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The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
EAsrER ANp THE pAssoVER.

The paschal soleinnity anlong The Jews
was their principal festival rs IS Easter
among Christians, and is considered to
have been prefguration Of the Chris
tian feast. The jews celebrated the day
on which under the guidance Of Moses
they were delivered from tee bondage Of
Egypt. Christians celebrate 70 day ol
which under the leadership of one might
Ter than Noses tliey were liberated from
the bondage Of sin and Death and ''re
stored to the glory Of the children of
God
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.


In 1892 800, ,OO0. 600 persons were carried
on our railroads.
A tragedy was first represented on a
wagon by Thespis, at Athens, B. G. $780,
Ice made at zero temperature will last
longer than that made at IS deg. or 20
deg.
Two hundred and seventy-two textile
mills were erected in this country in
1892.
A sewing machine, weighing az tons,
that sews cotton betting, is in use IN
Leeds.
Canton, China, has floating popula-
3ion of 100000 persons. They live IN
houseboats.
) Bees never store honey in the light, as
honey SO exposed granulates and is USE
less to them.
Hard coal loses s per cent. in bulk per
Rnnum when exposed to the weather.
Soft c5al loses II per cent.
The salar es paid to the 10000 persons
10 the civil service of the United States
snount to sgO, ,oOO, 600 annually.
A larger proportion survive their first
year Of existence in Dublin than in the
evenly large towns OF England and
Wales.
The Simplon road, from Switzerland to
Italy, was built by Napoleon's engineers
In 1867. Over 400, 600 workmen were en-
ployed at one time.
The first record OF the finding of coal
In America dates from 1869, when Father
Hennepin, missionary, discovered the
mineral In Ottawa Ill. The vein was not
worked until nearly $50 years later, and
even in 1913 several tons of bad coal were
sold for 81 per ton.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
lo 81 SAYINGS OF LITTLE TOTS.
pou4rrNG THOMAS.

DoUHrING THOMAS.
6, u Did it snow like this wen
yo boy?
Ia er--'ve seen it over my head.
Lia,S z Son (after retiection)- you
lying down or sittin' up?
PAPA TRIES IT.
Mamma-And how did my little pet
get TO sleep last night without mamma?
Little Pet-Papa tried to sing to me
| Ike you do, an hurried up an went to
sleep sos not to hear it.-Good News.
INCREASING THE NOISE.
Jennie-Why don't you learn how to
play on the piano?
Kittie-I guess mamma thinks make
noise enough now about the house.
AN EXPLANATION.
"Why do you always make such noise
when you shut the front doorf" asked
mamma.
so that you will know haven't left
1t open" explained Freddy.
JUST THE SAME.
Mammal Judge from your red face
that you must have had very lard time
walking to the drug store against tie
cold wind.
Whitney Yes, it was very herd work
wa king TO the store against the wind,
but then it was twice as easy walking
home with IL, SO it was the came thing in
the end. --Hnrper's Young People.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
EASTER NEsTs.

German children probably enjoy Eas-
ter more than those Of other nations, be
cause fer them tie element of mystery
that adds so much zest to the pleasure
Of the Christmas stocking is brought into
play Nests Of tihsel. artificial flowers
or some other attractive material are
filled with eggs, candies cakes or other
goodies and hidden away for the chill
dren to search fer These nests are gem
orally suraoanted by d rabbit made Of
candy. cake or any Of a hundred mate
rils dictated by the ingenuity Of loving
parents The Easter rabbit is a very old
German institution and probably sur
viyal Of the heathen days when the hare
was sacred 70 Eastre. the goddess Of
spring
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
PEN POINTS.

Cute ducks--quack doctors.
A shoe horn-the sherry cobbler.
A spiritual adviser-the thermometer.
The designer of the Colum bian stamp
deserves licking.
The church soprano buys her note
paper by the choir.
Cutter dash-the young man out with
his best gir for sleigh ride.
A card argument is best ssnoothed by
pouring little Hoyie over it.
There Is a tine for all things but the
servant girl requires an alarm clock.
One Of the most noted minstrel per-
formers formerly shoveled coal for liv-
Ing, now he picks the bapio.-Union
County Standard.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
PLowHANDLE PLoDDlNGs.

Good nature like good butter, it bears
deep probing.
Measure man by the size of the hole
he is willing to crawl out of when in diff
ficulty.
A little learning is a good deal like q
mill pond; the shallower it is, the greater
epiurge a man makes in it.
There is this consolation for the fellow
ct the bottom of the ladder, he cannot
tumble far enough down to hurt him.
The size of mans feet do not count
anything in his "foot prints on thesands
OF tlms;1 it is the qnality of the mans
heac
ii AZ rsen are equal u the sight os God,
some OF them must think He is not Took
ing, when they swell upso in the sight oi
their neighbors. American Agricultut-
ist.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
m CID NEW YORK.

Easter III old Gotham was not. Easter.
but the Paas of the Netherlanders. cele-
brated with feasting and drinking. The
chief businesso of Paas was fun and frolic,
and the consumption of eggs was limited
only by the capacity and endurance of
the appetite. 1t was a Dutch feast Of
Dionysius, only the wine was schnapps
and the grapes We're eggs
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
KlcklMe. ZOE -Tt1ElR LINING.

In Buckinghamshire a village charity
was granted on condition that the in
habitants every Easter play one or mora
games of ball" Accordingly every year
l2 old woInen-the benefciaries-
obliged to kick a football about the vii
lage green for time long enough to
preserve the charity intact.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
LEE CARS EASTER

The czar kisses the cheeks Of his court
iers. and they in return kiss his majesty $
shoulder as being little less familiar
salute Every body kisses the hand Of
the czarina and she KISSES her relatives
and friends on the cheek in return. and
then every man woman, priest and
child present kiss one another, exclailn-
ing between the smacks, Christ is
risenr Heis risen. indeedr
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

Rallroaos.


NENTKAL RAILROAD OF NEW
u JERSEY. tFrvehold, Atlantic Highlands
Diy) Time Table If Nov IL, 1892
lApthracite coal used exclusively, insnrin'
cleanliness aud omfort.
rrains leave New York toOt Liberty Street.
For Farmin sdxIe, Lakewood, Manchester
4.3n 515 A. NJ, l.45. 4.20, s 15P.M
TRAINS LEAVE FREEHOLD.
For New rk, Newark, Elizabeth, &C. at 7.l5
sl0, Il.l6 a. NJ. 200. 20, Cos P. NJ.
For Long Branch, ,Oceau Grove. &C, at $40. lilo
A M. 200, 4.20. Cos M.
For Atlantic Highlands sts.10. 11.i5A M 200 4.20
sos P. NJ.
RETURNING -RAINS.
Lesve Now York (foot of Liberty street) at 4.3Os
s.15, IL 80 AM, 30 4 80 53s P. M.
LtBve Newark Broad street, at %, IL 35 A. M,
l 80 A. IS, $40 P. NJ.
Leave Elizabeth o5, s,s2, 1l.s2A. 30, 1.So
5.i4P.M.
Leave I4sng eranch IN Y L. B II. R. station
via. Mstawsn) at S.15, lI.25 A. n. 80. 4,2o,
5oP.M.
Leave Atlantic highlands at $40, Ills A. M. ZOO
HP. BALDWIN. Genl Psss. Agt.
j. H. OLHAU5EN. Gen'i supt.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

In sculpture did any one ever call the
Apollo a fancy piece, or say Of the Lao
coon how it might be made differently A
masteis,iace of art has to the mind a fixed
place lie chain, as much as a plant or
CRY ita Emerson.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
ROAzsHs WANTED

Anyone wishing to take Roard-
ers Mill please communicate With
is. givine rates per week, aud the
rambler If boarders wanted, male
and female
We viii take special care TO in
yestigate the character and stand
INC of I'll persons to be employed
by rs, and can assure YOU that none
but respectable people will apply
through us for board.
Y. HENRY RoTHsCHILD d Co,
Freehold, N. J.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

Tor young persons whose happiness lies
in outdoor life and the study of nature, no
department of natural science offers more
inviting and promising field than applied
entomology
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

First Hunter-You missed that rabbit by
about 10 feet.
Second Hunter Well, you see the trutl
is u fellow gets tired Of slaughtering the
poor creatures all the time | did that TO
break the monotony.-TeXa GifLings
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

in size, and pin the band of paper on
their backs, taking care that the waves
in the paper are longer and more shallow
as you arproach the SIR allest book.
At the lower end OF the band place a
dish. At the other end pour water drop
by drop on the paper. The drops will
roll rapidly down the first incline, and
with the impetus thus gained will re.
mount over the back of the second book,
and so on over one book after another till
they drop into the dish.-D Illustration.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

Pee-Wee.
When the morning long was filled with
song
That hurst from every tree,
l heard a foolis little BIRD
That only sang, Pee wce"
And spoke out clear, SO the bird could
hear,
" 1t really seems to me
If / couldn't sing different song
Than just Pee pee -weel
4" I'd hide away from the songsters gay
in the thickest greenwood tree,
And l wouldn't sing the foolish thing
TO show my low degree"
But the little bird when he had heard
My wise speech, looked at me
With his BRIGHT eyes wide and his head
one side,
And said again, . Pee woe!"
And understood the lesson good
The little bird had for me.
God gives one song and we should sing,
II it only be Pee weel
ALBERT Annett, in Youths Companion.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

Not few men are 50 abnormally snscep-
tiblc to love in their first youth as to ex5
h;tasl theli capacity tof loving before they
have reached an age to love wa i discretion
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
PEOPLE FIED

with cheap compounds purporting
to be blood purifiers, but which
have no real medicinal value. To
make use of any other than the old
standard AYERS Sarsaparilla--the
Superior Blood-purifier is simply
to invite loss OF time, money, and
health. If you are afflicted with
Scrofula, Catarrh, Rheumatism,
Dyspepsia, Eczema, Running Sores,
Tumors, or amy other blood disease,
be assured that
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

Miss Clara slimson-My milliner was
at church today.
Mr.. Slimson Why didn't you point
her outs
Clara Yen'll have Il chance to know
her. papa before the week is out.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
1T Pays TO Use

AYERS Sarsaparilla, and AYERS
only. AYERS Sarsaparilla can
always be depended upon. 1t does
not vary. 1t is always the same in
quality, quantity, and effect. It is
superior in combination, proportion,
appearance, and in all that goes to
build up the system weakened by
disease and pain. 1t searches out
all impurities in the blood and e.I
peis them BY the natural channels.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
Disposal OF Dead Beasts Tn Cities.

DR.. Sykes, medical officer for st. Pan
cras, calls attention to n serious kind OF
nuisance which shows no tendency TO
abate and yet is passed over in sanitary
reports. 1t arises from the number of dead
animals. OF which there is no ready means
of disposing.
In towns there are always present a
large number of small animals especially
cats and dogs. When these die or are kill
ed, paved streets and paved yards offer no
facilities for their intermcnt. Further
more, many like domestic animals fall
into such q state Of health or become SO
numerous ss to require To DO destroyed,
and householdcrs have great difficulty in
destroying them as well rs i'll disposing
of tie carcasses.
DIR. Sykes suggests the setting apart OF
some place where these animals might he
painleesly put out existence tfftd their
bodies disposed of without nuisance. This
would, he thinks, tend TO prevent the nc
emulation of large numbers of dead ami
mails i'm the Regents canal on vacant
spaces and in the thoroughfares. and bc n
great boon To perplexed ratepayeTs. Ts.-Lon-
don News
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
And He Didn't Know IL.

Ferguson was vending his uncertain
way homeward, sorely troubled in his
mind over the curtain lecture he knew Was
in store for him and casting about for
some means OF evading it. Suddenly n
bright idea was evolved from his befudded
brain. He would slip into the house and
get quietly into bed without awakening
his wife. Accordingly he stole gently up
stairs, carefully undressed outside the
door and crcpt into bed with his face to-
ward the outside. He mentally congratu-
lated himself upon his success thus far and
went to sleep.
When he awoke in the morning, he dared
not look at his wife, and after lying still
for n few minutes and not hearing any
noise from her he concluded she was still!
asleep. Ho then determined to arise very
quietly, carry his clothes outside the door,
dress there and go down town to business
without waiting for break fast. lie was
successful In this, aud meeting the servant
girl down stairs be said:
Eliza, you can tell your mistress ex-
pect to be very busy today, and therefore
didn't stop to have breakfast with her
this morning"
Laws. STRIP said Eliza, 'missis went
nway yesterday morning to her mothers
and said she wouldn't be back till this
evening. ."--London Tit Bits.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
The I,utchcr Bird.

have learned many new things about
The habits of the peculiar butcher bird. A
pair of them have followed me while plow-
Ing for three or four days at time. watch
Ing and waiting for me to overturn q nest
of field mice.
When / overturn nest, they will pounce
down upon the little mice and claw and
peck them to death Then the mouse car
casses are carried away TO some neighbor-
ing orange or lemon tree and spiked upon
the thorns. The birds seldom eat the mice,
but kill them from sheer love Of excite
ment. When they can spike live mouse,
or even n rat, on thorn, they flutter about
and chatter with themselves, as il they had
great fun in seeing the rodents squirm and
twist in the throes of death.
But ] am most surprised to see how
strong butcher birds arc, and what they
can lift and fly away with / have often
seen toads that had been impaled upon the
thorns Of century plant upon my place
and left 70 die The other morning saw
butcher bird with snake fully foot long.
He had it by the back OF the neck and flew
with it up into IN orange tree. He then
nailed the reptile onto thorn and sat
and watched it. He let the snake wrig-
glealmost' of, when he flew at IL and would
fix it on more firmly. Because these birds
nre destructive to gophers and rats they
nre considered the friends OF the orange
grower.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
Beyring letters.

Royal people ere o. course besieged with
letters from all parts Of their dominions.
Politicians, too, have rather hard time of
It., more particularly with demands for
their autographs remember secretary
Of Lord Salisbury's once told me that his
popular chief received no less than 40 re-
quests day for his signature. But the
people who suffer most from the anony-
nous letter writer arc the men and women
of the stage
Poor MIR. Irvingl Poor Miss Terry Ones
heart beeds for them MS one thinks of the
endless and most besecching notes which
reach them begging for lock OF hair, a
signed photograph, smile directed to
certain box Of enthusiasts, the sum of 8
shllngs for the benefit Of n cottage home,
n timely word OF advice as Co whether
woman may succeed who adopts the stage
in her fortieth year, etc. Patti has been so
pestered by the begging letter writer that
she no longer opens the envelopes directed
To her unless the handwriting be friend
ly. familiar one; the work is relegated IL
her maid. London Gentlcwoman.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
THE MARINE REPORT.
ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES At
THE PORT OF .PRovIDENcE.
fIT- ~ ~ Ut 7 n ( Iffa y u" q
Hits OF Interesting News Gathered Dur
sug n s,ron Along Oar water front
ttnNttffu
This Morning. .r.r.sl4 n.fe

The arrivals at this port are as fellows:
Steamers Pequot, Appeiby. New York:
Richard Borden, Mason, Fall River; saxon,
sherman. Philadelphia; City OF Newport,
Kelly, Newport; Queen City, Pettsy.
Tiyerton; Petrol, Durkee, Riverside and
return. Tugs Aries with barges !;
A. Collard, Nassra. Commerce;
+. r. Ives with one barge Schooners 3.
5 Scranton, Branker, brick. Long Island
Brick company: l.. y. Foster, saunders,
Block Island.
Sailed Pequct. CITY OF Newport. Rich
ard Borden. Queen City. William Marvel.
A. G. Barstow, tug F. E. Ives with barge
Carlos, French. Il. fl. Rathbone. schoon-
ers Witch Hazel Hev. John Fletcher.
Notes along the Avenue.
Happy Jack" sailor that was sup.
posed TO have been drowned two years
ago. walked into the shipping office Of
Freeman, Crowell Il Co., this morning.
William Morgan OF the Providence line
and his wife arrived homo from their
wedding tour yesterday.
The steamers MouoEeabeia and Ports
mouth OF the North Atlantic squadron are
in the harbcr at Newport.
IL IL reported that the United States
steamer Richmond, now stationed al New
port. is TO sail for New York ina few days.
The schooner L. q. Foster. that phys
between this port and Block Island. bas
been nicknamed Lobster" 10y the seafuy-
ing men.
When Harbor Master Mcguire retircs
he Will carry with him the best wishes cf
all who have had official dealings with
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
Odd Recollcctions.

In her interesting volume of recollec.
tions, Miss Louisa Twining tells the fol-
lowing curious anecdote in connection
with her home for workhouse girls. One
of the earliest inmates, received from the
Strand union, bore the name Of Victoria
Queen, being n foundlng picked up or
the queens birthday. On leaving the home
sho obtained n situation at Twickenham.
and while there became engaged to car
penter with the appropriate name of AL
bert Edward. to whom she was happily
married.
Another long forgotten onecdoto is re-
vived by Miss Twining in her record of the
year 1898. The Thames tunnel was then
in course of being constructed, but opera
tions had to he suspended more than once
owing to an unwelcome influx of water.
Whereat the French, always ready To he
amused mt our expense, remarked. 1.-The
English are making tunnel pour passer
IL Temps. London Globe.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
AgRoNAuTlc SPIDERS.
fhey Can Build Balloons and Mako Jour.
neys In the Air.

There Is certain species Of spider which
Is moved by instinct at certain seasons Of
the year to travel, and to travel distances
That no one would suspect him desrous Of
covering. What, then. is his mcthod'
The spider selects the right kind of day.
one on which there Is almost n calm in
the air, or rather one when there is just the
slightest bresze. stsaft
He crawls up a tree, or flagstaff. or
bulrush, or anything that viii give him
a free position. lie then begins 20 emit
the free end of web from his filament
bag, and this Is so light and fresh that 1t
floats away in the air and Is carried along
by the light breeze.
He may emit 100 or 200 yards, and ev.
cry now and then he tries whether there is
enough out and floating to buoy him If he
lets go his grip on the tree or other eleva-
tion. BY nice system Of calculation he
ascertains just what will buoy him. and
then. letting go his hold, the filament is
borne off by the wind, and he himself at
the end OF it, and in this way he can travel
miles and miles.
II he finds himself coming near the wa.
ter. he pays out more OF his cable, and in
that way he obtains more floating filament
10 bear him up. If, on the contrary. he
finds himself going too high he draws in
his cable and descends by lessening the
amount of floating filament.
II you snchor pole in body OF water,
leaving the pole above the surface. and
put a spider upon IL, he will exhibit mar
yelous intelligence in his plans to escape.
At frat he will spin web and hang TO
one end while he allows the other TO fIoat
off in the wind, in the hopo that it will
strike some object
or course this plan proves failure, but
the spider il not discouraged. He waits
until the wind changes and then sends an
other silken strand floating off in another
direction. Another failure is followed by
several other similar attempts. until all
the points Of the compass have been tried.
But neither the resources nor reasoning
power OF the spider have been tried. He
climbs To the top Of the polo and energetic
ally goes to work to construct u silken bal
loon. He has not hot air with which to
initiate it, but he has the power OF making
it buoyant.
When he gets his balloon finished, he
does not go of on tho mere supposition
that it will carry him. as men often do.
but he fastens ii to n guy rope. the other
end OF which he attaches TO the island pole
upon which he is prisoner. He then gets
into his aerial vehicle while it ia made
fast and tests IL TO see whether it Is capa|
bls of bearing him away.
lie often finds that he has maio IL too
small, in which case he hauls it down.
takes it all apart and constructs il on a
larger and better plan. A spider has been
seen to make three different balloons be.
fore he became satisfied with his expert
ment
Then he will snap the guy rope, and sis-
pended from filament will sail away TO
land as gracefully and as supremely indie
pendent OF his surroundings rs could bc
imagined Toronto World.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
Black Dress Goats.

Lord Lytton's novel Of Pelham" was
written with tho idea of counteracting the
affcctation Of Byronism which was then in
vogue, and in this IL 90 some degree sue
cceded, though only by substituting an
other affcctation--that OF Pelhamism-in
its place IL is even said TO have affected
the fashion Of dress, for in it Lady Frances
Pelham says in letter to her son: "Apro-
pos of the complexion. did not like that
blue coat you wore when inst sawy0u.
You look best in black, which Is great
compliment. for people must be very dis
tinguishod in appearance TO do So"
Till then coats worn for evening dress
were of different colors. according TO the
fancy OF the wearer, and the adoption Of the
now invariable blacl. Is said TO have dated
from the publication OF Pelham ,i...s.'