davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
Pretty strong Proof.

"Well, said Deacon Stubbles, "they
say your son Josh is gittin to be quite
II man mp to the city.
"Yes, " Squire Sprogle assented. "it
pears like he was l didn't take no
stock in the reports till yistady.
Thought josh was jist a-tootin his own
horn Always did like to talk about
hisself good deal, you know.
"Yes, Josh was never no hand to set
around and wait for folks to find ont
about his good p'ints. But what hap
pened yistady to make you think there
was really somethin in the talk about
gittin to be great man2 Was his pho
tograph printed in some paper2"
'No, 'twan't that, but a reporter
come down here to asst if Josh didn t
used to be all fired lazy, or always run
min away from school. or if he WASH t
a queer sort of child that wanted to
be away by hisself and not have nothin
to do with other children. When they
begin to try to find out whether Teller
was any of them kinds of boy, you
kin make up your mind that he's gittin
to be pretty considerable of chap. -
Chicago News
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For several years my early morning
walk lay through the first block of
West Fifty seventh street, where | used
regularly to meet milkman delivering
milk He would take from his wagon II
rack containing several bottles and go
from house to house, while his old gray
horse walked sedately on alone,
One morning rs | was passing the
pair midway the block the man said to
his horse
"Go ON. Jim, and turn at No. :.
watched with interest. Jim did go
ON until exactly opposite No. :. Then
he carefully turned aud walked back to
his master-or shall | say comrades
Yet somo people think that the lower
animals cannot reason. Our Animal
Friends
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Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk s.sS
1920 m 1877, 507 and S23 N. Sunday 1928 Ill
For Phillipsburg and Easton only 62s m week
days.
Leave Frenehtown 9.05, 10.47 m, . o. $50 and
849 m weekdays. 5 40 Sundays For Phil
lipsburg and Easton only, 1902 m.
Arrive at Phillipsburg $40 and ll.22 a. m PAP
sos, 7.S6 and $40 p. m. Sunday $50 p. m.
Leave Phillipsburg 7.25, 9.45 and II 81 a m, 2.47
6.O4 and 9.25 p M Sunday, 925 IN.
Arrive Beyidere 7.5S 1922 and 1i.55 m, 81 9
6.S2, 9.5i p M. Sunday, 95l m.
Arrive Manunka Chunk sos, 80 and IL so M
3.25, 6.3s and 9.5S m. Sunday, 9.58
Additional trains leave Beividere for Manunka
Chunk 700 and $50 a m. and 220 m. Sunday,
ZOO m. Returning, leave Manunka Chunk ior
Belvidere s25, l0.4S m, 20, $40 and 1900 p. m
Sunday, 1000 pm.
Freight or mixed trains leaving Manuuka
Chunk at 500 m, Bevdere 6l5 Il m, Martins
Creek .35 m, arriving Lehigh Junction 6 bS m,
will carry passengers and make stops at flag sta
tions north of Phillipsburg.
Passengers for Broad Street Station, Philadel-
phia, by trains leaving Manunka Chunk 7.22 IN
daily, and l227. $40 m weekdays, and leaving
Philiipsburg s co III daily, loo and 5.55 IN
weekdays go through without change at Tren-
ton. through car for Manunka Chunk is at
tached to trains leaving Broad Street station at
6.O9, 90O a m, 1900 noon, and 81. pm. BY all
other trains passengers to or from Broad Street
station change cars at Trenton.
Connection Is made at MSnunka Chunk with
Delaware, Lsekawanna a. Western Railroad; Le-
high Junction with Lehigh Valley ,Lehigh d Sus
quehanna Morris Essex, and New J Jersey Centra
Railroads. At tLambertville with Flemin gton RAD
road At Trenton with trains to and from Ne.
York, Camden, &c.
FoTfurther n formation see timetables whloi
san be obtained at the ticket ofRees.
J. Il. WOOD,
General Passenger Agent.
j. b. HUTCHINSON,
General Manager
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FISHES Tint Fall Upwards.

This phenomenon cannot be witness
ed everywhere. You must so out to
the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and
then let yourself down into the sea
for about two miles. if you wish to
test the fact. AT this depth the pres
sure of the water is very great-so
great, in fact, that the fish, being used
to the great weight, dare not enter
shallow water for fear of falling up
wards and bursting. Fishes which
are adapted to considerable depths
may accidently leave the bottom,
swimming toward the surface. This
allows the gases in their bodies to eX-
pand slightly, and thus renders them
more buoyant. The more the gases eX
pand, the more buoyant they become.
and the greater is the difficulty of
returning to the depths, until finally
the buoyancy of the body becomes
80 great that they are no longer able to
return to the bottom. They continue
to rise to the surface more and more
rapidly. until the expanding of the
gases in the body kills them. As soon
as the bodies reach the surface the
release of all outer pressure causes
them TO burst into pieces.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
USED TO BE LUCKY.
The Number Thirteen Was Not UnIueky
In Olden Times.


Thirteen! There are probably few
men who in the innermost recesses of
their hearts have not some kind Of an
unpleasant emotion when it comes to
13. OF course, there are some men
who protest loudly-and usually in
some hilarious company-that 13 is
simply an odd figure, like II and 10
and many others, and such men have
formed the I hirteen clubs, of thirteen
members who on the 18th of a month.
particularly if this date happens to
fall on a Friday, eat meal of thirteen
courses at the thirteenth hour of the
day.
This Is done, of course, to break the
superstition attaching to 10, but this
superstition will not down. Tor the
love of the marvellous and mystic will
not down. Were not Sulla, Seipio,
Caesar, Wallenstein, Napoleon and
others superstitious? Is it not histor-
ical fact that they all We're under
spell and undertook no great action
without having first consulted some
medium?
1t Is well known that all the nations
of the old world We're in more or less
intellectual rapport. The ideas of one
tribe descended to the other. But 1t is
certainly interesting to learn that the
figure l3 had its sacred and divine
meaning also i'll America of yore,
among the long since extinct tribes of
the Inoas and the Aztecs. The inhab-
itants of Peru counted seven days,
without any particular name, i'll Ihe
week. Their year had seven times
tifty-two days, of four times 13 weeks.
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HE BREADS A RAZOR.
And lie Has Good Rcnson TO After
His Narrow Escape.

And lie Has Good Rcnson TO After
His Narrow Escape.
"There is a physician now stopping
at this house, " remarked the proprietor
Of one Of the hotel barber shops. "who
has n mortal dread of razor in the
hands of another. 1t originated in re-
markable experience. Some years ago
he was in town in Iowa and stepped
into a barber shop to get shaved. All
the chairs were filled, 80 he sat down TO
wait Ia few minutes ono Of the bar
bers called Next and he was getting
mp when gentleman who had just en-
tered addressed him.
=" 4 am in Il great hurry to catch
train, he said, and would be very
grateful if You would allow me to take
the chair ahead Of you.
"Such requests are not unusual, and
the doctor. who is naturally obliging,
told him to go ahead and resumed his
seat. The other man had hardly climbed
into position when the barber picked
up razor and cut his throat from ear
to ear, killing him instantaneously
''In spite of stories to tho contrary,
think that is the only case of the kind
that ever happened in the United
States The barber turned out to be in
sane, but the horror Of the scene and
the almost miraculous character Of his
own escape made such an impression
ON the mind of the doctor that he has
never since allowed anybody to shave
him
"Only this morning | trimmed his
hair, and in finishing the job | started.
as is customary, to shape up the growth
of his temples with the corner of my
razor The moment he caught sight of
tho blade he turned pale as death
Don touch me with thatl' he exclaim-
ed do the best you can with the seis-
sors and let the rest gol' IIo has known
me long time and | suppose has conf
dence in my sanity, but the reminis-
cence was too much for him, and, really,
l don't wonder. New Orleans Times
Democrat
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Need No Water.

We are so accustomed to drinking
water that we hardly ever stop to con
slider how much we might suffer il
suddenly deprived of this freest and
best of beverages. Water in some
form is necessary to preserve the
health of humans, but there are ami
mails that seem to have little If any
use for the liquid. The llamas Of
Patagonia. for instance, are said to
never taste of water, and certain kinds
of gazellies that are native to the dry
wastes of the orient seem to thrive
without it. a paroquet lived % years
in the London geological gardens with
out drinking any water Some nat
uralists assert that the rabbit never
drinks, being content with the dew
that stands on the grass that IT nib
bles while feeding at night. Many
reptiles live in arid wastes apparently
destitute of water. In the neighbor-
hood of Lozere, France, are herds of
cows and goats that seemingly rarely
drink, yet they produce a fine quality
of milk from which is made the fam
ous Rouuefort cheese.
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"Haw, haw, haw, laughed the Eng
lishman. Funniest joke ever heard. ;"
"What is it2" asked the American.
"Why, a man got up one morning
and couldn't find his alarm clock, so he
asked his wife what had become of it.
and she said it had disappeared at 8
o'clock -
II don't see anything SO very funny
about that.
Don tyouH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. do
l now. Thought it was awful funny
when | heard it too /. Oh, yes, now
l know. She said it went off at 6
O'Clock. lIaw, haw. haw Chicago
Post
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A diver engaged in Moyne River in
Australia had terrible experience
with a sea-devil. Having fired off
charge of dynamite and displaced a
large quantity OF stones, he went to
the bottom of the river and While en-
gagged in rolling over Il large stone he
saw something moving about in front
of him. T Ths dark object came in con
tact with him and colled about his
arm. The diver walked slowly and
painfully along with the sea-devils
feelers twined about his body ana legs
He made tracks for the ladder and
gained the boat, curious looking OBJ
ject, indeed, with this huge, ugly thing
entangled about his body. With the
help of the sailors he was in time
freed from his submarine companion.
The body of the octopus was only
about the size of a large soup plate,
with eyes like a Sleeps, but possessed
nine arms, each four feet in length,
at the butt as thick as a mans wrist
and tapering off at the end like pen
knife. All along the under part of the
feelers of this strange sea creature
are suckers every quarter of an inch,
giving il immense power.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
Hunterd0n County Orphans Court
OF DECEMBER II, 1898.
Present-HoN. II. b. HERa, Judge.

Present-HoN H. B. HERR, Judge.
In the matter of the application of William
Sharp, Executor of last Will and Testament
of Catharine Eyeritt, deceased, for order to
sell Real Estate TO pay debts RULE TO
Snow CAUSE.
William Sharp, Executor of the last VIII
and Testament of Catharine Eyeritt, deceased,
having made and exhibited to this Court, un-
der oath, a just and true account of the per-
sonal estate and debts of the said deeedent
as far as he can discover the same, by which it
appears that the personal estate of the said
decedent is insufficient to pay her debtswhere-
upon on application of the said William Sharp,
Executor of last Will and Testament of the
said Catharine Eyeritt, deceased, setting forth
that the said Catherine Everltt died seized of
Real Estate situate in the Township of Della
ware in the County of Hunterdon, and pray
ing the aid of this Court in the premises, ii is
ordered by theCourt that all persons interested
in the lands tenements s,hereditaments and real
estate whereof the said Catharine Everitt died
seized, do appear before this Court on We'd
nesday, the fifteenth day of February, 1899, in
the term of December, 1898, to show cause, II
any they have, why so much of the Real Es-
seized as aforesaid, should not be sold as will
be sufficient to pay her debts or the residue
thereof as the case may require, and il is fur
ther ordered that this notice be published IN
the LAMBERTyIILE RECORD for six weeks sue
cessively, and also true copies thereof set up
as the law directs.
Done in open Court and dated Surrogate's
Office, December ID 1898 -
Clerk of the Hunterdon Orphans Court
Dec, 81, 1898.
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A Wonderful Drummer.

Probably the most remarkable drum
mer who ever lived was Jean Henri.
the famous tambour major of the En-
peror Napoleon. One of his feats was
to play ON Ii different toned drums Mt
the same time in 80 soft and harmoni-
Gus II manner that instead of the deaf
ening uproar that might have been ex-
pected the effect was that of novel
and complete instrument. In playing
he passed from one drum to the other
with such wonderful quickness that the
eyes of the spectators could hardly fol
low the movement of his hands and
ho1y
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
Had That hight.

"l'm going to sing at tho mothers
meeting tomorrow.
II shonldn think they would allow
"A little girl only 9 years old to attend a
mothers meeting "
"Well, | guess | have right 10 go il
| want to, Ma makes mo take care of
the baby nearly all the time. "-Cleve-
land Leader
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
An Immense Army.

Russia possesses the largest stand
ing army on earth. Every year some
$50, 900 cOnscripts join the Russian
forces which in time OF peace number
100000 men. On a war-footing this
rises to 2,500,000, and calling out the
reserves would increase it to 6,947 600
well-trained soldiers. Should necessity
arise, the militia would be called out,
bringing the Cars forces up to 9,000,-
600 men
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
Costly Health.

Blivens-My dear, I'm really alarmed
about Tommy health.
Mrs. Blivens-I suppose you mean
you are alarmed about his i'll health
and future doctors bills
Bivens i said health, and meant
it. | was thinking of butchers bills. =
Boston Transcrint.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY II. 1899.
DAwN'S MASouE.


Sleep no more, Corinnal Night
Stenlthily in ghostly yelling
Fleeing. scattered In her fight
Wbereso'er her mantle trailing,
Brushed and bent each grassy spear
Bounties of dew silver hero.
Now in splendid pageant moves
Like a far sea phosphorescent,
Passing down the mountain groves,
Dawn to kiss the lakes blue crescent,
Golden arrows falling ever
From her loose rose belted quiyer.
Siiken strands of thistle down
Woven by the pixie maiden)
Glitter, and the coral crown
Whcrowith every hawthorns laden,
E'cn as If in ruhies set,
Sparkles with the hoar frost wet
Sleep no more, Corinnal Nay,
slumber hath oUtstaid it's limit
When the pomp OF newborn day
Throstles sec and rise to hymn it,
When, all loyelHess, the sun
Setteth forth his course to runl
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

Fair haired people are said to be be-
coming less numerous than formerly.
The ancient Jews We're a fair haired
race now they are, with few exceptions,
dark. So II is in Il lesser degree, with
the Irish, among whom l50 years ago a
dark haired person was almost an.
known
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17
A Mnnnle.s Month.

February, 1866, was in one way the
most wonderful month in the world 5
history. 1t had no full moon. January
had two full moons, and so had March I;
but February had none. This re-
markable state of things had never
happened before since the era we as
sign to the creation.
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one OF tn. Main Requisites.

81 Thought he had all the clements of
successful artist for the humorous
weeklies, and yet he failed,
"Ics, he failed TO make the feet and
the mouths large enough To be consider
ed real humor. Chicago Post
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

What are those pegs all over your
back yard ~
1--WE ordered some trees and drove
chose pegs down to show mywife where
. didn't want them planted. Chicago
Record
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My daughter, said the father.
has always been accustomed to all the
!uxuries of wealth. F."
"Hees, replied the count. bristling
mp. "Zat ces what | am '-Philadel-
phia North American.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

The average life of theater is 2s
years. From 1861 to 1867, inclusive. 1877
theaters were burned down, and 13 ev-
cry year since has been about the aver
age.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

Train up a child in the way he
should &c, but don { ovortrain him, or
he will be pretty sure to 20 in an oppo-
site direction Besten Transcript
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

The price of medicine in Prussia is
regulated by the state. new price list
being published every year,
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

Theatrical companies in Mexico have
TO pay fine if they do not produce the
pieces announced.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

Among the Ph9nieians, in ancient
days, the wearing of earrings was
badge of servitude.
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

The Consumptive and Feeble ard Al who
suffer from "a Parker's Ginger
Tonic. 1t cures the Cough. Weak Lungs Denay In
digestion. Female Rheunatsn and Pain e 81
HINpERCORNS. Tn. only sure cure for corns
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17

Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk s.Ss
1920 m, 1877, 5.07 and 1928 N. Sunday, 1928 Ill.
For Phillipsburg and Easton only 6.2s m week
The Lambertville record., 1899-05-17


Leave Frenchtown 9.05, 1O.47 m, . 90, $50 and
~ p m weekdays, $40 m Sundays. For Phil
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-07-25
Mosquitoes and Malaria.

Some interesting investigations have
recently been carried on by physicians
and scientists, intended to prove the long
suspected relation which mosquitoes bear
to malaria. Enough has been done to
demonstrate clearly the fact that the
night air, which we shut out of our win
dows, is not cur real enemy, but the mos
quitoeS which enter when the windows
are open. Persons. even in the most
malariOuS of countries, who wear gauZe
wells by day and who sleep under nets
at night, remain imperviOuS to the evils
of the climate. proving that insects, not
the air, have caused the trouble. AS a
further test and proof of this theory,
first enunciated by the way, in 1907, a
young and healthy man in Rome, who
had never been affected by malaria, sub
nlitted to being stung by certain mos
QuitOeS brought from a neighbOring dis
trict for the purpose. He developed all
the symptoms of that peculiar kind of
malaria prevalent in the district from
which the mosquitoes had been taken.
Dead mosquitoes in wells and springs
will also cause malaria. We therefore
have not been altogether unjustifed in
our prejudice against these pestiferous
little creatures, nor in condemning locali-
ties frequented by them. A limited OBJ
servatiOn has taught many of us that
babies suffer something more than the
mere local irritation when an insect has
stung them, and many of us remember
after several bites. The conclusions
reached, therefore, can hardly cause us
great surprise, and since they add more
proof in favor of open windows and fresh
air at night. most of us will accept them
gladly.-Harper'S Bazaar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-07-25
Lend Me Your Ants

A plague of small ants is worrying the
good housekeepers in the lower part of
town. The little pests get in the sugar
bowls, play havoc with cakes and pies.
and drop themselves in the jelly and fruit
preserves 1t is we'll known that the
large black ants devour the little red
ones, and one bright lady introduced sew
eral of the big black ants into her home
in order that they might eat the little
ones up. The black ants did their work
nobly, and now the house is free of the
small pests. Since the bright woman
made her successful experiment her
neighbors frequently run over and ask,
Mrs -, will you please lend me
your big black ants for a day or so?
want to borrow them to eat my little
ones ''-Breckinridge News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-07-25
A Symposium of Gossips.

In some such world it is pleasant to
fancy gathering of the gossips. They
might meet at the Mermaid Tavern
surely there will be one; a kind of ''Mer-
maid" Forty Immortals' and John
sons club rolled in one Dr. John
son should preside; for the doctor loved
presiding, and without him there would
lack Boswell. an indispensability at a
symposium of gossips. What if Walpole
did once upon a time allude to them as
"a mountebank and his zany.' A hun
dred years contemplation of posterity
undoubtedly chastens any ghost, and
Walpcle had no foolish crotchets about
consistency. Yes, they would harmon
ize, and Walpole should uphold the doc
tors right with Boswell on the left; and
at Walpole's side should sit Cellini, for
he liked him. Plutarch, Herodotus and
Vasari should be there; they would
prove congenial; and Froissart Philip
de Commines, Saint Simon, Bassom-
pierre-all the gossips worthy of the hon
Orable title. Were it ladies' night one
might meet Lady Mary Montagu. or
Nine. Roland or Nine. Sevigne. Then,
when the uneaten fragments Of ambrosia
had been removed and the nectar had be-
gun TO flow, Boswell might ask all the
leading questions that he chose, Pepys
boast of his speech at the bar of the
House of Commons, Saint Simon tell of
Louis QuatorZe, Walpole repeat George
Selwyn's good thing or his own. Bassom-
pierre vilify Richilieu, or Cellini brag
again how he killed the constable of
France. There should be talk, good
talk, and the very cream of gossip
Self Culture
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-07-25
LONDON'S SENSATION.
Decorations of Mr.. Menpes' Palace
Filled the Metropolis with Wonder.

F1Ileu the metropolis with Wonder.
A London dispatch says society folks
swarmed in force yesterday to a recep-
ton given by Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer
Menpes i'll their new house in Cadogan
Gardens. Curiosity drew them on, for
the most eXtravagant reports have been
in circulation concerning the beauties and
wonders of the palace.
From the exterior there is little to dis
of other fine residences in the neighbor-
hood, but the interior is a novelty even
to luxurious London. ~ 2 4e
During travels in the far East Mr..
Menpes became a close student of Japan
csc and Chinese styles of interior deco
ration, and greatly admired the skill of
Oriental artisans. A year ago he inn
ported seventy of the best decorative ar
lists he could find in those two countries.
There were metal workers, wood cary
ers, porcelain painters, silk weavers,
tapestry makers and skilled workers of
all kinds. These men were set to work
in the house, and for nearly twelve
months they have been carrying out in a
most exquisite manner beautiful scheme
of decoration.
The general plan has been to make
the house a garden of flowers. Each
room has a different flower as the basis
of its decoration, and the scheme has
in every object. The entrance halls have
chrysanthemums; the drawing room,
peonies; the dining room, cherry bios
SONS; L the studio, camelias, and so on
through the entire house.
The result has been novel as well as
artistic, and London society has become
fascinated with the idea