sc, ,955 tons-Ohio State Journal.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
Gorilla Against Elephant.

Monkeys are not very brave, although
the gorilla will sometimes attack an ele-
phant when he is sure of his advantage.
The male gorilla often carries a huge
stick and knows how to use it. As the
elephant is fond of the same fruit which
attracts the gorilla, an encounter fire..
quently takes place. The gorilla, seated
in the tree, sees the elephant approach,
cautiously drops down to bough, and
nvailing himself of the opportunity
brings his club sharply down on the
sensitive trunk Of his enemy, who rushes
away trumpeting with anger and pain.
-Harper's Young People.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
Her Rule of Life.

Mrs. Little was woman greatly re-
spected in the little neighborhood where
she lived. Her friends and neighbors
often spoke of her knowledge of Bible
teachings, and few were the occasions
when she did not remind them of her
attainments by some apt quotation.
"How is it, Mrs. Little" asked a neigh
Dor one day, "that you can always re-
member some suitable quotation for
everything that happens?"
ooh, I don't know" responded the
good woman with pleased smile, sun
less it's because I always act on what I
say. Now, whenever see folks provoked
I jest associate it with Let not the sun
go down upon your wrath
"I've always acted on that myself.
made it rule when was young never
to let the sun go down when was mad.
And so it is with other things, and
s'pose that's one reason I remember
Youths Companion.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
where the Enelish Poet. Arc Buried

Of Shakespeare Westminster abbey
contains only monument. His bones,
as everybody knows, rest at Stratford-
upon-Avon, and Milton is honored only
by bust. The author of Paradise Lost"
is buried in the Church of st. Giles,
Cripplegate, and there is no reason to
doubt that the dean and chapter of his
day would have refused him the right of
sepulture in the abbey when he died had
it been then asked for. Even so late as
the beginning of the Eighteenth century
the phrase, second to Milton alone"
which had been proposed as an epitaph
for the poet Phillips, was "ruled out" by
Dean Sprat, who regarded the name of
Milton as too detestable to appear in a
building dedicated to religion.
Thirty years later not only Millions
name but the bust to his memory was
admitted, although the accompanying
inscription was not of felicitous char
acter. Byron was actually refused
burial in the abbey; Goldsmith lies in
the precincts of the temple; Gray was
buried in the country churchyard, that
at Stoke Poges, near Slough, in which
he wrote his immortal "Elegy;;" and of
more modern bards Wordsworth, Ten
nyson's immediate predecessor in the
laureateship, is buried "by Rotha's
stream" in Grasmere churchyard, while
the heart of Shelley and the body of
Keats are inferred in a Protestant ceme-
terry at Rome.
Posterity is the only sure judge of
poetical renown, and who can doubt
that were Keats and Shelley to die now
they would as a matter of course be
accorded place where Browning
and Tennyson lie. 1t is safe predic-
ton, however, that our descendants will
not hold us of the Nineteenth century to
blame for admitting into the poets COR
ner the remains of the author of "Morte
d'Arthur" and ''In Memoriam."-Lon-
don Telegraph.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
The laws of health are taught in on

The laws Of. health are taught in our
schools; but not in way to be of much prac-
teal benefit and are never illustrated by liv-
ing examples, which in many cases could
easily be done. If some scholar, who had
contracted cold was brought before the
school, so that all could hear the dry loud
cough, and know its significance; see the thin
white coating on the tongue and later, as the
pectoration and thin watery discharge from
the nose, not one of them would ever forget
what the first symptoms of cold were. The
scholar should be given Chamberlain S
Cough Remedy freely, that all might see that
even severe cold could be cured in one or
two days. or at least greatly mitigated, when
properly treated as soon as the first symptoms
appear. For sale by G. M. Chenery.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09
THE MYSTERY UNRAvELED.
A Clever Newspaper Man Divines tbs
Reason of n Tremendous Blockade.
tsNUbof 10;

Reason of q Tremendous Blockade.
"What is it?'
"Who is hurt?'
Anybody been run over%
sis it man in a fitY'
High above the ceaseless rumble and
roar Of traffic rose human voices in anx.
ious inquiry, and the dense throng at the
intersection Of State and Madison streets
grew denser still. 1t was just before
sunset, and the mighty heart of Chi
eagos business center throbbed with the
feverish energy that marked the closing
hours Of another day of toll, and the
hurrying homeward of restless, eager
thousands. The swiftly moving streams
of humanity that are wont to meet in
eddying whirls in this dizzy vortex and
then diverge and move onward again.
each in its destined course, had sudden
ly become blocked and chaos reigned.
Pushed toward the common center by
the ever hurrying throngs afoot, in car
riages and in street cars, and unable to
extricate themselves, men, women and
children gasped for breath, and the
crowd in the streets and on the side
walks overfowed into alleys and surged
hither and yon like the resistless ebb
and flow of mighty sea.
A policeman on the outskirts of the
dense throng climbed lamppost, and
from his elevated position surveyed the
scene.
Give him air." he shouted sternly,
waving his club. "Give him air!"
"What's the matter?" inquired hun
dred voices as he climbed down.
81 don't know" he answered, and with
gloomy, lowering brow he strutted up
the street, disappeared down short
fight of stairs, from which a fe mo-
ments later he emerged, wiping his
mouth, and in the same stern, uncom-
promising way he walked block far
ther and sent in fire alarm.
Meanwhile the surging multitude at
State and Madison grew every moment
more appalling and inextricable.
Something must be done.
Fiercely elbowing his way through
the crowd, newspaper reporter at last
was seen bearing down toward the CEN
ter of the compact mass. His hat was
off, his hair flying in the wind, and his
face was deathly pale, but with set teeth
and dilated nostrils he tore his way
along, thrusting to the right and left
every one who opposed his progress.
Reaching the center of the throng he
seized two individuals by their arms, and
in the same resolute, fearless way opened
passage for them to the outside, and,
as if by magic, the vast concourse dis
solved; the converging streams Of hu-
manity whirled and eddied as before,
and the business heart of the great city
throbbed again.
The reporter had conjectured rightly.
The blockade was caused by two women
who had met in the exact center of the
street and stopped to tell each other the
troubles they were having with their
hired girls.-Chicago Tribune.
The McCook tribune., 1892-12-09

An honest Swede tells his story in plain but
unmistakable language for the benefit of the
public. One of my children took severe
cold and got the Group. l gave her a tea
spoonful of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
and in five minutes later gave her one more.
By this time she had to cough up the gather
ing in her throat. Then she went to sleep
and slept good for fifteen minutes. Then she
got up and vomtted; then she went hack to
bed and slept good for the remainder of the
night. She got the Group the second night
and gave the same remedy with the same
good results. l write this because thought
there might be some one in the same need
and not know the true merits of this wonder
full medicine.-CHAS. A. THoMPsEEN, Des
Moines, Iowa. 50 cent bottles tor sale by G.
NJ. Chenery.