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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
Tho Discovery of an Artist.
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In the Cathedral Of Nantes, France,
there is q monument to Francis II Of
Bretagne and his wife Margaret which
is considered one of the masterpieces of
French sculpture. 1t Is over 800 years
old. and until twenty odd years ago no
one knew to whom to ascribe 1t. Then
by chance an old stone slab was discov-
cred in the same cathedral bearing the
following inscription:
81, Michel Colomb, was a poor for
saken boy whose only home was the
high road, where alone God and our
Bretagne saints watched over me. ! Of
ten forgot to eat and drink while look
ing at the stonecutters who made the
beautiful stone crosses for the holy
place in the diocese of Leon, and 1 my
self carved small images with a wretch
ed knife, when worthy priests took
compassion upon me, fed me and said
to me: Work, thou little one, and look
az much as thou pleasest at the carved
belfry and at the beautiful work of the
guild (sculptors). Look at all this, love
the good God, the mild Saviour and the
blessed Virgin Mary. Then thy name
shall be honored in the diocese Of Leon
and In the beautiful Bretagne. This l
did for a long while that l might be-
come a good workman, and then our
Duchess Anna gave me an order to cut
a monument to our gracious Duke
Francis II and the Duchess Margaret.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
"Going Out to See a Man,

"Going out to see a man. was the
invention of Artemus Ward. One night
in the winter Of 1866, when the humor-
list was about half through his lecture,
he paralyzed his audience with the an
nouncement that they would have to
take a recess of Is minutes SO as to en-
able him to go across the street to ''see
a man" n. R. Tracey, the editor of
the Washington Republican, was in the
audience. and, seeing an opportunity to
improve upon the joke, penciled these
lines and sent them to the platform:
Dear Artemus-If you will place
yourself under my guidance, I'll take
you to see a man without crossing the
street.
Artemus accepted the invitation, and
while the great audience impatiently
but with much amusement awaited the
temperance of the humorist the lat
ter was making the acquaintance of
Aman, a well known restaurant keeper
at that time, and luxuriating at a well
laden r~efreshment board. OF curse
everybody "caught on to" the phrase,
and men became fond of getting up be-
tween the acts and ''going out to see
Aman. The r~estaurateur's business
from that time forward doomed. Men
who would ordinarily sit quietly
through an entertainment and behave
themselves allowed themselves to be in
huenced by the contagion.-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
A Good Scotch story,

In Lanarkshire there lived a sma',
sma' laird named Hamilton, who was
noted for his eccentricity. On one occa-
sion a neighbor waited on him and re-
quested his name as an accommodation
to a bit bill for $40, at three months
date, which led to the following char
acteristic and truly Scottish colloquy:
INA. ma. l Gamma do that"
"What for no. lairdf Ye haze dune the
same thing for ithers."
faye, aye. Tammas, but there's
wheels within wheels ye ken naething
about l Gamma dot"
tits a sma' affair to refuse me.
laird"
"Weel, ye see, Tammas, If I was to
pit my name tell't. ye wad get the siller
frae the bank, and when the time came
round ye wadna be ready and / wud
haze to pay't. Sac then ye and | wad
quarrel Sac we mae just as weel quar-
rel the no as lang's the siller's In ma
pOuch STRAY esorisA
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
Lamb. For spanisb Cb,Idren.

Directly after Lent is observed a Gus
tom that is particularly interesting to
children. 1t is what may be termed the
sale Of the lambs. for on Monday morn
ing after Easter the shepherds have
their lambs and goats on sale in all the
cities. The animals are kept In tempo
rary pens, and it Is the rule for parents
to permit their children, of from 8 to
12 years of age. to purchase a pet lamb
Oh goat. After the animal is selected it
is taken to the home residence and Civ
en- the freedom of the courtyard and
quite often the greater part Of the
house. 1t Is every child's ambition to
train the pet SO that it will at least fol
low its owner like a dog, and If a few
simple tricks are added to the lambs or
kids education the master or mistress
is proud indeed. Girls especially de-
light in these pets, and often the ami
mails are SO bedecked with bows and rib
bons as almost to hide their bodies. The
sale of the lambs is a very old custom,
and Is supposed to have originated
through some form Of the church
Anglo-American Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

The moet grewsome apartment in
America Is probably the demonstrator's
room in the Flower hospital in New
York, with its fantastic decorations of
dead mems bones.
The name Of the room isspelled above
the door in letters made of finger bones
Upon the wall within appear in the
same grewsome lettering the names Of
DR.. Howard S. Nelson and DR.. North
way Meyer, demonstrators. Besides
these legends sits a grinning human
skull.
Crossing and recrossing the room
strings of bones interlace. Ribs alter
nate with the slender bones Of fingers
and toes. Up and down the walls, like
CHASTITY white serpents, crawl coils of
vertebr@. Arm and leg bones with
highly polished surfaces are hung on
the cupboard doors.
Everywhere the eye turns in this
curious charnel house symbols of NOR
tality start into relief. But it is on the
large table against the south wall that
death vertically sits enthroned. In the
middle. heaped into a mound, bones
from all parts Of the human frame are
surmounted by a skull. Here a hand,
there a crippled foot, a Uranium hol-
lowed into a drinking capabilities Of
all grisly shapes surround the mound.
In a chair to the right sits a skeleton
in leisurely attitude, leaning n arm
upon the table as he watches the skele-
tons over which the sunlight dances
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

All bakers, wholesale and retail. seek
to produce at their several bakings
through the day only 80 much as may
be required to supply the wants of their
trade, but in making sure to provide
enough there is likely to be some left
over to get stale. There is some demand
for stale bread for household uses-for
making toast and for cooking purposes
but the demand is limited. Such stale
bread as may remain unsold in this
ann is never wasted; 1t is sold to
farmers and market gardeners, who
drive into the city with produce to sell
and who buy more or less supplies here
to carry back to feed stock. When final
ly disposed of thus, 1t is sold by the bar
rel. at so much a barrel, the price be-
ing very low, but depending somewhat
IN the surplus stock on hand on the day
Of sale. -New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

An article entitled "Historic Homes
In Washington" by Catherine Cava-
nagh, in Munsey's, gives an interesting
narrative Of the home once occupied by
James g. Blaine. The lot on which it
stood once belonged to Henry Clay, who
won it at a game of cards, at which he
was always very lucky. On his wife be-
ing asked If her husbands gambling
did not make her anxious. she an
swered: "Why should 1 worry9 Henry
generally wins" After keeping the lot
a short time he snapped it for a NAL
tese jackass that Commodore Rodgers
brought home from a Mediterranean
cruise. He built the house. In it once
lived James K. Paulding, secretary of
the navy under Van Buren,. Secretary
Seward bought it, and was living in it
when his assassination on the night Of
Lincoln's murder was attempted. Sec
rotary Of War Belknap afterward re-
sided there. and finally Mr.. Blaine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
Too Well Initiated.

It is no easy matter for a violin maker
to rival the famous S~tradivarius instru-
ments. but this an American maker did
and did so effectually that experts pro-
nounced his violin a genuine Stradi-
varius.
The successful man was the late
George Gemunder, a famous violin max
er of New York. His remarkable ability
as a preparer of violins was known to
many a distinguished player, such as
Ole Bull, Remenyi and Wilhelmj. But
he made, 50 runs the story, his greatest
success at the Paris exposition of Eiffel
tower fame. To that exhibition he
sent an imitation S~tradivarius, and to
test its merits had it placed on exhibi-
ton as the genuine article.
A committee of experts carefully ex-
amined the instrument and pronounced
it a S~tradivarius. So far Mr.. Gemun-
der's triumph was complete. But now
came a difficulty. When he claimed
that it was not an old violin, but a new
one made by himself, the committee
would not believe him. They declared
he never made the instrument and pro-
nounced him an imposter. He had done
his work too well.-Youth's Compan-
ion
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
How Book Beer Got n. Name.

Macmillan of Bavaria, the first cleo
tor, consulted an English physician re-
garding his consort' s sickness, who pre-
scribed for her some buckingham
Double (strong) Beer" After importing
some several times at great expense,
Macmillan decided to send his court
brewer to Buckingham to become ia
miliar with the production and manipu-
lation of said unexcelled brew. Upon
the brewer s return to Munich the Buck
ingham beer (then abbreviated in name
to Buck, later Book, beer) was hence
forth brewed there and was for the first
time served at the electoral family's
table on Maximilian's day. Oct. 10.
1928.
At first only used as a medicinal po-
ton, it soon became generally intro
duced as a pure food and was ordered to
be brewed hereafter two weeks before
the two weeks after Corpus Christi day.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
Religion. ana rrreligious ri.hea.

-
Fishes are supposed to have no reli-
rion. Probably they are greatly malign-
ed in that as well as In other respects
st. Anthony, &c you know, used to
preach to them and make their eyes
glitter and their hearts beat by his elo-
quence. A Jewish story is told can
not. unfortunately, lay my hands on the
passage just now-of a fish which leaves
the sea on Saturday and does not return
until Sunday, SO as to be able to keep
the Sabbath.
Other fishes, unlike their puritanioal
brother, do not observe the sacred day.
The Koran gives a story Of some very
naughty fishes In David's time. Know
ing that the Israelites were forbidden
to catch fish on the Sabbath, the wicked
creatures came out Of the Red sea In
unusual numbers and kept in sight Of
the people all through the day in order
to tempt them. On the approach Of
night they returned to the sea again.
In a fatal moment some Of the 1sraelites
yielded to the piscine Establishments,
caught several Of them and had them
for dinner. Whereupon David cursed
the Sabbath breakers, and God, to show
his displeasure, changed them into apes
and pigs For three days they remained
in this unpleasant condition, when q
violent storm arose and swept them
into the sea.
The fish which brought the tribute
money to our Lord is supposed to have
been a paddock, which had strayed into
the lake of Gennesaret. There are sew
eral legends which tell of miraculous
finds in fishes. Paris Messenger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
hunting Tigers In Persia.

The people of different countries have
different ways of hunting the tiger.
Traps, pitfalls, spring guns and nets
are called into play. The Chinese are
said to employ the mirror to lead the
animal into a trap. The tigers curiosity
Is excited when he sees his image in
the glass, and be Immediately proceeds
to investigate the mystery. The Per-
sian manner of conducting the hunt, as
this Is described In Chambers Journal,
is more sportsmanlike.
A spherical, strongly wove bamboo
cage, with intervals of a few inches be-
tween the bars, is erected In some spot
heal the haunts of the tiger. This cage
Is firmly and securely picketed to the
ground. Inside, a man provided with
several sharp and powerful stabbing
spears, or with a keen and pointed
sword, takes his post at night. with a
dog or a goat as his companion. There
he wraps himself in his blanket and goes
to sleep.
In due time the tiger makes his ap-
pearance, the man is walked by his four
footed companion, and after vainly
shutting and prowling round the cage to
find an entrance the tiger rears against
the walls.
The man instantly takes advantage
Of the brute's unprotected position, and
with a r~esolute stroke Of the spear or
the sword puts him to death.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
Most curious CLOCK.

One of the most curious clocks in the
world is that which Amos Lane of
Amidee, New. constructed some time
ago The machinery, which is nothing
but a face. hands and lever, is connect
ed with a geyser, which shoots out an
immense column of hot water every SO
seconds This squirting never varies to
the tenth of a second. and therefore a
clock properly attached to it cannot fail
to keep correct time Every time the
water spouts up it strikes the lever and
moves the hands forward 3S seconds
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

A New Zealand correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes:
1.-THE first floor of their theaters is
fat, supplied with plain. implanted
wooden benches, with open backs. The
balcony, the fashionable place, contains
only cheaply upholstered benches, and
is badly ventilated. Early door tickets
at 12K cents extra are sold, admitting
the holder an hour before the regular
doors open. that he may obtain first
choice of the implanted benches. Five
minutes before the orchestra appears a
big bell, suspended in the theater, is
violently rung. making all but the dead
jump. Then all knowing ones under
stand that order is wanted-the stranger
probably thinks 1t a fire alarm bell.
Every Saturday night in all New
Zealand towns the people crowd their
leading street. They walk chiefly in the
street in preference to the footpath.
The girls, women, men and boys, young
and old. promenade up and down the
n street, meet friends and stand in
groups in the street. An occasional
cart, cab or tram. driven at breakneck
speed in their midst. makes the people
scatter for a moment, with many mar
row escapes. Vehicles, trans, cycles,
etc. turn to the left instead of to the
RIGHT
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

A young Hungarian violinist. who
was continually talking about his Won
derful skill and great fame, had his
batteries addressed TO Brahms cut short
with the brusque remark, More finger
exercise and fewer phrases. young
mani"
A young woman who played the pi-
anoforte asked the composer as to the
advisability of giving a concert in
Vienna.
Are you all readyf" inquired
Brahms.
Certainly. dear masteri May l play
something for your"
"Oh, nc, mol I meant only have you
a new gown and glovesi"
Eyes, sir.
PITY; otherwise / should have ad-
vised You not to give the concert"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

AC ~ Va IL @S1oe
The sight that presented itself was
the straneest / have eve seen and has
remained in my memory almost as Wv
idly as If it were yesterday, The mag
nifcent apartments of the palace were
500 filed with as strange a set of ruff
fans as you could meet anywhere. 1t
seemed as if they were all mad or
drunk. and yet they were as jolly as
sandboys. They seemed positively to
revei in destruction and to yell with
delight as they smashed and tore every
thing to pieces that they came GRO
There was scarcely a pic1ure that was
not cut into ribbons, and ornaments,
however costly, were thrown down and
broken to atoms.
While / was standing in n of the
grand apartments, looking on in Won
der, a little man. with a sword almost
as big as himself, stood in front Of a
magnificent mirror hat reached from
the floor to the ceiling. He surveyed it
for a moment, and then, as though he
were about to storm a town single
handed. went deliberately up to it and
with one blow of his great cavalry blade
shivered it to pieces. AS they fell at
his feet he put on a grand air and said
"Lal' as If this was one Of the greatest
deeds he had ever accomplished and the
proudest moment Of his life. Sketches
From Memory" G. A. Storey.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
why He Failed.

The Michigan Tradesman suggests,
In the course of an anecdote, the reason
why a certain old fashioned tradesman
came TO fail. When one of his creditors
reached the place, after this catastro-
phe, he found the merchant working
hard to figure it all out.
"Land, but / don't see why / should
failI" he kept on saying. "Mebbe.
though, / didn't collect sharp enough. Z"
"You have a heap of goods round
here" said the other, looking about
him.
Eyes, more or less"
when did you take the last inven-
toryf"
Inventory ? Take everything DOWN."
Eyes"
Sand make out a list"
eyes"
Sand dust off the shelves and mop
the floor"
"That's it.
"And clean the windows and paint
the front of the store2"
Eyes"
II never went into that. I was going
to N day about 10 years ago, but they
had a wrestling match in town, and 1
forgot the inventory. Mercy on me, but
l can't understand why 1 should faill'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

Here is a matrimonial advertisement
that Is hard to take seriously. A lady
who calls herself Hosuijoshi seeks a
husband In the Kanazawa Shimbun, a
Japanese paper. She describes herself
thus:
al am a beautiful woman, with
cloudlike hair, fowery face, wilIowlike
waist, and crescent eyebrows. I have
enough property to walk through life
hand in hand gazing at flowers in the
day and the moon at night. If there is
a gentleman who is clever, learned,
handsome and Of good taste. / will join
with him for life and share the pleasure
of being buried in the same grave"
To this an answer comes from a gen.
tleman who signs himself Ariwara Nit
sunni. whose advertisement runs as fol-
lows
II am the greatest genius of the
present time. and people regard me as
the handsomest man in Kanazawa. II
the lady sees me but once. she will be
unable to restrain her love for me. !
will fix any place and time for our meet
inv
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

"But did not the neighbors send you
anything after the fire3" inquired the
poor commissioner of the widow whose
home and belongings had been totally
destroyed three nights before by the re-
lentless flames. Z.
Eyes. sir" was the reply. Mrs
Cleaver. across the street, sent me a
beautiful drawn work dolly with her
card, and Miss Washington, in the next
block. a very pretty cut glass knife and
fork rest "-Detroit Free Press
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

Instant relief and a permanent cure by
the great remedy Otto's Cure for Lung
and Throat diseases. Why will you irri-
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E. D. Prickitt, Mount Holly; W. G. Jones,
New Egypt; Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton,
and II. H. Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents,
will furnish you a free sample bottle of
this guaranteed remedy Its success is
wonderful, as your druggist will tell you.
Sample free. Large bottles SOC and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

81 could eve see anything great in
your trip across the Rubicon." said
Washington. ''Now, when I crossed
the Delaware / had to contend with a
great mass of ice"
Eyes" replied Caesar, "but look at
the risk l ran of meeting a frost when 1
reached the other side"
And v 81 n of the Roman senators
-Philadelphia North American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
What london prink..

Londoners consume 275, 900. 900 gal
Ions of water a year. They do not drink
all Of it, and what they do drink is not
always taken clear. as they use 90, 000,-
600 pounds Of tea as well. They do put
down 15S. 600, 900 gallons of beer, how
ever, as we'll as 4, 400. 900 gallons of
spirits. besides 90. 600. 900 gallons of
mineral waters.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

Scotland seems strange place to find
a statue Of Abraham Lincoln, and yet
there is one there. 1t adorns a monu-
ment erected in old Cation burying
ground, Edinburgh. to the memory of
the Scottish Americans who fought in
the American civil war
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

In describing her visit to one of the
mission schools of Africa Miss Kingsley
tells Of a negro girl of 10 to whom she
addressed the question. "What are you
studying"
"Eberyt'ing. replied the child.
what do you known" asked the
young woman.
"Eberyt'ing. was the answer.
"You are the very person I've been
looking for" said Miss Kingsley.
Nov, tell me why you are black"
Certainly. I'm black because my
pas pas pa saw Noah without his
clothes on"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
peNyol.

The smoke upon your altar diea
The flowers decay,
The goddess of your sacrifice
Has flown away.
What profit, then, to sing or STAY
The sacrifice from day to day?
"We know the shrine is void, - they said.
"The goddess Gown
Yet wreaths are on the altar laid
The altar stone
Is black with fumes Of sacrifice,
Albeit she had fed our eyes.
"For 1t may be, If still we sing
And tend the shrine,
Some deity on wandering wing
May there incline,
And finding all in order meet
Stay while we worship at her feet"
-Rudyard Kipling.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23

"Do you buy condensed milk. mad
ami"
"Ipresume that we must, but / never
thought of it before. l always order
two quarts and pay for two quarts. but
1t never measures more than three
pints. Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
Neither Could Bend.

The late Mrs. Kelley, the actress,
used TO tell an anecdote Of Queen Vic
toria ON the occasion when she had the
honor of being received by her majesty.
On being presented she excused herself
from making a low courtesy by saying,
your majesty, I have rheumatism in
my knees, and l cannot courtesy"
MRS Kelley, replied the queen,
II can't, either" And the veteran ac-
tress was put at her ease by the homeli-
ness of the remark and its common
touch Of nature. which made the two
women kin.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
BETTER THAN PARIS eREEN

Is the new sulphate of copper and arsenic
compound, PARAGRENE. This product is
being placed on the market by the manuf &
turer OF the wellknown Star Brand of Pure
Paris Green at considerably less ihan the Cost
of Paris Green. PAfAGRENE Insures abso-
luie security against injury to the plant. 1t is
a very finely powdered arsenical, thus insurlng
uniformity in the strength OF solution USED
for spraying; being more bulky than Paris
Green 1T has o decided advantage over other
Insecticides, whether us,d dry or in sOIntio i.
1t Is put up in packages OF from u to 3 lbs. in
IA lib. kits. and l25 lb. kegs. samples and
prices RE freely furnished by the manu- fac
turer, Fred Il Iavanburg, l65 William St, New
York. Our readers will fine it to their advan.
tage to use this new insecticide, and when
asking for prices and sample please mention
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS.