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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-29

yyhcat--SO. 2, I3c. No. o. 800.
Flouf--BeHt patents, sl.f5 per 100
pounds; half patents. h 90: third grade,
81 40, fourth grade. Bic: Northern pat
ants. 81
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16

Mr.. Mortimer Menpes, in travelling
in the east in search of subjects, came
upon curious form of courtship
Sketching one day in Burma, he no.
ticed man little distance off glaring
fiercely straight ahead of him at some
object he could not see from his posi-
ton. The man sat with the same fixed
glare the whole of the afternoon and
was at it again the next morning. Mr..
Menpes had the curiosity to ask an
English visitor what it meant The re
ply WAS, "Oh, he is in love And it
was explained that this was their meth
cd of courtship. The object Of the mans
attentive glare was girl in neighbor-
ing bazaar When man falls in love,
he has to seat himself at a certain dis
lance from his adored one and waits for
her to do the rest If she looks in his
direction once or twice on the first or
second day, he is wildly encouraged,
and if on the third day she mods at him
and smiles it is time to go TO the parents
with reference to the marriage settle
ments
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cLEoPATRA's NEEDLE.
Getting the obeIisz Aboard Ship Pretty
Piece of Engineering.

Getting the Obelisk Aboard Ship Pretty
Piece of Engineering.
Zone of the pleasantest reoollections
have to look back on, = said Adam
Johnson, sis the fact that was one Of
the party that helped to run up the
American colors over Cleopatra S needle
when it was being taken down to be
carried to New York Our vessel was
/ out in the Mediterranean with a rowing
commission, and we were at Alexandria
at the time the obelisk was being NOV
ed. The big stone had been presented by
I the Egyptian government to this coun-
try, but the people were wild about hay
ing it moved. We had to place a guard
around the men who were working on
the shaft, and even then there was al
most riot.
"But that was one of the prettiest
pieces of engineering work have ever
seen. The engineers who were moving
our shaft had a couple of big wooden
cases built that fitted around the needle
like the pieces of wood around the lead
in a pencil. There were a couple Of pro-
iectiles ON each side of the castings just
on the center Of gravity in the shaft,
like the trunnions on cannon. Under
these they put lifting jacks and just
picked that immense stone off its
pedestal, swung it around horizontal
and then lowered it as gently as could
be on long sliding way, with cannon
balls under it for rollers. They had q
square hole cut in the stern of the
steamship and slid it into the hull
through that and replaced the sheathing
outside.
''Under the shaft in the inside of the
pedestal there were a lot of bronze toads
and ornaments and the Lord knows what
not that the Masons claimed were placed
there by some of their progenitors cons
ago. | don't know anything about that,
though, and You can leave it or take it,
as you choose.
1.-THE British were not half so slick
with the obelisk they carried over to
England. They cased it up in big
sheet iron arrangement like boiler, riv-
eted it in and floated the whole thing
off through a trench dug in the sand
down to the water Then they rugged
jury sails on it and towed it over to
England, but they lost three or four
men off it before they got it in port and
had all sorts of a time generally.
"a couple of years afterward ! saw
the British obelisk set up on the east
bank of the Thames, and when / came
home the first thing went to see was
ours in Central park. "-W Washington
Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
rhE TELEpHoNe pEApeeAT.
How He Gradually Comes to Believe Thai
He Owns Your Instrument.

How He Gradually Comes to Believe That
He Owns Your Instrument.
IF there is variety of deadbeats, "
said am eminent citizen the other morn
ing, (which annoys me more than all
others, it is the man who moves into
your building because you have tele-
phone At first he drops into your office
and tells you his wife babe him order a
steak before noon and that he had for
gotten whether it was porterhouse or
sirloin He says that family across
the street from his house has phone,
and that with your permission he'll
lust ring 'em up and have 'em send for
Mrs X. Well, that doesn't bother you
much because you are thinking OF the
family across the street, but in week
or two Mrs X begins to call you up
with the request that you step across
the hall and bring her husband to the
phone Then the husband begins to
drop in to telephone his commercial ac-
duaintances until two thirds of his en-
tire business is done over your wire.
There is only one more step. One of his
agents is up, say, at Mount Morris, and
1t is very necessary to communicate
with him Immediately. AS much as "a
may depend upon word. He hurries
in and says of course you have connect
ed with Mount Morris. 1t is marvellous
how mans inventions put the miles at
naught.
"While you are chalking up 20 cents
to profit and loss he has become the pos
SCISSOR Of your telephone. From that
time on, If you are using 1t when he
comes in, he waits impatiently and
gives you look when you ring off as
much as to say, Sir, you are taking
liberties with my property which |
must resent. There are but two things
left to do--take out the telephone or
move out yourself. ! am fond Of my
offices, so the telephone had to go. -
Rochester Standard Union.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
salt Lake.

During trip through Utah, f" said
A. @. lowering of Kansas City, II wit
messed most convincing proof Of the
weight of the salt laden waters Of the
Great Salt lake A strong gale Of wind
was blowing over the lake and driving
its surface into low, white capped ridges,
while along the shore the foam lay like
fiat banks of new fallen snow. If as
strong wind had passed across lake
of fresh water of equal extent, it would
unquestionably have produced such an
agitation of its surface that navigation
in small boats would have been difficult
if not highly perilous. The waves there
showed curious resistance to the wind
and rose only to a slight elevation. Yet
there was an immense momentum stir
red up in those low, heavy, slow NOV
ing waves l ventured into the water
at a point where the depth did not ex-
coed three feet and found that it was
impossible to stand against them, as
their sheer weight swept me resistlessly
along. l was told that it was impossi-
BILE to dive through an oncoming wave
after the manner practiced by bathers
along the Atlantic coast. st. Louis
Globe-D Democrat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16

A tall young man, with pretty
young woman, sauntered across INDIE
pendenoe square yesterday afternoon
when Old Sol was at his hottest. When
they came to the ice water fountain, the
young woman stopped and picked up
one of the tin cups, and scanning 1t
ruefully shook her head at her compan-
ion and laid it quickly down again.
The next thing was to slip off small
suede glove, and placing the pretty
hand it fitted under the stream she
filled its palm with water and drank
from it three times. And the next thing
was TO see the young man bend over the
same palm while he held her wrist to
balance the novel cup, and five times it
took to satisfy him, and right willingly
did the pretty young woman fill it and
place it to his lips. Both actors were
perfectly unconcerned, and after the
young man had dried the young wom-
ans hand in his pocket handkerchief
they sauntered in down town direc-
ton. Philadelphia Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
TRAGEDIES ON ToMBsToNEs.
English Churchyards and Their Deepl,
Craven Accusations of Murder.


English Churchyards and Their Deeply
Craven Accusations of Murder.
In the ohurcbyards of Britain several
tombstones exist with the accusations
of murder deeply engraved upon them.
A stone over the grave of three children
in Warrington (Durham) churchyard
bears the following inscription:
Sleeping we were slain.
And here we sleep till we must rise again.
In Sandridge churchyard, Surrey, on
the tombstone of custom house officer
who was shot in an encounter with
smugglers is the following:
Thou shalt do no murder, nor shalt thou steal
Are the commands Jehovah did reveal.
But thou, o wretch, without fear or dread
OF thy tremendous Maker, shot me dead.
On stone in Cadoxton churchyard,
Glamorganshire Is inscribed the most
fearful accusation of murder to be found
on any tomb in Great Britain:
ITO RECORD MURDER
'"This stone was erected over the body
of Margaret Williams, aged 20, living
in service in this parish, who was found
dead with marks of violence upon her
in ditch ON marsh below this church
yard on the morning of Sunday, the
14th July, 1922.
Although the savage murderer es-
capped for season the detection of man,
yet God hath set his mark upon him
either for time or eternity, and the
cry of blood will assuredly pursue him
to certain and terrible but righteous
Judgment. -
A tombstone stood in Dulverton
churchyard few years ago on which
was inscribed:
Poisoned by the doctor, neglected by the nurse
The brother robbed the widow, which made
the matter worse.
An accusation of murder appears on
the tomb of Edwin, the Irish comedian,
who was buried in St Werburgh's
churchyard, Dublin, and also on tombs
to be found in Acton churchyard, Glou-
cestershire; Hoo, near Rochester; Little
Stukeley, and Mytton, near Clitheroe,
Lancashire. London Tt-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16

All the felid@ possess poisonous
breaths, intended by nature to act rs an
an@sthetic on their prey. If a person
cares TO experiment by inhaling, for in
stance, a cats breath, they can easily re-
alize the truth of this statement Care
fully watch cat playing with cap
tured mouse You will discover that
the mouse does not suffer, but is sort OF
stupefed, as if by chloroform. In the
Life of Livingstone, " written by him
self of explorations i'll Africa, he states
that once when he was seized by lion
and his arm broken the crunching OF
the broken arm gave him no pain, so be-
numbed were his senses by the animal s
breath. A cat seeks the child for its
soft bed and the warmth Of its bed and
lies down on the chest of the infant. Its
weight impedes respiration, its breath
anesthetizes the child, and death fol-
lows This circumstance has actually
occurred, and medical records conclu-
sively prove it.-Brooklyn Standard
Union
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
wILp cossAoK RIDERS.
Two Americans Saw Them Break Winter
Camp In Turkestan.


Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, who
went around the world on bicycles, give
4 the following account Of one of their
experiences in Turkestan:
One of the chief incidents of our
pleasant sojourn was afforded by Gov
ernor Ivanoff We were invited to head
the procession of the Cossaoks ON their
annual departure for their summer en-
campment in the mountains. After the
usual religious ceremony they filed out
from the city parade ground Being I'M
avoidably detained for few moments,
we did not come up until some time
after the column had started AS we
dashed by to the front with the Ameri-
can and Russian flags futttring side by
side from the handle bars, cheer after
cheer arose from the ranks, and even
the governor and his party dotted their
Gaps in acknowledgment.
AT the camp we were favored with a
special exhibition of horsemanship. By
a single twist of the reins the steeds
would fall to the ground, and their rid
ers crouch down behind them as bull
at full speed, they would spring to the
ground and leap back again into the
saddle, or hanging by their legs would
reach over and pick up handkerchief,
cap or a soldier supposed to be wound
ed All these movements we photo
graphed with our camera.
Of the endurance of these Cossacks
and their Kirghiz horses we had a prao-
teal test. Overtaking Cossaok courier
in the early part of days journey, he
became so interested in the velocipede,
as the Russians call the bicycle, that he
determined to see as much Of it as pos
sible. He staid with us the whole
day, over distance of 90 miles. His
chief compensation was in witnessing
the surprise of the natives, to whom he
would shout across the fields to come
and see the tomasha, adding in explana-
ton that we were the American gentle
men who had ridden all the way from
America Our speed was not slow, and
frequently the poor fellow would have
to resort to the whip or shout: "Slow-
ly, gentlemen My horse is tired The
town is not far away. 1t is not necessa-
ry to hurry SO. .
The fact is that in all our experience
we found no horse of even the famed
Kirghiz or Turcoman breed that could
travel with the same ease and rapidity
as ourselves even over the most ordina-
ry road.-Century.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
HARDENED BY CUSTOM.
The Divorced Woman Did Not Feel Com
Portable About Her Children.

The Divorced Woman Did Not Feel Com
Portable About Her Children.
The conversation took place at la
BILE in a Chicago restaurant within ear
shot of half dozen persons, so 1t is to
be presumed that it is not to be consid-
cred particularly sacred. The woman
In the brown dress had evidently just
come in from Denver. The one in black
had met her at the depot. There was an
animated description of the details of
the journey; what time she started, how
tired she got, what terrible draft there
was and so forth, interspersed with ex-
CARNATIONS of sympathy from her hear
er. Then she leaned forward and asked
with more than ordinary interest;
Have You seen George SINGER
Her companion face took on an ex-
preston that seemed to betoken resigna-
ton to all the evils the human race is
destined to come in contact with.
Eyes, twice, y she answered
''And the children?"
mo, l haven't seen them.
Nor his wife2''
"No, but they say she is quite pretty
and sensible toe"
| The woman in brown sighed
~ never heard word Of it until
about u week ago You can't imagine
what shock it gave me. He was mar
ried in December, wasn't her"
'Yes, just month after you were. ="
She sighed again.
"Td like to see the children, but I'm
afraid couldn't bear it. 1t makes no
difference how good Georges new wife
is, she won't be like an own mother to
the poor little things It's against all
reason, you know that.
The woman in black admitted that
the argument was indisputable.
"And I'd never feel right again, - the
speaker continued, apparently giving
her conscience n few affectionato little
pats and lulling it to rest. when ]
left George, tried to get the children
for myself; but you see l had no idea
what | should do. l knew 1t would be
out of the question for me to try to
struggle along with all three Of them
had faith enough in him to believe
that no would do the right thing by
them, even though my own life with
him had been perpetual martyrdom
II had only known that / should mar
nv again so soon and so well, nothing
ON earth could ever have compelled me
to give them up. But, you soc. | didn't
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! know. SO, all things considered, Iguess
I'd better go right on east AS said,
it would be terrible trial to see them
under the charge Of somebody else and
hear them call another woman moth
er 1t would break my heart
The two women finished their lunch
and went out. The baldheaded man at
the end of the table dropped his fork
with a chatter.
'Well, " he said emphatically, it's
my opinion that those three children
are better off with that new mother if
she's anything short of amazon than
they would be with that woman. Heaven
grant she won't be like their own
mother
The little audience looked as though
it agreed with him individually and
collectively. Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
A FRIVOLOUS AND SELFISH BIRD.
Immoral Life and Eviction of Its Hosts and
Fellow Nestlings.

| Immoral Life and Eviction of Its Hosts and
Fellow Nest1ings.
A popular fallacy tells us that a
/ cuckoo lays eggs in another birds nest.
/ She does not She lays eight eggs on
the ground The eggs are in size, col
or, spots and shape in accordance with
the information obtained, say, in Leigh
woods: Out of the eight eggs five or
six would closely resemble the hedge
sparrow's The other two might be
those of titlark, wren or a hnnet.
Her male friends-about three or four
to each lady-now come forward, Sc
lect each an egg and carry it in its
mouth to the nest Of the prearranged
foster mother. Only one cuckoo egg Is
placed in one nest. If he finds cuckoo
has preceded him on the same errand,
he seeks another cradle, knowing in
moment amid all the eggs present, the
cuckoo pedigree
The deluded mother matches the in
truder with her own brood, and the in
terloper, having the faculty of being
Matched sooner than the others, is of
course the first to come out of his she'll
He manages to wriggle underneath his
brothers and sisters and presents them
as a heave offering to the expectant ro-
dents, mice, rats, stoats and what not,
and within 10 hours of his existence is
the supreme occupier of the nest He
keeps his black mouth wide open contin-
ually, which the father and mother
of the departed chickens as constantly
fill until his body is too big for his
home, and he departs therefrom for
ever.
The cuckoo leaves the last week of
July. He is a restless being, like the
soul of John Brown, always marching
on. After leaving Europe he begins in
the north of Africa and ends at the Cape
of Good Hope, whence he returns to
Europe in the spring. Why does he go
away and why come back? Food-the
food he loves-the hairy caterpillar. He
will eat other grubs, bat these are his
hourly bread.
1t has been estimated in round num-
bers that out of every 100 hairy cater
pillars that wriggle into life 80 are de-
voured by cuckoos Everywhere nature
is careful to maintain her balance, The
cuckoo keeps down the millions Of bill
lions of hairy caterpillars and preserves
our cornfields from being eaten up by
hedge sparrows, The cuckoo is born
conservative, and as long as he lives re-
turns annually to the neighborhood Of
his birth. = Western (England) Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
The reply of the son was:
woman Inventor,s prayer to Congress.

A unique petition has turned up on
the house side among some old papers.
The memorialist is a woman, and she
asks congress to appropriate $500 to en-
able her to perfect and place upon the
market sundry inventions, which she
lacks means to secure patents upon.
She says: II have asked assistance from
most every one thought most likely to
aid. l began ON the common liner, went
on to the thousanders, then to million
aires, govelSlors and the president-not
the present president-but asked
Brother Arthur They all paid as deaf
am ear to it as the Alps would to the
chirp of a snowbird. " She asks con-
gress to "look into the patent office
treasury and see if you can find an idle
$500 that is doing no one any good.
Bring it out and let me use 1t for a
season. Money, like trees, yields more
by being stirred about the roots. -
Washington Post,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
A Great Problem.

"As we were going home from flying
his kite, +" said Mr.. Bozzle, my young
son says to me, i know how to fly q
kite when there's good breeze, dom q
~ and say, Surely, but l do not say
to him-why should burden him with
such things now9--that anybody can fly
a kite when there's breeze--.that the
great problem Of life is to know how TO
fly kite when there ism : any breeze I"
New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

The standard railway of America; Project
ed by the inter-locking switch and block sig
nal system.
Trains leave Mount Holly as Jottotos:
For Philadelph $50. 500. 652 no 7 a. s5l,
GIG, lt-2O A. NJ, 1881 2.30. 5.04. SIS, 6l7. 724
s.S7, lO.50P. NJ. Mondays only l.S2 Pm.
On sundays, ESQ sSl A; NJ. l2.OS, Cos, l.Sl p N
For Pemberton, 7,0S .2s. ll.O5. A. M, l.37. q
a,ti, 6l9 1905. 74S, P. NJ Sundays, SIG, lo.26'
a. NJ. 7.05 P. NJ.
For Browns Mills .in-the- Pines, Q %, A. NJ sun
For Huntington 8ordentown, TrentonandNew
York, 6.s5 9.os, 1880 A. NJ. $50, 445. 5.55 P. M.
For Lewistown, Columbus, kinkora, etc,
l.57. AL 2. n. On Sundays, 7.O5 p. NJ.
For Lum Derton, Medford, Marion ana Had
d0nheid 9-35 A.. NJ.
For Nincentown, 1890. 6.l9 P. NJ.
For Toms River. Island Heights, ETC., 2. .,
9.52. A. M, Al, 5.4. p. NJ. Saturdays only 2lO
For Trenton and New York, via Pemberton
and kinkora, l.37, AL p. NJ. sundays, 100,
For Hightstown. 7.Os A. NJ. 2lO, 544P.M. On
Sundays z05 z. M.
For Asbury Park Long Branch, etc. 952, a. NJ.
2.l0, AL. p NJ. Sundays Is. A. NJ.
For Tuckerton and Beach Haven 9.52 A. NJ,
4.gP.
Trains teave for Mount Holly as Joliolos.
From PhiIadelphia GOO 6.35, $50, 9l0 1000,
Il.20 A. M, 1870 800, 400, $50, 800, $40, 60
$780, 500, 1880. ll.45 P. N. on Sundays, 80,
$40 A. M, LOO, SEQ, 1880 P. N. Saturdays only
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington
500, 900 A. M, 100. 400, 500 P. NJ.
From Trenton, IA, 9.25, lilo A. NJ, 2-5S, DO
100 2. M.
From Burlington. $751; 1906. IL SO A. M, $780, 545
7.40P. NJ.
From Asbury Park $40, 1l.0s A. NJ. 500 P. NJ.
From Toms River, $50, 7.57 A. M, 1852 6.S P. M
Sundays 630 p. M.
From Medford, ll.55 AN.
From Browns Mills-in- the Pines, 716, s22
An, 40, $50. 6.57 P. NJ. sundays, DIDO, 600
p.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.S5, 7.l9, 7.2s, s.57
l.O0 A. NJ. 1910, All, $40 P. NJ. Sundays, 800
A.
From Pemberton (south), 1888, s.S7 A. NJ, 4.37,
5.4S P. NJ. On sundays, $50, ia z. NJ.
From Nincentown, Gas A. NJ, LBS P. M.
From ightstown, via Pemberton, 500. lO.O0,
A. M.,.702 P. NJ. via Burlington, HOP A. NJ
7.U2 y. NJ.
From Long Branch 6.23 A. M. sos p. M. sun
days 500 P. M. Mondays only HOO A. NJ.
From Island Heights, 6Ss, 7.43 A. NJ, 1928, 3S1
6.22P.M.
s. NJ. PROVOST, j. Il. WooD,
General Manager Gen. Pass. Agent.
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II you have any treasured short
lengths of old brocade, you may produce
them now and make the fronts of one of
the long Louis Seize waistcoats of them.
And If you are happy enough to possess
old lace you can make them up en- jabot
to wear with the same. 1t is to mount
the lace on bands of muslin, keeping the
folds quite soft and using as few stitches
as possible. In this way the tender sus-
capabilities of the fabric are spared,
and when the jabot fashion is over and
done with the lace remains to be used
In some other way. Fashion Journal
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SO far as the audience was concerned
Won Bulow always made point of do
ing exactly as he pleased. On one oooa
sion when a LEIPZIG audience insisted
ON recalling him in spite of his repeated
refusal to play again he came forward
and said, IF you do not stop this ap
plause, will play all Baoh's AZ pre-
iudes and fugues from beginning t.
end. San Francisco Argonaut