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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
GOOD WOMAN.

Her Highness Kudsia Begun, IN In
dian princess Of abnoinally charitable
disposition, lately died at Bhopal so
deeply regretted that all the shops in
the city were closed and no business
was transacted for three days. Many
hundreds OF persons were the recipients
of monthly stipends from this kind
woman, who did not contine her benefits
to human beings only. She took the
greatest pleasure in feeding the spar
rows which roasted about her palace,
aud the cats and stray dogs also came
in for o share Of attention, the latter
being fed regularly at the cook-house.
A short time ago number OF swallows,
firding tina. the doorway of her bath of
forded good place for the construc-
ton of their nests, speedily utilized the
place for that purpose, aud the princess,
observing this, left off using the bath
30 as not 70 disturb the little crea-
turaS
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
POWER OF MUSIC.
lures.

At little musical party, the amateur
sin ;ers being called on, sang some diff
cult operate passage. Miss Adelaide
Phi lips WAS then asked, and seating
herself at the piano sang Kathleen
Mayourneen" with such thrilling sweet
ness that the young Irish girl settip 3
the table in the next room forgot all
her plates and teaspoons, threw her.
self into chair, put an apron
over her face and sobbed as
IL her heart would break. All the
training of Adelaide Phillips - her
magnificent voice, her stage expert
ence, her skill in effects-went into the
performance of that simple song. The
greater included the less. And thus
ell the int lie ctual and practical train
ing that any woman can have, all her
public action and active career, will
make her if she be true moman,
more admirable as q wife, q mother, o
fiend--T. ". Higginson.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
SINGULAR RECOVERY.

A young man Of Providence. r. l..
aud we'll known. wears a handsome
cluster diamond pin, valued somewhere
about 500. A few nights since he ar
rived at his home late, and hurriedly
undressing threw his shirt carelessly
on the. floor, with the valuable pin in
the bosom. and retired. The next
morning when be came to don his shirt
the pin was gone. and the strictest
search for it was unrewarded with sue
cess. 1t happened that there was about
the house hen-a sitting hen. kept in
the house on account OF her occupation
and the thought occurred to the
father that perhaps the pin had
become detached from the garment
when il wss thrown down, and the hen,
in her wanderings, might have been at
tractsd by this shining valuable, and
gobbled il down. He had great
mind to kill the hen then and there to
investigate, but he didn't want to, as il
he did the eggs would be no good so
Tor couple Of days the hen was kept
close, not allowed to go out OF the
house, and closely watched in the hope
Of finding tire missing diamonds. But
no pin was found. Finally, on or about
the third day, it was decided to kill the
hen, when, sure enough, in the gizzard
was found the missing pin. The gold
setting was bent and scratched and one
OF the smaller diamonds was missing,
but four OF the diamonds were all
ripht
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
CHANGED HIS MIND.

"Mr. Blank" began a citizen as he
entered an Office near tho city hall,
"just one year ago to. day came in
here and called you liar. / believed
what said. and for year we have not
spoken to each other. Within week
past have found ont that / was mis-
taken, and now apologize for my harsh
words and express my sorrow that Twas
ever led to indulge in such language"
"M Mr.. g." replied the other, as he cx-
tended his hand, "your frankness be.
gets frankness. During the last year
but one you and | were friends. You
borrowed upward OF seventy dollars OF
me in small sans, and never repaid
dollar. This last year We have been
enemies, and l am ahead financially.
While l may long to forgive you, /
must look ont for the interests of my
growing family, Let rs compromise by
nodding TO each otherin Sunday school,
paving our own way outside" "Sir, I
shall never nod 10 you in Sunday
school or elsewhere T. said Mr.. G., and
he walked out as stiff as a ramrod and
left the door wide open ID. troR Free
Press,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
A STORY
TOLD IN TIE MODERN STYLE.

II Is beautiful legend Of the Morse
Land. Amilias was the village black.
smith, and under the spreading chestnut
treekin his village smithopken stood.
He the hot iron gehammered and sihod
horses for Atty cents oil round please.
He made tin helmets for the giodds
and stove.pjipe trousers for the heroes,
Mirmir was rival blacksmith. He
didn't 60 in very much for defensive
armor, but he was lightning on two.
edged bsjwords and cut and SLASH
svrcutlsssssses. He made cheeseknives
for the other eiodds, and he made the
great Bjsvestnsen aud Arkansaw tooth.
pick that would make free incision
clear into the transverse semi.colon Of
cast iron Ichthyossaurus, and never turn
its edge. That was the kind of q Bbjair.
pin Mirmir he said he was.
One day Amilias made an impenetra-
BILE suit OF armor for second-class
ghjodd, and put it on himself to test 1t,
and boastfully inserted u cArd in the
"Svensska Norderb irayisk ikanaheld-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Saying that
he was wearing suit OF homemade,
best chilled Norway merino underwear
that would knick the unnumbered saw
teeth in the pot metal cutlery OF the
iron. mongery over the way. That, Anne
las remarked to his friend Biohnn
Bjrobinsson, was the kind OF BdIucckk
he was.
When Mimir spelled ont the card
next morning, he said Bill" and went
to work with charcoal furnace, cold
anvil, and A. T, Hays isomorphoric
process, and in little while he came
down street with a sjvaard that gilt
tered like dollar store diamond, and
met Amilias down by the new opera
house. Amilias buttoned on his new
a;armor and said:
"If you have no hereafter use for
your old chy ieese.knile, strike"
Mimir spat on his hands, whirled his
skjvaard above his head and fetched
Amilias swipe that seemed to miss
everything except the empty air through
which it softly whistled. Amilias smiled
and said, "Go on" adding, that il
seemed to him he folt general sense
OF cold iron somewhere III the neigh
borhood, but he hadn been hit
"Shake yourself" said Mimir.
Amilias shook himself, and immedi
ately fell into halves, the most neatly
divided man tina, ever went beside hiu-
self.
That's where the boiler maker was
away of in his diagnosis" said Mimir,
as he went back TO bis shop TO put up
the price of cutlery sixty i've per cent.
on all lines, with an unlimited advance
on special orders.
Thus do We learn that Il good action
is never thrown away, and that kind
words and patient love will overcome
the harshest nsture.-H0sEeye.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
uNEET We IN TIE MORNING.

he had been absent year. the
youngest pupil at a boys school, and
now his mother was expecting him
every day, and she went about proud
and happy, telling her friends of the
improvement III his studies, and always
ending with his being such agood boy
Then comes a telegram from Willie
himself. tho first real message he has
ever sent-how funny it seemed-from
tha. baby-and there vas just this sim.
pie form, "Mcet me in the morning"
His mother went about all day with il
in her hand, rcsdiog i: over as il it had
been in the chi.ds own handwriting.
Then she smile. ~ herself IS she pastel
it carefully IN crap book, while some
body suggested framing i, to hang over
the mantel. Ia, all the friends loved
Willie; he was tho osiy SON Of his
mother, and she va, widow-and he
did not come in the morning! There
Jane instead the dread news Of his
hasty illness, and his mother hurried to
her darling boy, bnt it sas too late
The despoiler had done his work-be
was breathing out his little life in the
sleep from which ne never would fully
awaken here. Only once, towaid the
last, he Enclosed his eyes swiftly and
saw the dear mothers face bending
over him, and murmured, with dry,
husky lips, "Meet me in the morning,
mamma" Dear boy! it is morning
with him always-the morning light OF
fairer than italian skies-while We yet
grope among the shadows. But by-and-
bye
We shall go home at evening
And find It morning there.
Detroit Fee Press
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
MYSTICAL, FISE.

A writer in Notes and Queries says
The boa,men OF The Danube arch
across and keep tense upon strong
stretchers hung with grelots little bells
or iiugles), eating net, and so ring
in n great number OF fish by the tink
ling OF these bells. Rondolet, the
famous naturalist, gives romantic in.
stance Of the fondness Of music 0!
fishes.
When staying at Vichy he took
walk with some friends in quest OF
alosa, along the banks OF the Allier,
With violin in hand, ready for seren-
ade. The air was still, the moon and
stars shining brilliantly.
When the party had come to favor
able spot for the operation a net was
carefully drawn across the strcam,
while the violinist, putting the instru-
ment to his chin, struck up lively
waltz. A wonderful effect ensued.
Scarcely had he drawn his bow when
the sleeping surface Of the waters began
to move, alosa backs appeared ripplins
the silvery exparse, and after fen
strokes a party OF fish might be seen
rising and leaping in the water.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
ORIBBAGE.

Columbus made the egg stand, bu
Italians of less renown have made the
peanut stand.
Sweet Evelins, from the suffocating
embrace of Ter lover, cries out: Give
me liberty or give me breath"
A North of England paper speaks OF q
young farmer who ran rapidly through
his property" His property was ar
open field. He wore red shirt and =
bull was in the wake Of the young far
mer.
A man who detected piece OF bark in
his sausage visited the butchers shop To
know what had become Of the rest OF
the dog The butcher was so affected
that he eould give him only part of The
tale.
The speaker had failed to awaken
very deep interest in his hearers, but
when the small boy had stolen quietly
ont after leaving red pepper on tine
stove there wasn't q dry eye in the
house.
Scenc-A tailor's shop. Customer: II
want you 10 make my coat rs though I'd
been square built, 10 tone down this I'M
fortunate rotrndity Of nine" Tailor:
Just so. sir; in fac. you want me TO
square the circle"
Why" says the es,hetic editor, Ms lie
came into The sanctum, lis my ci-
gar intense. Give il up" said Epl-
rain. Because it's too all butt" re-
marked f. f. plain,ively. His place is
now vacant.
He CATER proposing and being reject
ed): Il suppose in the end that you will
be married to some idiot of a fellow
She (breaking I'M: Excuse me, If
meant to do that. should have accept
ed your offer" Silence.
They were out sleighing. "Gussic, dear,
said she rs she leaned tender cheek on
his manly checked ulster, why are
these snow flakes like your mustnche!"
This pleased him. even to have 1t no.
ticed. II don't know pet" he MUIR
INJURED innocently, "why are they"
Because they are slow coming down."
Ne drove with both hands after this.
The thumb in China Is regarded as n
better means OF Identification than the
face itself. Celestial vagabonds are not
photographed like British criminals. but
their thumbs are smeared with lamp
black and pressed down upon piece of
paper, thus furnishing n rude imLres-
sion, which il carefully kept in the police
records. A face may be altered, say the
Chinese. but the thumb cannot.
Yes" said lady customer. these
are very pretty; but haven't you some
thing more cxpensive?" The gentleman
ly clerk took down another package OF
the Same goods. remarking briskIy: ooh
gee. ma'am; here IS something which
will cost you dollar more per yard.
but it is much finer, you will notice.
OF course she took the highest cost piece.
because /, was the highest. Customers
must be humored.
Don't tail, to mel angrily exclaimed
Blivens to his son don't tell me that
you don't care anything about what
your grandfather or your great grand
father thought about these things. You
must remember hat they were my m
cestors. you young rascal, respectable
men were my ancestors, sir, and ] wish
you could say the same of yours. you
young rascal
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28

The ten plaques of newspaper o. &c
are bores, poets, cranks. rats, cock
reaches. typographical errors, exchange
fisnds, book canyassers. delinquent sub
seribers aud the man who always
knows how to run the paper better
than the editor does hinself.-Ne'o
Io~k Commercial.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
XiTes.
"A good wife gear enow,
kn IN vile Is an III faten


sn III wife IS an III fate"
Scotch Pyoreroe
Oh be that gets good, gO0l wife,
Gets gold enough and to spare;
And he that gets an II, III wife,
Nav make and may stil be bare.
For man may ssk OF a wife he weds
Can be richf May be gTeatl"
And he thst mates with an evil wife,
He mates with an evil fate.
For man may spend, and have to the end.
II his wife on his fortune val,
he may give to the poor and help friend,
And may still grow rich and great.
But man may spare and sill be bare,
He NAV toll through smooth and rough
II his wife be nSusht, ill-luck is caught
He never viii have enough.
Oh man that gets good, good wife,
Has pleasure enough and to spAre;
Outside his life may Dc fun Of strife,
Nav be full OF trouble aud care,
Blu, bis heart can sing AT home I'm king,
At home there is pleasure and rest,
I've wife TO hide at my own treside,
And her love, OF all loves. Is best"
Ba, man who ge,s az IN, III wife,
Gets trouble OF every kind;
Hes weary part, AMI hopeless heart
And prospeTity's hard to End.
There's bitter drop in bis sweetest cup
In his JOY there j. pam,
Aud through ali his strife for 4 broader life,
He works IKE a man Ia a chain
Don't marry for beauty. don't marry for geld
And on nobody else depead;
For yuur Own hte, Won choose a wife.
And FOR your own home, = friend.
And he that gets = good, good wife,
Nav easy De rich and great
While he that webs With an evil wife,
Mates hso with an evil fate.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28

Customer: "You say that those
figures are life-size2 Ny dear sir, they
seem very small" Artist Perfectly.
correct, sir. You know life is short"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28

been repoIteu ~ Tue secfes oei'i'o Vi
fee in Washington.
The Farallone islands are about thirty
miles from the mouth OF San Francisco
bay, and they are the home OF innumer.
able sea fowls. When San Francisco
first began to be city. its constant cry
was for eggs. To supply the lack oil
eggs, the project Of stealing those OF the
gulls and the muhrs Of the Farrallone
islands was undertaken, and it proved
successful and has ever since been
maintained. The birds are too plenti.
full to count or to estimate, as may be
inferred from the fact that the egg
eatherers bring in often or used to
gather 500 dozen in day; and q great
many OF the nests are inaccessible,
while great many others are devastated
by the rivalry OF the birds. The egg
season is from May to August, and, il
even 400 dozen is the rule, the har.
vest would he pretty near 800. 600 eggs.
The quarreling between the gulls and
the muhrs causes the loss OF good many
muhrs' eggs, which the eulls at every
chance destroy. The egg business is
conducted by q company, which has
the right. 1t pays egg gatberers
five cents q dozen, and sells them
in San Francis at considerable
advance.
As an advertisement OF the whale
which he was exhibiting, St. Louis
Snowman sent man up in a balloon
with quantity Of handbills which he
was to distribute in his flight from the
trapeze upon which he sat. Everything
went right until the aeronaut was many
hundred feet above the earth, when
suddo.ly everything went wrong. The
ballood began to fall with great
rapidity, to the horror Of the spectators
sad 10 the terror OF the aeronaut, who
was seen to be desperately jumping
about among the ropes. His judgment
did not quite desert him, however, and
when the balloon was within few feet
of the housetops he sprang from the
trapeze upon the roof Of q high build
ing and threw his arms around q
chimney beside which he alighted. He
was not injured, and the whale was IN
doubtedly we'll advertised.
The United States Economist sounds
this note ofalarm concerning the timber
supply: The now we'll known fact is
that we are rapidly e1haustiDg, largely
by reckless and improvident waste, our
supplies of timber in the Northern
States. The demand for it increases at
the rate OF thirty per cent. yer, and
even those who are interested in high
prices and immediate sales OF what Is
left of it admit that in twenty years or
sooner building timber will be extreme
" scarce, and that in many parts OF the
country, yet supplied in part from their
own soil, it will have entirely 'disap'
peared. Il is stated on good authority
that more than $4,000 establishments,
employing 100000 persons and using
material to the value Of over 1856, 0OO,'
600 . year, are engaged in the United
States in manufacturing articles entirely
from wood, In addition to 5000. 900 per
sons partly employed on wood OF using
that material yearly to the value Of
s6,O0O,000. No country can be or evel
has been despoiled Of her timber and
flourish,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28

Underwood's Counterfeit DetectOr an
nounces the appearance OF o photo.
graphic counterfeit silver certificate OF
the denomination Of twenty dollars, re-
ported from Missouri - Nc. 675, ia.
The counterfeit is much paler than the
genuine. The Deteetor says: We warn
our subscribers to examine oil silver
certificates with great care, as the pho
tographic process now having been
adopted in the production OF counter
fcits on them, no doubt many counter
ieits will be put into circulation. The
arrest Of man in Memphis, Tennessee,
with 1890 in counterfeit silver certih'
Gates OF the denomination OF ten and
twenty dollars in his possession, has
been reported at the secret service OF.
hce in Washington.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

Upon the basis Of German stalls.
tician's estimate that the service OF
every man that leaves his country Is
worth 81, 900. the emigration from the
fatherland las. year added 5000, OOO,-
600 to the wealth OF the United States.
An outbreak OF the Hindoos against
British rule in Nepaul, small State in
the northeastern part Of Hindoostan
and Just south OF the Himslays noun
tains, has Just been put down in sum
mary manner. Twenty-one military
off GERS OF native troops were summarily
executed, and large number Of tho
most influential Nepaulese were at once
arrested.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28

William q. Taft, the son Of e1.Judge
Taft, who has been appointed collector
OF revenue OF Cincinnati, is only TWEEN.
ty-four years Of age. BE was graduated
at Yalc in 1873. where he was the best
boxer, the best ruuher" and the most
popular man in his class, as we'll as the
class orator and salutatorian. He was
graduated from the Cincinnati Law
school in 1880, standing first. he then
began the practice of his profession,
and was appointed assistant prosecu-
ting attorney Of Hamilton county. he
WAS also the law reporter OF the Cincin
natl Times for about year. He Weighs
225 pounds, and i, about five feet,
eleven inches in height.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-28

From circular just issued by the
secretary OF the Miners National Union
1t appears that $1,000 persons havo
been killed in various ways during the
past thirty-one years in English mines.
"Our modernized mode OF working
mines," writes the secretary. sis rem
dering catastrophes Of this kind OF q
huge magnitude Something nesds to
be done, and il it be done it mus bo
by legislative enactments. To do thi
there must be an active trade organiza
ton, seeking and trying to enforce
necessary changes in the law"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-07-13

Much curiosity has been felt an4lNg
scientific men as to the result Of Sir
William Armstrong experiencein light
ing his own house in Scotland bE the
electric light supplied by the agency Of
a waterfall. Sir William Armstrong
gave recently an interesting account to
the Institution Of civil engineers Of his
experience during nearly year; and
the remarks he made on tho subject
have just been privately circulated. in
anticipation Of their publication in the
ensuing quarterly volume Of the pro-
ceedings Of the Institution Of civil en-
gineers. The source Of power employed
is force Of cascade nearly mile from
Sir William Armstrong; house, in CON
nection with which he has ereoted "a
turbine, from which he obtains seven
horse power.
The light is directly produced BY the
driving Of the dynamo electric machine
from this turbine, and the only c6Et
beyond interest on machinery and
renewals is the pay Of the laborer who
attends upon the machine at night.
After repeated triala-which proved m
satisfactory the arc syst-m, Sir
William Armstrong adopted the Swan
incandescent arrangement. He has
thirty pairs Of lamps, each single lamp
iolding as much Light as an ordinary
duplex kerosene lamp, which is usually
estimated 81 twenty-five candles. The
lamps supplied by the company are
somewhat variable in their durability,
but With further experience this draw
back Will no doubt be overcome. The
delicacy Of the system is illustrated BY
the fact that while leather belts made il
the usual way were employed 10 drive
the generator, each revolution produced
a slight twinkle in the light when the
Joint Of the belt ran over the pulley.
no obtain uniformity it was necessary
to use an endless belt, made like q hAt
chain, Of leather links stamped out Of
the sheet and joined by pins; form Of
belt which gives d very regular motion.
It is probable that in most. il not in al,
cases' where water is employed as the
motive power. the introduction of an
accumulator will be found desirable in
order to insure perfect steadiness OF
light. The economy Of the method is
very great; and Sir William Armstrong
| stated that no deficiency w either candle
power or endurance in the lamps would
induce him TO abandon the system. Ihe
incandescent light haa no connection
v with the atmosphere, and has, therefore,
no contaminating effect. Il has very
little heating effect, il perfect in color
ana IL regarded by sir William Arm-
strong as the perfection of lightning fol
domestic purposes a private expert
ment Of thiH nature made bY arompa-
\ tent engineer for his uWn personal Conn
fort, has value which ~ y needless te
| dwell upon. ISt James's Gazette.