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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
TURNED CHILD our TO FREEZE
Elcyen.rear-old Accuses His Father OF
Heating Him Cruelty.

Pietro GRECO an Italian. living AT 255
Elizabeth street was arrested yesterday for
cruelty to his eeven-y earold son Angelo.
Angelo, who is very small for his age,
sells papers He told Magistrate Pool
that his father boat him II he didn't bring
home at least 80 cents every night. The
boy said he had had hard luck on Saturday
night. Ii was so cold the people wouldn't
buy bis papers.
He stayed ont until after midnight and
then crept home. half frozen. Angeles
father mother and three young sisters
were asleep. Early in the morning his
father awoke him and asked for his money.
Angelo handed over nine cents. Grieco
then took down a strap with buckle in
one end. The boy said his father stripped
him and beat him numerically Then
clad only in a little undershirt, he kicked
him into the street That was about 7
o'clock yesterday morning.
At 10 O'Clock Policeman Thwaite Of the
Mulberry street station found Angelo
huddle1 In corner Of n grocery store
entrance at $50 Elizabeth street. The boy
was all but dead from the cold and there
were big bruises all over his body. just
then the storekeeper opened up and the
half frozen lad was thawed out beside he
fire. Then the big cop carried the mite OF a
boy in his arms TO the police station.
Going bacleto the boys home, the police
man gathered up his clothes and arrested
the father The police say that GRECO is
too lazy to work and makes his children
Magistrate Pool In the Tombe court
held him for further examination and Angelo
was sent 10 the Gerry society.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06

Among the thousands Of amusing letters
which enliven the monotony of the pub
lsher's existence came recently an I'M
dated request from Western city. written.
it goes without saying by woman, and
expressed concisely in the following words
i want an interesting book to read Please
send me one. II | don't like it. will send
it back Perhaps the day will come when
publishers will have sample departments, $
where fragments of books will be submitted
to women with facsimiles of cover, &c.
from which the ladies may choose volumes
for their libraries as they now select ma
terials for their gowns. II is painful.
because an unfamiliar, experience 10 II
woman to buy anything that she can not
send back" IL she changes her mind after
she has ordered the goods All dry goods
houses recognize and submit 10 this
idiosyncrasy on the part Of women and
since books are read by women in America
far more than by men, possibly tho sale
Of books might be increased if there were
not such an alarming flnality in their pur-
chase that woman stops TO think before
investing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
FIVE SICK AVID NO rood.
Doctor Reports to the Police Gaze OF a
Family in Want.

DR.. Tuttlo Of 100 East l2sth street told
the police Of the West IO4th street station
last night that something should be done
for the family of John Smith, wire roller,
who lives at 1876 East Ninety-sirth street.
Smith and his wife are both sick. the
doctor said, and three Of their FIVE children
were sent to North Brother Island on Sat
urday suffering from scarlet fever. The
other children may be attacked by the dis
ease
Smith has been out OF work for weeks
and has no money. The family has not
enough TO eat the doctor reported, and no
money to buy medicines. Smith goes to
Bellevue Hospital to-day for an operation.
authorities, DR.. Tlttle was told
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
CUSTOMS FRAUD EXPENSIVE.
A santa Barbara Importer Fined SO Heavily
That He ia Bankrupt.

SAN Francisco. Feb. Nathan Bentz.
a curio importer OF Santa Barbara, has
found il expensive to undervalue his i'm
portatious from the Orient, az the Cover
ment has practically bankripted him by
exaotng a fine Of $4,000.
Bentz il a Jew who has been doing good
business in Japanese and Chinese c,rios and
fancy goods at Santa Barbara for many
wears He sold thousands of dollars worth
of goods every year TO wealthy tourists
He had ALWAYS been square and the Gov
eminent officials trusted him. On the
steamer Doric last fall Bentz brought from
the Orient "A large consignment of goods
and several times since he has had big
invoices.
The goods were manifested at such low
figures that the customs officers asked
Bentz what it meant, He returned an
affidavit that theee were the prices he had
paid as all Oriental curios had fallen fully
one-half In price because OF the Japanese
desire 10 convert goods into ready money.
One Of the customs officials here, however,
wrote to a friend in Yokohama and gave
some OF Bentz's figures.
A reply came with figures, showing that
Bentz since early last fan had undervalued
his importations from 40 TO 60 per cent.
A Quiet investigation was started, which
resulted in showing that Bentz had cheated
the Government out Of sum twice az great
as the appraised value OF the goods
Be,,,. was summoned here by the Collec-
tor Of the Port and when presented with
the facts tainted. He agreed to give up
all his property IL the Government would
remit the penalties Bentz will have 70
paw $4,000. which will sweep away all his
Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
PUBLICATIONS.
Harpers' Book News.
The Wonders
of Life.

Like the "Riddle Of the Uni
verse" which in this country and
abroad sold hundreds of thou
sands of copies, this new volume
by Ernst Haeckcl will probably
cause the widest comment 1t is
popular 5tady Of the mystery Of
life, written to supplement the
Riddle and set forth this
eminent scientists latest invest
cations. Professor Haeckel, the
last of the brilliant coteric of
scientists that followed Darwin,
voices the scientific message of
the nineteenth century to the
twentieth. In these days of the
dominance of fiction it is note
worthy to find a serious book
read so widely.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
Ice cuts or Barren Island.

The Ice has been so thick in the vicinity
OF sheepshead and Jamaica bays that the
tugboat from Barren Island has been I'M
able to get TO the mainland. Postmaster
Roberts Of Brooklyn received word over
the telephone from Barren Island that the
tugboat has been unable to make the trip
and no mail has been received for the past
two days.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
BoWLED oVER DOcTORs BUGGY.
-" 'hlHcian and His Driver Injured in
Street Car smash

pf Jacob Glass Of CT Second avenue
vas leaving his house yesterday morning
:" answer a call when his carriage was
suck by Second avenue car and over
s .l Dr. Glass and his driver. Bernard
,7 ~ were thrown out and injured.
1 dr. Dlass landed on his right side and his
e 1'.sr landed on top Of him. The physi-
fo,,.SS ilp and ribs were injured. but no
tprained
arrived =" DV4''' 'ne P'iloe
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
Bln to Prevent the Theft OF News.

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb 5.-A hill to prevent
the theft OF news was introduced in the
lower house OF the Legislature yesterday
by Representative Fitle OF Douglas county.
II Ia designed TO give the publisher OF a
daily paper property rights in the news
printed In his columns II is said TO have
the support Of leading publishers OF the
2fala
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
DOv,r WANT TO JOIN NEWARK
BLOOMFIELD Uuzrns TO Fight the Proposed
Annexation.

Annexation.
BLOOMFIELD. y. j., Feb. 5.-A delegation
OF thirty prominent citizens will go 70
Trenton Tomorrow night to fight the pro-
posed bill 20 annex Bloomfield TO Newark.
The bill It is said, has been drafted by a
Hudson county Assemblyman at the insti-
CATION OF the annexationists.
A year ago the people voted against be-
coming a part of Newark Many OF those
who were anneKationists one year ago are
now working hard TO defeat the proposed
bill.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
g As5 sis fo saay 9Se Bridge at Midnight

TO the reader until the wrecking crew
comes 10 the rescue.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
GOLDMAN MUSIC HAUL

Hroadvay 4 ed street Opcns Wednesday I've
Thompson & Duudy rud ON IS. r. lev win prcs ent
"A Duel Ia the snow, " The Athletic Girl"
aud Remarkable SpeciAltlrs. Evening". Is CENTS %
81 MAtluecs 1utsdal So THURSDAY ~ and Shturdhl =.
20 and ~ cents
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06

In one Of the police courts the other
day the question Of ownership Of a horse
arose.
Said one: "Your Honor here il "A bill of
sale that drew up myself. and he handed
the Judge a paper which read
This is TO certify that sold lssao Cohen
one little mail horse with sorel main and
tale, which is now his "
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
s-EGMENTARY SCIENCE.

The alpha rays of radium have been
found by Prof. Rutherford to have one
eleventh as great velocity as light.
A giant pig, with a skull measuring
nearly a yard long, has been found
among the later tertiary deposits of
Nebraska in fossilized remains. 1t
has been christened Dinochoerus brol-
landi.
The newest SMOKE absorber is a
filter of coke saturated with petroleum.
The SCOT is caught by the coke and
subsequently used as fuel, while the
gases are rendered infiammable by
the petroleum vapors.
Some minerals. such as diamonds,
give out light when rubbed together.
Sir William Cookies says that he has
prepared an artificial s%ulphide of zinc
which is more luminescent under fric-
ton than any natural mineral.
Since the final products of the per-
feet combustion of any fuel are water
constitutes or makes smoke, the exist
ence of smoke is proof of the imper-
feet burning of whatever substance is
consumed for heat or power.
The hypothesis that magnetic storm.
aurorae, etc, are due TO the passage of
the earth through donser portions of
matter elected by the sun is favored
by Prof. Schaeoefie, the German
astronomer. He finds that the irreg-
ularity of periods is what should be
expected. and the phenomena of com
cts sustain this view.
Reconnaissance by wireless is a
late suggestion for the army. Maj.
Westmore, of E%ngland's application
of space telegraphy to his motor
car, whereby he communicated with
his residence while on the run,
give Use to the idea that it
should be employed in the army
for accommodating purposes instead
of cavalry officers raids and cyclist
companies, the extreme mobility of
the machine rendering it almost in
vulnerable.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
RELATED OF

Love of tobacco and wisdom often go
together. Prince Bismarck was wont to
boast that he had in something like so
wears consumed over 100000 cigars, a
number that works out an average OF
five a day-no great feat perhaps for one
who was at one period a chain" smoker,
lighting each cigar from the glowing
stump of the one just enjoyed.
Edison. the great inventor, must hold
a superior record. Ten cigars a day are
his normal allowance, but when deeply
absorbed in work he finds double that
number necessary to stimulate his brain.
Even more in a day used hat celebrated
singer Morio, to dispose of; but his day
q with dawn and concluded not I'M
til sleep empowering him, the still
burning Havana slipped from his lips.
Berlin has recently lost one Of her
moot ardent and m%ethodical devotees
of the fragrant weed by the death OF
Herr Grunn. whose daily allowance of
tobacco consisted Of six pipes, six cigars
and six cigarettes. This amount he
never varied, save on his birthday, when
II was doubled, and on New Years day,
which. on the principle of starting the
veal temporarily, was kept as a day OF
total abstinence.
Without a cigar Edwin Booth, the
t~ragedian. was scarcely ever seen. Even
while engaged on his professional duties
his beloved weed was present in the
wings. ready to be snatched from his
dresser's hand for enjoyment during the
sometimes exceedingly brief intervals
between the exits and entrances. Twen-
ty-fve cigars a day were at one time his
usual allowance; an allowance, how
aver not ~inirequentiy exceeded.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
SIX DAY CYCLE RACE.
Plucky Frenchman Quits With a
Broken Rib edeIIs Lead.

NEW YORK, Dee. 8.-Louis Trous-
salier. who has quit the six day bicycle
race in Madison Square Garden, is at
the Bartholdi hotel with Il broken rib.
The doctors discovered the nature of
his injury only after he left the track.
The plucky Frenchman rode for near
ly tw%enty-four hours despite the pain.
He was injured ira bad spill yester-
day.
The motor cycle race, which has
been IA special feature, may have to
be discontinued for the safety of the
spectators in the arena boxes. Al
though the management instructed
Saunders and Turville to keep the
speed of the machines down. the men
have continually kept them up to the
limit.
The six day plodders began to hit up
the pace at 2 O'Clock, as the manage
ment offered hourly prizes of $40 for
the rider who led with the greatest
number of laps every six hours. Fen
teams now survive. with the Bedell
brothers in the lead by a lap.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
AMONG TIL

One thousand four hundred arl
twenty-five characters are described
in the "a books written by Charles
Dickens.
The rule followed by editors of both
the Oxford and Cambridge Chronicles in
the position of the letters A. M. and M.
A., for the title master of arts. is that
where the context is in Latin the form
Is A. NJ, and where it is English, M. A..
The real name of Gabrielle d'Annun-
zio. the Italian novelist, is Rapagnetta.
His father-in-law was Due De Gallese, q
Frenchman who received permission to
take that title on marrying the widow
Of a former duke. The author is now
trying to obtain a divorce.
Once a year or SO William Dean
Howells, the distinguished novelist,
drops into the Office of the Ashtabula
(O.) Sentinel. rolls up his sleeves m
sets type for half an hour. Mr.. Howells
began his career as a printers appren-
tice in the Sentinel Office, which was
then owned by his father. His knowl-
edge of typesetting has been of immense
value to him in his literary career.
John Kendrick Bangs, the author, who
for some years has been dividing his
time between Yonkers and New York, is
soon to become a c%ountryman again. Il
have ~blue-penciled city life" he said,
recently. my eye is IN a farm in New
England, where l hope before long to be
able to provide an appreciative public
with limited editions of squab-chickens,
large paper turkeys and deckle-edged
eggs. And" he added, slyly, no item
in either class will go out without my
signature"
Miss Alice French chose her pen name
of Octave Thanet in curious fashion.
Octave was the name of one of her
schoolmates and was selected because it
gives no hint as to whether the person
who bears it is a man or a woman.
Thanet was adopted from a passing rail-
road car that Miss French CHANGED to
see and is pronounced with the accent
on the second syllable. Born and edu-
Gated in New England, the writer has
lived most of her mature life in the west
and in the south, which has made her
familiar with widely varying phases of
American civilization. Her first maya
zine story was written and accepted in
1878.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Ire NEWS

Eges wer never more scarce in South
Jersey.
Friendship Fire Company, of Wood
hurry. has nominated C. Walter Shivers
for chief.
Honors for a rooster that catches rats
are claimed by Councilman Harry Peddle,
of Wenonah.l
The Milvslle auditorium is being con-
verted into a theatre and has been leased
by a New Yorker.
A farmers institute was held at Will
Jamestown yesterday under the auspices
of the Cross Keys Grange.
AT a birthday social in Pleasantville
S37 was realized for the Manse fund of
the Presbyterian church.
The n~ine-year-old daughter of Lewis
Hilby, a farmer near Millville, was bitten
on the cheek by a large dog Wednesday.
Union Lodge of odd Fellows will have
a gala night at Ple%asantville, December
20, when a district meeting will be held.
Plans are under consideration at Pleas
~antville to provide a salary for the mayor
when DR.. ]. II. North is inaugurated jan
uary /.
The st. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran
church, of Millville, will extend a call to
Rev. A. II. Shaefer, of Salem, o., who
preached as a candidate last Sunday.
Harry Adams, the oldest conductor in
the employ of the Millvllle Traction Com
pany. fell from his car Wednesday and
sustained a broken collar-bone and a
fractured rib.
Farmers and sportsmen are at war
over the proposed repeal of the bounty
law on foxes. Sportsmen want the law
repealed, while the farmers get SO for
each fox killed.
Thomas Flatley, another of the Glou-
cester s~aloonkeepers VINO pleaded guilty
to selling liquor on Sundays. was We'd
nesday sentenced to pay 500 fine and
costs.
The Gloucester County S. P. C. A. has
offered a reward of S25 for the arrest and
conviction of the person who left the
horse tied i'm the woods neal Newfield,
where it starved to death.
Lighting a match to search for some
gunpowder in his home in Millville on
Monday, Joseph Estell found it. In the
explosion that followed he was seriously
burned about the head and face.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth
hover, the Oldest member of the First
Baptist church., Burlington. occurred
Wednesday,. Mrs. Dannehower, who was
lightweight years old, died in a Trenton
hospital last Sunday.
Two surveys have been made for a
branch line of the Philadelphia & Atlantic
City Railway into the New Cape May
tract from the vicinity of Cold Springs,
three miles above Cape May. The Penn
sylvania railroad may build a trolley line
to Cape May Point.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Lurctt,.. victory the Fenturc.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. S%.-Favorites
could do no better than break yer at
the Crescent City Jockey clubs track.
Hannibal Bey. Pasadena and Lieber
were the successful first choices. Lu-
retta's victory over Gold Rose was the
feature of the day and was largely due
to Sewell's riding.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
PRACTICE.

The Amarite bowling team will be
out for a practice game OF the Blood
good alleys tonight. They hope to
win the third match game of the In
ter-State League which will take
place Monday night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Marvellous Rapiditv.

During recent experiments to dis
v the length of time required for a
telegraph signal to pass from Montreal
to Greenwich by Atlantic cable, 200
signals were sent. 1t was found that
the average time taken by the current
10 0 the Atlantic and back-a dis
lance in all of 5000 miles-was exact
~ / 1870 seconds.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
New BaiIooing Danger.

Poisoning from gas inhalation is now
ADDED to the recognized dangers of bal
looming. 1he hyurogen-itself non
poisonous-is often contaminated with
arsenic, selenium and anthony, and
IA cases of i'll effects have been re-
ported to the French Acadamey of
Medicine. In one of the two forms OF
poisoning death results in two or three
days.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
LOST.
Canadian Postal Business.

The Canadian post Office department
shows a surplus on its operations for
the last fiscal year, but the service is
much less complete than it is in the
United States. Rural free delivery has
not been carried as far as in this
country, and in some large towns there
are no Sunday collections or deliveries
of mail.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Immense Capacity.

Thirty-six thousand have on occa-
sion. been accommodated in st. Paul's
cathedral, but then temporary gal
leries, ETC., were erected. On festivals
between 6,o0v and 1000 people find
seats. At an ordinary service about
1000 people will make the cathedral
look full.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08

WATERTOWN, n. Y, Dee. S.-Joe
Collins of Chicago last night won from
Martin Lewis of Lowell, Mass, in n
wrestling match here for a side bet of
$500. Collins took the last two falls.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Lessons for Porters.

1t is stated by the London Globe that
with the identification of London's un-
foreground railroads an effort is to be
made TO teach porters the proper pro.
nunciation of the names of stations. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
SEEING SIX DAY RACE.

Many sports went from this city
to New York last night to e the six
day bicycle ace at Madison Square
Garden. A number will go to the
city tomorrow night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Obvious Need.

The mikado has gone TO the shrine
Of Ise to tell his ancestors how the
war came out. Evidently what these
ancestors need is a first-class newspa.
per.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
Handzarra Mt Ascot.

LOS ANGELES. Cal, Dec. S,-Favor-
ties Jared badly at Ascot track, al
though Handzarra. Mt odds on, won the
third race easily.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
HOUSES o RENT.
ROOMS WANTED.
Smallest Tree.

Naturalists say the smallest tree in
the world is the Greenland birch. This
miniature tree grows to a height OF
less than three inches. although it
spreads over a radius of two or three
feet.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08

The "1ook-before-you-leap' people
read the ads. every day.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-08
BLOODCOOD SCORES.

Edward Germs rolled 206, and Carl
Holzworth rolled 212 on the Bloodgood
alleys last night.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1905-09-08
How Various Nations Sleep.

In the tropics men sleep IN ham
mocks or upon mats Of grass. The
East Indian unrolls his light, porta-
bic charpoy, or mattress, which IN
the morning is again rolled together
and carried away by him. The Jap
anese lie upon mating with stiff,
uncomfortable wooden neck rests.
The Chinese use low bedsteads, Of
ten deliberately carved and support
ing only mats or cover lids. \ pc
culiarity of the German bed is its
shortness. Besides that it often
consists in part of large down pill
low, or upper mattress, which
spreads over the person and usually
answers the purpose of all the other
ordinary bedclothing combined. The
English beds are the largest beds in
the world. The ancient Greeks and
Romans had their beds supported
on frames, but not flat like ours
The Egyptians had a couch of pc
culiar shape, more like an old fash
toned easy chair, with hollow back
and seat.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1905-09-08
MISTAKES IN PICTURES.
Some Queer elunders That Have Beer
Made BIZ Artists.

4 well meaning artist Of ih,
eighteenth century painted a PIC
ture in which Abraham Was depict
Cd as about To- sacrifice Isaac with a
blundcrbuss. The actual event which
the artist had striven To depict ante
dated the use of firearms by about
5000 years. There are also pictures
Of the Israelites crossing the Red
sea. the men armed with muskets
and other weapons Of modern man
ufacture. In the matter of costume
the early painters found a stun
bling block. In the Edinburgh Ma
tional gallery is picture in which
Pharaoh's daughter and her ladies
are arrayed in the long WASTED
bodices and hoped skirts common
to Europe in the sixteenth century.
In another picture of the same
date, representing Joseph and His
Kindred In Egypt" which is hung
in the national collection in Lon
don. there is no trace of the distinc-
tive features Of Egyptian architec-
ture about the buildings. They are
all Italian in type. In painting by
Paolo Neronese in the same gallery,
"The Family Of Darius at the Feet
Of Alexander After the Battle of
lssus," the women wear pointed
waists and enormously distended
skirts, although the incident oc-
Cured in the year 1913 b. c. The
artist was Venetian, and he drew
the Venetian costumes of his own
PSYCHOLOGISTS.
Raphael, like so many Others,
drew his Madonnas, his saints and
his martyrs from Italian models and
clothed them in contemporary ltal-
ian costume, giving the figures as a
background the scenery with which
he was so familiar. 1t was only
when travellers came to visit tho
Holy Land and saw the people there
unchanged in sentiment, habit and
customs for centuries, that they
came to realize that the picture:
were wrong.-Chicago News.