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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

The special committee on elevated
and street railroads, which will soon
be in session at Albany, ought to do
something besides going through a
form of perfunctory investigation.
The resolution under which it will sit
gives it ample latitude to do good
work. 1t has power to investigate the
whole subject OF traction in the cities
of the state. 1t ought to fluid the
causes of the Inconvenience and dan.
gers incident to the introduction of
the new methods by which the street
railway business is now virtually revo.
lutionized. The new methods are Ger.
tainl y h very great improvement over
the old. Nothing any committee
could do would be effective to
check the use of electricity as a
motive power. But something can
be done to check those whose reckless
handling of these new and great
forces is resulting i'll SO many deaths.
Whatever else the committee does or
leaves undone it ought to find out the
cause of these deaths. The use Of cleo
tricity is not responsible for them.
Science is not. Progress is not. The
fashioned mule car is more dam
gerous to the public than right
ly handled electric ear. What
the committee ought to find is why
electric cars are wrongly handled and
what can be done to stop it, 1t will
not be possible to abolish the igno-
rance and curelessness which are re-
sponsible for the deaths under the
wheels of the trolley car.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

ACroRs, Vocallsts, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey of liorehound and Tar
Pixies Toothuche Drops Cure in one minute
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
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OF the Massachusetts state tax of
81, 800, 900 Boston pays 1888, 900, and
Worcester $54, 535. Two towns are
80 small as to pay only $45 each.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

There are $4,000 children who are
not able to attend school in New York
owing to lick Of school accom- moda-
tons. The schools in all tho large
cities, and even in most of the small
ones, are entirely inadequate, and are,
in many eases, disgracefully over
crowded. Our schoolhouses do not
increase III proportion to the popula-
ton, and our cities must build these
houses faster if wa are to keep our
reputation fdr providing universal free
education.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

Phosphorus was discovered in 1869 by
Brandt Of Hamburg. NE37
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

The interesting rumor has been set
ahoat that the house of Belmont, in
the person of Mr. Perry Belmont, i'll
tends again to become an active factor
in the Democratic politics of the state
and nation. August Belmont, ST., it
will be remembered was for many
years the chairman of the national
committee of the party, and in that
capacity conducted the campaigns Of
the Democracy in the eventful years
during the war and subsequent to it,
when TO lead the party was to lead a
forlorn hope. Mr.. Perry Belmont
marked for himself public career.
He went to Congress and won distinc-
ton there. Mr.. Cleveland gave him
a minor foreign mission, at the close
of which he dropped out of public
life and became man of fashion,
but, Ms his friends claim, he still re-
NAMED Democrat.
The desire to re-enter public life
has, it is alleged, returned to him,
and it Is intin ated that this is the ex.
PLANTATION of Scna or David B. Hills
recent visit to Newport and the cruise
on the Belmont yacht that followed
it. 1t is further serted that Mr..
Belmont may go into training as the
next candidate of the Democratic par
ty for the GovernorsliD. If that be
his determination and he has the sup.
port of MIR. Hill, which, of course,
means the support of Tammany, re-
formed and recognized, all other
Democratic candidates will have to
yield and make way for him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

AS to the Oswego Canal, it is to be
improved on the same plan. 1t flows
from Oswego ON Lake Ontario and
connects with the Erie at Syracuse.
1t is thirty-eight miles long. The
Champlain Canal starts from White
hall on the lake of its name, and
meets the Hudson at West Troy, n
distance of sixty-six miles. 1t is pro-
posed to increase its depth from five
feet to seven feet. These, briefly
are the improvements under contem-
plation. More than twenty years ago
some Of these changes were recon-
mended by Mr.. Tilden in his mes
sage to the Legislature. and were mp
proved by Horatio Seymour, Jr.,
State Engineer. Different Governors,
engineers and Superintendent of Pub
lie Works have been renewing the re-
concentrations ever since.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

When it was shown that the cost
per mile of operating the Lenox
avenue road was one-half that of the
horse-car lines, and that electricity
would do reliable work, the directors
Of the traction company resolved to
equip all OF the present horse car lines
with electricity and to substitute the
same power for the cable. The change
on the Broadway line involves only
the substitution of the current plates,
insulators and wires. The roadbed
will not be changed and the slot will
hold the "shoe" or trolley, instead of
the grip. The crosstown line on
Twenty. third street will be first
equipped with electricity. Afterwards
the Ninth avenue line, running from
Fulton and Canal streets to Sixty
fourth street and along the Boulevard
and Amsterdam avenue, will be
changed. On Columbus avenue cleo
trio cars and cable cars will run
for II time over the same road
bed, another slot being provided
for the "shoe," or trolley. The Belt
line will then be changed, SO thatwhe
the company is ready to place cleo
tricity on its main artery of travel, tho
Broadway line, it will have disposed
of all its horses, and New York will be
largely relieved of the odium of
dragging its population about by the
strength of overworked beasts. The
cable will be used on the Lexington
avenue line which is soon to be
opened, but will be abandoned for
electricity before the change. The
adoption Of electricity will be fol-
lowed by the company's removal of all
the closed cars in the summer on the
present horse-car lines, aud perhaps
on the Broadway line, for the cars
will be controlled with much greater
ease. There will be no jerking OF
cables and no tumbing out
of seats. But the introduction
of cars in which every detail
of luxury has been studied will be the
chief aim of the company in its efforts
to popuariZe street-car travel. Over
in Philadelphia and in Newark and
Brookly trolley cars are used for ex-
cursion parties, for concerts and din.
ners, and indeed for nearly all the
Injuries seen in modern train OF
Pullman cars. In Brooklyn it is even
proposed by the energetic new NAH
agemcnt of the Brooklyn Heights
road to furnish incandescent lights for
the public parks aud thus make them
more attractive ut nights.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

feet deep; in other words, they are
fast becoming sewers instead Of canals
in the modern meaning OF the term.
1t is possible to make these
two canals nine feet deep
throughout, Except where locks,
culverts, aqueducts and perma-
nent or costly structures exist" At
these points the Erie will be made
only eight feet deep, and that by rails.
ing the banks In the rest of the
canal the bottom will be deepened one
foot and the banks raised one foot.
The total length of the Erie from the
lake that gives it its name, to Albany,
Is 352 miles. 1t is seventy feet wide
at the surface and fifty-six at the bot
tom.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02
TAX BILLS
The Assessors Find a Million
More Valuations This
Year-The Figures.

TRENTON, Nov. 2. 1ss5.-According to
the appraisement of the State Boar of
Railroad Assessors, which was filed
with Comptroller Hancock today, this be-
ing the opening of the State fiscal year Of
1856. the railroad and canal property in
New Jersey is worth $221. SIC, 22l, Upon
this the State levies and collects a tax
of $1,107,SS1 for State purposes, and $412,-
682 for local uses. making the total
amount of taxes paid by the railroad
companies of the State for property
used for railroad purposes only. $780,
563.
The Assessors found s1,sO5, 400 more
property this year than last. owing to
the improvements made by the several
companies, and the State will receive
S20,7l1,45 more from this source this year
than it did last.
OF the $3.50. 5ss.12 taxes levied, the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad will pay $422,-
1927 The New Jersey Central Com
pany comes next, their bill being $780,
Western will pay s275 COZ; the Philadel-
phia q Reading, $50, TAI; the Erie, $144, 384;
the New York, Susquehanna & West
ern, S45.479; the Lehigh Valley, $133, 872;
and other small systems pay he bal
ance. SlSS, 895. 0. between them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02
THE COLOR OF THE SKY.

Professor w. Spring, in discussing the
question, why is the sky blue?" has
approached pretty near a solution, if he
has not really reached it. After premis-
ing that, excepting nitrogen, the principal
constituents of the air-oxygen, watery
vapor, ozone, etc.-are blue when sub
jected to strong pressure, he points out
that the course taken by the SUMS direct
rays, is nevertheless, too short to allow
of their acquiring so intense a hue as
that which are actually preceive. AS
Stunning, therefore, that the all-prevading
illumination of the heavens is produced
by polarized and not by direct light, he
offers the following explanation:-The
solar rays after striking the earth's sur
fac are reflected from the latter in every
direction. Passing upward they encounter
atmospheric layers of gradually decreas-
ing densities, by which they are more and
more diverted from their normal PAIN
way. The highest of these layers they
will strike at SO wideA a II angle as to be
unable to penetrate them. This must give
rise to the well known phenomenon of
total reflection, and the rays return to our
level after having taken a much longer
journey than If they were direct. In this
way they reach us from far off regions by
a kind of celestial mirage, conveying the
color (Which, as said above, is blue) of
the denser layers traversed.-Popular Sci
anca News
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02
HOW TO LOSE FLESH.
The Testimony of One Who Has
suffered and Been Redeemed.

After much study and looking about
she determined upon a regimen. She in
stantly gave up sugar in tea or coffee,
and milk at any time. For two months
she took for breakfast. luncheon, and
dinner only beefsteak and toast. and now
and then spinach and lettuce; always
oranges-oranges in plenty. She drank
with this clear coffee or tea. Sometimes
she took claret. She limited he amount
of water taken through the day to one
quart, or at most three pints. Some of
this she drank hot before or after meals.
Often she squeezed the juice of a lemon
in it. When tine two months We're over
and the flesh had begun to diminish she
ate other vegetables that grew under
Sround-potatoes, onions. parsnips, tur-
nips, or beets. She never ate and this
was her most important rule-she never
ate anything f~ermenting in character, any
pears, plums, grapes, or sweets. Because
bread has a fermenting quality in it, she
always toasted it dry. Pudding she never
touched, sauce nor lake. If any food led
to ~fatulency in any form she knew at
once it was a food to be avoided. BY
and-by, after the first few months, she
allowed herself now n then an occa-
sional sweet or an ice, but never as a
habit.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02
RED-HAIRED WOMEN.
The Color So Hard to Get Has Been
Worn by Famous Beauties.

The Color So Hard to Get Has Been
Worn by Famous Beauties.
A long list of famous and historical red
haired women could be made by ONE who
cared to take the trouble.
Both the GATHERINGS who made Russia
great; Maria Threasa, who saved Austria
and made it the empire what it is; Queen
Elizabeth of England, Anne of Austria,
who ruled France SO long; Catherine Bor-
gia and Marie Antoinette all had red
hair. 1t is believed that the "'Serpent of
old Nile had burning golden locks which
made her the wonde and admiration of
the swarthy black haired Egyptians. I'll
tian's red-haired women are world famous
and Henner portrays all of his beauties
with hair of the most unmodified shade
And the maiden with tresses like burn
ished copper no longer winces at the men,
ton of a white horse, nor does she soak
her locks in oil and comb them with pois-
onous lead combs. On the contrary, it is
now the black and brown haired sister
hood who try to obtain by artifce what
belongs to the auburn haired girl by ma
ture-and fail most OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
delphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02

Because" as she smilingly said, sit is a
wife's duty to look after her husband and
instantly, with a charming air of command,
put that principle into practice by telling the
Bishop to keep away from the open door.
Mrs. Starkey was loud in praise of st. Paul
and Minnesota, and remarked
A POINTER FOR COL. WARING.
IT | knew a New York politician | would
induce him to &C cut to st. Paul and look at
the streets there. Why they are simply
wonders of cleanliness. The streets of Paris
are not any cleaner than those Of st. Paul.
They station q man at every two blocks and
he keeps the streets IN such a condition one
might, as the phrase goes, eat ones dinner
of Them" AS the Bishops wife has visited
the capitals of Europe, the praise for these
twin cities is praise indeed.
Now, you Won't mention this, will you2n
said Mrs. Starkey, graciously bidding adiel;
but as no promise was given, no breach has
been committed; and, besides, the advice is
equally good for Jersey City and Newark
nnlifiaiapS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02
CHURCH NOTICES.

United Presbyterian Church, corner of Sum
nit avenue and Montgomery street: K e:
+ j, F eaa 9s' s Evening nj @' aEieeti s%D'sS''' DS
St, Matthews Episcopal Church. Sussex
Holy Communion, 1880 A. "; Holy Conmun
ion, second celebration, Sis A. Nj; morning
K. M; subject, Stability of Gods Word. +"
Holy Baptism, 4 F. M; evening, prayer, ser
with the Saints
Gospel Temperance Mission, No. sos Newark
syenue, sunday N snS : e 3 3 r Revival cSsIvs ser IF
ing BY trio. Meetings every night in the
week in charge of members
Simpson M. e. Church, Central avenue,
near Five Corners. Rev. d. Halleron, pastor.
Autumnal services; Fellowship meeting, $50
at $50 P. NJ.
First Uniyersalist Church, Summit avenue,
pastor. Services at 1915 A. Nj. and 7:45 P.
n Morning subject, What Business Has
THE Worlds sayiors; Messianic Prophecies
and Miraculous Births"
Iii Linden aa.4 Avenue NJ 5o.g :. Church Rev !. G, F. :
On probation ana by eertidsste. At $50 +;
Epworth League meeting at 6:45 p N.
St. PauIs NJ. E. Church. Third street. near
Erie street; Rev. William Eakins, pastor;
4VtOQ a "a oht NtAd C&CRlAOh -
Members. 1880 P. M, The Greatest of the
Reformers and the Weapons He Used $50
p. NJ. Epworth League vesper service.
The Tabernacle. corner York and Henderson
streets. Rev. John L. Scudder. pastor; Rev.
J.. Lester Wells, assistant pastor. Services
at 1920 A. NJ. and 7:30 p. NJ. Rev. John
L. Scudder will preach. Morning, Unseen
Power" Evening, Advertising the King
DOM
Grace Church, Erie and Second streets.
Rev. George S. Bennitt, rector; Floyd Apple
ton, assistant. $500 A. M, Holy Companion
1880 A. NJ, Holy Communion, with sermon.
400 p. NJ, evensong, with sermon.
Trinity NJ. T.. Church. York street, near
Warren. Rev. John Krantz, Jr. pastor: Re
ception of members and Holy Communion at
1880 A. NJ. Preaching at 1880 P. NJ. Praise
service precedes the sermon.
Emory M. e. Church, corner Bergen and
Belmont avenues. Rev. d. r. Lowrie, D. d..
pastor. AT 1920 A. M reception of meme
beers and Sacrament of Lords supper. Special
revival services at 1880 p. M. The Wesley
Evangelists will assist the pastor all day.
Epworth League meets at Gas p. M
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-02
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

Rrom Bradstreet's state of Trade.")
The volume of general business has been
smaller this week, due in part to drought,
although the widespread rains during the
latter portion of the week have gone far to
break the dry spell.
West and northwest the commercial de-
mand has been mainly for staples, but with a
falling off in volume. Extremes are found at
Cincinnati, where business has been dull,
and at Kansas City, where it is up to the
average at this time, with heavy mail orders.
Distributing centers at the northwest, from
Chicago to Omaha and Duluth to Sioux Falls,
report a reaction in demand, which IS likely
to await the arrival of winter weather.
Larger eastern business centers feel the
effect Of the falling off in dernand at the
west, notably Boston, Philadelphia and Tits
burg. The situation at Buffalo, as at other
lake ports. is better. owing to an active sea-
son on the lakes. Coal shippers have been
refusing western orders because of lack of
cars, and lake transportation generally is
INADEQUATE to meet the demand of the close
of navigation.
After a severe liquidation the New York
stock market has recovered from the lowest
prices. Bear covering caused the improve
ment, ana puplc iHUeres6 Is sbill apseHt. a
liquidation in the European money imitation is
considered inevitable, and is made more pro-
bable by the warlike political situation in
the East. There has been a sharp drop and
liouidation in local speculative securities at
Philadelphia. Exchange has been high at
1885, for demand, though gold exports seem
improbable. The Reading reorganization is
expected soon with assessments of 20 per
cent on the stock.
Industrial lines retain the features OF pre-
vions weeks, Production of iron and steel
remains at the full, with Inore steadiness in
prices than last week. Recent sales at cut