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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-10
Sound Flesh, Strong Bone,
and Clear SkinP
Sulphur Bitters.
DELICATE EEMALES WHO
DON'T FEEL WE'LL.

Weak and sickly children; one bottle will do more
good than all the Latin prescriptions of drugs and
mineral poisons. which remain in the system. de-
stroying the bones. and make Il poor, weak, broken
down invalid. . here is no calome mercury in
SULPHUR BTT1ERS.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
No. 1
Humor.

New York is preparing for an unusually
| gay winter, an extra tier of cells having been
| placed in the Tombs.
A dull old lady, being told that q certain
| lawyer was "lying at the point of DEATH" ex-
| claimed, my gracious! Won't even death
stop that mans lying?"
An Iowa weekly having $50 circulation
feels its perfect right to begin an editorial
with: GAS we advised him last week, Glad
stone is shaping out new policy"
"a ha" said Jawkins cheerfully, as he
found a paper of fine-cut in the pocket of his
old fall overcoat. "Ah ha! Congratulate
me on my sudden accession Of for chewin'."
The astonishment of the lightning when
Ajax defed it was nothing compared to the
feelings of the young man who makes his
best bow to q bevy of young ladies and
bursts a suspender button in the act
The advantage of being the surgeon. Dis
tinguished operator who is about to act on q
patient is asked by the latter Will it take
long. doctor?" 'T.ong? Bless you, no. Fiji
teen or twenty minutes-that's all"
A colored man came into Galveston
newspaper Office and wanted to take the pa
per. "How long do you want it ?" asked the
clerk. Jess as long as it is boss. Eff it
don't fit de shelves ! kin tar piece off my
self"
An elderly resident of Newton was ap-
preached by an agent for an encyclopedia.
II guess won't get one," said the elderly
resident, and frankly added: II know l
could never learn to ride one of the pesky
things"
An English woman has brought suit
against q cabman for taking her to the
wrong funeral. The Boston Post doesn't see
why she shouldn't enjoy riding after one
corpse just as much as another, as the drive
was over the same road.
Fonetic-Maiden Aunt to tall young
nephew: CAS- / stood by you in church,
Percy, could not help being struck py your
size" very sorry, aunt, but there was such
an awfullv pretty girl the other side of the
aisle, I couldn't help signing"
A little girl in Belfast, Me- recently drop
ped her doll and broke its arm. The doll
was favorite one, and the accident was to
the child calamity of the severest nature.
The tears started, the little lips were trem-
bling with grief when a bright thought struck
her. With beaming face she exclaimed:
Papa, don't know as care after all. Per-
haps it will be put in the paperw
\ few months ago an old gentleman was
seen mailing notice on fence on the south
side Of Galveston avenue. A friend passing
said "Why don't you have the notice put
in the paper where people can read it"
"Waal,' said the old gentleman IF tuck it
to the newspaper orfce them newspaper fel-
lers would get it spelled wrong and then
somebody might think didn't know how to
spell" The notice read: Howe fur rent
inchoir on proymeysis"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18

A fashionable Boston tailor has hit upon
novel plan Of gratifying his customers with
as many suits of clothes as they may feel in
clined to wear at a very large reduction from
fashionable prices. He offers to supply three
suits year for Slit, four suits for S142, five
for S162, while for $500 per annum he will
agree to let them have as many suits of
clothes as they may choose to wear, the old
suits to be returned, and the customer to
have the privilege of two suits at time
Under the first three propositions the cost of
each suit would be 500, $3.50 and $3.50 re-
spectively, the customer retaining the suits.
Under the last proposition ten or more suits
may be had at cost Of $50 or less for each
suit, on the simple condition of exchanging
the suits that have been worn for new ones
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Furniture Covering.

Nothing gives so dismal and inhospitablc
an appearance to a sitting room rs to have
the chairs and sofa or couch covered with
stiff, unfriendly looking linen; but pretty
furniture that is used constantly must be
protected in some way really ornamental.
For instance, a couch may be kept from
fading by piece of Turkish towelling the
required length. Put scallops of flannel on
the edge, with border or centerpiece or
simply vine worked in some bright color
across the ends makes a pretty addition to
it. Tides that are very seryiceable may be
made of brown linen, with stripe of Gre
tonne flowers or scroll. The easiest and
most satisfactory way to prepare cretonne
for transferring is to first work the figure
which is to be cut out with the buttonhole
stitch, and then cut around that. When it
is placed upon broadcloth OF any material
which does not require washing, sew it with
long stitches on the wrong side, but when
transferring to the linen sew it firmly, SO
that it will keep its place when washed The
tides may be finished prettily by putting
fringe or yellow lace across the ends, turn
down a hem on the sides, and featherstitch
with worsted or working cotton.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
The Growth of Children.

Commenting on Pagliani's recent research
es, the Medical and Surgical Journal says
The influence of the circumstances of life
| is well shown in a comparison of girls of the
upper Italian classes educated at an institute
in the country near Turin with charity girls
in most unfortunately constructed build
ing in the midst of the city At fifteen years
the country bred girls average 45G kilo-
grammes in weight, the charity girls 81, or
eighty-one per cent. of the former The diff
ference i'll stature was, however, less i-..-
Sufficient and regular exercise does great
deal to assist growth. A certain number of
boys in the schools of Turin are annually Sc
lected Oh account of their gymnastic aptitude,
and are given three extra lessons in gymnas-
tics per week. Ninety-four of these boys
were measured before and after three months
of drill, and it was found that the average
increase in the capacity of the lungs was
228 &C., the average annual increase for other
boys of the same age being 220 &C. The
lungs of the boys who exercised enlarged
more in three months than those Of other
boys in whole year. The same phenomena
are shown by the increase in muscular power.
Wretlind found i'll GOtheborg that going
to school impeded growth, for he discovered
that the children grew much more rapidly
during vacation than during school time.
There were three months vacation nine
months schooling, so that if the growth was
constant then the children would grow one
third as much during vacation as during
school-time but this was nowise the case.
Indeed, at fifteen the increase was actually
more during the vacation than during all the
rest of the year.
Even wheu the influences untayorable to
development have acted several years, if the
child is placed in better circumstances its
growth takes start. This is shown by a
farming school, the pupils of which,
taken from the lower classes of Turin, were
examined by Pagliani. At the school they
were well fed, and worked out-of-doors a
good deal, When the boys enter the school
their physique begins to improve. During
the first year the increase of weight is most
prominent, but the greatest weight of growth
in stature does not take place until the third
year, while the most rapid increase in the
circumference of the thorax, the capacity of
the lungs, and muscular force fall in the sec
ond year after enter the school.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
New Invention.

A new process for the preservation offorage
crops in their green state is being tested at
Sufield Connecticut Into cutter, which
goes by steam, are run halfa-dozen corn
stalks at time, which are cut into very
small pieces. Afterward they fall into a
slide which takes them to a vault, fourteen
by twenty -four feet and ten feet deep, which
has thick concrete walls and is capable of
holding eighty five tons of this feed When
the vault is filed and closely packed down,
thirty tons of stone are placed on top. 1t is
claimed that the fodder will keep green and
retain its sweetness as long as it is kept COW
cred 1t is not intended, however, that this
feed should be sold, and indeed it could not
be, as after twenty-four hours exposure fer
mentation would set in and ruin it. 1t can
be taken out little at time as needed for
use.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Care of Trees.

Messrs. w. 4. Smith, of the Geneva Nur-
sery, furnishes the following instructions as
to the manner of taking care of fruit trees
through the winter:
Mulch surface of ground heavily with
coarse stable manure, letting it extend from
three to four feet from the tree and about
twelve inches deep. Trees often die for
want of moisture during the winter To
prevent this, just before freezing and after
the wood is well ripened up, rrigate the
ground thoroughly, and don't fail to give the
entire surface complete soaking. Tall trees
should be staked to prevent the winds from
loosening the roots. Wrap top of stake to
prevent chafng To protect against rabbits,
wrap trunk of trees with cloth or other ma
terial Don't fail to attend to your trees"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Boys Essay ON a Statsman.

Thar waz q statesman. His collar waz Is
and his hat was S. He went to meetin to
crate. He said lax me q question if you
want to no." So when he waz a swetin' un-
der his shirt man hollered and he said
'Wot is tariff anyway" And the stats
man he larfed kinder short and he said, II
want no foolin round me. Pm bad man
and carry kane" So he gave his kane a
whirl and laid it on the table. Then this
orful man down among the spitons "How
much is tarif peck, anyway?" AM the
statesman sed, real hot, II am free man,
and I won't be adjourned so / demand the
law" And then the law, dressed as q polish
man, got the orful man by the hack hold and
took him to the Kaboze. AM when in the
Kaboze he did not ak any more tarif quesh-
ons, but fought the eokroches all night AM
the statsman went home with his kane
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Spread of the English Language.

Baron Kolb, German, who has been ran
sacking the figures of the universe, says that
the English is the most widely spread Ian
guage, being spoken by about 100000 peo-
pie; German. by 100000; French and
Spanish, 100000 each; Russian, 55,O0O,-
600. Every advance made by a people in
morality and healthy employment and use
full knowledge adds to it's tenure of life. The
average of life among the well-to-do is fifty
years; among the poor, tbirty-two years
Clergymen average the longest ives-sixty-
six years. Idlers are shorter-lived than the
industrious, and statistics prove that in coun-
tries where consanguineous marriages are
permitted there are to be found more deaf
mutes and idiots than elsewhere
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Tho RihIn n Microscope.
Christian Union.I


A father brings home to his children mi
croscope. First he takes it to pieces; he
shows them its objectives, its eye piece, its
tubes, its reflector, the mechanism of the
stand, and the screw for adjusting the focus.
Then he puts it together, and puts the dust
of butterfy's wing in the focus, and they
look through the microscope at the object
The Bible is an instrument given to show us
truths which we should not have seen with
out it, or to show us more clearly truths
which we should have seen but dimly. The
wise student will scrutinize his instrument :;
will recognize that there is difference of
power in the different objectives-that there
is not, for example, the same spiritual dis
cernment in Solomon as in Christ, nor the
same revealing power in the book of Ruth as
in the Fourth Gospel; he will think it not
irrcverent to take the dust off the glasses
he will recognize that different focus is
needed for different eyes, and that every man
must adjust the instrument for his own use.
But when all this is done, he will look not
at it, but through it, to the truth which God
has prepared for his examination.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Pepper for MUths.
From the New York Times.

A word in season, if it is the right word
regarding moths, will be equivalent in util-
ity to the old adage, "A stitch in time saves
nine" An obscure student of economic
housewitery, who has attentively regarded
for series of years the action of different
vegetable substances ON the life and destruc-
tion of insects, has discovered the proper food
for the greedy moth, all mouth. 1t is cheaper
than camphor or tobacco, has no smell, and
is always available. A pound or two of
black pepper, ready pulverized for table use,
scattered freely among your furs and wool
ems, can easily be shaken out in the autumn
by some hand willing and happy to be hired
to sneeze, and the garments will be found
uninjured A lady who packed up her per-
sonal effects in the loose confusion of too
little time and strength to devote thereto
hurried them off to one of our great store
houses and left them untouched during an
absence of three years. She had tossed the
pepper with random lavishness through each
trunk, box and defenceless bag Of bundles.
She found her fur-trimmed and all-wool gar
ments perfectly unharmed after their three
years of extra exposure among the quantities
of other families goods accumulated in the
proper moths boarding house. Not only this
triumph another divulged experience brings
to light handsome muff, which, being su-
perseded by other furs to match suits, was
unused for fifteen or twenty years and was
seldom looked at. Well peppered and with
out extra care, it is clean, fresh and undam-
aged to-day. An economic object attained,
better funny proflsion of sorrowless tears
or an hours humbug cough in looking over
a trunk, if it earns money faster than it can
be earned in any other way. In fact, this is
the chief way in which pepper should be
used, unless one wants to scare the moths
out of ones stomach at the cost of wearing
out and burning up the delicate tissues Of
the inner man. Pepper to be trodden under
foot in the shoes on a cold journey, or in the
case of a constitution where the blood needs
to be coaxed down to the feet, is, indeed, use
full also; but the evident chief object in ma
ture providing black pepper is to defend
mankind from powerful robbers, of form and
color so indefinite that even in the matter of
identity they often deceive their most famil-
lar victims.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
What Women Should BE.
[Tinsley's Magazine.

Very few women are qualified, either by
nature or training, to play the part of judi
cious domestic Providence, unrestrained by
any other influence; and the abdication of
the husband is generally attended by humil-
iation and suffering to the rest; for without
4 balance Of power we may expect abuses to
steal in. whether States OF families are vic
timized by an unfortunate adjustment of cir
cumstanceS For it is men ON whom the
sterner and more serious responsibilities OF
existence fall Men who bear the burden
and heat of the day, husbands and brothers
who give their lives for their country, and
die by thousands of every lingering torture
under foreign sky, they must act often un-
der heavy mental pressure and distress;
while women, who are generally led by any
other bias save their judgment or intellect,
may indulge in hysterical views of every
thing at their ease and at home.
Marriage protects women, who in re-
turn, are expected to embellish life soften its
trials, and with womanly graces, smiles and
kindness avert the threatening clouds OF adj
versity from bursting i'll violence on the fam
lily circle. 1t is fine field of enthusiasm,
action and enterprise in which women may
enlist; they may form character, direct aims
and soothe despair and by delicate tact assist
IN mitigating much suffering and disappoint-
ment Women should represent beauty OF
some kind or other. There is nothing man
so much detests as masculine woman; she
expects to share his equality, while at the
same time refusing to accept his claims and
responsibilities.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Ingenius Frauds.

During the past two days fraud has been
perpetrated on at least two banks at Mon
treal by the passing of spurious $40 note
seemingly of some banks issue. The fraud
is ingenius 1t is done by neatly Sitting
that half of the thiceness of genuine 50 or
SIS note covering the words and figures in
dicating its denomination, and letting in
very neatly the words and figures ''ren"
from useless bills Of broken banks This
patchwork fraud can be detected by holding
the bill to the light and by the small figures
of the actual denomination studded over the
bill. Banks are carefully scrutinixing their
notes, as many such are in circulation
notably a $50 Dominion made up of pieces
cut from many genuine notes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
GOLDFISH AND CLAM.
A Summer Fable which Contains q
POetical Moral.
From the Detroit Free Press. !


A Goldfish was one day sailing around in
search of some one who might be inclined to
| q religious dispute when he came across q
Clam. That was in days when Goldfish put
on a heap of airs over the clam tribe, and this
particular fish stuck up his nose at that par
ticular clam and began:
"Here you are, grubbing away on this
same old sandbank for a living, while have
journeyed over thousand miles in the last
four weeks
g am quite content" replied the clam.
am rather near-sighted, slow on foot, and
nature did not intend me to travel far.
Neither of us makes more than living, and /
am satisfied if you are"
"Yes, but you have such an outlandish
shape" sneered the cod. "Why, there's no
head, nor tail, nor legs, nor arms to you.
Your eyes are scarcely to be seen, and one
little grin for a cent would split your whole
face Open'
My eyes are plenty large enough to see
that no two fish in the ocean agree" tartly
replied the clam, "and seeing this, I have no
cause to smile What you say about my
form is true, but make good chowder, for
all that, and have no bones to trouble the
throats of humanity"
NC11, lAulfA1u4 tIl6tU "uoA UOAI
10 begin and end my days on a sand-bank.
90 everywhere. I take in all the free lunches
Small fish fear me, and big ones can't catch
me. See how glide around"
The cod took a circle around to show of,
stood on his head, fourished his tail, and then
asked:
Can any Of the clam family do one half
of that?"
"As~I have said before" quietly replied
the clam, "we were not cut out for either
orators or acrobats. What I can't do l let
alone and don't worry over"
At that moment fishhook, nicely baited,
dropped down between them.
"Now, if you only had little more mouth
you could get enough at one gulp to last you
all day." remarked the cod as he eyed the
bait. LAS it is, you may stand by and see
me take in that banquet. Just see what
mouth will do for one in this world"
He opened his mouth, made a dive for the
bait, and waa about to wink at the clam with
his left eye when he was suddenly pulled
out OF the water into a boat.
l think" unused the clam as he closed
his shell, that it is great deal nicer to be a
clam on a sand-bank than q cod in q fish
boat, but I'll be open to argument next flood
time"
MoRAL--It is everything in knowing when
to shut up.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
Manageable Age in Different COun-
tries.

According to the Lyons Medicate, the mar
riageable age in Austria is fourteen for both
sexes in Germany, eighteen for men and
fourteen for women; in Belgium eighteen for
men and fifteen for women; in Spain, four
teen for men and twelve for women: in
France, eighteen for men and fifteen for wo-
men; in Greece, fourteen for men and twelve
for women; in Catholic Hungaria, fourteen
for men and twelve for women /; in Protestant
Hungaria, eighteen for men and fifteen for
women; in Italy, eighteen for men and if
teen for women; in Portugal, fourteen for
men and twelve for women in Russia, Rou-
mania and Saxony, eighteen for men and
sixteen for women
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
4 Japanese Philosopher.

Awoda soyeman, q highly respected man
who lived many years ago, in crossing a
bridge at night dropped a piece of money
worth ten sen into the water To recover the
coin Awoda Soyeman bought torch at
cost of fifty sen and after some trouble found
the money he had lost. \ bystander said to
him, rs it not foolish thing to expend
fifty sen to recovery temp" NO." said Awoda
Soyemon, because if the money had re-
mained in the stream it would have been
lost, and of no use to any one but the fifty
sen are not lost; they have been merely
transferred from my possession to that of
another"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
MY FIRST CIGAR.

Twas just behind the woodshcd,
One glorious summer day,
Far DER the hills the sinking sun
Pursued its westward way.
And in my lone seclusion.
Safely removed afar
From all of earth's confusion,
I Gsmokcd my first cigar.
Ah, bright the boyish fancies
Wrapped in the wreaths of blue;
Ny eyes grew dim, my head was light
The woodshed round me few.
Dark night closed in around me,
Rayless, without star,
Grim death thought had foundme,
And spoiled my first cigar.
All, pallid was my noble brow,
The waning night was late,
My startled mother cried, in fear,
My child, what have you ate?"
heard my fathers smothered laugh,
1t seemed SO strange and far
| knew he knew / knew he knew
I'd smoked my first cigar.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18

THERE is 4 married couple in Milan county,
Tex, who have a strange mixture of names,
and are now about to celebrate the iftieth
anniversary of their marriage. On the 10th
OF October, 1880, in Caldwell county, KY,
Drury Mitchuson Kevil married Lucretia
Kevil Mitchuson and she became Lucretia
Kevl Mitchuson Kevil. They are not at all
related. He was born in ITS, in Kentucky,
and named for the father of his future wife,
and she was born in South Carolina, in 1910,
and named for the mother of her future hus-
band, and they have been mixed generally
ever since
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18
The Fable OF the Smart Man.

There was once very smart man, and he
met a man who was not smart and said to
him: See here, am an awful smart man.
I know everything and can do anything, yet
my pocket, my purse and my stomach are a
trinity of emptiness-three in one, and l am
the one; while you, who are not smart, go
clothed in purple and fine linen and have
your ribs regularly adiposed. Now, tell me,
why is this?" and the man who was not
smart answered and said that he did not
know, but he supposed it must be because
the market was overstocked with smart men.
Moral: There is none.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-18

There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft
Who is guiding our footsteps each day;
He is watchful and patient and guardeth with care
Wherever, whenever stray.
No matter how narrow or crooked the path
Be the heavens DER cloudcd or blue,
He guardeth and guideth till far on ahead
The end of our journey we view.
Oh, know that somewhere within this wide world
There's q soul that is seeking for mine,-
That is roaming and wandering, lonely and drcar-
That is pining for love pine.
But sooner or later we'll meet, am sure
Though how, when or where can't say;
But I'll bless the sweet cherub that sits up aloft
And is guiding her footsteps this way.