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HOTEL DIRECTORY.

E1O1 ELL OlhEOIORY
Embracing the leading Hotels in the State, at which
the Daily PRESS NAV always be found.
AUBURN:
Kim House, Court. So. w. g. 81 A. Young
AUGUSTA.
Augusta Meuse, State st., WI. Whitehead,
BATR.
Eath Eotei, q. MI. Plummer, Proprietor
BOLsTER,s MILLS.
Hancock House, M. Hancock, PrOprie-
tor.
BOSTON.
Parker Aouse, School SIS. III. ID. Parker 81
Co., Pr0priefOrs.
st. James HOTEL. R. Cracker. Esrnn~z,
et0r.
fremont House, fremont st.-Chapiu.
Quincy 81 Go. PrOPrietors.
BRUNSWICK, rEE.
q IA. Dining Rooms, w. III. field,
CORNISH.
Cornish House, Nh. Ii. Davis, Proprietor
DAMARHsCOTTA MILLS.
samoset House, Trask Bros. Projectors
DANVELLE JUNCTION.
Ciark,s Dining Hall, Grand Trunk Rail-
way Depot, M. w. Clark, Proprietor
DEXTER.
Merchants Exchange Hotel, Dexter, Me-
w. q. Morrill,, Proprietor.
ELLSWORTH.
City Hotel.-N. III. Higgins 81 Sons, Props
EAsTPORT.
Passamnquoddy HOuse,-A. Pike 81 Co.,
Pr0prletOrs.
HALLOwELL.
Hallowell House. MaIlowell, H. q. Blake,
Proprietor.
HIRAM.
ma. Cutler Heuse,-Eiram Basson, Pre-
prSetor
LEWIsTONi
DcWitt House, Quinby d. Hurch, Pro-
LIMERICK.
Limerick House,-D. 8. Fogg, Proprietor.
LHNCOLNyILLE.
Beach House, LincolnviiIe. It. e. Phillips,
LETTLETON, N lei.
Thayers Hotel, lei. Il. Thayer, Proprietor
mACHIAs.
Eastern Hotel.-E. e. sfodd&rd. Prop.
MILLBREDGE.
Atlantic House, Gee. A. Hopkins, Pro.
prlefers
NORRIDGEw OCK.
Danforth House, ID. Danfcrth. Proprietor
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NORTH sTRATFORD NM.
willard Houses @. q. Bailey 81 Go. Fro
prietoro.
PEAKS ISLAND.
Union EaSuse-W. Il. Jones. Proprietor.
PARIS HILL.
Hubbard Hotel, H. Hubbard, Pregrieser
PHILLIPS.
Harden House, Samuel Farmer, ProprB-
etor.
sKOWHEGAN.
Turner House, w. C. HeseItOn. PH0Drz.
etor.
PORTLAND.
Perry's Hotel, 1as Federal st.S. Ct. Perry
Proprietor.
Citv Hotel, Cor. Congress and Green St
j. X. Martin, Proprietor.
Falmouth Hotel, D. M. Shaw & Son, pre-
prietOrs.
Preble House, Congress st. Gibson Gee,
Projectors.
U. 9. Metel, Junction of Congress and FED
eraI SITS. Timothy WOIcOtt, Proprietor.
WEST NEwFIELD.
West Newfleld House, R. 6. Holmes, Pro
prfctor.
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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15

morning gowns, with a square inch OF
lace and some blue bows on her sunny
hair.
''Kitzie Treherne," said I, with terrible
solemnity. and staring fxedly at the
piano stool SO as not to see the laugh lurk-
ing in her dimples. "You can 90 out and
eat your breakfast if you want it, / cooked
so much that it's made me sick. Patric
has left, and the tea kettles broken, the
milk's gone, the pans smashed, and I
broke the cats leg. don't know when
you'll ever see me again. Good-by."
| didn't go home to dinner-her laugh
haunted me all day, but by evening
grew so desperate to see her and beg all
manners Of pardon, that MORALLY offend
ed a late customer. for which I didn't
care, but left the locking up to Michael
and departed in haste, only stopping long
enough at the confectioner's to get a
chunky bag of caramels, which 7 knew
would make peace if it was necessary.
The windows to my dainty domicile were
all open, and / couldn't resist stopping to
peep in. Kitzie sat rocking pensively
under the gaslight with the crippled kit
ten in her lap; the piano was open and in
the room beyond was the tea-table fresh
and sweet in snowy linen and shining
glass, and tall, slender vase with grace
1ul fern leaves and scarlet sage. l went
in but the rest Of it is nothing to you
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
The Last Chinese Porcelain.

Edward King writes in the Boston
Journals: Three centuries sufficed to
complete the ruin Of Chinese porcelain
making. The workmen were apparently
paralyzed. Their arms lost their cunning;
secrets of color disappeared. There is a
god Of porcelains in China; He must feel
sad at times. This god was poor work
man in dim ages past, but workman of
signal talent, and every year he brought
forth some beautiful work which won
him renown. But just as he was at the
height of his glory he became so enraged
or was so filled with despair, because an
experiment which he was making in the
burning of two vases seemed certain to
fail, that he threw himself headlong into
his own furnace and he and his talents
we're speedily lost to the world. His
friend, however, brought the story tothe
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
Id1osyncracies of Men OF Genius

Most genluses and men of great talent
have been known for some peculiar habit
of striking idiosyncracy. Napoleon
would tremble with fear at the sight of a
cat. General Elliott, of Gibralter frame,
was always accompanied by q score of
them. Johnson liked to imbibe foods
of tea or wine, Person drank everything
that came in his way. Visiting once a
friends house, when evening came they
desired to feed the lamp, but the bottle
was empty. Person had drank the spirits
on the SLY, not knowing 1t was intended
for the lamp. Douglas Jerrold could not
beal the smell of apples. Cavendish
hated women. If hc met one of his OWE
female servants by accident in any part
of the house, she was instantly dismissed
Garrick was vain almost to the degree of
insanity.
Rousseau was vain and could not write
except when dressed IS fop. Bulwer
Lytton, it is said, would write best when
dressed IN court suit. Marlborough
was miser, mended his own stockings
TO save paying for it, and would walk
home ever so late at night rather than
pay for ''chair.' Napoleon did his
thinking" and formed his plans for con-
quest while pacing IN a garden, shrug
ging his shoulders now and then as if to
help and compress thought. When
Theirs was engaged in his long and
oratorical displays he always had be-
side him a supply of rum and coffee.
The coffee he got direct from Mecca
Gibson dictated while walking in his
room, like Scott and many others
Moliere wrote with his knees near the
fire, and Bacon liked to study in a small
room, which, he said, helped him to con
dense his thoughts. George Stephenson
used to lie in bed for two or three days
the better to s'think out" his plan. Il
would be better it many people do this
who have much thinking to do, as res
favors abstraction and thought, and those
who have not vigorous circulation fine
the supply Of blood in the brain assisted
by recumbent position.--Londo'
World
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Ancient 1'imepieces.

Bowls were used to measure time.
from which water, drop by drop. was
discharged through small aperture.
Such bowls were called water-clocks.
L was then observed how much water
from such a bowel Or cask, from sunrise
TIL the shortest shadow, trickled down
into another bowl placed beneath; and
this time, being half of the whole solar
cay, was divided into six hours. Conse
quently they took q sixth of the water
which had trickled down, poured it into
the upper bowl, and this discharged one
hour had expired. But afterward a more
convenient arrangement was made; they
observed how high the water at each
hour rose IN the lower bowl, marking
these points, and counting them, thus
finding out how many hours were till
sunrise.
With the Chinese, the water-clock or
c'epsydra are very cid. They used a
round vessel filed with water, with hole
IN the bottom, which was placed upon an
other vessel. When the water in the up
per vessel passes down into the lower yes
sci it subsidized by degrees, announcing
thereby the part of time elapsed The
Babylonians are said to have used such
instruments; from them the Greeks Vt
Asia Minor got them, at the time of King
Cyrus, about the year $50 before Christ.
The Romans did not get the first water
clock before Christ. But, though the
hours of the clepsydras did not vary in
length, they still counted from the morn
ing. When the clock with us strikes
seven, the ancients counted one, when the
clock with us strikes twelve the ancients
count six, and so forth. This method of
counting the hour was, according to the
New Testament, also customary in Pales-
tine at the time of Christ. The water
clocks had the advantage that they could
be used at night, and the Romans used
them to divide their night watches, which
were relieved four times, both summer
and winter. Comfortably to these four
night watches were counted, not only in
Rome, but wherever Roman garrison
was stationed; consequently also in Pal
estine after she had become a Roman
province.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
Rapid Transit in New York.

The whole length of the elevated road
is about four and half miles, and the
entire trip can be made i'll about twenty
minutes, though the average time is
about twenty Eve minutes. This, how
ever, is wonderful improvement on the
slow, crowded horse-car, which usually
occupies an hour in making the same
trip. The cars on the Sixth avenue road
are models of comfort and neatness, and
the motion is as smooth as that OF an in
valid chair on heavy velvet carpet Dur
ing the first few days they were crowded
beyond convenience, but now that the
novelty of riding in them has worn off,
all passengers can easily obtain seats.
Tie fare is ten cents for the whole dis
lance or any part Of it, except for two
hours in the morning and the same in the
latter part of the afternoon, when it is
only five cents. This is fixed by the COM
pany's charter, and cannot be changed,
and its object is to enable the working
classes to get the benefit OF the road at
the price they can afford to pay. The
same rule will operate on the Third ave-
nue. road, which will probably be in run
ming order by October, or possibly soon
er.-NeW York Letter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
A Story of BI0ndin.

Every spot here has its romance or ira
tragedy, and the fairy suspension bridge
Tor carriages and foot passengers which
was stretched in 1869 one eighth Of a milo
below the American cataract, reyives tho
memory OF several curious occurrences
| When Blondin came in 1859, he had at
hrst good mind to stretch the rope
across where this bridge is, but the space
was too VIDE the bridge itself is the
longest suspension bridge in the world,
It's roadway being 1900 feet from bank to
bank.) Consequently Blondin had his
rope stretched about mile below the
ialls, ana even there it was 200 feet
long. On both sides of the river enclos
ures were built around the rope, info
WATCH ticket buyers were admitted and
where the acrobat had his dressing rooms.
He Was to start on the first occasion from
the Canadian side, end within the in
closure there was number of invited
guests Among them were Henry w.
Faxon, then the local editor of the Buff
1alo Republac newspaper, and the writer.
F'axon was wit of more than local re-
nown, and Blondin, had Tor some reason.
taken great liking to him.
While Faxon stood-laughinr and lest
ing as was his wagon the edge of the
preclpice overlooking the river 14o feet
below. Blondin appeared few feet
pehlnd. He was about to attempt the
most daring feat upon tight rope that
nad ever been performed, and what took
place will show his iron nerve and reck-
less temper. He saw that Faxon. gazing
out upon the river, was unconscious of his
presence. Motioning to me for silence by
pressing his finger to his lip, he siezed
Faxon under both armpits and held him
out Tor a second Or two over the verge.
FaNon must have weighed 1865 pounds.
his countenance when Blonoin laid
hold ofhim, was irradiated with mirth.
When Bloundin drew him back and
dropped him on the green sward, he sank
there IN heap, horr or stricken by shock
iron the effects of which he never fully
recovered. In the next instant Blondin,
grasped his heavy balancing pole, danced
out upon his rope beyond the fearful
preclplce, and, turning to enjoy the effect
OF his maneuvers, saluted his Indignant
friend with a gesture indescribably cutie.
He then continued his walk across the
Niagara chasm, experiencing not the least
tremor or emotion. He was In IN with
out physical fear, because he was almost
without abnormal nervous feeling of any
kind. His muscles was so hard that it
was difficult to in lent them. When he
stood upright and assumed q certain
r1gldity his arms and legs seemed to the
touch like steel.-NeD York Herugd.
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LAND AT THE NORTH POLE.
An Interesting Theory Developed by thu
Wild Geese.


Wild Geese.
Tie Virginia City (Nev) Enterprise
says: About four years ago farmer of
Surprise Valley found in the crop of a
villa goose a quantity Of wild grain, the
like Of which he had never before seen.
He planted this grain and it grew and
fiourished, producing more than hun
|dred fold. The straw and beardless head
|are said to resemble wheat, while the
|grain looks like rye. but twice as large.
THE farmer has now many bushels of this
cereal, and has sent samples Of it to be
planted in various places in
California, where food for cattle is
not easily obtained at some seasons, as
1.-THE stalk of the new grain, when it is
thoroughly ripe, makes excellent hay.
An old sailor, Of this city, after read
ing an item which has been going the
rounds of the papers in regard to the new
cereal. the substance OF which item is
given above, finds his memory refreshed
1t brings to his recollection circum-
stance he had almost forgotten, and has
set him to thinking. He has thought it
all out, and is now firmly of the opinion
that there is an inhabitable land at the
north pole.
The old man says he was one of the
crew of the Investigator, Captain Nc
Clure, which sailed from England in
1850, in company with the Enterprise
Commander Collision, in search OF Sir
John Franklin, and he certainly has in
his possession one of the Arctic medals
given by the English admiralty to all
persons engaged in these Polar expedi.
tons from 1918 to 1855. In September
of that year the Investigator reached 9
land which Captain Mcclure named Bar
ing's Land, and three days after Other
land, which he named after Prince Al.
bert, where about the last of the month
they were frozen in.
While in the last named land, the ex
plorers observed many wild geese anc
waterfowl flying southwark. Some O
the geese stopped at the place where the
| ship lay and several were killed by mem
bers of the crew. In the crops Of some
of these geese he recollects to have seen
and marveled at seeing, a considerabl,
quantity of a grain such as the new cerea
of Surprise Valley is said to be. AS NJ
such grain is known in the temperate
zone, and as we have no account of
grain of the kind being found in any
known region of the world, he is of tn,
[opinion that the geese obtained it in re
gion lying about the open polar sea.
He says no man has yet gone so ia
north but he has found wild geese AM
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
A Sharp Lawyer.

A worry tar story comes from one of
our courts. One Of those shrewed, sharp
and sarcastic lawyers, of that class who
take demoniacal JOY and unspeakabIe
pride in twisting a witness into laby-
ninth OF difficulties, had occasion, some
time ago, to cross. examine gentleman
OF some prominence. The sharp lawyer
managed, after much skillful manmuving,
to so confuse the witness that tie only
answer that he could obtain to his ques-
ton was, Il don't recollect.n
When the lawyer had had this answer
returned to him score or so of times,
his patience gave out. Tell me, Mr.. j.,
he exclaimed, with biting sarcasm. "do
you ever remember anythlng?"
81 can, was the response.
Can you carry your memory back for
twenty years, and tell me q single instance
that happened them"
eyes, | think [ can" returned the w.t.
ness who had regained some composure.
"Ah' exclaimed the lawyer, rubbing his
hands in orthodox legal fashion Now,
that is consoling. Come, now sir, what is
this instance which you remember so
well?"
"Well, sir, l remember that twenty
years ago, when you were admitted
to the Bar, your father came to me to
borrow thirty dollars to buy you a suit,
that You might make presentable ap
pearance at commencement, and | have a
distinct recollection that your father new
er paid the thirty dollars back to me-
Confusion changes hands at this point
of tie proceedings, and the lawyer dis
misses the witness without more ado.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
Sonnet.

know royal castle builder. He
has planned Gin clouds) a house beyond
compare,
:, And furnished it with treasures passing rare
Gathered from distant lands across the sea.
FOUNTAINS gush forth; and many a curious
tree
Shadows rich lawns broidered with bright
parterre
Of scented shrubs and fow'rs. And birds
are there
Well skilled in notes of sylvan minstrelsy.
Closed is the door. Unopened are the gates
The blossoms dro p, and exc the birds are
dumb,
The builder sadly sits as one who waits
For some loved friend-a alas who does moi
come.
In his fair mansion will he ever dwells
Onelittle maid-and only she-can tell.