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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-16

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the subscri
~ Der has been duly appointed and taken upon
herself the trust of Administrative of the estate OF
CHARLES II. ADAMS, late of Portland,
in the County of Cumberland deceased, and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having de-
mands upon the estate of said deceased required
to exhibit the same and all persons indebted to said
estate are called upon to make payment to
MARY c. ADAMS, Adm'x.
Portland, Oct II, 1876 nol4d1aW3wTs
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-16
KNOX COUNTY
KENNEBEC COUNTY


At Vinalhaven Tuesday, Alex Dumphey, a
workman, had his hand blown off by the. pre-
mature discharge of cannon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-16

The New Brunswick railway is pushed to its
utmost capacity 10 the transportation Of freight
between Houlton and the seaboard.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
Why Some Persons are Poor.

In talking with hired man who was
a smoker, asked him what his tobacco
cost him a year. With some assistance in
figuring, he found that the cost was only
twenty dollars. He thought that was not
a large sum. l told him by few minutes
calculation that if instead Of smoking away
twenty dollars yearly, he would put that
amount out at interest, and add the like
sum every year, with interest also con-
tinnally added in, he would accumulate in
this way through life, say from twenty-five
to sixty-fiv years of age, no less than four
thousand dollars. He was startled at the
amount, but had not courage to leave off
the habit.
knew another man who used much
more annually in tobacco, who discon-
tinued the practice, and it enabled him in
twenty years to build a three thousand
dollar house. There are other practices,
which, wasting a little at time, cause a
great deal annually. A domestic in the
kitchen piles on the fire one-third more
fuel than is needed. 1t amounts to few
cents daley, but twenty dollars at least in
a year. Here is another waste of four
thousand dollars in forty years. A farmer
leaves his reaping machine exposed to the
weather all through November; his plows
and harrows are out half the time and in
this way the needless decay amounts tc
more than twenty dollars annually
another sum running up to four thousand
dollars wasted.
The want of fodder racks, and the eX
posure Of his sheep and cattle to the win
ter, make waste equal to fifty dollar
yearly, and the loss of sheep by exposure
and the shrinkage in the flesh and milk o
his cattle cause a yearly loss Of fifty dollar
more over and above the cost of interest ol
properly erected shelter. These two sum
would be equal to twenty thousand dollar
in forty years of lifetime.
There are many other small leaks, bot
on the farm and in the kitchen-such a
scraps of bread thrown away-vegetable
rotting for want Of assorting-knives ruste
for want of cleaning-tumblers broken b
immersing in hot water-harness broke
for want of oiling-carpets ground out b
dirt under them-pumps split by freezin
tools decayed for want of oiling an
painting-every single dollar of which tn,
= needlessly wasted annually will amount
+ two hundred dollars in forty years, i: wit
r interest on interest. There is no necessit
for being penurious or stingy, but only
= prevent actual waste.-Er.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
monkey that went up stick on being

monkey that went up stick on being
gently pushed
"Crying over her silver thingr' said
John Weare. "I'll go and hang about the
Elthom road till see her and beg her par
don.
And he went, and Jennie met him, and
pouted, and declared she hadn't once thought
of him, and then broke down and cried.
And John begged her pardon, and declared
that he had been heartless brute; and
then Jennie contradicted him an said it
was all her fault, and told him how Mrs.
Dunlop, the colonels wife, ,@had one day
walked in and told her, in the kindest
possible manner, that she was spelling her
sisters business, for the ladies who had
been interested in her welfare kept away
because of Jennie's flirting propensities,
which filled up the shop with idle officers,
who were always in the way and how she
had been so ashamed and wretched, and so
cut up at the desertion of John Weare,
that she had determined to go back to
Devonshire.
1
"But you won't now?" he said, as they
leaned over the stile leading to the Ethan
fields.
you'll get ready at once, and we'll be
married as soon as possible, before the fruit
in the garden is spoilt?"
1t took long time to talk her into it
(about three-quarters of an hour), but then
she was very happy at heart, and chartered
Ike a young magpie, and told John how
she had snubbed Captain McGee, and had
thrown all his flowers out of the window
"And it really was all through that deal
Bibbs that you waylaid me to-night?" she
asked.
Certainly"
"Why, but for him l might never have
seen you again "
perhaps not"
"I'll give Bibbs regular hug when
get home," she thought. And she did
and the day before she was married sh
bought him rocking-horse, which he dc
lights in to this day. CasSeHS Family Mage
| zine
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
Wanted to be an Editor.

" Have you any experience in the bust
ness ~ we asked of verdant-looking youth
who applied for an editorial position the
other day.
"Haven't I thought" he replied, as he
showed one foot under his chair to hide the
unskillful patching of backwOods cobbler,
I" l should say I'd had some experience
haven't corresponded with the Pumkin-
vile ,Screaner for six weeks ? Hain't that ex-
perience enough?"
"That will do very WE'LL" we replied,
but when we take young men on our
editorial staff we generally put them
through an examination. How much are
twelve times one?'
"Twelvel Why any little boy ought to
am
"Hold on please-don't be too fast-who
discovered American"
"Klumbus! Pshaw, them questions is
just as easy as"
"Who was the first man?"
"Adam Why, Mister, know all,
"What was his other namew
ellis other name? Why, he didn't have
none."
"Yes he did. You see that's where we've
got you. His other name was Ebenezer-
Ebenezer Adam, Esq, late of Paradise.
Nobody knows this but editors, and see to
it that you don't tell anybody"
He said he wouldn't.
II ~, 3lo
human body p
"Well, forget now, but 1 did know
wunst."
"What! don't you know that? Why
there's 7,4S2654, 800, ,444 bones in an or
dinary man. A man that snores has one
more bone than other people"
"What bone is that2''
"The trombone. It's situated somewhere
in the nose. You won't forget that, will
yours
He said he wouldn't.
" Have you got good constitution
"Putty tolerable."
" How long do you suppose you could
live on raw corn and faith and do the work
of domesticated elephant?'
"Lord I don't believe l could live
more'n week."
"Well, that's about as long as you'd want
to live if you got an editorial position on
this paper. You appear to be pretty well
posted; we shall ask you one more ques.
tion Z" if two diametrical circles with octa.
gonal peripheries should collide with a
centrifugal idiosyncrasy? ?" We heard him
descend the stairs, go out, and close the
door.-Fraaklia Sentinel.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

highest evidence of judicial mind is an
ability to descend to billingsgate and per-
sonal vituperation, and especially to do this
when the victim is defenceless and cannot
respond. There is one power above law
yers and courts which can reform this prac-
tice if it cannot be reformed by voluntary
action. The power is the people; and it
may yet become necessary to demand a
pledge from judicial candidates to put down
this abusive practice as condition pre-
cedent to their elevation to the BENCH
Inter- Ocean.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
WHOLE NO. 1886.
Is Friday an Unlucky Day.

Some people will persist in denominating
Friday as unlucky," notwithstanding that
it is the date of some of the most impor-
tant and most fortunate occurrences on
record of human transactions. Let us see:
On Friday, Aug. 2lst, 1892, Columbus
sailed on his great voyage of discovery.
On Friday, Oct. 12th 1892, he first dis
covered land. On Friday, Jan. 4th, 1893,
he sailed on his return to Spain, which, if
he had not reached in safety, the happy re-
suit might never have been known which
led to the settlement of this vast continent.
On Friday, March 18th, 1893, he arrived
at Palos in safety. On Friday, Nov. 22d,
1893, he arrived at Hisponiola, on his Sec
ond voyage to America.
On Friday, June 18th, 1894, he, though
unknown to himself, discoved the conti-
nent of America. On Friday, March 5th,
1896, Henry VIII, Of England gave to John
Cabot his commission, which led to the dis.
covery of North America. This is the first
American State paper in England. On
Friday, Sept. 7th, 1905, was founded st.
Augustine, Florida, the oldest town in the
United States, by more than forty years.
On Friday, Nov. 10Th, 1920, the Magt1o,oer,
with the Pilgrims, made the harbor of
Provincetown and on the same day they
signed that august compact, the forerunner
of the Federal Constitution. On Friday,
Dec. 22d, 1920, the Pilgrims made their
final landing at Plymouth Rock. On Fri
day, Feb. 22d, 1872, George Washington,
the Father of American Freedom, was
born.
On Friday, June 10th, 1775, Bunker Hill
was seized and fortified. On Friday, Oct.
7th, 1777, the surrender of Saratoga was
made, which had such power and in
iuence in inducing France to declare for
our cause. On Friday, Sept. 22d, 1870,
the treason of Arnold was laid bare, which
saved us from destruction. On Friday,
Oct. 10Th, 1871, the surrender at York
town, the crowning glory of the American
arms, occurred. On Friday, June 7th
1776, the motion in Congress was made by
John Adams, seconded by Richard Henry
Lee, that the United Colonies were, and o.
right ought to be, free and independent
Thus, says the chronological journal, we seC
1 that Friday is not so bad day, after all.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
Suicidal Mania.
Inter- Ocean.

Sometimes person determined to des-
troy himself will wait months and years
for an opportunity of executing the deed
in the particular manner he has marked
out for himself, and the very inclination
to suicide may be removed by withdraw
ing the particular objects that would
awaken the idea. Thus a man who has
tried to drown himself will be under no
temptation to cut his throat. Example,
it is well known, is a powerful cause of
incitement to the suicidal act. We were
once told by physician that a hypochon-
driacal patient used to visit him invariably
the day after reading the report of sui
eide in the daily papers, possessed by a
morbid fear of initiating the act of which
he read. Sir Charles Bell Surgeon of
Middlesex Hospital, was one day describ-
ing to a barber who was shaving him a
patients unsuccessful attempt to cut his
own throat; and, on the BARRIERS request,
pointed out the anatomy of the neck
showing how easily the act might have
been accomplished. Before the shaving
operation was completed, the barber had
left the shop and cut his throat according
TO Sir Charles Bells exact instructions.
Sometimes there is an epidemic of suicides,
as at Versailles, in 1898, when out of a
small population, 1900 persons destroyed
themselves in one year; or as in the Hotel
des Invalides in Paris, when six of the in
mates hanged themselves on q certain
crossbar within a fortnight. Very often
this disease is hereditary, and at certain
age the members of one family will all in
turn evince the suicidal tendency, while
even children of very tender years have
been known to end their short lives by
their own act, from force of example
Curious, too, are the methods of selfdes
truction, but they are too painful to bea
description. 4 Frenehman once ATTEMPTED
to ring his own death knell by tying him
self to the clapper Of the church bell
which thereupon began to swing, an,
| alarmed the villagers by its unwonted tones
All cases of determined suicide are char
acteristic of confirmed insanity; whereas
in cases of impulsive insanity, the perpc
traitor will often regret the act before it i
completed, and endeavor to save his life
as did Sir Samuel Romily, thus demon
strating that the very attempt may effec
the cure of the disordered brain. TIL
| months of March, June and July are tn
favorites with men; September, Noven
: Der and January for women, in whic
| they voluntarily end their lives. In yout
men hang themselves; in the prime of lif
!, use firearms; and when old revert
}. hanging Women usually prefer Ophelia
"muddy DEATH" Poisoning is a metho
n resorted to by the young of both sexe
/. We have the consoling reflection tina
O prevalent as brain disorder is in our coul
e try, at least eighty per cent. of cases of il
sanity are durable, if treated at an earl
stage; while it is to be noted that it
- not pleasurable productive brain-work thi
/, does the mischief, but rather the ment
strain which results from the high pressul
of our artificial life.-Chdn,Jer'S journal.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
VOLUME XXI.---NO. 3S.
P0etry.
AS TT USED TO BE.

The girls are planning to get beau;
They dress for party, ball and show
And the old folks tell us it wasn't so =
When they were young, and used to go!
But the difference is really no more or less
Than little change in the style of dress;
And human nature itself you see,
is Just the same as it used to be.
After the verses and prayers are said,
The old folks light the boys to bed,
And they lie as still as though they were dead,
Till daddy goes off to his dreams instead;
Then down the back stairs-so sly and slow,
With their boots in their hands-and away they go,
And the old man laughs in the morning to see,
It's Just the same as it used to be!
Those good old maids are waiting yet
Over love affairs they froth and fret
OF girls they never saw such set
Every one is a silly eoquettel
But if backward something like forty years
They would carry their meddlesome eyes and ears,
In firtS and freaks of their own they'd see
Its Just the same as it used to be-
OF course to the aged it's right to hold
The years they were happy the best that rolled
But the truth is plain and ought to be told,
That the world grows better in growing old;
And only love, in its show and fame,
Is ever changing and yet the same
Freaks of fashion and change, you see;
But it is Just the.same as it used to be
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

A JOLLY GAME" Blowing Cotton is
a sitting-room game of the jolliest sort.
Let as many as may sit around the table
with hands folded and arms extended
along the edge of the table, each person
touching elbows with his on each side of
him. Take small piece of common cot.
ton batting, picked up so as to make it as
light and airy as possible. Let some one
count "one, two, three" and then let each
one blow his best to keep the cotton away
from himself and drive it upon some one
else. The person on whom it alights must
pay forfeit. No one must take up hii
arms to escape the cotton. When il
alights, take it up, and start it anew. II
will be a very sober set indeed who car
play two or three rounds without indulgins
in the healthiest sort of uproarous laughter
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
The Bellies of the Bible.

1t is an interesting fact, and true to a
great extent, that the styles of dress and
ornaments of the Hebrew ladies of the pres
ent day-and in fact the prevailing toilet of
all ladies-are much the same as during the
time of Solomon. With all the changes
and variations of centuries, the gradations
of chignons and crinolines, we now find
much of the simple grace and symmetry of
ancient Greece.
The Scriptures narrate a great many
things about the style of dress worn in the
time of Solomon, and in the laws of Moses
several directions are given concerning gar
ments worn by the Israelites. In the book
Of Judges, the girls of that period are de-
scribed by Deborah as GA prey of colors of
needle-work )" while Samuel says, "Their
clothing is of silk and purple" In the fire.
ouent intercourse between the Jewish and
other nations, the ladies, tired of their prim-
tive simplicity, sought the fashions of the
clever Egyptians, the elegant Ph@nicians,
and the luxurious Persians. Even Patient
Job became impatient at the dresses, and
Isaiah denounces the women of the period
living for nothing but dress and Irritation,
with the one desire to "see and be seem
The tunica worn by the ladies in the
time of Solomon was much like the polo
naise of to-day, and the belts with fancy
clasps now worn are about the same as the
leather girdles and silver buckles of old
We also find recorded that trains were worr
to dresses, and that camels hair shawl
were common. Embroided mantles, fas
tened with golden pins, are also spoken of
The hair was also oiled, dyed, and put VI
in coils little curls were let hang over thu
forehead, and, strange to say, the girls o
Solomon's time, it is stated, used paint
Wells were worn, and sandals were made
of blue and violet-colored leather, with fan
cy latchets. Solomon, as is related, sale
to Shulamite, "How beautiful are thy fee
with shoes, o princes daughterp Hal
nets were worn, and earrings of all form
and much value were common. Bracelet
} on the right arm, strings of pearl and heav!
J gold chains around the neck, rings on thu
} fingers, and other ornaments, were all worl
, by the ancient Hebrew ladies.-Er.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

PRIvILEGEs OF LEAP YEAR,--"Young
ladies have the privilege of saying anything
they please during leap year." she said,
cycling him out of the corner of her eyes
with sweet look,
His heart gave a great bound, and while
he wondered if she was going TO ask the
question which he had so long desired and
feared to do, he answered eyes"
"And the young men must not refuse,
said she.
"No, no How could they2" sighed he
"When, them" said she, twill you
He fell on his knees and said "Any
thing, anything you ask, darling"
await till get through. Will you tak'
a walk, and not hang around our house 81
much p
And he walked.-Oa City Derrick.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

What constitutes a call to the ministry
is a question about to be discussed by the
preachers of indianapolis. We should
think that letter from ten or fifteen re-
sponsible gentlemen offering a salary of
$l0,O00a year, with handsomely furnished
parsonage, would constitute something so
nearly akin to call to the ministry that
you could scarcely distinguish the differ.
ence with the necked eye.-Courier Journal.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

ETTA's MANoEUvRE.-A friend of the
writer residing on a farm in Illinois, has
q four-year-old daughter named Eta, who
frequently amuses herself by placing the
chairs in row and calling them train of
cars. One evening, while thus engaged,
Mr.. B, friend of the family, called,
and unthinkingly occupied one of the
scars" Miss Eta, not wishing to have her
play disturbed, stepped, up and said,
" Mister, dis is a train of tars.n
"ohr said Mr. b; then I'll be
passenger, and take ride"
Little Eta was not at all satisfied. After
hesitating moment she said, "Where do
'ou want to dit off9n
Mr.. B---replied, "I'll get off al
Bloomington"
"Well,n said Eta demurely, "dis iss dc
place."
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

ROOM FOR One MoRE.-Term was over !;
graduates returning to their respective col
| leges the day was cold, wet and miserable,
when a well appointed drag drove up to
the White Horse Cellar, Plocadilly. "Have
| you room for one inside to 0xford?' asked
as pretty girl as you would whish to see
on summers day. What beauty ~
exclaimed one. "Quite lovelyp said
another. "Perfectl'' lisped third. "Quite
full, miss" spilled the coachman, inside
and out" "Surely you could make room
for one,r persevered the fair applicant,
"Quite impossible, miss, without the gen.
tlemen's CONSENT Lots Of room," cried
the insiders. "We are not large we car
manage TO take one more" "If the young
gentlemen consent" said the driver, who
was one Of the best tempered fellows OF
earth, and as honest as Aristides, I" hav,
no objection We agree" said the in
side quartette. "All right, responded th'
driver. The fare was paid, and the guarC
9 proceeded to open the door and let down
| the steps Now, miss, if you please, w
/ are behind our timo.' "Come along
grandfather" cried the damsel, addressing
/ a most respectable-looking, portly, elderl
! gentleman, the money is paid, get in, an
be sure you thank the young gentlemen
|. lat the same time suiting the action I
the word, and with wicked smile assistin
q her respected grandfather into the coacl
g Here's some mistake; you'll squeeze us
4 death, cried the astonished party. But |
: this moment, "All right, sit fast was hear
- and away ratified the Defiance at /
vt best pace, drowning the voices Of the cres
a fallen Oxonians.
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

A disgusted young man says: When
find girl who has got the stamps find
one who does not want me-"
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16

Woman proposes and man gifts up and
gifts, this year,
Smyrna times., 1876-02-16
Rising in the World.

Experience continually contradicts that
notion that poor young man cannot rise.
If we look over the list of rich men, we
find that all of them began life worth little
or nothing. To any person familiar with
the millionaires of the United States, score
of examples will occur. On the other hand
the sons of rich men, who began life with
the capital which so many poor young men
covet, frequently die beggars. 1t would
probably not be going too far to say that a
large majority of such moneyed individuals
either fail outright or gradually eat up the
capital with which they commenced their
career. And the reason is plain. Brought
up in expensive habits, they spend entirely
too much. Educated with high notions oi
personal Importance, they will not, as they
phrase it, stoop to hard work. Is il
astonishing, therefore, that they are passed
in the race Of life by others with less capital
originally, but more energy, thrift, and in
dustry? For these virtues, after all, are
worth more than money. They make it
in fact. Nay, after it is made, they enable
the possessor to keep it, which most mel
pronounce to be more difficult than the
making. The young man who begins lif'
with resolution always to lay by part o
his income is sure, even without extraor
dinary ability, gradually to acquire suffi
cheney, especially as habits of economy
which the resolution renders necessary vii
make that competence for him whicl
would be quite insufficient for an extravc
, CANT person. 1t is really what we save
more than what we make that leads us t
fortune. He who enlarges his expenses a
7 fast as his earnings increase, must alway
be poor, no matter what are his abilities
And content may be had on comparative
little. 1t is not in luxurious living thG
! men find real happiness.-Practicat Farme
, 1876-08-03

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2leiberfpHen, bort iebt bi0ig feieu ano
slaaben MIR bic ltrIade odrin al erfens
nen, bdB bas Grebitiuftsm eituas bur9
Die sroBen GaqiHemente geIittcn, benz
nod oas MetaI mebr eeiudt unb einen
bDberen Wertb erbnltsn, ba Yapier
INNER nur Yapier bleibt. 8ir erin.
nern nod gang gut. bab in Nsw Dorf
in 1850 Elm oentider 8l4leni9mib:I
Der nit ieiner camille nod 9lep 90
tam $40 per @o4e peroiente, poptr
ct nit isiner Somilic lebtc uno nod ie
De @o@e etiuas @eIo auf Die @parbari
bra@te uuo 10 oiel eriparte, baB sr cine
8epebrfabrit in Yittipluania Court
9ouie, @a., anIs9te. luo mir i'm sleid
mad Dem &riege trafen.
Scute f0nnte man lol9ts in Nsm
Dorf nidt mebr fertis brinssn, neil
lett benz &riese Der GreOitl6minocl ,pie=
Der cine snornle S6be errei9t bat nno
oas mabre @eIo i'm Wertbe in
oemiclben 8erbaltnilfe fties, pesbalb
man fir $40 MIR 10 piel erbalt, als
friber fur $40.
Wiro oaber Der grebit perminoeri
10 1T es gan; natiirlid, bab Die 9reiIs
Der Waaren biQi9er ueroen miIien.