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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26
Lang and Crockett.

A writer in The Saturday Review de-
scribes Mr.. Andrew Lang as "this mas
ter Of apt, entertaining allusion, knowl-
edge, extensive reading-chopped fine,
perhaps, but certainly not digested--a
kind of lawyers knowledge of literary
precedent, and nothing further, save
only more knowledge and still more
knowledge" In the same article Mr..
s. r. Crockett is spoken of as creature
of shreds and patches, who ranks with
Stevenson in the minds of the academic
SCHOOL -
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT.
The Startling Result of Firing Cannon
Buried Under Water.

The Startling Result of Firing n Cannon
Buried Under Water.
The most curious experiment ever
Portsmouth, England. A stage was
erected in tho harbor within the tide
mark; ON this an armstrong gun Of the
10 pound pattern was mounted. The
gun was then loaded and carefully aimed
at target-all this, of course, during
the time of low tide. A few hours later,
when the gun and the target were both
covered with water to a depth of six
feet, the gun was fired by means Of cleo
tricity. We said Gained at a target"
but the facts are that there were two
targets, but only one was erected for
this special experiment, the other being
tho hull of an old vessel, the Griper,
which lay directly behind the target and
in range of the ball. The target itself
was placed only 20 feet from the muzzle
of the gun. 1t was composed of oak
beams and planks, and was 81 inches
thick.
In order to make the old Griper in
vulnerable, q sheet of boiler plates 3
inches thick was .riveted to the water
logged hull, in direct range with the
course the ball was expected to take if
not DETECTED by the water. On all of
these-the oaken target, the boiler
plates and the old vessel hull-the effect
Of tho shot from the submerged gun
was reallylstartling. The wooden target
waspierced, through and through, the
boiler iron target was broken into pieces
and driven into its backing, the ball
passing right on through both sides of
the vessel, making huge hole. through
which the water poured in torrents.
Taken altogether the experimeEss :. q.
an entire success, demonstrating, as 1t
Gid, the feasibility Of placing submerged
guns in harbors in time of war and do
ing great damage to the vessels which
an enemy might dispatch to such points
for the purpose of Smelling eities.-In-
youtinv
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26
VOLTS DO NOT HARM PEOPLE.
1t Is the Ampernge That Does the Deadly
narnapa.

1t Is the Ampernge That Does the Deadly
Damage.
Newspaper reporters, copy readers
and head writers are in need of a pri-
mary education i'll electricity. Every
now and again the newspapers record
the death of somebody from the effect
of a given number of volts, or tell of
another's wonderful survival after re-
ceiving the shock of many thousand
volts. Strange enough, in the news
paper accounts nobody is ever killed,
nor has remarkable escape from am
peres of electricity been chronicled,
nor is the damage often done by O cur
rent, nor has anybody ever seen
watts figure in the matter. The num-
Der of volts in current of electricity
is its speed or pressure. The number of
amperes is its volume. Volts with
out amperes would be speed without
substance.
A light molecule moving with %
speed or voltage of 1856, 900 miles per
second strikes the eye without injury,
but if the molecule had weight or
ampeIage of one two. thousandth part
of gain it would have the same effect
as an ounce ball moving /, 900 feet per
second. Any number of 'amperes" with
out voltage would be dead engine in a
roundhouse.
An article i'll n New York paper was
headed, met Killed by 1900 Volts. I"
It told of boy who had become locally
famous because so, 900 volts Of electric
ity had passed through Joe's body with
out killing him." Without the am
perage of the current being known the
statement means nothing. Another story
of escape from electricity was headed,
"Shocked by 1850 Volts. F"
The electrical current used in the Ed
ison Horoscope has minute fraction
| of an ampere, but an almost incaleula-
BILE voltage of perhaps above 100000.
To receive these $50, 900 volts in the
body would feel like the prick of a
| needle.
At the state penitentiary the victims
of tho law are given about 800 volts
of electricity, but it is the electrical en-
ergy, as expressed in watts, that kills.
The amperes multiplied by tho volts
give the energy of the current, oDwatts.
He who would caress Give wire'
need care nothing for the volts or am
peres it may have concealed about its
person, but let him carefully calculate
its watts before he grabs hold. New
York Mail and Express
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

There is no joy in this world equal to the
happiness of motherhood. x woman finds
ample compensation for her trials and wor-
ries and bothers in the soft, clinging iitslS
body nesting close to her own-in the
trustful clinging of the little hands, and
the love light in the little eyes.
A woman's health is her dearest pos
session. Good looks, good times, happi-
ness love and its continuance, depend
on her health Almost all of the sick
ness of women Is traceable directly or indi-
rectly to some arrangement of the organs
distinctly feminine. Troubles of this kind
are often neglected because a very natural
from physicians, whose insistence upon ex-
animation and local treatment is generally
as useless as 1t is common. DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription will do more for them
than 90 doctors III 100. 1t will do more than
the hundredth doctor can unless he. pre-
scribes it. 1t is prescription of Doctor
Pierce, who for 3oyears has been chief con-
sulting physician of the Worlds Dispen-
sary and Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo
Il lost six babies by untimely births In the
eighth month of my seventh pregnancy usual
l was taken i'll. The family doctor was called
He said there was no help for me. The baby
must be born. I greved excessively. per-
suaded my husband, against the physicians ad.
vice, to get me DIR. Pierces Favorte Prescription.
-Four doses quoted my pains. That child was
born at full time. II is three years old, and am
the happiest mother in the world"
Mrs, MAl YQ,,..,.5
Iroouois, III
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26
WHEN POLLY TAKES THE Air.
A little wicker basket rolls
Along the pavement walk,

A little wicker basket rolls
Along the pavement walk,
And at the sight the young and old
Begin to laugh and talk
And wave fair hands and kisses throw
And cry: "Look herel' "See therei"
"This way it oomesi" And all because
Sweet Polly takes the air.
The newsboys run and shout with glee
And follow on behind.
The coachman and the footman gaze
As If they had mind
To do the same. The good old priest
Stands still with solemn stare
AS down the shady avenue
Sweet Polly takes the air.
And all the while sweet Polly sits
IN dainty gown and hat
And smiles on one she loves the best
Her pretty Maltese cat
And softly COOS. when pussy purs,
Without thought or care
How all the town turns upside down
When Polly takes the air.
--Zitella Cookies "a Doric Reed.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

st all happened from little joke /
tried to get off, the bruised. battered
and tattered hobo explained to the citi-
zens who picked him up. "Jist fer fun,
you know, l perposed to the gang that
we organize party fer the adyocatin
Of the free coinage of soap. 1 never
dremp they'd take it serious. In
dianapolis Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

Mrs. @. had severe headache, and
her complaints made Mr.. c. trifie
cross, and by and by he said something
which made Mrs. c. cry. WheIeupon
her little boy also burst into tears.
"Dear mel' said his father. "Now,
what may be the matter with your
'I've got headache-in mammals
headp' said the child.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

Says Charles Baudelaire: "This life
is a hospital where every patient is pos
sessed with desire to change his bed.
This one would prefer to suffer by the
stove, and the other thinks he would
recover by the window.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

1t is IL safe rule to wet the wrists be-
fore drinking cold water if at all heat
cd. The effect is immediate and CRATE
full, and danger of fatal results is ward
Oh nG
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

The standard dollar was authorized
by act of congress Feb. 30, 1878, and
coinage was begun in the same year.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

The taste of beauty and the relish OF
what is decent, just and amiable per-
feet the character of the gentleman and
the philosopher. -Shaftesbury.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

Minnesota and South Dakota are the
only two states in the Union that have
half of their population made up of for
eign born residents.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

Very few people know the sound OF
their own voice. When they hear it in
a monograph they are much surprised.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26
ana SATAN bfemDleS Whch me- ecVS
Tho weakest saint uDon his knees.

IHB WOdkt5V bHIIIV U1JoIl TIES 1A1I'R''
Whatever, she asked, did they
want to sit on satan's knees for? I'm
sure / should not like to sit on satan't
knees at all, and why should he trem
BILE if they We're SO little?" This IS
delightful bit of childish misunder
standing and is half pathetic in its sug
gestion Of how to wander when search
ing for the meanings Of our hierQglyph
ics.-National Review. -.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

Holland. though small in size, has
1,070, 900 women. young and old.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

1t is estimated that in England one
woman in every six earns her own liv-
inc
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26

A little girl of 8 or so was much puz'
zled on hearing the lines of the ole
hymn:
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-08-26
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No Other Law Has Caused So Much Blood
shed-Through This Code the Kingdom
Of Hanover Lost Its Independence and
Was Absorbed by PRUSSIA.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
THE WAR IN CUBA.
The spaniards Continue to Report Rebal
Reverses.

Reverses.
HAVANA, March 5.-Captafn. General
Weyler visited the military hospitals
to-day and expressed himself as being
satisfied with the manner in which the
wounded and sick are being cared for
ana with the condition Of the build
ings. UP to date the insurgents have
burned thirteen villages and towns in
the province Of Pinar del Rio. Among
them are several important places, in
Guiding San Juan de Martinez. In adj
dition they have burned many tobacco
houses and the extensive sugar estate
at Guayamaya with it's splendid fac.
tories and buildings.
Garlic and Rojas, the insurgent lead
ers. at the head Of about 700 of their
followers recently attacked a pany
OF the Sicilla battalion and the local
guerrilla force OF San Andres, near
Holguin, province of Santiago de Cuba.
The soldiers who were protecting a con.
voy of provisions and supplies made a
defense and repulsed the insurgents
with q loss OF twenty-five killed. The
enemy retreated with many wounded.
The troops lost one lieutenant killed
and had seversl guerrillas wounded.
Salvador, Rios, Fonseca, Romualdo,
Aguilero and Change. insurgent leaders,
at the head Of about 600 men recently
attacked q lieutenant and sixteen guer-
rillas who were out foraging. The in
surgents set fire to the cane fields and
Obliged the troops to retreat with the
loss OF the lieutenant and four men
kllled and seven privstes wounded.
Aguilero wal killed and six insurgents
were wounded.
In an engagement in the district of
Cienfuegos. province Of Santa Clara
recently the insurgents had several
killed, including their Leader, Ahran.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
THE KENTUCKY sENAroRsH1p.
Blackburn Will Withdraw II the Demo
cratic Oaucus 81 Dacidaa

FRANKFORT, Ky. March 5.-Senator
Blackourn, when presented with the
resolution OF the gold men to-day ask
Ing for his withdrawal from the SEN
atorial race said that II the Democrats
would hold an open caucus and then
and thereafter q full non-partisan dis
cussion, II 1t WAS the will Of the ma
lority that he withdraw he would do go.
When tho name of Senator Noe was
called In the joint ballot to-day he
arose and said he desired to explsin
mis- vote. II have voted" said he, "for
the Democratic nominee of the party
for thirty-eight times. but now have
become convinced that he cannot be
elected. l cast my vote for John G.
Carlisle"
The ballot resulted: Blackburn, SIS:
Holt, 8; Daboe, 40; Carlisle, 7; Hunter, 4;
Pratt l; CominRore, 3; Lyons, i; e. c..
Vance, %; Petit, /: John M: Harlan, /;
Dodson, l.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
The Corbett- Fltzsimmons Fight.

New York, March 5.-The articles
of agreement for the proposed fight be.
tween Corbett and Fitz,immon before
the National Sporting Club of London,
have been received by Richard X. Fox.
Mr.. Fox Ia authorized to sign the men,
receive deposits and arrange oil details.
The terms of the agreement are that
the men will box twenty (or more)
rounds with four-ouncs gloves for the
heavy weight cha npionship. Police
Gazette champion belt and q purse OF
two thousand pounds, n hundrd pounds
each in addition to be allowed each
competitor for travelling and training
EXPENSES.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
OUR S0L0HS Have DISBAHDEp
The Legislature Adjourned Yes
terday Without Delay.
h Governor Thought He Could Spare
Them for the Present-New Board OF
Visitors for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Institute Nominated and Confirmed.
The Boards of the Other State Instisu-
tions Also Appointed.

RICHMOND, Va, March 5.-The legia,
lative session ia now ct an end, To.
day shortly after 3 o'clock both houses
adjourned sine die. The senate and
house met at noon, when the usual com.
mittees were appointed to wait On the
governor, who said that the state of
public business did not require tbs law
makers to remain here longer. When
this report was made President Pro Tenn
Lovenstein, Of the senate, and Speaker
Ryan, of the house, in appropriate re-
marks announced the bodies over which
they presided were adjourned without
day.
Governor O'Fasrall has appointed the
following members OF the board OF yisi-
tors for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind In
stitute: j. N. Stubbs, Of Glou cester.
and James *. Edmundson, OF Rock
bridge, to serve for three years; George
j. Hundley, OF Amelia, and R. s Turk,
OF Staunton, to serve two years; George
A. Mushbeck, of Alexandria, and Ad-
olson Maupin, of Henrico, to serve one
year. b terms Of all commence
March is. 1896. The nominations were
sent to the senate to-day and that BODY
confirmed them in executive session.
The governor also SEM in nomina.
tons for the boards of visitors for the
various other State institu tions. These
were made during the vaca .ion and the
names have already been published.
Mr.. iMushback is the only member OF
the old board of visitors of the Deaf.
Dumb and Blind Institute who was re-
appointed. A petition signed by nearly
every senator was sent to the governor
asking that he be- re-sppointed. Mr..
Stubs was chairman Of the special
committee that investigated Randolph's
charges against the institution. :.
Senator Wickham entered q protest
against the confirmation OF the ap-
pointees on he ground that eighty five
members of the house had signed q Pc
tition asking for the disappointment of
DR.. b.. L. Winston, and 1t had beer dis
regarded.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
Holmes to be hanged ON MAY :.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March 5.-The
date for the execution of n. Fl. Holmes,
tie convicted murderer of Benjamin f.
Pietzel, and the alleged murderer OF
twenty-one others, was fixed by Gov
ernor Hastings today. He names
Thursday, May Z. as the day. The de-
cision of the supreme cours affirming
the judgment of the lower court, was
received at the executive department
this afternoon and Immediately laid
before the governor. The governor
thought Holmes should have some DAYS
in which to prepare for death, and se-
lected accordingly. The death warrant
was at once forwarded to Sheriff
Clement at Philadelphis.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
A WILD STATEMENT.
spaniards Say the President Will Not In
ttrfere In Cuban Affairs.

SPeuihros say the P~restdeut Will Not In
ttrfere In Cuban Affairs.
MADRID, March o.-According 20 q
statement In Ell Diau, Senior Dupuy de
LONE, the Spanish minister to Washing.
ton, has te~legraphed to the government
that President Cleveland will refuse, as
long as he is President, either to recog-
nize the rebels or intervene in the Cuban
question.
A Washington dispatch says: From
o source, che accuracy of which c.nnot
be questioned, the report that Minisser
>Depuy de LONE has telegrsphed his
government that President Cleveland
will refuse as long as he ia President
either to recognize the rebels or inter
vene In the Cuban question can be
safely denied. Statements Of /. similar
nstufe nav heretofore been published.
The POUNDS tion for the Statements prob-
ably arose from an iseryiew with Min
lister de Lome quite extensively pub.
'lished in this country and portions of
which have NO doubt found their way to
Mad.id. "
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
UNITED CoNFEDRRArE VETERANS
Refused to Adopt General wise's Letter
Denounoing General Walker.

Refused to Adopt General wise's Letter
D~enOunoing General Walker.
PETERSBURG. Va, March 5.-A special
from Richmond to the Index.Appeal
says: The executive committee in
charge of the arrangements for the re-
union of the United Confederate Veter-
ans refused to-night to adopt a letter
to the camps, written by Gen. Peyson
Wise. chairman of the committee, be-
cause 1t denounced General Walker,
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army
Of the Republic.
General Wise's references to General
Walker were suggested by the action of
the latter in regard to the proposed
parade by the Blue and the Gray In
New York. In his letter General Wise
said Walker was not q patriot and de-.
served the censure and condemnation of
all good people, The subject brought
on an excited debate and a stormy acene
resulted. General Wise declared that
unless his letter was approved he
would throw up his position and let
some n else look after the reunion.
The letter WAS finally laid on the table,
for u week.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06

founded Islander against those citizens
and States Of the republic whose inter-
ests he Is sworn TO protect and uphold"
Mr.. Powers rep, VT jumped to his
feet and called Mr.. Hartman to order,
saying that 1t was not permissible here
TO reflect upon q coordinate branch of
the Governments.
II am not rejecting upon the Pfesi-
dent" said Mr.. Hartman. III am re-
President utters and / have Q right to
do so."
Mr. Miles dem, Md came to the
support Of the President, but he was, as
promptly over-ruled, w%hereupon heap
pealed from the decision of the chair.
The chair, however, was sustained,
and Mr.. Hartman proceeded: The per
Icentage of crime in those States and
Territories will not exceed" said he,
that found in the State of New York,
where the President seems to think all
virtue resides. The per capita of wealth
OF the citizens Of our State exceeds that
OF any State In the Union save oneA Our
educational facilities are equal to those
OF any section of the Union, and If some
OF the patriotism Of the people of the
West had been possessed by the Presi-
dent and his friends the citizens of this
republic would not have been called
upon to witness the national humilia-
ton OF hauling down the American flag
81 Honolulu, of begging the bankers Of
Wall street and Great Britain to save us
from financial ruin under the behesss
OF the powers behind the throne, of de-
nying to the oppressed citizens of Cuba
the recognition which the dictates of
humanity and common right demand.
AT this point Mr.. Hartman's FIVE
minutes expired, and Mr.. Grosvenor
(Rep., Ohio undertook to help him out
by the parliamentary expedient of Sc
curing recognition and yielding his
time back TO Mr.. Hartman.
"It Ia also true" continued Mr.. Hart
man, resuming, that the patriotism of
these corrupt and unsafe territories and
States has never yet been able to rise
to that lofty plane of supreme wisdom
n virtue which enables those who
claim to occupy 1t to justify the sale of
thirty year government bonds of q rear
ago for 104 when that very day ten year
bonds were selling to ZIG. On behalf of
the citizsns Of the States and territories
thu %slandered n maligned by the
Chief Executive, L here and now repel
the insult and respectfully gu gest that
tho greatest need OF this country for the
work OF the missionary, the schoolmas-
ter andothe statesman will be found at
the White HouRe. daughter and ap-
plause J"
In the House to-day Mr.. Stokes intro.
duced a bill authorizing the Secretary
OF War to contract for the erection of q
monument in Sumter, s. O., to the
memory of Gen. Thomas Sumter, a gen.
eral in the colonial army from South
Carolina.
The House adjourned at S o'clock.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
Delayed by a Turning rrest,e.

COLUMBIA. S. c., March 5.-The
through vessibuled train from Jackson
VILE to New York over tho Florida
Central and Peninsulsr railroad did not
reach Columbia until 9 q. NJ, eight
hours late, on account OF the burning of
a large river trestle forty miles north
OF Savannah. The train came around
by way of Augusta and the northern
mails were not delayed as long as was
eXpected.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-06
,B. 8 O.. RECOMMENDATIONS.
What IL Said In New York and Baltimore
About ~

What Is Said In New York and Baltimore,
About It..
NEW YORK, March 5.-Messrs. August,
Belmont n Henry Butte have been
added to the committee recently ap-
pointed by the directors Of the Balsi-
more and Ohio railroad to formulate a
plan OF reorganization to be submitted
to the security holders. The committee
held q meeting to-day with General
Fitzgerald In the chair. Only routine
business was transacted. The commit
tee reports thai it Is receiving the CO.
operation OF the representatives Of the
large English holders Of securities.
A Baltimore dispatch says: Recsiver
John K. Cowen, Of the baltimore and
Ohio railroad, hiss returned from New,
York, where he has been in consultation
with members OF the reorganization
c7mmittee. regarding the affairs of the
company. He was closeted for . short
tim with his colleague. Oscar G. MUIR
ray, and Others connected with the COM
pany. Both gentlemen declined TO SAY
anything relative to the conferences
which have been held or the reports
that q plan OF reorganization has been
effected.
1t Is generally believed here, how
ever, that j. P. Morgan & Co. will have
the mater in charge. and that an
assessment equal to As per cent. OF the
par value of the stock will bs required
to put the road in shape. All the shops
have boon put on full time within the
past three days, and preparations are
making to put the road beds and rolling
stock in 0n0H oNnHfktn-