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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
A Cnrinns phenomenon.


A most curious phenomenon-the action
of solids held in suspension in moving wa
ter-may be practically demonstrated, says
NJ. Gallois by taking bottle Of white
glass, about 3 inches in diameter and with
fat bottom, putting into it to the depth
of about one-fifth inch some fine and very
clean silieious sand, such as will not inter
fere with the transparency of the water,
filling the bottle with this and corking it
so as to exclude all air, On giving the bot
tie rapid movement of rotation around its
own axis, either by placing it on a turn
table or by suspending it from a previously
we'll twisted cord, all the sand will be pro-
jected upon the cylindrical sides of the bot
tie by centrifugal force.
This rotation movement Of the bottle
will gradually communicate itself to the
water. progressing from the sides to the
axis, the rotation lasting as long as the
sand adheres to the cylinder. As soon as
the water turns with the same velocity as
the bottle containing 1t, the sand will, on
the bottle being suddenly stopped, at once
quit the sides and precipitate itself toward
the center of the bottle in the form of q
cloud and then reassemble its particles on
the bottom In the form of a cone, having
the same axis as the bottle, and being high
er as the velocity of rotation is greater.
| Finally, the cone flattens as the velocity of
| rotation grows less. until the slope OF the
conical surface is the slope of equilibrium
| of grains of sand in still water.-New York
Sun
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
WHOLE NO. 1,1O1

Nltn TINS paper tine walls are snearned un-
der the weatherboards The barn is often
a nondescript affair OF sod walls and straw
roof Lumber is much too dear to be used
for door yard fences and there is no inclo-
sure about the house. A barbed wire fence
surrounds the barnyard. Rarely are there
any trees, for on the prairie trees grow very
slowly and must be nursed with care to get
start. There is saying that you must
first get the Indian out Of the soil before a
tree will grow at all, which means that
some savage quality must be taken from
the ground by cultivation.
In this cramped abode, from the windows
of which there is nothing more cheerful in
sight than the distant houses of other set
tiers, just as ugly and lonely, and stacks of
straw and unthrashed grain, the farmers
family must live. In the summer there is
school for the children one, two or three
miles away, but in winter the distances
across the snow covered plains are too great
for them to travel in severe weather. The
schoolhouse is closed, and there is nothing
for them to do but to house themselves and
long for spring -Atlantic Monthly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
G,rd,,pe the HOLY Land.

There Is now great railway system In
the course of construction, which will CIR
die the Holy Land from one end to the
other. A French company has secured q
concession for line from Beyroot to
Damascus and has already commenced
work on narrow gauge road. An Eng
lish syndicate is now building a railway
from Halfa to Damascus, which will be
about 40 miles long, starting from Halfa,
finding its way along the northern base Of
the range Of Carmel to the plain Of Esha-
rion through the valley east Of Nazareth.
Leaving Mount Tabor it will cross the Riv-
or Jordan on trestle, and then to the point
known as Majemeh, where the Little Jor-
dan joins the greater river. At this point
the road will border on the southern shore
of Galilee and almost without a curve along
the famous wheat region, Biblically known
as the plains Of Bashan, thence to the south
ern gate of Damascus. Louis Republic.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
ON THE GREAT PRAlRlEs.
vastness. Isolation and MonotoDy Reign
the TreeIess Plain Stretches.

vastness, Isolation and MonotoDy Reign In
the TreeIess Plain Stretches.
II there be any region in the world where
the natural gregarious instinct OF mankind
should assert itself, that region is our
northwestern prairies, where short, hot
summer is followed by n long, cold winter,
and where there Is little in the aspect of
nature to furnish food for thought. On ev-
cry hand the treeless plain stretches away
to the horizon line. In summer 1t is check
cred with grainhelds or carpeted with grass
and flowers, and it is inspiring In its color
and vastness, but one mile OF it is almost
exactly like another, save where some wa
tercourse nurtures fringe Of willows and
cottonwoods. When the snow covers the
ground, the prospect is bleak and dispirit-
ing. No brooks babble under icy armor.
There Is no bird life after the wild geese and
ducks have passed on their way south. The
silence of death rests on the vast landscape
save when 1t is swept by cruel winds that
search out every chink and Granny OF the
buildings and drive through each unguard
ed aperture the dry, powdery snow.
In such region you would expect the
dwellingsto be Of substantial construction
but they are not. The new settler is toe
poor to build of brick or stone. He hauls
| few loads Of lumber from the nearest rail
way station and puts up frail little hous,
| OF two, three or four rooms that looks al
| though the prairie winds would blow II
| away. Were it not for the invention O.
| tarred building paper the fiimsy wall
] would not keep out the wind and snow
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
Gotha.n's Messenger "Boys.'

One Of the first things stranger no
tees in New York is the district messen-
ger "boy." You cannot fail to notice him,
because he is everywhere, and his appear
ance is such as to attract attention even
in crowd. If You expect to see n dimin-
utive urchin about ''knee high to Il grass
hopper" you will be disappointed. The
average metropolitan messenger is full
grown man, grizzled and bewhiskered and
very much the worse for wear. There are
"boys" in the employ Of the Western I'm
ion company who have been in tho service
for lifetime and have grown gray in the
pursuit of time and II meager existence.
There are others who have saved a COM
petence from their earnings, but who, hav-
ing become accustomed to their condi-
ton, find it impossible to leave the serv-
ice and the associations of their youth
New York Letter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
MISS NANcYS GOWN.

In days when George the Third was king
And ruled the Old Dominion,
And law and fashion owned the sway
OF parliament's opinion,
A good ship brought across the sea
A treasure fair and fine
Miss Nancy's gown. from London town,
Cut in the last design.
The plated waist from neck to belt
Scarce measured half a span;
The sleeves, like balloons at the top,
Could hold her feather fan;
The narrow skirt, with bias gore,
Revealed an ankle neat
Whenever she put her dainty foot
From carriage step to street.
BY skillful hands this wondrous gown
OF costliest stufTs was made.
Cocoons of France ON Antwerp looms
Wrought to embossed broeade,
Where violets and roses sweet
In blooming beauty grew,
As il young May were there Away.
And June and Apriltoo.
And from this bower OF delight
Miss Nancy reigned queen;
Nor one disloyal heart rebelled
In all her wido demesne.
The noble house of burgesses
Forgot its fierce debate
Ger rights of crown when Nancy's gown
Appeared In halls OF state.
Through jocund reel or measured tread
OF stately minuet.
Like fairy vision shown the bloom
OF rose and violet,
As hand and hand with Washington,
The hero of the day,
The smiling face and nymphlike grace
or Nancy led the way.
A century since that gay time
The merry dance was trod
Has passed, and Nancy long has slept
Beneath the churchyard sod;
Yet on the brocade velvet gown
The rose and violet
Are blooming bright as on the night
She danced the minuet.
-Hnrper's Bazaar.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
Lon.,on Cabs.

There are 11,0o0 cabs, over 1900 drivers
and 25, 900 horses, and altogether some 120,-
600 human beings depend upon the cab in
dustry. The value of the stock is about
Ell 600, 600, and the yearly earnings are R3,-
COX, 900. The present season has been try
ing one, and there are many men literally
starving. Their chief points Of complaint
are boy licenses, "bilking"-i. e., the disap-
pearance of the fare without paying-the
privileged cab system Of the great railways,
by which the companies make some ELL 600
a year, and the private railway buses. =
London Spectator.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

Now that the great Kanawha is both
slack water and toll free the coal operators
there are quietly at work preparing to mine
and ship by river about 80 per cent more
coal than has ever come out before. They
are not publishing the fact to river shippers
on other streams, however.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

Corals increase by eggs spontaneous di-
vision and termination. The rate of growth
has not been fully determined. Professor
Agassiz indicates the growth Of reefs at Key
West at the rate of six inches in 100 years
and adds that if we doubled that amount
it would require 1900 years to form the
reefs in that place and hundreds OF thou
sands of years for the growth of Florida
Fire and Water.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
Are You Any Good at Puzzles?

The genius who invented the eff
teen" Puzzle, "Pigs in Clover" and
many others has invented brand
new one, which is going to be the
greatest on record. There is fun,
instruction and entertainment in it.
The old and learned will find as
much mystery in tas the young and
unsophisticated. This great puzzle
is the property OF the New York
Press CLUE, for. whom it was in
vented by Samuel Lloyd, the great
puzzlist, to be sold for the benefit of
the movement to erect great home
for news paper workers in New
York. Generous friends have Civ
an $25, 900 in prizes.far the success
full puzzle solvers. TEN CENTS
sent to "PREss CLUB BUILDING
AND CHARITY FUND" Temple
Court, New York City will get you
the new mystery by return mail.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
A Discreet warrior.

A Marseillaise is telling of the campaign
in Tonquin; II was on the lookout. Sud
denly l Saw three pirates, armed to the
teeth, rushing toward me. A moment or
80 watched them, then l got my bayonet
ready, and without any hesitation p
ATTACKED the piratess"
mo; l retreated to the rear in double
quick time. Paris Figaro
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

A. little 5-year-old boy, who had been
taught TO repeat Love one anotherh as 3
text to speak on his first appearance at a
suburban Sunday school, made even the
minister. laugh when, on his name being
called. he shrilly shouted, Love little
girls. Boston Transcript.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

Elsie heard her mother say that the new
hired man spoke broken English. When
her brother came home from school, she
said, "Oh, Jack, the new man is broken
Englishnian, and he can't talk plain"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
A Philosophical Husband.

A philosophical husband of Kirschseon,
In Bavaria, publishes the following an
nouncement in the local papers: Lost, ON
the 22d OF September, my wife, Anne. Who
ever has found her is begged to keep her.
He will be handsomely rewarded. LION
don Daily News
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

There is this singularity about photo
graphs--a pretty picture is invariably ''ths
perfect image of her." while poor picture
doesn't look bit like her."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

A man has great advantage OF woman.
If his face is ugly, he can turn out his whis-
kers and hide 1t.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06

The national capitol and the grounds rep
resent cash outlay of about $4,000, 900.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
Ia Grippe

"Last spring I was taken down with
la grippe. AT times l was completely
Frustrated and so difficult was my
breathing that my breast seemed as II
confined in an iron cage. I procured a
bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral, and
no sooner had l began taking it than
relief followed. Icould not believe that
the effect would be so rapid and the
cure so complete. w. II, Williams,
Cook City, S. Oak.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-06
FRAUDS DETECTED.
SCHEMES FOR sWINDLlNG INSURANCE
COMPANIES.

Submitting to Physical Injuries for tho
Purpose of Collecting ON Accident Poll
cies-Losing Hand Common Trick
The Loss of a Wooden Leg.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-19
EDITORS IA8Le.

Last year Moses King of Boston, the pan-
Usher of the well known series OF ''hihss
Handbook" publi.hed Kings handbook
of New York City" He made ten Thousand
copies. on the supposition that so large an
edition would last for ten or twelve months
anyway. As d matter of fact. in four
weeks lime the whole ten thousand copies
were sold. The second edition is nov an
nounced IL comprises twenty thoussh,
COPIES. half Of which are needed to MI
advance orders The new edition /, not
reprini If the old book. butts In faet,
new book, showing Nv York IN 1898.
Eighty pages have been added. three hun
dred new engravings have been mpae'
nearly all the psges have been reset, the
index is wholly remaie, and the whole tex
has been revised, extended, and impro'e'.
Every body admits that this il the most
thorough presentation of the greatness "f
New York city that has ever been madr-
The book, at 1t, close, bears evidence OF hs
.psinstakiug makeup; for it winds up with
a most elaborate index of twenty page.
Of email ,solidly packed, yet very clear type
BY the aid of Kings Handbook OF new
City" anyone can easily know everything
that is generally worth knowing about the
foremost city of the Western Hemisphere:
Its price is merely two dollars 3 copy, and
its editor and publisher is Moses King, bos-
ton, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-19
4 HERO OF THE WAR.
Story Of a Colonel on Gen.
MccielIan's staff.


In the book, '.Ofsicers Of the Army and
Navy Who Served In the Civil War" i. =
record of Coz. Sillovsye. where IL 10 shown
thu. be saved President Lincoln from cap
tire and perhaps instant death. We quote !:
Wednesday. May IL, 1868, President Lin
coin With friends from tae North, vent
down To City Point on the Brooks, trans
port vessel. The next day, when returning,
the vessel vas disabled near Point Tobacco,
20 20 to be unable to proceed. As the
Brooks was about to be boarded by the con-
fedesates, Col. Siilovaye had the President
placed Ia bost and rowed to place Of safety
on the Maryland shore Of the Potomac
river, and afterward taken TO Washington. "
Secretary Welies wrote I'm conference
with the President and Secretary Stan
ton in reference 70 your valuable services of
W. dnss dsy Las, you were promoted TO the
rank Of Colonel and il il proposed to elevate
you to the rank Of chief engineer. We ex-
tend to you our heartfelt thanks, and be-
lieve Us when we say We consider you to De
- great hero a. any in the service, and
special mention Of service is ordered on re-
cord in both departments of the service
Col. W. A. II. Sillowaye resides at Pine
street, Boston, Mass. His first wife WAS
a daughter of Sir William Blackie and
niecs Of Sir Richard Houghtou. His prs
ent wife Is II relative of Hon. william ".
Evsrts.
Col. Sillo~sye himself tells a very inter
esting story;
''On the 18Th of April, 1861, enlisted in
the army of the North. | weighed 1872
pounds. After serving four years And
isht months ia the army and navy, and
suffered from wounds and rheumatism
was discharged. weighed the day was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-19
PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH.

". d. Howells was a printer in Ohio
when a boy. lie used to set 5000 ems and
then go fishing.
Thomas Hardy started in life as an archi.
tect, and the house in which he lives was
built from his own designs.
The real name of the most distinguished
Dutch novelist of his time Maarten Maar-
tens, is Van de Poorten Schwarz
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is now the
oldest living man conspicuously identified
with literature. He was born in the same
year as Tennyson, Darwin and Gladstone.
David, the artist, when not painting
amused himself by scraping an old fiddle
which he did abominably. He would insist
on playing for every visitor and often ex.
claimed, 'Oh, if had only been born 9
violinist,'
Robert Louis Stevenson IL said to be q
most laborious writer. He rewrites his
manuscript to such an extent that at the
end Of the day scarcely one of the original
sentences remains unchanged. Occasion
ally he spends three weeks on single chap
ter and then throws it away.
Mark Twain has returned from long
trip abroad looking far from we'll His
usually rosy complexion is colorless, and
his lace looks thin and sickly. To an in.
terviewer who tried to get him to talk hs
said You can't interview me. lost my
voice while abroad" He has q cough and
speaks with difficulty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-19
COPYING A CAPITOL.
The National Edifce q Model For Many
Stnfe RuildiDgs,

The architectural relation of the state
capitol buildings scattered throughout the
country to the national capitol at Wash
ington is quantity comparable with that of
parent and progeny, for the present legis-
lative homes of the ST .es have all been
constructed since the Washington capitol
took shape. and the architects whose plans
they embody almost instinctively turned
to the edifce by the Potomae-if not as a
model, at least as a suggestion.
This is nowhere more evident than in the
western and southern states. The capitol
of Kansas and that of Texas, for instance,
are but modified reproductions Of TIE moth
er ediflce in Washington. North Dakota.
Nebraska, Colorado, Tennessee, Missouri
and the other states in that part of the
country, however. while preserving the
main features of the national building in
dome, pedimental main doorway and base
ment story, have not INDUCED in the col
umn ornamentation This tends usually
to give denuded look tostructures of that
character. but the architects have as a rule
been so happy in their combinations that
such a consequence was escaped.
The south affords striking instance of
Vitrovius' accuracy in saying that the ar
chitecture of a state is a history in stone Of
its past. Her capitol buildings form an ar
chitectural aristocracy poor it may be, and
not gilded, but impressive still. The struc-
lures, with Iexas as the exception in rich
ness only, show refined taste with dignifled
poverty
The east affords a specimen of every type.
New York's building at Albany has had the
misfortune to be connected with an unsil-
worry faint of johbery, and its undeniable
grandeur seems disregarded in general con-
domination of the system which gave it be-
ing. Alone among the states the Empire
commonwealth has freed its official home
from the architectural domination of the
city of the Potomac. The consequence, ar
tistically. is success The capitol is pal
ace The law Of harmonies is obeyed in let
ter and in spirit. The dome tower OF. the
structure is the fitting crown OF a monarch
in marble.
The influence of architecture upon gov
eminent is the topic this creation will pre-
sent in the next generation 10 philosophers
who have exhausted the interest Of archi-
lectures influence upon religion. The
sweep OF step and baiustrade that affords
entrance to the capitol is a worthy footstool
for such royalty in stone. The building is
concrete evidence Of that beauty created
amid corruption to which Greek poet al
ludes.-Boston Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-19
FARMING Notes Of Interest.

The farmer who hasn't already got &C.
commodations for housing his tools i'm
presses his neighbors as being thriftless.
Not only is time money to the farmer as
we'll as to those of other occupations but 30
are the hay and grain. Why waste these on
poor stock?
The use of ice on the farm in the summer
will soon be regarded as necessity. 1t
need not he a very expensive one. Now is
q good time of the year to build the ice
house.
The farmer who has a flock of sheep, the
care and feedingof which does not inter-
fere with his other business. and who has
cheap land that will do for their pasturage,
makes more per sheep than the sheep raiser
whose entire efforts are devoted to that sole
industry
The intelligent farmer will "read up this
winter and one of the subjects that should
receive his careful consideration is
that of good roads. He should not
only inform himself on this sub
iecs bu. should also do some good mis-
missionary work for the cause. A good
road to market means more dollars in his
pocket, even though the tax of building it
be heavy. 1t also means better advantages
for himself and family.
One of our agricultural exchanges congrat-
ulates the American people on the non-ap-
pearance of the predicted cholera, prospect
of extinction of Ia grippe, that the hardest
between nations and that there is more good
and less evil in the world than ever before.
The farmer comes in for a generous share
of these congratulations and we hope may
receive one other at the close of the winter
season which now approaches, congratula-
tion for having lived it proftably.
year in which he will be able to
devote more time to improving his
mind by reading and by discus
.ions at the grange and club meetings
than was possible during the crop seasons.
The social features of the winter season
,hould not be overlooked. When the boys
4ni girls began TO hasten away from the
farm there went along with them much of
he social eide of the farmers life and the
young folks that came after suffered there by
until in some communities this very lack of
social enjoyment has proved one of the
greatest incentives for the young people to
eek other avocations. That farmer who
assists in meetings of the people of his con =
munity, both for mental and social improve
ment, enhances the value of real estate in
his community. Let this work go on until
no one will be found to say II would move
onto farm but can't give my clil lren
suitable advantages in the country