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, 1898-12-02
RndIy Named.

Mr.. Beerbohm Tree relates an anus
ing story about a boisterous voyage
from New York. He was lying in his
cabin. The luggage and fittings were fly
ing round. The vessel was rolling terri
bly,. Suddenly there was an extra special
lurch. Mr.. Tree was knocked to the
floor by a heavy weight and lay half
stunned. On fully recovering his senses
he looked to see what it was that had
felled him. 1t was an admirable con-
~trivanee and was marked, in bold let
ters, Life Saving Apparatus. Lon
don Globe.
, 1898-12-02
Til. Neapoutnn nnd HI. Horse.

The Italians are not remarkable for
kindness to animals, but rather the re-
verse. They have, however, q story of
a Neapolitan driver notorious for his i'll
treatment Of his horse. After death the
man presented himself at the gate Of
paradise, but was refused admittance.
He was recommended, however, to ap-
ply at the neighboring paradise OF ami
mails. il haply he might find favor
there. The driver did SC, and, 10, the
door was opened to him by the very
same poor. starved, wornout old hack
ON which he had been won't to shower
bis blows and curses, now transformed
into O celestial steed of wondrous beau
ty. But, alas, the horse had not yet
learned forgiveness, and here, too, the
driver met with rejection. -Westmin-
ster Review.
, 1898-12-02
h Pony Express.

w. +. Bailey contributes to The Gen.
fury an article ON "The Pony Express,
between st. Joseph, Mo-. and San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Bailey says:
AZ first the schedule was fixed ct 10
Rn average pr 3 miles al hour
from start to finishl This was cut down
to 8 days, requiring an average speed of
10 miles. The quickest trip made was
in carrying President Lincoln's inau-
gural address, which vas done in Z days
and II hours, an average speed OF TO-. 7
miles per hour, the fastest time Of any
one rider being 120 miles, from Smiths
Creek to Fort Churchill, by Pony Bob,
in 8 hours and 10 minutes, OF 14.7
miles per hour. Considering the dis
lance and difficulties encountered, such
as hostile Indians, road agents, floods
and snowstorms, and accidents to horses
and riders, the schedule was main.
tanned to an astonishing degree. The
service created the greatest enthusiasm
not only among the employees, but also
in the ranks of stage employees, freight
ers and residents along the route. To
aid a pony In difficulty was a priv
ilege, and woe be to the man who would
30 much as throw q stone in the way.
, 1898-12-02
Not Very

An Ohio woman visiting Boston for
the first time has been doing the sights.
~ had my greatest thrill down at
Cops Hill burying ground, she said.
eyes, that's just the place for the
historic emotions" commented her in
~terlocutor. She smiled.
"As soon as my sister-in-law and
got into the place." she said, 81 found
myself almost stepping upon a grave
with an inscription on a queer little
iron cover sort of tomb. I jumped back,
feeling the way you do when you STEP
on a grave, and read the inscription,
just three initials, no name or date.
Isn't it patheticF I said to my sister
in-law. ooh, l don't know, she answer
ed, B. w. W. means Boston Water
Works. '"-Boston Transcript.
, 1898-12-02
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
It's Value as n Preventive and Cure
of Pulmonary Diseases.

of Pulmonary Diseases.
DIR. e. Fletcher Ingals of Chicago, in
a paper with this title, said that the
absence of systematic study by physi-
clans and the very meager literature
compelled him to be somewhat dogmatic
in his paper. One of the most common
observations made by medical men, he
said, was that the long, narrow, fat
| chested individual was the one liable to
the development of tuberculosis and
that in patients presenting this form of
chest the chances for recovery were re-
duced to a minimum.
This observation he considered suffi-
cient to suggest that systematic physical
training in aiding the development Of
the respiratory muscles, thoracic walls
and pulmonary capacity would be of
great service in preventing tuberculosis
and in curing its early stages. Collapsed
air cells, he said, furnished a most IA
vorable indus for the development of
tuberculosis. Therefore for the preven-
ton of the disease measures should be
adopted to expand the lungs and bring
the air cells into the best possible work.
ing condition.
He thought it probable that in most
cases there was an early t~uberculous
localized anamia, diminishing the nutri-
tion of the parts and making them more
susceptible to the tubercle bacilli and
their toxins. Of the large percentage of
the human family said to be affected by
tuberculosis $50 per cent?, the majority
recovered, even when the disease affect
ed the lungs, it not proving fatal in
more than 10 per cent.
He stated that in most of those who
recovered the disease had made but lit
tie progress, and that it was only at
autopsy after death from other causes
that it's presence vas detected, in view
of which it was the physicians duty to
recommend measures likely to strength
en- the resisting power of the lungs.
The beneficial influence of a high alti-
tude he considered probably due to the
increased distension of the air vessels,
and that as a mean Of prophylaxis the
first measure should be to teach the pa
tient to breathe deeply.
Careful physical training, he said,
was of the greatest Importance, it being
possible for the long, narrow, fiat chest
ed to increase the expansion of the chest
two or three inches, improve the form
and increase the circumference. He be-
lieved it possible by physical develop
ment to check the process of tuberculosis
when it had become established i'll the
chest and to promote reoovery.-Med-
ical Record.
, 1898-12-02
A Bit of London weather.

Our weather is grown decidedly good
for the last three days-very brisk, clear
and dry. Before that it was as bad as
weather at any time need be. Long con-
tinued plunges of wet, then clammy,
glarry days on days of half wet "a kind
of weather peculiar to London, and
fully uglier than whole wet)-a world
of black sunless pluister a soft mixture,
neither one thing nor anotherl, very
unpleasant to move about inl The in
cessant travel makes everything mud
here, in spite of all that clats IA clat. q
wooden soraper and besoms can do. A
kind Of mud, too, which is as fine as
paint and actually almost sticks like a
kind of paint. 1 took, at last, into the
country, with old clothes and trousers
folded up. There the mud was natural
mud, and far less of it; indeed little Of
it in comparison with other country.
We dry again in a single day of brisk
wind.-Carlyle Cor. in Atlantic.
, 1898-12-02
h e the Taxes Go.

Adolph Roeder, Secretary of the Git
liens Committee of Vineland, has sent
the following to the newspapers OF
South Jersey:
"a recent Grand Jury in one of our
counties (Cumberland) was called upon
to examine 81 bills of complaints, and
after sitting them down returned 36
true bills to the court. So disguised
did this Jury become that they passed
a resolution censuring the Justices OF
the Peace for sending SO many trivial
cases to the county seat.
"a crying need is a change i'll our
laws that will allow petty cases to be
tried at home. AS matters now stand
Justices are obliged to hear only one
side of a case and with the limited
knowledge thus obtained and the in
ducement of a fee, send many cases to
the Grand Jury, entailing heavy costs
on the taxpayers, and individual in
convenience. Witnesses are summon
ed two and three days before the Grand
Jury and then perhaps not heard. Be
fore the case is ended perhaps two OF
three days are spent in attending court.
Some of these witnesses are known TO
be people who depend on daily toll for
bread, and the expense and loss of time
to them is a serious hardship.
"Is it any wonder then that they pre-
fer to seal their lips and let the speak
easy and other forms Of vice flourish
and blight their town? Verdicts by
home juries generally stand and if APP
pealed the number would be greatly
iessened and the trivial cases hat dis
gust Grand Juries would be entirely
done away with.
"The taxpayer groans under the load
of county tax and with the witnesses
prays for release
, 1898-12-02
Meaning of Protocol.

Like many other English words de-
rived from other languages. protocol
has long since lost its original meaning.
1t is derived from the Greek "protos. I"
meaning first, and "kollan," meaning
glue, and meant originally a sheet glued
in front of a manuscript, bearing the
writer's name and other particulars.
From this the meaning evolved into
that of a rough draft of a document and
was SO used by the Romans, who called
it "protocolium." The definition Of the
word as used in modern diplomacy Is
given as a rough draft of any document
or a document preliminary to some
transaction. 1t likewise is defined as "a
diplomatic document or minute Of pro-
ceeding signed by friendly powers In
order to secure certain diplomatic ends
by peaceful means"
, 1898-12-02
CHESS CLOCKS.

There Are Specially Constructed
Ones Used In the Game.
Hourglasses or sand glasses were for
merly used for the purpose Of measuring
time at chess matches, but now special
ly constructed clocks are In general use
for this purpose. These clocks consist of
two clocks, mounted ON o common base,
which " Oh o pivot, the two clocks
therefore being ON the arms Of a sort Of
seesaw. The beam or base Is SO con-
structed that when n clock is elevated
ii stands perfectly perpendicular, while
the depressed clock lies owe at an an
gle, but 10 the mechanism of each clock
is 30 constructed that it only moves
when the clock is perfectly ~perpendicu-
Lar 10 follows that when the upright
clock is going'the depressed clock is at
rest.
Another andsmore modern variety has
the two olockssfxed on the same level,
but with q small brass arm reaching
from the top Cd one to the top Of the
other. This arm acts on a pivot and can
be brought down into actual contact
with one clock at q time by a touch of
the finger. When IL is thus in contact,
by an ingenious device the clock is stop
ped and the desired result is attained.
The working of the clock during a
match is simplicity itself. AT the COM
mencement of the match the hands of
each clock point to 10. Then at the call
of "time to play" the clock
Of the first player is started; then, as
o as he makes his first move, he stops
his own clock, either by depressing it
or by touching the arm referred to. the
same motion starting his opponents
clock. So it goes on during the entire
course Of the game, each move being
marked by the stopping Of one clock and
the starting Of the other .-Leisure
Hour.
, 1898-12-02
Resolution.

WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the
Borough of Wildwood did on the first day of
March, A. ID. 1897, issue Improvement Bonds
of The said Borough to the amount ofThirteen
Thousand Dollars for the purpose of building
a Borough Hall, Grading and Crawling
Streets and constructing System of Sewer
age, all of which said improvements have
been authorized by ordinances of said Bor-
ough duly passed; and
WHEREAS, the said amount of Thirteen
Thousand Dollars has been expended on said
Improvements which are not yet completed,
more particularly in respect to the construc-
fore not sufficient to cover the entire imme-
date cost of said improvements.
Now, Therefore, be it resolved by the Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Wildwood,
that in order to provide for the immediate
and remaining expense of the completion of
said system of Sewerage, there be and hereby
is authorized to be issued improvement Ger
tifcates of said Borough, to an amount not
exceeding Three Thousand Dollars $4,000,
or such portion thereof as may be required to
complete said work, said Certificates to be
signed by its Mayor, attested by its Clerk and
countersigned by its Treasurer, and payable
within five years or less, with interest, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of an Act OF the
hegislat1re ofthe State Of New Jersey emit,
approved A pril "A, 1897.
And be it further resolved that upon the
execution of the said Improvement Certifl-
Gates, az aforesaid, the same shall be disposed
of by the Finance Committee at the direction
of Council, but at not less than the par value
thereof.
And be it further resolved that in accor.
dance with the foregoing resolution, there be
and hereby is authorized to be issued I'm.
provement Certificates for the sum OF Five
Hundred Dollars, in amounts of Fifty Dollars
each or multiples thereof.
Passed Council Nov. 20, 1893.
Approved Nov. 30, 1898.
LA1IMER r. RAKER,
Mayor of Wildwood.
Attest
JED DUBOIS, Borough Clerk,
Land in England is 300 times as val
, 1898-12-02

The highwayman, in grim reality
and without the aureole Of romance,
Black Bess and all, wal a common oh.
ject of the country" 100 years ago, and
it was the duty of all good subjects to
try to cope with him. II you attempted
to apprehend such a desperate and were
killed in the attempt. your executors
could claim $40 from the sheriff. This
indemnity was scarcely enough TO kin
die q burning psssianin tha-EnShsisk
mind for the extinction Of the pest
Gentleman's Magazine.
, 1898-12-02
, A QUEER CALCULATION.
The Power That Would BE Required
to Move III Earth.

AZ
to Move the Earth.
Statisticians sometimes have queer
ideas. One of them has amused himself
by calculating how much energy, water
and coal it would take to move the
earth a foot, %supposing that it was SUBJ
jected throughout its mass to a force
equivalent to terrestrial gravitation.
This is a gratuitous supposition, for in
spite of it's enormous mass the earth
weighs nothing.
Starting with the fact that the earth's
mass is about 6, 100 million-million-
million tons, our statistician calculates
that we should require 70, 900, 600, 600
years for a 10, 900 horsepower en-
CINE to move our globe q foot. The
boiler that should feed this engine
would vaporize a quantity of water that
would cover the whole face of the globe
with q layer 800 feet deep. The vapori-
zation of this water would require 4, 900
million-million tons of coal. This coal
carried in cars holding ten tons each
and having a total length of 80 feet,
would require 400 million million cars,
which would reach 80, 900, 900 times
around the earth. This train, moving
at the rate of 40 miles al hour, would
take more than 5000, 900 years to trav-
erse its own length. 1t would require
for storage a shed that would cover
1000 times the area of Europe.
If we realize that this Enthusiastically
huge amount of energy is nothing at all
compared with what the earth possesses
in virtue Of its rotation about its axis,
its revolution about the sun, and its
translation in space with the solar sys-
tenn, of which the earth is but an in
initesimal part and which itself is but
an infnitesimal part of the universe,
we may get some idea of the Importance
of man in the universe and estimate his
incommensurabls pride at its just value.
Mature.
, 1898-12-02
Knew HIS business.

Hoax-You know Schneider, the bot
tier, who recently became a magistratei
Joax-Yes.
"Well, he discharged a prisoner yes.
terday who was charged with stealing
a dozen bottles of beer"
"So?"
Eyes. Schneider said that wasn't
enough to make q case. "-Philadelphia
Record.
The Golden Gray Eye.
might pile Ossa upon Pelion IN the
way of description Of gray eyes Quilted
from fiction. There is, however, enc
type of gray eye whose appearance IN
story 1 have not yet noted, Gays Nina
Allen in Lippincott's.
We have had gray eyes which IRE
sembled nothing SO much as moss
agates." Sea gray eyes are not unoom-
mon. Amelie Rives has bestowed upon
Iva, in "The Witness Of the Sun,
great violet gray eyes, like rain wash
ed amethysts," while Mr.. Paul Leioes-
ter Ford has recently introduced us q q
pair Of slate colored eyes.
But at the present writing / have YET
to meet with golden gray eyes In 10
ton. They are to be found. however.
in nature, the most luminous OF all
eyes, I think, the iris about the edge
soft old gold or golden brown, gradually
melting toward the pupil into a warm
gray. This lovely color I have seen IN
the eyes of a dog and Of a child-the
eyes of the dog wisftul, appealing, pa
thetic with unutterable things; tnt
child's speaking of a soul as yet undark
ened by shades Of the prison house AND
splendid with the light that never wa
on sea or land.
To the novelist desiring something
new in eyes I would respectfully recon-
mend the golden gray.
, 1898-12-02
Rubber Bands.

Rubber bands have supplanted Irvine
to a great extent in the last few years, I"
observed a salesman in a drug store as
he slipped a band around a 8 cent pack
age of sodium bicarbonate. up 10 ten
years ago rubber bands were seldom
seen outside of a courthouse or a law
yer's office, and their use was confined
almost exclusively to the filing Of court
documents and papers. Now you find
them everywhere. Bands are used on
all small packages in drug stores, and
they have become an important factor
in the grocery business. They answer
the same purposes as Irvine, and are ad-
justed much easier.
at may not be generally known that
a rubber band is the best tooth cleaner
known. It can be forced between the
teeth, no matter how close together,
and it removes accommodations that a n
not be reached with a toothbrush. Yes,
the rubber band has come to stay. ]
don't know to what extent 10 has hurt
the Irvine industry, but 1t must be con-
siderable. "-Philadelphia Record.
, 1898-12-02
DANCE PIGS.
The Peccary Is Wholly Fearless and
VIII Fight Man or Beast.

A writer in the st. Louis Republic
says that the most vicious and fearless
member of the brute creation is the PEG
cary, or wild hog, Of Mexico. This ami
NAL seems utterly devoid of fear and dis
plays an intelligence in fighting man
strangely at variance with its apparent
ly complete lack Of mental attributes.
Their ability to scent men is particu-
larly marked. The only thing to do
when they get after you is to run away
from them as fast as a horse can carry
you, and then there is no certainty that
they won't catch you. They are nearly
as swift as o horse, and their endurance
is as great as their viciousness.
A friend of mine encountered a drove
of them in a wild part of Mexico a few
years ago, and his escape was almost
miraculous. He very foolishly shot and
wounded D number of them. Then he
took rafnRain
The p~eccaries kept him in til
that day and through the night. They
circled round the tree, grunting and
~squealing their delight at the prospect
of a feast. He soon exhausted his am.
munition and brought down a peccary
at each fire, but this bad no terrors fol-
the beasts.
Toward morning they began to cal
those he had killed, after which they
formed in line and trotted off. If they
had not had some of their W number
to devour, they would have guarded
that tree until my friend, through sheer
exhaustion, dropped from his perch and
allowed them to make a meal of him.
The wildcats and tigers that infesi
the Mexican wilds flee from the PEG.
carries with instructive fear, and even
rattlesnakes keep out of their path.
, 1898-12-02
COMMERCIAL ENGLISH.
Warning to Those Who Would Send
Trade Circulars Abroad.

Warning to Those Who Would Send
Trade Circulars Abroad.
Manufacturers who wish to do an eG-
port business must have their circulars
and catalogues translated into foreign
msaaeM1gy Uur CIR.
I6uld be taken that the translator is
not only a good linguist, but also an ex-
pert in the particular business to which
the documents to be translated refer.
Otherwise the translation is apt to be a
matter of ridicule to those to whom il
is sent.
We cannot we'll give an instance to
show how an English circular might be
translated into bad German, for exam
pie, but the London Engineer gives us
the following illustration of a transla-
tion from another language into English,
which is probably no worse than many
translations from English.
"We pique ourselves" says the cir
cular, con making you known that the
sale Of the - has, by us, undertaken.
This preparated, exclusively arranged
by some vegetables, is entirely spoiled
about something hurtful to the steam
boiler blades. By our preparated every
calcareous substance is neutralized, re-
ducing it to power, and at the same
time steam boiler blades are conserved
from the usual corrosion, not only, but
the ebullition, is totally avoided, as it
appears about some very interesting ex
periments, which have been made in
several establishments.
In conclusion the circular adds, "To
be willing, this preparated may be de-
composed"
, 1898-12-02
RETROSPECT.

when You were here. ] often sas
Love silentiwith' you half the day;
There was small need Of speech In thu
Sweet of the blended way.
Now you are gone, and hour by hour
Imuse of things I long to share;
There'snot q bud, a leaf, q flower,
But'helps me miss you everywhere.
Ny lonely heart enspheres the past
With ether caught from heavens gold;
dream Of bliss too sweet to last,
And then awaken, starved and'cold.
For by that solitary path
That outward leads from mortal ken
You walked, and here am I and faith
And jostfing crowds Of careless men.
I've touchedsthe inmost core of pain
In creeping. days, each day a year.
Yet might / sit tongue tied again
II you were here, II you were here.
-Harper's Bazaar.
, 1898-12-02
He Wasn't Afraid.

Little Tommy and his younger sister
were going to bed without a light.
They had just reached the bottom of
the stairs, when Tommy, after vainly
endeavoring TO pierce the darkness.
turned round and asked:
MA, is 1t polite for a gentleman to
precede a lady when they have to walk
in single filei'
"No, my son," replied the mother,
''the lady should always take the lead.
II thought so," said Tommy delight
ediy; Ego ahead. Sue. "-Pearson's
Weekly.
, 1898-12-02
Eat Onions.

Onions are stated to be almost the
best nervine known. No medicine, it is
claimed, is so useful in cases of nervous
irostration, and there is nothing else that
will SO quickly relieve and tone up a
wornout system. Onions are useful in
Ill cases of coughs, colds and influenza.
Eaten every day, they soon have a clear
ing and whitening effect on the com
pleyion.
, 1898-12-02
Notice TO Limit Creditors.

Augustus Hilton, executor of John j. Stur-
mer, deceased, by direction of the Surrogate
of the County ofCape May, hereby gives no.
tice to the creditors of said decedent to bring
in their debts, demands and claims against
the estate of said decedent under oath, with
in nine months, or they will be forever barred
of any action therefore against the said
executor.
AUGUSTUS HILTON,
Dated November 23d, 1898. Executor.
, 1898-12-02
TO THE COTTAGERS o. WILDWOOD
ANGLESEA AND HOLLY BEACH:

Thos. b. Connolly, of Wildwood, Is prepared
to enclose your lot with California Pivot, the
New Hedging. Grows rapidly, green summer
and winter, durable; will outlast 20 wooden
fences mt quarter the cost. Estimates given.
Address Thos. b. Connolly, 1915 Green St,
Phila.. Pa. Also will furnish shade trees, fruit
trees, grape vines from McClearyfs Nursery,
New Jersey. Work personally attended to.
, 1898-12-02
Hourglasse. In n London Church.

Nearly everybody is aware that at
one time it was the custom in many
churches to regulate the length of the
sermon by an %hourglass, which stood
on the pulpit Immediately fronting the
preacher. Quite a number of these curl
GUS relics are preserved in various eccle-
siastical edifices throughout the land,
but the British and Foreign Sailors
church, situated in what was formerly
Ratcliff highway, is the only one pos
sessing four. They are in perfect l6es-
ervation, and are fixed all togethtb in
a framework of solid brass.-Loi bon
Tit-Bits.
, 1898-12-02
naantx Is Hood peep.

Clean blood means q clean skin, No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep It clean by
p]nrities from the body: Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists. satisfaction guaranteed, Zoe, 2oc' ooe'
, 1898-12-02
TYNE OF HIS Class.

II see you've still got your old office
boy"
Eyes"
Improves with age, does he?"
"Well, he seems to get fresher every
day. "-Philadelphia Record.
, 1898-12-02

1t is said that 95 per cent of Chinese
children suffer from throat worms,
which is attributed to bad weather and
eating vegetables raw.
, 1898-12-02
COlOred Cotton.

Peruvian cotton grows in IL different
colors, running from white to a rich
dark red. Each color produces when the
seed is planted the same color.
, 1898-12-02

Coal is u ~storebouse of colors. medi
cines, perfumes sbd exllsfyes