The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-08

| Austria, for s40O. An evidence of its
| ability as linguist was given when
she heard it recite the Lords Prayer in
six different languages. The man OF
whom she bought it was a ventrilo-
guist, who had taught the bird to open
its mouth, while he did the talking.
The age of squirrel rarely exceeds
wears: that of the rabbit Z; sheep will
| live 10 years; dogs have been known to
exceed 20; cats and foxes rarely go be-
yond IS, while pigs, deer, the bear and
the COW have often lived beyond 20
years The horse has been known to
exceed 80: the lion 20; the camel, the
eagle, the raven and the tortoise have
been known to pass five score; one or
two swans have been known to pass
into the third century.
1t does not look reasonable that
six to twelve months should be needed
TO make billiard ball, but first-class
ball cannot be made in less time, owing
to the tendency of carved ivory to
/ shrink If it shrank equally ball
could be cut and polished in a few
hours, but it does not, the shrinkage
being greater in the direction OF the
| width than of the length of the tusk.
A ball must thus be roughly shaped,
| then kept for a number of months, I'M
til the shrinking process has been com
pleted, when the fine cutting and
polishing may be done.
That vulgar upholstery of art which
sought by many cheap devices to adapt
frame to picture in ostentatious fashion
seems to have had its day in most of
the print shops One seldom sees now
the frame of an equine subject gar
| nished with a genuine riding whip or
a pair of silver stirrups, and even that
| hideous little beast enclosed in frame
with great cham across the glass and
and labelled Dangerous For the
safety of the public and the like, has
almost disappeared. The time has not
vet arrived, however, for those who
bought these things to turn them to
the wall, though doubtless many who
received them as presents have ban
ished them to unused apartments
"A New Yorker, who was employed
twenty years ago in helping survey
! streets in purely rural district about
Pittsburgh, since covered by the city,
! contrasts the present comparative
cleanliness of the place with the per-
petual dun pail that then wrapped the
city and its suburbs On rural hill
sides. five or six miles from the heart
| of the city, the grass was perceptibly
darkened by it's constant bath of car
bon. Chickens showed tinge of this
grimy atmosphere upon their feathers;
even the wild birds were dingy, and
peaches hanging upon the trees blushed
dull red through fuzzy semi-opaque
with thick particles of the flying CRIME.
All this was seen in a region so thor
oughly rural that the city engineers
sometimes had to ply the AK for an hour
or more in order to obtain vistas
through which to survey the streets OF
| the future.
The New Jersey beaches are veri-
table museums after a brisk easterly
wind, and among the things that inn
press the stroller is the duplication OF
objects in the wreckage. For instance,
a few days ago there were hundreds of
small blue bottles near Sandy Hook.
They had contained samples of new
drug, but how did they get there, in
that one spot? Among other things
washed up by the sea at the same point
were bundles of papers, bundles OF
clothing, tags, pillows, picture frames,
| candles of tinted wax, huge carboy,
a dead parrot, monster sturgeon,
many dogs, rats, cats, crabs, birds,
beetles-some alive-and hsh-nursing
tubes and nipples, corsets, bustles, hair
| brushes, paint brushes, bamboo rods,
dolls, toys, an umbrella. shells, boxes,
oil cans, pipes of clay and corncob, bird
cages, mouse traps, a chair. candy, a
bucket. several kegs and barrels, humps
of grease. bottles of all colors, shapes
and sizes, and strips of carpet The
most abundant things, excepting sea-
grass and seaweed, were corks.
One of the rarest coins of the
| United States mintage was recently
sold in Boston for 1920. 1t was a sill
yer dollar of 1904. There are many
stories about this issue of United
States coin. 1t is said that there are
not more than eight, at the most,
known to be in existence. According
to the record of the United States mint
1850 silver dollars were coined in
1904. One of the stories about the use
of this mintage is that they were sent
to Africa to pay off American sailors
who were engaged in war on the
Mediterranean with Tripoli at that
time. 1t is said that the natives took
very great fancy to these coins. and
that the sailors parted with them for
souvenirs. 1t was stated that later the
chiefs of the tribes valued these dol
lars so highly as ornaments and tokens
that they took great trouble to get
possession of them and that, partly
through robbery or triekery they sue
ceeded in getting possession of all the
dollars issued that year. The dollar OF
1904 has a flying eagle with thirteen
stars upon the reverse, while the face
hears the date and the head of the god
dess of liberty with floating hair.