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ried each chalice and q vial contain
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ried each chalice and q vial contain
ing black fluid. The ambassador con-
sidered the spectacle to be connected
with some court ceremony of mourning,
and endeavored to retire, but he was
soon undeceived by seeing the officers
holding the head of the apparent
corpse, and after gently chatting the
throat and returning the tongue, which
hung from a mouth relaxed and gaping,
he observed that they poured some
black liqnor into the throat, and closed
the jaws until it sank down the passage.
After six or seven times repeating the
ceremony, the figure opened its eyes
and shut its mouth voluntarily; it then
swallowed large portion OF the black
fluid, and within an hour an animated
being sat on the couch, with blood re-
turning into his lips, and a feeble
power of articulation. In the Persian
language he addressed his visitor, and
inquired the particulars of his mission.
Within two hours this extraordinary
person became altered, and his mind
capable of arduous business. The am
bassador, after apologizing for the lib
erty, ventured to inquire into the cause
of the scene he had just witnessed.
"Sir," said he, ST am an inveterate
opium. taker, and I have by slow de-
grees fallen into this melancholy excess.
OF the diurnal twenty-four periods Of
time, continually pass eighteen in
this reverie, unable to move or speak; I
am yet conscious, and the time passes
away amid pleasing fancies. Nor
should ever awake from the wander
ings of this state had not the most
faithful and attached attendants, whose
regard and religious duty impel them
to watch my pulse. AS soon as my
heart begins to falter and my breathing
is imperceptible except on mirror,
they Immediately pour the solution Of
opium into my throat. aud restore me
as you have seen. Within four hours,
I shall have swallowed many ounces, and
much time will not pass away ere I
shall relapse into my ordinary topor."
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Detroit Currency.

English tea dealers distribute novels
to people who buy so many pounds Of
tea. The novel.tea of the idea will soon
wear away.
We never hear anything of the evils
OF speculation except from men who
have invested and lost. It's all right
as long as it pays.
The farmer who depends on Provi-
dence to protect his family from tramps
will eventually learn that q shotgun is
an end to the means.
An old railroad traveller says he has
never yet asked for berth in the GEN.
ter OF sleeping car-or any where else.
He prefers to save his cash by sleeping
ON his ear.
If you read the papers closely you
will discover that those cities which
have the least money for charity are
contributing the most for next years
base ball clubs.
A Connecticut man has refused for
fourteen long years to let his wife speak
to neighbor, for fear some Of them
would become friendly enough to want
to borrow drawing Of tea.
Eggsyare only thirty cents dozen
in Detroit. We mention this now be-
cause it is very likely to meet the eye
of some man who can distinctly remem-
Der when they were thirty one.
Around this section the tramps have
already begun to palm themselves off
as Afghan sufferers, driven away from
their homes by the British army
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
Next time you hear Of a person 100
years old, just set it down that they
may have lived rs or 80 years them
selves, and some cheap man has put in
the balance of the time for them.
That bill "to impose severer penal
ty on grave robbers " is very hard on
the deserving poor. How are men
going to support their families in such
straitened times as these p Graphic.
We defy any doctor in the land to
prove that a person who walks ton
miles q day is any healthier thea the
man who sits down in an easy saair and
reads three pages Of " Paradise Lost."
Down in Columbus. o., . new ordi-
nance prohibits candidates from treat
ing voters to anything except hand
shake and smile. Candidates have
never shaken hards with voters You
know.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25
How 1t is Done.

Scene in library-gentleman busy
writing-child enters.
Father, give me penny"
Haven't got any don't bother NE. u
"But, father, I want il /; something
particular.
ct tell You haven't got one about
me-"
ct must have one you promised me
one"
st did no such thing-I won't give
you any more pennies you spend too
many. It's all wrong-I won't give it
to you, so 60 away"
Child begins to whimper. II think
you might give me one; it's really
mean"
"No-go away-I won't do it, 80
there's an end of it,"
Child cries, leases, coaxes-father
gets out of patience, puts his hand in
his pocket, takes out a penny and throws
it to the child, "There, take it, and
don't come back again to day"
Child smiles, looks shy, goes out con-
queror-determined to renew the strug-
gle in the afternoon with the certainty
of like results.
Scene in the street-two boys play
ing-mother opens the door, calls to
one of them, her own son,
"Joe, come into the house instantly"
Joe pays no attention.
"Joe, do you hear me? If you don't
come I'll give you good beating"
Joe smiles and continues his play ;
his companion is alarmed for him, and
advises him to obey. you'll catch it
if you don't 60, joe"
so no, I won't; she always says SO,
but never does. I amt afraid"
Mother goes back into the house
greatly put out, and thinking herself q
martyr to bad children.
That's the way. parents show your
children by your example that you are
weak, undecided, untruthful, and they
learn aptly enough to despise your au.
thority and regard your word as nothing.
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Josh Billings Philosophy.

I hav no objeckshun to man part
ing his hair in the middle, but shall
allwuss insist upon his finishing up the
job hi wearing a short gown and petit
koat.
Thare il sutch thing az too much
energy. I have seen thoze who were
like q yung hound in the chase, get
away ahed of the fox.
Thare are CRATE many roads that
lead to heaven, but after yu get thare,
only one gateway to enter.
If we would only profit hi our own
experiences or the experiences ov
others, it would be all most impos-
sible for even lightning to strike
us; but rather than do this, we
prefer to knox out what flu branes we
hav got aginst somebody's stun wall,
and then howl about the weakness ov
reason or the malice ov fortune.
Thare il nothing that we hav got so
little ov, and nothing We think we hav
got SO much ov, az originality.
1t il the little bits ov things that fret
and worry us we kan dodge an ele-
plant, but kant fly.
1t amt so much the amount man
knows, az the ability to uze what he
duz kno at the right time and place
that makes him power.
I have been trieing to find out for the
last forty years at what time ov life q
man il the most phoolish, and just az
soon az I find out l will let you kno.
The hardest man to convince liz the
one who agrees to everything yu say.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25

INDIAN LIGHT BIscU1T.-One quart
of sifted Indian meal, pint of sifted
wheat -four, very small teaspoonful OF
salt, three pints of milk, four eggs.
Butter sufficient number of cups, or
small deep tins; nearly fill them with
batter. Set them Immediately into a
hot oven, and bake them fast. Turn
them out of the cups, send them warm
to table, pull them open and eat with
butter. They will puff up finely if, at
the last, you stir in a level teaspoonful
of soda, melted in little warm water.
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PERSONAL.

Ole Bull was sixty. nine years old .
few days ago.
A New Albany Qnd.) woman has
been fined IS for eavesdropping.
I" Mrs. Gibbs, elocutionist, poetess,
washer and ironer. resides in st. Louis.
Senator Bsyard has fortune OF
something over 500, 900. He married
it.
Ex-Minister Pierrepont has resumed
the practice of the law in New York
City.
Victor Hugo says England produces
wealth admirably, but distributes it
miserably.
Genius of the highest kind implies an
unusual intensity of the modifying
power.--Coleridge.
There is Mohawk Indian girl in
her teens, at Millpoint, Canada, who
weighs 1872 pounds.
A New Orleans woman, whose hus-
band was killed by pet bear, has sued
its owner for $55, 900 damages.
Miss Cary sang the part Of Mignon
recently at her own benefit in Boston.
1t was her first assumption of the char
acter.
John G. SAKE continues i'll and under
mental depression in his home at Brook
Ign. He refuses to receive his best
friends.
can English sculptor is making
half-length statue of John B. Cough"
Which half? The coat tails ought to
be shown.
Miss Celeste Winans of Baltimore is
said to be the richest young lady in
America. She inherited $40, 1000, 900
from her father.
Thos. A. Doyle has been nominated
for Mayor of Providence, r. l., for the
fifteenth time. He has never been
beaten for the Office.
1t is said that the wife OF President
Grevy can ride a steeplechase, paint
landscape, compose a poem and play
the piano like an angel.
The Hon. W. d. Washburn, elected
to Congress from Minnesota, is the
fourth of that famous brotherhood given
seats in the lower House.
Mr.. Bancroft recently presented the
lady who reads the proof of his work
with $50 for discovering an error in q
Latin quotation. Would that there
were many of him!
Madame Christine Nilsson, after a
long season of inactivity, has accepted
an engagement for twenty nights in
Spain. The sum which tempted her is
reported at 90, 900 francs.
If Miss Dickinson had runaways and
thrilling escapes, and interviews, and
diamonds stolen, and quarrels reported
and few moresincidents of like nature,
she would have been great actress.
The late Mrs. Clarissa @. Cook, of
Davenport, Ia, has left nearly $100, 900
to a home for the friendless in that
city, and $50, 900 to fund for the sup
port of the poor clergy, and the widows
Of clergymen.
Nilsson is tired of her obscure life in
Paris. She writes to lady friend in
Boston that she intends to visit America
again next season. II is to be hoped
that her soiourn in Europe has inn
proved her temper.
Gen. Sherman is credited with say.
ing that he has seen all the royal
ladies at European courts, and has never
seen one who is superior to Mrs. Hayes,
or who could discharge the duties of
her position at the White House with
more grace.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson's lawn at
Concord is said to be the favorite gath
ering place of the young people and
children of that pleasant town. Every
Lo a. - l.
home, and himself enters into their
games with great enjoyment. He talks
to them, not didactically, but with
simple interest, of their plays and aims
and duties.
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The Suns Streamers and Comets
Tails.

We cannot but think that the true ex-
PLANTATION of these steamers, whatever
it may be 1--WE are not in the least pre-
pared to say what it isl, will be found
whatsoever astronomers have found an
explanation for comets tails. These
singular appendages, like the streamers
seen by Prof. Able, extend directly to
the sun, as If he exerted some repellant
action on the matter forming the heads
of comets. Indeed, Sir John Herschel
did not hesitate to say that the existence
of such o repulsive force was, to all in
tents and purposes, demonstrated by
the phenomena of comets tails. Now,
we know that meteors and comets are
something associated, though the actual
nature of the connection between them
is not clear. It is certain that the No
vember meteors, the August meteors
and other such systems follow in the
track Of known comets. We know that
when in 1862 the earth passed through
the region of space along which Biela's
comet had recently travelled, there was
display of thousands of meteors, all
radiating from just that part of the
heavens from which bodies travel
ing parallel to the orbit of Biela's
comet would have seemed to radiate.
1t follows from this association between
comets and meteors, and from the fact
that probably thousands Of meteoric
and cometic systems travel close to the
sun, that in all probability there must
exist generally, if not always. in the
suns neighborhood, enormous quanti-
ties of the substance whence comets
tails are formed by the suns repellant
action.-Popular Science Monthly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25

Those who make candles will find it
aagreat improvement to steep the wicks
J IN iime.water and saltpetre and dry
them. The flame is clearer, and the
t&llow will not run. So
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Do not call ill names. Thou shalt
avoid all anger, hatred and bitter lam
guage. Thou shalt not speak of iniu-
ries. buddhist Commandments.
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The triumphs of truth are the most
glorious, chiefly because they are the
most bloodless of all victories. deriving
their highest lustre from the number
Of the saved, not of the slain.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25

SUaoEsTIoNs.-To keep cheese that
has been cut, tie il in cloth, and put
it in cool place if mold appears, wipe
it off with cloth. Flour and meal of
all kinds should be kept in dry, cool
place. Oranges and lemons keep best
when wrapped close in soft paper and
laid in drawer. Keep coffee by itself
in tin canisters, if possible its odor
affects articles. Keep tea in close can
lister, to preserve its aroma.
RATs.--In one of our foreign ex-
changes We find the following recipe
for DISCRIMINATING rats. It consists nj q
mixture of two parts of well-bruised,
common squills and three parts of fine
ly-chopped bacon made into q stiff mass,
with as much meal as may be required,
and then baked into small cakes these
are put down for the rats to eat, and
are said to effect their complete extirpa.
ton.
ICING FOR WEDDING CAKE.-Beat the
whites of six eggs to an entire froth, and
to each egg add five teaspoonfuls OF
sifted loaf sugar, gradually beat it o
great while. You can put it on when
your cake is hot, or little cold as is
most convenient. It will dry in warm
h room, short distance from q gentle
I'VE, or in a warm oven, but do not let
it brown.
BUCKwHEAT CAKEs.-Mix one gill of
wheat flour with one quart of buck
wheat -four, add one lerge teaspoonful
of salt, then add gradually scant quart
of warm water, mixed with one gill of
yeast. Let it rise all night, and then in
the morning add a quarter teaspoonful
OF carbonate of soda, and bake imme-
diate.y.
NICE BREAKFAST DISH. Gold mas he'd
potatoes, made into little balls and
slightly hattened dip them into au
egg slightly, so as to mix the yolk and
white roll them in cracker crumbs.
Fry them in hot lard or butter. Send
to the table hot.
To CLEAN PAINr.-Whiting and
clean warm water will clean white paint
better than anything we know of. No
soap need be used. Dip the wet cloth
in dry whiting, end it will clean the
paint without removing it, as soap is apt
to do.
doors FROM COOKING PREVENTED
Put one or two red peppers, or few
pieces OF charcoal, into the pot where
ham, cabbage, etc., is boiling, and the
house will not be filled with the often
siye odor.
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Indian meal should be kept in cool
place, and stirred open to the. air once
in while. A large stone put in the
middle of barrel of meal is good
thing to keep it cool.
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-07
sACO AND BTDDEFORD,

SATURDAY, April 3.
The schooner John j. Marsh, Capt. John
Faulker, Of Biddeford, arrived in Philadelphia,
from Cardenas, yesterday.
There is to be grand % mile walking con-
test in City Hall, Biddeford, on the twenty
fourth of this month, under the management of
the Saco and Biddeford walking association, for
purse of $50, $25 to first, SIS to second. $40 to
third, open to all pedestrians in the two cities.
None outside will bs allowed to enter for the
purses.
VIM. Clough was before Biddeford Municipal
Court this morning upon complaint for SELL
ing liquor. Case continued until next Satur-
day to enable defendant to procure evidence.
The entertainment by the "Young Peoples
UnioD,'' of the M. e. Church in Saco, which
has been announced for Wednesday eve. next,
at their vestry, is postponed till "Wednesday
eve, April 30, at City Hall. Their programme
consists OF readings, dialogues music, etc.
bers Of the s'Saco Juvenile Temple" assisted
by Miss Helen Selea of Saco, pianist, and lady
volnist OF Portland, will be presented at City
Hall, Saco, on Wednesday evening, Aril 0.
Horace Woodman, Esq of Saco, has in op-
Grafton at the office of the Saco Gas Light Co.
patent "Positive Motion LOOM of which he
is the patentee.
1t is reported upon the street that Saco gen.
tleman offers to give $4,000 toward the con.
struction of suitable building for the York
Institute, the Atheneum and the Baxter
School,
Saco Yacht Club Notes:-There is good pros
pect OF lively times in boating on the Saco dur
ing the coming season. A full attendance and
very active meeting was held by the club last
evening. The organization began with a very
few members at the beginning of last season.
but their number has increased rapidly during
the winter. Many of the members seem to
have cavght the "shell" mania, and there will
probably be dozen or more shells to add to
and vary the interest at the races contem plated
tor the coming season. A desirable location,
with fine commanding view of the course has
been obtained for new boat house, 25x40 feet,
two stories high with cupola, which will be
erected as soon as the river opens.
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-07
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.


Eroms.O0 a. m to $50 D m, SUNDAYS excented
Sundays open for Carriers and General Deliyery
from to 10 m.
PORTLAND, ME-, Feb. II, 1879.
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive at 10 %
ana 'ao p NJ Close at S15 m, 1910, 2,45 and 900
Boston and the West. Arrive at 5.2opm.
intermediate UT Way Mails via Boston and Mains
aamways Arive at l22O and $40 IN. Close at s.1b
Great Southern and Western. Arrive at 70 On
?. ,m'' and llaO p. m. Close at SIS a. M, 1910,
Bangor and connecting routes. Arrive at Leo n.
m. Close at Ii. 80 a. m. i''" "
A aug and Sad routes Arrive at $50
Morning Northwestern by G. T.. B. arrive al 2 OK
m. Close at 7.15 am. ~ ''''
Lewiston and Auburn. Arrive at 2O5 and $50
~ a. ~ ana Luz p M Close at $50 and 11.3O a. m
Castine, Deer 1sle, sedgwick, s. W. Harbor. Mt.
cSiss yThhesRer Macias MachasDort East Ma
or: Arrive at a. m. Close at p. m, ''''''-
c; EastpoFt, via each steamer. Arrive at 500 m,
Foreign Mails, via New York, day preyounro ..,,.
ing OF steamers. Close at 8.15 a. m.
:. Eaxpress, Augusta, Bangor and the East. Arrive
1t 200 q m. Close at 900 m. AA''s
Skowhegan intermediate offices and the rortb
Arrive at LOO D. m. Close at IL 80 a. M. oN'"'
Skownegan also closes at 800 pm.
canada and intermediate offices, via G. Il. r.. Ar
rive at LOO p. m. Close at 12.45 D. m, ' al
Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island coea
al 11.3O a. m. and p. m. eiose
r. Arrive i aS D. nTerm SIdsa Offices via P &
Fryeburg, Me-, and intermediate oficesu via p g,
O. r. r. Arrive lib a. m. Close 200 .. m ""
worcester, Mass, and intermediate offices y,o d
q r. r. X. Arrive 1.2O m. Close 10 IN ~ NJ wa
O. Rochester, n H., and intermediate offices. via p
q +: r: R; Close 90 a. m. '' VI" f.
carriers deliveries at 100 and 90 A. m and I m
and Egg p M Collections at 100 and ii 90 a nv nv
and 2.16 and 500 m. 'O' d. m''
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-07
The Rates of Postage.

rostal cards, one cent each, go without further
charge to all parts of the Uuited States and Canada
with an additional onecent stamp they 20 to all nars
ofEurope. FN' -
All letters, to all parts of the United States and
Canada, three cents per half-ounce.
local, or "drop' letters, that is, for the citv ~.
town where deposited, cents if delivered bv car
riers, and cent where there is no carrier system.
Newspapers, daily, semi weekly, tri weekly and
weeklies regularly issued and sent to regular suh
scribers, cents per pound, payable at the Office of
puDHcatlon, newspapers and magazines published
less frequently than once week, cents per pound
Transient newspapers, magazines, pamphlets books
shara cent for each two ounces or fraction
tnereoI All other miscellaneous matter including
onsealed circulars, book manuscripts. proofsheets
ons, &C., and also Seeds cuttings bulbs and
Weight ant not exceeding four pounds in
u' ior each ounce or fraction thereof
Inc following are the postal rates With rnro,..
Ihe rates Tor letters are for the hafounce or frao
tion thereof and those for newspaners so- 49,,
ounces or fraction thereof AVA i0ui
To Great Britain and Ireland. ,etto,s
newspapers cents France, letters Giants cent cent
papers cents; Spain, letters cents, newsnanerS
GSepts; all parts of Germany including Austria
Ietters cents, newspapers q cents; Denmsraa'
ietters 3 cents. newspapers cents; Switzerland
letters cents, newspapers cents; Italy, letters
newspapers cents; Norway, letters cents, news
papers cents; Sweden, letters cents, newspapres
cen1s aurney european and Asiatic, letters
newspapers cents. ~e'''' As''ei' 0on'S'
For Asiatic countries the half-oupce limit fl,
letters, and the four ounces for newsnaners still
holding good, the rates are:-
10 Australia, letters, via San Francseo fexcsn+ -
NJ; p SEusn alesl via Southampton is Giants
t ;a IL cents, newspapers via San Franciscs,
TS va SOUTHAMPTON cents, via Brindisi Cents
mns, le1sers, via San Francisco 10 cents via Sontb
and 2 cents cents via Brndis CENTS
fndis s,e onns, py the respective routes British
cents; Japan letters via San Francisco cepas yia
england 10 CENTS via Brindsi 81 cents. s
Wis Brindisi cents. pf'On cenes'
The Portland daily press., 1879-04-07
TEMPLARs OF HONOR,

TEMPLARS OF HONOR.
1t TempEars' hatl, No. 100 Erchanqe Street..
CoUNCIL-Mane, first and third Monday In each
month.
TEMpLE-Forost City, No. 1, every Wednesday
evening.
PORTLAND FRArERNITY-No. Al FREQ st. Block
Every evening,
F. Q. s. OLA Hall, Plum St., on first Thursday Of
each month.
BoswoRTH Posi- G. A. R.-Meeting every Friday
evening IN Mechanics Hall, corner Of Congress and
Oasco streets.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIST Y
At their library room, City Hall, on the first and
third Monday evenings OF each month.
SovEREIGNs OF INDUsTRY-Dirigo Council No
meets every Friday evening, at Arcana Hall, at u
o'clock.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF Coon TEMPLARs-
Arcana, Monday, Congress Hall, 42OA Congress
St; Mission, Wednesday, Williams Block, Congl ,ss
fHs5 a. Mystic Thursday at Sons of Temperance
PAYsoN LITERARY SooIETY-Meetings every
Monday evening. at Mercantile Library Book, FAR
rlngton BLOCK, Congress street.
PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING
m, City Building.
PvarLAND TEMPERANCE REFORM CLup-Head-
quarters corner of Congress and Temple streets.
lay evenings at n O'Clock.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN AssoCIATIoN-Oppo-
lite treble House. Congress Street, open day aEd
evening" Union Gospe. Meetings Wednesday and
Saturday evenings at "a O'Clock.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs-Bramhau Lodge, No, 8
Thursday evenings; Munjoy Lodge, No. g. Monday
evenings; Pine Tree, No. H., Friday evenings. at
heir Hall, Ciapp's Block, Market Square. Section
Isl endowment Rank, fourth Thursday in each
month.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE UNIoN-Congress Hall.
Business meetings Thursday evenings; public meet
ings Sunday evenings, at Z o'clock.
PORTLAND TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. 7b-
Second Saturday Of each month.
JUVENILE TEMPLARs-Perham Temple, No. "a,
at Congress Hall, every Wednesday evening at
O'Clock. Temperance concerts first Sunday in every
month. -
PORTLAND ARMY AND NAVY UEIoN-~corn
Congress and Brown streets. First Tuesday u each
month.
MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
Corner OF Congress and Casco Streets First Thurs
day in each month.
PATRIOTIC ORDER Sons OF AMERIcA-Csmps No
l and 3 convene at P. o. s. of A. Hail. Plum
street. no. on Tuesday evening; No. 3 on Mon
day evening of each week; No at School House.
Turner's Island, Cape Elizabeth Friday Evening.