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The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09
The Farmers Mutual Fire ms. Co.



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THIS old and reliable Company OF 30 years
l. standing continues to insure all kinds OF
property, not extra hazardous, in town or coun-
try for any length Of time not exceeding FIVE
years at as low rates as Will pay losses and ex-
penseS. 1t tnsures against fire or lightning or
damage by either. Its losses are promptly ad-
justed and paid. It's funds on hand are ample
to meet all probable loss, being larger than at
any previous line OF Its existence and steadily
increasing, while Its reserve assets are OF a
character and amount to surely meet all losses
however extraordinary, and cannot be FILTERED
away by unfortunate investment or defaulting
officers.
Directors-A. Bilderback, J.. B. Grier, Joseph
Waddlngton, William B. Carpenter, Woodruff
Petit, QnlntOn ?. Harris, J. II. Sinnickson, @.
Fl. SinnicksOn, Barclay Grise0m, J.G. H0lme,
Charles Hires, and Josiah Wistar, d. f. Grler.
President; Charles W. Casper, Joseph Wad-
dington, Qulnten P. Harris, Woodruff Petit,
who meet weekly, on Seventh day, at 8 o'clock
PM.
Secretary and Treasurer-woodnutt Petit,
20 whom applicants may be made in relation
at the ofnc !, OF the Company, $50 East Broad
In addition to the above the following per.
sons have been elected Agents anS Surveyors
Il. NJ. Hltchner, Elmer.
George B. GrieT, WOOdstown.
Josiah Summerill, Penn's Grove.
Daniel d. Hitchner, Cohansey.
j. Forman Sinnickson, L. p. Neck.
John Hltchner, Alloway..
Joseph B. Livezey, Berkeley.
David D, Griscom, Marion, NJ.
George r, Morrison, Salem.
.. b. bickler,
WM. B. CARPENTER, President.
Woodruff PETIT, See'y and Treasurer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

&c. SIMPSON, Marques, W. Va, says:
'ialfs Catarrh Cure cured he of a very bad
sase of catarrh." Druggists sell It, 75c.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

Scales are now made that will weigh
lbs flame Of a candle or the smallest
hair plucked from tn eyebrow.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

The curvature of the earth " eight
nohss par mile.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09
Hoods Pills assist digestion.


Only one death occurs in 2600 cases
Nhere ether is administered.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09
OUTFIT OF A MODERN ANGLER
Fishing Tackle u Product Of Great sam
and the Finest Machinery.

Fishing Tackle u PToduct N Great sELA
and the Finest Machinery.
Tackle made nowadays for trout
fishing 10 a dream OF exquisite beauty,
Imd the angle S OF but twenty years
iru look with dumb amalement upon
Inc discarded relics In use at that
line. The farmers hoy, catching
trout by the score with a clumsy beau
pole, while the hshIess sportsman
wiCh finest tackle gaZes in mute adj
IMITATION wondering how it is done, is
4 familiar legend, The newspapers
have printed it necessarily, while the
illustrated journals have added their
mite until it has become a happy
household story. IL was a funny
legend and fingered a good while.
To-day the angler with finc tackle
and the knowledge how to use 1t is
the one who succeeds in Turing the
lusty trout from its secluded retreats.
Thaddcus Norris, that estimable
leader of the gentle quaker anglers, in
his varied outings on che famous
Brodheai Of Penn iylvania, made use
Of a tly-casting rod twelve ounces in
weight. where, according to the New
York Evening Post, to-day a rod of
five ounces Is accepted as the extreme
limit, the more popular. equally eff
fective and less tiresome tool weigh
ing but four ounces He would doubt.
less have made a lighter weat on, for
he built his own tools, had he been
acquainted with the later methods OF
accurately dividing the japanese bam-
boo. ~cementing its sections, whipping
them with silk, coating them with a
waterproof solution, and giving as a
result a fishing rod SO strong, SO plia-
bic, so delicate in action and so en-
during as to prove not only perfection
in use and a thing of rare beauty to
the eye, but to reach a weight meas
ured by drachms instead of ounces.
The split bamboo fishing rod is one oil
the triumphs of modern skill and in
genuity, and is closely pressed by the
siiken enamelcd AMI waterproofed
lines made in this country alone.
The same may well be said of reels,
a most important adjunct in the gen
tie art of angling.
The finest material, the greatest4
skill, the most experienced fx65r ana
the most perfect %~assccfinefy are utii-
lied in the cssisktion OF the modern
asagftrs Quilt. and as the demand is
afimfted it follows as a natural &c.
qucncc that Ghese articles are costly.
A good hexagonal bamboo fly rod, the
best and most satisfactory pattern yet
produced, cost from $25 to $500, and
with ordinary care will serve faith
fully for many years. Fly rods cost
ing $500 are not In general demand,
yet they are on sale at this moment
in the showroom Off Broadw a tackle
house, and rare superb examples of
the high state Of perfection reached
In their manufacture and of the ex-
quisite n in which gold fllagre6
can he fitted to the butt or handle o.
these implements.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

Steam locomotives have been de-
igned for a speed of no miles AN hour
and electric ones for $50 TO 20l.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

During the most violent gales the
sa is disturbed to a depth of 800
feet.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

A municipal plant gives Allegheny.
P,nn., electric light for one and a hal
,snts per hour per lamp.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

There is no cure for color blind
less.
The aggregate surface of the air
cells Of the lungs eqceeds 10000 square
inches.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-09

Purely vegetable, mild and reliable. Gauss
perfect Digestion, complete ABSORPTION aud
healthful regularity. For the cure of all dis
OF defs OF The Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys,
Bladder. Nervous Diseases,
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

the tarantula. In the wailings Of
its mammals, the terror of it's rep
tiles, and the suffocation and OPP
preston of its atmosphere, Death
Valley is in the season a veritable
type of the fabled sheol, Its dan
gers have never been, nor can
scarcely be adequately described
And yet because of its magnificent
geological pictures of the wonder
ful powers of nature, because of its
resources in salts and minerals, be-
cause of the enthropological studies
of the region roundabout, and be-
cause of the novel experiences which
the tourist will surely have, there
are few places that will better repay
him for his time and rouble.-John
r. Spears, in Feb. Californian.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08
Food Kept for Ages.

"l have eaten apples that rpened
more than 1900 years ago, bread
made from wheat grown before the
children of Israel passed through
the Red Sea, spread it with butter
that was made when Queen Eliza
beth was queen of England, and
washed it down with wine that was
old when Columbus was playing
barefoot with the boys of Genoa"
said a gentleman at the club the
other day.
The remarkable spread" was
given by an antiquary Gorbel, in
the City of Brussels, in 1871. The
apples were from n jar taken from
the ruins Of Pompeii, that buried
city to whose people we owe our
knowledge of canning fruit.
The wheat was taken from a
chamber in one Of the smaller
pyramids, the butter from a stone
shelf in an old well in Scotland,
where it had lain in an earthenware
crock, in icy water, and the wine
came from an old vault in the City
Of Corinth.
There were six guests at the
table, and each had mouthful Of
the bread and teaspoonful of the
wine, but was permitted to help
himself literally to the butter, there
being several pounds OF it.
The apple-jar held two-thirds of
a gallon, and the fruit was as sweet
and the flavor as fine as though
put up yesterday.-Ex
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India Rubber.

The existence of rubber and some
knowledge of its properties must
have been known to the Mexican
Indians, long time before it was
discovered by the whites, says the
Youths Companion. The first
mention of it was made by Herrea
in his account Of the second voyage
Of Columbus, when he speaks of a
ball used by the Indians made from
the gum of tree, which was light
er, and bounced far better than the
famous windballs of CASTLE.
Torquemada, writing nearly a
century later, also speaks of the
rubber, which he found was used
by the natives in case Of hemorrhage
and for various other diseases.
Mixed and taken with cocoa, it
made an excellent healing emollient
for the lungs, and applied external
ly it possessed properties of special
value in removing tightness of the
chest. The first accurate informa-
ton regarding this wonderful plant
was furnished by La Condamine, a
French scientist, who was sent in
1875 by the Government of France
to measure an arc Of the meridian
near Quinto. This brought him to
the heart of the rubber-growing
country, and much valuable infor-
nation was thus obtained.
Nevertheless, rubber remained
practically unknown, save as a curl
osity, for many years after that, and
1t was near the close Of the eight
eenth century when DR.. Priestly, in
a preface to his work on prospect
ive," called attention to rubber as
"a novelty erasing pencil marks, "
stating that ut is sold in cubical
pieces of half an inch for three
shillings each" For this purpose
it was imported into England, but
it was little used except by artists,
until about 1920, nearly three hun
dred years after its introduction to
civilization.
The successful manufacture of
surgical instruments was then az
complished, and the wonderful ca
pacities of this strange new product
began to be known, and the COM
mercial world realized the fact that
new force had entered the indust-
rial field, which was destined to
play an important part in the arts
and manufactures Of the nineteenth
century.
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Salmon Catching.

Salmon has ever formed the sta
pie food Of all the native tribes
dwelling within the reach of any Of
the streams flowing into the Pacific
Ocean from the Sacramento to the
Yukon. Even such tribes as the
Shoshones, living as far in the in
terror as Eastern Idaho, depended
largely upon the annual run of sal
mon in the Snake river, as did tribes
living toward the headwaters of
other tributaries of the Columbia
and Fraser rivers. Salmon was al
so an article of barter between the
river tribes and those not SO favor
ably located, who sold ponies and
the skins of wild animals to the
fishermen in exchange for the rank
smelling, sun-dried royal chinooks.
Each tribe had it's favorite fishing
places, generally near some rapids
or obstruction in the stream, where
they encamped for weeks at time
during the summer season, laying
in supply of fish for the winter.
The methods of fishing were vari-
GUS, and were adapted to local pc
culiarities. Traps, spears, arrows,
dip-nets and other means of captur-
ing or killing the fish were used,
and in the shallow waters near the
source Of the streams, driving
was often resorted TO. BY this is
meant that the Indians formed q line
and waded out into the water, grad
ually closing in toward the shore in
the form Of an arch and driving the
fish in a confused heap into a small
space, where they were caught in
the hands aud thrown upon the
bank.
Their universal method Of pre-
serving salmon is to dry it in the
sun. This work is rl--~vs dcrc =
the squaws, The noble olwasb aee...
ing il beneath his dignity. In On.
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The Black Governor.

~ rollicking time in Rhode Is
land in the old colonial days was
the election ofthe Black Governor"
writes Alice Morse Earle in the
New England Magazine. After
the white people had elected the
governor Of the state, the slaves
had curious custom of gathering
together on the third Saturday in
June, and electing a black Cover
nor. To this election the negroes
went in fine style, on Narragansett
PAGERS, with their wives on pillions
behind them. All were dressed in
their finest clothes, with swords and
powdered hair, and often a long
false cue tied on behind. When
all had gathered together, the vote
was taken by the opposing parties
forming into two long lines, with
the respective candidates at the
head; the lines then were counted
and the longest line elected it's
candidate. After the election
supper and dance was given, for
which the white owners of the new
ly elected Governor had to pay.
The last election Of slave Cover
nor was held in 1900, but the GUS
tom of 'Nigger Lection Day did
not die out through New Englaal
until many years later"
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08
The First Law of Nature.

This self-preservation is acknowledged to be,
and peoples who adopt against the encrosches Of
disease genuine medicinal safeguard, accredited
by experience and the sanction of physicians. af-
ford happy illustration Of the wisdom of the say
ing, In the health they restore and continue to en-
Joy. Among maladies, against the growth Of
which Hostetters Stomach Bitters affords efficient
protection, diseases Of the kidneys aud bladder are
haught with the utmost peril and EXHIBIT great
obstiuacy when opposed by ordinary means. Ibe
bitters can and will subdue them No testimony
is stronger than this. Used at the outset and
psrsistently, the best results may be expected
bis medicine also eradcates liver complaint, con
stipstion. dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism and
nervousness.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08
Through Death Valley.

Death Valley was, in the main,
disappointing, as / think it will be
to any tourist. | could not realize
that Telescope Peak, the loftiest
Penamint, rose about two miles
above the lowest part of the valley;
nor that this lowest point was 200
feet below sea level; nor-the
weather being then comfortable
that in summer the air is Kindred
until it contains but one per cent.
of humidity; nor that the we'll
shaded thermometer has ranged, ac-
cording to various authentic obser-
vers, all the way from 1872 to l35
degrees Fahrenheit. But there
were some things ] appreciated full
ly, and one of them was sand
storm. | saw the air filled with a
dusty fog clear to the mountain
tops, while the sun grew dark and
bright by turns as the fog increas-
ed and lessened; | saw plumes Of
dust waving above the cloud masses
as do the feathery plumes of fog
above the cyclone, and saw slender,
sinuous sand-spouts a mile high,
careening down the valley in the
arms Of the gale. 1t was marvel
Gus exhibit of the powers of nature.
To most tourists Death Valley
presents a complete picture Of deso-
lation. The mountains are rugged
and devoid Of verdure; the lowland
is a salty waste, where only the
mesquite, thorny and guarded, and
the sage-bush of the color of ashes
thrive. Even these have constant
struggle for life with the soaring
sand-storms. As to the fauna oi
the country, one finds the gauntest
of coyotes and the leanest of wilt
cats; the lizard and therattlesnake
each with horns; the centipede ant
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

der to protect the winters store
from the sharp teeth Of the skulk-
ing coyote, whose sensitive nostrils
would easily detect the whereabouts
OF an object much less redolent than
this desiccated salmon, the fish i,
either buried in the ground, stored
in some safe enclosure, or placed
amid the spreading boughs of some
lofty fir, to be drawn upon as need
requires.--Laura B. Star, in Feb.
Californian.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08
Regularity in Meals.

pO'Siai oi eiSiSo ho'o UOSu NiiOeeh
by physicians and laymen on the in
juries to health from insufficient
food. People in this country, of
every class, from the highest to the
lowest, are subject to criticism, both
on account of their method of pre-
pairing, and also of using their daily
food. Much may be said of the
preparation of food, but of late the
chief stress seems to be laid upon
the amount eaten. A writer's state
ment in a recent issue of the Globe
Democrat that many women neglect
the midday meal, or make it light
luncheon instead of a hearty meal, ,
is, as every housewife knows, true.
When there are neither husband
nor children for whom to prepare
the meal, a woman who is not fond
of cooking will resort to any sort
of q makeshift in order to save her.
self from a visit to the kitchen.
This, of course, is applicable to those
who are not in affluent circumstan-
ces. Criticism on our food are not
applicable to any one class of our
people, however, for the wealthiest
merit even more criticism than the
poorest.
In order to fulfill the objects
sought our food shodld possess three
requisites: 1t should be sufficient
in amount; it should be nutritious;
and it should be eaten at regular
intervals. Much has been written
of the first two requisites, but little
attention has been paid to the third,
which is most important. The food
in most households is usually suf-
ficient in amount, because nature
regulates this, and her demands, if
possible are complied with. 1t too
often happens that the food is not
as nutritious as it should be, and
this deserves attention. But spas
modic and irregular methods of eat
ing are the most serious evils that
threaten the health of the house
hold. When women, as stated,
neglect the noontide meal, or take
a late luncheon, it is not the small
amount eaten, but the change of
hour, or failure to eat ut all, which
causes the undermining of health,
and ultimately dyspepsia in its final
stages. The reason for this seems
evident. Nature is regular and
systematic in her operations, and to
crowd the stomach with work at
one time and to leave it nothing to
do at another; to let it be surfeited
one day and hungry for food the
next; to possibly follow regular
rules for years and then break them
without regard to consequences, will
ruin the best digestive organs ever
in existence. If mothers knew and
appreciated this fact there might be
less sweetmeats and dainties given
to children between meals. There
is nothing truer than that regular
habits prolong life, and yet it takes
many people all their lives to learn
it. People might expect to jump
from hot bath to a cold draft
without o shock as to 60 from Il
feast to a famine at all sorts of If
regular hours without serious injury
to their digestive organs.-Globe-
Democrat.
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DR.. SPEER & CO.,
SPECIALISTS.

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the system IN manner which the patient cannot
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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

A difference between knife
blade losingits temper and woman
is that the former becomes duller
and the latter more cutting.-Phila-
delphia Times.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

Amy-"So you accepted Mr..
Thorpley last night? ] thought
you told me you didn't care for
himp" Maude-"What was ! to
do? He was putting on my skates,
and had fixed one all right, when he
proposed. | had either to accept OF
fall down. Boston News.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

I'VE have lovely whist club"
she said artlessly. I'VE made a
rule that any girl who spoke should
pay penny into the treasury for
every word she uttered" "Quite
ingenious" Yes; but | don't be-
long to it any more" "Why notP''
"Pa says he cant afford it. Wash
ington Star.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

A man killed hog i'll Clinch
county and found a S. gold piece
on the inside. All the farmers in
that section have since gone to
stock raising. We have always
said that there is money in hogs
Atlanta Constitution.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

An old maid over in New Jersey
tainted after reading in the local
paper that in the manufacture OF
chamI agne the grapes are squeezed
six times.-New York World.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

Hit doan do, said Uncle Eben,
"ter take too much count of de
fac dat er man looks good natured.
De crocodile hab de broades' grin
on record. ashington Star.
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Teacher-"What part Of speech
is phonographp" Big boy-"A
noun of the feminine gender"
Teacher-"Why feminine?" Big
boy--"Because it always talks
back."-Morning Journal.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-08

Il hear you've been cultivatine
the society of that pretty widow
Van; what sre you up to2" I'm
trying to kill the weeds. Kate
Fields Washington.