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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
Woman's Mental Imagery.

T have been astonished TO find how superior
women usually are to men in the vividness OF
their mental imagery, and in their powers OF
introspection Though have admirable re-
turns from many men. have frequently found
othors, even of the highest general ability
quite unable for some time to take in the mean
ing of such simple questions as these; Think
of some definite object, say your breakfast
table as you sat down to it this morning, and
consider carefully the picture that rises before
your minds eye Is the image dim or fairly
clear? Is its brightness comparable to that OF
tho actual scene? Are the objects sharply de-
fined? Are the colors quite distinct and natu-
raj. &c.? On the other hand | find the atten-
tion of women, especially women OF ability, to
be instantly aroused by these inquiries They
eagerly and carefully address themselves TO
consider their modes of thought, they put per-
tinent questions, they suggest tests, they ex-
press themselves in well-weighed language,
and with happy turns of expression, and they
are evidently masters of the art OF introspec-
ton. do not find any peculiar tendency to
exacgeration in this matter either among wo-
men or men; the only difference l have OBJ
served between them is that the former usual
ly show an unexpected amount OF intelligence,
while many of the latter are as unexpectedly y
obtuse. The mental difference between the
| two sexes seems wider in the vividness of their
| mental imagery and the power of introspect-
| ing it than in respect to any other combination
| of mental faculties of which L can think
| Francis Galton, in Nature.
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Books Received.
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Milman's Gibbons Rome. In five volumes
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The Chemistry of Common Life. BY the
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
A Street-Car Mystery.

You may have been on street car when a
man or woman accidentally dropped piece
of money in the straw on the floor. If SO you
felt an overpowering desire to help recover it.
So did every other passenger One day not
long since a woman on Woodward avenue
car dropped something while paying her fare.
She said it was dime, while small boy
thought it was a cent, and two other psssen-
gers asserted that it was a quarter. The wo-
man had plenty of help to search for it, and
the force was suddenly increased by man
who left his seat in the rear of the car, came
forward, got down on his hands and knees and
said:
81 always have good luck in finding lost
things. Are you sure it was money!"
"Oh, yes,'' replied the woman.
The man poked round in the straw and sud-
denly held up big iack-knife with a broken
olade and asked:
"Gouldn't have been this, could it? Or did
you drop this afterwards"
II never had that--never saw it before!" she
tartly answered, as her face grew red.
''Didn't, eh? Well, bub, you can have it.
Well look little further and see what we can
see. Here are two pants buttons, but don't
suppose you dropped them, and III put them
INTO my pocket"
Never mind looking any more. don't
are Tor the loss. she remarked as Her posi-
ION grew uncomfortable.
"Oh, it's no trouble for me, and it belongs to
.ou, whatever 1t is. 1t always vexes me to-.
la! may be twas this!'
He held up a corkscrew with the end bored
eep into cork, and the woman fairly rose
up as she said:
II never had that-never saw it before new
er!'
Didn't, eh? Well, I'll pocket it, for such
tnings come awful handy around the house.
I'll look u little further"
mo, you needn't. guess didn't drop any
thing-I'm sure didn't"
II kinder think you did, for 1 heard some
thing chink," he observed as he paved around.
Even if it's only a cent it will be- cent ahead
| If we find it. Now what's this?"
The woman almost climbed over him to get
| to the door and drop off, but she wasn't ten
| feet away when he reached the door, held up
| vest-buckle between his thumb and finger
! and called:
| "Hold on--Tve found there it is!'
| She started on a run down side street, and
| when the car started up the man trampled the
straw down and hung the buckle on the front
| door with the remark:
| Its little reward any one ever gifts for do
| ing stranger a favor, but seeing I've got the
| corkscrew, I'll leave this here and she can git
it or let it 90 into the treasury of the street car
company
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
Profession and Practice.

The New-Era Leader this week has a
column article with the startling head lines
"Portland's Poor Men," "How They Live
and How the Law Treats Them," "The Eff
fects of the Legal Boom," "a Picture from
Real Life'', in the course of which it gives,
with, ut names, alleged instances in which
poor men have been driven from house and
home by merciless creditors, and puts the
blame for such occurrences upon Republi-
cans. 1t claims that the oppression, the
hardships and the evictions of the Irish peo-
pie are paralleled here in Portland
Singularly enough the New Era Leader
has omitted to give the 'picture from real
life" with which it is most familiar, and
neglects to inform us how the law treated
one poor man who was endeavoring to get
living wages from "a grasping corporation
in whose service he was. That omission we
purpose to supply and that neglect to rene
dy; and lest the charge be brought that the
case we are about to cite is &C, Republican,
lie'' we quote from the Eastern Argus OF
November the 10th, 1879. Here is the
"etfect of legal BOOM that struck the New
Era office:
ARGITS COTTRT pECOpn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

in the same way the hub of low chariot
wheel very strongly built, and knocked every
spoke out OF it. Ha took after man who
was famous short distance runner, and was
so swift he would have caught and trampled
him to death If the ring had been few feet
!wider. AS it was, the man just saved himself
was in such fury they were afraid he would
die Of passion, but he charged back into his
cage, and there they kept him for fifteen days,
feeding him through a hole in the roof until he
got quiet. At the end of that time the Arab
had himself carried in on stretcher, and the
hippopotamus was let out. AS soon as he
heard his keepers voice and saw him he was
quiet and docile as lamb. They made lots OF
money ON that hippopotamus. He cost them
25,0OO originally, and they made $4,000 out
him in the first season. He lived eight years
in this Country, and then, one night in Ring
ton he turned over on his back and died, no
body knew why.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

The district Committee will be in session in the
ante room of the Hall at IL O'Clock, A. NJ for the
reception of credentials.
his Convention is called on the I'd of March III
order that after the election of delegates, the
vention may have an opportunity to adjourn, to
meet at Augusta on the day following in Mass con-
vention with Republicans Of the other Districts.
EBEN N. PERRY, Cape Elizabeth, Chairman.
b. L. CHASE, Bridgton,
HIRAM KNOWLTON, Portland
JOHN S. PARKER, Lebanon.
SYLVESTER BARTLETT, Eliot
JAMES F. BRACkETr, Limington.
j. w. BEATTY, Sa %, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

The Imperial cotton mills at Darby, Pa,
have been burned. Loss $4,000.
Count Won Wesdehelen, councillor to the
German embassy at Paris, has been appointed
German minister to Roumania.
The New York Herald declines Parnell's
conditions and leaves his name off from the
committee to disburse the relief fund for the
Irish.
Counterfeit bills on the Montreal bank are
in circulation in New York, supposed to be
from plates stolen at Toronto last July.
W. p. Lovett has been acquitted OF the
charge of the murder q j. X. Reynolds at
Atlanta, GA.
Ina wrestling match between Thomas
Lynch of New York aud l.. w. Johnston of
Belleville, at Ontario, Lynch won the first fall,
Johnston the second and third, Lynch the
fourth and Johnston the fifth
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
The Politeness of Kings.

"Punctuality," once said Charles X. of
France, lis the politeness of kings" 1t is
then to breach of royal etiquette that the
Czar OF Russia owes his life. He forgot his
manners, kept dinner waiting half s.n hour,
and during the delay the explosion in the
Winter Palace, which blew company Of
Finnish guards to pieces, took place. Had
not Alexander suffered the soup to cool S..
Petersburg would now be witnessing coro-
nation.
ThIs occurrence is the strongest argument
against punctuality that up to the present
day has been ad"anced. Halevcy has told
us that to be punctual is to lose time waiting
for the other man. But though time in this
country is usually rcckoned as money, most
OF US have not been too penurious to keep
an engagement. As long as the only los
risked was the loss of dollars our
prodigal and adventurous people have
taken the chance and come to time with all
the pluck and alacrity of the Game Chicken
himself. But if the keeping of an engage
ment is hereafter to be re arded by assassi-
nation, if promptness in answering the din
ner-bell is to be regarded as capital offense
the practical American will, for one, become
laggard, and reject, as he has rejected
many other old saws, the rhyme which
teaches us that early to bed and early to rise
makes one healthy, wealthy and wise. We
shall become sluggards at both ends of the
daily route, finding our account in so doing
and even coming to regard it as new and
economical method of life insurance. 1t
may be urged that only members Of reigning
families are in danger from early dinners,
but we all know that to be an American is
greater thar to be king, and that the high
er the station the larger and more immedi-
ate the peril. Henceforth punctuality must
be classed with the lost accomplishments.
1t is not pleasant to admit that we give it up
because of bodily fear. Let us then make
virtue of necessity and style the surrender
concession to the debtor class-which hates
punctuality above all things. By so doing
we escape the confession of fear, gain the
approval of currency reformers, and show
proper contempt for monarchical maxims
In future, in business as well as at church
or in society, to be late will be regarded as
an evidence of wisdom and good breeding;
and in science that shibboleth, "the survival
of the fittest," will be discarded for the
more recent axiom of experimental knowl-
edge, ''the survival of the latest" What
chance that will give to the already highly
priced student lamp! The rage for the lat
est thing out will receive an access of fury.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

Among recent numbers OF Messrs. Harper's
Franklin Square Library portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony Mademoiselle de Mersac is o
Algeria; its sad ending will disappoint the
reader. Cousin Simon is novel by the Hon.
Mrs. Robert Marsham-also sad in its story.
The second part of the Memoirs of Nine. de
Remusat continues the singular recital of court
life in the reign Of the first Napoleon. Friend
and Lover, by LA buffers Hardy. is a novel
quite we'll written but over.crowded with chsr-
acters
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

The movement started by the Chicago
publishers to induce Congress to put on tho
free-list wood and straw pulp, soda-ash and
other bleaching chemicals used in making
paper, is receiving the hearty support of
publishers in other parts of the country.
The extraordinary advance in the price of
printing paper is due, the paper-makers say,
to the fact Jha, soda-ash and other chemi-
calls used in its manufacture are artifcially
dear by reason of'he duties levied thereon,
and they say that If the pulp and chemicals
are relieved from dus they can afford to
make paper considerabi, cheaper. The pres
ent duty is in effect taxon knowledge and
should be taken off.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
ARGUS COURT RECORD
Superior Court.

BEFORE JUDGE BoNNEY-NoyEMBER CIVIL TERN
TUEsDAy.-Elden D. Pratt vs.. The New Era Pub
fishing Co. In the Of 1878 the pltf engaged
to work for the defts. advertising agent, ana
shortly after, when daily paper was started, h,
became. as he SAYS, local editor, general manager
and for three weeks, in the absence of Col. Mont
gomery, the managing editor, the plrf filled that p-
'iton. For this work the ptf. claims for IL weeks
the price of S1u per week, and for the last seven
weeks 81 per week, making S2o5 for labor. Iher.
are also other items in the DILL sued amounting T.
,,34.35, about which there is no dispute. The plf
gives defts credit for casa Sl3739 leaving as plf.
claims balance due him of SlO2.96.
The defts. claim that the ptf agreed to work for
them as advertising gent for his board and washing
amounting to sj pec wssd, and tnat amount they
have paid.
Verdict for plaintiff for S1o2.96, full amount
claimed.
Aletcalf for plf. 8cribner for deft.
Here we find this clamorous champion of
the laborer engaging man to discharge
he arduous and responsible duties of ad-
vertising agent, local editor, general editor,
and managing editor and offering him in
return therefor his board and washing.
Comment is unnecessary. Hypocrisy like
this carries its own condemnation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

BosToN Herald: Away back in November
James G. Blaine said to Herald correspon-
dent at Augusta that some of the men con-
cerned in the crunting-out scheme would
be fortunate if they didn't lind themselves
in Jail before they got through with it, and
he seems to have been tolerably near the
ruth in his prediction
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
With Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen.
Editor. All railway. steamboat and hoe managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
on Tuesday, March 2, 1880, at 12 1.2
O'Clock. p. NJ,

tor the purpose of choosing two delegates and two
aitefn e.. 10 aCtelIu tIfe rcpui1ii National Con
ventou to be held in Chicago the Sd OF Jun,
next.
Zach citA and town will be entitled to send del
egate and one additional for every sixt, vote
cast for ,elue CVinor at the Cub rna orial elAc-
ton of 1878; majo ity fraction OF 35 votes y ill be
entitled to All additional delegate.
he apportionment of delegates to the several
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

OBADIAH says he has good authority for
stating that twelve thousand votes were
bought in the State by the Republicans last
year. He-eaa find good authority for
saying that thirty thousand Democrats and
Greenbackers sold themselves-the authority
Of Col. R. M. Springer, editor of the New
Era-Leader and Sunday New Era and Presi-
dent of the Maine State Circle B. P. L.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

The Seamy Side is a novel by the skilful and
effective collaborateurs,. Messrs. Walter Be-
SAINT and James Rice. 1t is bright and we'll
written; and forms the sixteth volume of
Mcssrs Appleton's Library of Choice Novels.
portland: Dresser & McLellan)
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
THE BLACK LIST.

Here is the list in black letters of the men
who, by an unhappy accident being in
important official positions, deliberately
abused their trust, perverted the laws which
it was their sworn duty to execute justly and
impartially according to their spirit and in
tent, who sought by wicked trickery to
thwart the will Of the people as expressed at
the polls and who not only brought dis
grace upon themselves but smirched the
fair fame of the State whose officials they
unfortunately were. Their names and places
should be known of all men that they
may receive the just punishment of being
regarded as Infamous by all good citizens
and that the rising generation may learn by
their example the folly of being wicked.
To this list is appended the names of such
other men as have taken Offices to which
they knew they were not elected, and who
become equally guilty by taking advantage
of the vile conduct of the original malefac-
tors:
GOVERNOR,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY e1

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable. not necessarily for pubca-
ion but as guaranty Of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or preserve com.
munications tnat are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

SAM CARY sadly confesses that the Green
hackers have ''been damaged beyond repair"
by the Maine business. And the Democ-
racy are feeling pretty sick, too.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

THE Auburn, New York, Advertiser says
The peoples candidate is Enthusiastically
James G. Blaine, the foremost Republican
champion and 4dvocate."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

THE Delaware Republican sensibly re-
marks that ''Just at present, thedisposition
not to submit to the will of theosajority,
threatens the permanency of our Institutions.
This spirit manifests itself in bolts within
parties, as well as in threats of revorion
between great parties. 1t is dangeous
spirit if carried TOO far 1t overthrows, NJ
unity Of action, and destroys the only res
forces of Republican government"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

THE Argus does not give its readers any
information concerning the Lincoln county
frauds Is it in hopes that they may never
learn of the conspiracy?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

Two volumes of Messrs. Harpers Half Hour
Series portland: Loring, Short g. Harmony are
Goden-Rod, a graceful idyl of Mount Desert,
and Othello the Second, rather powerful but
very disagreeable story by f. W. Robinson.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

the charming picture which the author gives
of Nefert, the young wife of Pharaoh's chariot
eer. The translation is very readable, with
here and there an awkward expression which
mars for moment the artistic effect of this
remarkable novel;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

Edison is sck-not of shadows, like the
Lady of Shallot, but of light. The failure
of his carbon burners has discouraged him
and he has taken to his bed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

EVIDENTLY Obadiah, despite his preten-
sions, has always been Democrat. These
fellows who favor war measures in time of
peace are almost invariably those who fa-
yored peace measures in time of war.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

The Democratic papers of Mississippi
hasten to assure their readers that the Sem
ator-elect from that State is in full sympathy
wit the YaZOo nlan.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21
REPU UBLICAN DISTRICT CON-
VENTION.
CONGRESS HALL, pORTLAN

The Republicans of the several cities and towns
in the First District of Maine, invited to send
delegates to a district Convention, to be held in
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

The American Boo Exchange of New
York publish the first v'um> of their popular
edition of Gibbons Define ad Fall Of tb.,
Roman Empire, with nees oyl,v n IT
Milman and a complete ndex Of L., uorl,
The convenient form, small price and "a
able print of the publications of the Book Ex-
change make them exceedinglydesirable for
persons who wish to possess aspidant litera-
ture without too great outlay.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

APPENDIX.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
b. SKILLlN.. mo. Yarmouth
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-21

Sporting Adventures in the Far West, by j.
Mortimer Murphy (New York: Hrper Broth
ers; Portland: Loring, Short 4 Harmony.
The author, who writes in very sirited and
graphic fashion, was in the Weston country
for nearly seven years; and as naturalist and
a hunter became well versed in tn, ways of
the wild inhabitants Of the region. The OPEN
ing chapter of directions to sportsman as to
outfits hunting grounds, wood-craft AMI shoot
ing will set fire to the imagination of tie boys
who will read his book; and he tells many
thrilling tales of grizzlies and wolves, aad Of
less formidable creatures. Several illustra-
tions add to the interest of the volume, Which
is gaily bound in peacock-blue, gold and red
with grizzly on guard over the author:
name.