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feet in length. * * * * The Pavilion 
can accommodate betweeu three and four 
hundred persons.”’ 
In Vol. I, No. 4, the ‘‘Light House on 
Robin’s Reef’ is mentioned as a ‘‘work 
which promises well to be of some im- 
portance to our little island, actually to 
be commenced in a short time.’’ Plaster 
Busts are said to be a happy invention by 
Dr. T. Barlow of New York, a phreno- 
logist. 
Vol. I, No.5. ‘Great Match.—Finn, 
the comedian, lately undertook to walk 
five hundred miles in five hundred conse- 
cutive hours, which he affected with ease. 
This is said to be the greatest perform- 
ance of the kind on record.”’ 
Vol. II, No. 11. ‘‘Magnetic Telegraph. 
—Experiments at two-thirds of a mile 
have been successfully made and on Tues- 
day next it is expected that a series of 
experiments will be made at fen miles dis- 
tance.” 
Vol. II, No. 11. ‘‘Tomato Pies.—The 
other day we partook for the first time of 
a tomato pie. * The tomatoes are 
skinned, sliced, and after being mixed 
with sugar, are prepared in the same 
manner as other pies. The tomato is 
likely to become one of the most useful of 
plauts.” 
The reading matter in these papers in- 
cludes articles on Natural History, 
Geology, Educational Statistics, Insec- 
tivorous Birds, Curious Method of Catch- 
ing Wild Pigeons, The Sun-flower, 
Habitations of Animals, etc., as well as 
much political and local news and con- 
tinued articles. The paper is advertised 
to be sent out of the county only when 
prepaid. A new road is said to have been 
“M’Adamed.’’ The Island had at that 
time from nine to ten thousand inhabi- 
tants. The only post offices mentioned are 
“Cityville, Tompkinsville, Richmond and 
Port Richmond.’’ West New Brighton 
always appears as ‘‘Factoryville.’’ The 
fare to New York by boat was “reduced 
to 12% cents’ and later to64 cents when 
a rival line was started, one line making 
four, and the other six trips each way 
daily. One line advertises ‘‘no connec- 
tion with Quarantine Hospital,’’ recalling 
the disrepute in which the hospital was 
held. One ‘‘Millard’’ advertises as a 
‘ship and house carver.’’? Another hasa 
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“Mahogany Yard.’? ‘‘O’Hara’s Coffin 
Warehouse.’? * * * * ‘P, & E.Cumber- 
son, white and blacksmiths” (a whitesmith 
was worker in brass—a locksmith of the 
present day.) * * * * “Tuscan and straw 
hat manufacturers.’’ * * * * ‘Dentist, 
leeching and cupping.’’ * * * * “‘Attor- 
ney and solicitor in chaucery.’?’ * * * * 
Advertising rates at so much a “‘square.”” 
*-& % *~MOordials,"?, “bitters,” tisyaagee 
and ‘“‘elixirs’? long since out of use. 
‘‘Manor”’ is a recognized village name. 
MINOR NOTES. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick presented two pam- 
phlets, recently found while overhauling 
au old library, relating to the old Quar- 
antine, viz: ‘‘Description and Specifica- 
tion for the Artificial Island Proposed for 
Quarantine Purposes by the Commission- 
ers of the State of New York,’’ dated New 
York, Dec 31, 1858, and Assembly Docu- 
ment No. I9, ‘‘Communication from 
His Excellency, the Governor, transmitt- 
ing papers in relation to Quarantine at 
the Port of New York,’ dated Albany, 
Jan, 11, 1859. 
From the first of these we learn that 
the origiual plan wasto have an island 
constructed on Orchard Shoal in Raritan 
Bay. The other cousists of twenty letters 
and official reports, transmitted to the 
New York State Assembly by Governor 
King, giving a complete history of the 
burnings of the quarantine stations, first 
at Seguine’s Point, May 6th, 1857, and 
subsequently at Tompkinsville, Sept. rst 
and 2nd, 1858, with the legal questions 
involved and ending with the suggestions 
and preliminary plans and specifications 
for the construction of an artificialisland, 
as indicated in the pamphlet first men- 
tioned. Ihese pamphlets are supple- 
mentary to those relating to the same 
subject, donated by the late William 
Olliff and mentioved at our meeting of 
Dec. 14th, 1895. 
Mr. Eric T. King called attention to 
the dangerous character of the peat bog 
at Fo t Wadsworth station, described at 
our last meeting. On Monday the 6th 
inst. Mr. Patrick Quinney was drowned 
while attempting to cross the low portion 
of the road. He was evidently caught in 
the mud and sank, his body remaining 
submerged until the following Friday. 
