The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-12-26

- i oulittI Years ago an Ol'l titlN Ill foflItni,
Me. fell dead from heart disease while winding
up an od-tashioned clock. The time was ten
minutes before 10 in the morning. Ever since
that the clock has stopped at 10 on the aniver-
sary of her death 1t has never ouce failed in
the fourteen years that have passed
The above paragraph iS having an eN-
tensive circulation in the papers. But it
falls far behind the mournlul interest
which attaches to Il kindred incident IN
this vicinity. An old gentleman who Tor
many years had taken his regular eleven
o'clock drink of Medtord, died suddenly
and mysteriously Just after hosting in his
morning retreshment. And ever since
on the anniversary Of the sad event, lust
as the clock marks the hour OF eleven
the tumbler is taken up by invisible hands
the bottle is lifted, Il good three finger
drink poured out, and the glass lifted to
lips that are never seen. Some have
affirmed that they can hear the old fellow
smack his lips with satisfaction as the
glass is replaced. We want Portland 10
understand that no old lady's clock is
going to take the palm ON ghost stories
from this locality.
Gin Detroit" says the papers, "a man was
cured of fever by pickles and cider after the
doctors had given up Given up what 2-the
cider or the pickles: Lel the Belfast journal
investigate. WatervilIe Mail.
The Journal has no need to investigate
Whatever may be the facts of that par
ticular case, no physician will dispute that
vegetable acid is Indispensable to q healthy
condition of the human system. Ii wards
off a great many troubles. In the English
navy and mercantile marine u certain
amount OF it is made by law the rations
of sailors, rs y means of preventing
scurvy. Cider is the cheapest and best
form of this acid to be obtained here, and
its only enemies are the scnrvy politicians
of the time. Please ask some more hard
questions.
Somebody writing in the London Globe
declares that there are more bachelors than
there used to be; that women have lost the
charms of patience, modesty, unsetshne>S and
tenderness, and that consequently sold maids
are swarming everywhere and making the
earth hard and drearv desert.
"Somebody" Is a fool. There's Just as
much to make women companionable and
loveable. as ever there has been since
Adam and Eve walked together in the
garden. The fellow who wrote for the
Globe had no doubt been toolng around
some girl who could see through him, and
sent him exiting" The really besettng
evil of the sex is the habit of wearing
bonnets the size of pancakes and bustes
like bushel baskets. But their hearts are
sound, for all that.
The President occasionally takes n
little recess from his civil service vows,
The term of the Postmaster of Chicago
having expired, a politician named Me
Arthur has been appointed and confirmed,
who had no experience or CLAIMS, except
that he may be.useful outside his office.
We are all human, Ulysses, and when self
gets into the balance it is rarely honest.
"A good many legal gentlemen are
ready to sacrifice themselves for the public
good. by becoming Reporter of Decisions,
or Attorney General of Maine. and there
is much confidential whispering in the
ears of those having influence with the
appointing powers that "Barkis is will
ing" Belfast was waited upon last week