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I, VOLUME XXI. CAPE" MAY CITY-, NEW « JERSEY, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1876, WHOLE NUMBER 108<2

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m «* "'"r* "M» »'I"|W: m«MwMl,U*,a(..M - Jfa«» wftififa u irtmnnM MUUm fni uicU, ~ WclsaxMsrWlMsaafcae, . !£ *n»te"«e -* n«t-*?w ll* ^ Hnt»r^m*»jmlu MuS* £ ^ZZZZSSSr*' JJj AMUa *a* »Hlnl.— 1 "Ok raufii lw; I wrw I l||il k MOW) a '^zrLZ m, Brwklck I f»ul . p»ooii » UMBlykt f kW* cranafknMi "• lM«kl 1 kiml tmy. Sw 4Hlix»rianiii'' J. Tbwu*ht Aorta..*-, epsrenNmukikMimkoHM B •WBiiiiraowkxwii. J i^llMUlMl lltkl Ufa lo«c ** "SiUMUMllCinn.i^ - «J ktkar leva* »< tasriri _ UiUlltm.uiwitiar. Ij THwrnrt. tyta M TwillW^W M ■>. ink., i rtaaata ii Aod Ataes 1 rao*. "SAol Ikroagk rt. Mart, ■ A BrtTkW. trail Ml Grow ■ «*. swfal tar. mm l lift - ^alrttawe^ZwwTfcii, " 1«H)i||H»<Hlli',M _ KitaiwubMtri 8 ""SSSSSES* - -roast >f *» j hi |i m miit t »tataSta|!2»ta2l'itatai^ •tatawtitarS^w, *».,■• R WMtaWl >tak.ktallrta«l». fvS : -•5™H5= - iHtaAAtoniwyMr 1 • tr>«u. iui,.,, N.,.,1 ' ' In Mr tart ta. we rvpobttabed , a»BliHtallK.!jK.Ti.l a* arti- , * dtniMferkai. WrrenUltkelc , any bear** lti.th.dta, gjfepa I. < i ta pobitoh .11 such iofonnattaB "bow- 1 - mritalMtilmorMrM be. 1 J That'* Ibt imoc wc prialta 4ta imc« ' tofBtaUta. We doo kkow vbrttar - the writer knew what b* *>■ about , . when he brought forth lhMrticU, and , " *• d-.-t era Then wmi a. «hoie« , . -llh W« irtaiMint, appnjwi- { j) Ated It jut «• we do all tborr natter* , -. which pertain lo Dm boete aad (km , ' departnent. Bot what werteiteiaat , lo do war to proteal tgateU receipt* f ,j for making bra* lay mere egr» than , . nature deigned the* ahnuld. Not a a , day pane, bat w.inebod, come* far- , " word with a ijwn or diet which be r * baa tented hi hi* entire aatfefcetira, j . and which la adapted to ertry bread ^ •ad temper of hea in vaiitaoea. One , l nan giree hie Imwk eta atone, aod r e tode that the i lay a Vai-th more eggs . - than they did when he fed tben ex- . . daaiitay t-ti eern. Thl* atatemeal , J> f tea up aomeb-dy to eaplaia that he , didn't knew what a l.riag baa really , r was until be got «<r feeding hia lock , ■ on corn alone. Heretofore he had doaed ,, ' Ihaat wllhoate He rrt a decided Ix, , . appareatly; hut llw next week tbo , - aaa oradeatly atetee io a card that i r yea™ of careful experimenting baa . darnoei.tr. led beyond all cavil that , * oata and corn equally mixed Will flee , j op the am bitinn of euy hea oa 9h ( face of the earth. So the, go on to ( I ] the matter of find. Then tbrr* la I . jtbamao whoadviantHmtaad eyater e ! taell* I" pccvest Ike heoa front layiag , , i aofUebeOed tap*. Aa a hen lay* t 1 atrntatwoaacheggaielkeaaarMofa F f ; year, a couple dnltare' w^lh of lira, i j judiciously fed to krr will prereot the r [ j leas, aad he mooey well expended. c ' Thea there la the man who advocates t . j belter Tentilalioo. Heat are mUrbly 6 ■ j' torn on the aubjeel of yeolilatiaa, at r * I you may have uoticod. Aoother re 1 comaaeodt au air tight rooetiag-placr, b i aad atill another ad riaro ahattlap up h j the fowls aU the tune, aad is Imaua- . diauty confronted by a poalterar who p j ansa that if they ere not allowed to * ma looac you tau t get ugga oat of , them any way. Tbeae Ihiaga are what give agricultural journal* their b wonderful variety. Bat we protect t, agalasl Umax If any one naderateade u a ken 'a boainaee brltay than the ben 0 ttteif we are l«epared <e llaaaa U kirn, ■„ bot aalil aacb a phenomenon appear* , we uoqaahdadly rtdWta to pabHah bea b recipte.. A baa's stomach la an ap- a palling myatary. Men who can t ran*. T the elagfea of the moat barbarous u of ancient natkma and give yaa tbe „ weight to as ouace af a equan mil* of fl tiiaL£r ; iBPL-a ; ' to be told what it ahall eat. ® tattarfk to hasp bid aoaib ahta.— „ Er.~T^ ' smwM?5SiZ — '«w»" .. * v"'"'

After he had aat far an boar or more watching the winnowing of the load* of telegraphic deapalrhr* from all parte of tbe world that are rcceiyed in the "Sun'' editorial rooms at sight, a visitor who recently spent a night (o lbs "San" office, went Into tbe composing room lo investigate " atill ronher lbs myaietlas of oewxpaper making. What he saw thereafter be dtecribee in tbe fallowing It is just ooc o'clock fa tbe morning, the rattle aod rush of baaiaeas hare lang since ceaaad, and hi tbe dark streets only the foot fell of poltoemea is beard. Atoned Printing Hoaae Square runs a binge of light, shoving where, high np in the air, the printers of tbe morning aewspaper* are toiling at their frame*. In the "Son" composing room a Wise of gas light streams over a liUla mat J • of type setters, each "rattling op the type* at hit bigheat speed; bat la ail i tbe roan of this busiest of boon every- I thing goes on with the regularity of : a perfectly working machine; each < a man has hit appointed place and i work, aad there Is no confusion. Tbe < , copy, at feat as it reaches the fore- t man, m eat into conrenieal stripe, I numbered, aad consigned lo lbs copy i drawer, and la ihua ready far the i hands of tbe compositors. Each mac < takes a tingle strip or "take,'' as It U i called, to that a column o< copy may t be distributed among 10 or IB men.— < As fast aa tbo "takss" are sat op t they ate amptied lata thagslky in (Its ] order in which they ail numbered, j until the column Which wee only re- ■ oently a oolumn of copy Is a column ■ typo. Then a proof is taken of lbs whole, and after this ha t been read sod marked, and the type ready « to take its place in the patee.terhnirml- < ly called the "term." The Ont page , bring tbe last that is made up, it the r 1 last to go to the stereotypers. The c other fomae were flniahad an hour f ago and are ready far the press. a It Is now about half past one o'clock ^ aad the labor In the competing loom j is ftniabed; tbe last form has been t wheeled on Ha heavy iron table iilU „ the stereotyping room^ad moat of tbt c io the composing room bare t exttegtaehad. _ ' ' 1 THBSTXBXOTTraO. - « In a dins aod 'smoky lilUe corner r of Urn esmpvaiog room and partially p separate from that room by a slight ii partition, is tbe apai laimt in which b the sovcd or right alrrrolypert, ii Stripped lo the walu aod dripping 8 with sweat, take caste of the types.— r In one corner arc v. riout machines o c nixing aad trimming and mould- fi lug tbe elcreoiype plates; on this tl side is a heavy steam cheat, and on D another aide, oear tbe can Ire of the d is Urn Waxing furnace far Ve of tbe composition WtaL a "farm," or pays wf types, is fi wheeled late the oeoire of tbe room, a or flva workman spring td ifg h tide, and with wooden matiefa and II pjaneit, beat lightning blows upon it tbe tape. This hammering tamoTta fi any^nequalUy there may be on tbe g surface of tbe type b, driviag down T aur pieces that project above tin it level of the form. The face of tbe I metal page is then thoroughly cleaned ei aad dusted with stiff tab brashes - o A >hio start of paper, whose face is ii tfildtly smeared with a soft paste of ■ platter of Paris, to clapped evenly ft and smoothly upon the metal hta* •» g£T is hammered down with the fi nil 1 1 nntil it shapes itaalf to all p joints aod d-presaloot of the al Tbeu a nandlul of dry pow- ol dcr of plaster of raris is scattered p over tbe bwk, o» tbe paper altsady a beaWfatethefcfta^Thrn anelhcr piece of paper is added and hammartd 1 like the- Brat. Tkls proofaa to « rv parted uniil there to a thick palpy. ai vt ring of plaatar and paper over tbe to The form is them wheeled no- is tkc steam drying pes** aod aJlaw- pi rd te stead for several minutes, a tfieoll to brought out tt'e paper has p as hard and fiiy aa sumf cardboard aad to easily period off Urn hot, smoking page of typo. Outride this pasteboard mould to bard mod brown and iftads than -a a perfect Impres of type. " This pastebuord mould is fastened T fata aide ap,aaeunly into a aemkdrtm- * lar iron caae.andxbenlbe easbag of " tbe composing plates to be used to tbe ptreaas is begun. Tbe afal " is need is a oampoailfau o( toad, " sine, aad anlimowy, .aad , 'as to .aad aaethat in Urn hasted " cauldrua It looks like teoitek aHrer. « men dip ap thegtatateag Uqmd :|J a haa-y two handlod taekai and * anddaah It into the nwald npon the f .of the paper impreaaion. Almaat 'r ti-^iKsaS is opaoad aod the casUng k -ekm u out ha fata is on exact coc .-terpen it ef tha page of types from which the u Next Urn plate is trimmed, son i " apmotbad and rnliatad on iron ma- T chines an .I'mpg It evah.y lata t*e * - | SaSSK , ^BL ^ :

taaath tta aidevmlk, a large corps isf »i 22SS8tiSSBS6£ r ahaadr claahiltaa^ra'^Eff "m s they send out the thousands of capies i of tbe "Sua" that arc to go forth to 1 tbe early mdOs te aff parts of the I country. In another part of the s baseman t, one story above the preaa- > aa, to the folding room, in which a s half doaen folding machtota workjog - with predrion and spm^ are fbtding - tee first aSaibms of the "Sua" into t shape to tab aid gt for maHiag Tta papen rumJa-iD-tee sir s. fcy iB ■ lifted l^r tee aotomaUc arms of tbe i treo folder, and are toaafil aad'taai, i aad doubfad aalil they fiqMa^ forte . and falMnpyeyetesaUc and gymmpr , line of buta tkrfca, with rapkUtogers i trmtos.1 « far Ay. te tami! • cell-like spotpa, it 14* oouatlng det partmcnt, JtLviach a milUna I a weak are counted. At a laofffiesk . that extends lbs entire length bribe ; SSwSBsi I of "Suns'*| piloa teatAte brought up every mielita by tee tdatatar- from the aeyen thundering preaaes In tbs ■ cellar. At the open triafini^ aff this i which look out upoo tta large I distributing room, crowds .of netre- > mm and news boys bare gathered and are waiting for tbo purchase of, thdr day's sU*-k. Tbe wagaqaoftea , i news companies of N*w York, aad , Brooklyn and Jersey City, and of adjoining towns, are backed up in line i against the curbstone^ out -in the ' street. TOE fcALE. The eaie of the "Sunk'' immense ; edition k conducted entirely by checks tbatare bought at {he countroom up stairs- At lite counting desk, between three and five. a. tbe newsboys gather by hundred* lbp;aOdn .tta doorway, iht . steps, and the stdawalka to tbe street. file unto the deek in ordiogiy , one as his lurn comes deposits his mooey* calling out the nanAnrof copte* that totoiahon. The checfis thst mie given to tee pvefas*arc mpalhcoin-lfke pieces of met*, having (M one eide fignres sbvwliig namfar stpd^rs that tee, ohrek , , repreeenm. and on tee other aUa a < number denoting the price of that ' nnmber or papers. Tbe largest numfor which a single check it given to 37,000. aod the amallest number The newsboy, aa soon as he has ' received his check, takes 'it to the I . eonulinr room desk, and the changing iff the money /must bo done with, tbe ntmnet cclcrilrrta"1 gremtrxpertaad a quick caUplslioo sre inin the seller. Ai three or hair past three o'clock : all the presses art working at (heir ' ' teq nimble and crash j. of their heavy machinery fill all the | trnUding. .The preumon move about , great«reaaet hither «0d thither, , , In thedita, spectral ligfet, aad their , , cast giant shadows upon the . great beams and brick Stalls above. wotting of these lightning preaaes aloof fin interesting exhibition.— Little c>s he seen of the practical op- . •satioa'laf the printing, at Ute Interior of the monster engine to almost an- • oeoo-alal by. its own meet of machinery. A rrest rail of swiftly rerolvlai| |tef.»'lsaare on tea snmafa of tec tapta aad Irom tee base, like frtka the spent of a mill, the papers,- sprinted, eat aad trimmetl ' shoot iirth— two at a clip from each fi*. m ,u u, ' preaaes comnined produce .more ; than ' tboasacd 'fluaa" ataor ariauU. -At Just fi otieek, Beperitttondcnt eteyator ordering tea PIUIN to he stepped, aod al stoat Instantly s sodden hn*h- ' of tea spar to a sepulchral silence SWFS I printed. I I A property ooadnctod printing oflice is-aa uMcb a secret society, at it I Masonic Lodge. Tta pria tare are • not under a^oqtecf mcreey but i always feel teemtaivee aa truly bound ' to keep a secret at though they had i bean put .through triple oatbt- Any 1 employee in a printing office wbe will 1 "agly diaregarda this rule /in regard ' to printing ofltaa secret*, am.M not < only hp, untied by h» MwtUmi of the « craft, hta would lo«t hi* poeitioe te i tea rifiatmt'aocc. We make teU * ■fatetaswl becauac u:-*ooeUmet ha-.- ' pgta ftat- a oommawtcawm appears « in a pvwapeper ■ eataar ».-i umumed t fm w^ifh cm., let great comment, i aoiygrtomfraHta try m fiad tatwV, 1 Ltaallbr ^tbe tr^hto ofqure- I Uonteg (It. cmployw, ar e ltactafi te « • priotfuCoiBo". Ttay are ^taot t oeth^.i o.. ^ c-tw _ ] hart rye* aud ears, hot to * moote, and Ifttey fall to ober. . t this r ftrie, let team hs. pat tloerfc as diriinn- < arau. antabtro of tta Craft. /.•— I A mas oae teca found who does t act nmppiria.ai u« . tew, dktey.- t Ha tins teafteoofe wb.ich .. the tub- i « IWTgHlM Uvine been , taderta fcw tteOqjTilg.-aU tafaiy no t

of Ifastat t ma -Wava-l __ rraw tkc Jail anal CWpttat. * ^tLnroroar, March Ute, KM. n The past,' the present and tee fa- * tire af Washington affords to tbe * contemplative mind a prolific theme * far tbaiyghi. Springing into exitl- " cnce a* a dtv, Jnat seventy-six years c ags, it oontinued for more than half *" that time, both topographically and socially, to present only the style and * appearance of an overgrown village; muddy winters and dirty summers i* ttato^fion W*"^'n£l°n',:' * The nioberlpss acre* of noooeupied r tondtaaroood the city afforded to ? the qafai villagers ample room for exercise and sport- Washington, S ttan, ^e a sickly tnfknt qoeea, sat upoo tad sereh hfilt, and from her * throne of beauty faojimd, like Borne, to some dJj rule tj>e 'IBStC' How far ; that hope tangr yat. be sabsad to a * serious qaeatKm. Her toeitty at that time embraced within Its coo- ~ sractod limits some pC the brightest . flames that adorn tbepaget of bfston- . — Then sterling worth and unlarnlabed repatelion alone secured sdmimion . * But oh! how changed. Now wealth, I However aeqnired, regardless of all title to consideration on tbe toore oi - talent, natural or aeqnired, demands an derated position which Is quietly j accorded. I I The idea of General Washington, ' who «a* the originator of the design, * j for establishing tbe seat of Govern- ' ineot In this tlwa secluded locality I 'era*, it appears, to shield tee officials, J 'legislative, executive and ; judicial, ^ 1 from uoar contract with influences in r " i the later citfe-a, Which might be dct- 1 e j riiuenUl to thi interests of the I country. Little did he dream how I neigl'. aud the silent but effective j " [ electric current would sountcract hit < r pamelic sod benevolent Intentions. | Instead of eojoyrag that quiet tecluI eiou aod freedom from outside infiu- ' co ccs. which Washington warns to ; ' have deemed so essentia! to the prop* r ' '.'conduct of National affairs, tho tbeu | * | uadrcimei of facility for travel and , t ' | instant coiura-tuicitiou as to-day af-L I I funlcd boa converted llic city into a ' | Soothing caldron of corruption, aod . 9 J fn teal oaidron the highest officials 1 1 * I seem mora than ready to be dipped. * i There ore more political schemes dt-.i ' vised bore and more villainy coococt- : ' ed lihan iu any oteer city in tbo 'j Union. ' ' Frjui the very nature of things, ; ' j Washington is the sea beach of the - j ' I natioi*. and each incoming and oat- - ( i 8°i"g Adaiiiiistratiim an ailvandng | 1 - and recedihe tide. As the receding., I ocean leaves upon its beach the sbat- 1 , te'vd I rag monla of many a dismal ' Iji iv nek, so the outgoing Administration ( ' " leaves behind foil many a victim ol " blighted hopes uod ruiued expceln- . ' tions. How many may be 1 <uod ' here wlw bare made Washington a , hoide from oecessitj'f Coming- brrc, , | M many have, with. strong political influence, ttay have obtained poaltiuu j and, without stopping for a jn.omcni f 1 consider what the future may brine , I forth, nod dreaming that they hnld a I iji; loo; tenure of the pjace, they , . tever.il! conhectioa with their fur- , mat rcsiJcucc and ayocalton, only to , Ood too late, that with a change io c tea political status of the country, t teri| Jiopcrhaye yaaithed. Thrir , , only ywiort {ben to to eeck employ men t , hoping test another chaug* m if J>el' t _ roatore teem, buithls hope being tel- t dom reahxtd, they become flsturr* Icr life, Wnd form an ingredient of one , class of Washington aoclaty. What . ^ that society now to, and how differ- ( eot from Wathiogton's earlier day, i mgj.ta* gathered from Use nape s, , many ef which are nearly 11 ted with iuisorae.almoit vulgar and oopipletely * ditgatUng descriptions of the ladies, their 111 wis, and tea style apd value . of tlnir Jewelry, in tome instance*, as b in one reoeaUy developed,' purchased j with money stolen (rem the conn try. , Babif Washington has altered social. , ly. what shall be sajdof its topegraph- 1 b ical changes? if Ilea of tee mud J b aud dust which has been spoken of. [ t here tre pa wra«o»a teat any dtj- in the World-might well be prond of , . The hlUs upon which'ehe once stood I u been eo cut aod graded *a to be ' , scarcely perasp libit, and where tbo ] c ef WaahlogUn In bygoue years ! f aecattomad to hag the cfaefaeet ,, gams in season, t^w stood block* or;, palatial tatideooesteat ppy challenge for mognifioeaee. And yet, j c titb *11 this grend-nr there qtafeto in | , ft* view ' ^Stai il* a nation's „ mgrstitudr and a people's cupidity 1 . au ids to tee en-calted Wathingluu , m.-numvnv. Washington needed no , moaament- The . whole country will b beer witoe*.-*o hit lefty chare c- t and rite City which bears hianam* t "ill band it down to poitajiiy. But, , -weak the ccwcsptioa. having B been left undone to hasten its g completion. Money enough lw«com- t etotai or nriaafprepttotad, only J created a mreu fy for renewed cx j crtions ujjw" wirai and more hoteat men; bat it stand* uufioishetf, and j f long nunaln so none ran c i-U. A. to tb/«ty-'. uiUmata dsstiny, F me atoms ran dSUrmina; bntsho-iid v it' oootinuf to grow and increase in populate, in the name ratio1, of the at Mm years, It wlfi hare attained r CtaflaUade wiood to op city in the a 'wWCy 8AX0*. o i_i - iii

UtMsadVsisfieals CXUea. . The areas deU of ' the. drift .of • Altegbroy. Albany, Baltimore. Boston, • Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Lonla- » viW, Milwaukee, Newark, New e Orlrats, New Yijrk, PhitodelpbU, - Portland, Provideacc. Richmond, St. 1 Lsnit, Rochester aod PiUaburgh— all f cities of prominence and embracing 1 nearly all the leading cities in the ' ' country— was,' at the date of the last: 1 report, iu the aggregate, $380,334,377- ' 35, or equal to more than ©oe -sixth i 1 of the national iudcbtedntSM. The j " nineteen cities named had in 1870 an ( • aggregate pupolaUon of 3,806,130, so 1 that their debt is about $100 per r capita. The returns for the same • cities show that in lSfil the debt in ' the aggregate vu $148,10i,387 20. In ' the eight years which have since 3 • lapsed there ha*, therefore, ;t>een on ' increase of $231, 000,000, pr nearly 108 1 per daot. Tbe tendency it constantly • in the direction of increasing. If the ' iodrcase continues for the next eight ' years as it hat dono for Iht past eight - years, tbe aggregate debt af the aloe- ' teen cities will reach nearly one - thousand millions of dollars, or, - making a fair allowance for a fair in- ' crease in population, CromSH 5 to I'JOO 1 ahead. The picture is dismalaoougb I u it Is, however, without drawing, f upon the falure to make it more to. j Ao examination of the tax levy in 1 ■ thirteen of tbe nineteen cities named | > — those excluded being Baltimore, , Louisville, New Orleans, Philadelphia and St. Louis— show* that while in . • 1867 it readied bat $36,706,785 4$. io ■ (1875 it amounted to S60.030.6dh43.ao | ' rincreasc of upwards of eigfat^per cent, i ' i This rate of incrctae is phnkiderably I ! 1 in excess of tbo rale of increase "in ' j either wealth or papulation, and its i I I vttimitte result, if persisted in, will la j 1 ! Rortto cssae be inutdciptl bankruptcy, j 1 Tho worst ieature iu conacotion with I the increase of taxation is that it is j- ' i accompanied by an enormous hicruue ' in city debts, at shows above. High | 1 j taxation for a time would he com- ; j pamtivrly unotqcclionable if its e (feet ! weio to secure a relatively diminiebed ' lax levy iu succeeding year* ; but it -te j meet gri- voos when, not withstand, ing its constant increase in volume, , mountains of debt accumulate, reoder- | imperative the maintenance of . f heavy burdens by tho people. In ! nineteen cities oflhe UnitedhtatM the j municipal debt in 18C7. OS previously j stated, was $140,193,367 20. The in- , tcrest upon that turn at seven per . I cent per annum & $10,443,530 11, i representing the loial which had ts be annually raited to meet the interest charge*. In 1875 the debt io the same j cities »as $3S 1,344. 377 35, the annual ] j charge upon which at aeven per cent, j ( per stream would sroouut lo $36,G93,- : 408 41, or upwards of $10,000,000 , more than was paid for tbe same pur- [ pots in 1667. This $10,000,000 is [ ' equivalent, on (be basis of tee census I . ! ol 1870, to more than$4 forosch map, j j woman and child embraced in tbe j population which hot to meet the ex- ! pcndilure. In other words, every 1 1 .family of five persons jo the leading effaet of theconutry have ou an aver- ' age, lo pay annually ju taxation | twenty dollars in addition to what it did in 1867, solely on atxwunl of the increase in debt since then. Some cities are, of course, much worse off than others, but the average te a* : stated, and plainly allows how the 1 ttjUtaucc of the people is rates, up by ; the enormous tax burthen*. Though - tbe tax falls upoo property. it is paid, directly or indirectly, by tba persons who occupy the -property aod the -qutslioQ af taxation, therefore. Is pm-aetaed oQtculiax interest to aU ho'iteholdera whirl her tary are or are 1 not property-owners. Hawse at the Centennial, j : - The New Jersey .building op the | Gcnteonial grounds 1s intended to be j every respect a homo where all 1 j men will be welcome. There 1 will be nothing to pay for any aocotu ' mode tions io tbe buildings ; at it to to j absolutely free. The room* will ' I provided with chairs Ji ratably two ' thousand io number, where our poo pie may sit and rent when they art ■ There to a ream lot coqts, 1 I umbrellas, satchels, etc., where on 4 ' attendant will be stationed to take j charge ofthose articles sad give checks ' - them without charge. There will an abundant supply of ion- water c I and Water cloaet accommodation, ' i wash room, and everything that ran. i ciindaee to the general comfort of the 1 vi- itor.No proyittotu will he far- 1 I.t-hcd, of course, sa koteiDg -to to be told in tbe building; bot parric* who 1 take their lunch basket* with them 1 will Bud a delightful Bute grove dose tbe New Jersey building where « they ran sit ootrn quietly and, eojoy their Gipney repast. Now, all this to ' worth something. It coeqptotely re- < all tbe anUoyaocBt that might I Attend a visit to tta Centennial grounds, and mate tee srtly ctear for 1 highrat enjoyment of the trip. It I allows Jersey men ^maA tritar Jo^iltes^ • hbtaHw^xiniand restaurant _kaej»ra, ' .Cttlaaoa of Cape May may teal p«i teeOf al home in Ibis UDldiog, as 3 compared wUh some more tarored localities as tboy bara canlributed > their fall share towards the expense ! of -its erection. -Tbsa» !safers raa't readXla lhe 1 ported aa an IndtAOApolto alrect j oomtrT It vrcrks likl a eharm. I ■HHBH

The Bell 1 netted Hlna. if Tlin militaaaire '.'Lack" BaMslu. ,t farterh hto ltIc,xo<tit out of a i . specula tion wrong end foremost.' ( , Ho read that Flora Temple wae , \ ariginally purchased out of a drove | for $60, and that Dutchman was I bought out of a brick cart ■ for $85. > , This set tbe great financier thinking, | J I and a briUrant idea was bom. He ( I I would watch the butcher carta, the * . ! brick carta, and the inilk wagons for j treasure in disguise, and, when 1 found, would develop tbe animal io 1 c , I private. And when the -coming r , wonder was thus rescued from obiiv- t r ion, and would astonish the world E with its speed, Ui« talkative town t l would howl with talkative envy | j Some six wecke ago the lyux eye of t the great financier rested upoo a | , half-starved, over-worked, slab-sided I j animal, the off horse of a street car team. Eoreka! At last he had found j s the treasure. The next day this c ( Bucephalus, in embryo, was hit prop- a t erty for tbe ineiguifirant sum of $56. i The equine ouatoniy was sunt- to * s training quarters, fed, groomed aod exerrirtd in the moejispiirorod man- B ' ner. When, at length, lie appeared f j °° the road and was able io past j J everything be net, the joy of the ( banker kucw no hounds. Ali were ^ his guests at tbe roadside inns, corks c ' | flew, knd jokes were uracked Among t I the gnrats on this occasion wax an old Sacramento sport, who drove a j ' jaded specimen of departed g restart* | ^ I I in the shape of a trotter, n bicif was | 'never ailowod to pas* tlic new wouder ] ' On tbe Toad. After the banker was I 0 1 | fooled to the top ol his boat, Ire was j J induced to banter did -Sport for a . ' match with Ceulonnial -the name be | ' 'jhad given lo ixs new purchase— fur 1 $5000 a side, mile heal*, to rood " ' wagons. Tbo match aoi at ieugth d made for Thursday, January 9. Old 1 i ,5P°rt k"""1 oul ,l"lt ' ruteontat nod P 'done service on street cars for t^o ^ year*, and, theTiY.re was very obe- P |'j dient lo the apumi oflhe bell, l'ro- " curinj; oue of . these, he carefully j *" ' screwed it iuto the floor of his wagon, ' nndertlic seal, so arranged that his | I 1 toe could easily strike it. Op tbe j tl day of Ui« .race, the horse* were on 1 e " the-track al the appointed lime, aud . c ' were sea; off to an even start, amid ( b tbe vociferous cheer* of a party of the ; v | banker's friends. Centennial was to j 11 | be held in, to lire out the old plug, I b for about half a mile, and tbeu let out [ to distance, him iu tbe first beat. ' si She was just about to forge ahead, j 7 When "ring'' went the bell, nod lie ; Ii 1 chrne to a full stop so suddeoly that r his driver came near being pitched ! n 1 over the dashboard. Ofd Sport, «f!ji ! course, shot ahead. By the two of , tl j tbe whip tbe banker's horse . was ' * again started, and sooo caught up lo , the old plug. Tbe bell sounded ri again, and there was another full j etop. The trial was repealed at ti j iatervals for tbe balance of the way ' . j home, the old plug going wheeling n j past tba judges' aland a winner. — - 1 u The eighth wonder at the world was ] distanced. "It oitwceuis liken hid- | ( coat dream. " Mr. Bakiwiu feebly je remarked, as he watched the Sacra- D niento sport button up the gold notes. | b llo (MMaH Iter. | • She called him to tier'sidc ou the B , morning of tbe 33d and read to him ^ , the stop7 of George Waabington and ( u hto little, hatchet. There were Iran j § in his eyes as big as a water bucket g when she finished, and as she kissed r, | ihem away the murfonred: * j , aMy boy will ney'er tell a lie, will a W" J ' . .' n "Xoj molhcr, I will di« first, ''hi flrmjy fpjlfied.''"' "J.}' che gave fiiiu another ' kiet, five * cento, o lump of sugar and a pat on the brad, aod allowed him to go out k>W*£\. !./. .r,1"" * 1 Golog to the store baif an hour (| afterward, she nei'fly fainted when - ehc saw a little toy— her little boy „ thai wytiid die before lie would tell a ^ lio— standing oil the corner with a , cigar iu his hand and Smoke issuing from Hfc moutb. __Tuunctfig An Wu With tbe fop of 0 an enraged tigferayjust as he Iran* ferrcd tbe cigar loStei^rtiuth she „ grasped bis arm and sbricicd, , "What, you smokinc? You little villain, bow dare yon?" ^

"No. mother,"' he replied, gsxlng calmly at her, VI' m not smoking. Bql moUier, I cannot, tall a lie, I'm jasl holding this cigar for agentlemao who jut stepped io there," pointing to • beer saloon "Bqt you UtUc equivocating rascal; sow., tfie. smqkc coming from your month- V ,, ,. With a look of iuiured innocence and into tone of reproach bit- replied: "Hthy, mother, do you think I would be mean enough to allow hto cigar togs out? Of course I had to pUffa litUe.to kncpit lll,'.' She took him to the stare with her, she didn't bqj him any randy or pranttU. No she dldnyt. But when She got 'him houie the showed hlta what she bad in store .for him.— -i- .- i ie --.c Tall Yssket, Jns't srrived: Guess legal faie is Just sixpence ? Dublin carman: Shore, mc Lord, wo take some chape jacks st that; but I wonldnft disgrace a giotlemsn at your Lordship's quality be drivin' Mm st a mane pace I 'rough the pablie slhrosts; to I tnk open menoif to glrcToar Lordship a tbimn-s worth bfltti he itoyls and whlpeord. ^ -

TSIMH. The Connecticut Baptitu have . ei j raited $35,600 toward their prop peed Centennial Fond of $100,600, bealdea several large sofatcnpUona which are promised. We hte said to be oc ihc eve ot • "silrar" resumption. Secretary Brit-, intends to give us silver in lieu of tbe fractional currency. Heaven speed the day. A Rhode Island clergyman said lost Sunday that be was not going to make his pulpit a bulletin hoard any more, and that hereafter he ebould not read any but religious notices. An Ohio exchange says that a babe hern in that State on tba 33d of FebNiarj had red, white aod bine bair. There i* only one way to explain this phenomenon. Tbe Ohio exchange AV. BtrmU. Philadelphia frttt. It it not drink, is not gambling, it to not licentious ncaa. whidh drags down one after another of our public men in this lime. It is— terrible truth —their and daughters. Ksra woe capable of a joke now and tbeu, If tie wrote the Chronicles, for wo read in the Second Book, xvi: a text which mutt hare inspired O 'Conor : "In bis disease, Asa soaght not to the Lord, bat to kit physicians. And Aaa slept with hit ' ' — Graphic. It is related of a clergyman who recently received a call to a pulpit at j IV urren, Rhode Ialaod.Ahat in investigating the quration whether prcvi- , ous pastors had been kept for many be went into a graveyard, and Boding that no clergymen were bnritd there declined the rail. Over Iwo months of leap year liayc already wioged their flight, and we don't suppose one young msn jn a thousand hat received a tingle proposal pointing towards matrimony. bit, perhaps, to awing mora to the • stock or Jouog men on hand, to the timidity "hf the girls— J Herald. I There is a frisky old centenarian At , Laramie, who it now two weeks on j second century, who walks it stile , every dtj. and recently cut a half cord of wood ioto store slicks in seven j lie loves to tali of haying i voted for every defeated candidate for Presidency since 1801. Of course is going to the Centennial. | ffc have received a [ioem of forty - rix versos, entitled, "Blasted Hopes.'* | is something original -in the 4 , title, hut wr don't want to blast - toe I reader* hapjitnr** by publishing if, ; nor blast the *ntV ■ •* hope* by ro- | jeciing it: ,n »t- B.tvc laid Ihc blasted thing on the table for further eoutid. ration. - .Xoirulami HmUl. n> gic«t is the excltemcntnviir llm I reeer l discoveries at Pike's Peak, tnd so rich all Ihc country. thereabouts, ; £ vilinso of Colorado Spriugs, at j aweiyei , and was much surprised tliud I lie jug yielded at the rale or N2 I., the ton. The attayer it eviiteudy determintd not to Jet, the district sufi-r for want of favorv ! ble rrporls. | About a year ago Jaine* M. Foster opened a dentist's office in Htibokra, and id a sfiorl liiue secured a lufcraI .tiro praelice. Rumors were cirrulated 111*; he had ou diploma, aod Ur. Slockte^. President of the New Jersey report. sml obtained a warrant from Jutliceritroug to eflocl Foster's arrest an incompetent pcreon, and Foster was cimtait'ed in defaolt of hail. A writer in ^cri liner's thinks that" • every ihing in our day is over-orna-meutid. Ibrniture. rooms, bouse, churches, and even note paper. The beaut r of aimjdiclty in form and outline uppcara to he unknown, and a ^thousand thing* are ornamentefi that "ought 'io b- plain lo hs beautifa!. ts more than h\lf right, and if hia mn-rks were applied lo tainty. There it sound truth in the Old list* : A Detroit lady was trading at a avcune dry goods store ( tbe ollH-r day, wimu she ran abort of .... "j room y and asked lite clerk to put Uic balance on the books. ■ He cheerfull)Daiance uie book*.- He cheerful ly

' conw-nu-d. and said he wonld send the bill loiirihusbaiid. If that hJH reads' eleven dollars for coficc^ugar and tea, 1 he'll give mo the money without a 5 word, if it reads for batonce on dry goods, he'll tec you in Texas- before • he pays it. Moke it out for groODriea. It to my doty at a good wife to panda to- his feelings. Detroit Fret \ Pres. . I Prodigies* Pyroteehsin ■ — — , Tbe Philadelphia Record says thai the Mayor of thai cilv has roeeived a t latter from an Eogllsb firm, noted for r lb* graodvur of iu pyrotechnic dtoi plays, soiicitioe a oontrnet for an ) jxliihitiou of their rkill, iiod auggesi- - 5k* rr°ir™™ which eccma to tnr^' "'-.y ps*s in gorgeoutness anything which wj. ha jf heretofore been ac- ■ custom. d. All illumifiallhn extend- *1 ■ ing oror»n area of two square mile*, * a strict of vera- load reports high iu £9 [ toe sir. the ascension of a Beet of ■ r magnesium balloon*, the scattering . --rt ' of myriads of stare, grand- special ' ^ - design*, eagles fljing .to and fro, . I cascade* of fire and a banquet or :j9 i 30,609 large colored rocket* form part :J| ef tkt proposed display. | I