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The Romance of Adah Isaacs Menken.

1t was at Astley's, London. Suddenly
a slight noise and faint scream were
heard. There was buzz through the
house, the curtain was run down. Then
the manager stepped to the front and
stated that Miss Menken had met with
slight accident accidents are always
slight under such circumstances. If
there was doctor in the house would he
come around. We were sitting close to
the front. My chief said, "Follow me"
and before you could say Jack Robinson
we had scrambled through the orchestra
and over the footlights to the stage. The
manager led us to the green-room. There
upon the floor lay the beautiful Men
ken, her silk tights stained with crimson
blood. 81 don't think / am hurt much,
DOCTOR" she said, "Pm only frightened"
In turning corner the horse had gone
too near one of the flats and had grazed
her limbs, tearing the flesh all down.
Expedition was required. The room was
cleared and We were soon at work.
The wound, which was not danger
Gus, but must have been extremely pain
full, was soon, dressed, and the patient
taken her home at Brompton. The per-
Torrance of "Mazeppa'' was not con
cluded thatnight; the audience dispersed
after having been informed of the nature
Of the injuries the lady had received.
1t was my duty day after day to visit
her; the wound soon healed, but the
mental shock remained. 81 have been,' y
she said, "for years in constant dread OF
some accident of this kind, and the fright
more than the hurt has Frustrated me, ]
shall never recover" We laughed al
what we thought her idle fears, but they
proved to be true. This girl, in the
vigor of her womanhood, full of pas
sionate life, with every sense strung tt
its highest tension-a magnificent ami
mai, such as Du Marier loves to draw
and Lawrence or Swineburne describe
began slowly but almost imperceptibly
to fade away. For months she wa
carefully watched, then travel was pre-
scribed, and she went on the continent
A few months later / received a tele
gram dated from Paris: Come and SCI
me before l die" l lost but little tim,
in reaching the gay capital, but it wa
too late. They say she died Of consump
ton; she died from the nervous shocl
caused by the accident / have related
~. Y. Letter to st. Louis Post. s,f
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Jay Could on Deck.

In the senate wing. in room SO per
feet in its appointments that it might be
mistaken for jewel casket, may be seen
Jay Gould, the Napoleon of the hour.
A small picture, buta great deal of time
spent on the work. How elaborately
and exquisitely finished! About the
height of the Little Corporal, but.more
delicate and slender. A rare bead, well
rounded, with ears such as all blooded
animals possess. Pallid in complexion
as every other mortal whose blood is
pumped up into the brain to keep the
huge mental fires blazing. Eyes radiant
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and piercing, and hair tinted like that
of the Prince of Darkness. II Samson,,s
strength lay in his curls, Jay Goulds
must be found in his nose, for it is
feature that betrays the whole character
Of the man. As there is but one Jay
Gould on the face of the earth, there is
but this solitary nose, which is neither
Grecian, Roman, aquiline, nor pug, but
a nose abundantly able to poke into
every earthly matter, and manage to
come out victorious in the end. His
mouth is another extremely attractive
feature, the sort, however, that is not
given to talk Washington Letter.
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How to Observe Sunday.

The question of the proper observance
of Sunday has been much disputed
one, and is one of much interest. A Ger,
tain amount of religious services should
of course form a part of each Sundays
life; should indeed be its central idea,
bat it should not infringe upon the de-
mands of overworked nature for rest.
But what is rest? Clearly what would
be rest to one would not be to another.
What would increase vitality and
strength to the day laborer would make
the weary student, book-keeper or editor
more weary. The work of the six week
days, whatever it is, should be put en-
tirely out of sight from Sunday until
Monday. Mental labor-reading, writ
ing or other employment that requires
mental effort. Physical laborers must
cease physical labor, and can obtain the
desired rest in mental improvement.
Those whose week days are spent within
the four walls of a store or an office,
should be in the open air, in the broad
fields, where they can breathe natures
purest aerial draughts, as much as posi-:
bic. Those who labor out of doors will
find their greatest rest and enjoyment
on Sunday in their homes. The bust.
ness man and the banker should cease all
thought of his business, take com.
plete respite from all thoughts of " shop
and Sunday for all classes should be
made as widely different from 9th
er days in the week as possible. 1t shoulc
be made enjoyable, especially for the
children, that they may grow up with
the love of the day, instead of an aver
sion for it, as too common even in thu
best of Christian families. The observ.
ance Of the day in each household
should be made a study, that the mos
profitable and restgiving 'enjoyments t.
suit each case may be found, and thcl
let the observance Of the day, once set
tied, be lived up to as strictly as bust
ness transaction. The day should have
its distinctive features; religious cul
ture; freedom from toll for servant a
we'll as master; rest in its true sense
and enjoyment of the higher order
which relaXes the nervous system, ant
is one of natures greatest restoratives
all have their place, and none of then
should be neg ted.-PiHsb,wg 7sIe
1r1,1b
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21

A QUEER case came lately before a
French court. A peasant had agreed to
pay another 800 francs for a COW, and
the purchaser placed on bench twenty
2O-franc coins and a 100-franc bill. Be-
fore the seller could count the coin the
COW had made a snatch at the bill and
swallowed it. The question was who
was to lose, and the judge decided that
the hayer, rho had held the COW by a
halter when it devoured the money,
had not taken proper precaution, and
must pay it over again.
IT is to be hoped that the Tiltons
won't reunite just yet. Such stories will
come SO handy during the midsummer
dullnesS- Worcester Press.
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On3 VoHic HoW, tudt WOu u pass uO
muster at all, sir. Betty's safe in the
yard along o all the rest on 'em, an has
give down six good quarts into my pail
this very night; so you needn't give me
no such humbugging talk, sir. | won't
stan it.'
"Lordy! | dono what you're a.
talkin'. | say an swear I've ben
a-huntin' al! over, up acrost the wood
lot an way into the big swamp, till Pve
tore my clothes Almost of'n me. Look
a. there!"
-. g More fool you'll calculated the the dis
gusted old farmer, as he eyed Henry's
rags with sidelorg glare. "Jest you
harness up tother mare, an make tracks
up to Miss Peters, over on the noun.
ting, an fetch her over to see Sam
Take the lantern along; the roads kinde,
bad, an don't lose the mare"
Stung by the undeserved sarcasm, and
not as sorry for Sam as he ought to have
been, Henry teok things at his ease, and
it was well on to midnight before Mrs.
Peters got to her boys bedside, to find
him sleeping quietly; and when he woke
at early dawn to the strange conscious
ness of his own helplessness and painful
condition, it was a comfort to see his
mothers anxious, tender face bending
over him, and to feel her motherly
touch about his bed, smoothing and
settling and "tidying up as only his
mother could do. After the rest Of the
family had dispersed to their various
duties, and Sam had his mother all to
himself, he came to full confession, even
90 far as TO own his previous converse
lion with Henry.
/ thought Of you in mint, mother.
1 knew you'd tell about its being jedg.
ment, an / declare demo but what It
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my own boots." Youngdutiful: eyes,
but then yon hadn't got me about you
who know the ropes, to set you better
example"
A MAN was arrested recently in New
York for stealing newspapers. He had
mania for his apparently profitable
thievery. He had stolen, in thirteen
months, II ,0G0 newspapers, and his room
looked like the humorou column of
St. Louis paper-Hawkeye. %
1T is human to doubt. Display sign
with transcription Beware of paint"
and nine men out of ten will draw their
forefngers across the newly painted sur
face to see if the sign is not merely can
invention of the enemy" The tenth man
never learned to read. IA
| she asked the clerk if he was positive,
thoroughly convinced the eggs were
fresh. %, yes" said the young phiIoso-
pi1er. :" | know they are; why, the farm
er said none of his hens were more than
year DID," She bought basket full
on the spot.
PUNs are plenty just now Whitehall
Times. Yes, but we haven't noticed that
they are excel-lent.--Fmlton Times. They
are altogether too prevalent, and not at
all opu-lent in wit. The foregoing for
instance. Norristovn Herald. They are
not even sufficiently juicy to be succu-
lent.-M y. Mail.
You need not be afraid of giving too
much. The old darkey who said, off
any OBJ you know of any church wat
died of liberality, jos tell me whar it is,
an will make a pilgrimage to it, an by
de soft light OBJ de pale moon I will crawl
upon its moss-covered roof an write upon
de topmost single, Blessed am de dead
who die in de Lord"
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COMICALITIES.

icKMAN, spare our purse,
Raise not your prices higher,
You're making matters worse,
Thus freezing out each buyer:
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[Chilunk must be pronounced shul,unk, and a
little practice in pronouncing correctly and cor
recfly separating and accent1ating the syllables,
will give an excellent imitation of the sound OF the
car-Whees striking the ends Of the rails, In start
Il Ing, under rar 1speed, and stopping.l
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lovers the next morning. they were
both planting corn in the long lot-a bit
of meadow land at the extreme limit of
the farmland when their bags were
empty, and the drills leveled over their
golden sprinkling Of seed, Henry was
turning his face homo ward, when Sam
stopped him.
8 Look here, Hen; hold on; I've some
thing to say to ye.n
" Hay?" responded Henry, with an
air of idiotic astoHishment, but turning
back on his tracks. .
I" Dom yawp so. / jest want ter say
that know what you're hanging around
this here humstead for; and you can't
come it, now I tell ye. y
!" What be ye a-talkin about?" put in
the naturally astounded Henry.
z " Why, I'm talking abbout Miry Calk-
ms Maybe you think you're going to
git that gal; but / II tell you you amt,
not by a long shot! Y
WE'LL whose troop do you ride in %
inquired the other, with fine sarcasm.
/" Not yourn, anyhow, Hen Pine--and
! amt Joking, you can swear. Pm GO
ing to marry Almiry, eft any living man
does; 70 you'd jest as good haw out out
of the road afore you get kicked cut. .
Mighty Moses! how yew talkm said
the alarmed youth.
Tain't all talk, sir. Be YOU going to
quit without nat ling, or not
do know. answered Henry, sullen-
", his native obstinacy asserting itself
in place Of courage. 81 do knows I'm
going to be walked over in this fashion,
/ guess l am as good as you be, and Eve
got sight more chink. =
Darn your dollarsl who wants 'em?
Mify amt that sort: she'd ruther marry
q man than . poke. book. z
She ain't nobody's fool, now / tell
ye, Sam Peters. See eff size wouldn't a
heap ritEer settle down on our farm
I.han 60 4 tin-peddiing along o you. Hoi
| guess / shan,t haw outo Of your road !;
not much. No, sirl''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-02
Magazine Notices,

LitteA's Living Age for March contains: :
March of an English Generation Through Life,
from the Quarterly; SHAKESPEARE in France,
from the Nineteenth Century; Erica, trans
lated from the German; Antoine Caesar Bee
querel, from Nature; Docteur Lsvardin. from
Macmillan, and other interesting papers from
various sources.
To American readers the most interesting
things in the January number of the Edinburqh
ReUie,o, OF which the American edition is now
ready, are the papers on Schliemaun's Explo-
ration of Mycena, The Military Power of Rus
ola, Stanley's Discoveries and the Future Of
Africa, and particularly sympathetic and en-
tertaining review of Pierce's Life of Charles
Sumner, written, apparently, by one of the men
who became Summers friends in England at
the time of his first journey hither. Leonard
Scott Publishing Co.
The February number of Biackaooods Maqa-
zine contains Part VIII of the serial, Mine is
Thine; Irou-Clads and Torpedoes,- s,-The Infiex-
ible and Mr.. Reed; Above the Clouds, s,-a Rev.
erie on the Bel Alp, in which some account Is
given of Thomas Davidson, with several speci.
mems of his poems A RIDE for Life; A Visit
to Sophia and the Heights of Kamerleb,-
Christmas, 1877; The Life of the Prince Con-
sort; A Patriot Queen, tory poem celebrating
the Queens fidelity and the Earl of Bsacons-
fields statesmanship; Translations from Heine,
by Theodore Msrtio; The Storm in the East
No TX; and The Meeting of Parliament. Amer
ican reprint by the Leonard Scott Publishing
Company.
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Books Received.

Lem, the Silent Woman. By the author Of
kings Cope" Paper, 3i4 pp. 30 cents. Boston:
Loring. Portland; Loring, Short g Harmon.
An Essay ON Methods Of Arifhme ticaI In.
Afruciion. By F. W. Bardwell. Paper, 36 DID,,
10 cents. New York: G. P. Putnams Sons.
Portland: Loring, Short g. Harmon.
Life and Times OF Thomas Beckett. By
James Anthony Froude. Cloth, 15o pp., s1.50.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong s. Co. Portland:
LoriDg, Short & Harmon.
The Boy Engineers. What They Did and How
They Did 1t. A Book for Boys. By the Rev. j.
Lukin. author of 'The Young Mechanic &c.
Cloth, 344 pp, S1.75. New York: G. P. Pntnams
Sons. Portland: Loring, Short g Harmon.
The Origin of Matte ms. In two parts. On
Early Civilizations, On Ethnic Afinities &c. By
George Rawlinson, author of "The Four Great
Monarchles" &c. Cloth, 272 pp. $3.50. New
York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. Portland;
Loring, Short s. Harmon
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CONVENTION OF REFORM CLUBS.

The Quarterly convention of the Reform Clubs of
the State of Maine will be held at
Augusta on Wednesday and Thursday,
March and Z, 1878.
1t is earnestly hoped that every club in the State
will be represented at this session, that full and
complete report can be obtained.
The Reform work is spreading like ''Wid Fire. all
over the West and South, and let us arouse and re-
new our interest in this good work. and have grand
and glorious Revival in the State of Maine always
keeping in mind our notices. "We Dare to do Right''
"Charity to all. malice towards none''
One and one third fare on Maine Central r. r, and
its branches.
Per Order State Committee,
FRANK KENDRICK, Pres't.
GEO. W. MURCH, Sec'y.
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EDWIN NJ. BACON announces in the COL
umns of the Boston Globe that he has re-
signed his position as editor-in.chief of that
paper. Mr.. Bacon has made the Globe all it
is, and has succeeded in face of many and
difficult obstacles, in giving the public an en-
terprising, newsy and admirably arranged
paper. 1t is rumored that the Globe has
passed into the hands of the Democrats. 1t
however makes no announcement of its fu-
ture course.
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MAYOR BUTLER has so managed the
finances of the city that we have been able to
provide for the $3.50. 900 annual interest on
the railway loans, to set aside the amount
necessary for the sinking fund, and to paw
the current expenses of the municipality.
Let us give him another chance. Economy
ia wealth
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TIMES have sadly changed when man
can rise in his seat in the House of Represen-
tatives and eulogize Jefferson Davis for his
patriotism. Mr.. Singleton will next be moving
a vote of thanks to Mr.. Davis for his eminent
services in the late war-and every Northern
Democrat will vote for it.
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Recent Publications.

The writing of town histories is most COM
material which the general historian will need, ,
and when it results in such valuable work as
George Augustus and Henry Warren Wheeler
have produced In writing the history of Bruins
wick, Topsham and Harpswel, it deserves
especial praise. The elder of these brothers
is physician practising in Camden, the young
er the manager of the telegraph Office at Bruins
wick, both Topsham boys, graduates of Bow
doin College, and admirably qualified for their
task. The volume is an octave of nearly 1000
pages. at $3.50 in cloth binding, illustrated
with sixteen portraits eighteen sketches and
four maps and plans The book opens with
chapter on the Aboriginal inhabitants, and it
seems their name for the place was "Ah-me-
lah-cog-netur-cook," meaning place of much
game; which obviously must have generally got
away before they got through naming it. The
second chapter tells of the first white visitors
who .wers led by Weymouth in 1905 and Pop
ham in 1907. The early settlers bought their
lands of the Indians fairly, in confirmation of
which their marks are given, looking some-
thing like election returns from Madawaska.
Chapter three tells Of the settling; four, Of the
Indian wars, in one of which the place was
burned. Part III contains twenty-six chapters
OF topography and description, arranged each
subject by itself. The municipal history of
the three towns occupies seventy-fve pages.
Under the head of General and Social, many
interesting old-time anecdotes are given. Part
III contains biographies and family sketches,
filling over hundred pages, and nearly an
other hundred is given to the appendices giving
lists of names, and to .excellently arranged iu-
dices. 1t is surprising to see how much the
authors have CLEANED that is of general inter-
est, while to their townsmen it is indeed
treasure Dresser, McLsllan s. Co. have it
for sale.
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In its indecent haste to pass the silver bill
Congress refused to treat the veto message
with even the ordinary attention given to
papers from the execu tive. These silver
men are ill-bred rascals.
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EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
OurnaI.
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IF the taxpayers want an experienced
man at the head of the city government, one
competent to wreste with the financial situ-
alton and throw it every time too, they will
vote for Moses M. Butler.
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DURING the year the city debt has virtually
been reduced $4,000, that amount having
been set aside for the sinking fund. Mayor
Buffers administration did it. Suppose we
let it try its hand another year,
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THE nominations made by the Republi-
can ward caucuses are excellent ones. We
ought to have city council unanimously
Republican. Let US see how near we can
oot tn ~
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THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2.

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used,
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Mr.. Cox of New York must have been
looking at the gas light, in the manner of
Thurman, when he made his objection to the
reading of the veto message. Send for
Murphy.
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THE veto message has gone into the Con.
gressional waste-basket.
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RUSSIA seems to have the game in her
own hands. Austria has suddenly become
friendly and England is left alone.
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If we may judge by its action on the silver
bill Congress does not believe that haste
makes waste.
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THIS weather gives the ice-men chance
to get sentimental over the aftermath.
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WANTS..
Wanted.

A GENTS to sell new invention, In every town
IA and city in Maine. No competition. For par
ticulaIs address with stamp,
feb2Sd1ws SO Devonshire ST., Boston. Mass.
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For Sale.
For Sale.

a TWO Story and half House ,containing1 12 rooms
IA gas and sebago, furnace, hot and cold water.
Address HOUSE, this office. feb22dtf
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SHIS is to give notice that shall publish in one of
IL the daily newspapers of the city, on the 9th
day OF March next, in accordance with City ordi-
nance, a list of taxes assessed upon residents
naming unpaid in the bills committed to me for the
year 1877, together with the names of the persons
assessed therefor.
H. W: HERSEY, Treasurer and Collector.
Portland, Feb. 26, 1878. eodtmar9
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

TERMS; Eight Dollars Year in advance 7
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in ad
vance.
Sharp County record., 1878-02-22
A PerilOus Ride.

A late special from LittletOn, n. H.,
says: Readers of weather bulletins in
the daily papers seldom stop to ealize
the hardships to which agents of the
Signal-service Bureau are exposed at
some Of the posts occupied during the
year. The most dangerous for perma-
nent habitationi is probably Mount Wash
ingtOn. Yesterday morning Sergt.
Cone and Private Murphy of the Signal
service Corps started from the station to
90 to the foot of the mountain, the Ser
geant having orders to report at Wash
ingtOn for medical treatment. They
took a sled on which they proposed to
descend, on the railroad track. After
sliding for nearly a mile without any
apparent danger, at a speed Of fifteen
miles an hour over a smooth surface,
and in the face of a stiff breeze, they
came to the flat just above what is known
as " Jacobs Ladder one of the sharp
est slopes of the range. Here they rest
ed, it being deemed advisable to tighten
the load by giving up the sled to Sergt
Cone. He strapped on a light trunk,
and, adjusting the cogs, started on his
downward slide. On going over the
summit Of the peak, he was going at the
rate Of twenty-five miles an hour, but
this increased to forty as he got down
the side, and he was absolutely flying
down the mountain side, when he lost
his balance and was precipitated into a
snOw-bank, distance Of 100 feet from
the trestle-work He struck upon his
head and shoulders, and when found by
Private Murphy, who followed him, he
was APPARENTLY dead. After restoratives
had been administered he recovered,
and was removed to this town, where
his wounds were properly dressed. He
is badly bruised about the shoulders,
head and face, but no internal injuries
are thought to exist.