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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10

The the cOnnucu cnilfcIy 10
George West and Bullet; the former leading for two
miles, with Bullet second, ana Vesuyius some distance
behind Lobelia bringing up the rear. Half mile from
home Bullet closed on George West, ana the par ran
head and head home. both taking the leaps simultane
ously. A brilliant finish TO the finest steeple chase
contest ended favor OF George West by the shortest OF
heads the being 5:5l5 Nesuyius was bad ihlrd
nrldI Id, In N a tnlrd of "A mile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10
REGATTA AT OIL CITY

OIL CRY, Penn, Aug. 9.-The four cared
race miles and return between the Columbia crew OF
Pisburgh, the Third Ward Of Pittsburgh aud the
Third OF OIL city for $500 aside came off last
evening For the FIRST half mile the OH CITY Cluh WAS
ahead but the Columbus spurted and tool the lead,
winning easily by ten lengths Time, Il mlns secs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10
Tile STEELE CHASE.

The last event of day, the steeple chase for
purse of $3.50 of which the second horse received $50
about three miles There were four runners. namely
Donohue's George West; Lawrence and Lorillard's
Bullet: Tuly's Vesuvius. and Blanchard's L0belln.
Bullet had the call in the betting although George
West was strongly supported We give the last pools
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10
EALLnON ASCENSION

BOsTON, Aug. 9.-Prof. Donaldson, Gccom-
panied by Messrs L. l.. Holden Of lie Journal j. J.
McNiy OF The GObe. made an ascension from the HIP
podrome grounds last evening In the balloon BarnUn.
at ten minutes before o'clock in the midst o; driving
rain storm. After BENG in tho air hour ana ten
minutes the party lauded safely at Natham Mass.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10
HOME NIX VS..
THERMOMETER YESTERDAY. At HUDSurs. ~ BhoAp"A''
e.m-7O, Soop-7O' 3 n ne aduigb'-u'
ppoNIEENT ARRIVALS.

Holman House-Senator John =. Jones OF Eevada'
Alexander Mitchell Of Wisconsin snd p.
Adams o. X Navy ..Fgh drSs~ Hot-Eea q; =, pu ng e.
N,saehu,etts Congressman Richard g. pSIsm .' "a ~ 81
Nor. York Hoe-Marqus de Arsudn Of Madr na VI ~
NJ Wells u. NAVY. Metropolitan fiotI-een ss,on "
Ro..e Of Minnesota Alfred Townsend oil "
,JID,ha1 UoLi-Grn s. w Crawfprd, u = Army bf,u"ssh'
Ho-Te Stephen II. Phillip, Attorney shers oil e '
LII
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10
BASE BALL.

The seventh game of the championship Sc
res between the Mutuals OF this city and the Chicago
White Stockings was played at Chicago IN SATURDAY.,
ana after close and exciting game the Mutuals by
the following score:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10

When leaving home for the Summer tho
prudent provide ,hemselye. CARMyATYE BAsN
promptly ard egeuay al attack q Cnap Dag
rhea Dseu,ery Cholera Nor5as Sc-comP an ir
lent everywhere az this season OF the year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10


BURNErr's EXTRACTS are highly concentrated.
To annihilate all household insec;sit is only
necessary TO use LYONS Is.RCT P0vDER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10

PoMERoY s. Co., IA Broadway, sell for 81
the Elastic truss " Invented.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10

CANCER CURED without the knife or rain.
specially By Prof J. r. COSSs NJ D. ls5 Eat
Tuan gfvFi.s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-10

with tho ude when scnooi o, o,uensn s. nsar The
OF bait, they follow 10 Up, and, upon coming near uo
boat be taken freely with the drop line recently
Cap, o. r. Arnold Of the yacht Mary canSh' IN lnIs
way 800 pounds OF buefsh "A night patrol mas Dcen
established In this village, supported by subscriptions
the residents The streets will be patrocd from ~
o'clock at night until daylight
RRooKHAvEN-The Board OF Health have adopted
stringent ordinances against all uuisanccs and nave
taken 20 prevent the spread or any contagious
diseases. They have also passed Dog law wncn al
reefs all dogs to be muzzled between August anu Octo
Der, the penalty being s25
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
Good Cooking.

The following remarks from the London
Lancet, with reference to English cookery,
are equally pertinent to our own country. 1t
thus discourses:
There is no more important branch of
preventive medicine" than cooking. Bad
cooking may cause a dwindling of the race,
ruin OF the temper, and deteriorations of the
morals. Good cooking, on the other hand
is accompanied by national prosperity and
domestic bliss. So say the promoters of the
National Training School of Cookery, who
are undoubtedly right in the main, and are
deserving of all imaginable success. Now,
cooking is both an art and science. For its
progress as an art we are not greatly concern
ed, although our profession would undoubt-
edly suffer in pocket should fine art cookery
go out of fashion. Elegant dishes are gen.
orally whited sepulchres, and the forerunners
of blue pills and other disagreeable correct
ives. We hope that the school will busy
itself mainly in imparting a know ledge of the
scientific principles of cooking, and will teach
their cooks that the quality par excellence
which all food should have, is wholesome
ness. The bulk of the Englishpeople live in
big cities, aud if we were asked to name the
most predominating characteristic of our
urban population, we should say "dyspep-
sia." Those who spend their DAYS in dark
offices, chambers or consulting rooms, and
keep their noses everlastingly upon their re-
spective grindstones, seldom know that good
digestion which should wait on appetite.
Hitherto their dinners have not been so skill
fully prepared as to demand the feast possible
effort from a jaded stomach; but let us hope
that the national disgrace of indigestibility
will no longer dim the brightness OF our hos
pitality, and the number of patent medi-
cines which are sold so largely in this coun-
try as aids to digestion, will undergo rapid
diminution.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.

self and no one need ask such silly que5
ton. If Mr.. Prout fails he will pay the
piper; but he believed he had not only bal
anced accounts with his conscience, but
also had a good BALANCE at his bankers.
Mr.. Prout said he had as much confidence
in his system as ever he had, and he believed
it wovld prove to be equally beneficial to the
landlord and tenant-farmer. They were all
interested in the proper cultivation of the
soil, and toey could not do without artificial
manure on heavy land. He had tried farm
ing here for twelve years, had kept stock
first and got manure for the land, but he
couldn't get one tenth part of what he
wanted; therefore he was obliged to use
artificial manures to great extent.
MIR. Housden had come to the conclusion
that Mr.. Prout had better crops this year
than ever before. Mr.. Prout had been
asked how many years he could keep on
without keeping stock, and he said LAS long
as live, and my son after me-"
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
Trnn.plantinx Evergrecns.

The latter end of August is one of the best
seasons of the year to transplant evergreens.
The young growth of the past season has got
pretty well hardened. so as to permit of but
very little evaporation-and the earth being
warm, new roots push with great rapidity and
the tree becomes established in the ground
before cool autumn winds begin.
The chief difficulty is that the soil is usually
very dry, which prevents much speed with
the operation; and the weather being usually
very warm, the trees have to be set again in
the ground almost as fast as they are taken
up; so that it is not safe to bring them from a
distance. 1t is as well, therefore, to make all
ready in anticipation OF rain, when no time
may be lost in having the work pushed
through.
Should a spell of dry weather ensue, which
in September and October is very likely, one
good watering should be given, sufficient 10
soaS well through the soil and well about the
roots. A basin should be made 10 keep the
water from rnnning away from the spot and
TO assist its soaking in. After being well
watered, the loose soil should be drawn in
lightly over the watered soil, which will then
aid in preventing the water from drying out
soon again.-Gardener's Monthly.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
Hedges for Exposed si.uutious.

The Garden, among other plants which it
notices for hedging in exposed situations, has
the following testimony to the value OF the
Scotch pine which is also one of our savorite
trees:
There are few plants suited to withstand
the rigor of severe winters sufficiently to
form fences in high situations and those
which are adapted to this purpose are TO be
considered chiefly as the forerunners of the
beech and whitehorn. There are, indeed,
certain situations, though few, where it would
be an act of folly to be at the expense of
planting any fences with the view cf shelter
ing, and ultimately reclaiming the land for
cultivation. Rocky surfaces, such as cannot
be subjected to the plow, belonging simply to
the province of the planter. Thin, gravelly
districts, where herbage refuses TO take root,
are also to be left TO be covered with ligneous
vegetation, as are all those lands living on
rock, or which otherwise have such a reten-
tive subsoil that the water stagnates upon
them. At the same time, The mere altitude of
lands ought to form no barrier to the intro
duction of hedge-plants, so long as we have
few prepared to take their station in the shape
OF fences in any situation; the chief thing to
be considered being, whether or not the soil
proposed to be inclosed is likely to become fit
for tillage.
vi all the trees suited to the climate of
Great Britain, the Scotch pine is, perhaps,
the most serviceabe. If the cold and wintry
uplands of the North are TO be brought into
cultivation, it will be by the aid of this tree,
either in hedges OR strips, or in larger masses
as nurses to other trees. In no soil does it re-
fuse to grow. In peat, sand, gravel, granite,
and all thin soils it rises rapidly, and forms
strong rough fence in the course of six or sew
en- years. In the neighborhood of Thetford
and Newmarket, in Suffolk, where the soil is
miserable, il is quite common as hedge tree !;
but in those places it is pruned in the same
way as the whitehorn, which is certainly dis
advantageous; it being well known that of
all the trees the pine is the most impatient of
the knife. 1t is only where better tree, as
fence, will not grow, that am led to recon
mend the Scotch pine, and this l do, as al
ready stated, because it is admirably adapt
ed for ameliorating the climate in exposed
situations previous to the introduction of
AfI
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
TO LET
TO LET!

Furnished Rooms TO Let AT 32G Con-
gress Street. se9dtf
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
Wanted, ,

A CAPABLE Servant to do general hOusework in
"A a family of four one and one-half miles from
the city. Address Box 1565, Portland, Me. my6tI
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
WANTS..
Wanted,

Wanted.
a YOUNG man, Bill Clerk, in a wholesale
- - Hcuse. One wishing to learn the business pre-
1eTred. ,ocn Address, in own hand wrlng P. o. Box
Iooo se12d.f
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
FOR SALE.
Steam Tug Aid.

FIyHE above First Glass Tug will be sold at a bar
Il gain if sold at once. Hull is ten years old, top
new this year. Boiler new, Engine and Machinery
in frst-cass order.
Length OF Keel, eel,.....................60 60 It.
Breadth of Beam. m...................17 ''
CynnIer. ...............s... .ZOAAO IL.
Diameter of Propeller. .............. 7x2 %
Tanks hold 6000 gallons water. Coal bunkers hold
twelve tons. Everything in good order and condi-
tion. For further particulars enquire of or address
the under signed. They be seen at work any day
in Saco River. JAMES M ANDREWS
CHARLES Fl. BRAGDON,
,u6dtf BiddeforG. Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14

o
A correspondent of an English horticul
tural journal, who has resided in China,
states that, in the north of China, on the ap-
proach of winter, the vines are taken down
from the trellis work to which, during sum-
mer and autumn, they had been attached I;
long pits of from two to three feet in depth
being dug, the stems and branches are first
trimmed, then laid longitudinally in them,
and the whole covered up with soil. Thus
they remain protected from the severe cold of
winter, until the following spring, when they
are once again brought to light, are ranged
upon the framework newly erected for the N,
and otherwise prepared for bearing their lus-
cous fruit, several varieties of which are cul-
tivated for the table, but as yet none fors the
purpose of yielding wine.
He had seen the process of disinterring the
vines, andearranging them for bearing, as the
temperature of spring increased; and it did
so very rapidly; tendrils, that but few days
before appeared like so many dry and sapless
twgs, sent forth their buds; a few days more
the buds had developed into leaves, and ere
month was past, the rich green foliage was
such as to yield refreshing shade from the
heat, which, by the latter end of spring, had
become unpleasant during the three hours at
ter midday.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
ValueJof Early Potatoes.

With the advent of the Colorado potato
beetle, which has proved undoubtedly the
most destructive insect of modern times, all
sorts of schemes have been tried to get
ahead of the enemy. For the insects des-
truc.ion there is nothing so simple or so coed
as dusting of Paris green, mixed with
about ten parts of ashes or plaster, sifted
with a very fine sitter over the plants that
are infested with the larvae.
But the moss profitable course has been to
select the earliest variety to be found, and
plant them as early as possible, choosing at
the same time the earliest ground that will
bring them to maturity. They are then
almost mature before the first broods make
their appearance, which seems to be about
the end of June, while late growing ones
suffer from them at every stage of growth.
This discovery is giving an impetus to the
raising of early varieties, and no doubt some
interesting kinds of this character will from
time to time appear in tie markets.
1t is very doubtful, however, whether for
many years any kind will be introduced that
will prove more generally acceptable than
the early rose, which has not only stood its
ground in the districts where originally
grown, but has been found to do well all over
the world. Before its time no potato did
this. European varieties brought here never
achieved any reputation, while American va
rieties we're popularity said to do no good at
all in England. The early rose has, however,
proved to be as good in that country as here,
and has taken high stand among the popu-
lar varieties grown there.-Thonaas Meehan.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
EDUCATIONAL.
Mass, Institute of Technology

Fell Entrance Examinations, Sept % and "a at am
For Catalogue and June Entrance Examination
Papers, address Prof. SAMUEL KNEELAND,
See'y, roston, Mass. se3d1m
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14

A SITUATION as Bookkeeper or assistant Book
"A keeper clerk in wholesale store. Good
reference. Address FL. l.. D., Box 1858, city.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
Wanted-Partncr.

ElTHER young man that can travel aud sell
IL goods on the road or an old gentleman who can
put up goods. Must have $50 cash. Apply at once
at Ill Exchange Street, Room 5. au29dtf
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14
Wanted.

A N Unfurnished Room in the western part of the
"A city, with board in genteel family. Address
au27tf L. c., City.
The Portland daily press., 1874-09-14

A NEW Travelling Photograph Car for Sale.
"A Twenty feet long by Seven wild. }, Can be
hauled anywhere with one span of horses Address
2. o. Box II, Hiram, Me. se9d1w
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-09
Reputed Site of Babel.

| The Rev. G. M. Gordon, writing in
missionary paper thus describes the re-
| puted site of the Tower of Babel
A high mound is surmounted by
ruined ard unfinished tower of brick, the
summit Of which is 235 feet above the
plain. Examination of the mound
shows that it is composed of the same
elements as the mounds of Babylon
masses of brick, and rubbish, interspers-
ed with broken pottery. These bricks
are all of them inscribed on one side
with cuneiform characters. The cunei-
form is the ancient Assyrian, and is sup
posed to be the oldest written language
in the world. One side, where excava-
tions have been made, you may see walls
of brick ascending tier above tier with
mastery ambition. On another, all is
convulsion and oisturbance-huge mass.
es of brickwork, rent and overturned,
yet SO solid in their ruin that it is easier
to pulverize the brick than to separate
it from the mortar. One of these blocks
has rolled bodily to the foot of the
mound. Others are vitirfed or fused
by a process which can be none other
than electricity or fire. Curiously
enough the Arabs have a tradition that
it has been destroyed by fire from heav-
en-.
The sides Of the mound are pierced
with holes, and strewn with bones, which
plainly indicate the lairs of wild beasts.
The view from the summit is distant
and varied. The broad sheet of the
Euphrates winds for many mile, till
lost in sea like plain. 1t is difficult
to resist the conviction that Birs MINI
rod is tne Tower of Babel, the oldest
ruin In the world. There are those who
believe it to be the Tower of Belus, and
regard it as a part of the ruin of Baby
Ion, prefer to hold the older tradition.
And surely it is when standing on
ground like this that the language of
scripture acquires vividness and real
ity which rewards the toll of patient in
vestigation, and makes the privations of
travel forgotten and voice seems 10
breathe from the resting place OF the
Prophets beside these mighty rivers
which is daily more heard and felt, re-
buking the sneer of the scoffer and the
skeptic.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-09

which the teeth must have, or they will
be imperfectly formed, feeble in struc
ture, and fall early into decay. If wheat
Hour were never bolted, but eaten with
the bran, as we find it partially in Gra.
ham bread, then the system would be
abundantly provided with phosphate OF
lime, the essential ingredients for the
formation of the teeth.
Butter contains good proportion OF
phosphate of lime, and hence those who
consume much of it furnish from that
source supply for keeping their teeth
in good condition. Children are usually
lovers of bread and butter, especially If
they are habitrally fed on white bread.
In that way they obtain something for
their teeth, but by no means enough.
The coarser the food, especially bread !,
the better for young people. The sound
est teeth belong to persons who have not
been reared on delicacies.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-09
Something about Iceland.

Iceland has altogether the start of
America. We propose to celebrate our
nations centennial in 1876; but mean
while, from the snow and ice, volcanoes
and geysers, comes the intelligence that
the Icelanders propose to celebrate their
millenial in 1874. In S74 Ingolf, a
Norwegian chief, planted small colony
on that island, which had been discover
ed a few years before. In about half
century many thousands of hardy set
tiers had established themselves on this
cold and barren isle. At one time pop
ulation numbered no less than 100000; |;
but the in habitants have suffered great
ly from famines, epidemics, and volcanic
casualties, and the number is now re.
duced to about 60,000. Iceland con-
tains an area of 10000 square niles, and
there are thirty known volcanoes, of
which eight have been in active opera
ton within century. There are also
numerous thermal springs, the principal
of which is the Great Geyser, in which
the water, at depth of seventy-two feet,
is thirty degr es above the boiling point.
Water and stones are thrown at intervals
from this geyser to hight of one hundred
feet.
No grain of any kind can be raised
in Iceland, but vegetables are cultiva's
ed, and fish and birds are abundant.
Forests formerly abounded, but now the
Island is almost destitute of trees, and
the want of fuel is severely felt. The
islanders are of the Scandinavian race.
and are by no means lacking in intellect
ual capacity. Although there are but
few educational institutions, domestic
education is universal, and the people
are intelligent. Many of the most valu-
able works of English literature have
been translated into the native tongue.
and read and appreciated by the COM
mon people. All the Inhabitants believe
the doctrines of the Reformation in their
primitive simplicity and the majority of
them are Lutherans in profession. In
short the Icelanders are as prosperous
as could be expected of any people liv-
ing in such barren country, and de.
serve a national festi val.
How to kill time-Take no note of it.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-09
Congressman.
Their 'sNesses'' Five and Twenty Years
Ago.

Ben Perley, in his Boston corresponds
enee, thus alludes TO the above topic
Flve-and-tsenty years ago there were
seldom over five-and.twenty Congressman
who brought their wives to Washington
and kept them there during session. Up
% about that time the Senators and
Representatives. usually lived here in
what they called " messes." From half
dozen to fifteen congenial spirits would
take rooms at a boarding house with the
understanding that no one else was to
be admitted, and the party thus formed
family circle. la many of these
"messes no ladies were tolerated, while
IN Others the chief attraction was the
wife of some Senator or Representative,
who was virtually the queen of the es-
tablishment. Was it to be wondered at
that SO many Congressman used to pass
the evenings in fighting the tiger"
at some of the comfortable gambling
bells on the avenue, or in carousals at
the gorgeously fitted up establishments
near by2 Washington city was then a
very immoral city, and many fine in
tellect failed to preserve the owner from
temptation.
Nowadays matters have changed
There are to-day in Washington forty
five Senator'S out of seventy and LOG
Representatives out Of 235, who are ac-
companied by their wives; and there
151 wives of Congressman exercise po-
tent influence. Gambling, drunkenness
and other vices which it is not necessa-
ry to name hare, once so common among
Senators and Representatives, are not
now openly praeticed, if practiced at all,
by any Of them. About forty Congress.
men keep house, and are benefited by
the social influence of home, while the
others board at hotels and boarding
houses, where agreeable circles are form
ed. Eighteen Senators and twenty -four
Representatives have also here with
them their daughters who 90 into socie-
ty Others are accompanied by female
relatives or friends, and thirty of them
have children too young to go out. So
the successors OF men who used to pass
their evenings at q faro bank or poker
table. escort their daughters to balls, or
remain at home and frolic with their
children. All this is decided change
for the better.