THE SERAPHIC DIET. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES FREQUENTLY ON ANGELS' FOOD. The Manna That Fell to the Israelites In the Wilderness--Food for Supernaturals, Cupbearers--The Emerald Palace--Heavenly Tidings.

NEW YORK, March 10.--Among the thousands who greeted Rev. Dr. Talmage in the Academy of Music this afternoon were a large number of strangers from distant parts of the Union. At the close of the services the preacher on leaving the platform found himself confronted by enough people to fill an ordinary sized church, all intent on shaking hands with him. The subject of discourse for the afternoon was "A Seraphic Diet," the text selected being Psalms lxxviii, 25, "Man did eat angels' food."

Somewhat risky would be the under-

taking to tell just what was the manna that fell to the Israelites in the wilderness, of what it was made and who made it. The manna was called angels'

food, but why so called? Was it because

it came from the place where angels

live, or because angels compounded it,

or because angels did eat it, or because it was good enough for angels? On what crystal platter was it carried to the door of heaven and then thrown out? How did it taste? We are told

there was in it something like honey,

but if the saccharine taste in it had been too strong many would not have liked it, and so it may have had a commingling of flavors, this delicacy of the skies. It must have been nutritious, for a nation lived on it for 40 years. It must have been healthful, for it is so inspiringly applauded. It must have been abundant, because it dismissed the ne-

cessity of a sutler for a great army. Each person had a ration of three

quarts a day allowed to him, and so 15,000,000 pounds were necessary every week. These were the times of which my text speaks, when "man did eat angels' food." If the good Lord, who has helped me so often, will help me now, I will first tell you what is angels' food, and then how we may get some of it for ourselves. In our mortal state we must have for mastication and digestion and assimilation the products of the earth. Corporeity, as well as mentality and spirituality, characterizes us. The style of diet has much to do with our well being. Light and frothy food taken exclusively results in weak muscle and semi-invalidism. The taking of too much animal food produces sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reasonable selection of the farinaceous and the solid ordina-

rily produces physical stamina.

Angels' Food.

But we have all occasionally been in an ecstatic state where we forget the

necessity of earthly food. We were fed

by joys, by anticipations, by discoveries, by companionships that dwindled the dining hour into insignificance and made the pleasures of the table stupid and uninviting. There have been cases where from seemingly invisible sources the human body has been maintained, as in the remarkable case of our invalid and Christian neighbor, Mollie Fancher, known throughout the medical and Christian world for that she was seven weeks without earthly food, fed and sustained on heavenly visions. Our beloved Dr. Irenaeus Prime, editor and theologian, recorded the wonders concerning this girl. Professor West, the great scientist, marveled over it, and Willard Parker of worldwide fame in surgery threw up his hands in amazement at it. There are times in all our lives when the soul asserts itself and says to the body: "Hush, stand back! Stand down!" I am at a banquet where no chalices gleam and no viands smoke and no cul-

inary implements clatter. I am feeding on that which no human hand has mixed and no earthly oven baked. I am eating "angels' food." If you have never been in such an exalted state, I commiserate your leaden temperament and dismiss you from this service as incompetent to understand the thrilling and glorious suggestiveness of my text when it says, "Man did eat angels' food."

What the Text Says. Now, what do the supernaturals live on? They experience none of the demands of corporeity and have no hindrance or environment in the shape of bone and muscle and flesh, and hence that which may delectate our palate or invigorate our poor dying frames would be of no use to them. But they have a food of their own. My text says so. There may be other courses of food in the heavenly menu that I am not aware of, but I know of five or six styles of food always on celestial tables when cherubim and seraphim and archangel gather for heavenly repast--the mystery of redemption, celestialized music, the heavenly picturesque, sublime colloquy, eternal enterprises, celebrative jubilance. There is one subject that excites the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all those angels. St. Peter says, "Which thing the angels desire to look into"--that is, why did Christ exchange a palace for a barn? Why did he drop a scepter from his right hand to take a spear into his left side? Why quit the anthem of the worshiping heavens to hear the crooning of a weary mother's voice? Was a straw better than a garland? "Could it not have been done in some other way?" says angel the first. "Was the human race worth such a sacrifice?" says angel the second. "How could heaven get along without him for 33 years?" says angel the third. "Through that assassination may sinful man rise into our eternal companionship," says angel the fourth.

And then they all bend toward each other and talk about it and guess about it and try to fathom it and prophesy concerning it. But the subject is too big, and they only nibble at it. They only break off a piece of it. They only taste it. They just dip into it. And then one angel cries, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" And another says, "Unsearchable!" And another says, "Past finding out!" And another says, "Allelui!" And then they all fill their cups of gold with the "new wine of the kingdom." Unlike the breakers of earth, which poison, these glow with immortal health, the wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, and they all drink to the memory of manger and cross, shattered sepulcher and Olivetic ascension. Oh, that rapturous, inspiring, transporting theme of the world's ransom! That makes angels' food. The taking of that food gives stronger pulse to their gladness, adds several mornings of radiance to their foreheads, gives vaster circle to the sweep of their wings on mission inter-constellation. Some of the crumbs of that angels' food fall all around our wilderness camp today, and we feel like crying with Paul, "Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!" or with expiring Stephen, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" or with many an enraptured soul: "None but Christ! None but Christ!" Pass around this angels' food. Carry it through all these aisles. Climb with it through all these galleries. Take it among all the hovels as well as among all the palaces of the great town. Give all nations a taste of this angels' food.

Celestial Music.

Now, in the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servants of the king remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels' food, which is celestial music. You and I have seen at some concert or oratorio a whole assemblage to whom the music was a feast. Never anything that they took in at the lips of the mouth was so delightful to their taste as that which they took in at the lips of the ear. I have seen and you have seen people actually intoxicated with sweet sounds. Oratorios which are always too protracted for those of us who have not had our faculties cultivated in that direction were never long enough for them. As at 11 o'clock at night the leader of the orchestra gave the three taps of his baton to again start the music they were as fresh and alert as when three hours before and at 8 o'clock the curtain first lifted. Music to them is food for body, food for mind and food for soul. From what I read in my Bible I think celestialized music will make up a large part of angels' food. Why do I say "celestialized music?" Because though music may have been born in heaven it had not all its charms until it came to earth and took a baptism of tears. Since then it has had a pathos and a tenderness that it could not otherwise have possessed. It had to pass under the shadows and over stormy seas and weep at sepulchers and to be

hummed as lullaby over the cradle of

sick children before it could mount to its present altitudes of heavenly power. No organ on earth would be complete without the stop "tremolo" and the stop "vox humana." And no music of heaven would be complete without the "tremolo" of earthly sorrow comforted and the "vox humana" of earthly sympathies glorified. Just take up the New Testament and find it a notebook of ce-

lestialized music.

It says Jesus sang a hymn before he went to the Mount of Olives, and if he could sing on earth with Bethlehem humiliation close behind him, and sworn enemies close on both sides of him, and the torments of Golgotha just before him, do you not suppose he sings in heaven? Paul and Silas sang in midnight dungeon, and do you not suppose

that now they sing on the delectable

summits? What do harps and trumpets and choirs of revelation suggest if not music? What would the millions of good singers and players upon instru-

ments who took part in earthly worship

do in heaven without music? Why, the mansions ring with it. The great halls of eternity echo with it. The worship of unnumbered hosts is inwrapped with

it. It will be the only art of earth that

will have enough elasticity and strength to leap the grave and take possession

of heaven.

The Highest Art.

Sculpture will halt this side of the grave

because it chiefly commemorates the

forms of those who in heaven will be reconstructed, and what would we want of the sculptured imitation when we stand in the presence of the resurrected original? Painting will halt this side of the grave because the colors of earth would be too tame for heaven, and what use to have pictured on canvas the scenes which shall be described to us by those who were the participants? One of the disciples will tell us about the "Last Supper" better than Titian with mighty touch, set up in art gallery. The plainest saint by tongue will describe the "Last Judgment" better than Michael Angelo with his pencil put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Architecture will halt this side the grave, for what use would there be for architect's compass and design in that city which is already built and garnished until nothing can be added? All the

Tuileries and Windsor castles and St. Clouds of the earth piled up not equaling its humblest residences; all the St. Pauls and St. Peters and St. Izaaks and St. Sophias of the earth built into one cathedral not equaling the heavenly temple.

But music will pass right on, right up and right in, and millions in heaven will acknowledge that, under God, she was the chief cause of their salvation. Oh, I would like to be present when all the great Christian singers and the great Christian players of all the ages shall congregate in heaven. Of course they must, like all the rest of us, be cleansed and ransomed by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the great artists of sweet sound have been as distinguished for profligacy as for the way they warbled or sang or fingered the keyboard or trod the organ pedal. Some who have been distinguished bassos and sopranos and prima donnas on earth, I feel will never sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, or put the lip to the trumpet with sounds of victory before the throne. But many of the masters who charmed us on earth will more mightily charm us in heaven. Great music hall of eternity! May you and I be there some day to acclaim when the "Hallelujah Chorus" is wakened. As on earth there have been harmonies made up of other harmonies, a strain of music from this cantata, and a strain of music from that overture and a bar from this and a bar from that, but one great tune or theme, into which all the others were poured as rivers into a sea, so it may be given to the mightiest soul in the heavenly world to gather something from all the sacred songs we have sung on earth, or which have been sung in all the ages, and roll them on in eternal symphony, but the one great theme and the one overmastering tone that shall carry all before it and uplift all heaven from central throne to farthest gate of pearl and to highest capstone of amethyst will be, "Unto him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to him be glory!" That will be manna enough for all heaven to feed on. That will be a banquet for immortals. That will be angels' food.

Mighty Enterprises.

Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, let the cupbearers and servants of the king remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels' food, which is laying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible lets us know positively that the angels have our world's affairs on their heart. They afford the rapid transit from world to world. Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defending spirits, guardian spirits--yea, they have all worlds on their thought. We are told they sang together at the creation of our world, but of other worlds. Shall they plan only for our little planet and be unconcerned for a planet 300 times larger? No. They leave all the galaxies under their observation. Mighty schemes of helpfulness to be laid out and executed,

shipwrecked worlds to be towed in,

planetary fires to be put out, demoniac hosts riding up to be hurled back and down. These angels of light unhorse an Apollyon with one stroke of battleax celestial. They talk these matters all over. They bend toward each other in sublimest colloquy. They have cabinet meetings of winged immortals. They assemble the mightiest of them in holy consultation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar, constellated achievement.

They vie with each other as to who

shall do the grandest thing for the eternals. They compose doxologies for the temple of the suns. They preside over coronations. If in the great organ of the universe one key gets out of tune, they plan for its retuning. No undertaking

is so difficult, no post of duty so distant, no mission is so stupendous but at God's command they are gladly obtained.

A Supernal Repast. When they sit together in heaven's places, Gabriel and Michael, the archangel, and the angel that pointed Hagar to the fountain in the desert, and the angel that swung open the prison door of delivered Peter, and the angels who rue to be the reapers at the end of the world, and the angel that stood by Paul to encourage him on the foundering cornship of Alexandria, and the two angels that sentineled the tomb of Christ, and the four angels that St. John saw in Apocalypse at the four corners of the earth, and the 12 angels that guard the 12 swinging pearls, and the 20,000 charioted angels that the psalmist described, and more radiant than all of them put together, and mightier than all, and lovelier than all, "The Angel of the Covenant," the cadences of his voice, the best music that ever entranced mortal or immortal ears, his smile

another noon risen on the midnoon, his presence enough to make a heaven if

there were no other attraction--I say,

when they meet together in the council chambers close to the throne--ah, that will be regalement infinite. That will be a repast supernal. That will be angels' food. And one of my exciting anticipations of heaven is the prospect of seeing and talking with some of them. Why not? What did they come out for on the balcony on that Christmas night and sing for our world, if they did not want to be put in communication with us? I know the serenade was in Greek, but they knew that their worlds would be translated in all languages. If they thought themselves too good to have anything to do with us, would they have dropped Christmas carols upon the shepherds, as bad as any of us have ever been? Aye! If they sang for mortals, will they not sing for us when we be-

come immortals?

The Man Who Laughs.

Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, let the cupbearers and servants of the king remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels' food--the last course and the best, the dessert, the culmination of the feast, which is celebrative jubilance. You and I have known people who prided themselves on never getting excited. They have cultivated the phlegmatic. You never saw them cry; you never heard them in a burst of laughter. They are monotonous and to me intolerable. I am afraid of a man or a woman that cannot cry; I am afraid of a man or a woman who cannot laugh. Christ says in the book of Revelation that such people are to him nauseating and cause regurgitation--(Revelation iii, 16) "Because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth." But the angels in heaven have no stolidity or unresponsiveness. There is one thing that agitates them into holy warmth. We know that absolutely. If their harp be hung up on the panels of amethyst, they take it down and with deft fingers pull from among the strings a canticle. They run in to their neighbors on the same golden street and tell the good news. If Miriam has there cymbals anything like those with which she performed on the banks of the Red sea, she claps them in triumph, and there is a festal table spread, and the best of the angels' food is set on it. When is it? It is when a man or woman down in the world who was all wrong by the grace of God is made all right--(Luke xv, 10) "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." Why are they so happily agitated? Because they know what a tremendous thing it is to turn clear around from the wrong and take the right road. it is because they know the difference between swines' trough with nothing but husks and a king's banquet with angels' food. It is because they know the infinite, the everlasting difference between down and up.

Glad Tidings In Heaven. And then their festivity is catching. If we hear the bells of a city ring, we say, "What is that for?" If we hear rolling out from an auditorium the sound of a full orchestra, we say, "What is happening here?" And when the angels of God take on jubilance over a case of earthly repentance your friends in heaven will say: "What new thing has happened? Why full diapason? Why the chime from the oldest towers of eternity?" The fact is, my hearers, there are people in heaven who would like to hear from you. Your children there are wondering when father and mother will come into the kingdom, and with more glee than they ever danced in hallway at your coming home at eventide they will dance the floor of the heavenly mansion at the tidings of father and mother saved. Beside that the old folks want to hear from you. They are standing at the head of the celestial stairs waiting for the news that their prayers have been answered and that you are coming on to take from their lips a kiss better than that which now they throw you. Calling you by your first name, as they always did, they are talking about you and saying, "There is our son," or: "There is our daughter down in that world struggling, battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why can they not see that Christ is the only one who can help and comfort and save?"

That is what they are saying about you. And if you will this hour in one prayer of surrender that will not take more than a second to make decide this then swifter than telegraphic dispatch the news would reach them, and angels of God who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterer of heaven would do their best, and saints and seraphs side by side would take angels' food. Glory to God for such a possibility! Oh, that this moment there might be a rush for heaven! The Spirits and the Bride say, Come. Rejoicing saints re-echo, Come. Who faints, who thirsts, who will, may come. Thy Saviour bids thee come.

CHARLIE IS LOST. And His Dear Aunt Mopes For the Return of the Wanderer.

Charlie's aunt came into police headquarters the other day and wanted the department to go out and hunt for Charlie, whose last name is O'Brien. Missing children are reported every hour of the day at headquarters, and they did not see anything unusual in Charlie's disappearance until the facts came out. They turned Charlie's aunt, who lives at 12 Sheldon street, over to Detective Swan.

The detective, with due regard for the sorrow at the thought of the lost Charlie, prepared to ask a number of questions. Tears almost welled upon his eyes as he pictured the little lost one wandering helplessly about in the streets of a great city. "What time yesterday did you miss him?" he gently inquired. "Sure, it wasn't yesterday at all I missed him," said Charlie's aunt.

"How long ago was it?" softly asked the detective.

"Three years ago come last Monday,"

was the answer.

Journal.

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE Borough of Ocean City FOR THE Year Ending March 5, '95.

March 1, 1895--Cash. Dr. To cash balance, March 7, 1894. $1612.02 " " duplicate, 1892, as per schedule 3275.80 " " " 1893 " " 6000.95 " " " 1894 " " 15,047.07 " " borrowed of 2d National Bank Atlantic City 3000.00 To cash borrowed of Secretary Trust Co. 1000.00 " " " of Vineland National Bank 500.00 To cash State school appropriation, 1893 88.54 " " " " " 1894 [?] " " street improvement bills, 1894 212.[?] " " railroad [?] 77.87 " " interest on delinquent taxes 78.82 Redemption to as 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892 162.75 Licenses 618.97 [?] in duplicate, 1894 45.02 ____ 836,204.00 March 1, 1895 -- Cash. Cr. By cash [?] orders $15,262.56 " " to [?] salaries 1269.00 " " to school [?] 1000.00 By cash to Board of Health 133.73 " " to county collector, 1893 606.57 " " " " " 1894 5093.57 " " taxes [?] by borough 2[?]1101.81 " " [?] assessment, 1892 107.[?] " " [?] 1807.[?] " " [?] duplicate, 1894 284.20 " " allowance by Com. Appeal 46.00 " " " [?] exemptions 284.04 " " [?] of duplicate, 1894 [?].67 " " " balance 791.38 ___ $[?]01.00

Disbursements. ORDERS.

1815 A. D. Sharp, streets $22.50 1816 " " " 114.75 1813 H. G. Steelman, salary, rent, etc. 76.00 1814 M. T. Rush, advertising 5.00 1800 Reuben Ludlam, assessor 188.23 18[?] Peter Murdoch, Jr., streets 13.00 1825 G. P. Moore, salary, postage, etc. 63.10 1809 S. T. Woodhull, salary 100.00 1852 Henry Gerlach, interest 63.00 18[?] J. W. Lee, interest 6.00 1856 Isaac Lee, interest 15.00 1864 " " " " 12.00 1895 H. B. Adams, salary 60.00 18[?] Vineland Nat. Bank, discount 27.00 1817 " " " " 15.[?] 1953 Robert Fisher, streets 5.35 [?] Vineland National Bank 500.00 1894 Peter Murdoch, streets 16.59 18[?] R. E. Cox, auditor 12.00 1872 J. W. Smith, Com. of Appeal 3.00 18[?] H. B. Adams, printing 26.10 1845 " " vital statistics report 5.20 18[?] John F. Austin, salary 15.76 1850 John B. Jeffries, streets 15.00 1867 P. M. Wheaton, interest 90.00 1865 J. R. Whitesides, interest 60.00 1826 S. R. Miller, salary 15.76 1820 George Jeffries, salary 15.76 1822 Andrew Hurley, salary 15.76 1821 Mark Lake, salary 15.76 1827 J. S. Waggoner, salary 15.76 1818 John Jeffries, streets 7.50 18[?] Andrew Hurley, streets 14.00 1828 Peter Murdoch, Jr., streets 4.35 1823 L. S. Smith, auditor 12.00 1839 W. J. R. R. Co., freight .25 1831 Jesse Murdoch, streets 1.25 1832 Geo. Everingham, erecting booths 5.00 1833 Daniel E. Lake, erecting booths 5.00 1834 Peter Murdoch, Jr., labor 4.55 1837 Peter Murdoch, auditor 12.00 1838 William Lake, surveying 30.00 1840 Jesse Murdoch, carting booths 4.00

1844 R. C. Robinson, sundries 8.50 1854 Andrew Hurley, streets 19.25

1886 L. S. Corson 5.32 1889 R. E. Cox, streets 18.18 1884 R. B. Stites & Co., lumber 4.00 18[?] L. S. Corson, streets 9.00

1885 William Lake, surveying 42.00 1868 Samuel Schurch, office supplies and duplicate, 1894 15.30

1879 J. C. Steelman, expenses on Fire Company 14.00 1880 R. B. Stites & Co., lumber 52.54 1878 H. G. Steelman, salary 25.00 18[?] Charles Nabb, streets 3.75 1842 Town & Bro., merchandise 38.75 18[?] Samuel Carhart, [?] fixtures 2.50 1870 " " " 4.50 1876 Joseph Hand, ex. on Fire Com. 19.00 1887 Mark Lake, surveying 5.50 18[?] Ocean City Electric Light Co. 100.00

1848 Peter Murdoch, Jr., streets 15.00 1849 Peter Murdoch, Jr., streets 1.47 1859 A. D. Sharp, streets 119.25 1862 John Auld, streets 15.00 1863 Andrew Hurley, streets 18.38 1886 Andrew Hurley, streets 21.87 1873 John Auld, streets 13.87

1874 Parker Miller, streets 9.37 1875 Harry Hovey, streets 13.87 1882 Peter Murdoch, streets 16.88 1883 Charles King, streets 5.00 1863 Harry Canfield, streets 63.00 1907 Harry Canfield, streets 10.13 1905 William Lake, surveying 13.45 1914 Parker Miller, removal of garbage 62.50 1920 Joseph Hand, piling 25.00 1897 Youngs Corson, streets 18.13 1865 Harry Canfield, streets 22.50 1858 Harry Canfield, streets 22.50 1915 Parker Miller, removal of garbage 62.50 1904 W. J. R. R. Co., gravel and freight 64.40 1903 Samuel Carhart, marshal 73.75 1908 J. M. Kaugh, streets 1.50 1916 George A. Bourgeois, boardwalk 16.00 1911 R. C. Robinson, printing 11.65 1912 H. G. Steelman, postage and exp. 5.30 1918 Isaac Lee, interest 18.00 1913 R. C. Robinson, printing 5.00 1902 R. C. Robinson, printing 6.80 1910 Andrew Hurley, streets 13.13 1905 Andrew Hurley, streets 18.87 1909 Adam Demaris, streets 2.42 1872 Ocean City Water Co. 616.50 1896 Andrew Demaris, streets .62 1900 E. B. Lake, electric lights 800.00 1899 H. L. Conver, advertising 100.00 18[?] Robert Fisher, streets 9.00 1895 Robert Fisher, streets 9.00 1892 Security Trust Co., acct. note Dr. G. E. Palen 406.10 1894 Vineland National Bank 1023.00 1893 Adolph Edwards, W. J. R. R. Co., gravel 273.00 1891 Atlantic Nat. Bank, discount 48.00 1935 Isaac Lee, interest 18.00 1934 Peter Murdoch, streets 5.50 1931 Youngs Corson, streets 14.39 1929 F. P. Canfield, streets 6.00 1947 Samuel Schurch, note in Vineland Bank 800.00 1945 Samuel Schurch, discount in Security Trust 81.00 1946 Samuel Schurch, errors in deplicate 17.56 1888 Peter Murdoch, streets 4.00 1949 Philadelphia Inquirer, advertising 60.40 1948 H. B. Adams, printing 6.26 1928 Peter Murdoch, streets 2.68 1942 H. G. Steelman, salary 16.66 1924 William Lake, surveying 25.40 1944 M. T. Rush, advertising 250.00 1943 R. B. Stites & Co., lumber 186.65 1938 R. C. Robinson, printing 6.65 1937 R. C. Robinson, printing 64.36 1956 R. C. Robinson, printing 6.25 1969 E. A. Bourgeois, stationary and quit claim deeds 22.92 1941 Parker Miller, removal of garbage 25.00 1920 Parker Miller, removal of garbage 100.00 18[?] John F. Jones, streets 3.25 1923 Andrew Hurley, streets 19.22 1924 Andrew Hurley, streets 14.00 1928 Jesse Murdoch, streets 11.00 1935 Samuel Carhart, marshal 62.12 1932 A. D. Scull, jail work 24.20 1890 A. D. Scull, streets 9.15 1927 Somers Hurley, streets 1.50 19[?] A. D. Scull, streets 18.41 19[?] E. L. Rice, recording tax sale 2.60 1991 Samuel Carhart, marshal 17.00 1993 A. D. Sharp, streets 10.00 1986 Samuel Schurch, discount on note 25.20 1987 Samuel Schurch, discount on note 20.00

1982 Jesse Murdoch, streets 1.35 1980 Andrew Hurley, supervisor 21.58 1982 Somers Hurley, boardwalk 1.50 1976 H. B. Adams, freight on piling 10.50 1977 H. B. Adams, printing 2.00 1978 James E. Lake, advertising 34.40 1979 Anderson Bourgeois, piling 13.75 1974 H. G. Newcomb, services in suit of mayoralty 250.00 1969 Parker Miller, removal of garbage 85.00 1952 Samuel Carhart, marshal 65.30 1950 Jacob Wolt, work on wharf 7.50 1953 W. J. R. R. Co., freight 105.20 1962 Andrew Hurley, supervisor 12.25 1970 Parker Miller, removal of garbage 145.00 1963 Daniel Goff, gravel 88.50 1974 Holstetter Bros., numerical record 13.40 1969 J. K. Morey, work on wharf 6.00 1965 Andrew Hurley, supervisor 17.50 1964 Jesse Murdoch, streets 11.25 1968 Joseph Hand, expense to bank 1962 Peter Murdoch, carting water 2.50 1954 Daniel Goff, gravel 25.25 1964 Samuel Schurch, discount Vineland Bank 21.22 1967 Samuel Schurch, note in Atlantic Bank, 2d National 750.00 1994 W. J. R. R. Co., freight 45.00 20[?] Andrew Hurley, supervisor 11.[?] 20[?] E. A. Bourgeois, miscellaneous 21.[?] 20[?] R. C. Robinson, printing 5.40 20[?] Parker Miller, streets 4.25 20[?] R. C. Robinson, printing 11.40 20[?] R. C. Robinson, printing 25.78 20[?] Lewis [?], streets 16.30 20[?] J. R. Whites[?], interest on note 60.00 19[?] A. D. Sharp, streets 90.00 20[?] [?] Newkirk, streets 2.70 20[?] Jacob Wolf, streets 1.45 20[?] Jacob Wolf, streets .75 20[?] A. [?], streets 9.30 20[?] Youngs Corson, streets 1.46 20[?] Robert Fisher, streets 9.20 COLLECTOR'S REPORT. 2015 C. M. Wert, hardware 2.50 2017 C. M. Wert, hardware 4.58 2025 Somers Hurley, streets 4.13 2022 Eddie Sutton, streets 3.68 2013 R. C. Robinson, printing 17.10 2000 Lewis E. Jeffries, piling 6.30 2010 Eddie Sutton, streets 2.70 1995 A. D. Sharp, pound keeper 4.50 1994 A. D. Sharp, streets 50.00 1993 Samuel Carhart, marshal 2.00 2033 Adam Demaris, streets 4.85 2007 Andrew Hurley, supervisor 20.17 2002 Somers Hurley, streets 5.00 1975 Parker Miller, garbage 50.00 1958 Youngs Corson, 26.37 2052 Samuel Schurch, note in [?] Natiional Bank, Atlantic 600.00 2052 Samuel Schurch, discount 20.54 1966 A. D. Scull, streets 11.40 2009 Clinton Breckley, streets 6.00

2020 F. E. Champion, streets 4.50 2051 Samuel Schurch, note in Security Trust Company 1000.00 2029 William Lake, surveying 34.70 1992 Robert Fisher, laying flagging 107.00 2012 C. M. Wert, miscellaneous 1.07 2014 Adam Demaris, streets 11.76 2046 R. H. Thorn, fire company 12.27 2041 Hazel Newkirk, streets 4.65 20[?] Somers Hurley, streets 4.05 2067 Reuben Ludlam, miscellaneous services 11.27 2047 R. H. Thorn, miscellaneous 15.40 1901 J. H. Moore, deputy marshal 4.00 2050 Harry C. Sutton, committee on bonding 21.10 2021 Anderson Bourgeois, lumber 5.64 2040 R. B. Stites & Co., lumber 20.00 2032 Eddie Sutton, streets 3.50 2048 Cherie Horie, streets .63 2024 Cherie Horie, streets 9.87 2035 Joseph Bennett, Com. Appeal 3.00 2038 Joseph Bennett, streets 1.50 20[?] John W. Smith, Com. Appeal 3.00 20[?] Security Trust, discount 20.75 19[?] Peter Murdoch, streets 2070 H. C. Sutton, committee on bonding 54.75 20[?] William Lake, surveying 17.05 2069 E. Boland, excess of taxes, 1893 5.80 2068 Parker Miller, rent 20.00 2062 Samuel Schurch, collecting dup., stationery and postage 253.63 2064 Reubem Ludlam, assessor 212.04 2068 Samuel Schurch, discount Vineland Bank 10.50 2086 Samuel Schurch, discount 2d National, Atlantic City 34.10 2060 Andrew Hurley, streets 4.55 2063 Somers Hurley, streets 1.20 2065 E. A. Bourgeois, posting notices 34.00 2055 Anderson Bourgeois, shingles 5.20 2056 R. C. Robinson, printing 7.10 2059 Jesse Murdoch, posting notices 3.40 2057 Samuel Carhart, fire apparatus 36.00 2067 Samuel Schurch, note in Vineland Bank 21.00 2042 E. B. English, Com. Appeal 3.00 2026 Clinton Breckley, streets 3.68 2056 Clinton Breckley, streets 1.65 [?] Lineweaver & Wallace, advertising 55.00 2014 Samuel Garwood, erecting booths 3.25 2045 Youngs Corson, streets 11.25 2075 F. E. Champion, 3.12 2076 E. A. Bourgeois, 24.80 2063 R. C. Robinson, 9.05 2072 E. A. Bourgeois, 28.49 2074 Andrew Hurley, 4.75 ___ $15.282.56 School Orders. TEACHERS SALARIES. 45 Gertrude Price, 35.00 43 L. R. Thomas, January 26, 1895 65.00 11 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 19 L. R. Thomas, December 21, 1894 65.00 12 Gertrude Price, 35.00 8 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 9 Gertrude Price, 35.00 7 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 5 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 6 Gertrude Price, 35.00 4 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 3 Gertrude Price, 35.00 1 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 2 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 13 Gertrude Price, 35.00 11 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 14 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 134 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 128 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 130 Mattie A. Boyle, 38.00 127 Mattie A. Boyle, 38.00 125 L. R. Thomas, 65.00 126 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 132 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 138 Mattie A. Boyle, 38.00 124 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 129 Julia C. Morton, 40.00 ____ $1260.00 School Orders. MISCELLANEOUS. 250 R. B. Stites & Co., interest on Wheaton note 18.00 254 R. B. Stites & Co., expenses on committee 2.92 253 Peter Murdoch, coal 5.75 252 F. E. Champion, coal 6.00 256 George O. Adams, District Clerk, etc. 28.00 257 L. R. Thomas, janitor 12.75 258 Peter Murdoch 11.50 264 George O. Adams, repairs to fence 6.00 261 E. A. Bourgeois, affidavit .25 263 George O. Adams, books, etc. 11.58 262 Robert Fisher, paving sidewalk 187.70 258 E. A. Bourgeois, school census 6.60 250 John Brower, glazing 8.70 265 John Voss, repairs 47.62 265 Gilbert & Lake, painting 222.00 266 R. C. Robinson, printing .75 267 Charles King, excavating 8.50 268 B. R. Smith, papering and painting 72.46 271 L. R. Thomas, janitor 29.75 270 Peter Murdoch, coal 46.14 269 Samuel Schurch, discount on note 8.08 273 R. H. Thorn, sundries 23.70 272 F. E. Champion, coal 35.38 274 George O. Adams, supplies 96.95 280 George O. Adams, supplies 15.00 277 Nicholas Corson, interest for Mrs. Wheaton 27.00 278 L. R. Thomas, janitor 18.00 279 H. L. Briggs, encyclopaedia 5.00 263 L. R. Thomas, janitor 15.00 253 George O. Adams 4.00 282 George O. Adams 23.75 261 C. M. Wert 8.00 _____ $1000.10 Board of Health. 1 R. C. Robinson, 2.50 2 Walter Wilson, 1.88 3 Frank Kenner, .75 4 Jacob Aninson, 2.80 5 Walter Wilson, 6.60 6 Ed Henderson, 1.70 7 John Moore, 3.00 8 John Brower, 9.00 9 Peter Murdoch, 5.00 10 Alex. Cotton, 4.00 11 F. P. Canfield, 7.00 12 William Westcott,t 7.00 13 John Brower, 13.20 14 Elmer Hand, 1.00 15 Walter Hays, 6.00 16 Jesse Conver, 60.00 17 R. C. Robinson, 2.60 ____ $133.70 Assets. Unpaid licenses, 237.30 Balance school tax, 130.22 Street improvements, 1891 219.14 " " 1892 805.90 " " 1893 55.00 " " 1894 [?].79 Tax liens, 1888 15.52 " " 1889 300.16 " " 1890 431.88 " " 1891 738.00 " " 1892 1101.81 Uncollected duplicate, 1894 4804.00 " " 1894, 7604.67 Cash balance 791.99 ____ $17,363.84 Liabilities. Water rent, $650.00 Electric lights, 1429.00 Notes made prior to March 6, 1894 6780.00 Notes made subsequent to March 6, 1894 4150.00 Outstanding school note, 1893 600.00 Balance due school district 29 1295.40 ____ $13,784.19

Appropriations for Year 1894. Lighting borough, $2700.00 Expended, 900.00 Balance, $1800.00 Officers' salaries, $1100.00 Expended, 854.67 Balance, $238.33 Payment of interest, $460.00 Expended, 383.34 Balance, $17.66 Boardwalk and pavilion, $700.00 Expended, 311.69 Balance, $388.31 Streets, $2000.00 Expended, 1764.36 Balance, 235.64 Removal of garbage, $500.00 Expended, 500.00 Balance, School District No. 29, borough $1200.00 " " " State 511.30 Expended, 2451.26 1163.82 Balance, $1295.82 Water, $[?] Expended, [?] Balance, [?] Miscellaneous accounts, $[?] Expended, [?] Balance, $[?] COLLECTOR'S REPORT. Ocean City Fire Co., No. 1 $196.00 Expended, [?] Balance, $[?] Board of Health, $[?] Expended, [?] Balance, $[?] Advertising, $500.00 Expended, 500.00 SAMUEL SCHURCH, Collector.

NOTIFIED BY A BELL RINGER. How Western Villages Were Attracted to a Traveling Show.

"A theatrical man has varied experiences, and some funny incidents are continually coming before him," said a showman to a reporter. "The one night stands are prolific of episodes and profanity, especially the latter, but they also afford a good bit of amusement after the annoyance is over. They are not quite so awful now as they used to be. A few years ago a company I was piloting through the west came upon a rather unpromising town, but fate willed that we should give one appearance. The hall we hired was a crude affair, and so were the accessories. There was

no box office, no reserved seats, and I

had to stand at the door and collect the

admission money. At 7:30 not a soul had appeared. At 7:45 a great big chap came stalking in and asked me if I wanted a ringer. 'What's a ringer?' I asked. 'A man to ring the bell. You'll never get folks up here to see this show till you hire somebody to go down town and pull the town hall bell. They are used to it and won't come without.' I took the ringer at his word, gave him half a dollar, and he departed smiling. Soon the deep clanging of a bell smote upon the air, and in less than no time the townspeople came pouring in, enough of them to make a fair audience. In spite of the fact that our attraction had been set forth on the billboards and in the local papers, if that bell hadn't been pulled we would have played to vacant benches."--Washington Post.

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A Most Wonderful Human Being. M. do Quatrefages, the French naturalist, reports the scientific examination of one of the most remarkable human curiosities or monstrosities known.

The person in question is Simeon Aiguire, who lives in one of the French provincial towns and who has control over his body to such a remarkable degree that reports concerning his doings

were all discredited up to the time of the Quatrefages investigation. It was found, as had been reported, that Aiguire was not only an adept in the arts of the contortionist, but that he could, through his peculiar system of muscles and nerves, instantly cause his flesh to appear as if it had been transformed into solid stone. When in this peculiar condition, his flesh could be struck with

a cane or with a metal instrument,

whereupon it would give off a ringing sound, as though the blows had fallen

upon a marble statue. Assuming a different attitude, he would throw his intestines forward and appear as one hideously deformed, and the next moment he could draw them up into the thorax and appear as a living skeleton. His statue pose and contortions were wonderful indeed, but what most aston-

ished the investigators was Aiguire's ability to control the circulation of his blood. This he did to the satisfaction of all present by first stopping all circulation on one side of his body and then on the other. This he effected by muscular contraction.--St. Louis Republic.

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