Passaic City record., 1893-07-29

1t is a poor railroad ticket to the
Worlds Fair that wont work both
ways.
Mrs. John Wood, of the Boule-
ward has been spending the past
week at Sing Sing Heights, N. Y
The Poundmaster should have
full power to rid the town OF the
dog nuisance on the public high
way.
Pallor, 1anguidness, and the ap-
pearance of ill-health is no longer
fashionable among ladies. This is
as it should be.
In few years all new passenger
cars will be built with vestibules.
The Pennsylvania has adopted
this plan and will build no more
open platform cars.
A Passaic doctor had a funny
experience recently. He didn't
mean it, but when the patient,
charming young lady, asked,
Doctor, what do you do when you
burn you mouth with hot coffee 2
he replied, II swear
Husbands, don't allow any dis
agreements or differences of opin-
ion to crop out before children or
servants; let all such things be re-
served for private discussion, with
mutual confidence and kindness.
The office of the Be1videre
Abollo was robbed Thursday night.
Finding nothing in the safe, which
is seldom locked, the burglars
made away with the Office towel,
thinking it was Editor Ketcham's
rubber coat.
The entrance to Vineyard Place
hasbeen graded and crosswalk laid,
and the sidewalk along the vine
yard on Bloomfield avenue has
been repaired, much to the gratifi-
cation of the residents of the Third
Ward.
Notwithstanding the continued
dry weather the grape crop in this
vicinity will be unusually prolific.
The vines in Speer's extensive
vineyards in the outskirts of the
City are heavily loaded with the
delicious fruit.
Miss Georgia Barstow, principal
of School No. 1, went to her home
at Atlantic City yesterday. On
August II Miss Barstow, and her
friend Miss Melick of Paterson,
will start on a two weeks visit to
the Worlds Fair City.
An exchange says: Gas soon
as you buy peas shell them and
put on ice, and husk the sweet
corn as soon as you buy it and do
the same with it, otherwise the
sweetness will go into the pods
and husks. This is well worth
knowing, and practising, too.
Mr. Benjamin Watson of Passaic,
brother to Thomas R. Watson,
was Frustrated by the heat at Io5th
street and Third avenue, New
York, on Wednesday, He was re
moved to the Harlem Hospital,
where he died. Mr.. Watson was
about fifty years old, was well
known in Passaic, and had many
friends.
The Toint Railroad Committee,
at their meeting lastweek discussed
the charges of wrongful manipula-
ton of the Worlds Fair tickets as
preferred against the Ontario &
Western by Lackawanna, and
everybody was satisfied. 1t is
easy to charge but difficult to
prove wrongful ticket manipula-
ton.
Why cannot the business of re-
pairing county roads be conducted
like any other business IN a bust
ness-1ike way? The old method
of letting the tiller of the soil
spend day or two in absorbing
the rays of summers sun, or in
wooing sweet Morpheus in the
convenient shelter of a snake fence,
with bull thistle for his pillow,
and calling it that he has worked
out his road tax, is about played
out
The Erie and New York & New
England railroads have entered
into Joint traffic arrangement for
through business between Boston
and Chicago. This arrangement
went into effect week before last,
and a solid through train is run
between Boston and Chicago. The
New England reaches the Erie
over the Hudson at Newburg and
the Poughkeepsie Bridge and
forms competitor to the Pitts
burgh road on through business
out of Boston. By this move the