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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
Block %. south side of Main, in Town of

block %, south side of Main, in Town OF
Union.
Frank c. Anderson to Frederick wich, fol-
$4,000, lot 100, at Hudson and Bergen avenues
Weehawken.
Mary Jane Quaife to Catherine Herbert for
$4,000, lot south side of Fourth street, so feet
west of Prospect street.
Edmund A. Levoe to Irving V. Durland, for 81
lot l74 Block II, lots III and IT'S, Block 10, and
one-half of lot 176, Block IS, in Kearny.
Irving Durland to Garret G. Ellison, for 81,
lots 1T3 and 174, Block 12
Julia D. W. Gould, executrix, to George Y.
Gould, for 81; lots IS, &C. ST. Block 6. lots to O.
inclusive, to IA inclusive 20 to "a inclusive, 2S
to 80, and 81 to 40 inclusive, in Block Z; 25 feet
of lot 8. Block 2, lots to 30 inclusive, Block 8;
lets to H. inclusive, Block 13; lots to inclus
i've, in Block ID.
Julia D. W. Gould to Samuel c. Mount. for 81.
lot on south side of Fulton avenue, also lot on
north side of Jackson avenue at Woodlawn ave-
nue..
Wolf Rosenthal to Bernhardt Jacoborwi ",
for 81, lot 20S on York street.
Bsrhardt Jacoborwitz, lot 208 on York street,
to Ellen Daily for 81 $50.
Mary Ann O'Hara to James Hughes, for
$3,000 parts OF lots and 5, Block 49, south
side of Pacific avenue, 81 feet west of johnson
avenue.
Mary L. Hamilton to Edwin f. Parker. for
S4. 100, land and premises south side of Emory
street, 1853 feet west of Monticello avenue
Christina Michael to George Helby, for $400,
lots III and 80 in North Bergen
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
SECRETARY OF WAR LAMONT ILL.

New YORK, March 25, 1ss3.-word was re-
ceived here today that Secretary of War
that he will have to leave the Cabinet This
rumor is in part confirmed by the statement
that some friends of Mr., Lamont, who have just
come from Washington, admit that he is Ill, but
not seriouSly so.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
OLD MEN SHOULDN'T THROW PIPES.

John Kelly of No. 15l First street. an old man
was charged this morning before Police Justice
ODonnell with malicious mischief in breaking a
window in the saloon of Richard McMullen, No.
$40 Henderson street. The accused proved to
the satisfaction of the Court that he merely in
sport threw a pipe at the complainant and it
happening to strike the light of glass, broke i,
and that there no righteousness about it.
It was small light of glass of very little cost
and Kelly was discharged
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
AN ENJOYABLE READING CIRCLE.

The Jersey City Reading Circle convened last
evening at the residence Of Mr.. Joseph Kelly on
Varick street and enjoyed a pleasant and in
structive session. This organization meets
weekly at different private, residences and
spends the evening in readings, recitations,
essays and musical entertainment. Refresh
ments are always furnished by the host, and the
gatherings are very enjoyable
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
WANDERED FROM AN ASYLUM.

woman. with snow white hair, who gave her
name as Margaret Hall, and her age as sixty
two years, was found last night by Policeman
Burke wandering aimlessly on Brunswick street.
She stated that she left the Flatbush q. ID
Almshouse, of which she was inmate, yester-
day to come here to visit friend. Police JUS
tice O'Donnell ordered her to be sent back to
FlathuSh.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
WILL CONDEMN LATER ON.

The Docks Connecting Railway Commission
which is to condemn land for the Erie Railroad
near Weehawken met at the Ohancery Chambers
today but did not transact business because of
the absence of Cortland Parker, counsel for the
Erie. The Commission will meet on April 9.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The production of Our Folks by the Junior
Dramatic Society, which had been announced
for last night. has been postponed until the
latter part of April.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
Hartnett's Thermometers
MATTERS OF FACn

Our new Perfumes have come to stayI
great demand for the new odors, Oriental
Bouquet and Mountain Flowers. Ewing &
Company.
For rickety and nervous children, Hart.
nett's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is the best.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
.AdniraI. !.

The only strictly high class cigarettes on
the market, and the only cigarette ever be-
fore tn sgccessfua competition with cigar
cites selling foe double their price. So
much for anti-tgust cigarettes. :
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
MARIA WILSON'S WILL

Judge Hudspeth sat in the Orphans Court
yesterday. He granted a motion made by
Counsellor 'srom'' Noonan for rule to show
cause why the order granted by the Court al
lowing the will of Maria Wilson to be probated
should not he set aside. The writ is returnable
next Tuesday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
STAGE HANDS MADE TROUBLE.

~Stage Carpenter Gudgeon, Of the Opera
House discharged an employe this afternoo
who was intoxicated during working hours last
night. The other stage hands, misunderstood
ing the facts quit work, but they returned In q
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25

Philip Tumulty to the Provident Institution
for Savings, on land and premises at Mercer and
Brunswick streets, for $4,000.
William H. Norris to the Fairmount Building
and Loan Association, on lot south side of
Highland senue, $50 feet south of West Side
avenue, for So, 400.
Garrett G. Ellison to Josie A. Russell, on lot 173
and 174, Block l2, in Kearny, for $500.
William II. Niehofe to The Lafayette Mutual
Building and Loan Association, on lot in Bergen
County, for $780,
Johann Sethmann to Anna Tomfohrde, on lot
north side of Seventh street, rs feet east of
Brunswick street, for $2,750.
Reinhold Wagner to Henry BraDdeS on lot S47,
Block II, north side of Franklin avenue, for
$1,000
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
CREON'S WISE COURSE.

Charles Creon. of No. 13o Steuben street, was
today before Police Justice O'Donnell as de-
fendant in suit brought by Oversesr of the
Poor Hewitt on the part Of the city to compel
MIN to provide for the support of the child Of
Mary Meleski. Creon concluded to settle the
case.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
SENATOR HOPKINS REQUESTS.
special to The jersey City Ne,os.

WOODBURY., March a5, 1S9a-The will of tho
late ex-senator Samuel Hopkins Of this place
has been probated in the Surrogate's ofdce here.
The entire estate, valued at $4,000, is left to bis
wife, with the exception Of $a, 500, which he
bequeathed to the city for the support of the
deserving Door.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
weather Indications.

/ = WASHINGTON, March rs, 1s98.- Weather indi .
cations for twenty -four hours for Eastern New
York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.--
| Fair, colder during tonight and tomorrow;
northwesterly winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
HE HASN'T PAID THE ALLMoNY.

Lawson. the man who was ordered by Chan
$125 to his divorced wife, was arrested at his
boarding house, near the Post Ofice last night by
Constable Budden for failing to pay. aud is In the
County Jail.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
Transfers,

Theodore Trupper to Peter Hauck for $4,000,
land and premises on north side of Harrison
avenue, 100 feet easterly from Second street. in
Harrison.
Louis Coute to James O'Brien for S1,90o; lot
a. Block 161, south side of Thirteenth street, 150
feet east OF Erie street.
Francis Berg to Eliza schoening for ST; lot s7s,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
April ROOFS Dav

is near. Don't be fooled with cigarettes.
Get Old Dominion. Photograph in every
package.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25

The Brswings OF the scnaefer Brewery
Are the finest bottled for family use.
Order by mail.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23
Publication of sewage.

The Engineering Record quotes the
reported results of investigations
made by officers of the Hygienic In
stitute of Munich upon the growth of
certain plants in the River Isar as
indicative of the process of self-puri-
flcatiOn in that stream in its down
ward flow after receiving the sewage
of Munich. Prof. Won Pettenkofer,
the chief of the bureau, believes that
in running streams moderate guam
tity Of human eXcreta is decompOSed
and rendered harmless in the course
of a few miles of flow. He supposes
this does not depend on mere dilution
or subsidence, but on the velocity Of
the stream, and particularly on the
presence of free oxygen in the water,
this being connected with the action
Of green alg8 and other water plants.
Observation shows that a peculiar
form Of vegetable life, sometimes
called the sewage fungus, grows lux
uriantly about a mile below the point
where the sewage enters the Isar,
abounds seven miles lower down, and
disappears farther off. The inference
is that after about twelve miles Of
flow the turbulent stream is so far
purified from nitrogenous organic
matter that it no longer contains
enough of it to support the growth Of
the sewage fungus. Also it has been
found that at the mouth of the sewer
the cubic centimeter Of fluid con-
talned 1913, 900 bacteria, while twenty
miles lower the number had dimin-
ished to 1902, and mere trace a
few miles farther. But the puriflca-
tion here referred to applies only to
residential sewage, that is, to water
fouled with human excreta, and not
To that fouled with industrial waste
products of various kinds OF manu-
facture, many Of which are directly
poisonous to both animal and veget-
able life in water. 1t is objected by
Snother writer that probably the pu-
ridcation produced by alge Is insight
ficaut compared with that due to
aeronic bacteria, entomostracea, and
other forms of animal and plant life.
He holds that the importance of the
presence of oxygen is undoubted, but
that its influence on the organic mat
ter is exerted by favoring the growth
of those organisms wsich require its
presence as a condition of life, but
that 1t does not act directly.
If mass of typhoid bacilli were
discharged into rapid current they
might be carried to a greater distance
before succumbing in the struggle for
existence with other organisms than
would have been the case with a
slower current. The editor thinks
that though much has been learned
in regard to these things within the
last ten years we are not yet sufii-
GENTLY we'll Informed concerning
them TO be justified in saying that a
stream that has been polluted by
sewage will be a safe source Of water
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23

advanced to solve 1t. or late years
the Darien route, the Panama route
and the Nicaraguan route have been
chiefly before the public. The cost
Of the Darien route Is estimated at
800, 600, 900; the Panama canal has
been severely knocked In the head,
while the Nicaraguan scheme is still
prosecuted. Speaking on this ques-
tion Gustave A. Karweise, civil en-
gincer, who has studied the matter
for upward Of generation, says that
the Nicaragua Canal cannot be built
and successfully operated for double
the amount proposed. Mr.. Karweise
proposes new route-from the Bay
Of Sasardi on the Atlantic side to
San Miguel Bay on the Pacific side.
The distance is only twenty-eight
miles and the project has an advant-
age in that on both oceans there are
natural and magnificent harbors.
Mr.. Karweise estimates the cost at
500, 900, OO0-S4S, 900, 900 for the canal
proper and S18,000,0 900 for dredging
the rivers and bays. In connection
with this proposed route it is perth
nent to remark that the Nicaragua
route, including Lake Nicaragua, is
169 miles.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23

head. These are supported by four
upright pieces, with grooves sawed in
the edges at different levels. Brack-
cts strengthen the frame and secure
the shelves properly. The edge is
finished with fringe or some other
ornamental decoration about three
inches deep.
A useful stand may be made Of a
barrel sawed in half lengthwise and
resting upon framework of plain
boards with shelf below. This may
be filled with earth for winter win
dow garden or may have cover
hinged on for a table and be draped
with cloth to hide the barrel shape,
which affords spacious receptacle.
Still another may consist of two
ends of barrel with the heads in
each part being sawed off just at the
second hoop. Through four holes in
the lower one run the supports of the
frame and let the top part rest upon
their ends. Some small brackets
under each barrel head will strength
en- the whole. Covered and decorated
with cloth and plush and with cush-
ioned sides and pockets, this makes a
very convenient work table, or, deco
rated in rustic fashion, very pretty
plant stand.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23

found that certain general conditions
must be fulfilled.
The torpedo cases should be light.
easily handled, and suiiiciently buoy
ant TO support the charge, mooring
rope. and electric cable in a sensibly
vertical position against the depress-
ing effects OF swift currents, or the
torpedoes will sink below the touch
OF passing vessels; and the mechan-
ical arrangements should be capable
OF resisting the shock from the ex-
ploslon OF neighboring mines. The
adopted spherical case meets all these
requirements. and with anchor wire
mooring rope, electric cable and coD-
nections constitutes a complete mine
ready for action.
From bomb-proof operating case
mates seven-colored cables will be
laid TO junction boxes placed at Sc
lected points in the channel. Thence
the copper cores will diverge into
cables radiating toward the advance,
and terminating in three mines, so
connected that each will explode
singly II struck, while all three can
he exploded simultaneously at will.
To I'LL the gaps between the lines, to
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23
Roquefort and Its Cheese.

Cheese, which has been the fortune
Of Roquefort, has destroyed its pic
turesqueness. 1t has brought specu-
lators there who have raised great,
ugly, square buildings of dazzling
whiteness, in harsh contrast with
the character and somber tone of the
old houses. Although the place is so
small that it consists of only one
street and a few alleys, the more
ancient dwellings are remarkable for
their height. 1t is surprising TO see
in village lost among the sterile
hills houses three stories high. The
fact that there is only a ledge on
which to build must be the explana-
tion. What is most curious in the
place is the cellars. Before the cheese
became an important article Of COM
merce, these were natural caverns,
such as are everywhere TO be found in
this calcareous formations; but now
they are really cellars that have been
excavated to such depth in the
rock that they are to be seen in as
many as five stages, where long rows
of cheese are stacked one over the
other. The virtue Of these cellars
from the cheese-making point OF view
is their dryness, and their scarcely
varying temperature of about 80 G.,
summer and winter.
But the demand for Roquefort
cheese has become so great that trick
cry now plays part in the rlpening
process. The peasants have learned
that slime is money" and they have
found that bread crumbs mixed with
the curd causes those green. streaks
of moldiness, which denote that the
cheese is fit for the market, to appear
M ch more readily than was formerly
the case, when il was left to do the
best it could for itself with the aid
of subterranean atmosphere. This
is not exactly cheating; IL is CONNER
cial enterprise, the result of coInpe-
tition and other circumstances too
strong for poor human nature. In
cheese making, bread crumbs are
found to be a cheap substitute for
time; and it is said that those who
have taken to beer brewing in this
region have found that box, which
here is the commonest Of shrubs, is a
cheap substitute for hops. The no.
tion that brass pins are stuck into
Roquefort cheese to make it turn
green is founded on fiction. Temple
Bar
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23
An Elephants sunshade.

On hot summer days in New York,
when the mercury is well up In the
nineties, it becomes almost neces-
sity to carry an umbrella, or shade Of
some kind, to protect ourselves from
the burning rays OF the sun. We
should hardly expect, however, ma
tive of Ihdia-residing in this city
to have the same need for a sun-shade,
particularly when the native is huge
Indian elephant. That an elephant
should feel the heat in our climate
seems rather absurd, but as he does,
it is quite in keeping with the gen.
eral intelligence OF this animal that
he should invent some means OF pro-
tecting himself from it.
The elephant inclosure in Central
Park contains no trees nor shade of
any kind, and on those hot days when
the heat is almost unbearable, IL
seems hotter there than any place In
New York. Grouped around the In
closure are usually scores of persons,
many with sunshades and umbrellas,
intently watching the elephants.
Some Of the hinge animals are care
fully tossing hay upon their own
backs, whilst others, whose backs are
almost covered, may be seen peace
fully resting. Newly mown grass is
what the elephant prefers for this
purposeZperhaps because it feels
cooler than hay, y,-but hay answers
the purpose very well. How many
visitors to the, park on these warm
days have realized that they were not
the only ones carrying sunshades and
that the elephants were protecting
themselves in like fashion!
The fact that elephants never at
tempt to thatch their backs with hay
during the winter, although the same
opportunities for doing so exist, seems
to prove that they use the hay as a
protection from heat. They may
sportively throw little hay about,
but nothing more. However, in fly
time, there are good and sufficient
reasons for the animals adopting the
same means of defense again; there
fore. when the flies are fierce, the
elephants cover their huge backs as
on hot summer days.--St. Nicholas.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23
The Effects of superstition.

The Duchess of Angouleme, in the
sixteenth century, on awakening one
night was surprised by an extraordi.
nary brightness which illuminated
her room. At first she thought il
was the fire, so she scolded her wom-
en- for having made so large a one;
they assured her, however, it was
caused by the moon.
The Duchess ordered her curtains
to be undrawn, and discovered that
what produced this unusual light
was meteor.
"Ah!" exclaimed she, "this is a
phenomenon which never appears to
persons of common condition. Shut
the window; it is meteor which an
nounces my departure. l must pre-
pare for death"
The following morning she sent for
her lawyer and physicians, and made
every arrangement for her approach.
ing dissolution.
The physicians assured her that
her apprehensions were ill-founded
and premature
~If 1 had not" replied she, "seen
the signal for death, l could believe
what you say, for / do not feel my
self exhausted or particularly i'll"
On the third day after this event
she expired the victim Of terror.
Long after her day all appearances
of the celestial bodies, not perfectly
understood by the multitude, were
supposed to indicate the death OF
sovereigns ani distinguished persons,
or revolutions In governments.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23

Cushing leaped a small steam launch
over a barrier OF floating logs and
sunk the formidable ironclad Abe
marie by the explosion of an iron pot
full of powder lashed to the end OF a
spar.
Since that time, stimulated both
by the rapid advance in electrical en-
gineering and by the study of high
explosives, the development of the
torpeAO, or sea mine, has heen rapid
ly pushed forward both In this coun-
try and in Europe.
z In 1869 the Board Of Engineers for
Fortifications was instructed to ex-
perinientaily study the general sub
ject of torpedo defense and to pre-
pare detailed plans OF applying the
approved methods to the several i'm
pOrtant harboss OF the United States.
Channels, rivers and anchorages were
carefully studied, aud elaborate prof.
ectsfor their defense were submitted,
compfisiatt plans for bomb-proof cleo
trio stations, tunpels TO protect the
protect the insulated wires, and
maps showing the number and pro-
posed location Of the mines. And as
the handling OF high explosives held
i'm leash by the electric current al
lows no margin for ignorance, care
lesshess or neglect the establishment
Sof a school OF defensive submarine
mining was recommended, where en-
eineer soldiers could receive thor
ough training in this special service.
The magnitude OF the work outlined
can only be appreciated by those who
were associated with Gen. Henry l..
Abbot in the development of a prac-
tical working system from meager
data and an absolute lack OF material.
At that time reliable insulated ca
bic was not manufactured In the
United States, and the electrical ap-
paratus had for some years to be pur-
chased in Europe. while special plants
had to be established for the fabrica-
tlon OF the steel cases and connec-
tions AS the work advanced II was
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23
How He Knew.

Before the fish commissioners of
California decided to stock the
streams of the State with that much
desplsed but powerful fish, the Ger
man carp, they were greatly con-
cerned as to whether it would live in
certain waters The question was
debated at several meetings, and was
finally submitted to Professor H.
an eminent authority.
Samples of the water we're obtained
and turned over to the professor, who
In short time submitted a favorable
report, and the carp were accordingly
turned loose in the rivers.
The commissioners were greatly i'm
pressed by the professors knowledge,
but one of them had a question to ask.
"How could you be sure that carp
would live in the water submitted to
your" he inquired.
why" answered the professor,
with an amused look, Il bought a
carp for ten cents and put 1t into the
water. 1t lived.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23
For busting Ceilings.

A novelty seen at recent sale OF
fancy work was broom cover to be
used in dusting down walls and CELL
ings. 1t was made OF linen, the
shape of the broom itself, and was
really an inverted bag when adjust
ed. After IL was drawn over the
broom shirr strings held it close
where the handle joined the sprints.
As it was made entirely Of wash
ables, braid and linen, it was very
suitable for its purpose and an inn
provement in time and usefulness
over the cloth which most house
keepers wind about broom for the
same Office.
Crawford avalanche., 1893-02-23

EB srocKDRIDoE. was born n
Maine, and in 1847, at the age Of Fl,
came West with $4,000 in his pock-
cts, given him 10y his father as a
start in life. He formed a partner
ship with a man named Carter, who
had a sawmill in Saugatuck, and To-
Gated in Chicago to look after the
business end Of the numbering oper-
ations. In 1851 he bought Carter
out and took personal command Of
the mill. He invested all his
spare cash in pine lands and when
the boom came in the seventies his
holdings made him millionaire in
short order He himself admits that
in 1861 his assets would not aggre
gate $25, 900, but from the war prices
for lumber, followed by the boom in
lands, very rapidly rolled up his bank
account. He is still actively engaged
in numbering, but does not give that
close personal attention to the de-
tails he once did. He is largely in
terested in stock farm near Kala-
mazoo, and many Of the products OF
his stable rank high in speeding cir
cles. He is flrst-class judge OF
horse flesh and always has a stable OF
flyers in Washington. He once owned
Bell Boy, buying him for $4,000. The
horse won $6, 500 in purses the same
season, and before the close Of the
year was sold for $50, 600. Before a
second year had passed the horse was
sold twice more, once at auction for
S41 900, and the second time for S52,-
900, and his new owner had hardly
come into possession before the horse
burned to death in his stable.