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

to be nned, ana, rising, viii deliver this
sentiment: Gentlemen, | ask you to
drink to sweethearts and wives May
the sweetheart soon become the wife
May the wife always remain the sweet
heart" The assembled officers drink
this toast in silence.
"A New York woman wears ring in
which is set in circle of diamonds her
baby's first tooth. A London lady of
high degree wears set in the jewels of
her bracelet tooth extracted from the
mouth of her pet poodle. Another at
fectionate creature uses the skin of
once favorite horse as hearth rug for
her boudoir, and has defunct pet pug
mounted in lifelike attitude by the
taxidermist for an ornament on her
writing table.
Foreign residents of New York
quickly learn the business advantages
of speaking to the English-sp aking
public Accordingly many Italian
tradesmen have their signs painted in
both Italian and English, often with
sad photographic blunders in the latter
tongue Even in the Syrian quarter,
business signs begin to appeal to others
than the Syrians Beneath an odd
looking line of Arabic over door in
Washington street, is the word car
penter," with inverted M and other
letters curiously mishappen.
Newark, Del, has a postmaster and
deputy postmaster, and these two
have administered the Office through
the political changes of the past eight
years When the administration is
democratic so is the postmaster, and
the deputy is republican. When the
administration is republican, the demo
cratic postmaster and his deputy simply
change places AS the change cannot
be made Immediately upon the inau-
guration of new president, there is a
period of some months when the citi-
zens are in doubt which officer is post
master and which deputy.
in one New York family three chill
dren were afflicted with whooping
cough They coughed and coughed and
coughed, and the family parrot took it
into his head to initiate them. When
any one of the children coughed he
would accompany it with a coughing
paroxysm so natural that it was impos-
| sible to tell whether it was one of the
children or the parrot that was cough
| ing. The bird seemed to enjoy having
the whooping cough, and after awhile
he clamored for medicine whenever he
saw that it was being administered to
the children.
Cavalry soldiers often sleep in the
saddle after a fatiguing march, but it
would seem almost impossible to march
on foot and sleep at the same time.
There are authentic instances of this
kind, however and member of the
| Grand Army says: "When / was pri-
vate of infantry l marched miles as
sound asleep as if was in my bed, and
did not fall out of the ranks" Artil-
! lerymen have been known tosleep from
exhaustion under their own guns, which
were constantly firing in battle. Ben
jamin Franklin slept for an hour float
| ing on his back in the water at least
one of his biographers says so.
The French colony of New York,
although one of the oldest foreign ele-
ments in the city, is as little understood
as any other. The application of the
/ adjective 'frencn 10 certain annual
orgies has given the general public a
false notion of the French colony as a
whole. The French people of New York
are for the most part Woodworking folk
of moderate means. Many of them ply
with delicate skill small handicraft
such as still withstand the modern
tendency toward concentration of cap
ital and division of labor The French
residents are extremely conservative III
all things, little concerned in public af
fairs. and devoted TO home life. The
most orderly visitors to public place.
kept by Frenchmen are the French
themselves, and the colony is best seen
at the pretty and we'll ordered fetes Of
July IA