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The Portland daily press., 1871-03-07

Portland and 0gdensburg Railroad
First Mortgage Bonds.
Principal and Interest Payable
in Cold.
The undersiYned have auth erity to offer
fer sale the Bonds of the Portland and
OgdeMsbnrg Railroad Company mt
the very low price Of 90 with ac-
crued Interest i'm currency.
THIS road is now completed to West Baldwin,
and trains are running to that point, SO miles from
Portland. Beyond West Baldwin the road is graded
to Fryeburg, 90 miles from Portland and the rails
will be laid to that point early IN the spring as
the weather will permit. From Fryeburg the road
is under contract to Conway, n H., to which point
trainrwill run in July, 1871.
The road has thus far been built and equipped
from cash subscriptions to the Capital Stock; but to
complete it to Bartlett, N. H.. and to provide add-
tional equipment for its increasing business, the
Company has issued bonds to the amount of $780,
900, secured by mortgage Of its entire property to
the 1Ollew1ng trustees:
WOODBURY. DAVIS,
SAMUEL E. SPRING,
WESTON F. MILLIKEN,
We offer these Bonds tor sale and confidently
recommend them as a safe and profitable invest
nent for these reasons:
1. Lew Price. At the present value of
u. Bonds. these Bonds pay, one per cent.
more interest in gold on the investment.
2. Amnle ,Aecmriav Tho .+ira m
gage upon the road when completed to- Bart
lett will be only $12,5oo per mile, a smaller
incumbrance than upon any ether railroad
n Maine, with single exception, and lees
than the value Of Its rails and equipment.
8. Large and Probable Local
Trannc. The business upon the line al
ready completed more than meets the expec-
| tations Of its most sanguine friends, and se-
cures beyond doubt the interest on Its
Bonds. The line is the natural outlet lot
some OF the finest waterpower in the State,
on the Presumpscot and Saco rivers. hither-
to unimproved on account Of the dif1culty OF
reaching the sea-board. 1t taps the large in
terror navigation OF Lake Sebago and its trib-
utaries, over "a miles Of inland waters, drains
very large agricultural district lying ON the
shores of Lake Sebago and on the bar Ks Of
the Osspee and Saco rivers, and penetrates
the heart of the White Mountains at Conway
| and Bartlett, the most popular summer re-
sorts Of the region.
| T. Prospective councillors, This
road is to form part OF trunk line from Lake
Champlain to the seabord. Its sister corpo.
ration in Vermont, is rapidly building the
western division OF the road, fiom Swanton
| to the Connecticut River, and the entire line
when completed, will be the shortest connec-
tion between Ogdensb1rg, the great dis
tributing point Of the lakes, and tide water.
We offer these Bonds tor the present in denomina
tions of $1,000 or $500, at
Na1,ety and accrued I1ateres,
in Currency.
Any further information will be gladly given b.
| the subscribers.
]. B. BROWN & SONS,
219 Commercial street, Portland
FOR SALE ALSO BY
SWAN & BARRETT
Corner Middle and Plum SITS.
| HENRY P. WOOD,
Corner Exchange and Fore SITS.
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TO LET.

A CONVENIENT FRONT ROOM, with large
"A room in the rear. with steam power.
Enuuira af this office
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Wanted

A SITUATION for boy abou. 16 years Of age Iiv-
"A ing in the city. Apply at this Office. mI3*1w
The Portland daily press., 1871-03-07

Permanent BOarders
IAN obtain genteel accommodations at reasopa
Y BILE prices. At No. 65 Franklin st. sep1lt
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Provision store for Sale,

Ov1S1OH EVOIC 1CA k1sSIO'
( 1N great tkoroughfare, we'll established, larg
Particulars Of '-''0
mJG-3t TAYIOR q, CO On Slate street Boston
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BOarders Wanted.

Furnished Front Rooms
T0 Let ~ 18th Board,
je12dtf At Sc Free street.
The Portland daily press., 1871-03-07

$3.50 Teaming Business for Sale,
WITn two good teams and all appertenances,
w well established, with good run OF regular and
Transient work. Owner obliged to sell on account OF
an accldenf. Particulars OF
mr6-3t TAYLOR & Co., 20 State st., Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1871-03-07

BASEMENT Store recently occupied by MARI
- BROTH Frs. Possession given Immediately
Enquire Of MARR BROTHERS., over Davis, Has
kell & Co. corner Msrket and fiddle streets.
Portland, Oct. 9th, 1870. oc6tf
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COpN2't3ae 3aerSRiD.

.sirua suoscrbers have this day associated theia-
sosether under the name and style Of
Elk. LEMONT & CO..
!or tne purpose Of CONTINUING ,be h,.;,,..u =. r..
E.K. Lemon % 1mSanutacturing at the old stand of
-s' '-'n'' ~ Prebls St., Portland. Me-. VI
5 e. X. LEMONT
February Iatb. 1877, d. P. II. LOCKHART
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
Car Peddlers.

AND there were the peddlers. bought
out the pop corn boy to get nd of him, be-
cause / was trying to compose a poem for
a young lady's album, and did not want to
be disturbed. But he came right back
with stock of peanuts. / took few and
hurried him away, and he returned with
some ice cream candy. ! don't like ice
cream candy and peanuts together, but /
invested at once, because an inspired rhyme
h ID been borne to me, and / wanted to set
II do IN before it slipped nay mind. Then
the scou.c cdrel came back to me with tobac-
% and ciza,S. and afterward with oranges,
inn;tation ivor1 baby-whistles, fig-paste, and
annles then he W. mt away and was gone
some time. and was encouraged to hope
the train had run over hll-1. lie was only
keeping his most malignant outrage 10 the
last. He was getting his literature ready
And from thai time forward that uegrao-
ed youth did nothing but march from one
car to another, and afflict the passengers
with specimen copies of the vilest blood
and-thunder romances on earth. The
Periurer's Doom" and The Desperado's
Revenge were some of his milder works,
and on their backs were pictures of stab
bing affrays and duels, and people showing
other people over precipices, and wretch
ed woodcuts of women being rescued from
terrible perils of all kind and they are al
ways women who are so criminally home
ly that any right t-ninueu man Noulu UsHe o.
a nlacid satisfaction in seeing them suffer
sudden and violent death. But that ped
dler bow peddled these atrocious books
right along for hours together, and gave
up NV poem at last, and devoted all my
energies to driving him away, and trying
TO saw things that would make him un-
happy.-MdTk TicdiH.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
A Fox Story.

THE Rev. Charles ID. Mott, of st. Louis,
sends to the Independent story suggested
by the remark of DR.. McCosh, that he had
"doubts whether the lower animals can
abstract, whether they can generallze-"
A former pastor of mine," says Mr.. Mott,
" told me the following: When boy he
had a fox, which, / regret to say, bore the
reputation of possessing far more brain
than personal piety The fox was kept in
the ward in a sort of raised den, nicely sod
ded over, and was confined by a chain that
allowed him quite a generous circumfer-
ence. One evening in the fall, the farm
wagon, returning from the field with load
of corn. passed near the den, and by chance
dropped an ear where the fox could reach
it. He was seen to spring out, seize the
corn. and carry it quickly back into the
den. What he wanted with it was mys-
tery. as corn formed no part of the gentle
mans diet. The next morning, however,
the mystery was solved, for the fox was
observed, out of his den, and considerably
within the length of his chain, nlbbnng on
some of the corn and scattering 1t about
in full view of the poultry, after whlch ne
took the remainder back into the den and
awaited events Sure enough, the cnlcK-
ans came. and while eating, out sprang
the fox. nabbed his man, and quietly took
his breakfast in his back parlor. Now 1t
seems to me that this is pretty good
qeneralizing.' The fox may not have
reasoned upon the most sublime theme i'm
aginable. / regret to say he did not. But
If he didn't evolve that chicken out OF the
denths of his own consciousness, then
there is no such thing as logic, and,
Logic Is logic;
That's all / say"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
The Sabbath.

The following remarks of Hon. Thomas
Russell, Collector of the Port of Boston,
were made at the recent anniversary of the
New England Sabbath Association, held
at Mount Vernon Church, Boston:
"I shall pitch my remarks in low key,
and aim at practical points. l speak of
the Lords Day as made for men, especially
the workingman, whether he works with
his hands or his head. 1t has been pro-
fanely said, IF there were no Supreme
Being, it would be necessary to invent
one.' We may say: if the Sabbath be not
decreed by revelation, it must be enacted
by statute. Man needs stated times of
rest In order to have rest he must have
quiet. Therefore, we must agree on a
time when all shall rest together, and, in
order to be effectual, that agreement must
take the form of law.
Every sentiment, faith, tradition which
sustains the law, makes the rest more COM
plete Again, rest is found not merely by
giving up work, not by talking of busi-
ness, not even by reading secular news in
..,, |ous newspapers, but by turning our
Iuhsio .t}io .,,. mt of thought away from the
affairs of the Won thu ro1,,a of .ho
Sabbath. Here and in Scottish ~ 70 troot -
strictly kept. Hence comes somethp-- Vi
the thrift, energy, endurance, which niafh
the New Englander and the Scotchman.
The enemy of the Sabbath Is the enemy
of the human race, especially of the work
ingman. What would it avail him to pass
a ten-hour law, or an eight,hour law, and
rob him of his day of rest? Yet the same
men are contending for these two re-
FORMS
"Let us be practical. Some men, some
ministers, not believing in the texts on
which the Christian Sabbath is gener-
ally defended, assail it-even from the pull
pit But is Sabbath-keeping a practical
danger? How many families in this State
have been ruined by it? And again, in
which parish of New England is excess of
faith the prevailing sin? If you stumble
over some text in Genesis, or Exodus, or
Deuteronomy, read with me the chapter of
daily life, and human need, and common
sense. Cease your attacks, not from fear
of God on Sinai, but for the sake of man
ON his footstool.
"Ihave pleaded for the day as need of
humanity. If you believe, with the mass
of Christian men, that it has the divine
sanction, it is but one more proof that our
Father loves US better than we do our
selves, as he knows US better than we do
ourselves"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29

and minutes in pitching horse shoes, an
occupation which certainly does not great
ly enlarge the intellectual faculties, or in
crease ones business reputation, when in
dulged in to excess. ------- -
Had Horace Greeley, Robert Bonner,
and scores of others who have efssaneo
positions and honor, spent all their ear.S-
ings and hours OF leisure in the billiard.
saloon, the ball room AID the grocery, they
might yet be setting type, or holding the
position of clerks and walters, while re-
ceiving but few dollars per week in pay
ment for their services At any rate, they
would have remained in obscurity, and the
world would never have been the wiser
for their having lived in it.
Recreation of some kind is good thing
for those engaged in hard labor, either
mental or physical, yet no young man
need ever expect to rise above mediocrity
if he devotes one-third of his time to
work, while tHo-thirds are spent in seek
ing pleasure. He need hardly aspire to
be called Mister; he will only be known
| and designated as John, or Tom, or Jim or
something. There are scores of such men
all around us, and as they pass away,
twice as many young men are fitting them
selves to fill their places. And such heart
aches as these young men cause their pa
| rents, they don't realize now, but Will
some day. Surely young men, if you live
to reach the age of forty, you will see the
folly of misspent youth, and then, when
too late, many of you will repent and
vainly regret that you did not listen to the
advice and counsel of those whose age and
experience fitted them to give just such
advice and counsel as they most needed.
| Not long since young man of our &C.
quaintance married girl who, like him.
self, was poor. He left his old habits of
dissipation and idleness, and now, with his
really industrious and good wife, he is
striving hard to secure home. Yet had
he the time aud money he squandered be.
fore marriage, he might be comfortably
situated. You may some day be in like
situation. Be warned in time, and for
once realize the value of your time, help
your fathers, learn trade, study profes
sion or farming, do something, be in earn
est about it, improve your leisure, especial
ly your evenings, in reading and study, moi
altogether as pastime, but for improve
ment. If you do not reach eminence and
fame, you will feel a consciousness of hav
done your best with such talents as were
given you.-Bee Keepers Journal.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
How to Keep Cool.

A CORRESPONDENT furnishes the Lon
don Times with the following hints, which
Will be found pertinent to our own climate:
In these hot days cool apartment is
real luxury to be had far oftener than most
people suppose possible. The secret con-
sists, not in letting in cool air, for naturally
all do that whenever they have the chance;
but in keeping out the hot air. If the air
outside room or house be cooler than the
air inside, let it in by all means; but if it
be hotter, certainly keep it out.
A staircase window left open during the
night will often cool the passages of a
house, and the rooms, too, iftheir doors be
not shut; but it must be closed at or Q
o'clock in the morning, or, ifon the sunny
side, at or o'clock, and the blinds drawn
down. The mistake people generally
make is to throw open their windows at
all hours of the day, no matter whether
the atmosphere outside be cool or scorch-
ing.
Let us have some air, they say, and in
comes the treacherous breeZe-for even
hot air is pleasant while it is gently blow
ing, taking away peTspiration, and thereby
cooling the skin; but the apartment is
made warmer, instead of cooler, and as
soon as they move out of the draught they
find their room to be more uncomfortable
than before.
Let in cool air-keep out hot-that is
the only formula to insure the minimum
of discomfort. Sitting rooms may gener-
ally be kept cool during the whole day if
the door be only opened for the ingress
and egress, and the windows kept closed
and shielded from direct sunshine by a
blind. If the atmosphere ofa room be i'm
pure from any cause, let it be renewed |;
hot air is less injurious than bad air. If a
room be small in comparison with the
number ofpersons engaged in it, free venti-
lation becomes indispensable.
In cooking apartment the temperature
will probably be higher than outside,
hence the free admission even of hot air
will be desirable. If persons do not OBJ
ject to sit in direct draught of air, win
dows and doors may be opened, breeze
being more refreshing, even though sever
al degrees warmer than still air; but under
nearly all other circumstances rooms
should be kept closed as much as possible
until after sundown, or till the air outside
| is cooler than that inside. Let in cool air
keen out hot
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
Building a Lighthouse under Diff.
culties.

THE English Government has built a
lighthouse upon Wolf Rock, which is
situated about nine miles southwest of
Lands End. The surface of this rock is
very rugged consequently, to land upon
it is at all times q very difficult matter.
AS it is, moreover, in deep water (about
twenty fathoms on all sides), and exposed
to the full force of the Atlantic Ocean, a
terrific sea falls upon it, as may readily be
supposed. From this cause the building
of the new lighthouse has been no child's-
play. The light was first exhibited on The
1st of Janury, 1870, and has since burned
regularly every night, from sunset to SUE
rise. But the structure has taken nearly
eight years to erect On the 18th of
March, 1862, the workmen first got upon
the rock, to cut out the foundation; but
owing to the insecurity of the foothold,
and the constant breaking of the surf over
the rock, stanchions were Obliged to be
fixed in the rock where the workmen
were digging, and each man worked with
a safety-rope lying near him, one end OF
which was attached to the nearest stanch-
ion. An experienced man was always
stationed on the summit as "crow," TO
look out for the sea, and give warning
when a wave was likely TO sweep over the
rock; when the men would hold on, head
to the sea, while it washed over them
Then, when the wave had passed over, and
there was temporary lull, picks, ham
mers, and jumpers, some over twenty
pounds in weight, were frequently found
to have been washed away. An addition
al danger to the men was in the necessary
blasting of the rock with gunpowder-
their only protection from the showers o.
shattered fragments of rock being TEN
porary pent house, formed each time they
landed. In building lighthouses, the pro
gress of the work must always depend
upon the humor of the weather. Very
often it is impossible to land on the rocl
at all and, when you do, you may offer
find large portion of the last days worl
washed away; and this has to be done al
over again. In the eight working seasons
occupied over the WolfRock lighthouse
there were two hundred and slxty-si,
landings; and of time spent in labor, eigh
hundred and nine and half hours-beirl
only one hundred and one working
days, of ten hours each, for the erection o
the tower. In this lighthouse, fog-bel
weighing five hundred weight, is fixed ol
the lantern gallery. 1t is struck by tw
hammers worked by machinery. For tn
purpose of giving the signal distinctly
character for the station, the machinery
arranged for striking the bell three blow
in quick succession, at intervals OF tftee
seconds. The cost of building this lighf
house, considering the exceptional diff
culties, may be reckoned moderate-bein
about sixty-two thousand seven huudre
and tweniy-six pounds.-Applet0n's Jou,
! nal.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
The Chinese Language,

In learning the English child begins
with letters, but in Chinese he begins with
syllables, because there are no letters, for
what we should call letters are words.
Instead of our twenty-six letters the
Chinese have about five hundred syllables,
and these are combined together in an al
most infinite formation, to make their fly
or sixty thousand words, each of which is
repI esented by a separate character. From
the paucity of their syllables, they have to
give them a great many meanings, as, for
instance, Rev. s. r. Brown informs us that
the syllable chde has two hundred and
twelve signi6cations, ching one hundred
and thirteen, etc. Hence, if one China
man says to another simply chae, he may
mean any one of two hundred and twelve
things, which is practically nothing, and
he has, therefore, in order to limit it some
where, to speak another syllable of
kindred meaning, either before or after it.
These two syllables sometimes three) he
utters so quickly together that they form
one word as much as in English, which
fact makes it inaccurate to call the Chinese
monosyllable language. In other words
the arrangement of syllables in English is
inevitable, so that in case of the word
"incomprehensibilit for instance, we
cannot write any two of the syllables to-
gether to make another word, while the
Chinese (supposing it had so long a word,
though it has none longer than three syl-
lables), can pick it to pieces and make
perhaps dozen, perhaps two dozen, new
words.
Let me use homely illustration. Sup.
pose two Cinnamon sit down on opposite
sides Of a table, one of them with five
hundred little blocks, each of which is
furnished with glue on both ends. He
might pick up and show to the other any
of them, and he would call out any one Of
its dozen or hundred meanings, each oi
which has its own symbol or character
but in order to commun; lte any extended
or precise information, his friend mus
glue them together in couples or threes
This is why the Chinese is not, as it il
usually called, a monosyllabic language
We can say in English, 81 went to towI
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
last night and found my friend, and went

with him to see the play" all in monosyl-
tables; but it is impossible to express in
Chinese anything but the very shortest
sentences in words of one syllable, as az
say" (ngo ShrO), or "Who are your" (ne she
Sltue p A rapid speaker in English does
not separate his syllables by greater inter
walls than he does his words; neither do
the Chinese. The error of calling the
language monosyllabic has arisen from the
fact that, in writing, the Chinaman makes
one cumbrous AID complicated but solid
character for every word, but that word
may, nevertheless. be spoken in two or
three syllables.
But will skip over these less interest
ing mechanical details, and come to gene
raj facts. One advantage the Chinese has,
amid its appalling difficulties, is the SIM
plicity and English naturalness with which
the words are arranged in sentences. 1t
has no strained and cumbersome involu-
tiops, by which one word qualifying an
other is found two or three lines distant,
as in German or Greek, and especially in
Japanese; but the words are built up one
upon the other in the simple, easy success
sion of nature, in what Max Mueller calls
the architectonic order" Thus to trans
late as literally as possible the sentence
" tien gan hed-uu, tsing ne-1d tsie hO ga
san, reads, Heaven will rain, please you
find umbrella" Then, to omit the Chinese,
we have this: "Plcase you tomorrow
come my house eat rice"
To sum it all in a word, if Chinese were
only written with our letters, it would be
easier for third person to acquire than
English itself 1t is delightful for its
childish simplicity in that respect, for the
absence of propositions, conjunctions, ad-
verbs and others of those dreadful "parts
of speech" which were the nightmare oi
our school days. No declensions, no con,
jugations, no moods, no lenses, no first
second and third person singular and plu.
raj, no gender Except by the addition of a
few particles in certain cases); nothing
but these little naked, innocent bits OF
words strung along together. If you find
a verb it never has but one form, instead
of the seven hundred or more of those re.
morseless Greek verbs in mi; if you have
a noun, it always remains in the same
shape.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
Let In the Sunlight.

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, in an article
in the Christian Union, on mistakes in our
houses, specifies the Exclusion of sun
light as one. She says:
We wish the Importance of admitting
the light of the sun, freely, as well as
building these early and late fires, could
be properly impressed upon our house
keepers. No article of furniture should
ever be brought to our homes too good or
too delicate for the sun to see all day long.
His presence should never be excluded,
except when so bright as to be uncomfor-
table to the eyes. And walks should be
in bright sunlight, SO that the eyes are
protected by veil or parasol, when incon-
veniently intense A sun bath is of far
more Importance in preserving healthful
condition Of the body than is generally
understood. A sun bath costs nothing,
and that is misfortune, for people are de-
luded with the idea that those things only
can be good or useful which cost money.
But remember that pure water, fresh air,
sunlight, and homes kept free from damp
ness, will secure you from many heavy
bills of the doctors, and give you health
and vigor, which no money can procure.
1t is q well established fact that people
who live much in the sun are USUALLY
stronger and more healthy than those
whose occupations deprive them of sun
light