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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Two SIsTERs-Miss W., City. If the Misses
Jones are sisters and they desire to inscribe
their names on one visiting card the elder
should have 1t appear as Miss Jones and the
younger should add the given name, as miss
Mary Jones'" The same rule applies to indi
vldual cards, the eldest unmarried daughter of
q family should have her cards read Miss
JONES' not Miss Elegautine Jones" The
younger sisters, If unmarried, should baye
their Christian names on their cards.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Island, at his own request, and he remained
there for four years. His life was published in
1929, ninety-four years after his death.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

DIR. SIEGERr's Angostura Bitters possess an ex
quisite flavor and are a sure preventive for al
diseases of the digestive organs.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

CUSTOMS SERvIcE-W H. s., Gold Run. Placer
County, Cal. There are four custom-hou
districts in the State of California-San Fran
cisco, Humboldt, Los Angeles and San Diego.
There are no clerks to inspectors in,the service
The pay Is $3 per diem for guarding officers.
time eight hours per day. Discharging officers
are paid 81 per day and their time IS from sun
rise to sunset.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Under the rays used in the Roentgen
photography both writing and printers
Ink are perfectly transparent. casting no
shadow, and therefore the art which dis
closes the skeleton within the flesh can
never be made use of to read any written
or printed matter inside of an envelope.
Private correspondence is still safe.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

MusTAcHE-A. c., Kelseyville Lake County.
Cal. 1t is asserted by dealers in hair restora.
tives that they have preparations that will
force the growth OF mustache, but nature has
more to do with that than all the forcing oint-
ments. II nature intends that man shall
have musraehe a foot long it will grow 70
that length, but if it will supply him only with
VIII increase its growth.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

If afflicted with sore eyes use Or. Isaac Thomp
sons Eye Water. druggists sell It at 25 cents.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Downtown-what's happened to Blifers? He
goes around in rags.
Upton-He has stopped renting and gone to
building.-New York Weekly.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Old Lige says that some of the worst ha bits
are found in the best society, and wonders how
they got there.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16


The fact that Gladstone could return to
power in England almost at. any time.
while Bismarck is hopelessly set aside in
Germany, shows how much better it is to
serve people than to serve a king, A
populace may be tickle, but it is rarely un-
grateful. and it never ignores a great man
just to show it can get along without him.
Professor Wilcox OF Cornell has COM
piled a series of statistics showing that in
1870 more than one-fourth OF our native
population had removed from the States
where they were born, but in 1890 only
one-fifth lad emigrated. The conclusion
Is that as people We are beginning to set
tie down and make permanent homes in.
stead of rowing around as our fathers did.
If out of the recent war furry we do not
get large appropriations for war purposes
it will not be for any lack of bills on the
subject. In the Senate alone there have
been introduced measures providing $780,
100000 for military armament, 500, ,00o, 900
for coast defenses, $4,000, 600 for naval ex-
tension, $S7, 100000 for coast armament
and several other bills for increasing and
cquipping the National Guard and the
naval reserve.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Two HEIGHTs-F. J.. City. New York City at
the Battery is five feet above sea level, at the
City Hall thirty-six feet, at Central Park plaza,
Fitty-ninth and Fifth avenue 7:5 feet, at
Mount Morris 100 feet, at Central Park circle
rs 3 feet, at Boulevard and One Hundred and
Eighteenth street 135 feet, and at Washington
Bridge road and One Hundred and Eighty
fourth street 200 feet. If, by "The Bluffs
you probably mean the Palisades, these rise
480 feet above the sea level.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

UNDER AGE-B. A., Oakland, Cal youth
who has not attained his legal majority cannot
legally obtain license to allow him to marry
unless he obtains the consent of his parents or,
in the absence OF them, of one who stands in
the stead of such. A stepfather or an aunt
would certainly have the right to step in in
such a case and prevent the County Recorder
from issuing the license by representing the
fact that the applicant was not OF age.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Daniel Gordon of Knox, Me-, has been teach
ing school for sixty-sevon years and is still in
harness working hard.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
Lady BlessingtOn.


'The most gorgeous Lady Blessing
ton" as she was christened by her very
old admirer, DR.. Parr, has long since
passed into the regions of Oblivion for
the general world AS an authoress she
never succeeded in making any mark,
though she worked at the business as
hard as any Of her successors of the pres
ent day. Her novels were many and
fashionable, Mrs. Gore like in their
method and filled with strange and
wandering scraps Of French. She edited
books of beauty for fancy clients and at
fancy prices, and when The News was
first started under the editorship Of
Charles Dickens she was offered an en-
gagement as a purveyor Of fashionable
intelligence and asked $500 year for it.
She was offered either e40O as a GER
tainty, or $3.50 for six months on ap-
proval, and confidently chose the latter,
with the melancholy result at the end
Of the term-Dickens having in the
meantime retired from his uncongenial
work, and John Forster having accepted
his post ad interim-she was informed
V1dJ Her SERVICES were 10 AuuBer Wt1uteu-
She fought for her hand hard enough
in later days, poor lady, after years Of
Arabian Nights " luxury with her
magnificent husband, but we fear that
her position in the literary world was
not at any time one of solid security.
Privately she lived under a cloud from
the scandal which always connected her
name with Count d 'Orsay, and, we sup
pose, not without reason. At all events,
they never appear to have taken any
steps to defend themselves against the
charges,of papers like The Age, which
anticipated similar class Of journals
that sprang up in our own day, and
rather suffered Judgment by default -
London Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
cnance the bullet laid the bear low.

chance the bullet laid the bear low.
II tainted, and when / came to my
self l was lying across the bears body,
with six strange men standing around
me.
Ten thousand boiler factories were
at work in my brain. Hear the noisesl'
/ cried. Will no one stop them?'
And now comes the strangest part
Of my story
THE engineer of Jacks yacht once
got mosquito in his ear. 1t drove him
quite mad before we could find doc
tor. He hung over the yachts side, held
by six of the crew, begging for death.
When the doctor arrived upon the scene,
he applied handkerchief wet with
ether to the mans ear, quoting the
mosquitoes struggles and restoring the
man to sanity.
81 believed myself in the man s
plight-stark, staring mad-when, upon
this peak Of Darien, 500 miles from an
ambulance and surgeon, l heard one
OF the men to whom had so wildly ap-
pealed reply quietly, Have no fear,
madam. You are in safe hands, for we
are all doctors.
They deluged my ear with water
from a nearby stream, which they
brought in tin cup. Finding the spi-
der still unsubdued, one of the doctors
asked for hypodermic syringe. Five
were instantly proffered. An icy arrow
penetrated seemingly to the seat of the
gray aaaa+toz-still- 1rsithout a4Eaat---.aaa---
the spider, whose pernicious activity
caused me understandable agony.
'Ether?' cheerfully returned the doc
tor who was attending to me. Why, Of
course. Brown, fetch out your ether
bottle. And if Brown did not produce
from the depths Of his waistcoat pocket
small bottle of ether may be in
stantly retired from the presidency Of
our society. 1t transpired later that
Brown was a physician with an alien
hobby-entomology-and carried ether
with him everywhere to an@sthetize
his specimens
In an instant relief came-such
blessed relief as only one who has pass
ed through an experience like mine can
appreciate
''The rest of the story is soon told
When l had gathered myself together,
the six doctors presented themselves to
me with due formality. They dined that
night at our camp on my elk.
Jack was thoroughly ashamed Of
me. What did the elk and the bear
matter with the memory of the spider
fresh in our minds?
mo, decidedly" Mrs. Jack repeats
as the maid fetches her second cup of
tea, 81 shall never dare to look tiger
in the face after my Waterloo on the
Big Muddy. Itwould have been a pleas
ing legend for my tombstone, this:
'sOne
To whom the forests were an open book,
Who joined to Diana's daring the skill Of her
spear.
Lies here,
Slain by bug in her ear"
Mary Wakeman Botsford in San
Francisco Argonaut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
The voRAcIous CARP.
Clever Ruses by Which 1t Is Exterminat-
ing Black Bass.

Clever Ruses by which 1t Is Exterminat-
ing Black Bass.
The German carp is vicious fish aft
er fashion, and the kind Of brains it
has is described by W. F. Meehan in
The Fishing Gazette Says Mr.. Meehan :
Zone day in early June in 1898 OF
1894, in Montgomery county, Pa, l was
watching the spawning bed of black bass
in Perkiomen creek from bridge over
head, when along came number Of
large German carp. One made feint
toward the nest, and when attacked by
the black bass fed While the bass was
in pursuit the remainder of the carp
darted in, and in twinkling devoured
the spawn in the nest l waded out to
the bass nest later and found scarcely an
egg in it. was told afterward Of a
similar case in the same stream.
The Pennsylvania report of the state
commissioners of fisheries says that
''there are few fishes more heartily an
athematized by American anglers than
the carp. They fail to see a redeeming
feature in the creature, and charge it with
many bad ones, the most serious OF
which is that it is more inveterate
spawn eater than the eel, and the an
glers fear that it will in few years
practically exterminate all the valuable
food and game fishes despite the efforts
of the various fish commissioners.
The carp furnishes the angler little
or no sport, because itrefuses to take the
ordinary lures offered. Its flesh is not
popular with American fish eaters, as
it is in European countries, where as
early as 1927 it was cultivated in Aus
tria.
1t is not known exactly who first in
troduced carp into American waters, nor
exactly when twas done, but Mr.. 'Poffe,
a Californian, some time before 1870,
is believed to have been the man. He is
regarded in much the same light as the
introducer of the English sparrow into
the United States, and the misguided
men who turned English rabbits on to
Australia
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19

EVERY day something new is found
about electricity and its effects, - said
Mr.. Fay Of the Southern Pacific. do
you know that nine-tenths Of the UNI
brellas that men carry nowadays are
magnetized? Well, they are, and all
that is necessary to prove this is to ap-
ply the point of your knife or, better
still, a small pen point against the steel
rib The attraction is very perceptible,
and it is caused by the carrying Of the
article inside of the electric cars. The
umbrella is rested upon the floor near
the motors, and the proximity Of the
metal causes a certain quantity Of the
fluid to find permanent Judgment in
the ribs
Carrying out the idea, it is very
likely that the corset steels of the ladies
are similarly affected. Think what
the consequences would be if young
man with steel cuff buttons should hug
a girl with magnetized corset steelsl'-
New Orleans Times Democrat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
THE BIGGEST OF BUGS.
The Elephant Beetle Is the Elephant In
sect of Little Venezuela.

The Elephant Beetle Is the Elephant In
sect Of Little Venezuela.
Venezuela is little republic, but
she has one thing that is the biggest of
its kind on earth. 1t is bug-the lar
gest insect in all the world. The creature
is known as the elephant beetle, !" and
when full grown it weighs nearly half
pound To be struck in the face by
such bug, flying at full speed, would
make man feel as If a mule had kicked
him.
This beetle, like others Of its kind,
both small and large, is clad in com,
plete suit Of armor This armor is made
of a material far more indestructible
than steel-namely, chitine. Chitine
cannot be destroyed except by certain
mineral acids-in other words, only the
articles of chemistry avail against it.
Thus the shells of beetles that died 10,
900, 900 years ago have been preserved
perfectly in the rocks, so that we know
today Just what these insects of antiquity
looked like.
In Europe giant beetles have a con-
siderable market value, commanding
prices in proportion to their size. In
London there are regular auctions Of in.
scots, and a single butterfly has been
known to fetch as much as $500. A
specimen Of the rare and very large Go
Hath beetle is worth 800 This is the
largest beetle Of the old world. and il
first became known through missionaries
in the Kongo basin.
Though no other insect in existence
compares in bulk with the beetle from
Venezuela, there are other bugs that ex-
coed it in dimensions For example,
there is the Atlas silk moth, which has
a wing spread of nearly foot. 1t spins
q cocoon, the silk of which is better ano
stronger than that of the ordinary silk
worm. But unfortunately it cannot be
reeled. The department of agriculture
tried for years to discover way of reel
ing it, but without success. Moths Of
this species often alight on ships In the
Indian ocean.
There is a butterfly of the Malay pen
insula and Malayan archipelago which
has spread of ten inches In India anC
tropical Africa are found giant forms O.
those remarkable insects known al
walking sticks, which look like twigi
of trees. Some Of them measure IS inch
es in length. They are related to grass
hoppers and katydids. In tropical Amer
lea are found certain huge species o.
bugs that are closely related to the ia
miliar electric light bugs of this coun
try. Like the latter, which have beer
popularity known only since the intro
duction of the electric light, they fly a
night, living during the day at the bot
tom of ponds st. Louis Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
THE ELoPERs WERE STOPPED.
And Had to Reckon with the Brides Fa-

And Had to Reckon With the Brides Fa-
ther Before They Got Married.
Riding along West Virginia road
was interested in seeing young man
and young woman on horseback coming
down the road at gallop. Not far be-
hind them was an old man giving chase.
By cutting across through the woods at
one place he succeeded in heading them
off and caught hold of the brides just
as drove up, said G. E. Wardleigh to
Star reporter.
"Whar yo' all goin?" he demanded.
''You can stop us now, but we'll get
married, 2 answered the young man de-
family.
"Ihain t tryin ter stop yo' all Eff
is boun ter marry, yer kin, but l want
ed talk. Yo' all gwine ter town. How
long yo' s'pose yo'll stay?''
1.-TWO or three days" answered the
groom.
Sat So day" said the father, ''be-
sides boss feed an boss hire, for I'll
make yo' pay for them bosses, shore.
Then So fer preacher. wanted Lindy
ter marry Sam, fer owe i'm So, an he
wouldn't say nothin bout it eff she'd
hev i'm. Parson Long owes me, an he Il
marry yer fo' nothin. Thar won't be
no board bill an boss feed. 1t would
cost $40 ter make the trip, an give me
SO SO / kin pay Sam, an hev suthin fe1
W ar an tar of the bosses, an we kin &c
home an hev bigger time than al
town
The proposition was accepted, the
money paid, and the three turned theil
horses heads homeward. w Washington
Star
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
ERROR IN THE szwsH CALENDAR,
A Universal Synod Suggested For Its
Needed Correction.

Universal SYNOD Suggested For Its
Needed Correction.
In lecture recently delivered under
the auspices of tie Graetz college in
Philadelphia on THE Jewish Calen-
dar, DR.. Cyrus Adler called attention
to an error in the calendar which may
occasion some surprise to persons who
have not investigated the subject.
1t is fact we'll Known that the jew
ish calendar in rs present form wal
promulgated by .Hillel II, about $50 G.
E. This calendar is bound lunar cal.
endar-i. e., lunar calendar with cor
rection to solar time. At the time that
the calendar was established it was
much more accurate than any in use.
1t was universally accepted by Jews,
even by the Karaites, and has afforded
an important outward bond of union
among scattered Israel.
Graetz has voiced the ordinary opin-
ion as to the accuracy of our calendar
In the following words: THE method
of calculating the calendar introduced
by Hillel is SO simple and certain that
up to the present day it has not required
either emendation or amplifcation, and
for this reason is acknowledged to be
perfect by all who are competent to ex.
press an opinion on the subject, whether
Jews or non-Jews.
This statement, however, does not
agree with the astronomical facts. Oul
calendar makes the average lunar month
30 days 10 hours A minutes 81 sec
onds, whereas the true value is 30 days
10 hours A minutes OF. 841 seconds.
Again, our calendar calculates the solal
year at 865 days hours 80 minutes
25. 439 seconds, whereas the true value
is $50 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46. 066
seconds It is plain, accordingly, that
there is a double source of error,
amounting to more than s minutes pei
year. Assuming the lunar and solar
year to have been co-ordinated at the
time of publication of Hillel's calendar,
the Jewish year has in the /, $40 years
intervening advanced forward from the
vernal equinox somewhat over days.
The importance Of the correctness Of
the calendar is SO great that it would
appear advisable that universal synod,
be called to devise plan whereby the
error may be obviated Such a synod
once assembled, might be able to take
action in other directions of the high
est Importance for the welfare of Israel
American Hebrew.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19

POCKET ana threw canvas bag down on
the table Take these he said.
"There is enough here to keep you from
this drudgery He pointed to the iron
ing. "And now must be gone. The
river calls to me-
They stood looking at each other in
silence. The light IVAN before Ann
Quinn's eyes, and everything blurred but
that white face staring into hers. Near
er it came, ever neareT, and she felt her
muscles culver in resistance, then grow
lax; there was pause, gasping breath,
and she bad thrown herself into his
arms The cold oozG from his wet hair
trailed on her neck. CLOSER and closer
they swayed together, locked in each
others arms; then, with strange, thin
cry, like the wall of a newborn child,
the man tore himself away and leaped
from the window int the night beyond
There was heavS flash and silence.
The wind had blown out the lamp.
Ann Quinn CROPPED her way to the table,
dazed and stupid. She struck a match.
1t sputtered and went out. Then she
crawled away into 4 corner, her wide
eyes fixed on the epen window. The
moon swan high, and the river ran
molten silver beneathit The little stars
set, and the gray scroll of morning un-
rolled across the night. Still she sat
there, her eyes fixed m the empty win
dow space.
Suddenly she ssed up, and she felt
old and dizzy ane anne. She reached
out and picked a The canvas bag the
man had given her. She shook it, and
there rolled out on the table great
handful of unset rsbies. Ann Quinn
stood staring at tRsin until the first sun
beam came sitting Though the darkness,
lighting them into athousand crimson
sparkles.
There was rap atthe door, and she
thrust the jewels fpm sight. 1t was
only the milkman. and he looked at the
woman's face in disappointment $50
you've heard the Jews already?" he
asked.
"What news?"
"Why, didn t you know they we found
the body of Ellis Price, the millionaire,
drowned not hundred yards from this
very spot?'
"No, said Ann Quinn.
Eyes, and they think he must have
been murdered. Heleft home to go to
the bank with sorle rubies he had for
his niece's wedding and they weren t
on the body anywhere.
"Murdered-muraered What would
they do if they fo1nd-some one with
them rubies?" Ann Quinn asked thickly.
"Why, hang him high as he'd
swing" answered the milkman.
Ten minutes later Ann Quinn stole
down to the riverside She reached over
and dropped handful of stones into the
water-a handful u stones that shone
ike blood drops. Down they sank into
the gray river slinaa But ON the ripples
above them hung something too light to
sink, for it was Only dried stem Of
lilies Of the valley.
Ann Quinn watched it drift out of
sight. Then she turned back to the house
to get breakfast. Julie Closson Kenly
in San Francisco Argonaut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
Vegetable Properties.

1t may be well to mention that an
eminent physician who has been inves-
tigating the properties of the different
vegetables announces that a diet Of
carrots ameliorates harshness Of charac-
ter and reduces nervous irTitability.
Peas create fatty tissue and encourage
joyousness, while turnips have Just the
opposite effect. Celery taken in excess
causes eye trouble, while cabbage is
beneficial in pulmonary ailments, and
lettuce aids as a sedative owing to the
opium contained in its milky juice,
which keeps the skin clear and fresh.
Red beets are blood producing and will
add plumpness to the thinnest form,
providing they are boiled tender. New
York journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19
BEAUTIFUL HANDS.

As remember the first fair touch
OF those beautiful hands that love so much
seem to thrill as / then was thrilled,
Kissing the glove that found untitled
When met your gaze and the queenly bow
As you said to me laughingly, keep 1t nowl'
And dazed and alone in dream 1 stand
Kissing the ghost of your beautiful hand.
When first loved in the long ago
And held your hand as told you so,
Pressed and caressed it and gave it a kiss
And said, 81 could die for a hand like thisi"
Little dreamed loves fullness yet
Had to ripen when eyes were wet,
And prayers were vain in their wild demand
For one warm touch of your beautiful hands.
Beautiful handsi o beautiful handsl
Could you reach out of the alien lands
Where you are lingering and give me tonight
Only touch-were it ever SO light
My heart were soothed and my weary brain
Would lull itself into rest again,
For there is no so1ace the world commands
Like the caress Of your beautiful hands.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-19

Liberty ia of no value in itself, but is
valuable only as means to equality,
and equality that did not eventuate in
fraternity would perish Equality will
enlarge itself to the bonds Of humanity
as fast as people learn that in likeness
there is the only rest and comfort and
pleasure that men can know, and frater-
nifty will come as a result Of the same
conviction. w. D. Howells in Century.