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Over in London the operatic gossips have
ii that the non appearance Of Pauline Lucca
TO fulfil her engagement there, Is attributable
TO her having contracted an engagement Of
an altogether different and more permanent
character than that one offered her by Mr..
Gye. Berlin letters speak of a similar en-
gagement between Baron Won Rhaden, ex-
husband of Madame Lucca, and Mdle
Eleonora Grossi, sister of Carlotta Grossi, the
brilliant soprano.
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For Sale.

fTNHE house on State Street, occupied by the un-
Il dersigDed. This house is thoroughly built of
brick and stone and has all modern conveniences.
ALLEN HAINES,
Portland, Sep. 18th, 1872. sep19-tt
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s The shah went into jewelers. shop in
Paris to purchase 100000 franc collar of
pearls. an 5000 diamond bracelet and some
other little knick-knaeks for the wife of Pres
ident MacMahon, and, in making his purchss-
es, used the grand vizer as a dummy upon
which to try the effect of the articles. He
spied some elegant rifles in the corner, and
was about to fire one out of the window, just
to try it, when the grand vizier warned him
that he might hit some one. He set aside
the rifle and wrote in his diary: ''Mem. Must
kill grand vizier for impertinence, when 1 gel
home
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Rector (gong his Rounds), Gan uncom-
monty fine pig, Mr.. Dibbles, declarep'
Contemplatire Villager. 'Ah, yes, sir, if
we was only, all of us, as fit to die as him,
Strip
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People have generally three epochs in their
confidence in man. In the first they believe
him to be everything that is good and they are
lavish with their friendship and confidence.
In the next they have had experience, which
has smitten down that confidence, and they
have to be careful not to mistrust every one
and to put the worst construction upon every
thing Later in life they learn that the greater
number have more of good in them than bad,
and that even when there is cause to blame
there is more reason to pity than to con-
denim; and then spirit of confidence again
awakens within them.
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'Rebecca Jones, you are singing through
your nose again." exclaimed Wisconsin
music teacher, and Rebecca was so mortified
that she ran out and jumped into the river,
but was rescued.
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A Troy couple who were engaged for over
two years insisted upon being married by
moonlight in the park, and, because the par
ents objected to such publicity, they refuse to
to be married at all.
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THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 20. 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.

A Baltimore duck swallowed lighted fire
cracker, and was immoderately surprised at
the ensuing sensation.
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Provision Store for Sale.

I n one of the best locations in Massachusetts
i WITHIN two miles Of Boston, with good run of reg
ular and transient custom consta ty on the increase
Stock fixtures and teams in excellent order. No
brokers need apply. Place sold only on account Of
i'll health. and will bearithorough investigation, which
jy2id6t PROVISIONS Chelsea Mass
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Real Estate for Sale.

HOCSE AND LOT NO. IS STATE ST.,
Lot contains "a 900 feet of land, with fine fut gar
den, cold, grapery, etc. Apply to
W. HI. FESSENDEN,
mar6tf 215 Commercial Street,
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One New Pony Phaeton For Sale

4 T may be found at the Carriage Repository of A.
j. Chase, No. 22 Preble street.
jy4tf ALEXANDER EDMOND.
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HOTEL FOR SALE OR LEASE.

4 The well and favorably known s'BAKER
~A HOUSE," pleasantly located in Yarmuth,
ten miles from Portland. The trains of the
lsEEI, Grand Trunk road stop within few rods of
the House. Terms very favorable. Apply
to The proprietor on the premises. OF of
VIM. II. JERRIS, Real Estate Agent, Portland.
jy14 If
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TOLE1.
For Sale or To Let.

GOAL and Wood Yard in manufacturing
soaa Town 10 miles from Boston doing a business of
9 3uo9 tons year and be increased. Also good
years or hay h and straw can @ De leased ,or Term OF
.Aauress oi apply to A. L. POPE,
Jy2Seod1w Waltbam, Mass.
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Farm for Sale or Exchange for
Property in Portland or Vicin-
ity.
House for Sale I

YEsHE tw0-story house, Ne. Carleton Street. This
IL house Is in good repair, Is well located in a good
neighhorhood Has a good cellar, water and gas
throughout
Can be seen any afternoon between the hours Of 2
and "A.
for further information apply 90
my27tf EDWARD r. CHASE. No. Oak st.
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FOR SALE.
Country Cottage for Sale,

HOUSE containing five rooms in good order, Eli
III Woodhouse and Stable connected; one and one
fifth acres land, garden and fruit trees. very
high airy and healthy location, commanding beautiful
views of country and mountains; 10 miles from the
city and miles from P. & o. r. r. Depot, price
moderate. CHARLES NJ HAWKES.,
ju21e013m 96 Middle Street.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
Riches and Pleasure.

These truths are we'll Illustrated in the anec
dOte told some years ago of two men who were
about John Jacob AstOr 5 property.
Some one was asked if he would be willing to
take care of the millionaire 5 property-ten or
fifteen millions of dolars-merely for his board
and clothing. mol" was the Indignant an
swer; {" do you take me for a fool Z" 'Well,
rcioined the other, :" that is all Mr.. Astor
himself gets for taking care OF 1T; he S found,
and that's all. The houses, the warehouses,
the ships, the farms, which he counts by the
hundreds, and is often obliged to take care Of,
are for the accommodation of others. But
then he has the income, the rents of all this
large property, five or six hundred thousand
dollars per annum." Yes, but he can do
nothing with his income but build more houses
and warehouses and ships, or loan money on
mortgages, for the convenience Of others. He's
! found, and you can make nothing else out of
it."
IF rich man wishes to be healthy, says Sir
! William Temple, he must live like poor one.
Izaak Walton tells us that there are as many
troubles on the other side Of riches as on this
and that the cares that are the keys Of richie;
hang heavily at the rich mans grdle. How
many men, on reaching the pinnacle Of wealth
find, as they look down upon their money bags
that they have only purchased one set Of en-
oyments by the loss of another equally deslr
able "Do you remember, Bridget" write
Charles Lamb, with a tender retrospect 70 hi
poverty "whcn you and laughed at the pla
from the shilling gallery There are no goo
plays to laugh at now from the boxes Man
Sir Epicure Mammon, as be sits down wit
] jaded appetite to his lobster salad and chan
= pagne, thinks with keen regret of the simpl
f repasts which titllated his palate when he wa
/ poor. The great railway king, Hudson, an
t his wife, feasting with dukes and duchesses
o their big house at Albert Gate, looked bac
$ with many a sigh to the days when they al
G sauSages tor supper in the little parlor benin
" their paltry shop in the city of New York
n Nothing, in the abstract, seems easier thS
u to get pleasure out Of money; yet to many pc
l sons nothing is apparently more difficult.
ct seems delightful to be able to buy everythil
ii you wish, without thought Of the cost; y
who does not see that the pleasure must pi
Y, in the degree that there is no difficulty? d
ID the earl to whom Robins knocked down t
n rare BOccacciO feel in his conquest tithe
er the pride and Joy which Lamb felt when
a bore home that black-letter folio, to prOcu
o. which " the old brown suit was made to ha
ed on six weeks longer?'
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
Lost and Found.

In searching outside of books for strange
rOmances no more interesting Is ever found
than the following viciSStudes of real life ex
tending over various widely separated parts OF
the globe. Twenty years ago an English mcr-
chant at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, who though
going to that place poor boy had acquired
fortune, went home on a visit W hIle there
he met beautiful! orphan girl whom he wOOed,
won and married. and the two returned to
Brazil, where two children were born to them,
and for years they lived in the relations of
trust and affection which should always exist
in the best assorted marriages. They Occa-
sonay made visits to England, and on one
of their trips, the merchant heard rumOrs
preiudicial to his wife's fidelity, which, by de
grees, famed the fame Of jealousy within
him, and he directly and openly accused hel
of what report had whispered to him. AL
though the lady denied the fault and chal
lengcd him to his proof, which he was unable
to produce, cOldness aud distrust so grew upoI
them out Of the rupture, that by mutual con
sent they separated, he fixing an annuity upOl
her. Weary on his part OF Old ASSOCIATION
he made his way to North America did con
siderable trading in the West and had hi
headquarters at St. Paul, MINI, where thougl
grave and taciturn in the extreme and avoid
ing close intimacies he made many friends b
his consideration for other people and strlc
honor in all his business transactions. B
the laws Of Brazil his wife was allowed to maj
ry again, and this she did after few years
although by such a step she forfeited her ar
nuity. Her husband, an educated, but poe
gentleman in feeble health, soon died, an
) She with the two children by her first HUSBAND
was left in destitute circumstances. KNOWN
nothing of her husbands Whereabouts, sh'
following some mysterious impulse, came
the United States, and in the fall of lSt
4 found herself at st. Paul. There the Ion
separated met once more, and in spite of tt
crosses that had been borne, and the susp
! cions that had been excited, the old love WI
j renewed, and a new wedding was the resul
s Since then they have lived more happily thu
, ever at the West until the other day, wht
T. they left New York for England to end the
o days in their old home.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

HELP YoURsELF.-Fight your own battles.
Hoe your own row. Ask no favorS Of any one,
and you'll succeed five thousand times better
than one who is always beseeching some ones
patronage No one will ever help you as you
help yourself, because no one will be so heartily
interested in your affaiis. The first step will
not be such long one, perhaps; but, carving
your own way up the mountain, you make
each one lead to another, and stand firm in that
while you chop still another out Men who
have made fortunes are not those who had
5000 given them to start with, but started
fair with well-earned dollar or two. Men who
have, by their own exertions, acquired fame,
have no. been thrust into popularity by pufs
begged or paid for, or given in friendly
spirit. They have outstretched their hands
and touched the public heart. Men who win
love do their own wooing, and | never knew a
man to fail so signally as one who had induced
his affectionate grandmamma to speak good
word for him. Whether you work for fame,
for love, for money, or anything else, work
with your hand, heart, and brain. Say {" |
will" and some day you will conquer. Never
let any man have it to say, II have dragged
you up" Too many friends hurt man more
than none at all-Grdce Green,Oood
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
WHOLE NO. 929
What My Cook Said.

There's nobody, mum, that's so put upon
as cook, and cooking is Dizziness that no.
body never makes lowances for Most O. biz
illnesses can be done at one times wells
mother. My brother, now, is a carpenter, and
he don have to git a door done by quarter past
six, or else the door he spilled And there's
Bddy, the chambermaid If she don't finish
sweeping a room when she ought to, the carpet
won't 90 back to wool or shrivel up to a crisp.
And it she makes bed up all wrong from top
to toe, she don't have to throw the sheets away
-nOthin hurt, and she just goes to work and
makes it over again. But if makes bad
mistake like that in a piece of meat, why in
course it's spilled intirely; and don't the
best o folks make mistakes sometimes, mum?
If begins roast just trife too soon it's
spilled, and if | begins it just trihe too late
it's spilled all the same, or else folks is in pet
because makes EN- wait bit for it. knows
in gin raj way by the looks of piece OF meat
! Just how long twill take to roast, but things
don't aliurs work as a body Gale lates-some-
times the meat weighs half-pound more or
less, and sometimes the fire gifts contrary.
Most O my work, and roastin' in partiklar-
the thing most folks gifts crOssest about-cant
be done and put away till it's wanted, like
dish-washlng and ironing and sewing. It's to
be done just to turn, and just to a mint. A
roast must 60 right straight from the fire to
the table, as you know, mum, yourself, and
sometimes folks is little longer that common
over the soup and the fish, and how am | to
know, mum? And then, if the meat is little
: overdone, it's that miserable cook can't even
roast piece of beef right And if it's taken
from the fire and kept hot. why that's just as
bad, and it's that miserable cook, she has con.
trivcd to git the flavor out Of the meat! And
if they are ready too soon, and the meat is too
D rare, it's that miserable cook! again. Seems
to me that ladies and gentlemen might
e think a bit how hard it is on the cook and have
a bit o patience, and instead O saying tha
miserable cookr might be a-talkin' pleasan
u among themselves, and wait few minutes i
: meat ism t ready to the mint-for you know
t mum it an old sayin; 1t is better to wal
Z for the roast than to make the roast wait 70
# MS F."
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

BALLooNING Across THE ATLANTIC
Reading, Pa, possesses among its citizens one
Professor Donaldson, (the same who walked
wire in Smyrna once) who has successfully
made since last August twenty-four ascents in
his balloon in various parts of the South and
West. He has been up as high as three miles,
as indicated by his barometer, and, although
E:any accidents have befallen him he has sur
vived them all Having performed many dar-
ing exploits above the clouds he now proposes,
as he told the reporter of a Reading paper to
cross the Atlantic Ocean the ensuing summer,
availing himself Of the current of wind which,
it has been ascertained blows from West to
East at a distance of say two miles and half
above the earth. He expects to complete the
trip of 1000 miles in something over two days.
Three balloons joined together, with boat,
ballast, provisions, and all the necessary
the balloon, will constitute his aerial ship.
Previous to this grand venture he will first
make a voyage from st. Louis to Boston.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
P0etIV.
Give Us Men!

God give men! A time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of Office does not kilt
Men whom the Spoi!s of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will:
Men who have honOr-men who will not lie;
Men who stand before a demagogue,
And damn his reacherOus ieatheres without winking
Tall men, crowned who 1--we above the tog
In public duty, and in private thinking
For while the rabbe, with their thumbworn creeds,
Their large professions, and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, 10! Freedom wecps!
Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps!
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

WATCHING ONES SELF" When | was a
boy" said an old man, I'VE had a school
master who had an odd way of catching boys.
One day he called out to US:
'' Boys, must have close attention to your
books The first one of you that sees another
boy idle, | want you to inform me, and l will
attend to his case
"'Ah!' thought I to myself, there's Joe
Simmons, that | don't like. I'll watch him,
and if see him look off his book III tell 1t
was not long before | saw Joe look off his book.
and Immediately informed the master
- Indeed! said he; and how do you know
he was idle?'
"' | saw him, said I.
"' You did And were your eyes on your
book when you saw him.?
81 was caught, and never watched for idle
boys again.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
Two Scenes.

A gentleman took his son to drunken row
in tavern, where the inmates were fighting
and swearing, and said he: "Do you know
what has caused all this?'
No, sir"
His father pointing to the decanters, said,
"Thdt's the cause; will you take drink? ?"
The boy started back with horror, and ex-
claimed, "No?"
Then he took his child to the cage of man
with delirum tremens. The boy gazed upon
him affrighted as the drunkard raved.
{" Do you know the cause of this, my
boy?,
This is caused by drink; will you have
some?"
And he shrank with shudder as he refused
the cup.
Next they called at the miserable hove of
drunkard, where was squalid poverty, and the
drunken father beating his wife, and with
oaths, knocking down his children.
"What has caused this" said the father.
! The son was silent When told it was rum,
he declared he would never touch drop in his
life. But suppose that lad should be invited
to a wedding feast, where with fruit and cake
the wine cup is passed amid scenes of cheer
fulness and gayety, where all the friends are
respectable, beloved, and kind to each other,
and he should be asked to drink, would he
refuse? Or, suppose him walking out with
his father on New Years day to call upon
his young lady friends to enjoy the
testivity of the ushering in of the new year.
With other things, wine is handed to him by
a smiling girl. His noble-hearted father
whom he loves, presses the wine glass to his
lips, and compliments the young ladies upon
the excellence of its quality; what wonder il
the son follow his example.-EmJl0 .innnaL
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

It is related of the late Mr.. Butler, Of
Providence, Rhode Island, that he was so
obliging as to reopen his store one night
solely to supply little girl with a spool Of
thread which she wanted. The incident took
wind, brought him large run of custom, and
he died a millionaire, after subscribing
$4,000 toward founding hospital for the
insane.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

A few rugged cats in our neighborhood have
already began rchearsing for their spring con-
certs. We are permitted to state that various
novelties will be introduced by them during the
coming season.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

A conductor on night train, running
between Hartford and New Haven, more than
a year ago, received a thousand dollar bill from
a passenger in payment Of the fare. The con-
ductor passed on, saying he would return
presently with the change, but when he did SO
the man denied having presented the bill 1t
is supnosed the man was thief, gave the
money by mistake, and was afraid to rectify it.
The bill still remains to the conductors credit
at one of the Hartford banks.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

Don Juan Forster, the great land owner of
San Diego county, California, has sent an agent
to Europe to induce emigrants to settle on his
vast tract. To each he gives eighty acres of
land the sole condition being the guarantee of
the emigrant that he will expend at least
alternate section of eighty acres the don re-
serves for himself
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

A lady in Fort Wayne has cards out for her
silver, crystal, and tin weddings, which occur on
the same day. Her first two husbands
(dsvorced) have received invitations, but per-
versely decline attending.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

A young lady in Western New York has just
declined an offer of marriage from a wealthy
lover, whose name is Hussey. 1t is impossible
not to admire the spuHk of that woman who
refuses to be called Hussey for any man.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

A society for the suppression of slang has
been formed among the pupils Of the Girls
High School of San Francisco. Said
reporter to one of the members: Your object
is praseworthy one. Do you think it will
succeed in eradicating conversational slang p
Said she. "You bet"
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

Time was, is past; thou canst not il recall
Time is thou hast; employ the portion small.
Time future is not, and may never be;
Time present is the only time for thee.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

A man in love may be hkened to fly in g
spiders web. entangled by one of the most
fragile substances yet the most difficult from
which TO escape.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

More hearts pine away in secret anguish for
the want of kindness from those who should be
their comforters than for any other calamity
in life.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

any man who owns a good farm, as | do, to get
mixed up in politics. 1t units him for his
work, and he is never bettered by it. Had
devoted my time and energies, with the same
enthusiasm and self-denial that have given
to politics, to my farm, would have been far
richer, more contented, and certainly happier
man. The truth is, had no faith in farming
But the older grow, the more clearly see its
certainties, as we'll as possibilities, and regret
the time wasted"
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19

laws and Resolutions OF the United States Pas
sed at the Second Session of the Forty
second Congress.
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
Shut Your Mouth.

curious contribution has been made to the
literature of sleep by Mr.. George Catlin we'll
known as a writer on the North American
Indians. This getleman is of opinion that a
large number of the ills to which civilized flesh
is subject arises from the fact that people, when
they cease to be savage>, foolishly persist in
the baleful practice Of sleeping with their
mouths open! That Mr.. Catn is in dead
earnest, and not pOking fun at US, is evident
from the whole tone of his book. Divested OF
its rhetorical wrappings, Mr.. Catlin's main
argument may be stated as follows: Among his
friends the Indians he has proved that such
things as premature deaths from disease, as
well as mental and physical defOrmitles, are
almost unknown. Among civilized peoples,
on the other hand, these things are only too
well known. The only difference in the habits
of savages and civilized people capable of ac-
counting for this state Of matters is that, while
the former sleep with their mouths shut, the
latter not unfrequcntIy sleep with their mouths
open. The Indian mother presses together the
lips of her sleeping babe till the habit OF shut
ting the mouth is irrevOcably formed. The
English mother places her child in a close,
sitting atmosphere. in which it is obliged to
gasp for breath. The consequence is that the
savage inhales through his nOstrlls en- atmo-
| sphere heated and purified by a special appara-
tus, while the other inspires through his mouth
an atmosphere too cold aud impure for the deli
cate respiratory organs Hence the preva-
lence, in civilized countries, of bronchial and
pulmonary diseases, and especially of that fel
scourge, consumption. Mr.. Catlin buttresse'
his main argument by others of various sorts
not the least convincing of them being con
taned in his amusing Illustrative sketches. NJ
; doubt he rides his hobby too hard and too far
but what he says is not devoid of a good dea
of truth In another of its aspects the habi
referred to is equally reprehensibe. Ever!
one who has seen and heard paterfamilies tax
his post prandial maps in certain positions il
his easy chair. must admit that sleeping open
mouthed is a practice not conducive to beauty
either facial or sonorous Both on sanitar
and aesthetic grounds, therefore, we cannot d.
better than advise the reader to practice i
sleep, the laconic injunction which forms th
title of AIR. Catin's book Sunday Despatch
Smyrna times., 1873-02-19
SHOENAKING AND REPAIRING.

Wat All persons desiring BOOTS AND SHOES
tNi made or REPAIRED. will do we'll to call on
E%~! !he subscriber 91y- All work done Promptly,
Neatly, and al Low rates Shop in Lurtys Lane, IN
part Of w Lurty's House.
ian29lw LEWIS HAYDEN.