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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Hugh H. Abernethy. deceased. Maxwell
Abernethy. Anna Absrnethy. Samuel Abern etlv
and Hugh Fl. Abernetny. Jr. executors OF
Hugh II. Abernethy. deceased, by order of
tho Surrogate Of Hudson County. date Janu.
AIRY ninth. 1892. hereby give notice t, the
creditors of said decedent to bring in their
debts. demands and claims against the estate OF
said decedenr. under oath or affirmation within
n inc months from the date of said order. or they
will be fore yer barred of any action therefor
against said executors.
MAXWELL ABERN THY.
ANNA ABB GRNErHY,
SAMUEL ABERNETHY,
HUGH +. n JR.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that the final account of
the subscriber. eyecutriy of Rudolph W. De Hon.
deceased, will be audited AM stated by the Surro-
gate OF Tho county of Hudson. an reported for
settle ment on Friday. the 18th day of March next
BIBETTE DE Ho IF.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of George W.. Clerihew deceased, Flor,
ence Is. Clerihew, executrix OF George w. Clerihew w.
deceased, by order Of the Surrogate of Hud
son county, dated Novem Der ., 1891, hereby gives
notice TO the creditors of said decedent to bring
IN their debts. demands and claims against
ton, within nine months from the date OF saiu Or
der. Or they will lie forever barred Of any action
" FLORENCE B. CLERIHEW.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14

NOTICES

James H.. o'Neil. surroGats, Office hours, 9 a. m.
to 4 D. m. Saturdays. 9 to IL.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the final accoun- OF
the subscriber. executor or Louis herseInann. de-
ceased, Will be audited and stated by the Slrro-
gate OF the County OF Hudson, and reported for
settlement on Friday the I'D DAY or January.
1892.
Lated November Il, A.D, 1891.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14
NOTICE OF

Notice is hereby given that the account -
the subscriber. axecutrix OF Richard Gormlsy.
deceased. will be audited ana stated by thu Surro-
tate OF the County Of Hudson, and reported for ss5-
Element On Thursday, tine 5lst day OF December
next.
Dated October %, A. D., 1891.
LIE GORMLEY.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14

Dated Jersey CITY. January s. 1872.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
1t Took Sixteen Years to Put It's 81, O(
Pieces of 326 Woods Together.

1t Took Sixteen Years to Put It's 81, 600
Pieces of 326 Woods Together.
Charles L. Hurlbut, an artist living
in New York, has just completed a clock
which has cost him much labor eX-
tending over sixteen years, says a
special to the st. Louis Republic. The
clock is composed OF 81 600 separate
pieces of wood, gathered from all parts
of the globe, and contains 1926 different
varieties. The clock is 8 feet l inch
high, and it is q wonderful piece of
workmanship. There is no paint or
stain used to give it coloring, the many
pieces of wood being arranged in such
manner as to form most picturesque
shading. Mr.. Hurlbut purchased in
1870 q scroll saw, and in September of
that year he read description of a cane
made Of seventeen different kinds of
wood, and acting on the suggestion he
concluded to build clock out of fortv
different pieces of wood. Seafaring
men, among whom he had an ex-
tensive acquaintance, were re-
quested to bring rare bits of
wood from the foreign ports
where their vessels were bound. Mr.
HurlbUt's wood gatherers in very
short time brought him many varieties
of wood, and he concluced to increase
LILO O1lSI1Atl1 lIL11u VI IO1GN p1SCGS W VIC
present number. Some of the wood
came from the heart of Africa; varieties
were obtained from Australia, others
from the West Indies, East Indies, Hin
doostan, China, California, South
America and Mexico. The layers OF
wood in some of the borders is SO fine
that it is necessary to use a magnifying
glars in order to discern them. a
figure on the right of the clock repre-
sents Satan, and another on the left
Father Time. AS the clock strikes
every quarter of an hour these two
figures descend from their respective
windows to an apartment in the lower
part of the clock. The door opens and
Father Time is seen standing behind
the bell with an uplitted hammer.
Death III the form OF a skeleton stands
at his right. Presently Father Time
raises the hammer. Death suddenly
disappears and Satan appears through
a trap-door in the floor. AS Father
Time strikes at Satan Death appears,
the door closes and the figures resume
their original position. Every part of
this clock, including the works, has
been constructed by Mr.. Hurlbut. He
intends to place it on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
The Lottery Of Book-selIlng.

Opie P. Read sold his first novel out
right for $l25. This was Lien Gassett,"
and the purchasers were Houghton,
Miflin q Co., of Boston. The novel
did not sell very well, but Chicago
publisher fancied he could make money
out of it if he had the copyright. To
this publisher the Boston firm sold the
copyright and stereotype plates for
500, and the Chicago man forthwith
printed new edition and began to push
it with the trade. Up to this time Co.
600 copies Of the book have been sold,
and the sale continues steadily. The
same publisher took IgnatiUfs Donnei-
ly's story of Caesars Column" after it
had been rejected in manuscript by the
leading publishers of the country, ard
10000 copies of this work have been
sold, although $500 copies had to be
given away before newspaper critics
could be induced to read and notice the
bOOk-Cbjc00ON e2cs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
Knew What Book She Wanted.

The other day lady walked into the
Bowen-Merrill Company's store, and in
CURED of one of the young lady clerks
for copy Of 'Her Ben,' says the Indi-
annapolis News. "You mean Ben Hur,
Gen. Wanace's book" replied the
clerk. "No, indeed. I never heard of
that book. The one | want is Her
Ben The clerk asked the author, but
the lady could not tell who it was, and
as a last resort the question was APP
peaIed to Columbus 7. Dollarhide, one
of the oldest clerks in the retail depart
man bibliograph. "Why, yes, we have
it." said he. ''The lady is right. The
book she wants is Her Ben,' an old
Sunday work, published by the
Methodist Book Concern"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
A Queer Mania.

The plate glass of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel is disfigured, but the vandals ar e
still in the ring. The peculiar "corol a
ton" Of the plate glass, the donkey and
the diamond ring form an interesting
study for the prOprietOrs Of public re-
sorts. In New York, SAYS the Herald,
it requires more vigilance on the part Of
hotel detectives to prevent this single
act OF vandalism than it does to guard
against pickpockets. The other day
young man was caught cutting his in
itialS with a diamond ring on a brand
new $50 plate glass window at one of
the newest hotels up town. When he
was taken to task about it he admitted
it, and treated it as good joke. But it
was no Joke when he saw this in his
bill:
February 17-For one plate glass window cut
with diamond ..........S0O
The vandals are not always men. A
lady walking through corridor with
another lady called attention to a disfg-
ured window with, "Now, [ wonder
what idiot did this 20
II did it," replied the other, and
the relations of the pair are now some
what strained.
[ never see these scratches without
recalling the pertinentl1nes Of famous
wit:
When Ger 1 see a fellow name
Scratched upon the glass,
know he owns diamond
And his father owns an ass.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
He Was Taken Abac K.

The handsome young priest had just
been taken for newspaper man. He
laughed about it as a good joke and
then we fell to talking.
"Ah," said he, 'people are always
taking me for something else than a
clergyman of the Holy Church. I re-
member not long ago [ was on my way
out West. My dress was clerical, and a
gentleman came over and sat beside me
and began to talk about the Catholic
Church. Very soon L discovered that
he was an Episcopal clergyman and
took me for one, and was declaring that
it was an outrage that the Catholics
should teach the doctrines that no one
could be saved who did not believe in
our creed. He was simply one of those
men who did not know that we did
teach any such thing, and asked me to
agree with him.
:" L happen to be Catholic priest,
said l smiling, and | should be very
sorry to think that my father, who is a
Protestant, will not be saved
"For a minute I think he wanted to
jump off the train, he was SO embar
raised. Then he apologized and We had
a long talk. The end of it was that we
became very good friends and he is bet
ter posted now about our doctrines. .
NelU York Herald
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
FROM THE PATENT OFFICE.
American Ingenuity WOnderfu1-A Large
Number of Curious Inventions.

American Ingenuity Wonderfully Larg
Number of Curious Inventions.
Some months ago the American
Patent Office had its Tooth birthday, and
the last half Of the century has wit
messed wonderful strides in that direc-
ton. In the first fifty years only 12,412
patents were issued, but last year there
were o. $50.
The variety Of patented articles is
really wonderful, and American in
genuity seems to be in danger of ex-
haustlng itself Every year shows
larger number of inventions than the
year BEFORE and a few of the novelties
patented IN the last two years make
quite amusing reading.
The approach of fly time suggested an
idea for cow tail holder. A clamp like
clothes pin catches the bushY end of
the tail, and two cords with a snap at
tachment fasten the tail to the cows
leg, to post or to the milking stool.
The same day that the Nebraska man
got his patent for a cow tail holder, q
man IN Maine got one for the same pur-
pose. The Maine mans tail holder is Of
single piece Of wire coiled so as to
connect with the cows leg. ''A candle
Tor killing insects" is q mixture of in
sect powder and tallow, or something
OiOC ClIcSO VIII D1Lu, liOIUGd IOuhu 81
wick.
The wife Of President Jackson is said
to have once accounted to the British
minister for cold in the head by tell
Ing him that "the Gineral had kicked
the kivvers off the night before. But
there seems to be no longer any excuse
for people who kick the kivvers of"
as a clamp and a spring are now patent
ed for attachment TO the bedstead. By
tins simple device the covers are fast
ened down. The spring gives sufficient
play, so that there is no danger Of one
getting choked in the act Of turning
over.
Anyone might guess that a Kentucky
man IS entitled to the credit attached to
the invention of ga combined inkstand,
pistol case and burglar alarm" No
Kentucky editors desk should be with
out it. To Illustrate: An editor sits at
his desk writing. A well-known rough
enters to demand the correction of the
report about that row on Gold digging
Greek. The editor reaches forward as
if to dip his pen in the ink He touch
es spring in the top OF the inkstand
A shallow drawer flies open toward him,
and his hand drops upon the revolver.
AT the same time the alarm goes off like
one of those new devices to call the
people dG . A. NJ. IN country hOtelS. The
mountaineer jumps back as if he heard
the b-r-r-r Of RATHER, and before ne re-
covers he is covered. The editor is
master of the situation. The inventor
lives in Louisville.
A hand car which moves along the.
tracks, and moW8 weeds fifteen feet
away, is one Of the innovations in rail-
road machinery. It will 10 very well to
20 with the rotary snow plow, as an IL
lustration of automatic intelligence
Hdrp6r'S Young People,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06

Several weeks ago dead man sat by
an open window for forty-eight hours in
full view of passengers on a New York
elevated railroad before the fact Of his
death was discovered. Saturday Mrs.
Charlotte Mclaughlin, of Brooklyn, was
stricken with death as she sat by an
open window. and though she was seen
by passers-by on the streets it was not
until friend called at the house, at
least three hours after death, that the
truth was known. The ''madding
crowd" in a big city doesn't always
Ike time and satisfy its curiosity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
,DUCTIoN AND PRICE OF AMERICAN WHEAT
FOR ELEVEN YEARS

This table establishes beyond doubt
that the price Of the wheat Of our farm
ers depends most of all upon themselves
that is, the AMOUNT they raise. 1t will
be observed how unerringly the price
realized responds to the amount of
product. Thus the yield Of 498, 1000, 900
bushels in 1880 brought 50 cents bush
ell. But the next year, with the small
er yield Of 3S3, 600, 900 bushels, the price
was $1.19. The succeeding year the
yield went up again to $4,000, 900 bush
els, and, sure enough, we find the price
down again to IS cents. So on through
the whole table.
When we eat substantially all our own
wheat-and we viii in a very few years,
except when, as this year, the yield
may be abnormally large-then, and not
till then, Will wheat growers enjoy
enduring prosperity. There is just
one road to this condition, and that is
by continued protection : protection
which will exclude competing foreign
farm products, such as barley, hemp,
hops, flax, wool, tobacco and fruits, so
that land to produce them at home may
be withdrawn from wheat growing, thus
diminishing the supply of grain; and
which will build up factories and multi
ply consumers of breadstuffs by pro-
noting the manufacture at home, to the
extent of our own consumption at least.
of textiles, tin plates, pearl buttons, cut,
lery, pottery and everything else we
use.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06

pearance of justice and right on such
occasions as the Democratic. 1t is al
ways their first business, when by acct
dent or fraud or honest votes they ar
rive at power, to devise some legislative
trick by which they can maintain their
hold. The history of the party shows
this to be their invariable rule. If self
preservation is the first law of nature,
self-perpetuation is the first law, the
governing principle, the absorbing, all
embracing thought and aspiration of
the Democratic party. In no state
where it has had the opportunity to
carry a gerrymander has it failed to
make that its first business and to do it
promptly; sometimes with halfway
pretence Of fairness, but usually with
brazen shamelessness and no attempt to
conceal the purpose.
The people in the main are honest
and square. They don't believe in
gerrymanders or in trickery and sharp
practices. In the end that sort of bust
ness does not pay, whoever undertakes
it. The Wisconsin gerrymander has IN
doubtedly hurt the Democratic party
instead of helping it, and we believe
Mr.. HIPS smartness in this state, about
which he boasts SO constantly, will have
the same effect in the end. -NelU York
Tribune
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
Gerrymandering Does Not Paw.

The decision of the Wisconsin SUI
preme court, by which the Democratic
gerrvmander of the Senate and Assem-
bly, districts in that state has been de-
clared unconstitutional and therefore
void, contains lesson for the sharp
politicians of both parties WHO under
take by doubtful expedients and the
prostitution OF power temporarily
placed in their hands to fortify them
selves in permanent positions. The
Wisconsin Democrats thought of course,
that they were making themselves i'm
pregnable when they cut up the state
into Senate and Assembly districts so
arranged as to give them control Of the
legislature thereafter. So utterly re-
gardless were they of the principles Of
justice and right, and even OF ordinary
common sense, that they OVERRIDE the
constitution, paying no heed to county
or town lines or any other consideration
except that Of so carving up the state as
to make their own party supremacy Sc
cure. They overdid it. The decision
of the supreme court, consisting of
three Democrats and two Republicans,
has defeated their cunning scheme and
brought all their smartness to naught.
1t IS settled that though political party
coming suddenly into control and de-
sirous above all things to make Its pos
session of power permanent may do
pretty much anything it pleases to in
trench and fortify itself, it must have
at least some slight regard for the
limitations and requirements of the
organic act.
1t is not pretended that Democrats
are alone in the disposition to make an
unfair use of power in this way. 1t is
doubtless the selfish instinct of all par
ties to reach out for such advantages
when opportunities occur. But expert
ence certainly proves this, that no party
ever exhibited such indecent precipi-
fancy, such overpowering greed and
such absolute disregard of even the APP
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
lectures in America is probably mis-

BARNEY WHITE has been sentenced
to death at Macon, Ca, for participation
in a lynching. This is the first instance
of such sentence in Georgia, and
probably In the entire South. The man
who was Iynched was Larkin Nix. He
had warned man named Mize, who
had formed an improper relation with
his daughter, to keep away from his
house, and as Mize persisted in his
visits Nix shot him dead. For this a
mob Of Mize' friends took Nix from an
officer and shot him to DEATH White
was one Of the shooting party. Five
others remain to be tried.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06

THE utility Of heat as remedy for
sleeplessness can scarcely be overesti-
INDEPENDENTLY in the form of hot
water. Insomnia IS frequently over
come by the persistent use of hot foot
baths and simple hot water as a drink
at bedtime. Sleeplessness is common
ly caused by overfullness of the blood
vessels of the head-the bathing of the
feet draws the blood from the head
the hot drink distributes the gases of
the stomach and gives one a sense of
general comfort.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
A british view of rim Plates.

The London Iron, journal devoted
to the interests Of the British iron in
dustry, in its issue of March 4, prints
the address of Mr.. Britton, the acting
secretary of the American Tinned-Piate
Association, and says in commenting
thereon:
If the statistics given are correct-and
we have no reason to doubt their correct
neSS-Cne-SiXtn OF the American cOnSump-
ton provided for in the short space of a
year is no mean record in practically
new industry, and it may ultimately prove,
although we reserve our opinion on this
point, that the United States VIII be in a
position to dispense with the English arti-
Gle.
The same journal expresses doubt as
to whether the Americans can raise the
capital necessary to construct the works
which will produce $50, 100000 worth of
tin plate per annum. American enter
prise has never been checkmated yet,
and never will be. During the present
year there will be between twenty and
thirty tin plate factories in full opera
ton in this country. The wage-earners
of the United States should bear these
facts IN mind
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
Money Spent at Billiards.

Probably few persons who sit around
a pool table witnessing clever game of
pool have any idea of the time and
money necessary to become crack
player of either pool or billiards. New
York boasts many fine amateurs. The
latter are to be found everywhere for
that matter. | have seen men hanging
about livery stable in country viii
lage in their shirt sleeves who can hole
all the balls on an opening at pool and
can run fifties and hundreds at French
carrom. The good pool player in New
York is very often a gambler and turns
his skill into cash, but he must play
with other pool gamb lers who know
his game usually, and consequently
stands an equal show to lose.
The great body of pool and billiard
players, however, are in it for the
amusement and exercise. They spend
from an hour to four hours daily walk
ing around a table and punching the
worries. Two hours a day is thought
necessary to keep up practice. A dol
lar an hour is not an eXtravagant es-
innate Of the average expense in New
York. The better the player the more
he plays, and $500 year in walking
round a table isn't much for that kind
Of man. Twenty to forty years Of this,
however, represents in good hard cash
considerably more than that kind Of a
man has on hand at the end of his
career. When you add the time and
the bad associations it seems that man
ought to get more for his money and get
it in a more reasonable way.-NeU York
Herald
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06

New YORK has discovered that twelve
of the thirteen trees which Alexander
Hamilton planted as a memorial Of the
thirteen original states still stand near
One Hundred and Forty-second Street.
The property or which they stand is
about TO be sold at auction, and when
sold, Of course, the trees are likely to be
sacrificed. New York wants to pre-
serve them. AS usual the list is to be
passed around. The great city with all
her billions of wealth to take care of
cannot, Of course, care for landmarks
without outside help. So let the hat go
round
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
The Omnipresent Kansas Man.

A Kansas man, Judge Tillotson, for
merly of Eureka, is the Judge before
whom Lieut.. Hetherington, the man
who shot another man for annoying
Mrs. Hetherington, will be tried. The
Judge is consul-general in Japan. The
Kansas man is omnipresent. tits prob
able that when Gabriel executes his
skittish little scherzo, and the heavens
roll together like nice new high school
diploma; when the morning stars sing
Comrades; when the innumerable
caravan gets at last to the pearly gate,
there will be found a Kansas man sery-
ing as chairman of the committee on
credentials. and another serving in
a like capacity on the committee
on rules and order of Observation-Disclosures
C5tU Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
JAMES BERRY, the English hangman,

JAMES BERRY, the English hangman,
has resigned on account of the regula-
ton OF the length OF the drop having
been taken from him and placed in the
hands Of 3 board. Berry has been in
Office eight years, and has superintend-
ed I34 executions, for which he re-
oeiVed $40 each. Mr.. Berry now pro-
poses to lecture against capital punish
ment He does not believe that it is a
preventive Of crime, and declares that
he has hung many irresponsible people,
while some Of the worst criminals we've
reprieYed. Two of his inventions were
the abolition Of steps to the scafold
and 2 spring stopping the recoil of the
doors of the trap, which often resulted
In striking the suspended criminal on
the head. mr. Berry's statement that
he has been offered $145, 600 for twenty
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06

THOMAS Fowler, q prosperous miller
. Uonesdale, Penn, was rescued one
year ago last Tuesday from drowning in
his milI-race into which he had fallen
while breaking ice that clogged his
wheel. Last Tuesday he went out to
break the ice again, and did not return.
After q time friends went in search and
found his dead body in the very spot
from which he had been rescued one
year before. One rescue does not, it
seems, confirm the theory that the sub
ject was not born to be drowned.