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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-23
"Life, Growth, Beauty"

'What we all admire" and how to secure
it. A fine head of Hair in its natural color
is such an adjunct to beauty that no one who
prizes good looks should negectto use 'LoN-
DON HAIR Color REsroRER," the most clean
ly and delightful article ever introduced to
the American people. 1t is totally different
from all others, not sticky and gummy, and
free from all impure ingredients that render
many other preparations obnoxious. 1t thick
ems thin hair, restores gray hair, gives it new
life, keeps the scalp clean and healthy, caus-
ing the hair to grow where it has fallen off or
become thin, does not soil or stain anything,
and is SO perfectly and elegantly prepared as
to make it lasting hair dressing and toilet
luxury octl4teod&wtf
Boston Testimony.
Last winter, while in Trenton, N. j., IprO-
cured six bottles "London Hair Color Re
storer," which like very much, in fact bet
ter than anything l have used for the last
nine years. If you please, send me one dog
en- bottles, G. o. d., care of w. S. FOlger 4
Co., Druggists, No. 723 fremont ST., Bos-
ton.
Respectfully yours, ADA BAKER.
No. SO Rutland Square.
London Hair Color RestOrer is sold by all
druggistsat Is cents bottle or six bottles
for g.. Geo. c. Goodwin & Co., Boston,
Wholesale agents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-23
.EeNy Of the Ills OF LifeV

That Cold OF Yours may run into consumption
II you don't take DIR. A. j. Fiaggs Cough and Lung
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-23
THE MONITOR WOOD FURNACE.

The most powerful and best working WOOD FUR.
MACE ever sold. Galvanized Iron Cssings set In
tight. Easy and simple to manage and we will war
rant II to produce more heat than any other WOOD
FURNACE. ills unsqualled for durability. econo-
my and ease ofmsnagemen We shall be pleased to
have all who are interested call 1t store and
fully examine these Furnaces We guarantee perfect
satisfaction. Below we refer to parties using our
Euyn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-23

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-23

MRS. M. n. CHANDLER
LAS re-opened her rooms for Cut
u ting and Blasting Dresses. and
all kinds Of Garments, Including
Ladies Goats, Cloaks, 6acQues, VI
sters and Dolmans, and will make
them in the best stvle il desired.
Ina
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
two hundred and eighty complete loco

two hundred and eighty complete loco
motives in 1870.
The American locomotives differ
from the European in many particu-
lars. They are almost invariably out
side connected, and their cylinders are
nearly or quite on level with the axlos
of the driving wheels they are dis
tinguished also by the cab at the back
end TO protect the engineer and fire.
man, and with windows in front to af-
ford view ahead. There are no cabs
on tho English locomotives-the engi-
neer and fremen are exposed to all
weathers. II English locomotives are
the best in the world, they are not the
best for the world.
The first solid iron rails laid and
passed over by locomotive engine
drawing train of passenger cars in
New England was on the Boston and
Worchester road, in April, 1884. The
first eight-wheeled car built for passen-
ger purposes was planned by Ross
Winans, of Baltimore. who called it
by the appropriate name of the Colum-
bus.
A locomotive travelling at the ordi-
nary rate Of thirty miles an hour
performs forty-four feet per second,
and Mt seventy miles an hour one hun
dred and five feet per second. Two
objects near q traveller, a yard apart,
pass his eye in the thirty fifth part of a
second. When two trains, having this
speed, pass each other the relative
velocity will be seventy yards per
second and if one of the trains were
seventy yards long it would flash by in
q single second. To accomplish this,
supposing the driving wheels to be
seven feet in diameter, the piston must
change its direction in the cylinder ten
times in a second. But there are two
cylinders, and the mechanism is SO
regulated that the discharges of steam
are alternate. There are, therefore,
twenty discharges of steam per second,
at equal intervals and these twenty
exhausts divide second into twenty
equal parts, each puff having the
twentieth of second between it and
that which precedes and follows it.
The ear, like the eye, is limited in the
rapidity of its sensations, and sensitive
as that organ is, it is not capable o.
distinguishing sounds which succeed
each other at intervals of the twentieth
part of second.--T j. Bowditch, 50
IrOU Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Paper Hangers s Paste. "A good paste
is made by mixing strong solution of
shellao four parts and borax one part
in boiling water cool, and add wheat
or, better, starch flour 10 proper con-
sistency. ..., ..f
Plumb Pudding The following
recipe, originally coming from En-
gland, has been tested for forty years
One pound raisins, (stoned), one
pound currants, one pound suet (chop-
ped very fine), ono half pound moist
sugar, one half ounce citron, and six
eggs. Use flour or bread-crumbs, and
mix the whole well together. Boil it
at least six or seven hours.
Potato Puffs. Take cold roast
meat-beef, mutton, or veal and ham
together clean from gristle, cut small,
and season with pepper and salt also,
cut pickles if liked boil and mash
some potatoes, make them into paste,
with an egg, and roll out, dredging
with flour cut round with a saucer
put some of the seasoned meat upon
one half and fold the other like a puff
pinch neatly, and fry light brown.
Death from Corn Fodder
Il
out the country of sudden death among
cattle that have caused great alarm.
At first smut was supposed to be the
cause of the trouble, but analysis has
proved that smut is not injurious, and
a post-mortem examination has shown
in many instances hard mass of hasps
in the stomach. If it should be proved
that it is unsafe to let cattle loose in q
field of corn stalks it would be a seri-
GUS matter to stock raisers.
-Buttered Apples. Peel and core a
number of apples, lay them in baking
.tin plentifully buttered, fill the core of
each apple with brown sugar and q
small piece of butter, and put the tin in
a slow oven till the apples are q good
color and quite done. They should be
occasionally basted with the butter dur
ing the process of cooking, and the core
should be filed second time with su-
gar, and they may have slight sprink-
ling of powdered cloves or cinnamon,
according to taste.
Swiss Pudding. g.-Sift together half
pound -four, one heaping teaspoonful
baking powder, and one of salt; rub to-
gether four ounces granulated sugar
and two ounces butter, and when they
are we'll mixed, so as to be granular,
but not creamy, add the flour gradually
until all is used; make a hollow in the
middle of the flour, put into it one egg,
half teaspoonful of lemon lavoring,
and half pint of milk; mix to a smooth
paste, put into well-buttered and noured
mold, and set this into large pot, with
boiling water enough TO come two
thirds up the side of the mold; steam
the pudding three quarters of an hour,
or until broom-splint can be run into
it without finding the pudding sticking
to the splint. Turn the pudding out Of
the mold, and send it to table with the
following sauce: Stir together overthe
fire one ounce each of flour and butter
as soon as they are smooth pour into
them half pint of boiling milk, add
two ounces of sugar and half tea
spoonful of lemon flavoring, and use
with the pudding as soon as it boils.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
Colorado Miners.

Tho small mines of Colorado are
worked by miners who live alone or in
couples, pardners," they call them
selves. Each couple occupies a cabin,
and cook, wash and keep house for
themselves. A correspondent of the
Boston Journal describes one of these
cabins built on the steep side of Pros
pect Mountains:
The house consists of stone cabin,
generally built into the hill, or under
the lee of some huge rock. The roof
is made of timber cut near by, and
mostly covered with a layer of gravel
or clay.
The mountain-side is SO steep that
the few feet of ground about the doors
of the cabins have to be walled up and
levelled to make room for threshold
step.
The whole arrangement looks as if a
good wind or slight jar of the ground
might send it sliding of and down a
half mile into the ravine below.
A cabin has but one room; sometimes
a window and a. door, but mostly the
window is in the door; two benches at
one side, and large stone fireplace
OppOollc, u lew ouClNOS 1Ol tlloIiCo hlu
for storing goods, rude pine table and
one or two chairs or stools.
A little shelf in one corner, screened
from dust and smoke by hanging cur
tain, usually contains a few books and
papers. The books are mostly novels,
tales of love and romance, with some
times q scientific work Ininor"lo5J
or geology.
You never find them without pen
and ink-bottle, and often the men in
spare hours are engaged in writing.
You are not TO suppose by their rough
exterior and surroundings that these
men are illiterate, that they are mere
machines of bone and muscle, calcula-
ted to do so much work for so much
money.
The miners of this country, as a class,
are men of good, vigorous mind; they
have brains, and have to use them; in
their daily occupation, a great deal Of
calculation and thoughtful planning is
required in all their operations.
To misjudge the weight of a hanging
rock, or the consistency of bank Of
loose clay, might bring death and dis
aSter as q consequence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
Feasting With His Own Fun.

A recent libel suit in Moscow, in
which city the author of a quarto vol
ume was subjected to a most ignomini-
Gus punishment, very forcibly reminds
one of tho inestimable blessings en-
loved in country in which the free
dom of the press is a guaranteed and
established right. The facts in the
case referred to are as follows:
In the above-named city a goodly-
sized book was published in vindica-
tion of the rights of the subject. The
work contained stinging sarcasms
aimed at the venality of the officials,
with many satirical and humorous al
lusions to bribe taking and other ini-
quities. Even the Gar himself was
handled without gloves, his acts were
fearlessly denounced and a powerful
argument was adduced in behalf of the
rights of his subjects. The maladmin-
istration of law was SET forth in strong.
plain language.
The book attracted general notice,
but this was bad for the author. He
was arrested and thrown into prison.
After short summary trial his pro-
duction was pronounced libel, and he
was condemned to "eat his own
Words or suffer the punishment of the
knout. This terrible instrument of
torture is in the shape of q long whip
or scourge, and is composed of many
tough thongs of thick, hard skin plated
together and interviewer with strands
of stout wire. The criminal is stripped
and is firmly bound to two stakes,
which are sufficiently wide apart to adj
nit the free motion of the head. The
blows are laid upon the bare back every
stroke cutting like a knife, and soon
the victim of the scourge is shapeless
mass of blood and flesh. One hundred
blows are equal to a death sentence.
This was the alternative of the unhappy
author.
The day fixed for carrying the sem
tence of the court into execution ar
rived. A platform was erected in one
of the public squares of the city.
Bound hand and foot, the victim of
despotic power was seated in the center
of the platform. An immense con-
course Of people had gathered to wit
ness the strange spectacle. The Inn
perial Provost, the magistrate, the
physician and the surgeon OF the Car
we're in attendance. The obnoxious
book had been separated from its bind
ing, and as an act of grace the margin
had been cut off. The leaves were then
rolled up, rot unlike cigar-lighters.
And there they were-a basketful.
Now the meal began. Amid roars of
laughter from the ignorant and de-
graded populace, the Provost served
the author leaf by leaf with his own
production, putting the rolls of paper,
one by one, into his mouth. He slowly
chewed and swallowed one-third of his
book, when the medical gentlemen
concluded he had received into his
stomach as much of the innutritious
material as was compatible with safety.
He was then reconducted to his cell to
digest his meal. The two following days
the SAME scene was enacted, until every
leaf was swallowed, and, as amatter of
fact, he was compelled to literally
eat his own words and feast on his own
fun,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
She Sewed on His Buttons,

OLD BLUMMER is tight listed. Sew
eral days ago he said to his wife:
"Maria, want you to look over that
broadcloth vest of mine and put new
buttons on it, cause I'm going to a
card party tonight"
"But Ety." answered Mrs. B., 81
haven't any buttons to match that vest;
and
"Thunderr' broke in Blummer,
"the idea of woman keeping house
as long as you have, an pretending to
be out of buttons BY Goorgel b'lieve
you'll esk me for money to buy 'em
with next"
1hSt evening Blummer hurried
through hic supper and began arraying
himself for the card party. Presently
he called for the broadcloth vest, and
Mrs. b., with marvellous promptitude,
handed it TO him. He took it, hastily
unfolded it, and then, as his eye took
in its complete appearance, he stood as
one transfixed. 1t was a six-button
vest, and there were six buttons on it,
and the dazed optic of Blummer OBJ
served that the first, or top one, was a
tiny pearl shirt button, and that the
next one was brass army OvercOat
button with U. S. cleaning upon it,
and that number three was an oxydized
silver affair, and that number four
res horn button, evidently from the
bacy of one of the Puritan fathers
coats, and then came suspender but
ton, and then, as the dazzled eyes of
old Blummer reached the bottom but
ton-a poker chip (found in Blummer's s
pockeD with two holes punched through
the gave snort that made the
chandelier jingle. There is, after all,
a fine sense of humor about Blummer,
and he laughed till he cried. And
there won't be any button money
grudged in that household hereafter
Troy Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
A Clever Rogue.

A gentleman of great experience in
the commercial world cashed check
at London bank for E1, 100 taking the
whole in G100 notes. He was only
few yards from the bank when a per-
son resembling a clerk, bareheaded and
with a pen behind his ear, touched him
on the shoulder, saying; " Beg your
pardon, sir; win you allow me Just TO
take the number of these notes againP
/ won't keep you minute.'' The gem
tleman, taken off his guard, handed the
notes over TO the supposed clerk, whom
he followed into the bank. After Civ
ing the former time to reach the top
end and return, he met the gentleman
at the door, saying, " Please walk this
way; that gentleman will attend to You
in a minute" pointing to clerk who
was deeply engaged. Five minutes
elapsed before the gentleman could
draw the clerks attention to his case;
and he was thunderstruck to find that
this officer knew nothing about it. The
other clerks were interrOgated, and
they were equally in the dark. OF
course, no time was lost in going to
the Bank Of England, but too late; the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

There is a good old English maxim that
teaches us TO "believc every man honest until
we know him TO be villain" American Gus
tom seems 10 have reversed this law and ap-
pears to make every man villain until he has
proved himself an honest man.. AS With Pco-
pie, so with things. Every article placed In
our markets can lay claim TO popular favor
upon intrinsic merit and value alone. Con
tlnued popularity, therefore, is proof positive
of intrinsic excellence. DIR. Pierce's Family
Remedies are far more popular to-day than
ever before. The people have tested them and
know them to be genuine remedies the dis
eases they are recommended to cure The
Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pei
let's are the best Alternative, tonic, and cathar-
tic remedies that can be used in chronic dis
eases OF the stomach and liver. The world
wide popularity OF the Favorite Prescription,
as a never-failing remedy for Female Diseases,
would have alonesecured to It's discoveTer the
fame he has so richly won. DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, Of which DIR. Pierce Is also proprle-
tor, is recommended by those who have tested
its virtues as a safe and reliable remedy for
catarrh In It's worst FORMS
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
RE nRonnS.
OHIO


The flowers wcrc dreaming, all fast asleep,
For the warm brown earth II a pleasant bed,
When suddenly, breaking their slumber deep
They heard patter Just overhead
Like the tramp of million fairy feet,
Or tapping fingers that beat and beat.
Who knocks so loudly?" the wild rose said;
The pansy opened ber purple eyes
And stared through the darkness in mute sur
prise;
Fair timid lily, with saint-like grace.
Just crossed berHclf and began tn pray;
The violet stirred in her drowsy nest
'fis quite too early for me to rise,
There is not 30 much as CLEAN OF day
Then turned on her pillow and slept again;
Fair daffodil yawned and covered her tnce,
Hypatica murmurcd: :" o, hush; be still; =,
We need not wake till the blue birds trill''
But dear little crovus, meek and good,
RosoOut OF her quiet resting places
1 hear tho knock of the wild March rain,
,Iis time for me to be up and dressed.
She wrapped herself in her warm green vest,
And, shivering pulled on her yellow hood,
And pushed her way through melting snow,
Through showers that pattcr and winds that
blow,
Into the bare, bleak world, 10 bring
The wonderful. beautiful news of Springl
Some children scampering home from school
Stopped that day near the woodland pool
And laughed and shOutod with Joy; for there,
Out Of snow wreath peeping fair,
A dear little crocus bravely stood
And smiled tO herself in her yellow hood.
-Christid1 Union.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

deacon Wilder, want you TO toll me how
you kept yourself and family 80 we'll the past
much and have had the doctors running to us so
long,
Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used
Hop Bitters in time and kept my family we'll and
saved large doctor bills. Three dollars worth Of
It kept us all well and able TO work oil the time.
and will warrant IL has cost you and most of the
keep sick the same time. guess you'll take my
medicine hereafter" bee other column.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
win Ic0, Davis

get pension for his services In the Mexican
war; It is not of as much Importance to the
people Of the United States, as that every one
making butter should procure from their
storekeeper A book called Hints to Butter
Makers,h and read it carefully. It contains
needed aids and hints which, II followed Will
always produce butter of the very best quality.
The book is distributed free by the Allan
Manufacturing Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
T..v-..-p. na,k o--ooN Movv Toharro
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

1t is not very good way TO at
tempt TO settle an account by letting 1t
stand, nor by letting it run either. b.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

Coffee Jelly.-Coffee jelly is occa-
sionally very refreshing. Make the
coffee precisely as if to drink (not too
strong), sweeten little and add the
gelatino in the usual way, only not TOO
muchi it is best when just too thin to
quite stand alone. Serve with cream
and sugar. Mrs. Read, in The april
number of DR.. Foote'S Health Monthly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

THE American Agrtoulfurist inquiries
"where does the dew come fromPn
Well, our collector finds that the heft
of it comes from not exacting payment
in advance. e.-Bridgeport Standard.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

clever rogue had been before them and
obtained gold for tho notes. - Chambers
Journal. b.rfa7f I...
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11

nrountiy and soon tcom its hiding -E1laoa
came forth snowy apron, TO be tied
tidily around the lythe waist then the
sleeves were pushed up from the round
arms, and with somebody's most ap-
proved cookbook as a guide, she cour-
ageously set TO work. And after va
rious difficulties and discouragments,
all triumphantly surmOunted, was busily
shaping "batch" of soft, white dough
into the most entrancing little biscuits
imaginable. When in due time they
came forth from the oven, the very ne
plus ultra of floury compositions, dainty,
round, and fair, she could have found
it in her heart fairly to dance for Joy.
When seated opposite Mr.. Grey, at the
nicely spread table, she demurely hand
ed them TO him, but did not notice the
curious glance he fixed upon her He
was mentally reviewing tho comments
upon her housekeeping qualities, with
which Mrs Thompson had favored him,
wondering If that lady had ever eaten
any of her biscuits, and thinking that,
after all, it was possible that she hadn't
made them, when his teeth came sharp
ly against something hard in the one
he was then devOuring, and quietly
drawing it forth, he discoverd Floy's
ring. Glancing at her haDd he saw
that it was bare, and Floy, catching the
direction of his eyes, suddenly held up
the taper member with look of dis
may. "My ringr' she cried. "Ihave
lost my ring!" And with full knowl-
edge of all the trouble and anxiety
which she would undergo, what could
he mean by slipping it into his vest
pocket without word ? And he a
minister
However, the supper came TO an end,
as all good things will, and the minister
took his leave. Walking home slowly
through the moonlight, with his mind
filed with its late sweet vision, he came
TO conclusions very.different from those
OF the deacon's wife thinking of the
world of talent and sweetness lying dor
mant, waiting on the touch Of an
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-11
THE MARKETS.

cn.u Jackson. Bes. sweet Navy Tobacco.