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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-01-30
Augusta Laundry
winthrop Street. Opposite
Baptist Church.

All kinds OF Laundry Work done with care aud
dispatch, at reasonable rates. Articles collected
every day, and delivered without any extra
charges
Special Contracts made with Hotels and
Families.
Orders may be left at the Laundry or at the fol.
lowing places:-J +. Pierces Rook store Augusta;
Z. Spauldins's Bookstore, Hallswell; PaImers
Bookstore, Gardiner.
LEON BARBER.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05

In letter to the Chicago Tribune Mr..
joseph Medill thus diseourses OF windmills:
.'The continual winds blowing from the At
Iantic furnishes the power gratuitously to
Whirl the vanes and turn the waterwheel at
tached to the WINDMILL. There has been lit
or no improvement made on this machine in
Holland for 1900 years. No other power is
so simple, cheap, or reliable. Without its
application two-thirds of Holland and one
MONDAY of steam power, of necessity have to
be yielded back to the ocean, because the
cost of steam machinery, fuel, repairs, and
attendance, could not be supported from the
profits of the land. There are said to be 49,
900 windmills in Holland and Flemish Bel
GUM, each doing from six to ten horse
power service, according to the strength of
the wind, and working twenty-four hours per
day, and every day in the month during the
rainy season, and when the SHOWS and ice
are melting and the streams are high. The
annual cost of the windmills in Holland is
S4,000,000. Twenty. times that sum would
not operate steam power sufficient to do
their work; for recollect that all the coal con-
sumed in Holland has to be imported for En-
gland or Belgium. Go where you will, you
are never out of sight of windmills in motion.
In the suburbs of large cities, and at certain
points where the water of the bitches and
canals are collected to be thrown over the
entertainments, they are congregated like
armies of giants, and never cease swinging
their long, huge arms. They are constructed
of much larger dimensions than those seen in
tho United States. The usual length of the
extended arms is about eighty feet, but many
of them are more than 120 feet. But the
windmills in Holland are not exclusively en-
ployed in lifting water, but are used for every
purpose of the stationary steam engine. L
observed a number of them at Rotterdam,
Antwerp, the Hague, and here at Amster-
dam engaged in running saw mills, cutting
up logs brought from Norway, and others
were driving planning mills and flour mills,
brick making machines, or beating hemp.
Those used to lift water out of the bitches
into the canals and embarked rivers. have
water wheels instead of pumps attached to
them, as they are less liable to get out of
order, and are thought to remove more water
to given power.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
MEDICAL.
MANHOOD, WOMANHOOD AND
NERVOUS DISEASES.
A Book for Every Man.

n
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u new edition Of the celebrated medical work en-
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indiscretions or excuses OF mature years.
1t is, indeed, book for every man, young and
middle-aged men in particular. Soo pages , Doand
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Entitled. SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY OF WOMAN,
AND HER DISEASES; OF, Wonan treated of Phys
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beautiful French cloth With the very best prescrip
tions forIpreyailing diseases. Price $500.
A Book for Evsrybody.
The Peabody Institute has also lust published
new book treating exclusively Oh N NE, AND
al octave pages, twenty elegant engravings bound
substantial muslin, price 81.
Either of the above books are sent by mail to any
mart of the world closely sealed, postage paid
CENT of price, Or all three books sent TO one address
AFT The same time on receipt OF only 81 Here is Of
fered over eight hundred and fifty pages of the abest
and hest printed and bound popular medical Science
and literature on subjects OF vital Importance 10
for only $4-barely enough to pay for mailing 1t
Works are published by the Peabody Medical
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are beyond all comparison the most EXTRA rae
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Ether sea- can either require wish to know, but
what is fully explained, and many matters OF the
most important and interesting character are intro
dnce to which no alluson even can be found in any
other works in our language. All the Neao Discor-
cries of the author whose experience is such as prob
ABLY never before fell to the lot OF any man. are given
in mil No person should be without these valuable
books The press throughout the country the clergy
and the medical faculty generally mghiy extoi these
GUS may read them.
Address the PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, No.
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n. b. The author and consulting physicians can be
consulted on all of the above named diseases, and all
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05

A writer in the Florists Journal says that,
added to the stately grandeur and brilliant col
oring of the Japan lilies, may be mentioned
their great docility in cultivation, being in
fact, manageable by the merest tyro, without
trouble or any other means than good soil.
He grows them in various ways,a portion being
ported and brought forward in gentle heat, to
afford an early bloom to the conservatory /;
others are also placed in pots, but allowed to
grow in a natural manner, so as TO bloom al
ter the first mentioned; while large number
are planted in the beds of the flower garden
as permanent ornaments for that department..
10 grow them in pots in the greenhouse is
the most approved practice, as their bloom is
by this means procured for much longer
term than can be obtained from those exposed
to the yiciSsitudes of the season, or forced for
early blooming.
For blooming in the greenhouse, the bulbs
should be potted in January, in order that
the new roots which are generally put forth
about that time, may not receive injury IN
the operation, and also, that the required
food NAV be present as soon az needed.
Large pots are essential to vigorous growth; ;
for tull-grown bulb, capable of towering,
the pot should be foot or fourteen inches
in diameter, and if two or three bulbs are
planted together, of course still greater size
will be necessary. The soil best suited to
them is a mixture of fluffy loan and peat,
with a proportion of a third of well decom-
posed barn yard manure. Good drainage Is
necessary. The crown of the bulb should be
two inches below the surface.
A light airy shelf in the greenhouse, or the
front of cold pit, will be the best situation
for the growing plant, until it has become too
large and its removal to a more roomy place
becomes necessary. About this time the
base of the stems will be found to emit roots
Just above the soil, and if some earth is
drawn around them, small bulbs will be
formed, which afford a ready means OF in
creasing the stock. A liberal supply of water
should be given daily while the plants are
growing, and an occasional soaking of liquid
manure will add to their vigor. This treat
ment may be continued until the end of the
blooming season, when sunny situation out
of doors, should be selected for ripening the
seasons growth, and a gradual reduction OF
the supply of water should take place, until
by the end of autumn, the soil in the pots is
left dry and the roots in dormant state.
Those which are grown entirely out OF
doors, should be planted in soil similar to
that recommended for potting, and staked
and watered at the right time. In most
parts of Europe the bulbs are left out all
winter, being protected with thick layer OF
dead leaves, not so much to keep off frost, as
TO preserve them in an equable temperature,
lest they make an early growth and then suf-
fer from adverse weather.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05

Ever since the introduction of the Strassfurt
Potash Salts it has been problem with agri-
| culturists how to use them, and every contri-
button to practical knowledge on this subject,
like this of Mr.. j. J. 81. Gregory's of Marble
head, Mass, in the Country Gentleman, is
worth having.
took twenty-eight barrels of hen manure,
about an equal quantity of good soil, twelve
barrels of bone, ground and steamed, and
three barrels of the variety of the Strassfurt
or German Potash salts known as muriate of
potash, an article containing larger per
cent. of pure potash than that variety known
by the name of s'kainit." These different
materials having first been made fine, were
piled in alternate layers, and then after heat
had developed-forty-eigh hours-the whole
mass was pitched over and thoroughly incor-
porated in the general mass. used this
compost for cabbage, putting from one to two
quarts in each hill, covering it with soil and
planting the seed thereon. After time had
passed sufficient in the ordinary course to
show the young plants, and no plants ap.
peared, the hills were scratched into, when
the seeds were found simply sprouted. After
few DAYS longer and still no plants appear
ing, the hills were again examined. when it
was found that the sprouts were dead. On
another piece side by side, planted at the
same time, that had received an equal guam
tity to the hill OF compost OF Inc same ma
terial and proportions, with the exception
that the muriate of potash was omitted, the
seed vegetated finely and sent up healthy
plants. 1t was evident, therefore, that the
muriate of potash had destroyed the vitality
of the seed. In the proportions used, the
muriate was about four per cent. of the mix
ture. If my memory is correct this muriate
as dug from the mines, is rather over one
half common salt. think this large quanti-
ty of salt is waht killed the seed sprouts.
What inference shall draw? Never again
to use this muriate, and denounce it as
one of the humbgs? By no means; for l
know by experience that both common salt
and potash are excellent food for the cabbage,
andlI intend to use this muriate again on my
cabbage, but next time only on the plants
themselves, and then scattering it sparingly
around the plants when they have attained
some size, and probably just before hoeing
them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
Wheat Threshing i'm California

A California paper thus describes wheat
threshing in that state:
The thresher stood at one end of a narrow
passage-way, between two stacks of wheat.
The engine stood at the other end, some dis
lance from the stacks, and was connected
with the thresher by band. Ten pitchers
tossed the wheat upon aprons on either side
of the cylinder, before which the feeder stood.
who cranmed it into the capacious throat OF
the thresher as fast as his busy arms could
work. The threshed and cleaned grain
poured in ceaseless stream from the ma
chine on the other side. 1t was received by
the sack tender, who has always two sacks
ready. As one is filled movable slide turns
the grain to the other, he passes the first to
the sack sewer just behind him. The sewer
lifts the sack to settle the grain-perfected by
practice, with a few deft and rapid motions,
he sews and ties the corners of the sack. The
whole operation requires about thirty seconds.
The sack packer carries away the sacks plac-
ing them in order so that they may be easily
counted.
The work requires the following crew.
one engineer; two feeders; ten pitcheIs-a
sack tender, a sack sewer, a sack packer, a
water hauler and "straw buck" who re-
moves and keeps the machine clear of straw,
with the aid of horse, in all eighteen men,
and the owner, who is superintendent. The
owner pays the two feeders and engineer, So,
so per day each the water hauler, So per day,
the ten pitchers, 81 per day each; the sack
sewer and packer, each So Per day-the
'fstraw buck" works for fun. The owner
boards all hands and pays four cents bushel
for the wheat turned out. The full capacity
of the machine is 1900 sacks day, the aver
age work about 1000, holding over two BUSH
els each.
While we were present, stack of wheat
was finished, and it became necessary to re-
move to another part of the field. We, with
others, timed the operations. The last sack
was filled and sewed simultaneously with the
last revolution of the cylinder. The band
was slipped and in fifty-nine seconds both
machine and engine, with crew following
were on the way TO the other stack-the
time employed in reaching the stack four
minutes. The macine and thresher were re-
set--every man was at his post-the band
was attached, and the straw was crashing
through it in just two minutes. The time
from the filling of the last sack at the first pc
sition TO the commencement of the first at
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
Introduction of Cattle into America.

E. Lewis Sturtevant communicated the
following to the Country Gentleman:-
1493-A bull and several cows from Spain,
by Columbus on his second voyage.
nc-np de Levy made an abor-
i've attempt at settlement on Sable Island,
where the cattle left by him increased and
multiplied.
1553-The Portuguese took cattle to New
foundland and Nova Scotia.
16O4-Cattle were brought into Acadia by
L'Escarlot, French lawyer.
16O6-The French extended their settle
ment into Canada, and soon after introduced
various animals.
16O9-The first cattle introduced into Vir-
ginia were previous to this year.
1610-Sir Ralph Lam brought cows to Vir-
ginia from the West Indies.
1614-The Dutch brought cattle to New
York from Holland. They were black and
white, and red and white, and noted as good
mixers.
1624-Edwin Wilslow imported heifers
and bull into Plymouth colony.
1625-Cattle imported into New Neither
lands from the Texel in Holland, by the
Dutch West India Company.
1626-Twelve COWS were sent to Cape
Ann.
1627-Cattle were imported into Delaware
by the Swedes.
1629-Thlrty COWS were sent 10 cape Ann.
Sixty or seventy cows and oxen were impor-
ted under the direction of Francis Higgen-
son, formerly of Leicestershire, for the Gov
ernor and company of the Massachusetts, Bay
in New England.
1881 or 1632-Capt. John Mason intro
duced cattle from Denmark into New Ham,
pshire. These cattle were of large size, and
of yellowish color. This breed remained
rure and unmixed near Agamenticus, in
Maine, down to about the year 1920.
167O-Cattle into Carolina from England
by VIM. Soal, to Charleston, on the south
side of Ashly river.
1690-The Indians on the Red river in
Louisiana possessed cattle.
1711-Sir Thomas Gates brought into
jamestown, Va, 100 head from Devonshire
and Hertfordshire.
1732-Cattle were first brought to the Sa-
vannah settlement in Georgia by Oglethorpe.
1650-Tbe French of Illinois were in pos
session of of considerable numbers.
1783-Messrs. Golf, Reynolds & Patton, of
Baltimore, sent to England for cattle, proba-
bly, of the Teewater or Holderness breed.
17S5-Mr. Patton, Jr., carried bull of the
above importation to Kentucky.
I797-Mr. Heaton, Duchess county, N. Y,
Imported from England short-horn bull.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
EASTERN & MAINE CEN
TRIAL RAILROAD.
COMMENCING NOV. 2s, 1874.

Passenger trains leave Portland dali
for IT !. and I'd Boston, Be- Syn
Leave Portland for Portsmouth and Dover daily,
Sundays excepted, at 1911 a. m. and 1918 p. m;
Leave Bangor for Portland, Portsmouth and Bos-
ton at 1890 A. NJ, *5.45 p. M.
Leave Boston for Portsmouth and Portland at 1900
A. M, 1915, *12.00 midnight.
Houlton, Calais and st. John at 1890 midnight.
Leave Boston for Portsmouth, Portland, Bangor
and ST. John 1900 A. M.
Leave Dover for Portsmouth and Portland at $40
$50, 1880 a. m. and 500 p. IN.
Leave Portsmouth tor Portland at 1927 A. NJ.
t5.45 p NJ, 1925 A. M.
Leave Portsmouth ior Portland. Bangor, Houlton,
Calais and st. John at '225 A. M.
Leave Portland for Lewiston, and by Freight
Trains to Bath Augusta, and Waterville at 100 A.
Leave Portland (via Danville) fer Lewiston, Fa--
mington, Waterville and Skowhegan at LOS P. M
Leave Portland for Bath, Lewiston, Rockand, Au-
gusta. Skowhegan, Belfast, Dexter and Bangor at
lilo M.
Leave Portland for Bangor, via Augusta. and for
Lewiston, Bath, Rockand, Belfast and Dexter pull
man Palace Sleeping Cars) at 500 a: m;
For lewiston Bath and Augusta 1 e. $500 P
Leave Bddeford tor Portland at 1890 A. M, re-
Portland, and the s.OOA. NJ. train from Bangor
make close connections to New York by one or
other of the routes from Boston. Passengers ticket
The $40 A. M. train arrives in Boston at 200
P. M. in season to connect with the train for
New YORK, all rail. also with the $50 p. M.
(steamboat) trains for New York via Fall River,
Stonington and Norwich Lines. The 3.15 P. M. train
arrives in Boston in season to connect with trains
for New York via Springfield at 9 P. M and $50 P.
M. train via Shore Line.
The 910 A. M. and 3.15 P. NJ. trains from Portland
connect at Conway junction with theGreat Falls and
Conway Railroad.
The 500 A. M. train from Boston arrives in Port
land in season for passengers to take the cars of the
P. q O. Railroad.
The 500 A. M. train from Boston connects with
the Grand Trunk Railway for Montreal, Quebec and
all parts of Canada East.
Through tickets sold in Portland and Baggage
checked through to Houton, Calais, st. john Hal
flax, Dover, Foxcroft kockland, &c.
A freight train will leave Portsmouth for Dover,
and Dover for Portsmouth, daily.
*Pullman sleeping car express train. n. B. This
train on Saturday night RUS to Portland only.
Accommodation train
fast Express.
CHARLES F. hATCR,
General Manager.
GEO. BACHELDER,
General Agent Eastern Railroad. Portland, Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
POETRY.
January.
An Idyl.
by j. p. B.

A fair child by glimmering sea,
Scanning the mute East wistfully,
To catch glimpse of sails blown free
From wonder ports-their sails may be,
Blown but in dreams from ports of air
A child of elfish mien and shy.
Athwart the sheen of whose clear eye,
Oft light winged visions softly fly
Leaving glory there.
The sea is dumb, the air is whist,
And sails which come by charmed winds kissed
Are but white isles whose fitful gst
Looms weiedly out from wells Of mist.
To him the universe seems given,
An ivory casket locked and sealed,
Which to no key of sense may yield,
But wherein pearls like hopes CONCEALED,
Garner the tints of heaven.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05

Many who are REPEATED to be good cooks
have but little idea of the only true way to
ment on the part of the cook is essential. Sc
lect a fat and tender sirlon pound it well,
place it on gridde over bed of hard wood
Goals, sprinkle little salt on it and allow it
to broil until the juice is seen on the upper
side; then lift from the griddIe so that the
juice may be saved on the platter, and lay on
it few thin slices of sweet butter. Serve
Immediately with butter toast or fried pota-
toes. If the steak is cooked hard and dry, all
of the best qualities of it are lost, and one
might as well feed on chips. Five or six min
utes is sufficient time to cook steak, and
the hotter the Goals are the better. Unless
cooked quickly with great heat, it will be
tough and unpalatable.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
RAILROADS.
PORTLAND & OGDENSBURG R.R
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

r-sx4zze-ses1 On and after MONDAY, NOV. 16, 1874,
49, v and until further notice trains will run
as follows
Leave Portland for all stations at 730 a. m.
Leave Portland tor Upper Bartlett and interme-
diate stations at pm.
Returning.
Leave Bemis for Portland and intermediate stations
at 9.15 a. m.
date stations at 715 a. m.
73O a. M from Portland and rs a. m. from Bemis
will be mixed trains,
Stage connections with 90 p. m. from Portland for
Cornish Porter, Kezar Falls, Freedom, Denmark,
Bridgton, Lowell, Stowe and Chatham
Trains arrive at and depart from Eastern and
Maine Central Railroad Passenger Station in Port
land.
j. HAMILTON, SUPT.
Portland Nov IA 1874 nO14dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
Rust-Preventive for Gun Barrels.

A correspondent of Turf, Field and Farm
says that the following varnlsh works like
charm and is an absolute preventive against
the rusting of gun-barrels. The beauty of it
is it can in no way injure the barrels. and is
easily wiped off. Take of resin two drachms,
of sandarach three drachms, of gum lac two
and half scruples, and heat them gradually
until thoroughly melted and mixed then add
two drachms of turpentine, and heat further,
after which add three drachms of rectifed al
cohol. Filtor thoroughly carefully, and put
into tightly corked bottles. 1t should be ap-
piled on the barrel of the gun with a small
brush. For guns that are put away from sea-
son to season it will be found of much value.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-05
0AuDle .JOhu,,,

Pare, quarter and core, enough apples to
fill three or at four quart crock. Make
batter a little thicker than for pancakes; put
a layer of apples on the bottom of the crock,
then pour over some OF the batter; then
on till all is used; then put thick soda
crust ON the top, and bake three hours. To
be eaten with sweet sauce. Very nice.