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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
AMONG THE MosLEMs.

The Moslem customs of eating are
entirely different from those of Western
life. A white cloth is spread upon the
floor, wherein the dishes are placed.
Before beginning the meal the guests are
invited to wash their hands, mouth n
nose. The host then raises his hand
and duplicates the blessing of the Al
mighty by Observation-Disclosures
the name of God The guests then dip
their fingers into the anne dish with the
host, but they must not eat with more
than three fingers, nor open their mouths
wide, nor take large mouthfuls, nor
swallow hastily. If the guest has occa-
sion to drink in the course of the meal
he must do it softly. When the repast
is over the host again raises his hands
and exclaims, Praise be to God"
The staple dish of all Mohammedan
dinners is a plain meat cooked in a
large quantity of rice. This dish is usu-
allv placed in he centre, and curries,
preserved fruits and OTHER toothsome
ilavors are added at discretion. In the
economy of the household it is very
necessary that the Moslem wife should
be able to cook, for she Is held respon-
sible for the entertainment of the guests,
Where there is more than one wife the
cooking is taken by turn, a week at a
Time.
Although among the poorer classes the
women are not yelled, it is usual for
those of good family to go forth COW
cred with what is called in Asia a Bour-
ka or in Egypt a Habarah. The con-
cealment of the face of a woman was
strictly ordered by the prophet, and Ma
homet must be held responsible for the
exceedingly ugly covering which is used
by the Moslem women when travelling
abroad.
In a Moslem household the mother, and
pot the wife, is the head of the harem,
and she is looked up to with respect by
the wives. In the event of her death the
mother of the eldest son claims the rule
of the household. 1t is not Mahomet
whom we must blame for the degrade
ton of women in the East, for it would
not be difficult to show hat his ideas
about women were somewhat in adj
vance of his contemporaries. He used
TO say, Woman was made from a
crooked rib, and if you try and bend it
straight it will break; therefore treat
your wives klndly.-Home and Country
for November.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08

DFED,

MISUNDERSTANDING, on Nov. 5, 1894, Robert
Harris, beloved husband OF the late Jean
Brown Harris, native of County Tyrone, Ire
land, aged IS years.
Relatives and friends of the family are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral from
the residence of his son-in-law, James Nc
Clellan, No. 1913 Third street, on Friday at 2
?. M.
MooRE-on Nov. :, 1891, Chester A.. beloved
son of James A. and Elizabeth H. Moore,
after a short Illness, aged 2 years and c
months.
Funeral on Friday, Nov. ., from residence Of
parents, No. 80 Thorne street, at 2 P. N.
THAYER-on Wednesday, Nov, z 1894, Katie
Youngest Child of Ellen and Martin Thayer.
in the tenth year of her age.
Relatives and friends of the family are re-
spectfully invited to attend her funeral on
Friday, Nov. 8, at 2 P. M. from the residence
of her parents, No. 555 Grove street.
ROsS-On Tuesday, Nov. G, 1894, at No. SO Van
Wrinkle street, Eliza j.. daughter of Robert
ard Eliza Ross. aged "a years.
Relatives and friends areV respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral on Friday, Nov.
al $50 p. NJ, from st. Masy's Episcopal
Church, Hobolsen avenue.
wednesday, Nov. Z, 1894, Patrick
Smith, aged 35 years.
Relatives and friends, also Court Gen Wayne
No. 1851, A. O. f. Of A., are invited to at
end the funeral on SATURDAY, Nov. 10, at 8
4. NJ, from the residence OF his antt, Mrs
Mary Callahan, No. 1A5 Pins street; thence to
It. Patrick's Church, corner Oecen and Bran
all avenues, where a solemn high mass OF
,eauiem will be offerad for the happy repose
if his soul. sis4,s
x~oGEscH-on wednesday,. Noy. 1874, Lena,
beloved wife CT Herman WogeSeA1s snY
daughter Of Carolina and the I5te FIasry
Week, aged SO years and 4 months.
Relatives ard friends are invted tn ssttena
the funeral from her sate RES S75eA c3snse o.
Ege and Jaesssan avenues, On Satas ~, 1sSss
10, at 2
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
STATE ~GLEANINGS.

Bluefsh are still biting yigorouslys.at
the Corson's Inlet Railroad Bridge.
While coon hunting near Petersburg,
on SATURDAY. night, WI, William 2 b Luton SIla ana
Rows with sling shots killed so chick
ems belonging to a man at Third and
Lemon streets Camden. Policemen are
A wildcat was shot on the farm g I
Gabriel Ludlum, near Newton, a rev
days. ago. .
< pike that weighed seven pounds sd
at Willow Grove, Gloucester county, lasr
week..
w. w. Jeffrey e Co., at Eiberon, were
full Of weak fish ono day last week. The
storm made it impossible for the crews
10 get them shore. The nets were dam
aged beyond repairs, besides the loss of
several thousand pounds of fish, which
would make the total damage foot up to
several hundre dollars.
4 land turtle found at Bound Brook
with the letters c.. e. cut in his lower
shell, has led TO he ggsestln fna Y
deavor Society,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
UNDERTAKING. GAME LAWS.
The Construction of the Act Relative
TO Protection of Squirrels.

Fish and Game COMMISSIONS Frothing-
ham of New Jersey, wrote the other day
that he had been annoyed folks who
claimed to have had advice from this
office that there was no law on grey squir-
rels in New Jersey. AS authority for his
notion that there is such a law he sends
us a letter, which is in the nature of a
legal opinion given by the counsel to the
Commission, to the effect that while the
law does not mention grey squirrels,
nevertheless, in the opinion of counsel II
was clearly the intention OF the author
of the statute to protect them.
Under ordinary circumstances 1t Would
probably be quite sufficient to point OUT
that the law itself must be accepted as 1t
is, not as il might have been If its au-
thor had put his unexpressed intention
into effect. But the New Jersey Com
m~issioners have as much as declared
their acceptance of this view of counsel,
and have given out that grey squirrels,
not named in the law but assumed by
counsel to ave been in the MIND OF the
author of the statute, may not be killed
between certain dates not designated IN
the statute, but likewise conjectured by
counsel to have been in the authors
mind. o
This surely is to bind new burdens and
g~rievous to be borne upon the honest and
long-suffering Jersey gunner His task
has been as exacting as could be re-
quired of the average sportsman, TO keep
posted on the eVer-changlng Game laws
and to conform to them, as enacted at,
Now the Commissioners propose to re-
auire of him compliance not only with a
law as actually adopted by the Legis-.
lature, engroSsed and published, but
with it as it might have been IT 1t had
been enacted, engrossed and puDllshed IN
some different shape. The well-meanins
citizens must know both the letter OF
law and the original but unfulf1lIed IN
tent of its author. Moreover, as this
original. intent is now known only to the
gotten it, to arrive at it correctly Is
purely a triumph of guesswork, and in
this the average individual, IMMERSED in
the tortuous ways of legal logic, is at
a distinct disadvantage.
The chances are as ten to one that ne
will ~conjure up an intention which will
prove to be wholly at variance with the
intention guessed by official counsel to
the Commission. For instance, if the
statute protects only BLACK or for squir-
rels,' the gunner may assume that the
author intended to protect gray SPUR
Commission may exclude the gray SOUR
rel and include the chipmunk. When
mind-readers differ. the official guesser
will nave the support of Commissioners
and wardens, and for acting IN his hon
est but mistaken guess the gunner will
go to Jail.
With such a substitution of game law
conjecture for game law text, the sports
man who ventures to do any shooting at
all will be in constant peril of landing
himself in the lookup or of being required
10 give bonds for having obeyed the let
teri of the statute, but violated the uneX-
pressed intent of some of last years
legislator, as conjectured and commune
Gated in opinion of counsel to the Com
mission.-Forest and Stream.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
TOBACCO AND DIPLOMACY.
zood or BAD Cigars May Make or
Ruin "a Nation.


Ruin u Nation.
The gentleman who taught Prince Bis
narck Russian has been giving his re-
collections of his astute pupil. One de-
;%iyerance of his is especially noteworthy.
Upon the Professor complimenting the
Prince upon his cigars, the later replied:
Good cigars are the best friend of the
diplomat; the best dinner that ever was
cooked would leave a bad impression if
followed by bad cigars" This latter
statement seems unnecessary, for surely
40 host worthy of the name would make
such an error, it would be indeed
spelling the ship for a pound of tar"
out as regards the eulogium on tobacco,
now true it is!
Not only diplomats, but men of BUSH
less have cause to speak highly of it.
1t makes intercourse easy from the first,
gives the talk a friendly tone, and facili-
tates agreement. Here in England this
aas only begun to be understood; in old
fashioned houses in the city the weed is
still tabooed as being something Bohem-
ian and disrespectable. But by the
younger establishments n among the
junior partners of the old ones, it's mer-
It's as a lubricant are well understood.
When an American comes here to
trade" it is not too much to say that il
is five per cent. in hat E~nglishman's
.avor who offers him a good cigar. 1t is
If itself an act of hospitality, and one
which in this country he will the more
appreciate from it's rarity. The advan-
ages of the business cigar are various;
I predisposes the mind to agreement,
tvoids awkward pauses n deprives ST.
ence of antagonism.
Instead of prolonging matters, as it
night be thought to do, it shortens them
BY doing away with Superf1uouS talk. A
nan with a good cigar is ~indisposed to
open his lips unless he has something 10
say. In diplomacy l can understand that
tobacco is even a still more potent ally:
10 hide ones too speaking countenance
IN smoke, or to puff it Gin the friendliest
nanner) in the eyes of ones antagonist,
cannot but be advantageous.-Janes
Payn in ond Illustrated News"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
ENGLAND's PENSIONS.
Veterans of Her Numerous Wars Re
ceiye But Poor Treatment.

England has never been generous to
the veterans of her numerous wars. Her
peusions are miserably inadequate M
her soldiers homes or hospitals often
places of torture instead of abodes OF
comfort. One of the periodical spasms of
reform is passing over the country and
the sufferfngs of old warriors are being
freely ventilated. Stringent rules and
regulations are mostly complained of, al
though the manner in which the inmates
of homes are treated by the officials is
often unmanly and indecent.
Some pathetic case is revealed almost
every day. At the Kilmainham Hospital
was found an old man who had lost a
leg before Sebastapol. He forfeited his
tension of twenty cents a day when he
became an inmate. THE Queen he
toldt an investigation commission, lis
very kind to my wife. She sends her $40
q veaT\ because we had eight sons in the
army This brave old fellow mourned
only for being separated from the old
woman In his declining years. Said he
cents a day my wife and myself won't
trouhle YOU any more, not even to bury
rs" on being asked if he We're comfort
able. another old veteran said:-"No, l
can't saw that / am My place is up at
the top. and / have to go up ninety steps
before I can sit down, II l want TO
smoke / have to go down 1870 steps to get
one. From morning to night l AVE to
go up and down at least l,oSo steps, and
it's very wearing at my age.
Only a few weeks g one of the few
Waterloo veterans left walked from
Yorkshire TO London to ask that his mis-
To q living amount Radicals are max
ing the most of these incidents and de-
handing that the pensions OF royal bar
nacles be scaled down and a little more
who have fought the battles of their
country EXCHANGE.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
A TRIP THROUGH D

Bombay is London orienta1ized. In one
sense of the word, one cannot help feel
ing the British atmosphere on every
hand 1t is a cosmopolitan tow and
a Midway Plaisance on a large scale.
R~ed-jacketed English soldiers stalk the
streets, the absurd little forage-caps
having given place to the more military
looking pipe-clayed pith-helmets, with
accurately folded puggaries, but still
rather absurd looking-in my humble
opinion at least-by reason of the abb
surd little canes they are required to
carry. Why a soldier should be COM
PEELED to carry a doll-baby cane when off
duty l could never imagine, except n a
his superior officers see it is advisable
for him to carry something i'll his hands
TO keep them busy. The native soldiery
were far more impressive and military
looking mem than the Tommy Atkin-
sons" For the most part they are mag
njdcent specimens of manhood-hand-
some. tall, eagle-eyed, with a magnih-
cent carriage and superb bearing. Their
uniforms. a sort of compromise between
the conventional British dress and the
native costume, are wonderfully becom-
ing to them, h gorgeously colored 1ur-
bans forming a finishing touch that
leaves nothing TO ne desired from On
artistic point of view.
Apart from these. the streets are
thronged with a most cosmopolitan
crowd. Government officials, in white
duck uniforms; Parsees, with their curl
ous looking hats, that look more like
the double crowns of the ancient kings
of Egypt, as depicted on the Pyramids,
than anything else; Arabs, Hindus, Chi,
uese. and natives of the city itself, all
in their own peculiar national garb. Here
and there we see a gaunt n grlzzled
fakir, half nude, with his magic flute
and basket of cobras. and perhaps tug
cling an unwilling monkey in his wake,
that is grinning from sheer nervousness
or disgust.
In The midst of all this, bpggfes and
stylish looking dog-carts are passing to
and fro, many driven by sweet-faced
English girls, looking temptingly delight
full ii their, dainty gowns OF SWISS or
lawn,-perpetua1 M girls III inns
balm:y clime.-Home and Country for
November.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
TENDERS AT LAST.
David Young Writes Mayor Wanser
That All Cars will Soon Have Them.

Mayor Wanser this morning received
the following communication from the
Consolidated Traction Company. 1t is
good news n explains ITSELF
Some five months ago in conversation
With me. you requested me to call the.
attention of the directors of this COM
9any to the necessity of placing tenders
IN our cars in this city for the protec-
ion of the public. You will remember
hal some -four weeks later 1 called
Ipon you fand informed you of the will
agness of our company to comply with
your request. / told you at that time
that the inventors of the tenders were
till experimenting With that article,
and that there were no companies or
builders able to furnish any sue num-
Der as we needed. 1t was, and is, our
Intention to give the people of this city
he greatest possible protection in this
way at our command. To that end we
nave been improving upon the tenders
previously invented. and are very glad
to inform you that we lave men now
1T work placing the most improved fen
der on our cars. and that we hope to
have every car in service equipped with
them before the close of the present
year.
very truly yours,
a DAVID YOUNG,
General Manager"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
HOW Dead Are We, Anyway

The motto for Democrats is, do NOT
be discouraged"
We will fight many a battle yet ana
win them, too. We all remember le'o
and 1880. We have seen the Republicans
recover from the Folger defeat in 1857
We reversed our own defeat OF 1888 III
1920. The Republicans have his tune
snerped from lust as crushing a disaster
in 1892. Politics are like a pendulum we
orc at one end of the are today. Next
wear or the year after we will SWING the
other way. Some of us a couple Oh years
ago in the citation of our victory SOME
what foolishly predicted that the Repuoh
Gan nartv would never raise its head
again; it was dead. Well, it Shove yes
terday just how dead it was.
Well. we are not dead either. Not a Dill
of II We are not only alive, but we are
marching on-marching on to vlctorN'
Truth is eternal, and wisdom and right
are snra to triumph sooner or later. The
principles on which Democracy is based
are not affected by the wild scramble OF
panic-stricken people.
parbans the ultimate triumph of Demo-
cratic ideas will sven be FASTENED by the
result of yesterday. We have no doubt
but the Republican party will forthwith
resume the mad career of crime which
was checked in 1892. 1t will not take Tom
Reed and Bill Mckinley and Tom Piatt
long to show the people their true char
acter. Then we shall have another tidal
wave.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
BODILY EFFECT OF EMOTION.

Many serious maladies have been at
tributed to the action of moral influ
ences. Sennert believed that fear was
capable of inducing e~rysipelas. DR.. H
luke aid especial stress on the influence,
of fear in the contagion of rabies, and"
on record of emotional patients whe
suffered all pains and inconvenience OF
numerous maladies, inaugurated solely By
emotional disturbances. Depressing emo
portant part in the development of tn
berculosis. Puerperal fever is also en-
couraged by depressing moral emotions.
II nave often" says M. EervieuX.
seen young women in a fair way of
recovery hurried into mortal Illness by
reproaches or mental agitation from
whatever cause" This view finds very
general support among the members o.
the profession.zRevue SCIENTIFIC.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
A L DISCUSSION.
Australians Prefer the Pronuncii
tfon which Prevails in London.

ZION w RICH f-TcVaAlS III AL0RGOhs
Our Australian cousins are very much
exercised over the question Of their own
pronunciation of our National tongue.
Whole columns of theirnnewspapers are
devoted to the diseussion5of this interest
ing question. The young Australians
allege that their pronunciation of Eng
lish is much more graceful than that
which is adopted even by thet bet
ter educated classes in this country.
The older generation shake theirsheads
and affirm that the colonial dialect, as
spoken in Victoria, is getting worse every
day. The young generation retort that
their parents speak in various English
dialects, while English dialects in Aus
tralia are unknown. The older genera
ton replies hat local English dialects
have an historical past; and that, as the
history of those cannot be transported
into the colony, standard English and no
other should be chosen as the language
of the Antipodes.
The truth of the whole question seems
to be hat the London dialect, or some
thing nearly akin to it, is becoming the
standard language of Australia. 1t is
distinguished, or the reverse, byea great
uncertainty as to the use Of the initial
h, a weakening of vowel sounds gener-
ally, the substitution of the / sound
for the a sound in such words as paper,
and the dropping of the final G In such
words as singing. Nor is 1T unnatural
that the most thickly populated district
in England should have imposed its
dialect upon the colony to which it pre-
sumably gave the most coionfsts.
The linguistic peculiarlties which
strike an observant strange in the New
World beneath the Southern Cross are,
first, the uniformity of pronunciation
among all classes; and. secondly, the
absence of local dialects. such as those
which distinguish our various counties.
These facts are well worthy the atten-
ton of students of language. and it
would be we'll if some student like DR.,
To.rA ~ Nv r 1nxrl Wpfa IA tal{a nnfa
of this curious Observation-Disclosures
Mercury. t n 8t
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
GIRLHooD's CHARM IN WOMAN.

The woman who keeps the simplicity o.
her girlhood, its generous impulses ant
quick sympathies, and who adds to heF
natural gifts the enlargement of study
and the crown of experience, is always a
her best and never past it. When the ex
terror attraction of form and color di-
the radiance of our inner illumination
will more thar compensate for their de
p~arture. But, in order that this shoulf
be so, her moral must equal her intel
lectual gain. She must be willing te
learn, not only her own powers, bui
her own defects also, and to court thu
good influences which ear help her to
escape from the decisions of sense gan6
She must discard the petty measures OF.
vanity and self-seeking, and learn t.
love her race, her country, and the hu
manity which she should help to adorn.
Julia Ward Howe, in Ladies, Homo
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
DEPARTED GLoRIEs OF ARIES.

Listen, now, and the doves of st. Tro
phine may tell you of the 100000 people
that Aries contained when, in It's port
Caesar built the galleys with which he
conquered Massilia; they may tell you
why Ausonius called it the Little Rome
of GaulS'why Constantine made 1T the
capital of all the Gallo provinces; why
even in Charlcmagne's time, a history
writing bishop. named it Aries the opu.
lent and why, after commerce and
liberty had made it rich and beautiful
again in the twelfth century, and religi
Gus wars had caused to languish again,
It's old prosperity revived when Provence
was united to the crown of Franc Then
If you can follow them, as with a rush
ike winds. they fly out of their enchant-
ed cloister, they will show you many
things Roman, medieval n Renaiss.
ance, which in the. wakeful nights of al
the rest of your life you will rejoice tn
remember.-The Century.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08

NEW YORK is the principal SUFFERER
by the unthinking scramble of the voters
1ge delivery of the State to Tom PlatF
through his puppet, Morton, is bad The
adoption Of the reapportionment clause
of the Constitution is simply awful. 1t
makes the vote of one hayseed Republic
can count equal to two votes OF intelli-
gent Democrats in New York or Brook
lyn, and it fastens this yoke upon the
people for twenty years to come.
The reign of phariseeism is i~naugurated
by the expulsion of all horse racing from
the State. 1t is indeed a question
whether, under the gambling clause of
the new Constitution, a man may play
billiards or chess, may bowl for a prize
or play a game of cards in his W
house. 1t is not to be said that the law
win ever b. enforced in it's full extent,
but the opportunities it affords for perse
cution are ralimited.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
CORPORATION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the Commission
ers Of Assessment for Jersey City will meet
at their office in the building occupied by the
Board and Street and Water Commissioners,
corner of Jersey avenue and Mercer street,
Jersey City, n. j., on Tuesday. November IS.
1894, at 8 o'clock A. NJ, to appraise and deter
mine the damage by reason of changing the
grade of Columbia avenue. from Zabriskie
street to a point 500 feet north of Lincoln
street, and will then and there hear all parties
who desire to be heard on the damages that
may be sustained by reason of changing said
grade.
MICHAEL SCHULTZ, Jr..
CORNELIUS ]. CRONAN.
Dated Jersey City, N. j.. October 26, 1894.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
ESSM4KIN
NOTICE To

Sealed proposals for removing dead animals from
the streets of Jersey City, for one year from date OF
signing contract will be received at the Office of the
Board of Health of Jersey City. at Police Head
quarters. corner of Cooper place and Gregory
street, at four O'Clock +. NJ, on Thursday, October
Is.
Blank forms of bids and specifications can be had
ut the office of the Clerk of the Board at Police
Headquarters.
Abernethy. President of the Board of Health, and
handed to the Clerk at or before four O'Clock P. NJ,
on Thursday. November 18th inst.
The Board reserve the right TO reject any and all
bids if deemed for the best interest of the city.
BY order of the Board of Health.
G. P. ROBINSON.
CLARK