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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

There are 100 different varieties of
memory, and perhaps we cannot alto
gether choose which we will possess,
though every sort, when we have the
germs of it, may be cultivated.
To learn anything by heart the best
plan is to read a sentence and repeat it
without book, then read the next SEN
tence and repeat the two, and so on.
Repetition is Of great Importance, " line
upon line" More is learned and re-
embered by reading through one book
twice than by reading two books once.
After a thing has been learned 1t
must be recalled and gone over at in
tervals, or the impression will fade
away. DR.. NJ. Granville says we
should take ont our own ideas and dust
them MISUNDERSTANDING.
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Snake Charming.

The secrets of snake charming are
much simpler than most people imagine.
The snakes to be handled are gorged
with food until they become drowsy, or
else they are drugged SO that their
senses are dazed. Sometimes they are
kept in iceboxes, and the cold puts them
in semitorpid condition. In either
case the snakes are only half alive.
In handling the reptile the hand must
always grasp it at certain places where
the head can be guided and held from
the body. This is the hardest thing to
learn; but, like everything else, it
comes with practice. By dint of dex-
terity and strength the snake is easily
passed from one hand to the other and
is allowed to coil about the body. The
snake charmer, however, must be on
the alert. When the snake becomes too
lively, it is put back into the icebox.
In handling reptile with the fangs
in-which ought to be prohibited by
law-one requires great strength, as the
strain on the system during the per-
Torrance is very great. The grasp and
movements must be precise and accu-
rate. There is no room for hesitancy or
uncertainty. Most of the snakes han
died, however, are harmless so far as
poisoning is concerned. Charles Rob-
inson in Lippincott's.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

James Weir, Jr., in a curious little
study in evolution, shows that all the
five senses of man are found in the low
er forms of animal life. Darwin, while
admitting that earthworms are sensible
to light, maintains that they are blind
Weir, in The North American Review,
maintains the contrary. He says that
the circumscribed spots on the dorsal
surface of the worm are primitive eyes.
The microscope reveals in these spots a
transparent membrane, an accumula-
ton of pigmentary matter, a special
nerve spread out in this matter and ex-
tending to the central nerve structure.
The membrane is the cornea, the pig
mentary matter retina and the special
nerve an optic nerve. AS there is no
lens, the worm can distinguish only
light and darkness. The arrangements
for the sense of touch are not materially
different from those in man. The sense
which they are without is that of hear
ing, but sound waves are conveyed to
the sensorium through the sense of
touch. That worms have taste and
smell can be proved by experiments
with food. As to smell, put musk near
them, and it is amusing to see them
hunting their holes to escape it. THE
nerves of taste and smell are blended to-
gether and can readily be made out
with the microscope in the lips, SO to
speak, Of the oral pouch. "-Pittsburg
Times.
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Popular stones For Jewelrx.

Through all changes, when every
stone seems to have its day, the diamond
stands alone, Incompatible. In these
days stones are brought into prominence
to meet the demand for variety, and
such stones as the amethyst, the aqua
marine, the chrysoberyl, the golden
carnelian and many other stones known
as semiprecious are SO wonderfully cut
and set as to greatly increase their in
trinsic value. These stones are very
fashionable just at present set in the
form Of collar and girdle. The turquoise
has been more universally adopted in
recent years than any other stone. The
greatest number and some of the most
beautiful have of late years been found
in our own country. During the last
three years $500, 900 worth of American
turquoises have been used. And the
opal-that exquisite stone with its fairy
light dancing over its delicate surface
just now it is finding its reward aft
er many years of prejudice. Indeed, SO
far has the old superstition regarding
this stone been removed that it has be-
come, when set in diamonds, one of the
chosen stones for the engagement ring,
and the woman who can claim among
her associates the most beautiful opal
is to be envied, not pitied. -Jewelers
Circular
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MoNkEYNe WITH NATURE.

Results Are Liable to BE Disastrous, Al
though Sometimes 1t Pays.
An agent from the city was trying to
sell the grocer a new self winding clock.
There was a small storage battery con-
nected with it, and it was intended that
the battery should be kept in operation
lsy means of a small windmill placed
on the roof Of the house. The agent had
about persuaded the grocer to buy,
when the man with the ginger beard,
who had been watching the transaction
with the deep interest that comes so
natural to man with plenty of spare
time ON his hands, Clipped in.
Sometimes it pays to monkey with
nature and let her have the job of doin
all your work while You air loafin
around the county courthouse 10 miles
away and sometimes it don't, said he.
Il knowed Teller out in Kansas at
had one of them windmill contraptions
that was the ruin of him. Z"
"There never was one of these clocks
sold in Kansas at all, " said the agent,
with some wrath.
"This here wasn't a clock, " said the
man with the ginger beard, land | defy
any man in the crowd to prove | said
anything about clocks. / jist said
windmill contraption. This here was a
pump. You see, this here fellow was
sort of market gardener, and as it is dry
in Kansas, as fur as the weather is con-
cerned, he lowed to rig up pump ar
rangement that would water his garden.
So he fixed up wind pump, but that
WASH enough He next went to work
and makes a kind of swivel arrange
ment that would keep the hose movin
back and forth and up and around till
the whole patch was sprinkled. Did
all the work itself, you see. That left
him free to go down to the grocery and
talk all he wanted tor all he dast to
at least. Well, he goes away one morn
in happy as a clam and comes back at
night to find his garden all ruin. Now,
what d'you suppose had did it?'
Hogs got IMP ventured the clock
agent.
"HawgsY You make me sickl Hawgs
nothini One of them playful breezes
that Kansas sometimes gifts up had
come along and had worked that there
windmill pump so dern fast that the
water was made bilin hot by the frin-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03
Very Like a Whale.

The excavation of the ruins of Carthage
promises to yield valuable results. The
explorers of the Mound of st. Louis have
come upon wall composed entirely of
large amphor@ bedded in earth, the num-
bers Of which run vaguely into thou
sands.
A sinking of the soil has not left many
intact, but the most interesting portions,
the stamp of inscription which showed
the name Of the maker and the date of
the wine, can generally be recovered in
perfect preservation.
The most curious find, however, re-
corded SO far is that of large fragments
of a whales skeleton among the ruins of
what is supposed to be the capitol. Al
though completely buried in the earth,
this was not a marine deposit, nor even
q relic of the primitive days when Pro-
teus, as the poet says, "Pecus egit altos
visere montes."
The mystery is cleared up in letter
Of st. Augustine to his friend Deogra-
tias, written in 40S A. D., wherein he
makes mention of a bellua marina, ''now
on exhibition" at Carthage, to prove that
Jonah could have found comfortable &C
commodation for three days sojourn in
the belly of whale.-Cosmos.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

During the three seasons ended june
30, 1899, the shipments of wool from
Australia increased by no less than 435,-
900 bales, or 80 per cent of the total
quantity. During the year ended June
30, 1898, there was an increase of co.
900 bales additional, making the total
increase in the Australian wool clip
nearly 500, 900 bales within four years.
The consequence of this enormous
growth in the Australian production
has been drop Of 80 per cent IN prices,
and protection alone has saved the
American woolgrowers from being COM
PEELED to sell their wool for the some
money. The Australian clip is liable
to extraordinary and unprecedented
growth in the future, because artesian
wells have been sunk in New South
Wales and Queensland, affording an
abundant supply Of pure water to irri-
gate the arid lands of the tropics, thus
doubling the capacity of the soil.
The writer has lived and worked on
large Australian sheep ranch in the
north of Queensland. There were 100,-
900 sheep running on 200, 600 acres Of
land. One man, paid So per week and
his rations of little -four, tea, meat
and sugar. cared for every 10, 600 sheep.
He had a horse that fed itself as the
sheep did. The sheep lands of Australia
are valued at S. per acre if they will not
carry one sheep per acre, at $40 If car
rying one sheep, at $40 if carrying one
and one-half sheep, and at $40 pc r acre
If the land carries two or more sheep.
There are over $500, 600 acres of
land in one colony of Australia alone,
held by only 146 persons, CT SO, 800
acres to each person. The cheap value
of the land has been shown. 1t is taxed
at 1 per cent only after its value has
reached $12, 500, the amount below
that not being taxed. Farmers In the
United States cannot compete with
these ''robber barons" of Australia un-
less they have protection.
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am a protectionist because am an
American. We should have free trade
among ourselves because we honor one
flag and are citizens of a common coun-
try. But the man who builds no houses
here, who pays no taxes here, who en-
ploys no labor here, who does nothing
to contribute to our growth and to our
prosperity, but who lives abroad be-
yond the oceans, whence he desires to
bring his products, either farm or man.
ufactured, into this great American mar
ket in competition with ours-he should
pay for the privilege, and when he has
paid for the privilege we will cover the
money into the treasury of the United
States, and with it we will cancel our
obligations and carry on the concerns
Of government And would do this
in the name Of patriotism and my coun-
try because believe it right.-Ex-Sen-
ator B. w. Perkins of Kansas.
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A patient who was very i'll and under
the treatment of his medical adviser
was a strong temperance advocate and
a total abstainer. His physician pre-
scribed stimulants, which, on general
principles, the patient refused to take
on the ground that the example would
be very injurious to his servants and
his attendants.
The physician said: MY dear sir,
you must take the stimulants. You can
ask the servants to bring you warm wa
ter to your room for shaving. You can
have the other there. "
The patient did so. Next morning
when the doctor called and inquired
about his patient the servant said: ''Oh,
doctor, am so glad you have comet l
am afraid the patient is going out of
his mind He keeps calling for warm
water for shaving Boston Herald
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03
THE CURIOUS LEMMlNe.
A Remarkable Animal Found In the High
lands of Norway and Sweden.

A Remarkable Animal Found In the High
lands of Norway and Sweden.
Very nearly related to the field mice
are the Jennings, which are in their
way among the most remarkable of ami
mails. They are about FIVE inches long,
with very short tails. Dwelling in the
highlands of the great central mountain
chain of Norway and Sweden, they build
their nests of straw lined with hair I'M
der stones and tussocks Of grass. They
are very pugnacious. When disturbed,
instead of trying to escape, they sit up
right, kissing and showing fight.
Certain cultivated districts of Sweden
and Norway, where these creatures are
ordinarily unknown, are occasionally,
at intervals of from to 25 years, over
run by armies Of them, which stead
lily and slowly advance, always In the
same direction, regardless of all OBJ
stacles, swimming across streams and
even lakes several miles in breadth and
committing great devastation. In turn
they are pursued and harassed by
crowds of beasts and birds of prey, such
as bears, wolves, foxes, wildcats, wea-
sells, eagles, hawks and owls. Even do
nestle animals cattle, goats and rein
deer-join in the hunt.
None of these migrant jennings ever
returns by the course from which 1t
came. The onward march of the sur
vivors never ceases until they reach the
sea, into which they plunge, and swim
ming onward in the same direction as
before perish in the waves.
As matter of fact, the jennings
which perish in the sea are acting under
the same blind impulse that led them
previously to cross smaller pieces of wa
ter In safety. No survivors of the mi
grating hordes ever live to transmit
their final. and fatal axnariancs to snh-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

The greatest amount Of wool ever i'm
ported in any single year was under the
Mckinley law for the year ending June
80, 1898, so Justice. Bateman g Co.,
point out. The imports of raw wool
then were over 1853, 900, 900 pounds, or
SO per cent more than the importations
of any previous year. This refutes and
disposes of the charge, so often made by
free traders, that 1t is necessary to put
wool on the free list In order to give
American manufacturers cheap foreign
wool for mixing. They never imported
so much foreign wool as under the last
year Of the Mckinley law, the schedules
of which were so wisely drawn that
under 1t the wooden mills of the United
States were employed to their full ca
pacity, SO that the entire American clip
of 1899 was not only all consumed in
our home market, but 1873, 900, 900
pounds of foreign wool besides.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

A pretty little woman came out of
big dry goods store the other day. Her
eyes were flashing fire, and her face was
flushed with indignation.
whats the matter?" inquired a
friend who met her at the door.
why, " she said, Il just saw a man
do a thing in there that makes my
blood boil. / went over to the dress
goods counter and found him there sit
ting ON a stool and letting his wife
stand. When came along, he got up
and offered me his seat And his wife
stood there meekly and never said
word. If he'd been my husband, |
would have snatched him baldheaded.
Can you blame Buffalo Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

There is probably no city or town in
Wisconsin where so many marriages
take place as at Kenosha. 1t is the
Gretna Green for Illinois and also
many towns in Michigan. Hudson is
also noted as center for matrimonial
ly inclined couples from Minnesota, and
Hazel Green has like reputation for
Iowa and northwestern Illinois young
people who do not wish to be put to the
trouble or publicity of taking out a
marriage license. Kenosha, however, is
far ahead of its rivals in that respect.
The town is about midway between
Milwaukee and Chicago and conse-
quently has the Worlds fair city to
draw from for the greater proportion of
the business in the matrimonial line.--
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03

In the middle ages malice and super
stition found expression in the forma-
tion of wax images of hated persons,
into the bodies of which long pins were
stuck 1t was confidently believed that
in that way deadly INJURY would be
done to the person represented. This
belief and practice continued down to
the seventeenth century. The super
stition indeed still holds its place in
the highlands of Scotland, where"
says a we'll informed writer, within
the last few years a clay model of an
enemy was found in stream, having
been placed there in the belief that as
the clay washed away so would the
health of the hated one decline. New
York Journal.
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Candid.

Hostess to Bobby, who is dining out
with his mother)-Will you have an
other piece of pie, Bobby?
Bobby-Yes m.
Hostess (smilingly)-And SO you are
one of the fortunate little boys whose
mammas let them have a second piece Of
pier
Bobby-Ye m. She does when we're
out Visiting, but at home never get but
one piece. New York Telegram.
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Looming SIirages.

In what are called looming mi
RACES distant objects show an appar-
ent extravagant increase in height with
out alteration in breadth Distant pin
nacles of ice are thus magnified into
immense towers or tall, Jagged noun
tains, and ship thus reflected from
far out at sea may appear to be - or o
times as tall as it is long. Rocks and
trees are also shown in abnormal shapes
and positions, while houses, animal and
human beings appear in like exagger-
ated shapes. Before the sandy plains of
our southwestern states ard territories
were converted into verdant fields by
the ingenuity and tireless energy of man
mirages were very common in those re-
gions, the Indians regarding the phe-
nomenon as being the work of evil
spirits. st. Louis Republic.
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LABOR AND FREE TRADE.
Avast difference Between What CIeveI

AVast Difference Between What Cleveland
Says and Does.
Under our form of government the value Of
labor as an element of national prosperity
should be distinctly recognized, and the well
fare of the laboring men should be regarded as
especially entitled to legislative care.
These are the words of Grover Cleve-
land, penned at the executive mansion
April 90, 1885, in message to the SEN
ate and house of representatives on the
arbitration of labor disputes. This was
a proper subject for the chief executive
of the nation to deal with, and his SEN
timents, as expressed, were proper. But
what was his meaning2 Have his ac-
lions proved the honest intent of his
wordsp Or were these words, like so
many others that he has uttered, but
mere catch pennies-mere bids for de-
bauching the franchise lat the peoples
expense ?" Let us see.
We now have before us the fear of
free trade. The Democratic admins
tration proposes to reform" save the
mark ID the tariff that protects labor.
1.-THE welfare of the laboring man
should be regarded, said Mr. Cleve-
landp All that he cares for and the
free trade bosses care for is- to get
cheap foreign luxuries from Europe and
wear foreign made clothes. They don't
care for American goods or clothes made
by American labor.
How will these changes In the tariff
affect laborP If the Democratic admin
istration adheres to its platform upon
which it was elected to office, 1t will
put revenue tax upon coffee, tea and
sugar. These are three articles Of
daily use in every household. 1t means
an increase Of nearly 10 cents perpound
In the price of coffee Is cents more
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sequent generations, and 50 this gisan-

sequent generations, and SO this gigan-
tic mistake is periodically repeated.
Abnormal increase of number and
consequent necessity for food bring
about the migration from the highlands
to the lowlands, winding up in the
ocean. The animals only travel at night
and pause when they find sustenance
plentiful. Exhaustion of the food sup
ply compels them to proceed. Natural
ly they would not turn back on their
tracks, the region behind being eaten
bare. 1t is curious fact that during
these journeys they multiply enormous
ly and even more rapidly than at home.
Such migration lasts from one to three
years. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
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ton, and his whole patch Of truck had
been scalded to death. -
THAT was pretty tough" said the
agent
'Oh, don't know" answered the
man with the ginger beard. "As soon
as he got broke he went into politics, and
now he is gett'n a good Twin at the ex-
pense of the state. Eff it hadn't "a been
for that accident he might be still hay
in to work for Twin. indianapolis
journal
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per pound to pay for tea and an increase sse
of from l to 9 cents per pound In the
price of sugar. Besides this the internal
ravenne tax on beer is to be doubled, 80
that the workingman will have to pay
more money for his beer or else GET less
beer for his money. But what increased
taxes are there to be on the bossesF Iheir
champagne and other foreign wines VIII
nav 25 per cent less duty than former
". and their foreign clothes will cost
them from % to So per cent less. me
workingman will make this up by pay,
ing more for his tea, sugar, coffee ana
beer.-American Economist.
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Professor Lombroso, the eminent
Italian scientist who holds such very
strong adverse opinions as to the abil-
ity of women to feel pain as acutely as
men do, has lately been pursuing his
investigations in another direction, and
he has now delivered himself of the
unqualified opinion that women Of the
criminal and immoral type are invari-
ably larger of hands and feet and small
er in the head than average women.
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Standing Room Only.

/ was intensely amazed and amused
when in a cable car in New York one
day to hear the conductor call, just be-
fore the car turned onto Fourteenth
street, Hold fastI' and the way stand
ers made wild grasps fer straps made
one think perhaps the car was about to
perform some sort Of pas seul. But not
at all 1t merely Slowed around the cor
ner as our cars do every few minutes
without the warning of any conductor,
and not until it was humming well on
its course up Broadway did people re-
lax their holds and the fixed tension Of
their expression. Cor, Boston Adver-
tiser.
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Chumly-How the mischief did you
come to marry that old widow Why
didn't you marry the daughter?
Benedict thought over the matter
carefully. If l had married the daugh-
ter, I'd have had the mother on my
hands anyhow. Then I'd have had both
on my hands, but as it is, now that her
mother is provided for, very likely some
body else will marry the daughter, and
then I'll only have one of them to pro
vide for.-Texas Siftings.
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He was suffering with pain and
slight swelling in his breast and visited
the doctor for relief, who turned him
over to the kid, one of the hospital as
sistants, with instructions to have the
swollen parts painted. The kid dipped
his brush into the iodine, and with a
flourish drew a circle around the swol-
len part and proceeded to fill it in, when
the patient remarked, You are an ex-
pert at making circle. Yes, " was
the reply, Il was born and raised in a
shooting gallery. The patient faint
saltwater Mimi Prison Mirror
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Goat raising is an important and
growing industry in Oregon and some
other northwestern states. One rancher
in Benton county, Or, has fine herd
of 450 goats, which includes a number
of thoroughbred Angora bucks, TWEEN
ty-two cents a pound is the lowest this
man has received for fleece in dozen
wears