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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-15
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Dated Jersey City. january
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The Wings of Birds.

N. de Lucy, a French naturalist.
has shown that the wing-area of flying
animals varies from about forty-nine
square feet per pound of weight in the
gnat, and five square feet in the swal-
low, to half square foot per pound
of weight in the Australian crane,
which weighs twenty-one pounds, and
yet flies well. If we were to adopt the
last or smallest proportion, q man
weighing twelve stone would require a
pair of wings each of them fourteen
feet long by three feet broad, or double
the area of an ordinary room door, to
carry him, without taking into &C
count the weight of the wings them
selves. To pick out other aerial in
stances, it may not be generally known
that frigste-bird can travel at the
rate of a hundred miles an hour by
chronograph, and live in the air a
week at time, day and night, with
out touching q roost; that large and
heavy birds can remain almost motion
less in the sir for hours without flap
ping their wings; that birds can exert
continuously about three times the
horsepower per pound of weight that
man can, and about the same amount
more than . horse can.-Pall Mall
Gazette.
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WORDS OF WISEOM.

He that breaches the gospel of good
hard sense has an important mission
to fill
There is no possible process Of legis-
lative enactment by which lazy man
may be made energetic.
Some men are more careless about
the company their children keep than
they are of the breed of their dogs.
If man should register all his
opinions upon love, politics, religion,
literature, etc., beginning from his
youth, and so go ON to old age, what a
bundle of inconsistencies and contra
dictions would. appear at last.
Tho Importance of this powerful
sgent-public opinion-for the pre-
vention of injurious acts, is to obvious
to need to be illustrated. If sutd-,
ciently at command it would almost
supercede the use of other means.
Look at Nature with science I as a
lens. The rock swarms, the clod
dances; the mineral is but the vege-
table stepping down, and the animal
an ascending plant, the man, beast
extended; and the angel a devoted
human soul.
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TEE PApLocKED CHRISTIAN.

The padlocked Christian wears muzzle,
but Christ does not hold the key. He never
prays. "Set thou watch at the door OF my
lips": he sets his own watch; but instead OF
challenging the evil that would pass. he re-
strains the good. He Is the man who, hav-
ing made q public profession OF faith In
Christ, never opens his lips in Christ's be-
half He probably has a reason for the faith
that is in him, but nobody ever heard him
give 1t. a..
tian is, that ~ y oaly concerning matters OF
other subject he can talk we'll with anybody.
But when an opportunity to speak for Christ
appears, he sits dumb. 1t may be that he
fdgets In his chair, but his voice, like that OF
Virgils hero, sticks in his throat. There are
some Christians whose lips ore sealed with a
time lock; that Is they are willing to speak IN
prayertmeeting, but are dumb when they
ought to speak for Christ in private.
The lips Of the padlocked Christians are
not always fastened with the same kind OF
lock. In general 1t is sinful Indifference TO
the welfare of the soul Of his neighbor, and
everywhere it is false modesty and a wicked
timidity. In prayer-meeting it is knowl-
edge that he cannot speak US well as Doctor
Apollos which locks his lips; at the shop 1t
is a dread Of ridicule; in society it is fear
of seeming peculiar; at home it is the
knowledge OF an inconsistent life. This last
is a regular Yale lock, and can only be
broken by the power Of Christ.
2 Let the padlocked Christian learn the
prayer of the penitent king: "Lord. open
thou my lips" Newton says that the Lord
answers this prayer by opening the eyes and
ears, and the heart. "Then the lips open
themselves, as matter Of couse. and the
mouth Is, filed with thanksgiving and
praise. VI Golden Rule.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

In 1858 the city of Philadelphia
s'consisted of three or four little
cottages"
London's last census, taken in 1891,
gave the metropolis q ponslation OF
4,231, 421.
The population of Ireland in 1s4l
was 8, 1876, 597. Now it is little over
five million.
The first city to offer aid to Chicago
after the great fire in the Windy City
was Quincy, III.
According to his own account
Columbus was thirty-three days and
five hours in crossing from Spain to
San Salvador.
Pope John H., 532, had ''first-
water diamond of five penuyweights,
upon which was carved an exact like
ness of Christ"
Cotton has been cultivated since
time ont of memory. One of the
presents received by Jacob, Josephs
father, from the royal hand Of Pharaoh
was cotton rope"
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Git BONES FOR HOGS AND POULTRY.

CUT BONES FOR HOGS AND POULTRY.
Feeders of poultry and hogs are be-
ginning to appreciate the value OF cut
raw bones in feeding their stock. In
the cool weather of winter and spring
this article is of great value for feed
ing growing pigs and chickens, and
any farmer who is feeding much of
this kind of stock will do well to buy
q bone.cutter and attach it to his wind
mill or other power, if he has any. .
Cut bones are well worth what they
cost for manure. They contain nitro
gen and phosphoric acid, and are more
valuable by far than bone ash or the
ground steamed bones sold by dealers
in fertilizers. There is no reason why
this material should be gathered by
the bone dealers, and after steaming
to extract the glue, ground and sold
as fertilizer. 1t can be bought at the
meat market for about three-fourths
of cent per pound, and will pay we'll
for cutting and feeding. The poultry
and pigs will grind tdt for you, and
their manure will be enough richer
to repay the cost, beside whatever
profit there may be IN feeding it. It
is not pleasant stuff to handle IN warm
weather unless cut and fed immedi-
ely.-Massachu Noughman.
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DECREASE OF SOIL FERTILITY.

In recent notable article the New
York Sun argues that the decrease of
agricultural. population in all the older
farming communities is ma;aly due to
the fact that improved machinery has
lessened the number who are needed
to run farm. Rather than be idle
the surplus young men whom the new
implements have superseded have
aocked to the cities. It is certainly
true, as the Sun says, that by labor
saving machinery one man on the farm
can do the work formerly required by
three to five or even more. So far as
agricultural production is concerned
this decrease of the farming popula-
tion has not affected it. A smaller
proportion of our population is en-
gagged in farming than ever before.
But prices OF all the grains are low,
and especially of wheat, that being the
crop where harvesting machinery has
been most efficient in enabling one
man to do the work of three or four.
The picture given by the Sun,
though true, so far as it goes, is not
the whole truth. If it were, there is
no reason why farmers should be es-
pecially discouraged the past few
years. They can do more work than
ever before; but while improvements
in machinery have enabled them to do
this, there has been gradual diminu-
tion of fertility which lessons the adj
vantage they should have gained from
it. The large field cut over by self
binding reaper IS harvested very
cheaply per acre. 1t needs to be, for
both the yield and price is small, and
will not warrant the expensive meth
DDS which were formerly considered
inevitable. Thousands of acres of
wheat in the West have been cut this
year for crops of five to eight bushels
per acre, worth after harvesting
and cleaning perhaps thirty-tive to
forty cents per bushel. The
farmer may cut eight to ten acres
of such wheat in single day,
and perhaps not have at night us
much value OF grain and not many
moro bushels than the man with cradle
and rake would secure in the olden
time. In such case. it is plain that
che large cost of buying and main
tanning agricultural machinery, and
the cost of keeping team to go with
it, has given the farmer of to-day no
advantage whatever over the farmer of
thirty-fve or forty years ago.
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One of Russfa,s Queer Sects.

The Old Believers, or Men of the
Ancient Faith, are Russian sect, 30
called because they cling tenaciously
to the old service books, the old YER
sions of the Bible, the old hymn
book, the old prayer book and all the
customs that were in vogue IN the
Russian church previous to the re-
forms effected by the Patriarch Neon
in the seventeenth century. They use
the old Slavonic alphabet in their lit
urgical books; they make the sign of
the cross in o different manner to that
customary in the parent church. The
PROFESSIONS in their churches walk
from right to left instead of from left
to right, as Neon ordered. They think
it unlawful TO eat certain kinds of food,
including hare and potatoes, and they
prove from the Old Testament that it
is unlawful to cut their boards. They
never celebrate the eucharist, and
only administer baptism at the ap-
proach of death. Some of them are
fanatics, and delare all temporal and
civil government to be anti Christian !;
teach the community of goods, extol
suicide and voluntarily burn them
selves alive rather than be forced into
compliance with the rites and cere-
monies of the National church. They
are chiefly found among the peasants,
and their poverty may be one of the
causes of their possessing no places OF
public worship and meeting in each
others houses instead. They were per-
secuted under Peter L., who laid double
taxes on them, but his successors es-
pecially Catharine II. and Alexander
l., adopted milder policy with the
hope Of winning them back to the
Eastern church. Brooklyn Eagle.
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Calamities Which Have Invaded Paris.

Paris has undergone atrocious suf-
ferings through war;, famine, pestil-
ence, and calamities of all kinds. The
Normans, after burning one-half of
Paris, allowed the remainder to be
ransomed with an enormous sum OF
money. In one of the famines by
which Paris in its early days was SO
often visited people cast lots as to
which should be eaten. The taxes
were so excessive that many pretended
to be lepers in order to profit by the
exemption accorded in such cases.
But it was sometimes not well to be a
leper, real or pretended; for it wac
proclaimed one day to the sound OF
the horn and trumpet that lepers
throughout the kingdom should be ex'
terminated. ':In consequence of o
mixture of herbs and human bloGd
with which. rolling it up in q Enen
cloth and tying it to- a stone, they
poison the wells and rivers" In the
centre of the so-called ''towns''Pxris
in general, that is to say, as distinct
from the city-was ''la Manbee tde-
rived, according to Victor Hugo, from
mauvaise fumes), where Jews innuner-
able were roasted over pitch andgreen
wood, to punish what q chronicler of
the time terms their Isnthropomancy," !"
and what the Counselor de fAncre
further describes as "the marvellous
cruelty they have,slways shown toward
Christians, their mode Of life, their
synagogue, so displeasing to God,
their uncleanliness and their stencil.
Old and New Paris.
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OUR DAILY CROSS.
Luke 8 :23.

What blessed thing 1t Is that our cross is
something we must take up daily, not the
heart-rending grief that comes to us now
and then in our lives, but the cross we ever
bear while this life lasts. 1t is not the great
but the small events In life which make one
happy or miserable, or rather how to bear
them, but every child OF God knows how
much easier it Is to meet the severe trial than
the corroding cares Of every day.
How often we are tempted to be impatient
over household annoyances, to be wounded
by the ingratitude of those we have be-
friended, the harsh judgments In those we
love to fret over financial difficulties, the
lack of spiritual intercourse in our lives, the
weary waiting for the conversion or conse-
Grafton of some dear one, or the healing OF
Some painful disease.
Thus our blessed Lord, who knows our
hearts better than we can ever know them,
says, "Take up thy cross daily and folio "
me,1 We can rest in Jesus as completely in
these matters as about more poignant griefs.
Be careful, dear child of God, you do not
make your cross heavier by the burden OF
self.
Sensitiveness is only subtle form Of SELL
ishness: 1t is the II, "me," and "mine," in
us, which makes the hardest part Of the daily
cross, for our Master did not give US that to.
bear. ..,
ALI ne SENDS us is necessary IOr our spiritual
growth our Father who is the husbandman,
cannot stay his hand and permit US to be all
leaven hidden from the suns worm light.
Nay, the pruning knife must cut deep and
cut away all things which prevent the fruit
from coming to perfection.
"For consider him who endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint In your minds"
Heb 12: 3.)
. Listen, beloved, to what he says: ~ will
bring the blind by way they yknew not ; l will
lead them in paths they have not known;
will make darkness light before them, and
crooked things straight. These things will 1
do and not forsake them."-Isa AZ: 16).
We often ask our Master to make US in
struments fitted for his service. One day
when praying this prayer the thought came
to me, If had knife I needed to use,
what must it be to be useful2 Sharp, bright
and clean. And as the knife must be ground
down to make It useful, 80 must we be pol
ished and ground for his service. (Isa: 40:
q. We often find the grinding painful, but
the Lord knows just how much We need.
Dear sister, you know what your special
cross is and Jesus knows oil about it. If he
has complete possession OF your heart all the
sting will be taken from 1t.
Let us fling wide open the door OF our
hearts for Christ Jesus to enter and make his
home there, and, with him In us, we will be
enabled to take up our cross with rejoicing.
and with it follow him.-I. B. 4. In Young
Ladies Christian League.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
REUNION IN HEAVEN.

Where the faded flower shall fresheps
Freshen, never more to fade,
Where the shaded sky shall brighten,
Brighten, never more to shade;
Where the sun blaze never scorches,
Where the star beams cease to chill,
Where no tempest stirs the echoes
OF the wood or wave or hill,
Where the morn shall wake In gladness
And the noon the Joy prolong;
Where the daylight dies In fragrance
Mid the burst Of holy song
Brother,w shall meet and rest
Mid the holy and the blest.
Where no shadow shall bewiider,
Where life's vain parade is DER,
Where the sleep of sin Is broken,
And the dreamer dreams no more;
Where the bond Is never severed
Paintings, claspings, sob and moan,
Midnight waking. twilight weeping,
Heavy noontide-all are done.
Where the child has found its mother,
Where the mother finds the child,
Where dear families are gathered
That were scattered on the Wild
Brother, we shall meet and rest
Mid the holy and the blest.-
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4 WOman's CAPACITY.

The power of love, and the possl.
,bility of woman's intellect, are both
Iexempliied in the case of a naval officer
who has devoted several years to an
important and complex invention.
His girl-wife, through sheer determ.
ination to be his chief confdants, has
acquired as thorough knowledge of
the invention ss he possesses himself,
and has MIN come to her with every
trial and attempt, able to be sympa-
thetic and Intelligent throughout.
Men who sneer at feminine minds
should see this wise man lean on that
little wife os his.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Any one desirous of learning who the Holy
SpiritIs and in what relation He stands to
the religion OF the Bible will be greatly in
structed and proflted by taking concordance
OF that book and studying each passage In
which tn ere is reference to the Holy Spirit !;
especially will he fnd. that in the New Testa-
ment this Person has to do with the whole
warp and woof of the system of Christian
faith. More especially from about the time
Of Christ's cruciflxion after He had spoken
those precious words about the Holy Com
forter, and the promises to be fulfilled in
regard to the Holly Spirits presence
after Christ's resurrection and ascension.
AS the potent Influences OF this
being mark the history OF the progress
of the Christian faith in q most wonderful
Iation to the changes wrought lp the Lives
and characters of individuals. ass6ciations or
communities, this evidence Is unmfstakHbfA
Then take the testimony of the inward tBxs
perience of those in whom this ohanG G6tshas
been wrought as confirmed by their subse-
quent lives. and what wonderful attestation
we have. Then number up these testimonies
in the living witnesses of the present day by
thousands and tens Of thousands In
different. lands. the noblest and the pur-
est OF the children OF men, and how glo-
riously have the promises Of Christ been
fulfilled. What inc controvertible evidence we
have of the reality. presence and power Of the
Holy Spirit in the hearts of the children of
men. The worlds philosophy may not be
able to gee how it is, but the Scriptures are
being fulfilled and his right arm OF sue epSth
in the church of Christ is rapidly advancing
the kingdom of God on theearth. h.-[Relisiols
Herald. - 49,
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LITTER FOR THE STABLE.

The matter Of litter for the stables
is one deserving attention at this
time. Formerly, when economy was
not considered as it is now, the straw
was looked upon as worthy of no
better use than to be trodden under
foot and go into the manure heap.
But now the straw is made a valuable
food, and, by cutting it and adding
some grain food richer in nutritive
elements, it is easily made as valuable
as hay, so that it cannot be used
as litter any more. There are several
other substances that may take its
place that have no food value, and
these should be collected for use as
soon as possible.
The first and best of these is leaves
from the wood lot or the forest. It
has been found profitable to keep up
a plantation CT timber for this sole
use, if for no other. One acre of
leaves will supply a large stable, and
should be gathered into heaps and
covered from the rain. They are soft
and warm and make the best of
manure. For the horse stables they
make it possible to keep the manure
in the stalls, especially if they are
loose box stalls, the whole winter, or
at least half of it, and thus save much
unnecessary labor in removing the
manure daily, as is often the custom.
The litter is trodden hard and does
not decompose, and thus, when kept
renewed by additions every few days,
the stable is cleaner and less often
sive than one that is cleaned daily.
Sawdust is the best litter for cow
stables, but it should be of hard wood
and not pine. It is very absorbent,
and little of it sprinkled over floor
recently cleaned freshens and purifes
the stable. But it will be better in
every case to dust the floor with gyp-
sum as soon as it is cleaned and be-
fore the litter is spread. Dry swamp
muck is next to sawdust for it's clean
illness, and better for its use as ma
nure, for it's antiseptic quality sweet
ems the air of the stable, and it is the
greedlest of all absorbents, taking up
quite it's weight of liquid matter. If
straw is used it will be trebled in value
by cutting it small in fodder cutter.
It then lies best on the floor, covers
the manure better, and is more alb
sorbent than long straw. Owing to
the feeding value of straw, the dairy
men had better use sand or dry earth in
the place of it, and feed the straw to
the dry COWS and the calves. It is
also excellent rough food for the
horses. A horse may be kept in ex-
cellent condition with any kind of
straw, cut and wetted and mixed with
the regular ration of meal, and this
food is far cheaper than feeding whole
grain and hay. The saving will be
fully one-third, and the animals will
be kept in better condition. New
York Times.
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On superficial view farming has

On superficial view farming has
been made easier by this increase OF
labor-saving machinery. It is easier
mainly for the hired man. His labor
is lightened. That OF his employer,
who is obliged to pay wages, taxes
and meet household expenses with
less net profits than he made ten,
twenty or thirty years ago, has been
increased. Isseems quite likely, too,l
that the greater amount of land which
modern improved machinery enables
a farmer to plow, SOW or reap is In
part responsible for the decrease Of
yield and of profit. If we could have
large yields, such as the best classes
of farmers used to grow, the present
low price of wheat might be made to
pay something. But the crop has
gone down as well as the price. It has
been necessity of farmers who had
tsen used to growing wheat largely,
and who had the machinery for hars
vesting it, to keep on plowing and
cultivating large areas that they could
not manure. It is an unfortunate fact
that by the use of mineral manures
wheat and other small grains can be
grown even on lands to far exhausted
to grow other crops with profit. Ths
mineral fertilizer most needed fof
wheat is phosphate. This has been
used to grow wheat crops to the ex>
ihaustion OF the nitrogen in the soil.
The farmer who has grown wheat in
this way finds after 9 few years that
his land will produce wheat If dressed
with $50 to 200 pounds Of phosphate,
but it will not grow. corn, potatoes or
other crops as it used to do.
The excessive sowing OF wheat on
large tracts with small yields has, we
believe, run its natural course. The
wheat grower of the future must SOW
fewer acres and get large enough yield
to give him some profit, however low
the price. But when this time comes
the price of wheat must advance to
point where it will pay to increase the
permanent fertility Of the soil twill
be slow work to retraoe the steps by
which much of our cultivated land has
been depleted of its fertility. But
with the use of clover and the combin-
alton of wheat growing with other
crops and the keeping of q greater
amount Of stock this change can be
made. But it can only be by an inn
provement in the character Of stock
SO that its keeping will be more than
paid for, leaving the manure pile aa
the profit. This improvement Of the
character of farm stock meets us as the
first necessity in any discussion OF the
means to secure better farming
American Cultivator. !,59, Z;
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Fire Losses.

Fire losses in the Unitsd States and Can.
ada for the entire yearof 1890. ascording to
the New York Commercial Bulletin, amount
cd to e1O6, ,99s, 345 for 1S91 S1s7, 716 $50, and
for 1892, 1882, ,704,7OO. BUT Notwithstanding
the efforts made through higher insurance
rates and otherwise to keep down the record,
the eleven months OF 1898 alone show total
lose Of s144. $40, 400. The full year will prob.
ably bringthe losses up I'd the alarming total
OF Sl56, 900. 600.
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may be found at our post doing our whole
duty, And when the mists Of the river of
death gather on our eyelids may the good
Pilot take the wheel from our hands and
guide us into the calm harbor Of eternal
rest
Drop the anchor, furl the sail,
am safe within the vale.