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Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05
Special Notices.
A CARD.

To all who suffering from the errors and indis
cretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay
loss of manhood, &C., will send recipe that will
cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This greatremedy
was discovered by missionary In South America
Send self addressed envelope to the REV. JOSEPH
7. IHMAN, Station d, Ner York City.
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THE SECRET hey To HEALTH.-The Science Of
Life, SelfPreservatisn. 300 pages. Price, only 81
Contains fifty valuable prescriptions, either one OF
which il worth more than ten times the price Of the
book illustrated sample sent on receipt Of cents
for postage. Address, DIR. w. II. Parker, BulAnch
Street. Boston, Mass. iuly17-tevWkwi3tbm
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

Since specie resumption the total inn
portation of the precious metals into the
United States amounts to over fiftv-six
millions. And still the golden tide pours
III upon US, as, with our enormous stock
-ei grain and provisions for export, itmust
commune to do, says the Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05
Nem advertisements.
30 DAYS ON TRIAL

We will send Electro Votac Belts and other Elec.
trio Appliances upon trial for % days those suf.
fering from Nervous Debility, Rheunatism, Parsly.
sis any diseases Of the Liver Kidneys and many
other diseases. Sure Cure guaranteed or pay.
Address NoTAIC BELT Co., Marshall, Mich. nov5-4w
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AeENTS READ THIS /

We want an agent In this County to whom We
will pay u salary Of el0O per month and expenses TO
sell our wonderful invention. sample free. Address
at once SHERMAN & Co, Marshall, Mich. nov5 4w
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Notice is Hereby Given

TTNHAT claims against the estate Of BENZ. G. DA-
i Wis. late Of Augusta, deceased, testate, may be
presented to JAMES W. NORTH for settlement. and
debts due the said estate may be paid to him, he
being hereby authorized to receive and settle the
same for me.
A. NJ. DAVIS, Exeeutrix.
Oct 2Sth, 1870. nOv3t1w
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

Fell, VS. Hypophosphites makes an old per.
son look years younger. ''This witness is
true" Would that | could more widely
make it known for its many virtues. Long
may its inventor live to see the happy fruits
of his invention.
ALEXANDER CLARKE, DID,, Amherst, N. S.
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

Rings Vegetable Ambrosia restores gray hair to
its original color prevents the hair from falling out,
market. Parsons, Bangs & Co., Wholesale Drug.
gists, GenI Agts. juy22t& xtf
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

The most powerful and best working WOOD FUR
MACE ever sold. Galvanized Iron Castings or set In
Brick. The drum Is made Of heavy plate iron, gas
tight. Easy and simple to manage and we will war.
rant It to produce more heat than any other WOOD
FURNACE. ltis unequalled for durability. ecouo-
have all who interested call a st0re and care
fully examine these Furnaces. We guarantee perfect
satisfaction. Below We refer to parties using our
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

Lungs cannot DC made but can be saved bv
the use of DIR. A. j. Fagg's Cough and Lung Syru
If taken in time.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

DIR. C. w. BE. SONS CELERY and CHAMOMILE
PILLS prepared expressly to Sick Headache.
Nervous Headache, Dyspeptic Headache, Neuralgia
and Nervousness and will cure any Price so
cents, postage free Parsons Bangs Co., Portland,
General Agents.
Great 10y over the fact that your cough can be
thoroughly cured by Dr. A. J. Flaggs Cough and
Lung Syrup.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

DIR. Cutters Shoulder Braces correct 'he habit O
STOPPING. Parsons. Bangs & Co., Wholesale Drug
gists, Portland, General Agents.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

That Cold Of Yours may run INTO consumption
If you don't take DR.. A. j. Fiagg's Cough and Lung
kurl
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

In our northern latitude where sudden
changes of temperature are so common, be
sure and keep supplied with Adamson's Bal
sam. 1t tempers the climate and wards off
consumption. Price 35 cts. t&wlw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05


Great Joy over the fact that your cough can be
thoroughly cured by Dr. A. J. Flaggs Cough and
Lung syrup.
POSITIVE Results. There are numerous
remedies that cure sometimes and become
trusted as useful, but none have ever proved
$50 effcctual--cuFed SO many and such re-
markable cases-ras DIR. Ayers medicines.
The Cherry pectoral has restored great
numbers of patients who were beived to be
hopclessly affected with consumption.
Ague Cure breaks up chills and fever.
quickly and surely.
Ayers Compound Extfacd Of Sarsaparilla
eradicates scrofua and impurities of the
blood, cleanses the systym and restores it to
vigorous health. BY its timely use many
troublesome disorders that cause a decline of
health are expelled or cured.
Ayers Pills and their effects are too well
known everywhere to require any cOmmenda-
ton from us here.-[ Scranton (Pa.) Times.
That Iectic Flinh De,lstes Danger. Re-
lieve yourself by using and at once, too, DIR. j..
Flagg's Cough and hung Syrup.
Itching Piles, Symptoms and Care.
The symptoms are moisture, like perspir-
alton, intense itching, Increased by scratch
ing, very distressing, particularly at night
as if pin-worms were crawling in and about
the rectum, the private parts are sometimes
affected; if allowed to continue, very serious
results may follow. DIR. SwAYNE's ALL
HEALING OINTMENT is a pleasant, sure
cure.
L. TAYLOR, Hinsdale, N. H., writes -
''For thirty years have been greatly troub-
led with Itching Piles; have consulted sever
al physicians and tried many remedies, which
proved to be no remedies at all, until OBJ
tained DIR. Swayne's Ointment at Thomas
drug store, BrattleborO, VT, which cured me
completely"
Swayne's Ointment is also q specific for
Teter, Itch, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Ery-
sipelas. Barber's Itch. Blotches, and all Scaly,
Crusty, Cutaneous Eruptions. Price so cts. !;
boxes for Sl.25 Sent by mail to any ad-
dress on receipt of price, in currency or 8
cent postage stamps. Prepared by DIR.
SwayEe & Son, Philadelphia. Sold by all
druggists. GEO. C. GOODWIN, Boston,
Wholesale agents. octl5-t -teod&wtf
known. Price 25cents. july3t&wtf
In our northern latitude where sudden
changes of temperature are so common, be
sure and keep supplied with Adamson's Bal
sam. 1t tempers the climate and wards off
consumption. Price 35 cts. t&wlw
Rings Vegetable Ambrosia restores gray hair to
its original color, prevents the hair from falling out,
and is of the finest dressings for the hair In the
market. Parsons, Bangs & Co., Wholesale Drug.
gists, GenI Ag'ts. juy22t& xtf
Fellt VS. Hypophosphites makes an old per.
son look years younger. .'This witness is
true" Would that l could more widely
make it known for its many virtues. Long
may its inventor live to see the happy fruits
of his invention.
ALEXANDER CLARKE, ID, Amherst, N. S.
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That Cold Of Yours may run into con assumption
If you don't take DR.. A. j. Fiagg's Cough and Lung
Syrup.
DIR. Cutters Shoulder Braces correct 'he habit of
STOPPING. Parsons. Bangs Co., Wholesale Drug
| l.a.ad lAaa = xAsaAs
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-11-05

Miss Sawyers salvb as now prepared is the bes,
known. Price % cents. july3t&wH
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
POPuLARIzING GAMBLING.

Casanova, after his miraculous escape
from his prison at Venice, was the first to
develop, in 1857, to any extent the love
French people had for games of chance,
democratising and popularizing gambling.
He arrived in Paris on the very night d.
mien, the regicide, made his attempt on
Louis XIV, with empty pockets, relying for
his future on the patronage of the Able de
Bernis, whom he had known when the
Able was French Ambassador at Venice.
He came at most opportune moment,
when the Golfers of the State were empty,
and when twenty millions were required to
build the Ecole Militaire He managed to
secure the good graces of the Marquise de
Pompadour, and organized, under Royal
patronage, lottery with such success that
the deficit in the budget was more than
made up, and the adventurer Casanova
became a rich and influential gentleman.
His friends imagined he hal found the
philosophers stone, and as he says in his
memoirs, 'I went out of an evening with
my pockets filed with lottery tickets, and
returned home OF night with my paper
turned into gold"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
a HINT TO DRAM DRINKERS.

Barkeepers pay, on an average, So per
gallon for whisky. One gallon contains an
average of fifty five drinks, andat ten cents
drink the poor man pays $3.50 per gal
Ion for his whisky; in other words he
pays So for the whisky and $3.50 to man
for handing it over the bar. While it would
be better for all not to drink, some men
will have whiskey, and my advice to them
is this:-Make your wife your barkeeper.
Lend her So to buy gallon of whisky for
beginning, aud every time you want
drink go to her and pay ten cents for it.
Dy the time you have drank gallon she
will have $3.50, or enough money to re-
fund the So borrowed of you, to pay for
another gallon of liquor and have balance
$3.50. She will be able to conduct future
operations on her own capital, and when
you become an inebriate, unable to support
yourself, Stunned and despised by respect
able people, your wife will have enough
money to keep you until you get ready to
fill drunkard's grave. But had you paid
oil this money to barkeeper, he would
not have given cent to bury you or a
crust of bread to keep your children from
starving. Few people ever stop to calcu-
late the cost of dram drinking. At ten
cents per drink, one drink per day
will cost $3650 per year; two drinks
per day will cost $73; three drinks,
$109.5O, and four drinks, $14G per
year. A man came to me the other day
to pay the interest on note of 800 hold
against him. Said he, II only receive 5000
year, and with family to support I am
not able to pay my debts" asked him to
take pencil to make slight calculation
for me, and then asked him how often he
drank at bar. His average was three
drinks per day, which, by his own calcula-
ton was $1o9.50, or enough to have paid
both principal and interest of the note and
have 81. so left He was astonished at the
discovery and is now determined never to
drink at bar again, ,-CampbslFs Lecture at
Maysfeld Ky.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
ONE or THE vASsAR GIRLS.

At Vassar College, not more than dozen
years ago, was young girl from an inter
ior town of Wisconsin. OF wealthy parents,
herself handsome and unusally bright,
about to graduate, after which she was to
wed her hearts choice, her cup of happi-
ness seemed full to the brim. Probably
prompted by pure cussedncss, an unnatural
brother set about breaking the engagement,
and only too soon succeeded in his pur-
pose The sorrow-stricken young girl re-
turned, though on the eve of honors that
had cost several years of hard labor Her
lover left home and friends for the Far
West, not to return. A short time after
the girls parents died, and the large es-
tate was divided between the surviving
children. Taking her share, nearly $780,
600, she turned her back on the home Of
her childhood. She come to Milwaukee,
and has since lived o most isolated life, not
admitting anybody to her confidence, re-
pulsing all attempts OF friendship, the heart
that had thrilled at the dehcions words of
love became thoroughly crusted over and sua-
picious of mankind Retiring deeper into
secluSion year by year, to-day but few dare
face her stern presence. She seldom II
ever writes or receives letter, makes no
calls, or has no callers, and in short is as
entirely alone as one can be in this busy
world. With an immense income, and
one that is rapidly increasing, she spends
but little money, and that forsnecessities.
Barely is she seen on the streets, and then
IS if she feared the touch of the bustling
pedestrians. The brother does not 1.-Two
hundred miles from Milwaukee. MI
! wauEee Seutiasl.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
HOW TO BURN COAL.

A very common mistake is made, says the
Le,ris' Ru,ut, and much fuel is wasted in
the manner of replenishing coal fires, both
in furnaces and CRATES. They should be
fed with little coal at time, and often;
but servants, to save time and trouble, put
on great deal at once, the first result be-
ing that almost all the heat is absorbed by
the newly put on coal, which does not give
out heat until it has become red hot.
Hence, for while the room is cold, but
when it becomes fairly aglow the heat is
insufferable. The time to replenish coal
fire is as soon as the GOALS begin to show
ashes on their surface, then put on merely
enough to show layer of black coal cover
ing the red. This will soon kindle, and as
there is not much of it, an excess of heat
will not be given out Many also put out
the FIRE by stirring the CRATE as soon as
fresh coal is put on, thus leaving all the heat
in the ashes when it should be sent to the
new supply of coal. The time to stir the fire.
is Just when the new coal laid on is pretty
well kindled. This method of managing a
coal fire is troublesome, but it saves fuel,
gives more uniform heat and prevents
the discomfort of alienation of heat and
cold above referred to.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
CHINESE DENTISTRY.

It is well known that the Chinese cttri-
butte the toothache to the gnawing of
worms, and that their dentists profess to
take these worms from decayed teeth. But
how they performed this trick, and so art
fully concealed it in the hurry of daily
business, was secret only recently solved
by European inquirer. After some diff
Guilty and delicate negotiation, an intelli-
gent looking native practitioner was in
duced to hand over the implements of his
trade, together with number of the
worms, and to give instructions in the
method of procedure. When patient
with the toothache applies for relief, if the
tooth is solidly fixed in the socket, the gum
is separated from it with sharp instruments
and made to bleed. During this operation
the cheek is held on one side by bamboo
spatula, both ends of which are alike and
on the end held in the handsome minute
worms are concealed under the paper pasted
to the spatula. When all is ready, this is
adroitly turned and inserted in the mouth,
and the paper becoming moistened is very
easily torn with the sharp instrument used
for cutting the gums; the worms mix with
the saliva, and the dentist, of course, picks
them out with pair of forceps. The pa
tient having ocular demonstration that the
cause of the disease has been removed, has
good reason to expect relief, which in many
cases would naturally follow the bleeding
of the gum. When the pain returns the
same operation is performed over again,
and fresh supply of worms fully accounts
for the recurring trouble These worms
are manufactured in quantities to suit the
trade, and they are very cleverly done;
still, to carry out the deluri.s fully, the
dentists are obliged TO keep Oh hand few
live worms to show their patients explain
ing that most of those taken from the tooth
are killed either by powder which is often
applied, or the process of removing them
with the forceps. The practice just de-
scribed, it may be added, is only resorted
to when the tooth is firmly set in tho
head.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
TIE CHEAT SHIELDED LOCUST
OF PAPUA.

The insects of rapus, or New Guinea, as
that vast island is commonly called on Eng
Esh maps, are comparatively little known;
yet they appear to rival in strangeness and
beauty of form and brilliancy of color the
better known birds of that tropical region,
typical examples of which are seen in the
birds of Paradise. Here the magnificent
green and yellow ornithoptera, or bird
winged butterflies, find their richest de-
velopment. Wallace calls them the princes
of the butterfly tribes; and they are as re-
markable for their great size as for their
singular markings and magnificent colora-
tion. Here, too, are found the largest and
most beautiful of the clear-winged moths,
and their handsome rivals among the green
moths. Many species of beetles of largo
size and the most brilliant metallic luster
also abound, almost all of the orders fur
nishing large or extraordinary FORMS The
some is true of the locust Or grasshopper
tribes The most remarkable of those thus
far discovered Is the Megdlodon enSLter, or
great shielded grasshopper. The glossy
green wing g-coverts when fully expanded
are from to 10 inches across, and beauti-
fully veined in imitation of large shining
tropical leaves. The thorax is covered by
O triangular horny shield, q inches long,
with serrated edges, wavy hollow surface
and faint median line, the whole closely
resembling leaf. The body is short, and,
in the female, is terminated by long,
curved, sword-like ovipositor. The legs
are long and strongly spined.
These insects are sluggish in their mo-
tions, depending for safety on their
mimickry of foliage, their horny shield and
wing coverts, and their spiny legs.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19

PRoF. LocKYER is of the opinion that hu-
man life on the planet Mars might be very
much like human life on the earth-the
light cannot be so bright, but the organs of
sight may be SO much more susceptible as
to make the vision quite as good; the heat
is probably less, as the polar SHOWS certain
ly extend further, but by no means less
in proportion to the lessened power of the
solar rays. He agrees with others, that
several very remarkable seas-including in
land seas, some of them connected and
some not connected by straits with still
larger seas-are now defnable in the south
ern hemisphere, in which, as is the case
also with the earth, water seems to be muc b
more widely spread than in the northern
hemisphere. There is, for example, a
southern sea, exceedingly like the Baltic
in shape; and there is another and still
more remarkable sea, now defined by the
observations of many astronomers-on
near the equator, long struggling arm,
twisting almost in the shape of an S laid on
its back from east to west, which is at leas.
thousand miles in length and hundred
in breadth.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
CAN A NAN MARRY HIMSELF

On the Goth of November, 1881, the Neg.
Samuel Beamish, of Cork, being then in
holy orders went to the house of milliner
named Ann -. Is, in the city of Cork and
there, in place where ne believed there
was no witness, performed ceremony of
marriage between himself and young wo-
man named Isabella Frazer The cere-
mony was that prescribed in the Book of
Common Prayer; the Rev. Mr.. Beamish
officiating for himself. No clergyman was
present at the performance of the cere-
mony except the Rev Mr.. Beamish him
as formal witness; but the performance
of the ceremony was witnessed by female
named Catherine Coffey, without the lsnowl-
edge of the contracting parties, and solely
from curiosity, saw it going on through a
window from an adjoining back yard,
though she did not hear what was said by
either party. Isabella Frazer gave birth to
a son in 1S4l, and in 1874 the Rev. s. Bea-
mish died intestate 1t was then contended
by a brother of the reverend gentleman
that the marriage was invalid, and that the
boy was, therefore, illegitimate, and could
not succeed to his fathers property. This
question occupied the attention of the
Irish law courts for two years, but it was
at length and finally decided that the mar
riage was valid in Ireland.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19

A PECULIAR kind Of locomotive engine
has been contrived to meet a special need
in England. The railway for which it il
constructed is designed to be laid upon TIL
surface of the ground wherever it may be
necessary to undertake earthworks or to
transport material, the ordinary methods of
reducing irregularities by cuttings and em-
bankments being ont of the question il
ield operations. The engine is therefore,
Intended for ascending and descending sharp
gradients, and is also fitted with an appara.
tus for hauling up and lowering loaded
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
SCiEN TIFlC,

THE advantages of compressed air over
steam in mines are, says the Engineering
and Mining Journal, that it assists rather
than Injuries the ventilation, keeps the air
cool, and avoids the injurious effect which
steam exerts on timber and on certain
kinds of rocks. In cities, compressed air
will not frighten horses SO much as the
putting of steam engine, but it is not pre-
tended that it will be less expensive; it
would avoid the labor of firing and the an
noyance of ashes and coal gas, that are the
most &sagreeable features of the steam cars
on elevated roads. As substitute for
horse motive power in cities, it seems prob
able compressed air may be the most con-
venient agent, with reservoirs for the COM
pressed air located at intervals Throughout
the city, and engines attached for compress
ing the air; these might be placed in vaults
under the sidewalks, and carriages and
wagons might be arranged with reservoirs,
which could be charged as often as desired
at these street recepticles-this operation
occupying but few minutes and it would
require but very small reservoir to con-
tain, under the very high pressure assumed,
sufficient power to run carriage three or
four hours
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
THE HAMSTER.

The hamster is small rat-like animal
with pouch on either side of its mouth,
which it finds very convenient for secret
ing grain It abounds in the sandy dis
tricts between Northern Germany and
Siberia, and single animal has been known
to stow away hundred pounds of beans.
At Ascherleben, it became so serious a
Fest that recently tho town offered a
reward for these little animals, and over
sixty thousand were killed. The hamster
is very game and savage fighter
Its fur, which is variegated, is market
able,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
A WRITER in the Mechanics Journal, Lc

A WRITER in the Mechanics Journal, Lon
don, argues contrary to the usually ac-
cepted opinion-that there is really no limit
to the velocity with which violent sound
is transmissible through the atmosphere
provided the phenomenon which produces
the sounds be sufficiently violent, and hence
it is probable that there is no sound which
is propagated faster than clap of thunder,
its genesis being especially violent. This
theory, it is thought, seems capable of ex-
planning the rumbling, rolling noise OF
thunder-it being only necessary to i'm
agine that the sound at its origin is broken
up, either by partial interruption or refee.
ton, into several sounds of different degrees
of violence.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19
A NEW and simple method of testing

A NEW and simple method of testing
grease and oil for acids is recommended by
Dr. Weiderhold, to those who use either
grease or oil as lubricators for machinery.
Either cuprous oxide or coppersmith's scale
is put into a small test tube, which is filed
with the oil to be examined. If the latter
contains no fatty or resinous acids there is
no change in its color, but if there is any,
the oil is colored, becoming light green in
its lower portion within short time, if the
amount is small-the intensity of the color
varying with the amount of the acid. Oh
containing resinous acids is turned blue
These reactions appear within ten or twenty
minutes, at an ordinary temperature, but
are accelerated by the application of heat.
This method is said TO possess the advan-
tage of being very readily and easily EN-
ployed.