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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-11-29
Tho Danger of Matches.

We wonder how our ancestors man.
aged to get along at all before the in
vention of matches; they are so indis-
pensably handy that we keep them in
every room in the house; the "men
folks" carry them in their pockets, leave
them hanging in their "other clothes"
In dozen closets in all portions of the
house; we have handful resting within
reach while we sleep, they are dropped
here and there as we attempt to handle
them; if it is light and we readily see
them, theyare picked up, otherwise they
are left till more convenient season.
which generally does not come, simply
because they are forgotten, being 'only
match we can get plenty more for o
halfpenny, and time is too valuable to be
wasted over so insignificant q trife.
Yet this insignificant trifie" possesses
the latent power to destroy the finest
mansion, and with it lives of sweetness
and beauty which the word can poorly
afford to spare. The cause of the con-
fiagration may not always be revealed,
for the fire demon frequently covers or
destroys his tracks most effectually.
But how often is it apparent that only a
simple match--that insignificant trife--
could have wrought the ruin!-Family
Doctor.
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A hundred years ago the unfortunate
people who came into the hands of the
surgeons, generally soldiers or sailors
who had been hurt in action, were forced
to undergo the operations necessary to
the prolongation of life without taking
ether or chloroform, as is now admins
tered to make the patient unconscious,
and so free from pain attendant upon
the operation. To secure quiet, often
the subject had to be bound by ropes. 80
that much as he might desire to vince
he was utterly unable to do 80.
Occasionally patients would show re-
markable fortitude at the crisis of their
troubles, but none ever showed more
than soldier who, on the morning after
the battle of Yorktown, Oct 10, 1881,
was brought into the hospital, having
been shot in the knee. 1t was found
necessary to amputate the limb, and the
surgeon ordered the nurses to bind the
man fast preparatory to the operation.
"Never" protested the soldier "You
may tear my heart from my breast, but
you shall not bind me. Can you get me
fiddler
His request was complied with, and he
proceeded to tune the instrument, after
which he said, $50, doctor, now you can
begin" And he played during the whole
of the operation, which lasted 40 min
utes, without utteringa single false note
or disturbing his features in the slight
est.-Harper's Young People.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-11-29

The question, Who are the Basques?
that mysterious people who give their
name to the bay of Biscay, is always
cropping up, and Professor Won der Ga
belentz has recently endeavored to show
that the Basque language belongs to the
African Berber family of speech-for ex-
ample, the Kabyle and Taureg. His ev-
idence, however, only amounts to few
culture words being identical in the
Basque and Berber languages and GER
tain analogies in the laws of phonetic
change. Moreover, he assumes that the
Basques and Iberians were the same peo-
pie.
But, as Canon Isaac Taylor points out,
the Iberian tongue, according to our
highest authorities, was different from
the Basque, and the French Basques are
different race from the Spanish
Basques, who are u feebler people of the
Iberian type. If we assume that the
Basques conquered the Iberians, we can
account for the resemblances noticed by
Professor Won der Gabelentz, because
the Iberians of Berber origin in acquir-
ing the language of their conquerors
would retain their own phonetic ten
dency and also some culture words in.
both languages. As Canon Taylor re-
marks, we may still believe that the
Basque language is allied to the Ural-
Altaic type.-London Globe.
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The Pumps of the EGYPTIAN.

A representative piece of mechanism
occurs frequently on the sculptures OF
early Egypt 1t has the appearance of
and is generally believed to be that of
portable pump. The hydraulic screw is
also attributed to this people, but their
main reliance seems always to have been
the Shadoof, seen everywhere along the
banks of the Nile, an invention SO sim
pie and so well adapted to their needs
that it remains today substantially the
same as it has through all the centuries
since history began.
The same may be said regarding the
chain pump in China, an invention the
origin of which antedates the Christian
era. This simple machine, which seems
never to have been improved upon, is in
such common use that every agricultural
laborer is In possession Of one. Where
irrigation is conducted on larger scale
the chain pump Is made proportionately
larger and moved by very simple tread
wheel, and still larger ones are operated
by yoiing buffalo or other animal to a
suitable driving machine.
The application Of steam to raising
water is of uncertain origin. Long be-
fore the Christian era certain applica-
tions of fire to vessels containing water,
by which effects were produced calcu-
lated to astonish ignorant worshipers.
were practiced by the priests of Egypt,
Greece and Rome, but their knowledge
seems never to have been turned into
any channel of secular usefulness. En-
gineering Magazine.
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Do not fail to take advantage of the
library. Begin course Of good read
ing. Music is notorious for narrowing
ones mind, SO resolve to counterbalance
your practice with library work as well.
AS to your practice would give you
this maxim, 1.-The essential thing in
practice is to see exactly what is to be
done in all its details, and then do it
again and again with the greatest clear
ness, precision and energy"
When you take up new piece, notice
the key, the harmonies, chords, scales,
lingering and general effects. One Of
the first necessaries is Concentration"
Develop self criticism. "The thing you
cannot do is the very thing you should
make yourself do"
In practice begin where you left off
the day before. Connect your days
work. Apply all your knowledge. Do
not try to do more than one thing at a
time. Spend good deal Of time every
day thinking about what you are doing
and what you will do. Edward d. Hale.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-11-29
AT the Manlcnre,a.


The manicure with the golden hair
was bending over the hand Of new
customer.
"Do you want your hands bleached?"
she asked.
Eyes"
She applied the bleach, using more
than the ordinary quantity upon the
thumb and forefnger OF the right hand.
After working for about five minutes
she stopped and said:
at is always difficult to remove nico-
tine with the first application.
"Wh-a-a-t. gasped the society girl,
elevating her eyebrows. Nicotine?
What do you meang'
1.-THE cigarettes, you know" replied
the manicure. cts perfectly awful how
they stain the fingers, amt it::' And she
smiled smile that even the society girl
couldn't resist. That made them friends.
and they fell to discussing the different
brands of cigarettes. And when the job
was done the society girl whispered:
"Whatll take the stain Off"
"Use lemon juice-I dove all do"
"Thanks. New York Herald.
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The Bnrehona Family.

The celebrated name of Praise-God
Barcelona was borne by q member of the
Cromwell parliament called together
after the dissolution of the Long parlia-
ment in 1868. The royalists called the
assembly "Barebone's parliament" At
the time when General Monk was in
London Barcelona headed the mob who
presented petition to parliament
against the recall of Charles III. OF the
Barcelona family there were three broth
ers, each of whom had sentence for a
name - raise-God Barcelona, Christ
came = into ACKNOWLEDGMENT Barcelona
and f-Christ-had-not-died-t hou-hadst-
been-damned Barcelona. - New York
Evening Sun.
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DESCRIBE YOUR FRIEND.
And Then See How Well Your Picture VIII
Fit Scores of Others.

And Then See How Well Your Picture VIII
Fit Scores of Others.
'tHe was q young man and fairly good
looking; smooth face and without
glasses; wore dark suit; was about
feet in height and looked like married
man. Anybody would know him." Such
was the description turned in by young
woman who slipped quietly into the city
editors Office and wanted to advertise
for Chalmers. 1t appeared that Chalmers
had left home, and nobody knew why,
and this young woman had faith that
her recital of his personal traits would
bring him back. 1t was good example
of the average persons power of descrip-
ton of a fellow being.
1t is totally inadequatel Though man
be fearfully and wonderfully made,
there seems to be an unaccountable in
ability in nine persons out of every ten
to give creditable word picture of any
one whom they have seen. Because we
understand the looks of a person when
we meet them, it never occurs to the
mind that other people do not grasp
thorough idea of his appearance with
few passing phrases of description.
Your friend comes in, and you ex-
pound to him that such and such man
has just called for him, but almost in
variably your exposition is a jumbled lot
of phrases which apply to the human
race in general.
The other day when | rushed into my
Office room with column story on the
end of my tongue-or at the tip of my
pen, to be more accurate-I was given
this greeting;
"Hellol A man has just been in to see
you"
"What did he look like?"
ooh, he was good looking fellow
not very tall, rather heavy, but not too
much So"
"Was he old or young?"
"About 20 or 25, ] should say"
"What color of hair?"
81 don't remember now. However, |
don't think he had a mustache."
GLOW dressedr'
ooh, just an ordinary business suit"
Have you ever heard such descrip-
tion2 If not, watch yourself next time
| you tell of some ones call. You will be
surprised to find that your description
would fit almost any member of the
human race.
Why is it9
/ don't know. We read in books that
| it's because we don't cultivate the habit
of intelligent observation.
There was once boy who learned
| how to describe what he saw. Every
morning he was sent by his father to
walk rapidly by an elegantly arranged
window, and then afterward TO repeat
to him all the things he saw at this one
glance at the panorama and to describe
them. At first the lad could remember
but few things that his eye may have
caught in the passing glance, but in time
he could remember almost everything
in show window by merely seeing it
once.-Boston Herald.
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An indignant mother who saw her 16-
year-old daughter clad in gorgeous
tights practicing a somersault has noti-
fed the police of peculiar state of
things. She says not only her daughter
but number of other girls of that age
have been engaged to form theatrical
combination. These damsels, it ap-
pears, meet for rehearsals in barns and
are under the instruction of couple Of
men. They intend to make tour Of
the small towns of the state. All wear
tights, it seems, and this one girls mann
ma was shocked at her daughters APP
pearance. The police are looking for
the men who are training the tender
maidens to feel at home in the skirtless
costume. Reading pa Dispatch.
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About opals.

The prejudice against opals appears to
be disappearing. Anyhow they are pop
ular. There are several varieties of opals
and therefore several degrees of merit.
The precious, or noble, or oriental opal
is the supreme. This has all the colors,
and when these colors are broken into
spangles it is then called the harlequin
opal. Then comes the fire opal, or gira-
sole, with hyacinth red and yellow refiec-
ton. The former comes from Hungary.
the latter from Mexico. The common,
or semiopals, are nonopalescent. The hy-
drophane, or oculus mundi, is nontrans-
parent, but becomes SO by immersion
in water or any transparent fluid. The
cachalong is nearly Opaque and of blu
ish white color. The hyalite is colorless,
pellucid and white. The opal jasper or
wood opal is the petrifaction of wood,
opalescent, but without the coloring
which makes the noble" gem so pre-
cious. Chicago Tribune.
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Count D'Orsay and Lady Holland

A story going the rounds is one told OF
the famous Count d'Orsay. On the oc-
casion of his first visit to England, while
he was very young, very handsome and
not easily disconnected, he CHANGED to be
seated at dinner next to the brilliant and
singular Lady Holland.
That remarkable and many sided wo-
man was in, as it happened, one OF her
imperious humors, and her young neigh
Dor soon felt its weight. She dropped
her napkin. The count picked it up gal
lantly. Then her fan, then her fork, then
her glass, and as often her neighbor
stopped and restored the lost article. At
last, however, the patience Of the youth
gave way, and ON her dropping her nap
kin again he turned and called one OF
the footmen behind him. "Put my plate
on the floor" said he. Il will finish my
dinner there. 1t will be SO much more
convenient to my Lady Holland. New
York Times.
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MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
The Safety of the Many Bought by the
Death Of the Few.

Death Of the Few.
All crafts depend upon knowledge and
acquired skill-knowledge of the ma
terial to be handled, acquired skill in the
handling Of the material. Pioneers of
mountaineering had first to learn what
mountains actually are like, the details
of their structure, and the forces in ac-
ton upon them. Rock structure, which
has one meaning for a geologist, has
others for mountaineer. One kind Of
mountain masonry forms ridges and
gullies, another forms lodges and preci-
pices. One texture and dip makes stair
cases that can be rushed. another makes
slabs that can scarcely be adhered to.
One kind Of substance is firm and trust
worthy, another is friable and treacher-
Gus to hand and foot. If there was so
much to be learned about rocks. snow
and ice were at first far more unknown.
The anatomy of glaciers had to be dis
covered, the secrets of crevasse forma-
ton to be learned. There were the
varied phenomena implied in the phrase,
estate of the snow" to be understood.
Both foot and eye had to be trained to
recognize by feel and glance what the
estate of the snow" at any time might
be. Avalanches had to be Investigated
avalanches of snow, ice and rock-when
they might be expected to fall, where
they were to be looked for, how far they
would go. Climbers had to learn to
distinguish afar off between snow and
ice slopes. Moreover, the tools of noun
taineering had to be invented. Many
were tried and discarded; few were re-
tanned and improved. The form Of the
ak was slowly evolved and its uses
learned. The way to employ the rope
was yet more difficult discovery. Even
now the proper form for climbing irons
is only being arrived at.
Accidents, usually fatal, were the
lessons wherefrom these facts were de-
rived. The great Matterhorn accident
finally demonstrated how the rope
should be used and proved that large
parties were q source of danger. The
Lyskamm accident showed the peril of
cornices. Unroped climbers met their
death on many mountains. From al
most every accident something was
learned. The safety of the many has
been bought by the death Of the few.
We can now plunge into the world OF
snow without undue peril. We know
its dangers and can guard against them;
we know also when we are safe and
where we can freely go, Our forerun-
ners went aloft as neolithic navigators
put to sea-badly equipped and into a
misunderstood region. We are now on
the footing of the modern sailor. Snow,
as such, has no more terrors for us than
sea for them. Ill luck may overtake
us, and we may fall, as they may be
drowned, but with good equipment and
experience the climber and seafarer are
about as safe as the townsman at home.
-Fortnightly Review.
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THE CHEMISTRY or TODAY.

How tho Art of the Early Ages Has Devel-
oped Into n Science.
Chemistry as an art dates back from
the very dawn of civilization itself. Asa
science it is barely couple of centuries
old. To the alchemist its pursuit was in
the main but the pursuit of wealth.
Now and again we find men among them
like Thomas Aquinas, Basil Valentine,
Libavius and Glauber, who were inn
PEELED by a higher motive than the love
of gold to seek for the hidden meaning
of things, but the mystical tendencies of
the middle ages were as scales to their
eyes, and such devious cropping for the
light as they were able to make too fire.
quently ended in utter darkness.
Even in the therapeutic crudities of
Paracelsus, who was sufficiently sincere
in his profession as thaumaturgist to
affirm that magic was the eliminating
point of all human knowledge, what
there was of science was summed up in
the aphorism, which in factpassed as an
axiom among his disciples: Man is
chemical compound. His ailments are
due to some alteration in his composition
and can only be cured by the influence
of other chemical compounds. 1t may
be questioned indeed whether modern
therapeutics has advanced much beyond
this position.
In strict truth, it is only within the
present century that men have seriously
set themselves to search for the causes
and conditions of chemical change.
Phlogistonism, it is true, had in it the
semblance of u philosophical doctrine,
but it was founded on an utterly false
basis, and ultimately fell and was crushed
by the weight of its own absurdities.
The recognition of the real nature of
combustion, itself manifestation Of
chemical union, paved the way toward a
clearer conception of the essential ma
ture of chemical combination, and this
conception acquired a beauty, order and
harmony until then unknown to chem
ical teaching by the application of the
atomic hypothesis as an explanation of
the fundamental facts of chemical af-
finity. Indeed it has become truism
to say that this conception, the fruit of
patient and sustained induction, is to
chemistry what the theory of universal
gravitation is to astronomy.
For the first time in its history chem
istry was illumined and vivified by
single consistent theory, founded on
quantitative relations and making use
of definite mathematical expression, and
it was at length recognized that the
science must ultimately be referred to
mathematical laws similar to those
which had been established in regard to
the mechanical properties of natter
Fortnightly Review.
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They All Saw II Move.

Mrs. Burton, with her husband-Sir
Richard Burton, the famous traveller
and two ladies, had driven out of Trieste
to a village dance and were sitting in
the carriage listening to the band. In
telling of it she said:
Suddenly, at the top of a roof, caught
sight of rat, which appeared to me to
be spellbound by the music.
'Lookr" I said. Don't move, but
watch that rat, fascinated by the mu-
SIC"
So we all sat and watched it, and
thought it most interesting that rats
should be susceptible to music like liz
ards and snakes.
We all saw it move. We all saw its
head turn and its tail move, and we kept
still, not to brighten it away. The next
day, feeling so much interested in the
affair, we sent to inquire about it. The
rat, it turned out, was made of painted
tin and fixed to the top of the house.
So much for imagination. Youths Con-
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The coLoRs OF THE EARTH.
How They Affect the Light chat Our
Planet Gives to the Moon.

How They Affect the Light chat Our
Planet Gives to the Moon.
The wonderful difference between the
same landscape in winter and in summer
is phenomenon familiar to all jewellers
in the temperate zones. The two great
elements of change are the presence of
snow in winter and of leaves and grass
in summer. If we could look at our
globe from the moon, the variation in
its aspect due to seasonal changes would
perhaps be even more striking than it
appears to those upon its surface.
In fact, we sometimes lose sight of the
very important part which vegetation
plays in giving color to what might be
called the countenance of the planet.
1t is not the highest forms of plants
that always produce the greatest effect
in this way. Some of the most striking
scenes upon the earth owe their charac-
teristic features to MOSES and lichens.
The famous "crimson cliffs" of Green
land, which extend for miles northward
from Cape York, derive their splendid
color from the growth of red hchen
which covers their faces.
l. ne ClllS Tlhe uetWetIk L fUu anu syVVV
feet straight from the waters edge, and
being composed of gray granite their
aspect would be entirely different from
what it is but for the presence of the
lichen.
Coming to less magnificent, but not
less beautiful scenes, the rocky pass
called the Golden Gate in the Yellow
stone National park owes its rich color
and its name to the yellow lichen cover
ing its lofty walls, and the indescribable
hues of the great hot spring terraces
arise mainly from the presence of minute
plants fiourishing in the water that over
! flows them.
Considered as whole, the vegetation
of planet may give it a characteristic
aspect as viewed from space. Many have
thought that the red color of Mars may
be due to the existence of red instead of
green vegetation there.
That its broad expanses of forest and
prairie land cause the earth to reflect q
considerable quantity of green light to
its neighbors is indicated by the fact
that at the time of the new moon a
greenish tint has been detected over
spreading that part of the lunar surface
which is then illuminated only by light
from the earth.-Youth's Companion.
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THE BIG REVIEW.

When Invent up, raw recruit,
To Bodmin town from Scorrier.
Our colonel wore scarlet suit,
Like a warrior all abla2e.
Our colonel held big review,
WI knapsack, pouch and bagginet,
And the colonel's darter drove thereto
In a wagginet drawn by bays.
The horses praneed, the trumpets blawed,
The guns went of impartial,
But of all the regiment Private Coad
In o martial way did best.
"Stand forth, stand forth, thou hero bold
To you the rest he second rate;
rTis you shall wear this clasp of gold
For to decorate your broad chest.
"0h, where, Oh, where's my best recruit
That ere paid shillin forl"
But all the regiment stuck there mute,
Unwillin for to explain,
Till forth steps and gives cough
An answers him so dutiful,
Look, colonel, dear; he's gallopin of
WI your beautiful darter janet"
"0f all the plans that e'er I've known"
Says he, II do call that plan
To bring my hairs in sorrow down
With a rataplan to the grave.
Form up, form up, each gallant bladel
Form up, my sons o. Waterloo
We won't interrupt our big parade
For a mortal who can't behaved"
London Speaker
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Those who suffer from headache and
feel the fatigue of railway journey dis
agreeably should take with them two
leather or silk covered cushions for
the small of the back. another to rest the
neck and head. Attainment doctor once
stated that this was capital antidote to
the evils arising from the jolting of the
train, liable to cause slight congestion Of
the head in very long journeys. He fur
thermore advised no reading in the train
to those subjected to headaches.-New
York Times.