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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
FREAKS MADE TO ORDER,
ShOwmen Have No Trouble I'm PrOvid-
ing New Attractions.

ing new ATTRACTIONS.
London Mail.
ana curiosities? was the question asked of
the manager of a travelling show" tina
had pitched Its tent in a London suburb.
Don't have to find them" was the la
comic response. They find us. The freak
business is as regularly established as any
other. and has its wholesale and retail
firms, travelling statesmen, brokers. price
lists. factories
"Factories?' queried the reporter. aghast.
Why, certainly-factories-of course.
The freak business is divided into about
three var~ieties-foreign, domestic and fake.
In the first class the collectors travel all
over the world in search of ~rarities. but
the very best freaks come from India and
the Malay peninsula. In these countries
there are people who breed freaks. They
buy young children and animals. and de-
form them. while their bones are soft. by
stantly on the lookout for genuine natural
freaks, and In those lands the lirth of a
freak occurs very frequently. The head
quarters OF this business IL at Singapore.
Then there are any number of men who
devote themselves 10 the discovering and
placing of freaks of all kinds and varieties.
and there Is scarcely a day goes by that
We do not receive packages of photographs
and illustrated circulars from some freak
merchant or other.
o course. there are faxed freak men
a perfect host in themselves. II the pro-
prietor of some little show needs an addi-
tional attraction and does not have the
money TO hire something good-for. like ev-
erything else, freaks have their price-he
can get something for little money that
Will serve his purpose.
THE real, genuine live freaks always
command high prices. and travel all over
the world in order to exhibit themselves.
Most of them have regular routes mapped
out by their advance agents. just like the
atrical companies. and as they only appear
at a place at long intervals they never get
stale, and sometimes make bigger hits on
their second or third appearance than on
their first"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
CINCINNATI LANGUAGE.
Some Choice Phrases Called from One
of Its Literary Magazines.

critic LOunger.
Mrs. Emma Carleton. of New Albany,
Ind. send me this interesting communica-
ton: THE Harvard-professor style of
book criticism, as noted in a recent Critic,
appears TO nave some humble follower
in the middle Weston is 1t the middle
West that has set the pace, as the profess
sor would say. for the collegiate method?
In three pages OF the book-review depart
ment called Between the Covers in a Gin
cinnati magazine OF recent birth. known
as The New Bohemian. | find these pyro-
technic gems of literary expression: "a
sparkler.' buck against. intensely good
'ginger-snaps for hot bloods high rollers
'hellward trend fetching wit flashes
Knockout. boss-emuscator, for the
Lordsake,' splits down on your SOUL
.soured on the cob. relieved fate liver
your mind. has a bulge "A corker.' All
this grossness does not astonish a reading
public cognizant OF the tendencies of the
average literary Bohemian: but when The
has come into being to nu a long-felt
want TO express the literary West, and
have the friendship and SUPPORT of the
writer's of the-yyest have a right TO rise
and protest against being expressed IN
any such erratic and distasteful fashion.
English pure and undefiied' has yet many
true lovers in the much misrepresented
and maligned West. There are scores of
Western w-riters-known and unknown-to
whom words are. in Agnes Repplier's
choice phrase. pearls and amethysts. APPLY
chosen. and fitted into place with the care
full skill of 4 goldsmith To those. as r.
W. Higginson has finely expressed il.
there Is no conceivable beauty OF blossom
so beautiful as words-none so graceful
none so perfumed. Heaven forbid that
In any sane resort of the muses. Dhe New
Bohemian be accepted as an exponen OF
Western writers. Any such Self-eiected
representative must be as refined In
thought and phrase as the best among us,
or We shall promptly repudiate him."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
NO LONGER "TRIED ON"
The New Invention That Saves Women
From Hours at tho Dressmakers'.

The New Invention That Saves Women
From Hours at tho Dressmalkers'.
A clever New York dressmaker has
done away with the ordeal of trying
on, +" and the gowns that come from her
establishment are no longer WEAKNESS
of the flesh or spirit to the woman who
orders them, for they fit without being
Fitted" and there is no "system" of
measure and tape about the matter what
soever. 1t is merely an ingenious device
patented by this same clever woman OF
the needle whereby any clients figure
can be copied from perfect fitting waist
lining or waist and expanded into an
exact mold Of every curve, every angle,
every popularity, of the original flesh
and blood form.
This woman discovered that dress
makers systems and trying on were the
trials of womankind She forthwith
reasoned that the lay figure had not been
useful except for skirt draping, because
of the manifest inaccuracy of it as ap-
piled to any and every figure. Some wo-
men with "a inch waist had 81 inch
bust measure and length of side seams
out Of all proportion. Other little wo-
men were short wasted and broad back
ed. Still others were higher in one
shoulder than the other and had unac-
countable hills and hollows in their
anatomy. 1t was manifestly impossible
that a conventional machine lay figure
should be able to assume all the shapes
of all the women. No, each woman
must have a mold of her own, and an
exact mold, over which bodices could be
as perfectly fitted as ON the flesh and
blood woman.
The invention consists of an artistic
and perfectly fitted waist lining of can
vas, strong, but flexible, and shaped to
every line of the bodice. Into this lining
is inserted a cunning device which ex-
pands it into the exact shape it was
while upon the woman, just as rigid,
just as solid, as if there was the real
anatomy inside of it, true reproduction
of the figure. -Jenness Mil, Monthly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

The agents for the "Rex" Fire Ex-
tinguisher Co., No. 70 Duane street, New
York, have given two great fire tests with
a three gallon extinguisher in this city.
The first was given for the benefit Of the
New Jersey Rubber Co. with great sue
cess; the second, on Monday ast, for
the benefit of the Pennsylvania r II.
officials, clerks and others interested in
fire matters, which proved one OF the
severest tests ever known in this section
These exlinguishers are now on exhibi
lion at Sloekton's restaurant, Church
street, and at Thorne's barber shop, North
Union street, and are ready Tor any and
all trials or tests.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
Disappointlnent.

A Washington paper says that young
lady of the Capital City met q gentle
man from far western state at party
in Washington. "You are not from the
far west, sir?" she said doubtfully.
eyes. have lived there all my life. I"
''Oh, I'm SO glad to meet your
''Thank you. ="
"But-excuse me--you see, I've read
all the western stories, and it seems to
me that you've forgotten something"
Nothing that can call to mind"
why, you don't say thar and look
hyar, stranger, and use all sorts of bad
grammar, and wear a pistol so that it
bulges out your coat !"
II have never done those things"
"Oh, deari Then my idol is shatter-
edr
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk 1855,
935 m. 1877. 5.07 and s.13 m. Sunday, s.13 III.
For Phillipsburg and Easton only $50 m week
days.
Leave Frenchtown so4, 1861 a m, 21O $50 and
S42 m weekdays 8.42 p m Sundays. For Phil
lipsburg and Easton only, 7.02 m.
Arrive at Phillipsburg 9.S7 and 1895 a. M, 2i5
66S, 1876 and 81 p m. Sunday 9.lS p. IN.
Leave Phillipsburg TBS, 9.42 and 1910 a m. 2s0,
GOA and 1923 m. Sunday, 923 IN.
Arrive Belvidere 1853, 1906 and 1107 m, S.24.
632 and 8 SO m. Sunday, 953 m.
Arrive Manunka Chunk sos, 1012and Ills m,
$3.50, 6.38 and 1000 m. Sunday, 1000 p NJ
Additional trains leave Belyidere for Manunka
Chunk 100 and $50 m, and 2.25 p m. Sunday.
700 m. Returning, leave Manunka Chunk Tor
Belvidere 1926, 10.15 m, 4.30 GAO and 1905 IN.
Sunday, 1905 pm.
Freight or mixed trains leaving Manunka
Chunk at 500 m, Belvidere 6.15 a IN, Martins
Greek SIS a M arriving Lehigh Junction SO m,
will carry passengers and make stops at flag sta
lions north of Philipsburg. Trains leaving Ma
nunka Chunk at s25 M and 4.30 p m, will carry
passengers to Belvidere.
Passengers for Broad Street Station, Philadel-
phia, by trains leaving Manunka Chunk 725 IN
daily. and 1920. 5.2l p M weekdays, and leaving
Phillipsburg SEQ daily, 7l5 a m, and 100
657 m week days go through without change at
Trenton. A through car for Manunka Chunk is
attached to trains leaving Broad Street Station at
6.07 S.l4 m, 1900 noon, 352. and 500 m: BY all
other trains passengers TO or from Broad Street
change cars at Trenton.
Connection is made at Manunka CHUNK with
delaware, Lackawanna a. Western Railroad; LIE.
high Junction with Lehgh Valley Lehigh Sus
quehAnna Morris Essex, and New ersey Contra
Railroads. At Lambertville with Pennington Rail,
road At Trenton with trains to and from Ne.
York, Camden, &c.
Forfurther information see timetables, which
can be obtained at the ticket ofices.
JR. WOOD,
General Passenger Agent.
General Manager
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
TIE POOR sLorH.
Ne Has Poor Chances In the Great Battle
of Life and Deserves Sympathy.

of Life and Deserves sympathy.
never see live sloth without feel
ing sorry for it, for truly they all do
serve sympathy, and plenty of it. Had
! been born sloth l would want to sue
nature. or in some way collect damages.
Take Hoffman's sloth for example. 1t
is one of the largest of them all, but it
is too weak and helpless to be put into
such wicked and dangerous world as
this has now become. It's countenance
is picture of innocent stupidity, and
as it looks at you its dull eyes and ex-
pressionless fnce say to you, as plainly
as words: "Pity me- l cannot fight. l
cannot run away. have no defensive
armor, no spines, nor anything worth
mentioning am too big to live i'll a
burrow, and even if / were not i have
none, nor the tools with which to make
one. ] am at the mercy of everything
and everybody. Why is this thus? Why
am / bere?"
give it up. This creature is rid
die that | cannot read. Being only n
shortsighted mortal, it seems to me that
the sloth should have been better equip
ped for the baltic of life, or else left out
of it altogether.
The sloth lives, moves and has his
being by hanging underneath the small
er limbs of trees, and eating leaves and
fruit. He is the slowest animal on rec
ord. and for speed in travelling long
journey. say. from one side of treetop
to the other, the tortoise is lightning
express in comparison 1t takes good
fieldglass TO enable you to sec him
move. His hair is coarse, wavy and pre-
cisely the color of gray moss, or rough
bark. although sometimes it supports a
minute vegetable organism which gives
it an olive green hue. His feet are SIM
ply four hooks, by which he hangs him
self very comfortably when feeding in
the upper story of a forest. but in walk
ing ON the ground they are worse than
useless. But the sloth has no use for the
ground, and never goes near it of his
own accord. William I. Hornaday in
st. Nicholas.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
DINNER FOR A PENNY.
t;ew York Man who Makes Profit on
Very Cheap VictuaIs.

Very Cheap Victuals.
There are diners and diners in this
rjty of contrasts. Some men here find it
difficult thing to get satisfactory din
uer for $25; others get along nicely on
a substantial meal that costs dime or
less. And there is at least one strange
little restaurant here where full repast
can be purchased for cent. 1t is with
out doubt the cheapest eating house in
the world. This cheapest dining room
of all is huddled down in corner al
most touching the famous Mariners
| temple of Oliver street, a block away
from Chatham square, where streams of
people from all the four corners of town
pass and repass. 1t is little moro than a
wooden hut, some IS feet long and per-
haps broad, with little addition tack
ed on to it, which serves as kitchen.
Small as it is, however, 1t feeds an
average of 1 200 people in day, 20 be-
ing able to squeeze in before the counter
at one time; on some days as many as
400 have eaten there. Tramps, out
casts, Migrants and men who have fallen
SO low that they will never get up in
the world again, come daily, sometimes
three times a day, with the last copper
they have in thSir pockets, to drink COT
fee, MUNICH the bread and eat the pea
soup that constitute the bill of fare OF
this most lowly of eating houses. 1t is a
strange congregation truly that one sees
within its narrow four walls-a congre-
CATION of faces stamped with vice and
debauchery, of patched and rusty gar
ments and unwashed eutiele. Women
occasionally come to this penny dining
room, but as the proprietor doesn't care
for their custom, they do not annoy him
often.
You ask, What can copper buy?
Well, incredible as it may seem in these
days of lavish expenditure, three cop
pers expended at this tiny restaurant
will buy bowl of coffee, bowl of pea
soup and four slices of bread. A bowl of
coffee and slice of bread, the slice cut
generously, costs but a cent. For cent,
too, large bowl of soup is served, with
another slice of bread A cent more will
buy two additional pieces of bread. The
bowl of soup is full quart, the bowl
of coffee pint
"If a man wants to cat more than
this at one time," the little proprietor
says, she must be glutton. At all
events, no vagrant should starve with
one of these 8 cent dinners snugly
slowed away beneath his soiled linen.
The pea soup is rich, the coffee is cheap,
but as good as one finds in many pre-
tentious dining rooms here, and the
bread is SO palatable that the proprietor
eats it himself This l cent eating house
has been running for over five years, and
during that time has fed hundreds of
thousands. Some months the meals
served have reached tho 80, 900 notch.
New York Letter i'll Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

ItfNPoN, n. j., R'eA I, ISS3.
Beef Il, lelaeE, Of EalsbestWli''> is tAa
G3euessl Ageut 4ssl oaly sgeet represent
5sg tBe fseason l5oaslqa GlHe Cp., %
LamacsgVilie. NeH AlseeA Fieaiagtea,
EneeeAteua as8 sfsHeas ag eeaaAqy.
he Is aasA2size@ to Fasee ,esv.s, &c,
with an pagieets % parties aasezessea, asd
sts setjsas vii * ue ea5sed ey sAs'
company. +. ". RICHMOND.
Grnersl MansEsr.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
A Fellow Feeling.

University Extension Lecturer Ito
manager of Chicago bureau 1.-The Sec
ond lecture of my course on Henry VIII
has been objected to by eastern audiences
as rather too eulogistic. Perhaps. there
fore, had better change it before de-
livering it here.
Chicago Manager-My dear sir, let it
alone It's just the thing we want.
Why, the president of our circlet has
been divorced five times himself New
York Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
A Delicate Mechanical Feat.

An expert tool juggler in one of the
great English needle factories in re-
cent test of skill performed one If the
most delicate mechanical feats imagina-
ble He took a common sewing needle
of medium size tlength 1 u inohes) and
drilled hole through its entire length
from eye to point, the opening being
just large enough to admit Of the pas
sage of very fine hair. 80
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
Fair oner.

In the middle of the third act the
young woman with the big headdress
turned around in her seat and spoke to
the youth Immediately behind her.
Sir" sho said, If you will change
your brand of chewing gum, I'll take
off this hat. I'm getting tired of that
wintergreen fragrance. Chicago Trib-
nne.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
LAMBERTVILLE NATIONAL BANK,
LAMBERTyIILE. MI

| The Bank will be opened at o'clock, A. NJ, and
close at o'clock. p. NJ, ON all business days ex-
eept Saturdays, when the closing time win bo /
o'clock, p. Nj.
All legal holidays observed.
Stated meetings of the Directors every Monday,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT at ave and
seven dollars per year.
Coupons oashed and dividends and interest COLI
iected
WILLS, when enclosed In sealed envelopes and
accompanied with written instructions as TO their
delivery. in case of death, will be receipted for
and kept, free of charge.
STOCKS AND SECURITIES PURCHASED for
patrons of the Bank. at market prices.
We respectfully solicit accounts, and offer every
accommodation consistent with conservative
banking.
ISAIAH p. SMITH,
Cashier.
Feb. 10. lss2-tf
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
WANTED:
A Bright Bow or Girl

In this and every town in the vicinity where
there is not already an agent, to sell the Nea
YORK. Ledger Americas Greatest Story Paper, by
the week, and act as agent, making cents on
every copy sold. No charge being made for I'M
so Id copies. No Possible Risk. For full particu-
lars call at the Office of this paper.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
J. HELMS
CoryelI Street
Hardware Store.

A large assortment of Hardware,
Carpenters Tools, Table and Pock-
ct Cutlery, Mason's Tools, Barb
Wire, Willow and Wooden Ware,
Churns, Tubs, Washing Machines,
Cement, Calcimine Plaster, Plaster
ing Hair, Poultry Wire, Refrigera-
tors, Ice Cream Freezers, Sporting
Goods, Powder and Shot. Also,
agent for the
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

Leave Lambertville for Pennington 1886 a IN, 2 OF
and 500 p m, weekdays.
Arrive Pennington 1905 m, 2.5s and $40 p m
weekdays.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

Leave New York, via Trenton, 7.2O, HOO m
2l0, 90, 400 and 600 M. Sunday, 600 pm.
Leave Philadelphia (Kensington) $50, 7.4O, 11.17
a M 1880. $50 4.30 and Ga pm
Leave Philadelphia BROAD Street Station) so
and s.I4 m, 1900 noon, 2.3O. 1852, 500 and COZ
m. Sunday, CPS m.
Leave Trenton 1852, 904 m, LOO, 40, 4.I2, $50
and 7.36 p m. Sunday, 1876 p m.
Arrive Lambe rtville $685. 9.35 m 1877 AIS, 507
$50 and sis N. Sunday, s.i3 p ID,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

Leave Pennington 7.45 a m, 70 30 and 1855 IN
weekdays
Arrive Lambcrtville STA m. 1928 and 4.g4 m,
weekdays.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15

How Thrifty Paris Makes Is Cheaper Eo<
the Stranger to Stay Than 20 Ge-Ae
American Who Beat she Came = tbs
way 1t Is Done In England
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-04-15
Reading Railroad.
TINE TABLE, IN EPFECT MAY IL, 1895,
TRAINS LEAVE NEW HOPE
TRAINS E0R NEW HOPE.

For Glenside, Jenkintown and Philadelphia. week.
days. 5.45 7.30, a. M, LOO, 49, 600 p. m. q 06
goes to Berk street. balance TO Terminal) Sun
DAYS G. 80 a. m, 40. G.15 D. m.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-13
Use less soap by using Harmless; mild
heavy-bodied, durable.
A Great Event.

When it is once known that over one
sixth of the entire population of the United
States are enrolled in the Sunday schools
of our country, the problem Of Sunday
school organization, equipment and teach
ing comes to be national one.
The greatness of this fact being realized,
no one can longer be Indifferent to what is
being done for the success of this work
II is, therefore, interesting to know that
for nearly forty years an organization has
existed, increasing in size and in influence
yearly, for the prosecution Of this work
More than sixty States, Territories. and
Canadian Provinces are organized, and are
holding district meetings and annual con.
ventions and conferences to increase the
efficiency and improve the work of the
schools.
Once in three years all these bodies Join
in Triennial International Convention, tc
which each of the States and Provinces
send their delegates. Seven such con.
ventions have been held already. The
eighth is to be held in Boston, in fremont
Temple. June 1896. 1t will be possible
therefore, for all of New England to come
into closer touch and into personal relation
with this great system Of Sunday-school
education. In this convention, leg isation
affecting directly one sixth of the popula-
ton of the United States and Canada will
be enacted. In this particular its legisla-
tive function will have wider scope than
the Congress of the United States or the
Dominion of Canada.
New England is honored with this great
convention and will give it hearty well
come.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-13
Given Away.

How many of our lady readers would like a
pretty watch, a splendid time-keeper, stem
winder, with nice chatelaine One of our
advertisers, The Dexter Bros, of Boston.
Mass, offer one free in their advertisement
in this weeks paper. They are the leading
paint manufacturers of the country, and make
this offer to attract your attention to their re-
liable paints. They say that the cost of giving
watches to their customers is less than a
travelling mans salary and expenses, so they
can easily afford to give splendid watch with
$50 worth of their Ready Mixed Paints. Send
for card, showing the colors and various
tints of these paints and photograph of the
watch they are giving away. Their address
is 80 and 81 Broad St., Boston. Be sure and
read their advertisement i'll another COLUMN.
1t will interest you.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-13
At The Opera House.

In Hoyt's greatest comedy, "A Midnight
Bell" the favorite comedian, Digby Bell
and his charming wife, Laura Joyce-Bell,
will be heard to advantage in several new
musical numbers, especially arranged fol
them by the famous Victor Herbert, con.
ductor of Gilmore's band and composer Of
prince Ananias" and 1.-The Wizard Of
the Nile" and other operas. Among the
comedy songs are two entitled "Taint
Practical" and "Stung," both of which are
exceptionally funny and are destined to be.
come extremely popular. This will be
presented here May %.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-13
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.

The Art Amateur, published by Monta-
que Marks, % Union Square, New York,
is devoted to art in the household and the
May number is complete in that respect.
The colored plate is beautiful cluster. of
Countess Of Castellane Roses" and the
color studies include three designs for dec
orative plaques. The working designs in
china and needlework are models that will
interest all lovers Of exquisite and beautiful
features of home decoration.
Demorests Family Magazine for Nav
contains charming story by Amelia f
Barr, entitled "a Knight ofthe Nets" and
Beatrice Harraden also contributes one.
"A day at Vassar" will interest all who
have college aspirations. The fashions are
as usual practical and up-to-date. This
spring number is fully up to their usua
high standard of excellence.
Casco Bay is the subject Of charming
illustrated article by Mr.. Holman ID. Wal.
dron in the May number of the New Eng
land Magazine. The hay, with its beauti-
full shores and islands, is becoming year by
year greater summer resort, and it will
be satisfaction to its many lovers to have
so complete and interesting description Of
it as that here given,-by far the best treat
ment of the subject which has ever been
given in any of the magazines. The illus
trations of the article are peculiarly beauti-
full, and will go far to tempt many vaca-
ton tourist to Casco Bay. Warren f.
Kellogg, 5 Park Square, Boston, Mass