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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-15
AUCTION.

For sale at SMALL'S AUCTION
MART. Plum Street, SATURDAY,
Sept. 18th. at 10 A. M. n light 81
seat top Wagon, New York make.
se13 d4ty
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AUCTION SALES
F.O. BAILEY & Co.

F.O. BAILEY & CO.,
Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
saIesrooms IS and 81 Exchange 81.
y. o. BAILEY. q. ". ALLEN
Regular sale OF Furniture and General Merchan-
disc every saturday, commencing at 10 O'Clock g. NJ.
C0nstgnments solicited. oc3dt
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-15
VALUABLE REAL
ESTATE
BY AUCTION.

ON FRIDAY, Sept 18th, at o'clock, we shall sell
" the new Brick Block of two Houses, No. q and
20 Madison Street; these houses contain u rooms
substantially built of the best material This Ia
a good chance for home or safe investment. At
same time lots on Everett Street, 3OxSO each.
Terms and particulars at Sale.
r. %. BAILEY q Co, Auctioneers.
sept11 dot
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-15

The STATE FAIR-The full board of Trus-
tees of the State Agricultural Society were in
session at the Preble House all day yesterday,
but did not complete their labors. President
Prince and Secretary WATSON were appointed a
committee to audit and pay the bills of the
Fair The bills for labor and printing will be
paid at once, while the premiums, rent of the
grounds, &c, will have to wait for season, as
the receipts do not equal the expenses by about
$4,000 The total Indebtedness of the Fair is
now not far from $4,000. We shall be able to
give the exact figures tomorrow.
Some of the trustees do no5 think favorably
of Portland as place for the Fair, and we
have excellent authority for saying that at the
meeting in Augusta, next January, the place
of holding the next Fair will be changed from
Portland, notwithstanding the fact that Port
land voted liberal appropriation for Presump-
scot Park, with the understanding that the
State Fair was to be held here three years in
succession,
The Fair has been here but two years, and
some of the officials have been to the trouble to
take legal advice, and have been told that the
agreement entered into between the Park As
ISOLATION and the city has nothing to do with
them, and they can pull up stakes and leave
when they choose. 1t is hardly possible, how
ever. that the Secretary will do such an act.
A Row ON COMMERCIAL STREET.-Yester-
day afternoon young man named John Glenn
hailing from Gorham's Corner, staggered into
the fish store of j. w. Sawyer & Co., on Port
land Pier, and deliberately struck fisherman
who was talking with one OF the fish packers.
The fisherman made some remark to the young
bucks when he turned and dealt him another
fearful blow.in the face This aroused the fish
packers and they went for Glenn in lively
manner, and drove him up the wharf When
he reached Commercial street he met some of
his friends, and they rallied and started down
the wharf Glenn was crazed with rum, and
was of the opinion that he could whip whole
wharf full of fishermen with his crowd. But
when his crowd saw the array of brawny fish
ermen they fell back and busted themselves
in calling Glenn off, Glenn called on them to
rally about him, and went in. After getting
two or three square blows in the face without
giving any, number of merchants, led by Mr..
Elias Thomas, stepped in and drove the young
ruffian home. There was very large crowd to
witness the row but no policemen, and conse-
quently no arrests were made.
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Once Hours.
From 1880 m to $50 p m, Sundays excepted.
. Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 a m.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER.

Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y.
who has been selected by the unknown
friend of the University of Virginia to
procure for it the best possible collection of
natural history specimens, has had a very
adventurous career. Many years ago he
was employed by wealthy Frenchman as
tutor to his son. and on leaving that service
he found himself the owner of just 500.
With this sum he determined to see every
thing that Europe possessed Of interest to
naturalist. He remained abroad seven years,
learned the French and German languages,
and supported as well as instructed himself
by collecting and selling specimens to indi
viduals and museums. Extending his wan~
behring's into Central Africa, he was reduced
by sickness to his last dollar. but succeeded
by teaching English to some French officers
in acquiring an amount of money to relieve
his immediate necessities. He resumed col
lecting, and in all subsequent extremities he
held on to certain lots, which, being in
creased through exchanges with other col
lectors and new gatherings in the West
Indies, formed the basis of the remarkable
cabinet for which the University of Roches>
ter paid him $4,000. He is now in easy
circumstances, and, although engaged in he
most congenial work, has agreed to make
another journey around the world to secure
materials for new work that shall excel
anything of its kind in the United States.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
A FROG BAROMETER.

Out at the Lafayette Park Police Station
they have weather prophet which eclipses
lice and all the barometers in the neigh
borhood. 1t il a frog Of the genus Hyia,
more familiar to the general reader as the
tree toad Hunt, the Superintendent Of the
Park, was mildly abusing his barometer one
day for misleading him, when the officer on
the beat. an old froniiersman. said he would
show him trick. IT. took glass jar, and
threw into it some stones and a couple Of
inches of water. Then he Whitfield out a
little wooden Ladder and put it in the jar.
After some lively scrambing a tree toad
was caught, chucked in ami tin top screw
ell on. The weather indicator was complete
When il IS going TO be fair weather, that
toad roosts on The top round Of the ladder.
solemnly blinking the hours away. From
twelve to fifteen hours before . change to
bad weather, ..the General as they call
him, begins to climb down, and hours before
the storm sets in he squats himself on a
stone. and, with his head just above the sur
face Of the water, peers aloft At the coming
storm. Let the weather be changeabIe and
shifting - .'Old Prob" says, and the toad
goes up aud down that ladder like scared
MILDLY. When il is fair ami the toad rooss
aloft, his skin is > light grayish green.
When the change comes, the skin turns
black as the toad goes down the ladder,
becoming ajet. shining black BY the time be
reaches .he bottom. The fame Of the toad
hiss spread through the Lafayette Park
neighborhood.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
DIGESTION lNTHE HORSE.

The horses stomach has capacity Of on
ly about sixteen quarts, while that OF the
OK has $50; in the intestines this proportion
is reversed, the horse having capacity OF
100 quarts against 100 Of the OK. The OK
and most other animals have gall bladder
for the retention Of part Of the bile secret-
ed in the intervals Of digestion; the horse
has none and the bile flows directly into the
intestine as fast as secreted This construc-
ton Of the digestive apparatus indicates
that the horse was formed to eat slowly and
digest continually bulky and innutritious
food. When fed on hay it passes very rapid
" through the stomach into the intestine.
The horse can eat but about five pounds of
hay in an hour, which is charged during
mastication with four times its weight Of
saliva. Now the stomach to digest well, will
contain but about ten quarts, and when the
animal eats one third Of his daily ration, or
seven pounds, in one and one half hours he
has swallowed at least two st0machs full OF
hav and saliya-one of these having passed
into the intestine. Observation has shown
that the food is passed to the intestine by
the stomach in the order in which it is res
ceived If we feed horse six quarts OF oats
it will Just about flll his stomach, and if, as
soon as he finishes this, we feed him the
above ration of seven pounds of hay, he will
eat sufficient in three quarters Of an hour to
have forced the oats entirely out Of his
stomach into the intestine. As ii is the of
fee of the stomach to digest the heterogeneous
parts Of the food and as q stomach OF oats
contains four or five times as much OF these
as the same amount Of hay, it is certain that
either the stomach must secrete the gastric
Juice FIVE time as fast, which is hardly pos
sible, or it must retain this food five times
as long. By feeding the oats first it can on
" be retained long enough for the proper
digestion of hay, consequently it seems logi-
cal, when feeding, concentrated food like
oats with bulky one like hey, to feed the
latter first.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
KEEL US WONDERFUL MOTER.

A Sun reporter paid visit to the ma chine
shop Of Messer, Sergeant & Chillingworth,
in this city, where one of the keelY moter
generators is being made. 1t is intended to
be of lOO-horse. but by operating it rapidly
it will give it power Of 800 horses.
Experiments with generator Of about
fifty horsepower on low pressure gave en-
tire satisfaction to the company, and Mr..
Kelly was advised TO construct a large ma
chine. He therefore, two years ago, began
one Of 1000 horsepower, to be endowed
with sufficient strength to stand the requis-
tie force with perfect safety. The next ex-
pertinent was with generator Of 600
horsepower, constructed of gun metal A
pressure Of 6, 900 pounds to the square inch
did not burst this metal, but caused the va
por to ooze completely through its peers,
much to the establishment of the bystanders.
The virtue Of wrough-iron and steel are now
TO be triel. The chambers Of Mr.. Keely's
900 herse generator in Philadelphia have
stood a pressure of $1,000 pounds to the
square inch in the lower part, and 10 900
pounds in the upper, and retained the va
por, but small globe at the top Of one Of
them, which it was thought could be safely
constructed of gun metal. allowed the vapor
to escape. Anew one is under construction
together with some minor parts, and by
June lst trial will probably be made, and
one small machine Of fve~horse-power will
likewise he tried The chambers have stood
pressure Of 10000 pounds. The inventor
and the stockholders are perfectly satisfied
with the feasibility Of the theory. The on
~ point now is TO get metal sufficiently
dense enough To retain pressure. The pow>
er viii be generated BY vaporizing Of wa
ter mechanically, and without the aid Of
heat The expense Of fuel win thus be
saved The water, after being vaporized,
AMI passing through the various tubes and
cham bers, does its allotted work upon the
engine, is rcconGenced into its former state,
and, again becoming vaporized, starts again
upon its mission Of mighty pressure.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
The -Anti-AIonop0list.

ness. was told not to go to Mere Gobriot's
she Was witch-a bag, who lived by her
self in tall, solitury house on the road to
Loches, kept staghounds and ablunlerbuss,
and dressed like fisherman Of Minizan.
However, determined to have an inter
view with Mere Gobriot She lent money
on pledge and mortgage, and l used the fact
to get access to her. Truly bag, who un-
dld chained door and received me with
arms ak mbo, twd gaunt, savage hounds
keeping her company. She was seventy
years old, bent, with red hair under dirty
cap, wrlnkled face, dreadfully pock- mark
ea' plio1 coat on '.What do you want?'
she shrieked. Il am a Paris BOOKSELLER
want to borrow some money" ssWhat secur-
lty? What pledge?'' '.Old books, rare, pre-
clous s'Glve me names-editions!" II
have princeps Villon,' said l, on VEN
ture, for the bag looked like enc of our
trade She interrupted me with q shrek:
''What! Franscois Villon-I4S9?' "Bless@
exit. Eiito J. Carolo,' / added. ..You
lle!' she screamed, ssthere is but one out
side the libraries, and l have that, and
Vil'on's manuscript, too" II will give you
a thousand crown for each,'' l said in rap
ture. She grined horribly. "My boy,
will not sell them for million. They are
my dot-they shall adorn my husband $
library!'' Il will marry you for them .
1T is bargain. Come in-we will seal the
contract with glass Of Bhateau Margaux.''
Would you believe it, she had the Villon
the manuscript, too, and many rarity be-
sides, and would not even unlock the cases
until married her. Such life as she led
me. When married she would not surrender
the precious Villon; so | stole it (don't men
ton this and sent it to my beloved Duke
OF Saint Emilion. When the book was
missed my accursed MN. Goujet grinned a
sardonic smile, and aid: The receiver is
bad as the thief. May curses light upon
both"
In months time from the Dukes receiv>
ing the book lovely family was stricken
with the small pox-frst the Duke, then the
Duchess, then the four child angels The
Duke survived and the Duchess. frightfully
Scared, but the little doves, ah, two died,
and one was blinded for life That bag,
and her book
| detected her reading the news in the
Gazette de Loire,'' and chuckling over it
threw the manuscript volume Of Villon be
hind the fire, to express my execration Of
the wretch. "Fiend," she cried, sthere
are $4,000 francs in notes under that bind
ing." Then she fell into commissions, and
afterwards springingup, shrieked, .'Mur-
derer of the infants of Saint Emilion, l will
denounce you" She rushed into the street
and fed and came here, where have been
ever since. | do not know where that wo-
man is, nor whether she is dead or alive
A lady comes to see me once month and
brings me books to read and bon bons They
call her the Duchess de Saint-Emilion, bu
do not recognize her. She is very kind
but my Duchess was lovely woman, and
this ones face is like the map of the Egean
sea. But don't mention it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15

tary had refused MIR Biddulph an extension
Of time in his visit, and he (Mr. Onslow)
promised that he should bring this cruel
conduct before the constituents of Mr.. Cross
in Lancashire, in the hope that they would
remember it against him at thenext election.
The claimant was in far better health than
they expected to find him; for on the last
visit it looked as if all hope had left him.
\ great change for the better had come over
him, and he was in good health and tran
guile in mind, not only in his knowledge of
his innocence, but that his friends would
work till he was released. There was no
doubt that at the next general election the
Ilchborne question would be made a hust-
lngs cry, and he believed the result would
be the release Of the claimant.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15

Examinations, fecundity and longevity are
transmissable In entire families the slight
est quantity of opium acts as virulent poi
son. Louis XIV and his defendants pos
sessed voracious appetites." '.The ordinary
run Of progeny has about the same mental
capacity as their elders. No man Of talent
ever sprung from idiots or interiors. There
were two Pitts and two Foxes. The fam
lily Of Eschylus contained eight poets. There
were two Scaligers, two Herschels, two Cole
ridges, two Montesquieus, two Sheridans.
Raphael, Parmigiano, Titan, Vandyke,
were sons of painters: Mozart and Beeth-
oven inherited their skill. Extremes, how
ever, are solitary-they are not often trans
mitted." Gaming, violation Of laws, suicide
and insanity, run down in the blood. The
issue Of immature people as well as that OF
the aged is unhealthy. Those who are the
outcome of intemperance have strong i'm
pulse AMI feeble wills. We are told Of
couple who had three heirs, well organized
and happy in disposition. Previous to the
advent ofthe fourth the mother had an un-
comfortable wish for wine and brandy,
which she resisted, until one day, being at q
neighbours house. and seeing a bottle Of ar
dent on the sideboard, she ventured to take
some of it when all we're absent from the
room. In process Of time the child was born
and at a very early age his ante-natal edu-
cation begun to develop itself. He would
steal everything he could lay his hands on.
At twenty he was sot and an inmate Of the
State Prison. Subsequently, seven other
scions were added, well-poised and smart.
Can we blame the exception aud praise the
balance?
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15

A QUEER CLUB IN NEVADA.

Matters have been very quiet in the Saz-
erac Lying Club of late, but member cons
hdentially informs us that when the boys
get paid eff they win make Rome howl
To day is pay day, and, consequently, an
exciting session Of the Club may be expected
this evening. They expect to initiate a new
member. who is prepared to take his solemn
oath that he saw man fall 5000 feet down
an incline without touching its sides, top, or
bottom: and that when his fellowworkmen
reached him he was lighting his pipe with
his candle. which he had held in his hand.
and which was not extinguished during
the descent. The Investigating Committee
reported faverably on the mans applica-
ton for admission, because they thought
tina, was something like reasonable lie.
BY rule of the Club no member is allowed
to tell lie which nigh, not have been true
had such an occurrence taken place.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
HEREDITARY QUALITIES.

There are idiosyDcrasies Of management.
An experiment was reported by father up
on his son At 81. Annes Barney. Cork. The
little one was kept entirly naked night and
dag. He was fourteen mouths old, and
slept without any covering in q room with
the thermometer at 3s degs.: from this be
sometimes went to bath Of 118 degs where
he Was occasionally oversaken BY somno-
lence; he was PERFECTLY Indifferent to heat or
cold; vas lively, active, cheerful and inielli-
gent: his simple. natural, easy, graceful
and ever-varying pastures were charming.
His skin vas exqnisitely healthy and beau
tiful He cut his teeth without the usual
disagreeable accompaniment, and seemed
insensible to PAIN; fall would extort no
whimper. While ne one would care to imi-
tate his method, the question seriously
arises. whether We do not enervate our or
spring and ourselves By pampsring pro-
cesses which tend to lessen native force
Burdach said .sthat heritage had in reali
y more power over our constitution and
character than al the influences from with
out, whether moral Or physical" How
features are handed down, mot only through
generations but centuries. 1.-THE BouTboas
have IN aquiline nose and : peeuliar form
Of the ear: the imperial house Of Austria .
thick lip. derived from Nary Of Bargaady;
and the two cos0cpolitan races, the Hsbrews
and the Gipsies. have distinctive physiog-
nomy little modified ~ any external cir
eumstaaees under which they lire The
''children q talkalire pAseafs AFe them
sekss lequasiea& Apoplexy, epilepsy.
asn1al sessratira, hsnsrsh.ges spseisl -
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15

two and one half broad, or beetle shape, and
terminating at the head ia a pair Of red and
very vicious looking eyes and two horny
mandibles Of like color and decidedly
snappish appearance It has noappearance
Of wings. It's NEST peculiar feature, how
ever, was single pair Of spidery legs at
tached to the lower end Of the body. These
are about twelve or fourteen inches in length,
and singularly resemble those Of a man in
regard to the joints and the fact that it stands
bolt upright upon them. The creature
stands about foot and half high, walks
with long, crane like strides, and is like
nothing 50 much as an immense June bug
on stills. Its only known food is mice, and
these, when introduced into the large BIRDS
cage that confines it. it seizes with a sudden
dash Of its foot or claw, and dlspatcnes
vOraciOns1V
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
SCIENCE
DEAD BODIES PRESERVED BY cUANo

The ship John Arice, Captain Morse,
which arrived at New York on the 7th inst,
from the South Pacific Ocean, after a pass
age of over 100 days, is now discharging a
cargo Of guano at the foot of Joraemon
street BROOKLYN. The ship also brought
the dead bodies of her former captain,
Francis Mehan; his son Clifton, aged 10;
Daniel X. Stetson, aged 10, and G.. l. Lash.
aged Il. These persons were drowned on
the 10th Of September, 1875, while fishing in
the ships boat, and after the bodies were
rescured they were placed in woolen boxes
and packed in the guano to preserve them.
The corpes were uncovered last night, and
it was found that the experiment had been
very successful, all Of them being ina good
state of preservation They were recotfined
by Brooklyn Undertaken, and will be for
warded tomorrow to their relatives in
Maine. Young Lash was natine of Dams
ariscotta in that State, and the others were
from Thomaston.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
THE WiFE'S APPEAL,

Since love, dear lord, lies dead within your
eyes,
And pity speaks not in a single tone,
And no fond thought makes kind your cruel
touch,
Take sharp sword and slay me. must die.
All! once my heart was like the rounded moon
Reflected in still waters; now it breaks,
Tossed by the whirling eddies of despair!
Sweet We're the days of YOUTH and sweeter yet
The golden summers when your love was
strong,
Before Onana blossomed into flower.
But when that brightness came saw your soul
Bend ike slender branch beneath the bird
That, flushed with spring and weary of far
flight.
Sinks, soft as snow flake, on the rosy world.
Dreams the fair dove among the quiet trees,
Or speeds in sunny splendor DER the fields
What life more free and full of pleasant things?
am foolish bird whose messy nest
Is burned to ashes, and with woun led wing
fit through flaming woods in pain and fear.
Is there shelter in the whitening world?
Where shall go? What friend can comfort
O. husband, love or kill me where lie!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15
.os0ET.AV+
THE VIOLET.

A violet in the MEADOW stood
Bent low in humble attitude,
And yet a lovely flower.
There came tair young sheperdess
With her light foot the turf to press,
And fancy, free,
Its blossoms to c.,reSS.
All! thought the Violet, were | now
The fairest flower at earth may show
To grace a laGy's bower
That me this lovely maid might break
And to her swelling bosom take,
Ii but. if but,
For one short happy hour!
As on she passed, that maiden fair
Saw not the humble Violet there,
And needless, crushed the flower.
But yet in death it breathed the cry;
"Oh happiness thus crushed to lie
Through her, through her,
Though all unknown, die !"