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Length of Human Lie.

We notice in one of the New York papers
brief report of lecture delivered recently
in that city by Professor Mason, on the econo-
my of individual life from which we are able
to select some interesting facts in relation to
the average extent of human life. This OF
course has varied at different periods of the
word, and still varies in different countries
under the influence of education, morals,
| food and other circumstances.
! As an instance of the variation alluded to,
we NAV remark that in the sixteenth century
the average extent of life in Geneva, Switzer-
land, was so remarkably low as nine years,
which the Professor attributed to epidemical
diseases, had food, bad dwellings and con-
tinual warfare. The learned men of that
country, however, directed their attention to
| the causes of premature DEATH and under
their care a system, so perfect. has been es~
tablished that the inhabitants of Geneva now
live to a greater age than those Of any other
city on the globe.
Similar changes have taken place in Great
Britain since by means Of the Improvements
in science. the average of human life has
been elevated from II to SO years. The script
ure gives three score years and ten as the limit
of human existence, and Professor Manson
contends that whenever the medical jurispru
dence of a country can, as In England and
this country, enlarge the average duration to
SO years, the remaining 20 of the scriptural
limit are generally cut off by iMtemperance
and hereditary disease.
In Mexico the average Of human hfe is only
Is years, which circumstance alone is sufh-
| cient to show the vast difference existing be-
| tween the moral and physical condition OF
! that people and our own. s- ....5..-.
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BAN KS.

LINCOLN BANK-OId Congratulations Hyde,
President; Jonathan Hyde, Levi Houghton, Joshua
Page, Henry Hyde, Directors. Bank hours, trom9 to
II An
LINCOLN BANK-New Corporation F. Pat
ton president; Ge0.F. Patten, VIM MROgers, Thos.
Harvard, Chas. Davenport l.. w. Houshton g. w.
Kendall j H. M'Lelan, Directors John Shaw Cashier.
Hank hours from to IL Am. Discount days Tuesday.
COMMERCIAL BANK.-Wm d Sewali, President:
WIN u SewalI Jacob Robinson Gilbert rrufant, ThOs.
NJ Reed. VIM. Patten, Directors; Thos. Agry, Cashier.
Rank hours; from to ~ A. NJ Discount days, Thurs
days.
sAGADAHOCK BANK.-Thos. D. Robinson, Presi-
San,. ~ d Robinson, Joseph Sewall, John Smith,
WIN. nj. Reed, Lewis plackmer, VIM. burlington,
VIM v Moses Directors; ID. +. Baker, Cashier. Bank
hours from 9 to IL A. NJ. Discount day, Monday
hNpRosCoGGIN BANK, TorsHAM-Chas. Thomp-
son President; Charles Thompson, John Barron, Da
vd Scribner Nahum Perkins, Woodbury. b. PurrIngton,
ni,ectors; John Coburn, Cashier Discount days,
Tuesday of each week. Bank open from 10 In
summer 10 to in winter.
BRUNSWICK BANK BeyHswIcK.-RchardT. Dun
IAN President; Richard T. Dunlap, Alfred J. Stone,
Inh'n G. Humphreys, Joseph Badger, WIN. Barron, D-
.e",ors A. c. Robbins, Cashel Discount day, Thurs
,iay. Bank hours as above.
MARINER'SBANK, WiscAssRT.-Henry Clark, Pres
ANT. Henry Clark, Wilmot Wood, Edmund Dana
aemai AIey. James MCarty, Directors S. p Baker,
Tash;er Bank open from to in summers lot l in
Inter. Discount day, Tuesday.
MEDOMAK BANK, WALpoBoRo,-James Hovey,
p,ssident; James Hovey, George d smouse, John Bul
snch. Jos Clark Alexander Palmer, Directors; George
Allen, Cashier.
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STAGES

STAGES
Leave Bath for Brunswick, Portland and intermedi.
te places p NJ. every day Saturday excepted, and
III A. Nj. daily Sunday excepted. Returning dt 81
4. M. daily, Monday excepted, and at P. M daily
sunday excepted These Stages connect at Brunswick
With the Portland and Augustaline OF Stages.
Leave Bath for Brunswick every day at p nj. and
yery day, Sunday excepted, at 7 A. NJ. and a P NJ
et,rning every day at A. NJ and every day, Sunday
xcepted, at l0a A. NJ. and T. NJ
Leave Bath for WIscasset, Damarscotta ,Wadoboro
amden Thomaston, Belfast, Bangor and intermediate
laces at 6 A. NJ daily. Returning at & p NJ. daily.
Leave Bath for Wiscasset, Damarscoita, Waldoboro'
&C., every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at p. M
,.etnrning every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
10 A. NJ.
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EXPR & S S E S .

Child & Co.'s Portland and Boston Express, and con-
uected with other Expresses to all parts of the United
;ttes the Canadas and Europe leaves Portland for the
south daily at II A. NJ. and 3P. NJ Returning twice
,laily. Office 80 Exchange St., Portland.
Langley & Co.'s Great Southern Express leaves Port
and daiy at II A. NJ. and P. NJ Returning vice
aily Office 70 Exchange ST., Portland
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From the Boston Courier.
The Puritan.

Read at the Dinner Of the Neto England Society Of Mem
York, Dec %, l647
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M AllS.


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Saturdays excepted.
The Eastern Mail arrives daily at 6 p M Closes at
8 p. NJ, and leaves at A. NJ.
The Phipsburg Mail arrives daily at 81 to 10 A. NJ,
and departs daily at III tol2 M.
The Georgetown Mail arrives Tuesdays and Fridays
at 1Ol A. NJ and departs same days at 10 M.
Post Office open on Sunday mornings from u to 9
o'clock and one hour Immediately after divine service
in the afternoon.
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WILLARD WALKER,

Dealer IN Stoves, Ships Cab0uses, Fire Frames
Lead Pipe, Tin, Copper and HoAo'o Ware,
ABA Broad Street BATH, Me!
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TRAVELLERS DIRECTORY.


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To immortal renow n be his name handed down,
Wreathed with laarels that never shall wither.
And honored for aye be this festival day
Through the lima he its influence felt
Till creation expire, and the last fatal FIRE,
The old Rock of Plymouth shall melt
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nR WILLIAMS, of N. c.. (assisted 10y Dr. Hit late Of
IL Philgde phiao would resre c1ully announce tho
ladies' and gentlemen OF Washington and lis vicinity, hat
by special request he will deliver enother OF five
public lectures and experiments commencing
(at Odd Fellows Ha Wednesds eveHing The 9Th
IA O'clock upon the great science OF Psychological Elec
ton of all who have witnessed the truly astonishing expert
pents both in its physical and mental department lie
would remark, that during the electricity Will be
exhibited the of planetary MOTION aud bodies will
ori nal with the demonstrators
Electricity will be exhibited the Of light, color,
blood by positive and negative powers. Electricity
the OF muscular motion, by which bodies will DO
suspended and PIT in motion Animals will be killed in
presence of the audience and resuscated actual lv
ing animals will be produced from The external
surface OF bodies by electrical action will be removed,
so that the whole audience the internal and
hat too, without producing physical change In tho
body which is the most beautiful experiment ever Wit
messed, and strikes with force and power the most scientific
ard learned
In the psychological department will be exhibited
their perfect after subiecung them 10 eecifi
cal process of few moments the full complete and nte
igble physical, we'll meutal control, will be eXhb
tied The true cause OF mental diseases VIII be demon
straed ntelligbly the whole audience the Ihios-
ophy of tho mind the body-a high desideraiun
in diseases; all the will be taken away, show
on gentleman wide awake. Will be exhibited the philos.
ophy OF seeing ghosts Introduction distance,
the philosophy of wchcra seeing the Dsy aud all the
chronological freely excited without physical
dlous TO mention.
For particulars each evening programme.
AS he is desons that these lectures should he witnessed
by all the price in this commoiious hall is
timed at p
~ b course of private instruction commences at
Odd Fellows Hail. AT O'Clock "Wednesday when all
who have desire will be thoroughly and regularly ina-
ted into The mysteries oil this great secret
c 27-3:d.
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CLAIM OF THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF ANTONIO PA

CLAIM OF THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES, OF ANTONIO PA
On motion OF Mr.. ROCKWELL of Connecticut the
House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole
House on the private calendar and after debate on
the claim of the legal representatives of Antonio Pa
checo, between Messrs. WILSON, w G. BROWN, CA
BELL, BURT, and ASHMUN,
Mr.. DlCkEY moved that the bill be reported to the
House with recommendation that il do not pass Lost
(by tellers, )-veas "A, nays 70.
Mr.. VAN DYKE moved TO amend By striking out the
sum OF $1,000, and inserting $500 which motion, after
a few remarks by Mr.. V. D. Withdrawn.
The committee then rose, and through lis chairman Mr.
RoYD) reported the bill 10 the House without amend
ment.
On motion of Mr. STANTON, it was
Ordered, That when the House adjourn, it adjourn to
meet on Tuesday
The House proceeded TO consider the bill Just reported
and The question being on Its engrossment-
Mr.. BuRI moved the previous question; which hav-
ing been seconded,
MI. CROWELL moved to lay the bill on the table
Ga this motion the yeas and nays We're ordered, and
resulted-yeas 60, nays S.
The said bill then ordered to be engrossed and
read third time; when
Mr. GlDDlNGS moved TO reconsider the vote by
which the said bill was ordered TO b, engrossed
Mr.. GROW ELL moved that the House adjourn which
motion not agreed to-
Mr.. GlDDlNGS then took the floor, and proceeded for
lew minutes with his remarks on the question of re.
consideration, when he gave way for motion 10 ad-
lourn; which was agreed TO, and
The House adjourned to Tuesday next
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Washington City Canal,

MAYORS OFFICE, Washington, Dec. %, 1913,
IN virtue of the first section of the the impro
L men OF the Washington City Canal, approved Deem
Der IL, 1913, in the following words viz:
BE II enacted, SC, That the mayor be, and he is hereby
requested TO invite proposals. by twenty days public
ice in two the daily newspapers of the city aud tho
Washington News for the removal of the deposies in tbs
Washington canal, to il to its original depth of
water not less than four lee ordinary low tide for
repairing, in substantial and du able manner the dlap-
dated sdo walls for reforming modifying such angles
basins, abuments recommended by the surveyor in
his late report be deemed expedent and for the
construction OF such dams cespoos, other works
be deemed necessary TO secure the canal as far Prct
cable, from future njury by the washing in of from
ea streams, CUTTERS and sewers having first epared
by the such other engineer be employed
such diagrams and specifications will exhibit the nature
descriptions and of the several kinds of work DO
DONE
Proposals will be received by the until Saturday.
the 18th of January lS49 inclusive for the execution of al
the works mentioned in the foregoing said first section
All needfu information in regard to the quantity and de-
scrpon of each kind Of work be done, be ned
by application MIR. Charles Cuskey city surveyor
his Office City Hail. who is instructed prepare and
hib plans and specifications explanatory thereof.
The proposals will the price, per cubic yard for the
and removal OF the deposits and the price per
perch for the different kinds of work. (25 cubic feet
10 the perch j also the within which the work will be
completed.
Dec. 24--td w. w. SEATON, Mayor.
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Ru A. GREEN. .8.rkfOuerr.

TRUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY ON
l. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.-By authority of three
several deed. bearing date the th day of No
vember, $780, and recorded in ber w b. No 49, oios 39l
c of the land records for Washington county, in
District OF Columbia another dated 3D. day of December,
1884, and recorded in iber w b. No 80 foios $40, &c,
of said records and third dated the 18th day OF Octo
ber 1si3 and recorded in ber W B. No LOB, olios All,
&c, Of said recordsl shall offer for sale public
ZION the highest bidder therefor Wednesday, the 10Th
day of January lsl9 at O'Clock, M the premises,
all that piece of ground in the city of Washington follow
ingtha is say: all that part of lot numbered seven
numbered fon hundred and ninety according
TO plan OF said city, beginning the southwest
of said lot and running easWardy nineteen feet four and
finches along the line of Pennsylvania avenues thence
at righangles with the line Of said norhwardy,
back to thirty foot alley thence the northwest of
said lot numbered thence with the line of said lot
'ouhwardy TO the beginning, together with all and singu
lar the buildings and Improvements thereon. This proper
most eligby situated, being Pennsy vania avenue,
and next to, and adjoining, the National Hotel
Terms of sale One third cash. and the residue in three
equal instruments at four, eight and twelve months from
the day of sales the purchaser giving bond for said deferred
payments, bearing interest from date, remain lien up
on the property until paid Upon full compliance with
the terms and conditions of sale by the purchaser and the
of the whole purchase money and interest, and
the trustee will convey the purchaser the title
ed IN him by the several deeds above mentioned
JOURDAN w. MAURY, Trustee.
A. GREEN, Auctionesr.
Dec. l2-3aW4Nyds
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To Cotton and Sugar Planters.

DLANTATION IN ARKANsAS.rhe subscriber offers
Tor sale the extensive plantation Arkansas formerly
belonging and occupied by the late Governor Kent, OF
Maryland and containing twenty eight hundred and eighty
three and half acres of land.
This estate lies in the counties of Phillips and Critlen
den. and is situated in Walnut Bend the Mississippi
river, twenty five miles above the of Helena. Ii
said be rhe highest river land in that region of
Its soil is peculiarly adapted to the growth OF It's i'm
overseeIs house, horse-nl, several
corn houses ;snd good quarters for servants.
Upwards of hundred of this land have been
cleared and cultivated. The of it may be
easily cleared (he being already done and has less
timber upon and that chiefly OF ash, which is readily
sold at well located wood yard in quantities OF several
thousand cords every year.
This panati is OF great value and presents
opportunity the public In the hands of good planter
may be easi made of immense annual profit Its iacil
tiles of inerco with New Orleans afford
avenue for the disposal of its products
1t is distant about 500 miles from Cincinnati 290 miles
from the mouth of The Ohio and 40 miles from New Or
leans
This property will be divided several parts, if de
sired.
For terms, &c, apply (post paidl to
WILLIAM 3. PERINE,
Dec 2i-2rw6w Baltimore, Maryland.
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rHNO Cotton and Tobacco Planters.-I
sale $40 OF land lying in the southeastern part Of
Kinds lty Mississippi of which about $50
open and been in cultivation for years. and the
remainder is finely mbered The improvements consist
of good dwelling house. cabins, Clubhouse, con-house
stables, tsc consider this the best forest plantation
have and believe but few any in the county
consider cd as productive deem further description
unnecessary. refer those who wish TO purchase to
Dr. Ha non Of Clinton, Mississippi; Maj. VIM. w Wal
lace w arrenton Virginia The subscriber, in Wash
ingon city. H. WALLACE.
Dec 15-6teodcp9t Until
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DIsTOLs AND RIFLEs.-sTEvENs has this day re-
l. ceived of Cos" revolving pistols. Also has SALE
sample, ''Wessons rifles, which warranted for
accuracy and distance, be superior rife, either
fore gn domestic. For sale manufacturers prices
STEVENS'S
Great Hat and Gentlemcn's Quitting Establishment
Dec. 2S-eo6tif No z Browns Hotel.
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I'm .,arfant from California.

Gays pound OF Canchaagua-a Californian
VI plant of virtues, possessing higher degree all
the medicinal virtues of the parila-nnequaed in
eradication of all morbid humors and impurities the
blood. Ii acts preventive and Tor sumption
coughs, colds asthma, fever and bilious plants
neuralgia cry sipeas, dysenery, dyspepsia, &c, We
A constant supply of this and valuable medicine
may be found at BUTTS Drug Store,
Dec 2S-eo3t* Corner Penn. aud 18th 81.
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CARUSps SALOON.
READING FROM SHAKESPEARE.

The public OF Washington is ecttuly informed that,
previous to his final
RETIREMENT STAGE,
MR. MACREADY
WI appear here for (positivelU One Night only,
TUESDAY, JANUARY %, 1919
On which occasion he will give
READING
Saalsoeare's Tragedy Of Hamlet, Tsriacs of Denmar
Being the only occasion which he can be enabled
offer
ILIU TRATIoN ART, THIS CITY.
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BANK OF rug METROPOLIS. Dec. 81, 1913.

BANK METROPOLIS, Dec. 81 1913
A this Bank will not be open for business on Nom
"A day next the ls OF January it's requested that
that day be attended Saturday previous
The Board OF Trustees will Friday afternoon,
the 18th instant to act on the notes which may DO offered
Tor discount.
Dec 23-d3tf
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A CARD-The subscribers with sorrow announce
IA their customers the death ofone of the concern Mr. r.
b. NALY Therefore IL is incumbent close
possible. We shall render all
due this date for settlement. These dues will thank
fully received
We shall Monday inform customers how our large
and well selected of goods will be disposed Of
Dec 23-6t ID. CLAt,ETT az
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TOGARTH-a complete edition OF all his capI.
i tai and admired works; l volume, London nearly
hundred engravings.
The Pilgrims of the Rhine, by Bulwer | volume, Lon
don, with n exquisite cngFaviugs.
Grays Political works 1 volume, London, with many
beautiful Illustrations.
Campbels Poems; very numerous beautiful vignettes
London
The Sentiment of Flowers, with twenty coored groups,
1 volume, London.
Thompson's Seasons Longman London copy II Illus
trations
Thompson's Seasons; Tilt and Bogue's London copy /;
4S illustrations.
Milton, volumes London 100 engraviugs.
Corinne. on L'Itaiie, par Madame Ssei volumes,
Paris, filled with engr,yi ngs.
Wordsworth's Poems; illustrated edition; l volume,
London.
ings
Dec %
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TNAKE NOTICE.-LEws C. SuGGErr of Kentucky is
sylvana avenue, the Capitol He will remain during
the winter and will prom pity and faithfully attend pen
claims, any other business which may ntruse
to him He refers the members of Congress heads
of departments. Dec 2j-.,rdx 3tcp*
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Tickets of admission Sl-to be had at the book and
sic and the hotels and at the door the evening of
the reading
Doors be opened o'clock, and the Reading begin
at haipast7.
Dec 2J-td
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Carusi's Saloon.
EAURICE GTRAKOSCH PlnnIsf

MAURICE sTRAKOSCH, PianIst tn the Emperor
Nl OF Russia, has the honor citizens of
Washington that he will give his first Grand Concert
the above Saloon Wednesday evening next January
1919 which occasion he will he assisted by the
Vocalist, Miss JULIA l.. NORTHALL
Admission, single tickets vi family tickets, admitting
three persons, So; to be had the principal music
and at the door.
Doors open at 7, concert to commence at o'clock.
Further particulars in future advertisement.
Dec Gift
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TNHE Home journal for Is49.-Edted by George p.
Morris and z. Willis. Subscriptions to this valuable
literary paper will be received Tor the proprietos by
FRANCK TAYLOR.
The Home Journal will be published heretofore every
saturday. Tor two dollars per annum payment required
advance-the which the propetos have put into
operation for the coming year being such render the
best weekly paper of the age Copies may be examined
the bookstore of the advertiser, who will have the work
regularly forwarded any part OF the United States
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE

THE KosCIusKo CASE
Mr. f. B. HOLMES moved the reconsideration of the
vote by which the Committee on the Judiciary had been
discharged from the further of the memo
rial OF Vlalisaus Wankowicz, grand nephew of Gen.
Thaddeus koscusko praying the passage of speci al
act OF venue, providing for the removal of cases con-
States circuit court for the District of Columbia to tn
United States circuit court for the district of Maryland
which motion was postponed Tor the present.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Mr. RICHARDSON, by the unanimous consent of the
House, obtained leave to introduce r1nt resolution to
authorize and require the Secretary of War TO nav
tain troops dsmountel by order of Gen Wool which
resolution was read twice, and eie red 10 the Committee
on Military Affairs
TERM ION OF DEBATE.
Mr. ROCKWELL of Connecticut offered resolution
providing that the debate IN Committee of the Whole
the bill for the reiet OF the legal representatives of An
and that the committee shall then proceed to vote the
amendments nY. ne 1,r Rr ,S thereto, sc.
Mr. GlDDlNGS briefly expressed himself against the
resolution.
The yeas and nays having been ordered
MT SIUART of Michigan called for the reading Of
the bill; and it was accordingly read.
The Clerk then proceeded TO call the yeas and nays
the resolution, and was adoptedyeas 95 nays 50.
REPORTED.
Mr. NlNTON, from the Committee of WAYS and
Means, reported bills of the following titles, to wit:
bill making appropriations for the support of the ar
my for the year ending on the 3Oh of June, 1850;
A bill making appropriations for the support of the
Military Academy for the year ending June 30 1850
which bills were severay read twice and committed
On motion of Mr. VINTON
Ordrfd That the said bills be made the special order of
the day for The 4t day of January next continue
Fridays and Saturdays excepted, until disposed Of
NOTICE OF
Mr.. HUBBARD, under the rule, gave notice of mo-
ton for leave to Introduce bill making grant of land
to and the New York and Boston Railroad Company in
the construction of the "ar lne' railroad
Mr.. CABELL, under the rule, gave notice of motion
for leave to Introduce bill to cede the every ladies' to the
State of Florida, -