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The Portland daily press., 1880-11-05
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The Portland daily press., 1880-11-05
CALL FOR
fTyGbuTg, Me. Outstanding Bonds

NOTICE is hereby given to the holders of the
~ Bonds of the town of Fryeburg, Me-, dated
January 1st July 1st, and November 1st 1870,
that the following numbers called for redemp-
tion and will be paid at the Treasurer's office in
Fryeburg, November 1st, 1880, at which time.
ninety inclusive, of one hundred dollars EACH Ne's
one to forty-six inclusive, of two hundred dollars
each; and Nos one to sixteen inclusive of three
hundred dollars EACH
JOHN LOCKE
Treasurer of Fryeburg
Fryeburg, Me-, oct. 10, 1880. oc26 d1Od
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11

We called at a fashionable restaurant.
Some wealthy tea-merchants We're to en-
tertain delegation of noted country
men that evening. The first floor was
in the throes of cuisine agony for so
great ain occasion. Buns baked light
brown, with guests insignia of rank
burned ON the top; little pyramids of
cherries, plums, and sliced oranges were
erected on sauce-dishes, one dish forming
a course. Heaps of thin cakes and
pickles were on all sides. The refresh
ment rooms were upstairs, the first room
being for commoners, second for little
higher grade, the third Cor aristocracy.
In the latter an open scroll-work of gllded
iron ran up the sides and across the top,
from which hung silken curtain divid-
ing the apartments. The smaller por-
ton was for the musicians, who dis
coursed most hideous jargon of sounds
while the guests ate. On raised dais
was a most exquisite china and gilt
opium pipe, with tubes, so that they
could smoke at the end of the repast.
| The other half of the room was hung
with highly-colored maps and pictures,
| and furnished with quantity carved
| chairs and tables in ebony and gilt.
| Covers were laid for six at table, and
consisted simply of ivory chop-sticks,
three plates (the size of an individual
butter dish), in choice china and a wine,
| glass holding tablespoonful. We in,
dulged in a cup of delicious tea served in
odd cups with covers, and partook spar.
ingly of some dried fruit. Some chopped
fddle-strings everyone declared looked
tempting, but no one had any appetite
The guests arrived before we left, ant
were preceded by the host, who usheret
them in with much ceremony and over
whelming salaams. They were hand
somely attired in blue broadcloth, taste
fully corded with black, and wore tn
red button of rank and opulence upol
their caps. After the ceremonies the.
settled down to easy chit-chat, ant
seemed to bubble over with humor ant
wit, which, of course, was lost on ou
uneducated ears, but was greeted wit
shouts of applause by them. The mex
amusing thing was the waiter, who wa
so much inflated with the awfulness c
the occasion that he would swell into tn
room with an immense server, holding
as if bent to the ground with the weigh
of good things, in the centre of whic
would repose, like an island in mic
ocean, single sauce-dish of rice an
meat.-Sdn Francisco Correspondence
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
Bringing Drowned Bees to Life.

A lady in Providence relates the fol-
lowing story: Her father once brought
home a molasses hogshead to be used as
a water tank. On washing day her
mother said:
"Let's throw the suds in it to soak the
molasses from the bottom"
The instant she had done so she ex-
claimed:
"Oh, have drowned hundreds of our
neighbor's bees"
The hogshead was black with bees that
were busil ly appropriating the sweet from
what they must have considered an enor-
nous blossom. The good lady made
haste with her skinner to skim the bees
from the top of the water and spread
them on a board in the sunshine, but
they seemed drowned and nearly dead,
and she was very sorry. The bees that
were around the hogshead had flown
away at the dash of the water, but in n
few minutes they returned, accompanied
by scores of others. Then began a Gu
rious work. They Immediately went to
work ON the unfortunate bees, turning
them over and working on them con-
stantly with their heads, feet and anten-
nae. The result of their busy labor was
that one after another gave signs of life,
stretching the limbs and wings, crawled
about and dried. itself in the sun, and
few away The lady said there were a
half-pint at first, and that there remained
only about dozen helpless cases beyond
the humane efforts of their brothers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
lord Marchmont's Recipe for Lon
geyity.

Lord Marchmont, the friend of Pope,
lived to the age of eighty-six, preserving
his strength and faculties to the last.
Sir John Sinclair wished to ascertain the
system he pursued, and received for an
swer that he had laid down when young
one maxim, to which he rigidly adhered,
namely: Never to mix his wines.
What luxurious PHILOSOPHERS some
people have! My Lord Marchmont was
resolved to be a long-lived, virtuous,
venerable man; and therefore he laid
the maxim "never to mix his wines. !"
To get one glass of wine is what some
human beings, bent double with age, toll
and rheumatism, can seldom hope for !;
while another of the race, having moth
ing to bind him and nothing to do, shall
become an example of Che beanty of the
maxim-"never to mix your wines. "
Lord M. did accordingly for many years
restrict himself to the use of claret, but
his physicians having forbidden him to
take wine, he resolved, with equal self
denial, to "confne himself to Burgundy"
and accordingly with a perseverance that
cannot be sufficiently commended, he
took bottle of it every day for fifteen
years.
All we have to lament is that thou
sands as good people as this noble lord,
have not an atom either of his pleasure
| or his leisure
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
Boston Suburbs.

Boston has, perhaps, the finest sub
urbs of any city In America, If not IN the
world. The population outside of the
city, within q radius of twenty miles of
the City Hall, is 100000. The roads
connecting these suburban cities, towns
and villages are as near perfect as roads
can be made, and no higher compliment
can be paid to them than to note the fact
that they are the paradise of the bicycle.
The house of the suburban Bostonian is
generally cosy and unpretentous, many
of the dwellings, being of wood, but the
grounds are .marvels of culture-horti-
culture-and good taste. About 30, 900
of the suburbans ride into Boston in the
morning and ride out again in the even
ing, and the collection of 100, 600 fares
every day forms a mammoth business by
itself. Steam railroads radiate in every
direction, like iron spokes, from the
Somerville, Newton and other towns jogs
the slow and sometimes sure street car
horse. Many of the suburbans use sea-
son tickets. The Boston and Albany
Road brings in l. 900 season tickets every
day. The Boston and Maine carries in
1,600 daily, and the Lowell Road an
equal number. The cheap package
tickets have reduced the number of sea-
son tickets. The Boston and Providence
Road sells $4,000 package tickets every
month. The rural Bostonian lives In his
suburban residence not only in summer,
but during the other three seasons as
we'll. A man with an easy conscience
and a horse and buggy can put in very
enjoyable time in the suburbs OF Boston.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
Dreams.

In regard to the not unfrequent Incl
dents which happens in human exper-
ience, of ones dreaming that death or
calamity has overtaken friend or rela-
tive, and afterwards discovering that the
catastrophe came to pass at the exact
minute of the dream, scientists say, al
lowance is.not made for the difference in
time between the place where the dreamer
lives and the place where the death oc-
ours. Thereupon San Francisco woman
dreamed that her father in New England
was run over and killed by the cars She
awoke and looked at the clock. 1t was
midnight. A week afterward, she says
that she received the news of her fathers
death exactly us she dreamed it, and it
happened at 8 o'clock in the evening of
the night on which she saw the occur
ence i'll her sleep. The exact difference
of three hours in the time, she argued,
made her dream and her fathers death
tally exactly. But some cold-blooded
critic points out that there is mistake
somewhere; because when it is midnight
in San Francisco, it is three o'clock in
the morning in New England, hence,
according to her own story her father
was killed six hours before she saw him
die. A correspondent of the New York
EUening Post points out similar dis
crepancy in Bret Harte's poem "Her
Letter. in which a New York girl
"dressel just as she came from the
Dance" is described as writing to her
lover. miner in the "far West" She
ends it up by bidding him "good night,
if the longitude please" for while she sis
wasting her taper" his "sun's climbing
over the trees" The poet has got things
twisted because the sun rises in New
York three hours before it does in San
Francisco, and ifit were one or two o'clock
in the morning after the dance when she
was writing to her lover, he, instead Of
Watching the sun rise was, if a good
young man of regular habits, like all
Pacific coast miners, just getting into
bed. One needs to remember when cal
culating differences of time, that, al
though the sun appears to move from
East to West, tho earth actually does
move from West to East, and that peo
pie West of us are, at any given moment
doing what we were doing several min
utes or hours ago, not what we will be
doing by and by. On the contrary
Eastern people have finished doing fol
the day or night what we are doing at thu
present moment.-Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
An Ant Worth Going To.

There has lately been discovered a
species of ant which deserves to be at
once introduced to the attention of all
children, servants, and ladies keeping
house. No vestry should be ignorant of
the habits of so admirable creature, and
sanitary boards of all kinds should with
out loss of time be put in possession of
the leading facts with respect to them.
This ant, it appears, abominates rub
bish. If its home is made in a mess it
gets disgusted, goes sadly away, and
never comes back. Dirt breaks its heart.
The insect in question is native of Co
lombia, and matches its eggs by artificial
heat, procuring for this purpose quanti-
ties of foliage, which in the course of
natural fermentation supply the neces-
sary warmth. When the young brood is
Matched the community carefully carry
away the decomposed rubbish that has
served its purpose as a hotbed, and
stack it by itself at distance from the
nest.-Lonlon Telegraph.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
Remarkable Clock.

The Strasburg clock is very remark
able astronomical clock, constructed
about 1870, by Isaae Hobrecht, and now
In the cathedral at that city, but there is
a still more remarkable clock at Detroit,
Mich, the work of Mr.. Felix Meier, q
mechanic. It stands eighteen feet ir
height, and is inclosed in black walnut
frame, elaborately carved and ornament
ed. The crowning figure Is that of
Liberty" on canopy over the head of
Washington, who is seated on q marble
dome. The canopy is supported by col
umns on either side. On inches below.
at the four corners of the clock, are fouJ
human figures, representing "Infancy,"
Youth, "Manhcod" and Cage" each
has bell in one hand and hammer in
the other. The inches are supported by
angels with flaring torches, and over the
center is the figure Of Father Time At
the quarter hour the figure of the infant
strikes its tiny bell; at tho half hour the
figure of the youth strikes his bell of
louder tone: at the third quarter the man
strikes his bell, and at tho full hour the
gray-beard Then the figure of Time
steps out and tolls the hour, as two small
figures throw open doors ill the column
on either side of Washington, and pro-
cession of the Presidents of the United
States follows. AS the procession moves
Washington rises and salutes each figure
as it passes, and it in turn salutes him.
They move through the door on the other
side, and it is then closed behind them.
The procession moves to the accompani-
ment of varied music by the clock itself
The mechanism also gives the correct
movement Of the planets round the sun,
comprising. Mercury, which makes the
revolution once in So days; Venus, in 224
days; Mars, in 6SS days; Vesta, in l 1927
days; Juno, in 1888 days; Ceres, in l, :
6S1 days; Jupiter, in A. 332 days; Saturn,
in 30 years: Uranus, in 81 years. AS
these movements are altogether too slow
to be popularly enjoyed, theinventor has
added device by which he can hasten
the machinery to show its workings to the
public. There are dials which show the
hour, minutes and seconds in Detroit,
Washington, New York, San Francisco,
London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, st. Pc
tersburg, Constantinople, Cairo, Pekin,
and Melbourne. The clock also shows
the day of the week aud month in De-
troit, the month and season of the year,
the changes of the moon, etc. It is said
that Mr.. Meier has worked on this clock
nearly ten years, and for the last four
years has devoted his whole time to it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
lightning Strokes,

The fatalities from lightning are very
much greater in number and extent than
is generally supposed. In European
Russia alone, the deaths for five years
1870-74-were !, ,452 men and 81Swomen.
No fewer than 4, 092 fires are here also
officially reported from the same cause
during this period. In Prussia, where
the registration of the causes of death is
exceptionally careful, 1,004 persons were
reported as killed by lightning in the nine
years from 1869 to 1877. If we may trust
the report of our Registrar General this
country is more fortunate In this regard,
for during the same period only 1914 such
deaths are registered for England and
Wales; but our returns are admittedly
incomplete.
In Austria-from~ 1860 to 1877 (eight
years)-ightning occasioned upward OF
$1,000 fires, and destroyed more than
1,700 lives. In Switzerland the returns
seem crriously variable For example,
in 1866 only three such deaths are re-
ported; while in 1877 we find as many as
thirty. OF the deaths by lightning in
France, M. Boudin some years ago col
lected statistics which showed that during
the thirty years, beginning in 1884 and
ending in 1868, as many as 2,03S people
were struck dead by lightning in that
country. During the last ten years OF
this period the deaths amounted to $50,
and of these only 243 were women.
Nothing, indeed, is more striking in these
statistics than the uniform preponderance
in the numbers of the male over the fe-
male sex. With the exception of Swe.
den-where for some reasonnot explained
nd ,nf 1x- fI1 L oI
ponderance is not SO observable-there
seems to be generally about two men
killed to one woman. The traveller who
accounted for the immunity of the Swed-
ish women by their comparative 'lack OF
personal attractions" was as ungallant,
and we believe, moreover, as incorrect in
his fact as he was certainly wanting in
the decorum that forbids testing on seri.
GUS subjects. The country seems inva-
riably to suffer more than the town; the
village more than the great city.
Public buildings fare, it seems, little
better than private houses, though CEN
tury and quarter has elapsed since
Franklin's famous experiment with the
kite demonstrated the possibility of con-
trolling the electric fluid, and nearly a
century has passed since the learned,
taking interest in lightning conductors,
were divided into hostile factions on the
famous. question of 'knobs or points. -
Mr.. Anderson estimates that at least one
half, and perhaps two-thirds of the pub
lie buildings, including the churches and
ohapels, of Great Britain and Ireland,
are without any protection against light
ming; while it is believed that not five out
of thousand private houses are fitted
with conductors. st. Pauls was among
the first buildings in Europe to be pro.
tected, Benjamin Franklin's "lightning
rods" having been first set up over Sil
Christopher Wren's dome, in 1865
London NeUS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
How the Great Dailies are Edited.

The Christian Union, edited by Henry
Ward Beecher, has the following explana-
ton of how the daily papers of the coun-
try are edited:
Tie number of great dailies published
in the United States which are uncom-
promising advocates of total abstinence
is very limited Drinking is the policy
of the paper The liquor bills contracted
by its reporters in the procurement OF
news item are paid in its own counting
rooms. 1t treats politicians, officials,
railroad employees, actors and actresses,
showmen, fellow journalists, business
men, and even saloonists themselves.
The paper instructs its local to "Ask
Smith to take a glass of something. 1t
will loose his tongue" 1t orders another
to attend the opening of the new sample
room and say pleasant word for the
establishment. If an account of a recep-
ton is to be written, the city editor sug-
gests particular notice of the fine wines
that sparkled on the occasion. 1t was a
very fashionable affair, and some of the
best people were there. Through the
policy of the paper the younger members
of the staff are thus obliged not only to
drink themselves, but to indorse the in
diligence of others, and to give respecta-
bility to q custom that many of them
acknowledge to be a curse, and of the
destructive evils of which not few once
brilliant newspaper men have become
the pitiable and miserable fruits. With
such principles regnant in the life of the
journalist and expressed in his public
utterance-thOse utterances which are
listened to attentively by millions of i'm
L l. L., L. Al >oI
the secular press should be an instrument
! of temperance reform? Can your family
paper, if produced in an atmosphere re
dolent with whisky, be promotive O
sobriety?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
Badly Confused.

Nothing can be more comlcal than the
scared anxiety of "cOrnered' party
who does not know which side of the
fence to get down ON. A Southern pa
per tells the following:
Soon after the battle of Prairie Grove,
three Confederate officers of rank came
into our army to negotiate for an ex-
change of prisoners. Three Union Off
GERS were detailed to negotiate with them.
One day, while the commission was in
session, an old, gray-headed, gray
bearded Arkansas farmer walked In and
asked:
s'Es this the Provo's offis?"
Some one attempted to explain, but
the old fellow being quite deaf, did not
understand, and said:
eyes, I'm good loyal citizen; I've
| got my protection papers; I've been and
got paid for my forage. Its all right
"Iook here" said Col. W, of the
Union army, ''you had better be careful
about what you say about your loyalty;
don't you see those gentlemen over
there?" pointing across the table to
where the Confederate officers sat in
their gray uniforms.
The old man took out pair of dilapi-
dated spectacles, and fixing them on his
nose, closely examined the gray uniforms
with their velvet collars and brass stars.
His hands trembled violently, and he
seemed quite frightened, but collected
himself and said to the Confederates:
"Well, gentlemen, meant no offence.
I didn't know-fact is, I've allus been a
Southern man. I've jest got one son,
and he's with Marmaduke. The only
other man grown in my family that's fl
for sarvis is my darter Sallie's husband,
and he's with Rector, and"
"Hold on, old fellow" cried Col. W,
"what about your being loyal citizen?'
He looked at the other side of the ta
BILE. Then he readjusted his spectacles
scanned the blue coats, took off his hand
kerchief from about his neck, blew his
nose, leaned both hands on the table ant
said:
"Well, gentlemen, this is a little mixed
but you jist go on and fight it out among
yourselves. I can live under any gov
ernment,"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
The Voice.

DIR. Ward, of New York, says on this
subject, of the many agents which have
more or less influence on the voice, the
four principal are climate, dress, diet,
and exercise. Change of climate may
cause some slight deleterious effect on
the larynx, but this influence is greatly
overestimated. The present fashionable
style of dress is decidedly unhealthy.
The chest and abdomen are unnaturally
confined, the lungs and other organs act
ing abnormally. ALI clothing should be
loosely attached to the body, and the
dress worn high. Avoid as much as pos
sible appearing in full dress. The throat
should not be wrapped in comforters,
boas, etc. Chest protectors should not
be worn, and the feet should be guarded
against wet. The diet of the singer
should be bland as well as nutritious
OF the different kinds of meat, venison,
poultry, roast beef, and lamb are the
easiest to digest, and due proportion OF
fat should be taken as heat-supplying
principle to the body. Cooked vege-
tables, unless too highly seasoned, are
easily digested. Salads, cut cabbage,
cucumbers, etc., should be avoided.
Pastry should be invariably discarded.
Dinner at noon, followed by light tea
at nightfall, is a rule which, if rigidly ad.
hered to, will be safeguard against all
ordinary attacks of indigestion. In order
that the act of singing be properly per.
formed, it is absolutely necessary that
the stomach be nearly empty. Alcoholic
beverages should not, on any considera
ton, be indulged in by vocal artists.
For the full development and preser
walton of the vocal cords several rules
must be observed. The exercises mus
be regularly and systematically practiced
they must always be within the register
they should never be pushed to tn
point of fatigue; they should never b,
made use of when the vocal organs ar
attacked with cold, no matter how slight
Always practice standing upright, so a
to allow of full play of the lungs and ac
cessory vocal organs. Bodily exercise j
especially beneficial to the singer. L
short, learning to sing is learning to b
healthy.-The AonthLv MAGAZINE.