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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23
The Books People Read.
1Temple Bari

lLOAupAo DaA.l
Millions of people read quite complacently
works whose literary merits are so small that
they are intolerable to any who have the least
sense of style. Yet this defect does not affect
their popularity. Some men write with the
end of a broomstick, some with a gold pen,
some with an etcher's needle. The broom
stick man is, perhaps, the most popular. Then,
people read books just as they look at pic
ture, or go to the play. "for the story" That
is all they care about. The story read they
dismiss it from their thoughts. There was
once French dramatist, Alexander Hardy by
name, who understood this so well that when
he constructed new play he contented him
self with devising story, situation and tab
leaux, leaving his actors to supply the words.
Who cared about the words? OF course the
heroine screamed, and the villain swore, and
the funny man dropped the plates-all in the
right place. What more did the people want?
And what more, indeed, do they want now?
Overmuch reading and promiscuous reading
are great hindrances to the formation OF a
critical habit. The critic does not gulp; he
tastes; he discriminates between Hamburg
sherry and the true wine of Xeres by the aid Of
a wine glass, not tumbler. But the omniyor-
GUS reader is like unto one who takes his
draught from quart pot Fancy city dinner
at which pea soup, tripe and onions, fried fish,
roast pork and stuffing raw onions, and such
viands were served up side by side with the
most delicate preparations, the sole Ia mattre
dhotel, the c6telette, the ris de Ueau, the may
onnaise, where thick-sugared stout was handed
round with Johannisberg Chateau Yquem,
and Piper tres sec; fancy the guests indiscrim-
inately taking one after the other without dis
cernment, enjoying one quite as much as the
other, with leaning in the direction of roast
pork and stout-that if you please, is a fair
example of the intellectual meal taken contin-
ually by the all devouring reader. He reads
everything; he reads whatever is set before
him; he reads without consideration; he reads
without criticism; all styles are alike to him;
he is never greatly delighted, and seldom Of
Tended.
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Berlioz's Married Life,
(Cornhill Magazine.l


His marriage had been a love match on one
side. He it was who had been the lover; his
wife had but let love, and had been able to ac-
cord him in return no more than what Legouve
calls "ene tendresse blonde" an unimpassioned
and docile regard at most. With time, how
ever, the positions were reversed; and the wo-
man grew fond in proportion as the man grew
tickle. Nine. Berlioz, who was unlettered and
rather stupid, was her husbands elder by some
years; and in the intimacy of welded life she
quickly learned to admire his wit and charm,
his prodigious resolution, his splendid energy
and vivacity, till in the end she fell madly in
love with him. AS her temper was extremely
violent, and her fondness of q Jealous and i'm
aginative habit, and as there is every reason
for the belief that Berlioz was eminently
French in his theory of the sexes, it is obvious
that the i'll matched couple had but a small
chance of happiness. There were frequent
scenes between Lelio and his Ophelia, and OF
lgnomlnious discontent-of accusation and re-
tort, of tears and rage and shame, of doubt on
the one side and resentment on the other
there cannot but have been an abundance. To
a man like Berlioz this condition OF things
must necessarily have been intolerable. He
was impatient of control, greedy of triumph
and change, and as ''constitutionally incapable
of fidelity as Hazlitt himself and his way out
of the difficulty was but too plain to him. In
1910, the year Of the ''Funebre," he left his
home to give some concerts at Brussels, and
he returned to it no more. He took honorable
care of his wife until her death, and of their
son. his only child, he was extravagantly fond
but the tie between them was irreparably brok-
en-. As, once fairly divided, they seem to have
been able to look on each other with kindness
and esteem, it is fair to conclude that the act
of separation was o good thing for them both.
OF Mile. Recio, the lady who supplanted Nine.
Berlioz, little more is recorded than that her
disposition was vulgar and paltry, and that she
insisted, though she was bad artist and an
incompetent musician, ON singing at her hus-
bands concerts. As Berlioz was incapable of
meanness and was hater of bad art, it is evil
dent that he was fully as wretched in his sec
oDd wife as in his first
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23
The Presidents Condition

The Presidents condition provokes grave
and harassing anxiety. The accounts of his
illness may be exaggerated, but that he is a
very sick man and in imminent danger of
his life must be admitted. A careful read
ing OF the bulletins shows that the situation
OF the patient at the White House is one of
peril. He may recoverable chances are
that he will-but he is so broken down by
eight weeks of extreme suffering that the
incidents of disease usually considered
trifling have become grave, and may deter
mine the issue of Guteau's assault to a
fatal result. There are no sound reasons
for believing that the reports of the physi-
clans have been disingenuous. From the
first they have been carefully and truthfully
worded. If any have found in them encour-
agement of speedy recovery it is because
hope has outrun assurance. The bulletins
have briefly given the facts in the case, at
tempting 10 opinions. The latest of them
afford but faint encouragement, and the
anxiety is as great as on the morning after
the shooting.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

WHOEVER" says the distinguished Ger
man authority, Virchow, twill take up and
read the publications of the American mill
tary medical staff will be continually aston
ished anew at the richness of the expert
ences therein noted. The utmost closeness
and exactness of detail, statistics carried
down to the most minute point. presenta-
ton OF facts gathered from all sides of medi-
cal experience, have been here brought to-
gether, in order that the knowledge bought
at SO dear price might be transmitted in
its most complete form to the world of the
present and of the future. Europeans, he
says in his lecture. have gone through many
wars to learn little, while Americans have
made the most for humanity of their first
war
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THIS is an ''off year, for peaches. 1t is
estimated that 100000 baskets will cover
the yield on the Delaware Peninsula. An
average yield is 100000 baskets. The
difference in cash receipts is very great,
though, with so short crop, peaches are
peaches by the time they get to market. To
judge from what may be seen in Portland
the quality would put sensitive Della
warean to the blush.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

CONSIDERABLE progress appears to have
been made in the United States in the culti-
vation of improved qualities of tobacco, in
competition with the fine Cuban tobacco,
and as general rule these superior grades
OF American tobacco are much preferred
abroad to all foreign tobacco except the pure
Havana
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

TIE Hon. Benjamin King of Mississippi
has consented to be the gubernatorial candi-
date OF the anti-Bourbons in his State. In
his letter of assent he says he is ''neither a
Greenbacker. Republican nor Democrat,
but Conservative, pledged, if elected, to
use all the executive power for these funda-
mental principles of republican form of
government, free ballot and fair count,
and free speech and equal protection by the
law OF the persons, property and rights of all
citizens.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

A SCIENTIFIC journal of France has been
collecting statistics regarding the use of the
telephone in that country. Over 1900 are
now in use and the number is daily increas-
ing. London has 1900 subscribers and but
10000 communications each week. while
Paris, with fewer inhabitants and less
number of subscribers, exchanges $4,000
telephone messages.
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The Detroit Post and Tribune estimates
the valuation of the property of Wisconsin
above SSOO,OO0,0OO, and says it may be
above 100000, ,00O. The aggregate as equal
lied by the Board of Supervisors is s655 ,OO5,-
S42, of which there is in real estate outside
of cities s431 OO2, $50; in cities, $126, O72;
personal property, Sill, 1,615,531.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

ONE of the interesting discoveries recent
ly made by the United States geological and
coast survey is that the Bahama banks ex-
tend in an almost level plateau nearly two
hundred miles wide off the Carolinas, draw
Ing to point off Cape Hatteras, only %
miles from the shore.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

THE publishers of the Mississippi Republic
an at Jackson in that State see some encour-
agement for Republican action in the next
campaign, and have resumed the publica-
ton of their paper, which had been sus-
pended
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

GUITEAU is even more fond of writing
now than he was when he was first put in
Jail. He frequently asks the Warden for
pens and paper, and whiles away the time
writing letters. These letters are taken in
charge by the Warden, and for the mos
part treat of the assassination. In nearly
every one of them he says he believed when
he shot the President he was simply carry
ing out Gods will. The tone of some of the
letters would indicate that he thought the
President was dead.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

REVIEWING the progress of the negro the
Memphis Appeal admits that sit is an unde-
niable fact that the negro is making his way
and is winning more forward position than
had been thought possible in the same gen.
Grafton that saw him slave"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23
Health is Wealth

DR.. K. G. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TIRE AT
MENT; specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Con vul
sions, Nervous Headache, Mental Depression Loss
tary Emissions, Premature Old Age, caused by
over exertion, self-abuse, over-indugence which
leads TO misery, decay and death. One box will
cure recent cases. Each box contains one month g
treatment One dollar box, or six boxes for five
dollars; sent by mail prepaid ON receipt of price.
we guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With
each order received by for six boxes, accompan-
led with hve dollars, will send the purchaser our
written guarantee to return the money if the treat
menu does not effect cure. Guarantees issued by
all druggists in Portland and everywhere,
JOIN w: PERKINS & CO., General Agents.
eepoueoW&we0w1Y Portland.
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We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
ali cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica
tion but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve ccm
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23
Public Schools.

TNHE next term of the Public Schools will begin
Il Monday, August %, 1851. The city ordi-
nances provide that "no person who has not been
vaccinated or otherwise secured against contagion
of small pox, shall be allowed to attend any of the
city schools, also, 'No child whose residence is not
in the city, or who has temporary residence in it
for the purpose, of attending the public schools,
shall be retained in any public school,"
1t is desirable that pupils shall commence prompt
ly the studies of the year with their classes.
THOMAS TASH,
Superintendent of Public Schools
Portland, August II, 1881. au18dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

Four coast survey parties are at work in this
State. One is at Cape Split in Addison under
charge of G. H. Boyd; one at Harrington un-
der charge of William III. Dennis; one at
Harrington under charge of A. w. Longfel-
low; and fourth under charge of Mr. Charles
Hosmer, who is surveying coast and islands in
the bay below Millbridge.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

THE statistics of the Jewish race, which
have just been prepared in Germany, give
the total number of Jews now living in the
world as 6, ,139,662. Only about one-ffth of
this number are found in America.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

DURING the second quarter of 1881 build
ing permits were granted in the city of New
York for new buildings and improvements
costing SIT 100000.
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MONTREAL is finding considerable fault
with the large amount of church and other
property in that city exempt from taxation.
The exemption aggregates $7,OOO,OOO.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

THE Milwaukee Sentinel says Collector
Robertson has chance to introduce de-
cent system of treating travellers in the New
York Custom House.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

GOOD judges estimate that the deficiency
in the cotton crop this year will be 100000
bales-that is to say, the total product will
be 5,sOO,OOo instead of 100000 bales, as in
1880
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

THE assessed valuation of Dakota foots
up s2O,OoO,OOO, an increase of so per cent.
in year, exclusive of railroad property.
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THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2s.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
Will CARD certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hetol managers
Will confer favor upon US by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our Journal
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Sumner
Complaints

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TYPHOID fever from bad water and no
drainage is making trouble for Tom Brown
Hughes at his American Rugby.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS,
TO CONTRACTORS.

Tenders are invited on or before the 25th instant
for furnishing the materials and performing the
ed al erations and repairs in the Fluent Hall Build
ing, in this city, according to plans and specifica-
tions prepared by f. II. Fassett, Architect.
The proposed alterations will comprise an entire
change in the second, third AMI fourth stories The
second story will be finished into suits of offices for
Lawyers and others. The third and fourth stories
will be finished into Offices for Union Mutual Life
Insurance Co.
Plans and specifications be examined at the
Office of the architects, No. 93 Exchange street,
Portland, where all necessary information can be
obtained.
The right is reserved to reject any all tenders.
JOHN L. DEWITT, President.
Portland, Aug. II, 1881. ng15dtaug25
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-23

Ma aria is an Unseen yaporous
Poison, reading disease and death in many locali-
ues, OF Which qninine is no genuine antidote, but
for the effects of which Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters is not only thorough remedy, but reliable
preventive. To this fact thereis an overwhelming
array OF testimony extending aperod of thirty
years. A disorders of the liver, stomach and
bowels are also conquered by the Bitters.
FOR sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally.
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EDUCATIONAL
Mass. Institute of Technology,
eASfOm.

Regular four year courses in Civil, Mechanical
and Mining Engineering, Architecture, Chemistry
Physics, Natural History, etc. Students are also
admitted to partial or special courses School of
Mechanic Arts for instruction in English DRAWING
Mathematics and shopwork Next school wear he
gins Sep. 26, 1881. Entrance examinations Sen.
II and 22 at A. M. f
ROBERT H. RICHARDS, Secretary.
WILLIAM B. ROGERS, President
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COMPREHENSIVE.
NOTICE..
FOR SALE
YACHT FOR SALE.

H EEL Schooner Yacht "Banshee," length 25 it,,
IN beam S12 feet, draught Aft. moulded iron
ballast and iron keel; well found and furnished in
every respect; roomy cabin, accommodating four
persons, cooking utensils, crockery etc. A good
tender sold with the boat. Inquire of e. WOOD
Man, office of Webb g. Haskell, So Exchange St.,
Portland. aug9eod4w*
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS
is published every THURSDAY MORNING at $3.50 o
year, if paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch of space, the
ength of column, constitutes a square
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week after three insertions less 81 90; continu
ing every other day after first week, 90 cents.
Half square three insertions or less, 75, cents;
one week, Sl.00; 80 cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, one-third additional
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs" and nAUoTlOg
SALES, 100 per square per week; three inser-
tons or less, S1.50.
Advertisements inserted in tie "MAINE STATE
PRESS (Which has large circulation in every part
ton, and 30 cents per square for each subsequent
insertion.
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
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LOST AND FOUND.

Ring Lost.
A broad gold band ring with horse shoe noun
IA ting and monogram j. H. NJ engraved on
tor, and other engraving on the band. The finder
will be literally rewarded by delivering same to j.
H. MACK United States Hotel. aug2O3ts
FOUND.
A GOLD PIN. The owner can have by calling
"A at Police Station and paying for adver-
tisement. aug2Od3t
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

AT Io9 ExcHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars Year. To mail sabsorip
ers Seven Dollars Year, If paid In advance.
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SILK UMBRELLA.
II 0Sr several days ago large Silk Umbrella, con.
II siderably worn with stout wooden handle
Finder viii be suitably rewarded by leaving same
ct Press Office jy20dtf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-30
ATHLETIC CLUR.

The Athletic Club of this city is about to
dispose of the boats belonging to that as
ISOLATION, and retire in measure from act
i've participation in rowing exercises. For
some time it has been manifest that the re-
quisite interest in the boating department
has been wanting, and hence the deternlin-
alton arrived at to sell the crafts belonging
to the club. The destruction of the boat
house accelerated this decision which may
prove to be the best move under the cir
cumstances. The boats belonging to pri-
vate individuals will be retained, and the
club as an organization will still continue
to exist. AS a boating association, how
ever. it viii no longer cause fear to the
other competitors of honors at the Missis-
sippi Amateur Rowing Association Re
gattas.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-30
TOWN TOPICS.
A Sensation Spoiled yes
terday afternoon.
THE ATHLETIC CLUB WILL SELL
THEIR BOATS.
Various other Items.
Various other Items.
SENSATION SPOILED.

Yesterday afternoon the police authori-
ties were notified that the little daughter of
George Pugh had wandered from her home
and could not be found. 1t was even
limited that she had been seen with some
tramps vending her way out of the city.
A case of child abduction was instantly
recognized and preparations were being
made to search for the missing child. At
this juncture, Officer johnson who was
patrolling Fourth avenue discovered a
little girl apparently three years old who
was walking along that avenue in very
unconcerned manner. He accosted her,
and soon learned that she had strayed
away from her home on Moline and Col
lege avenues and was unable to retrace her
steps The minion of the law returned her
to her parents, and the budding sensation
was nipped short.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-30
Suriug Suitiugs.

We would call attention to the merchant
tailoring establishment of Mr.. P. A. Bloom
of this city. Mr., Bloom has done all in
his power to give Rock Island as full adj
vantages in his line as possessed by any
city in the west. and has united careful
selection of goods, with correct and stylish
fits, and honesty in make up and ma
terial. Mr.. Bloom has but just re-
turned from his trip East where he
has laid in large and carefully selected
stock of imported and domestic suitings,
broadcloths. cassimeres and plain cloths
and is fully prepared to make them up in
the best manner known, and as cheap as
his grade of work can be done. Mr..
Bloom also keeps full line of Gents fur
nishing goods, including all the latest lines
of hosiery, neckware underware and every
thing necessary for a complete wordrobe.