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The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22
The Glories OF Woma

SKATES at Bailey's, 4s Exchange street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22

The M2thcdS or the GlOOo commissioner.
~ few days ago the Boston Globe published
in connection with its so called fraud expose
an affidavit purpos=sng to be signed by W. l..
Folsom of Newport, alleging that he voted
the Republican ticket in consideration of IS
paid him by t. N. Whiting OF North Newport
The methods resorted to to obtain that atfida-
Wit are related in the following affidavit:
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22

Buy your Fur Caps of Coe.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22


I. Ware L. Folsom of Newport, in fine
county Penobscot, do depose and say that am
seventy-three years old; that neither Trad Fen
derson James w. Rogers or any other person
bought or attempted to buy my vote at the
last election. [ voted just as L had a mind
to and no one influenced me in any way i'll re-
gard to my voting.
Yesterday Frank Clements and Joseph Bis
hop, both of Newport, got me to so into G. c.
Oaks harness shop, and there they gave me a
pint of gin. Mr. Clements gave me drink;
also one hour or about that before Clements
wrote the statement he called me into his
store and gave me a drink of gin; just before
signed the statement he gave me another
drink and then told me to put the bottle in my
pocket. I did SO. [ signed the statement
that Clement had written. The statement
was not read to me and | do not know what
the statement was or how it read. l could not
read it. Clements said it was all right. Bis
hop asked me if I would make GA il to it. L
said of course I would. L never should have
signed the paper ii it had lot been for the
liquor which Clements gave me.
W. L. FOLSOM
Signed in presence Of
w w Goodwin
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22

IENOBSCOT, S..
NEWPORT, Nov. Is, 1879.
Personally appeared the above named, Ware
L. Folsom, well known to me, and made oath
Of the above statement.
WILLIAM W. GOODWIN,
Justice Of the Peace.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22
The Arizona Collision.

TO the Editor OF the Press:
SRA recent article in the New York Her
aid apropcs of the Arizona's ice collision points
out that the achoIe ice drift from the Arctic
regions is TOW ards the banks of Newfoundland,
showing the need of the greatest watchfulness
for vessels passing over the banks. When the
accident occurred we know: 1. That the
lockout men ahead wore not at their stations;
q That tho captain had left the bridge. 2.
That the boats could not readily be lowered
A ship has run at full steam head on into
huge iceberg and by miracle escaped, but
the lessons to be learned should not be lost.
/. In seas where ice is to be expected most
careful lookout ahead should be kept In
foggy or cloudy nights bergs cannot be distin-
guished till they are quite near. In October,
1876, when sailing south through Davis Straits
in the Polar Expedition to which I was at
tached our lookout men often at night shouted
.'berg under the bows" only just in time for
the officer of the watch to avoid them-so
hard it is to sec bergs in the dark. All felt
they were in considerable danger and for the
officers of the watch it was an anxious time.
2. The captain should never leave his post
when danger is to be apprehended. have
different times known captains take even
their rest and meals, for days together, in
chair on the bridge.
g. Though the occasion rarely occurs it
should always be possible to lower all the
boats at a moments notice-water beakers
and biscuit casks should be handy. and to test
the efficiency of their crews and tackle boats
should be sometimes called away hastily, and
inspected by the captain to see that they con-
tain all that would be needed in case of fire,
wreck, collision, or other emergency. Ii each
passenger were told on joining the ship to
which boat he would belong in case of acci-
dents it would avoid confusion and overcrowd-
ing, and if each provided small knapsacll
with few warm articles of clothing which
m ght be readily caught up it world be better
than some absurdities have seen practiced by
over-nervous people on voyage, sleeping in
their clothes, boots and all, the whole time,
and the like.
Many valuable lives have lately been lost
through inability TO lower the boats and all
must remember other such cases.
am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22
KNOX COUNTY.

Last Sunday son of Mr.. John Carson of
Corinna, aged about six years, went with an
older sister to give salt to some calves. In
the same enclosure there was horse that
came up near them, and the boy made a mo-
ton to scare him away, when he kicked and
struck the little boy in the left temple He
never recovered consciousness after receiving
the blow but died in few hours.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22

MEMS Winter Gloves, 5ocand up. Merry.
The Portland daily press., 1879-11-22

D. S. Callahan of Lewiston appeared before
the Governor and Council Tuesday, to urge
the pardon of Michael Lawless, Jr.. one of the
lie .ders of the famous "chan-gang' which
were such pest in Lewiston until three Of
them Were sent to state prison.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26
The Boomerang.

This curious weapon, peculiar to the
native Australian, has often proved a
puzzler to men of science. 1t is piece
Of carved wood, nearly in the form of a
crescent, from so to 40 inches long,
pointed at both ends, and the corner
quite sharp. The mode of using it is
quite as singular as the weapon. Ask a
black to throw it so as to fall at his feet,
and away it goes full 40 yards before
him, skimming along the surface at 8 or
4 feet from the ground, when it will
suddenly rise in the air 40 OF 60 feet, de-
scribing curve, and finally drop at the
feet of the thrower. During its course
it revolves with great rapidity, as on a
pivot, with whizzing noise. 1t is won
derful so barbarous people should
have invented so singular weapon,
which sets laws of progression at def
ance. 1t is very dangerous for Eu-
ropean TO try to project it at any object,
as it may return and strike himself. In
a natives hand it is formidable
weapon, striking without the protector
being seen; like the Irishman's gun,
shooting round 4 corner equally as well
as straightforward.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26
Foreign Notes.

An English Lord recently attempted
to evadc payment of a debt of f2 IS.
for coal by pleading the privileges of a
peer against arrest. He sports six titles
to his name, which is the honorable one
of Sir Philip Sidney.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte, nephew
of the first Napoleon, is said to be living
in abject penury at Versailles. For some
time past he has been supported by the
charity of a few friends, who have at
last failed him. He is the first of his
name who has lived upon aims.
-Leontine NicOllc, the French woman
who takes the Academic prize for virtue
this wear, is said to have been the means
of restoring the reason of no less than
500 insane men and women. She en-
tered the Asylum of La Saltpetriere
twenty years ago to care for her insane
mother. The latter died a year ago.
Sir Curtis Lampson is about 20.
He has conducted the fur business about
Al years, and is supposed to be worth
from 81, coo, 600 to $500, 900. Sir Cur
tbs (who is a VermOnter by birth, as also
is his wife) has very handsome house
in Eaton Square, London, where Mr..
Peabody long resided with him.
The Hon. Ivon Keith Falconer, a
popular Dissenting. preacher in London,
is a famous bicyclist, and on Sunday
mornings rides to church on that vehicle.
accompanied by a crowd of friends, also
on bicycles. On arriving at the church
door, each rider takes his instrument
into the vestry, and gives it a rest unit!
the services are concluded, when they all
roll themselves home again.
"A correspondent at Rome tele-
graphs that the Pope has written an au-
tograph letter to the Emperor of Ger
many, summing up the results of the late
negotiations, and suggesting the En-.
peror's direct intervention in the way OF
clemency as the only way to re-establist
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26
The Fourth OF July under the Midnight
Sun.

A party of Americans celebrated the
102d anniversary of our national indie
pendence at North Cape, Norway, lati-
tude 10 Is, longitude 250 SOY. They
arrived there mt IL o'clock OH the night
of July Sd, and ut one minute after mid
night guns were fired and the shrill
sounds of the engines whistle were made
to respond to the number of stars on
our flag, and loud cheers given to usher
in our great national holiday. The
party then assembled the almost perpen-
dicular cliff 600 feet high) and raised
the American flag, the flag being made
party out of materials purchased at one
of the Norwegian towns. When the flag
was raised cheers and guns again re-
sounded over the waters. 1t was GER
tainly Il most extraordinary place for
such celebratiOn-prObably the first
time that n party of Americans ever
celebrated the Fourth of July at such an
hour and at such latitude and lOngi-
tude. The midnight sun shone upon
them all the time with dazzling bright
ness. Far to the north they gazed out
on the Atlantic Ocean dashing against
the great cliff on which they stood.
Behind them were the snOw-clad noun
tains, along which they had been coast
ing, and not a living creature was near
them but the sea birds that arose scream
ing from the wafer as the silence of their
home was broken. The North Cape is
beyond seventy-One degrees of north
latitude and about 100 miles north of
Hammerfest, the most nOrtherly town
in the world. 1t is five degrees further
north than the most northern part of Ice
land.-Scientifc american.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26

Care of Boots and Shoes: If prop
erly cared for, boots and shoes will last
nearly twice as long as usual. Put the
new shoes in a plate or dish and pour
into it enough boiled linseed oil to cover
the soles, not permitting it touch the up
pers. The oil causes the leather to re-
sist moisture, preserves the thread, if
sewed, and cause the pegs to swell, If
pegged. Give the uppers a good coat
inc of neatsfOOt oil and tallOw. Never
allow them to stand too near the fire, or
in q damp place.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26
The Almighty Agin Him.

There were two men (about 1889,
Stickpenny & Whewell, who owned Il
saw-mill near Old Town, Me-, in COM
mon. The arrangement under which
the mill was operated was that each one
had the mill all to himself during the
alternate weeks. Stickpenny was Il
mean, rusty old chap. Whewell was a
shrewd, investigating young man. The
mill was run by a crude, rough kind of
an undershot wheel that gave very little
power for the amount of water used, so
that the water was often short. Whe-
well wanted to put in new iron spiral
vent wheel then just coming out, but
Stickpenny would have nothing to do
with it. He wasn't going to lay out
money for any "such job as that
Finally Whewell said he would pay all
the bills, to which Stickpenny at last
agreed, "but provided that you put the
wheel in in your week" So the new
wheel was put in, and Whewell, being
of a mechanical turn of mind, expert
mented with it, and soon found by
plugging up some of the Orifices the saw
went through the log faster than when
they were all open. So he plugged them
up during the week, and always pulled
the plugs all out again for Stickpenny
to operate with. So it began to be no.
ticed that somehow or other Whewell
always managed to saw a couple thou
sand more feet of lumber in his week
than ever Stickpenny could, no matter
how the pond was, Finally Stickpenny
went down to see Whewell about it.
Said he: "Whewell, how is it that
you always manage to saw more lumber
in given time than can when my turn
comes rOund?n Says Whewell:
"DOn't YOU know how that is? WAL,
I'll tell you. It's because you amt been
treatin' of me fairly on this matter
It's ag'in nature. You can't expect the
mill to saw as well for you as it does for
them as does the square thing all
around" Stickpenny wouldn't believe
that, and went away. But still the mill
went on regularly turning out more lup-
Der for Whewell than Stickpenny man
aged to get out of it; so finally the lat
ter came around and said: "What's
your bill? I'll pay my SHARE He
paid it, and thereafter Stickpenny man.
aged to saw lumber just as lively rs
Whewelldid. "Well,'' said the old fell
low, 81 always knew that the folk
around here were all ag'in me, but l
never thought the Almighty was;" and
he died without finding out the explana-
ton of it all
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26

"A sentimental young lady says
"Oh, the bonnets of my girlhOOd, the
kind wore at SCHOOL, really thought
them pretty! l must have beep fool
and yet used to think myself on hats a
jaunty miss. Perhaps was, as fashion
went; but what was that to this? Oh,
the lovely little pancake, the charming
little matt makes my head so level,
and so very, very fiat! Oh, sisters
love is charming, as every body knows!
And a handsome Cousins love is nice
Chat is, l should suppose). And the
love of a true lover is the love that can
not pail; but the love of new bonnet
is the dearest love of all!--in fact,
1 think it's better than going to a
ball!n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26

AT the recent session of the Society
for the Advancement of Science held at
Saratoga, p. w. Shaeffer of Pottsville
read paper on the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania and their rapid
exhaustion. He said that mining began
in 1920, with 365 tons, and the product
now marketed is about 100000 600 tons
annually. The yearly product is about
5O,OOO,OOO, of which 100000 are
wasted. 1t is estimated that in 1876
years, or in the year 2O65, the anthracite
fields will be exhausted. We will then
have to fall back on the bituminoos
coal-fields, which have an area of 2OO,-
600 square miles, 400 times as much as
the anthracite fields. He doubts il
Great Britain can increase its present
annual production of bituminOus coal to
136, OOO,O 900 tons.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26

harmony. 1t is reported that Bismarcl
knew and approved of this step before
hand.
The Grand Hotel of Paris, one O
the most celebrated in the world, wa
recently sold at auction for no less thar
$4,272,OOO. This magnificent structur,
is situated on the Boulevard des Capu
cines, in the very center of fashion an(
gayety in modern Paris. 1t is entirely
isolated from all other Buildings, cover.
an area of about 1900 square yards, ha!
a frontage on the bOulevards of 800 feet
its facades contain 40 windows in addi
ton to those in the cOurt-yartls, ground
floor, and entresOl; and it has about 7O(
rooms, all furnished in the most luxuri
Gus style. Its dining-room is said to bt
the most magnificent in the world.
Odds and Ends.
=" Investigator wants to know what
is good for cabbage-worms. Bless your
soul, man, cabbages, of course. A good
plump cabbage will last several worms a
week.
The young man who, wishing to
know the pronunciation of word, was
advised to consult authorities, inter.
viewed the Mayor, three Alderman and
the Sheriff. Post.
"A Georgia young man asked his
sweetheart whether she had ever read
Romeo and Juliet She replied that
she had read Romeo, but she did not
think she had ever read Juliet.
"A Momentous Interview: "Good
evening!' "Good evening" "This
is pleasant evening"" "a very nice
evening"" "May see you home this
evening?' "Well, not this evening"
"GoOd evening" "Good evening" -
Thus evening matters all around.
Don't remain in ignorance for the
want of asking. If you don't know why
a bartender fills your lemonade glass
four-fifths full of pounded ice ask him
and he will tell you that he does it be-
cause ice, which can be used over and
over again, is cheaper than lemons and
sugar.-DetrOH Free Press.
Sc You made a fool of me-" said an
irritated man to his wife, "and that
the way you got me to marry YOU
"My love-" sweetly responded the wife,
"you do yourself an injustice. Call
yourself a fool if you please, but remem-
Der that you are in all respects a self
made man.
-'sOld 81" of the Atlanta Coaastit't-
ton is reported to have received $4,000
from the Dowager Anna Paulina Cath
cart of SOmersetshire, England, for res
cuing her from perilous situation I'M
der locomotive once upon time.
Some folks are always having streak
of good fortune, but when we risk our
life to get some fellow out from under a
horse-car or something of the sort, it is
Just our blamed luck to have it some
one to whom we're owing money.-Bos-
ton Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26
A Prescription.

An English doctor, who was called in
to see French Marquis, and found his
patient in an unwhOlesome condition,
prescribed the external application of a
certain number of gallons of water,
with soap in proportion, and the gentle
friction of towel. "Mon Dieu!"
cried the horrOr-stricken Marquis, " this
is washing oneself! =" 81 must admit, -
replied the other dryly, "that the REM
edy has that advantage
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26
Science and Industry.

The Paterson On. j. locomotive
works are very busy, having contracts
on hand for South and Central America
as well rs American roads.
The largest cOg-wheel ever made in
Paterson, n. j., has just been finished
at the Watson Works. 1t is of iron, 20
feet in diameter, the periphery 10 inches
wide, and it weighs IL tons. 1t is de-
signed for sugar factory i'm Cuba, and
is TO be used for crushing cane. 1t will
make only two and half revolutions
per minute.
The President of the Norfolk Oys-
ter-packing Association says that :, OOO,-
600 bushels of oysters will be taken from
Virginia waters this year, and more than
one-third of these will be handled by the
packers of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The average value of the oysters is 80
cents bushel, making the oyster trade
of Norfolk something like $3.50, 600 a
wear. The business has been built up
since the War, and is steadily increasing.
To-day there are 100000 barrels,
of 40 gallons each, of crude petroleum
above ground in the oil regions. This
vast amount of heat and light is going a
begging at 60 cents a barrel, and every
hour adds to this ocean of oil. and in
spite of the enormous consumption the
stock acc,nnulates. Every new use to
which petroleum is applied possesses in
terest to producers, and that day when
crude oil will take the place of coal for
steam producing purposes is considered
not far distant. Experiments have been
made in this respect, with small
steamship, with the best results, and as
thus burned no smoke or odor is appar-
ent.
The work of laying the pipes for the
new system of heating is going on rap
idly in Troy, N. Y, the contractor ex-
pecting to have them all down by the
middle of September. By the middle Of
August the company had over 500 sub.
scribers booked. According to the Bud
act. the estimated cost of fittingup three.
story brick house with necessary piping
and radiators was about $500, and the
expense of heating such house by steam,
using all required, day and night, will
not exceed $40 per year.
The new industry of getting ano
shipping pine tags, or pine straw, a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-26

One gas company supplies all Paris
and an agitation for reduction has lately
begun. The last year dividend was equal
to thirty-one and half per cent. on the
original price of the shares, after a sum
of eight millions had been paid to the
municipality, which, by the concession,
shares in the profits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-04-23
Hints 10 Writers.

William Cullen Bryant once gave
the following sensible advice to a
young man who had offered him an
article for the Euening Post:
My young friend, | observe that
you have used several French expires.
sions in your letter. | think, if you
will study the English language, that
you will find it capable Of expressing
all the ideas you may have. have
always found it so, and in all that l
have written I do not recall an in
stance where l was tempted to use a
foreign word, but that, on searching,
I have found q better one in my own
language Be simple, unaffected be
honest in your speaking and writing.
Never use long word when a short
one will do as well. Call spade by
its name, not a vell.known oblong in.
strument +; lot home be a home and
not residence a place not locality,
and 90 on of the rest. You lose in
cleamess you lose in honest express
sion Of meaning; and, in the estima-
ton Of all men who are capable Of
judging, you lose in reputation for
ability. The only true way to shine,
even in this false world, is to be mod
est and unassuming. Falsehood may
be thick crust, but in the course Of
time truth will find place to break
through. Elegance Of language may
not be in tie power of us all, but sim
plic'ty and straightfor wardness are'
Write much as you would speak, and
as you think. If with your inferior,
speak no coarser than usual if with
your supeior, speak no finer. Be what
you say, and within the rules Of pref
udice. No one ever was gamer by
singularity Of words or in pronuncia
ton. The truly wise man will so
speak that no one Will observe how he
speaks. A man may show great
knowledge OF chemistry by carrying
bladders of strange gases to breathe,
but one will enjoy better health, and
find more time for business, who lives
on common air.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-04-23
Training the Girls.
ONE OF THE LAMENTABLE MISTAKES OF
PHND MOTHERS.

ONE OF THE LAMENTABLE MISTAKES OF
PHND MOTHERS.
Perhaps one of the most lamenta-
bic errors of the present day is the
manner in which our girls are trained
While proud and happy parents are
DESTROYS that their daughters be ac-
complisbed IN music, painting and the
languages, they seem totally to ignore
the more necessary arts of house.
keeping and home-making, or to i'm
agine the knowledge Of such to be
degrading. We know Of no more
piliable object than a young wife
placed at the head of the husbands
home, utterly ignorant of her duties
as its mistress. Trials. we'll calculated
to make her life miserable await her,
and many of the unhappy marriages
of which we know and hear, have
their origin in just such causes for
while men are loving and indulgent,
they are selfish, and few have sufi.
cient selfdenial to bear patiently the
mistakes that enter so materially into
their comtorts.-[ American Traveller.