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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03
COrsets for Men,

Periodically somebody starts a vague rumor
that corset wearing is not wholly confined to
women. In England it is said that many Of
the men habitually wear corsets, while in
France and Germany corsets as a part of the
male attire are quite common. 10 America.
while the custom is not SO general as in the
countries mentioned, still knowing ones say
that thers are more strange things in soma
mems apparel than the average citizen dreams
of. But for the first time a man, "and he is an
Englishmap," has had the boldness to step for
ward and openly advocate the wearing of cor
sets by his sex. Lift up yoar heads. oh ye
brethren, and listen to his blush-bringing
words: IT strongly advise to have the cor.
set made to open up the back only, as
lind 1t much more comfortable to wear and
lighter than when made TO open in
front in the now common mode. / can truly
affirm, from my own experience, that mod
erately tight lacing (ssy three or four inches
less waist measure than the natural rizal iS
not only not preJodicial, but, on the contrary,
is very beneficial to the health. My occupa-
tion is mostly of o sedentary nature, and
used to suffer much from pains in my side and
back and from indigestion; but about a year
and half ago my sister persuaded me to try
and wear corset, and she altered one Of her
OWE to suit me. found it rather irksome for
the first few days, but that feeling soon passed,
and on my next visit to London / had corset
properly made to my own measurement Since
then have had another one made. smaller at
the waist and wider at the chest, which L am
now wearing The pains have quite left me,
and my health is generally much better than it
used to be. Besides this, the feeling of being
tolerably well laced is very comfortable. From
my own observation and inquiries L find the
practice of corset-wearing by young gentlemen
is much more usual, but we don't make any
display of the fact" We await impatiently fer
some Of the physicians or women, who know
whereof they speak, to explode this impudent
heresy,-Louisville Courier. Journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03
BaIzac's Hand.

81. Champheury having recently published
book entitled "Balzac's Method of Work.
ing" it may bs worth while to reproduce Ed.
ward Ourliac's famous description of the way
in which the great authors Caesar Birotteau"
which was set up, rewritten, and corrected Is
times in 20 days, got into type.
The printers were ready and paved the ground
like waiting steeds. M. de Balzac sent in 200
sheets of manuscript written in five feverish
nights. Everyone knows his writing. 1t was
debaueh, chaos, an apocalypse. Hindoo
poem. The stoutest compositor turned pale:
time was short and the COPY unparalleled
Nevertheless, needs must; so the monster was
transformed-translated as well as might be in
to familiar signs. The most expert could do no
more. The proofs were sent to the author.
Next day the author sends back the first two
proofs pasted on four-sheet posters. From
each printed word sets out dash OF ink that
curves and winds like congreve rocket and az
last breaks into fery rain Of phrases, epithets
and nouns, underlined, crossed, written upside
down, mixed, scratched out and superposed.
A Splendid dazzling sight.
Imagine four or five hundred arabesques of
this sort, interlaced, knotted, clamberipg and
tumbling from one edge of the sheet to the oth-
er; from the north to the south; as many mapa
il which were interinvolved the towns, rivers
and mountains, all the hieroglyphics of the
Pharaohs, and the fireworks at 20 festivals.
At this awful spectacle the printers smose
their bosoms, the copy-holder tore his hair, and
the apprentices lost their reason. The most
daring tackled the proofs, where some recog-
mixed Persian, others the unfamiliar symbols
of Madagascar, some Sancrit. Work was
pushed on with blind hope in Providence.
On the morrow NJ de Balzac sent over two
sheets of pure Chinese. Only fifteen days left: :
q maddened copy-holder erdeayors to blow out
his brains.
Two more proofs received, very legibly writ
ten in Burmese. Two printers go blind.
And thus the proofs went back and forth, till
at the seventh essay some symptoms of excel
lent French were diagnosed; nay, there were
phrases.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

The Washington correspondent of the Phil
ade'phia Press says: "The effect of Gen.
Gar6ed's speech has been TO give rise to a
rumor here tonight that movement is on
foot looking compromise on the pending
political issue in Congress. 1t is intimated
that many Southern members of Congress
are not pleased with the attitude they have
been assigned in this controversy. A leading
Southern Senator says, that in the prelim-
mary steps on these political riders, his Sec
tion only asked for the repeal of the jury test
oath and the prohibiting Of the use of the
army for election purposes; that the propo-
sltion to repeal the laws relating to deputy
marshals and supervisors OF elections was
forward by Northern Democrats, and is a
question which does not effect the South at
all; and that grave mistake has been made
by every Republican who has discussed this
question in assigning the responsibility for its
inception to the South"
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lhOchldnu COurleT.
He Was Waiting,

A citizen on his way home late the other
night, espied boy Citing on the gate in front
of house on Union street.
"What are you doing there, bub?' he en-
"Sh keep still" said the by in a hoarse
whisper; III live here."
"Well, why don't you 60 into the house?"
said The citizen.
"Watin' for the fun," replied the boy.
"Motber jas sent me down town after father,
an he has jus gone in. He told me to wait
outside till after he had told her he'd been to
the lodge, an then 1 could come in an say
couldn't fiud him, an not mention his ben' in
the billiard hall; but know mother, an if you
wait minute You'll hear somethin' kinder
bang against the side of the room like"
Aud just at that instant q mntfisd sound Is
sued from the room where a light was visible.
"That's him-that's father," excia, med the
boy in great glee. "Bme by. you'll hear a
lamp smash, an then I'm goin' TO rush in an
look out for fire."
The citizen passed on and left the boy sitting
on the gate, with the livliest interest depicted
on his countenance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03
Gar1eld's Speech.
What HawIcy Thinks OF II.

Gen. Hawley writes to the Hartford Coura, ,t
under date Of March 20:
1t is an hour since General Garfield closed
his magnificent speech. L was a witness of the
closing proceedings when Mr.. Hayes was
declared chosen President. Twas spectator
during few days in the spring of 1861 when
JEFF Davis, Breckinridge and their associates
were posing for posterity in the bslief thar
they would be painted as the founders of \
new empire, and heard Bob Toombs, shaking
his heavy locks, roar out his fnal defiance.
Next in importance aud profousd feeling.
the scenes OF to-day will remain in my mem-
ory. hope everybody will read General
Garfeld's speech carefully. 1t does not over
estimate the gravity of the situation. And 10
truly represents the sentiment and purposes Of
the Republicans. The Democrats begin by ds-
nyiug the right Of the United States to inter.
tere with the conduct of elections for repre-
sentatives 10 Congress-, though the constit1-
ton expressly gives Congress tne contlsl
of the time, place, and manner OF choosing
them, Nexf, they deny to the United States
the right to use force in protecting the right Of
voting. A government forbidden the Ultimate
resort to force 10 executing the powers granted
II, might as we'll be called law school as n
government. Thirdly, they say that If these
claims be not accepted as part Of the two ao.
preparation bills in question we shall have no
money for congress, courts, executive, or army.
That is to say, their leading men have said SO,
and no Democrat has protested publicly.
Whatever discussion might be allowed upon
the details of their measures, there can be no
argument upon their stand and deliver, or
die'' method of legislation No Republican
will yield hair. predict that the appropria-
tion bill will ultimately pass without the poll.
tical legislation. There are some Democrats
who love their country, and some who do not
wish to surrender every chance to carry tho
Presidential election ia 1880
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

BLESSINGS, like curses, sometimes come
home to roost. 1t is with peculiar pleasure
that we welcome the return of Mr.. George
B. Goodwin, Journalist of great merit and
even greater promise, to his native State. Mr..
Goodwin, who was long ago recognized as
one of the brightest newspaper men in
Maine, and who has, since his brilliant con-
nection with the Boston Post, won a posi-
tion in the very forefront of New England
journalism, is about to take charge of the
Bangor Commercial. He is in every way
qualified for the position. Few are as well.
equipped as he; and there is every reason 10
peiieve that the Commercial, under his
cnarge' Will be better and wiser paper. 1t
is, too, comfort to hope that Bangor is to
have an evening journal that will sustain
instead of obstructing the Whig in its sturdy
and conscientious fight for sound.monev
doctrines.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune says that "a Southern Democratic
Senator admitted this evening, while discus
sing the present situation in the Senate, that
the more discreet members of his party are
somewhat troubled at the attitude in which
the party has been placed by Gen. Garfield's
speech. He said: "The Northern Demo
Gratis have put us in this hole. We did not
seek it. We only cared really for the repeal
of the test oath, but the Northern Democrats
said in caucus that they could not carry Ohio
and New York unless the election law was
repealed, and we were forced into this busi-
nnssO
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

The speech of Congressman Frye called
out by the taunt of Chalmers of Mississippi
that the country had been governed by a
drunken despotisma for the last eighteen
years, is described by hearers as one of the
most remarkable and effective speeches made
in Congress for many years. Its vigorous
and impassioned language was certainly JUS
titled by the defense of the Rebellion which
Mr.. Chalmers volunteered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

THE Washington correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser reports the President as
saying in informal conversation that the
present political struggle seemed to him to be
only new form of the longstanding contest
between the people who believe that the
United States are the patton on the one
hand, and those who hold to the doctrines of
State rights on the other. The Democratic
party is opposed to all supervision of elec-
tions for representatives in Congress by fed
eral authority, and to all legislation which in
any way interferes with the sole manage
ment of those elections by local officers.
They therefore intend, if they are able to do
SO, to sweep from the statute book every law
that has been enacted for the purpose of pre-
venting frauds in elections. This the Repub-
licans are determined they shall not do, if it
can be prevented. The President says he
has no doubt that ample power was conferred
on Congress by the Constitution to enact
these laws, nor does he for minute question
the necessity of maintaining them. The
question at issue, he remarked, is not Sec
tlOuai O11Os AhO lows W kASNSao i2ouuo dt
elections for representatives are becoming
every year more indi spensable to fair cleo
tions, and especially in many of our large
cities of the North. The question is funda-
mental, and is the same which was in con-
troversy between the two great parties be-
fore the war, and which was involved in the
war ITSELF In answer to the question wheth-
er the army bill, as it now stands before the
house and country, did not, in his opinion,
involve the same question that would be
raised when the legislative bill, with the sec
tions repeating the election laws, was brought
up for discussion, and whether it would be
proper to consider any one portion of this
political legislation Independently on its OWL
merits, he replied that he had taken very lit
tie interest in the details of the Democratic
plan. The first. and one of the chief objec.
tions TO the proposed legislation, was the
method in which it was proposed to accomp
lish it. That had been excellently described
by General Garfield, in his speech last Satur
| day, as revolutionary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

COLE, Republican candidate for judge of
the supreme court in Wisconsin, was re-
elected at Tuesdays election, the first of the
April elections. The State shows great Re-
publican gains.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municatious that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

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 our
0urnal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

N. Y. World: From the fact that Nero
hddled while Rome was burning, we may infer
that business had been pretty dull and he had
insured the old place for all it was worth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

London Times; Hypercritcism. Grace
(whispering)-"What lovely boots your part.
ner's got, Maryp Mary (dtto)-"Yes. nm
fortunately he shines at the wrong end"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

Boston Post: One thousand lires in Italian
are Just equal to one Eli Perkins in English.
T. S.-The pronunciation of lires is changed
for this occasion for the benefit if Mr.. Perkins
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

THOMAS COUTURE, the celebrated French
artist, is dead in the sixty fourth year of his
age. He was the painter of "Thc Romans
of the Decadence."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

burlington Hawkeye: Sitting Bulls medi.
cine ma man is about to issue little prmpblet on
the Treatment of the Scalp. - '''' on
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

APPARENTLY the chairman of the Demo-
cratic caucus has been again absent from his
seat in the Senate. That body did no bust
ness Tuesday.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

The crowd of Democratic aspirants in the
House is so large and so clamorous that
Speaker Randall seriously thinks of enlarg-
ing the committees so as to give them all a
chance
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

The Boston Herald thinks "The oldfash-
ioned hell is too cold for train-wrecker."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03
Cap and Bells.

Cut it short! The extra session.
Cut it shorti
Iainety dollars every minute
Isn't sport.
When the budget has been voted
Peace and rest will be promoted
BV the flight of House and Senate
Cut it short!
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'Longshoremen's Tournament.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
PROPOSALS
For School Supplies.

DRoPOSALS will be received by the undersigned,
II until April 5th for furnishing the Public
Schools of the City of Portland for the current year.
commencing April 1st, 1879 ending March 3lst 1880
with Books, Stationery and other supplies of the
cludng Writing and Drawing Paper. Pens, Slate
and Lead Pencils, Crayons Erasers, Ink &c. All
proposals will be contingent upon such appropria-
tops as the City Council may make for the above
supplies and the right is reserved to reject all such
proposals as may be deemed contrary to the interests
of the City. E. PRAY,
mh3ld1w Superintendent of School Buildings
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ohicaso Tribune: Admiral Dot wants to
marry m Judging from his name, his wife will
be the girl of the period.
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-NeM York Tritnne,

a felon on the hand is worse than two In the
psnitentiary.
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Desirable Real Estate For Sale.

TIME frst-class brick dwelling house No 81 Spring
Il St, with about eleven thousand feet of land
The house is most thoroughly built from foundation
up, good cellar with large Brick Cistern good Brick
Stable. Carriage House and Wood House, with new
falling well Of water in the yard. Good Yard and
Garden.
This property is pleasantly located on one of the
best streets in the city, and very central with excel
lent neghborhood, and is very desirable for good
quiet home It will be sold at a fair price and on
reasonable terms of payment to close an estate.
If not sold within reasonable time it will be Of
fered for Rent if desired.
For further particulars to terms &c., inquire Of
s. B. HASKELL,
Administrator of Estate of John Dow,
No. 80 Brambal St. or No. 81 Exchange st.
Portland, March a. 1872 mh24tf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03

Florence, the actor, tells this story of the ED.
er Booth: he was playing "Hamlet" in Vir-
ginia one night and had no skull. A little
darky volunteered to get one. When Booth
was leaving the theatre he felt someone tuggipg
at his coat-tail. He looked around and saw
the little brunette. "Whatn you have, SON
ny?' "Please sab, L wants daddy's skull, sab. /"
"Daddy's skull?" Eyes, sah Dat used to be
de ole mans headpiece afore de mewl kicked
him, an mammy'll lick me ter rags eff l lose
it.
One day Billy, that's my brother, lie and
Sammy Doppy was playin by q mud-hole, and
Billy he said: Now Sammy, less play we
was barnyard; you be the pig and lie down
and woller and I'll be bull and beller like ev.
erything." So they got down on their hans an
knees, and Sammy he went in the mud and
wollered, while Billy bellered like distant
thunder. Bmeby Sammy he cum out muddy
you never seen sech a muddy little feller-
-and he said: "Now you be the pig and let
me beller." But Billy said: "I amt very
good pig fore dinner, and it'll be time huff for
you to beller wen yer mother sees yer close.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-03
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Assessors Notice.

HVHE Assessors of the City of Portland hereby give
Il notice to all persons liable to taxation in said
city, that they will be in session every secular day
from the first to the fifteenth day of Apri next, in
elusive, at their room in City Hall, from ten to
twelve O'Clock in the forenoon and from three to five
O'Clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving
lists OF the polls and estates taxable in said city,
And all such persons are hereby notified to make
and bring to said Assessors true and perfect lists of
all their polls and estates, real and personal or held
by them as guardian executor, administrator, rus-
tee or otherwise, on the first day OF April 1879 and
be prepared to make oath to the truth of the same
And when estates Oh persons deceased have been
divided during the past year, have changed hands
from any cause the executor, administrator or 9TH
er person interested is hereby warned to give notice
of such change; and in default of such notice will
bs held under the law to pay the tax assessed al.
though such estate has been wholly distributed and
paid over.
And any person who negIects to comply with this
notice will be doomed to tax according to the laws
Of the State, and be barred of the right make ap-
plcation to the County Commissioners for any abae-
ment of his taxes, unless he shows that he was un-
able to offer such lists within the time hereby ap-
pointed.
HE-In no case where the Assessors have been put
to the disagreeabe necessity of making doom will
the possession of Government bonds or deposits in
the Savings Banks be allowed as plea in mitigation
Of such COON.
z5E f5Ht$sS 81 !! + ssSsss 81; S$HA;ssH, Assessors,
BLANK schedules will be furni shed at the room
Of the Assessors. mh29dtd
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For Sale.

HOUSE No. 16 Avon street, first-cass location.
IL All modern improvements. Particulars at 1888
street. mh3ldtf
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PLEASANT ROOMS TO LET.
Congress Hall ::E!:: +: {: !:
Dances. Parties, Lectures, &C., by applying to E. A.
SAWYER. 161 Commercial St. or JAS. A. WHIT
NEY, 17S Middle St. oc7dtf
REAL ESTATE.

MANEVt to loan on first class Real Estate
MO4s = Il Security in Portland or vi
onity Rents collected ta5es ,;,s PAID, &c on Com
Real Estate. 1874 Congress Street. no5eo1tf
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New Two Story House for sale.
HOUSE No. 8 Ellsworth street. 10 rooms. goo
III cellar and drainage. Lot 3Sx75. The most lib
eral terms offered, viz: one-third cash, balance
term OF years at per cent. interest Apply to G.
PA ITERSoN, Dealer in Real Estate, or Canal
National Bank. mh1dtt
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CasweIl's slippery Elm Lozenges

thShsaiWdy ySI
your bedside;l
taken whenI
will stopyourl
ially are theyI
G Id re nj
them to SicE-I
death UiihI
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NEW House, corner of Cumberland and Casco
IN Streets, Gas, Sebago hot water, bath room,
dumb waiter for upper tenement. Enquire at 137
Commercial Street. up stairs. mhl3dtf
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