The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-26
GUIDED BY A DREAM.
A Widows Discovery of Hidden
EISn

Eugene Lewis, of Belleville, died last
December, leaving his widow, Mrs. Eliza
beth Lewis, a little home on South Church
street. She had an idea that he ought to
have. left her some ready cash, but hi
didn't, or at least, not that she knew of.
Not long ago she had a queer dream.
She dreamed that he came to her and
told her he had some gold buried in the
back yard. She studied over the matter
for some time and suddenly remembered
that one evening shortly before his death
he had walked with her into the back
yard and pointed at a certain place with
his cane. She at once went and dug at
the place as near as she could remember,
but there was nothing to reward her
search. One night about a week ago she
had another dream and this time her
husband went and stood on a certain spot
in the shed in the back yard. Sh said
nothing to any one, but went and dug at
the spot and was rewarded by finding a
jar holding $40.
Mrs. Lewis is of a convivial nature and
this windfall served as the means of pro-
curing a series of jags that eclipsed any
thing she had ever yet experienced.
Straight booze didn't go. She got several
kinds of liquor, producing effects that
were a revelation. She concluded to get
a horse and carriage, and invested $25 in
a ,sad-looking plug, and split the wind up
and down the streets of Belleville in a
way that would have made Millionaire
Berry turn green with envy.
Then her relatives discovered her secret
and made her turn over the cash for safe
keeping. She only had $3.50 of the $3.50 left
and his was placed in the bank for her
needs. The general impression is that
there is more gold, and the back yard of
the little home on South Church street
looks as though it were being converted
into a cyclone cellar.-Chicago Dispatch.
Spark Catcher.
An important invention was recently
patented in Stettin, Germany. 1t is a
shark catcher, which is placed into the
smokestacks of locomotives. factories,
steamers and into ~chilnneys where there
is danger of fire. The IDEA upon which
the new invention is based is rather sim
pie. The column of smoke and steam
rising in the stack is sifted through a
system of tubular sleeves. There are two
of these sleeves a little distance from each
other. the upper one of which may be
lowered or raised in order to obtain the
best results. The two sleeves are built
very much alike, the only difference being
that the tubes are not directly above each
other, but distant from each other by
one-half the diameter of the tubes. BY
this arrangement the tubes are placed in
such a way that directly above the mouth
of each lower tube there is a space be-
tween the tubes called a blind pocket
in the upper sieve, while above the closed
space on the upper set there is a tube
leading out in the upper. The forced
draught throws up the glowing sparks
straight through the lower set of tubes,
and while smoke and steam will readily
deviate from their straight curse in or
der 10 pass out the tubes CT the upper
sieve, the heavier sparks are thrown into
the blind pockets. where they are natural
" -extinguished. The particles of still
glowing coal and the e~xtinguished sparks
are collected in a receptacle on the smoke
stack, which is cleaned out from time to
time. Even when an engine is running
under forced draught, and when the
burning embers are carried out by the
steam with great force. they are harm
less for If they do get through the tubu-
lar sieve at all they only come through
extinct. Since the distance between the
two sleeves can be regulated, it is possible
TO use any fuel with this spark catcher. a
feature which insures its popularity
Philadelphia Record.