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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Telling the Time.


One of the accurate ways of telling
the time is to use your hand as an
hour mark. Nothing simpler. All
farmers not possessed Of watches or
clocks and who have some practical
notions of common utilities not invent
ed by man, but given to us by the
Creator. know the rule. 1t is necessary
to keep In mind the hour Of sunrise
and sunset and to hold the arm
straight out from the shoulder, with
the hand at right angles, bending from
the wrist forward. If the sun sets at
Z o'clock and is still high in the heav-
ems close one eye and make three meas
ures of the width of the palm near the
thumb. Each measure means one
hour Three measures mean three
hours, so that the time thus obtained
Is 7 less 3, or o'clock. With practice
you can beat the average watch.-New
York Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17

HOW FAflE COMES.
Men Who Became Great Through Ac-
cident or Chance.


cident or Chance.
Accident has played an important
part in the making of great men. If
Cooper had never been challenged by
his wife to write as good a story as
an English novel he had been reading
he might never have been one of the
great novelists.
If Napoleon had persisted in his at
tempts to be writer of essays after
he left the military academy the world
would not have known this great gen.
eral
If Shakespeare had not failed as
wool merchant and turned actor and
then, becoming disgusted with himself
as an Indifferent player, applied him.
self TO writing there would never have
been this great dramatist, and no
doubt the plays of today would have
been inferior to what they are.
Cowley became poet purely
through chance. When only boy he
found in his mothers attic copy
Of Sponsors ''Faerie Queene" and, be-
coming enchanted by the rhyme, deter
mined to write poetry for himself.
Gibbon tells that it was while he was
at Rome among the ruins of the cap
itol that he was first moved to write
the history of the rise and fall Of that
great empire. Probably had he not
taken a walk on that certain sunny
day he would never have conceived
the work that afterward made him IA
NOUS
Corneille, the French poet, was in
the habit of making verses for his
friends. Being fiattered by their crit
icism, he gave up his profession as a
lawyer and turned writer.
Franklin discovered electricity by
accident, and Moliere was turned to
writing comedy, from the tapestry
trade, by reprimand from his father
for leading dissipated life.
Newton discovered the force of grav-
itation through mere chance. When
student at Cambridge he went one
day to the country. Being weary with
his rambles, he sat down beneath an
apple tree, and while he was musing
there was rudely aroused by a severe
| blow from an apple which, falling
| from the branches, struck him on the
head. He was surprised at the force
Of the blow from so small an object,
| and this led him to deduce the princi-
| pie Of gravity.
| Flamsteed became an eminent as
| tronomer through chance Because of
| Ill health he was taken from school,
| and, wishing to have some books to
| read while In confinement, he borrow
ed book on astronomy. He was sc
much interested in this volume that
he procured others and at length adopt
| ed the study as profession
Pennant. the authority on natural
history, received his propensity in that
direction through chance perusal OF
a book ON birds which he found on q
table In the house of a friend, and Sil
Joshua Reynolds was first moved tc
his profession of painting portraits by
casually reading Richardson's treatise
Sunday Magazine.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
ENGRAVED PICTURES.
Their Romantic Origin Dates Back to
the Fifteenth Century.

Their Romantic Origin D1tes Back to
the Fifteenth Century.
The art Of engraved pictures dates its
romantic origin ito the chamber of
Florentine goldsmith, Maso Finiguerra,
In the fifteenth century, about the time
that Gutenberg was struggling with
his printing from movable types. Be
fore that day pictures were drawn or
painted by hand. Finiguerra was
celebrated worker In metals, and, being
commissioned to make a pax of gold
engraved with q coronation of the Vir-
gin, he sought to test his design by
of oil and lampblack, which threw the
picture into relief By chance the face
was laid face downward on a piece of
damp linen, and when taken up it was
discovered that the picture was printed
Sheet after sheet of damp paper was
impressed by the same plate and the
good news that the art of printing pic
lures was born spread like wildflre
throughout Europe. The collection of
old prints introduces Albrecht Durer,
the father of line engraving" 147D
In four brilliant impressions of adam
and Eye,' Little Horse" "Melancho-
lia" and ''St Gerome" "Melancholia"
is a strange composition of extraordi-
nary originality, and has been a mys-
terry for over four centuries This bit
of yellowed paper. possibly pulled from
the plate by Durer's own hands, has
lost none of its faScination-Chic
Post
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
LAKE SHORE RVS ELKs TOUR

to Colorado. leaving Buffalo July 18th.
In Denver July 18th to 10Th. during Elks
convention. afterwards visiting Colorado
Springs. Garden of The Gods. Pixies
Peak, Cripple Greek. Pueblo and through
the heart of the Rockies, including the
Grand Canon of the Arkansas, Royal
Gorge and Marshall Pass Twelve DAYS
all-expense trip. $500. Many ElKs'
lodges in the states of New York and
Pennsylvania have already joined this
Axc4fsion. which is open to Elks, their
friends and the public. The tour is Of
fered at absolutely net cost and at the
same rate to everybody. No charge is
made by the Lake Shore Railway for ar
ranging and conducting it's tours and no
body is carried free at the expense Of
others. Write for itinerary. j. W.
DAILY. Chief Asst. q. Z. A.. Buffalo,
n y
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
SAID ABOUT WOMEN.

A fattered woman is always indul-
GENT -Chenier.
The test of civilization is the esti-
mate of women.-Curtis.
Provided woman be well princip1ed
she has dowry enough.-Plautus.
Beauty is the eyes food and the
souls sorrow.-German Proverb.
Divination seems heightened to its
highest power in woman.-Bronson Al
colt.
The more women have risked, the
more they are willing to sacrifice
Duclos.
Women are supernumerary when
present and missed when absent.-Por-
tuguese Proverb.
A termagant wife may in some re-
spects be considered tolerable bless
Washington Irving.
Some cunning men choose fools for
their wives, thinking to manage them.
but they always fail.-Johnson.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
The Russian Crown.

The crown used by the Russian czar
resembles the dome formed patri-
archal miter, which was favorite
shape among the Byzantines. Upon
the summit appears a cross formed of
five beautiful diamonds, which is also
supported by large spinel ruby, poll
ished, but not faceted. This ruby and
cross are supported by foliated arch
composed of eleven great diamonds
and rising from the back and front of
the base of the crown. On either side
of this central arch is attached a hoop
formed of thirty-eight large and per-
feet pearls. The spaces on either side
of these arches are filed with leafwegk
and ornaments in silver, incrusted with
diamonds, underIaid with the richest
purple velvet The band which forms
the base of the crown is of gold and
is ornamented with twenty-eight mag
nificent diamonds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
JERSEY CITY

Two-base hits = Wagner, Clement.
Three-base hits-Raub. Grant, Bean.
Sacrifice hit1Butler. Stolen bases
Clement, Foxen, Keister. Double play
-Keister, Bean and Cassidy. Struck out
BY Leroy, 2; by Foxen, g. First base
on balls-Off Foxen, A. Hit by pitched
balls-Bannon, Keister Wild pitch
Foxen. Left on bases-Montreal. 8;
Jersey City. 4. Time of game hours
and ; minutes. UmpiresZMesrs. Kelly
and KERN.
1t would seem that the reinstatement
of the Skeeters at the top of the percent
age column is due, after all, mainly to
the individual work of Pardee, who
twiried for the Sailors in yesterdays
game with the Bisons The Beasts were
unable to solve his output of curves, and
hit him but three times during the nine
innings played. On the other hand the
Sailors hammered Tozer at will, and pill
ed up eight runs. Whether from fright
or grief, the Beasts emerged from the
contest with their complexions turned
from deep brown hue to that of inn
maeulate white Both teams did perfect
work in the field. The score:-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A compliment is always exaggerated.
The trouble with the marriage list is
that it has to be revised so often.
About the only consolation found in
growing old is that there is always one
who is older.
These people with great deal of as
surance are quite often right, much as
we dislike them.
Hatred of the rich is not modern.
Remember the Bible story about Dives
and Lazarus and how the rich man
was punished?
Every man must be his own doctor
and decide what is best in his case.
The doctors and philosophers do not
agree on anything.
A hen never tries to spread her
wings over her grown rooster size son
to protect him, but you will see moth
ers who haven't as much sense as the
hen.-Atchison Globe
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
WEATHER INDICATIONS
The ALAMEDA.
A Famous Park That Is the Pride OF
Mexico City.

n BamOUB HaFk lH3t is the EI1U& OK
Mexico City.
Nearly every city thinks its own
parks the most beautiful on the face of
the earth. This pride it is that has
given to Europe and America their
magnificent recreation and pleasure
grounds The German points with
pride at the Thiergarten in Berlin
and cries, Match it if you can!"
Whereupon the Partisan and the Lon
doner act the Snowman, with a wealth
of gestures, proclaiming their own
achievements.
The New Yorker has his Central
park shrine, with which Belle Isle, at
Detroit; Fairmount park, at Philadel
phia; Shaw's gardens, at ST. Louis;
Lincoln park, at Chicago, and a bun
dred others are constantly being com
pared. With such host of competitors
for world honors it would be a bold
person who would claim for Mexico
City's Alameda the first place. 1t can
at least be said of the park, however.
that it stands at the head in land of
riotous flowers and tropical growths.
We Americans who have heard a
hundred times of the Alamo, at San
Antonio, Tex, may associate that
name with the Alameda, for alamo is
the Spanish word for poplar, the tree
that was first planted extensively in
the Alameda. Just twenty-eight years
before the landing at Plymouth rock
the viceroy of Mexico, Don Luis de
Velasco, asked that a sum should be
appropriated by the city for making
pleasure grounds.
The market place of San Hipolito
was the most convenient for that pur-
pose, so changes were Immediately
made, trees planted, fountains erected,
flowers set out and a high inclosing wall
built that was pierced by gateways.
West of this park extended an open
space known by the significant name
of Plaza del Quemadero, or burning
place. Here rose a broad stone plat
form where the victims of the inquisi-
ton were burned.
About the time of the American Rev
olution this torture platform was re-
moved and the open space added to the
Alameda, resulting in a tract contain-
| ing some twenty-five acres, being near
| ly 1900 feet long and about half as
| wide. Miles of walks wind in and out
among the shady hooks and pass in
| their meanderings a garden for birds
and Fairgrounds for children, as well
as numerous statues and figures.-Mod-
! ern Mexico.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
YOUR SUMMER vACATIoN

If you are fond of fishing, canoeing,
camping or the study of Wild animals
look up the Algonquin National Park of
Ontario for your summer outing A fish
and game preserve of 100000 acres in
terspersed with 1,2oo lakes and rivers is
awaiting you, offering all the attractions
that Nature can bestow. Magnificent
canoe trips. Altitude 1000 feet above
sea level. Pure and exhilarating atmos-
phere. Just theplace for young man to
put in his summer holidays. An interest
ing and profusely illustrated descriptive
publication telling you all about it sent
free on application TO F. P. Dwyed, 200
Broadway. New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
rhe Independent Farmer.

Buy a farm, young man. No mat
ter how small it may be, buy farm
and prepare it so that your land win
provide you a living. Twenty years
from now the man who owns his own
farm will be independent and will
have at his command the means of a
livelihood. The expansion of manu-
factures cannot go ON forever, and
there will come day in this country.
as there has in others, when the sup
ply will exceed the demand and the
only absolutely sure occupation viii be
farming. Buy farm while one may
be had.-Troy (Kan.) Chief
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Hard Praying.

This story is told by clergyman Of
North Carolina: "An old colored man
stole pig and after getting home with
tiring. His wife heard him praying to
the Lord to forgive him for stealing
the pig. She went to sleep with Uncle
Eph still praying. Later in the night
she woke up and saw her husband still
kneeling in prayer. At daybreak his
supplications had not ceased. 'Eph,
why don't you come to bedT asked
his wife. Let me lone, 'Riah; de mo-
tries to 'splain to de Lord how come
to steal dat pig de wusser gifts mix
ed '"-Buffalo Commercial.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Horses md OIL Cakes.

"Say, d'you know anything bout
hosses, hey? Dye know they'll eat
pork? Well, they will when It's fed
'em an they have to. The heaves
stops subsequent, though they're an all
fired sight wuss afterwards. Belle
went right onto meat diet. hog meat
an oil cakes. Yep, linseed oil--it'll
fat rail fence. Belle took on weight
amazin'. Gurus thing bout oil cakes.
though. Once boss has been fatted
on 'em an then grows pickid ag'in
there amt nothin' in the world'll put
flesh onto him second time. You can
try as much as you're mind to; 1t amt
no use" ."--American Magazine.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
MAD FLIGHT OF A SHUTTER

A window shutter that fell from a
window of the top story of the four
story brick tenement house No. 4G6 Hem
derson street, late yesterday afternoon,
struck and wounded in its downward
fight four tenants who We're looking out
OF the windows of the other stories of
the fiat. None of them was seriously in
pured. As the unhinged wooden shade
went hurtling along its course it whack-
ed Tokela Krasguski on the top of his
pate and administered scalp wound
As he was forty-two years old, and had
an lron-clad name the injury was slight
The shutter then took shy at Miss Vic
storia Rosack, on the next floor and a
corner of it struck her over the left eve.
It carromed off Miss Rosacks forehead
and another corner of it lit on that Of
Miss Helen Kesgnecki, who was looking
out OF second story windaw. She. TOO.
was struck over the left eye. 1t glanced
downward and caught Anthony Dannas-
zio on the top Of his head and with a
bang fell to the pavement. "A couple Of
physicians were called and dressed the
Wounds. In their opinion the shutter
s.'ifsred the most damage. None was
sent TO hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
An Ancient Recipe.

An ancient recipe for making sweet
perfume for the ladies runs as follows:
of each half an ounce, laudanum one
ounce, musk two grains, and put them
together in a fair brass mortar, which
you must first warm so hot in the fire
that with the heat thereof and beating
with a little pestle 1t may work like
wax, which, being thoroughly wrought.
you may make It in little cakes or balls
and so lay it up Home Notes.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
A Marine Fire Alarms

Many ships hive a pipe running from
the hold to the deck. 1t is a precau
tion against fire. If even q trifling
fire occurs in the hold smoke will
ascend the pipe and upon Issuing from
the top will be noticed by some Of the
crew. Checking 1t would then be COM
paratively easy. In the 5sence of a
pipe, though, a fire might begin and
remain unnoticed until it assumed such
proportions that conquering it would
be almost impossible
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
More Than Half a Million
Expended This Year In
the Building of Private
Homes In the Northern
Section
GREATER PLANS NEXT YEAR
INCREASED PRICES OF BUILD
ING MATERIALS AND TRADE
CONDITIONS HAVE HAD NO Eff
Feet ON THE STEADY PROG
REss OF HOME BUIkDING IN
THIS STATE.

Notwithstanding the increased cost of
building material and the strikes in the
building trades the proportion Of private
homes owned by their occupants which
makes New Jersey an exception among
this year. In the territory bounded on
the east by the Hudson River and on
the west by the ridge of the Ora@se
Mountains alone considerably more than
S5OO,OOO is being expended this summer
for the building of private homes. Real
estate transactions which have already
taken place indicate that these figures
will be equalled, if not exceeded, by the
building that will be done next year.
The increased prices of building material
seem to have had no effect whatever
upon the steady progress of home building
in New Jersey, and there are no indica-
tions at. present that trade conditions
will affect further plans already formed
At the present rate of improvement
the number of homes in New Jersey,
which is now over 100000, according to
recent census bureau figures, will be
greatly increased, and within few
years this State win hold the same rela-
tive position to the greater city of New
York that Brooklyn once held to the old
city embraced by the present boroughs OF
Manhattan and The, Bronx. The exodus
from New York to New Jersey has been
so great for the last few years that that
section of the State is already almost as
cosmopolitan as New York itself. From
the top of the Orange Mountains to the
edge of the Hackensack meadows, and
from Bayonne to the south and Airing
ton to the north the eastern slope of the
first range is practically now an un-
broken community of suburban homes.
across the State. linking town to town,
has gradually brought the frontiers of
the distinct communities nearer and near
er, until now all of those situated in the
territory named have been practically
merged into one.
As the trolleys have been extended
from scattered spurs leading from the
most populous centres for a few miles
into the country, or else serving solely to
connect the original villages such as the
Oranges, Newark and Montclair. to a
network of main lines and cross lines,
bringing the numberless villages into one
community, the tide of population has
risen high
With the present rapid transportation
service between the centres, providing
modern cars and quick and accurate con-
nection, the establishment of a home in
Jersey within an hour of the business
section of New York is not only possible,
but it is an accomplished fact, as is
shown by the remarkable increase of the
population of this section during the last
five years. At present the proportion of
increase is even greater and already the
advance guard of home builders has gone
beyond the limits of both the Oranges
and Montclair, and is swiftly encroach-
ing upon the hitherto unsettled forests of
the Orange and Watching ranges.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Learned better.

"My daughter has learned one thing
at boarding school," exclaimed the
man, "and that is how to write legi-
BILE hand"
'eHow did it happen?" asked a friend.
"She kept writing home for money"
said No. l, "and sent back word
couldn't read word of her letters. 1t
soon cured her of that Chinese chirog
raphy." Detroit Free Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17

GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY.
Jersey City in Montreal.
Newark in Buffalo.
Baltimore in Toronto.
Providence in Rochester.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
BETTINGER LANDED

The City Health Board last night ap-
pointed John Bellinger sanitary inspec
tor. He was backed by Commissioner
Hespe. David Swartz, who was backed
by DR.. Lambert for the position. was de-
feated.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Rome's TriumphaI c;sown.

The triumphal crown oS Rome was
made of laurel leaves and was given to
the general who achieved a great victo-
ry over an enemy. He entered the city
not by gate, but over a portion of the
wall which was thrown down to afford
a passage. At his funeral his laurel
crown was placed in his bier and
buried with the body.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Children Teething

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. Ii
soorhes the child. softens the gums. al
lays all pain; cures wind collie. and is the
best remedr -,r diarrhoea. Twenty-Five
cenrs a borile.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
True OF Trouhle.

Hes out Of a job now. He had a
good opportunity. but he didn't take
the trouble to improve 1t"
sYes. it's funny thing about trou-
Bile. Isn't it? II you don't take it you'll
have Philadelphia Ledger.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
The HeartIess Iaditor.

Assistant-This poet says that the
last two verses of his poem may be
omitted if you think it is desirable.
Editor-I'll do better than that -
omit the whole poem. So
Journal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
DodGed.

Rivers stopping to sharpen his pen
How do you spell the plural of
s'dodo?" With or without the .e?"
Brooks twho isn't quite sure)-You
don't have to spell 1t. There's no such
blamed bird now. It's extinct -Chica-
go Tribune.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
SoTnnflOquy.

Talking In sleep Is more common
than is generally supposed. OF 200
students between the ages Of twenty
and thirty Al per cent of the men and
81 per cent of the women talked in
their sleep, and most of them could an
swer questions Harpers Weekly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
KILLED BY A FALL

Stanislaus Jozebowski, forty-eight
years old, of No. 172 Twelfth street, last
night fell down a flight of stairs at his
home, fractured his skull and died an
hour later
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
. Almost an Insult.

''rhat suit you have on" said the
chap who always talks whether he has
anything TO say or not, sis dead ring
er for one my brother has"
"Huhw growled the fussy man.
"What do you take me fora clothes
ringer T- Chicago News.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Not In Stock.

Customer Qrritatedly to gossiping
shopglrls)--I wish you would show me
common civility. Shopgirl (absently)-
Sorry, madam; we amt got it.-Boston
Transcript.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Sound.

do you regard that mans argu-
ments as sound p
'Yes." answered the senator. 'sThat
and nothing else" Washington Star.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17

Her father and mother bot
eusly object to me-"
"And the girl?"
II don't think she'd lool
for that. ."-Kansas City Ip
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
THROUGH PULLMAN SERVICE

New York to Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham, and New York to Tampa
via Savannah and Jacksonville. Sea-
board Air Line, 1888 Broadway. New
York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17

Tie an who forgets to be thankful
has fallen asleep In life. Stevenson.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17

Something better always makes its
appearance when the old and wornout
things fail.--Ande-s
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

5o-Baltimore games were prevented by