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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-02
House Furniture For Sale

A L AUCTION, Monday, April A, nj 10 +,
"a M, the entire furniture in house No. 81 s
congress street, corner of Ellsworth street, con.
slsting OF Parlor Suit in hair cloth Lounge Easy
Chairs, Oil Paintings, Steel Engraynes Ornaments
DINING Room and Kitchen Furniture, Refrigerator.
Chamber Sets Beds and Bedding, Tapestry and
Ingram Carpets, Stove, sc.
+. d. BAILEY a. CO., Auctioueer.
mar21
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Wanted.
Annual MRRtinu.


PY an experienced person, a position to take
ID care of horses in or near the city, place
Lang's Store, cor. Portland and Green SITS.
app do
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Buy your hat to-day of Coe, the halter.
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Coe sells fur felt hat for 81.
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VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
B Y AUCTION.

The double Westinghouse ON Congress
ST.. Nos. 700 & III, adjoining Col. +. N.
BOWS homestead, will be sold at auction
on Thursday next, April 9TH, at 3 O'clk
p. m. The lot measures about go feet on
Congress ST., and holding that width
about 100 feet deep. deposit Of $500
will be required of purchaser at time of
sale. $4,000 Of the purchase money can
remain on mortgage.
F. o. BAILEY & Co., AuctiOneers.
april
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TRUNKS, Bags and Gloves. Coe, the Halter
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EASTER GooDs.-Interesting novelties at
mh31d3t OWEN, MOORE & Co.'s.
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1.-THE Sufferers from Premature Badness
but knew it, the tonic qualities of Quinine are
specific. In no shape can it be used more
agreeably than in J: & E. ATKINsoN's Quinine
Hair Lotion. ma13OW&S
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GENTS Evening and Street Gloves. Merry.
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81 Ordered Liebig Co.'s Arnicated Ex-
tract of Witch Hazel

tract of Witch Hazel
in the case of an old indolent ulcer, attended
with great suffering and which had resisted a
variety of constitutional and local treatment.
/ am happy to say it effected a perfect cure in
a fortnight Professor MARTIN. FRELIGH,
NJ. D., 81 West Oath ST., n. Y.
Beware of counterfeits and cheap, worthless
limitations. Also cures Piles, Catarrh, Neu-
ralgia, Rheumatism, Hoarseness and Sore
Throat.
Sold in fifty cents and dollar sizes.
mch28-T, TIL, saw
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Coz has the Tall Black Kersey Hats.
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BEST 81 Soft and Stiff Hats. Merry's.
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Meteorological Report for January.

Sergeant LaurenS, OF the Signal Service. fur-
nishes the following summary of meteorolog-
ical observations at the Portland station in
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Buy $3.50 Stiff Halter. Merry, Halter.
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AUCTION SALES.
Furniture, Carpets,
BY AUCTION,

N SATURDAY, April I'd, at o a. m, at sales
~ room Is Exchange Street, Black Walnut and
Painted Chamber Sets, Parlor Suits, Easy Chairs,
Self Rockers, Marble Top and Walnut Tables, Mir
rors, Black Walnut Sideboards, Dining Chairs Hair
Der and Kitchen Furniture, Carpets Stoves Crock
cry, Cutlery and Glass Ware, sc. Also at ~ NJ
one 2d-hand Chickering Piano, 71s octave and
rosewood case.
+. D. BAILEY & CO., AuctiOneers.
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Entire New Silk Hats $3.50. Merry HATTIE,
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$500, $3.50 and $500 Fine Hats. Merry.
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ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Auburn shoe shipments foot up 20O2
cases this week. gail, of 400 cases from last
week, and of 200 cases from the corresponding
week of last year.
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of subscriptions to be found in
any City in New England. Our
stock is full and complete, en-
bracing the new designs in large
variety of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Comets Viewed from Balloons.

Recently paper by NJ. w. de Fon-
vielle was read before the Balloon So
ciety, in which the author described the
Appearance of the comet b, 1881, as
seen by him at midnight from the car
of balloon. The brilliancy of the
light which tho comet showed when
the balloon arrived at an altitude OF
over 1000 meters, increased in very
large proportion, Notwithstanding the
transparency of the atmosphere. So
far MS could be judged of similar chang
es without tho assistance of optical in
struments, it seemed that the brilliancy
had increased about half beyond the
normal brilliancy as seen from the
earth. The tail was little longer
than seen from the earth, but most re-
markable was the manner in which it
terminated, for it was cut straight, as
if line were drawn over it horizontally
with ruler. The singular circum.
stance made M. dc Fonvielle think that
tho end of the phenomenon might be
terminated by fieecy cloud. The APP
pearance of the tail was as If produced
by legions of large stones travelling In
planetary space Independently of the
comet. and having no other connection
with it than that Of being temporarily
lighted by the rays which its atmos-
phere had caused to deviate. more or
less. from their natural route. These
myriads of remnants of worlds would,
therefore produce the same effect as
dust lighted by ray Of sun admitted
into dark room through q crevice.
M. de Fonvielle dwelt upon this theory
at some length, and insisted that it was
to this cause that the zodiacal light was
in all reasonable PROBABILITY to be at
tributed. He also insisted that astr0-
nomical Investigations should include
ballooning.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Single Women.

A clever old maid once said that it
was far better to be laughed at because
you were not married than not to be
able to laugh because you were. There
is sound logic in that. 1t is well for
woman to marry If she meets good.
true man who loves her and whom she
loves; but If she be not suited, better.
that she remain single. The majority
of old maids are helpful, lovable and
sweet-tempered, and fill their allotted
niche as acceptable as do their married
sisters. Are they not more to be hon
ored than they would have been had
they married merely for q home or
positionp Our young ladies have erron-
eous ideas upon this subject. They
feel almost disgraced, if they have ar
rived at mature age. and are not yet
able to write Mrs. before their names.
Their whole ambition is to get hus-
band, by hook or crook, but get him
somehow they must. Consequently
they take the first man who offers him
self, whether he really suits them or
not Now. girls, do not marry in haste.
Get the best education possible, help
about domestic affairs, and enter upon
some trade or profession for which you
have q taste and master it. Skilled
labor is always we'll paid. Don't
spend your time repining because you
cannot see the coming man. II you
never see him, you can live useful. hap
py lives. You think if you had q hus-
band, you would have a strong arm on
which to lean, sharer Of sorrow and
trouble. Alas! many slender woman
has had not only to stand alone, but
also serve as prop for children and
husband, and very few wives finds in
their husbands all the sympathy and
companionship they desire. II you are
good for anything you will not be hurt
by remaining single. neither will you
be elevated by becoming Johns wife"
DO your duty in life and you will count
for one in the world, whether married
or single.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Influence of Lime on Soils.

Professor E. w. Hilgarl, in discuss
ing the objects and Interpretation of
Soil Analysis" gives among other
things the following advantages re-
sulting from an adequate supply of
lime in soils:
l. A more rapid transformation Of
vegetable matter into active humus
which manifests itself by q dark or
deep-black tint of the soil.
2. The retention of such humus,
against the oxidizing influences of hot
climates; witness the high humus per
centages of such soils, as against all
others, in the southern states.
8. Whether through the medibm Of
this humus, or in more direct man
ner, it renders adequate for profitable
culture percentages Of phosphoric acid
and potash so small that. in the case
of deficiency or absence Of lime, the
soil is practically sterile.
4. It tends to secure the proper main
tenance of the conditions of nitrifica-
ton, whereby the inert nitrogen of the
soil is rendered available.
8. It exerts most important physi.
cal action on the flocculation, and
therefore on tho tillability of the soil,
as heretofore shown by Schesing and
by myself.
Professor Hilgard adds that in the
majority of soils Excepting those that
are extremely sandy the lime percent
age is greater in the subsoil than in the
surface soil. This is, doubtless, he ex-
plains, the result of the easy solubility
Of calcic carbonate in the soil water,
which carries it downward and thus
tends to deplete the surface soil. This
fact is strikingly shown in tho results
of Loughbridge's investigation on the
composition of the several sediments.
The efficacy of lime in preventing
running to weed" in fresh soils. and
in favoring the production of fruit, is
conspicuously shown in a number Of
cases.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Battle With a Tarantula.

The tarantula is the desperate Of tho
spider family. 1t frequently attains the
size of the hand, and with its great,
glaring black eyes and frightful claws
seldom fails to present an appearance
so formidable that sensitive lady, even
If used to seeing the tarantula, will
scream at the sight. The tarantula is.
in fact, only big spider, and usually
makes its home in the open prairie,
dwelling with his family in a nest con-
cealed beneath the tall grass. II you
tackle him in his retreat you will very
soon repent your temerity, for he
springs at you like tiger. jumping to
an astonishing hcight-sometimes three
or four feet. He is one of the most
poisonous of the family of the ayaneid9,
and his bite is said to be more fatal
than that of the rattlesnake.
In settlement called Grapeville
Prairie, near Fort Worth, some time
ago, the son of q farmer named Feath-
erstone was one day occupied in gath
ering rocks by the roadside. Upon
overturning large, flat rock he was
suddenly confronted by large taran-
tula, the size of mans hand, snugly
enscOnced in his nest along with a
number of young tarantulas. The big
one was yellow and black striped, and
displayed the same inimitable color
that nature bestows on the beautiful
snake"
Selling q good-sized stick. Master
Featherstone attacked the enemy in his
stronghold, and was met with unex-
pected resistance; he succeeded in
breaking off one leg, or rather claw of
the devil-tish Of dry land, but the tar
antula, enraged, sprang upon the ag-
gressor, and, quick as thought, with his
great black eyes glittering with fiend-
ish ferocity, fastened himself on the
boys hand and arm, both of which
swelled to three times their natural
size-so virulent is the poison of this
desperate of the prairies. The boy,
however succeeded in killing the tar
antula.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
The First Channel Steamer,

In March, 1916, the first steamboat
crossed the English Channel from
Brighton to Havre. The Majestic, in
1916, built at Ramsgate, with engines
of twenty-five horse power, was con-
sidered a gigantic concern. Her cross
ing from Dover TO Calais with two hun
bred passengers, and her return with
out accident, was feat highly appre-
ciated. This vessel established the as
cendancy of steamboats, over other
means of water conveyance. The sail
ing packet between Margate and Rams
gate was often detained two days by
Gains and tides. The steamboat passed
and repassed the sailing-packet loaded
with passengers. On one occasion, the
third night out, the packet was caught
at anchor in q sudden northerly gale,
and lost much of her gear. and the
next day, while the gale was stronger,
had the modification of seeing the Ma
jestic pass and convey her passengers
into Margate. United Service Maya
zln9.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Witchcraft in Mining.

I'VE are such stuff as dreams are
made Of" and dreams arc the groteque
records of vagrant associations. break
ing away without meaning or reason
into all kinds of whimsicalities, and
connecting us with the straw and chaff
instead of the real, practical, everyday
existence of life. Dreams piece to-
gether the odds and ends, the ragtags
and bobtails of experience, in the most
absurd and grOtesque manner possible,
introducing us neither to the spiritual
nor physical world. but to disordcred
conglomerate of both. These are facts
which no man in his sane moments will
for q moment think of denying. How
surprising, therefore, is it to see men.
who in all the business Of life, except
mining, conduct themselves in such
way as to gain the confidence of their
friends in their business capacity.
No sooner, however, has their atten-
ton been directed to mining than all
the actual precautions and business
tact which they were said to posses is
thrown to the wind, and the man with
the hazel stick, or spirit medium who
claims to be controlled by recently
transported Sioux, Comanche or Arap-
ahoe Indian, is called in to point out
the resting-place of vast mineral bod
les. The man with the forked wand is
equally credited with the ability to
point out the spot where water. coal,
iron. lead, silver and gold may be sue
cessfully mined for.
So it is with the spirit medium. He
or she processes to be controlled by a
celebrated Indian Chief, who, no doubt,
in earthly life was an excellent judge
of a juicy buffalo steak. and of tho
proper stretch to artistically dry reek-
ing scalp, but who never in his earthly
pilgrimage gave a moments considera-
ton to the difference existing between
the honeycomb blossom of q assure
and the dolorite which crowns the apex
of the barren ridge.
No sooner has our Chief DOTTED the
blanket and breech cloth, than we find
he has donned the cap and toga of the
class room, and is fully versed in all the
sciences of metallurgy. and every ges-
ture of the medium is watched with
an intensity of interest which, if not
painful TO contemplate, would he ludi-
crouS.
Expensive shafts are now being sunk,
within gun-shot of Idaho Springs, d.
rected and guided by purpcrting spirit
provision, in rock which shows no
more indication of fissure gangue
than do the sand bars of the Missis-
sippi at tide water.-Ldaho Springs
IUzeffp
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Garfield as q Senator.

Jay Charlton wrote thus of President
Garfield, Jan. %, 1880:
''This man, who at an age which has
not yet touched the fifties, will be one
of the strongest republicans in the
United States senate when he takes his
seat. He is both scholarly and practi-
cal, perhaps too greatly devoted to
books instead of to men, but one who
can handle his knowledge in a mastery
manner, and who needs no preparation,
as he certainly never needed a second
challenge, to enter into tho hottest de-
bate. His keen inquisitiveness leads
him to seek knowledge under the mid
night lamp, and makes him keen in
quisitor in the practical trays which oc-
cur under the midday sun. He is one
of the best parliamentarians in the
country. Every rule of debate and of
legislation is at the tip of his tongue.
His life as canal boatman is probably
so well remembered that his scholarly
habits will not destroy his democratic
feelings. He is not eloquent in the
sense that Phillips and Conkling are.
He is powerful, nevertheless, and he
will be one of the four or five republi-
can leaders in the Senate. go,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Employ Time Wisely.

Economy of time is necessary to the
performance of serious work. Many
persons are perpetually busy, who are,
as to all practical results, rs idle us the
most indolent man, who consumes his
life between his bed and his table; or
as the mere idiot who squanders his
time in trifling and listlessness. Nero
bodily feeling, unaided and undirected
by spark Of reason, would prevent
any one from actually sleeping, or re-
manning inactive, during the whole or
any considerable portion of his time.-
Activity is natural to the human frame;
the youngest infant is perpetually in
motion. But, to employ time wisely is
the point at which we must aim. We
may be exceedingly busy, and yet DO to
all intents and purposes idle as regards
our usefulness to our families or en-
ployers. To desire to be industrious,
Is the first requisite toward being so;
and the next, and no less important, is
method. No hurry, no agitation, no
hesitation, should be experienced by
those who value tho advantages of en-
blowing time judiciously.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
All, Why 2

Why do women with red or yellowish
hair wear dead gold and greens that
remind the beholder of badly-cooked
vegetablesp Why do pale-faced, brown.
haired women wear the deep red and
orange hues which 60 only with the
blue-black hair of the South? Who is
accountable for the terra-cotta gar
ments in which some otherwise harm
less maidens pervade fashionable
crowds, inspiring the observer with
surprise totally unmixed with admira-
tionp Slender girls arrayed in shape
less clothes, made apparently OF slices
of the new natural history museum at
SouthKensington; strong-minded young
women in aggressive cloaks so UNI
speakably hideous that we sigh for the
listers of last season, which we be-
lieve was not to be surpassed in obi
BUSINESS; awful things made of sage
green tweed with blue frills, or gosling
wooden stuff tipped with pink The
eelskin style has been succeeded by the
bag, and, though the latter is more de.
cent, it is not much less ugly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Unluoky People.

A genuinely unlucky man will entail
rs much misery upon those who are de-
pendent upon or associated with him,
US q genuinely wicked one. They can
never be relied upon. Their specula-
tons turn out i'll, when those Of stu
pider men succeed. Their inventions
are just little anticipated by those
they never heard of. Their books or
plays do not become popular. Their
crops are sure to be injured by the
floods or tornadoes, their vessels to be
shipwrecked or burned, and their
houses are sure to be consumed within
twenty-four hours after the insurance
policy had expired, or tho day before
they had resolved to take out one.
Judges are sure to rule adversely to
their interests, and juries always bring
in verdicts against thom. Their letters
are certain to 60 astray, and their bag
gage or express packages are sure to
be lost or stolen. It is they who are
always looking for their missing knives.
and who are constantly wondering
where their hats or their umbrellas
have gone to. The money they put
iuIO GuCH pOChCtUOOhop VI SuO POShCs-
books they put into their pockets. mys-
teriously disappear. Even when they
desire TO be prudent, and, with consid-
cradle sacrifice and pains, buy their
potatoes. their coal, and other stores,
in advance, at reduced rates. the prices
of the succeeding winter invariably
fall below what they have paid. They
arc to be dreaded as Jonah was dread
ed. The boughs of the trees they climb
always break, and the boats they row
or sail always capsize. The train they
take is by no means to be expected at
its terminus on time-and even II late
should cause gratitude that it got there
at all. Or. if they are not the victims,
they are the authors of all sorts OF in
voluntary mischief. Altogether, shrewd
old Rothschild was wise when he coun-
seled his sons to "avoid unlucky men,"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Art Of Life.

The art of living is one of the slow
est in development of all the arts OF
civilization. 1t is only when men are
driven by grim disease and death that
they begin TO give attention to the air
they breathe and the hygienic quality
of the food and drink they consume.
Nature has undoubtedly planted in the
human organization tastes and instincts
to guide men in these matters. but
these guides are mostly UNDECIDED. To
o very large extent indeed they are
overridden and extinquished by un-
natural ways of living. See for exam
pie how the world betakes itself in
quest Of enjoyment to crowded assem-
blies, to drawing-rooms, halls or thea
tres where the excess of heat and light
and the lack of ventilation make q poi
son of the most insidious and destruc-
tive kind as we'll as q very oppressive
punishment. So in hundreds Of other
ways the plain dictates Of sense and
reason are ignored. The physician has
the errors and incongruities of social
life forced daily on his attention. He
does his best to realize his patients out
of their most urgently mischievous fol-
lies; but for the most part the words
of wisdom falling from his lips light
on stony hearts and barren brains.
Society has plenty Of courage in the
main, but its members lack the most
virtuous form of valor, the courage to
be sensible.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
The Kisses.

Come hithnr, Womankind, and all tn fir worth
Give m. thy kisses ~ ] cal them forth:
Give me thy bill Ing kis. tn Vt OF tho dove,
A kiss If Love;
Tho Metiag kiss, Ki., that doth consume
To u perfume:
The extract kis;, of every sweet part,
A Kiss of Art;
The Kis, which ever stirs some new delight,
Kiss or Might;
The twacking, smacking kiss, and when you
A Kiss Of p ace;
Tho Music Kiss, crotchet and quaver time:
Tho Kiss Of Rhyme;
The Kiss Of EloIur nee which doth belong
Unto tho tongue:
Tho Kiss OF all the sciences in one,
IN, Kiss alone.
Sol It's enough!
-II.Ord Herbert Of Cherbury.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28

France four years ago engraved up.
on her statue-book this law: "a man
three times intoxicated shall forfeit his
right to vote. He shall not hold an
Office under Government; he shall be
disqualified from serving In the army"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-01-13

We anticipate that there will be
some large building operations going
on here with the opening of spring, as
two or three hotels are talked of, for
the accommodation of the travelling
public, besides business houses, build
ings for milling purposes, dwellings,
shaft houses, etc. 1t is very evident
that the saw mill men will have abusy
season, which will no doubt open up
much earlier than last, as the winter,
90 far, has been much miIder, and
the snowfall has been much less than
last winter. There are a number Of
mining companies that contemplate
bringing in machinery for the working
Of their properties, and the develop
ment Of mines in the Ruby mining
district bids fair to equal or even sur
pes that Of any other mining district
N the state Of Colorado.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-01-13

Mr.. Harding and Tom Scort amused
themselves the other night at the ball
by holding the babies of some other
mems wives while the aforesaid wives
were dancing. They wont think i,
quite so phunny if it should happen
that they should have to get up some
Of these times in the middle of the
night to walk the floor with a xksfle
Harding or Scott in order to keep
them quiet, or plunge out into -four
feet of snow to the drug store after a
bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup.