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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-05

but perhaps the most slgnlncant ana conclu-
sivc proof Of the vast improvement in the
material condition Of the people, is to be
found in the reports from National Banks
and Savings Banks. The ready money, the
available cash at call, is the best test of the
financial condition of an individual or Of a
whole people. In January 1857, when the
Republicans succeeded to the State administra-
ton, tine total amount of money on deposit in all
the Banks Of issue in Maine was but little over
two millions of dollars. To-day the amount on
deposit in the National Banks of Maine is nearly
ten millions. But important as this statement
is, it does not tell half the story. The statis-
tics which follow are far more striking
In 1857 there were eleven Savings Banks
in Maine, and the aggregate deposits and &C.
crued profits in all of them was a little over
uine hundred thousand dollars--to be exact,
it was S9l9,57l.s5. In 1882 there are fifty
Eve Savings Banks in the State, and their
aggregate deposits and accrued profits
are to-day about thirty millions Of dol
lars, and perhaps in excess of that large sum.
At the close of 1881 the aggregate amount
vas s2s, S6l ,4ol SO, and the increase for the
year had been nearly three millions. The
same ratio OF increase has been going on dur
ing the current year. and though we shall not
have the official report until December, it is
a moderate estimate to say it will amount to
thirty millions of dollars.
The dividends paid to depositors from these
ffty.dve saviugs banks during the gear 1881
exceeded one million Of dollars-a sum near
ly twelve per cent larger than the total de-
posits Of all the savings banks in the State N
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-05

point MIN, ana refuse because OF Judge l.lo-
bey's most honorable course in \ crisis
which threatened the peace and good order Of
the state.
II there we're no other issue pending before
the people Of Maine, the question involved in
this attack upon an independent and fearless
Judiciary 10 enough to arouse every man in
the State to activity and zeal. The Demo-
cratic party lost power in the nation more than
twenty years ago, and one of the potent causes
Of their defeat was the attempt made by Mr..
Buchanan's Administration to impose spu.
rious government upon the people of Kansas.
But the Lecompton swindle, as it became
popularity known, was not so bad nor so bald
nor % shameless . destruction Of popular
rights - was attempted in the Garcelon con.
splracy Of ls7s-s0. And nov to-day, in the
sear Of grace 1852. nearly three years after
the ignominious failure of that conspiracy,
Gov. Plaisted asks the people Of Maine to
entrust him with the Executive power Of the
State In order that he may punish an upright
and able Judge. who rose superior to all his
party associations and maintained the right
Of he people to choose their own Legislature.
acceeding to the constitution and laws. All
power rssidss ultimately In the people. and to
DIT eeass Il last resort the case now goes.
n en1ia snd fair-dssling character of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18

From the Chicago Times.
few years ago the editor Of the Bombay
Herald made trip through Asiatic Turkey and
wrote very readable and instructive book
about what he heard and saw. In it he de-
scribed the Armenian women as the perfection
OF female beauty, grace, loneliness, and virtue.
BE declared that they combined everything that
was excellent in female person and character to
be found in all parts of the world. A rich money
lender residing in Constantinople, Bekian by
name, resolved to marry one Of the women who
had been Landed SO highly In the volume he had
been reading. He sought the society of Arme-
man people and soon found q girl of the race
that exactly suited his fancy. She was bearl-
tiful as imagination could picture. Her name
was not pfetty-it was Margaretta Amassin-
but he did not care for that, as he resolved
to change it as soon as he could get
permission. And as her father had no income
except that derived from an Office that paid a
small salary and afforded no stealing, thswas
easy to do. Madam was soon an excellent
housekeeper and showed great love for literary
work. In looking over her writings one day
to find some pleasant reading to admire, he dis
covered letter ready for the post. 1t was ad
dressed to her very dear cousin, whom she
desired to kill Mr. Bekian that they might
obtain his property and live together in happi-
ness Soon after he received q letter purpOrt-
Ing to be signed by five refugees, which de-
handed that he carry. a thousand pounds on
given day and deposit 1t at certain place in
a forest. Failure to comply with the modest
request was death. Mr.. Bekian did not go out
with the money. His loving wife however, left
the house and did not return. The matter was
reported to the authorities who. caring nothing
for sentiment or true love. condemned the two
cousins to long term Of hard labor Mr.. Be-
khan does not read any more books of travel.
he regard them as unreliable as novels.
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From the Detroit Free Press.
A man sitting in his house. eating pie
heard storm coming, and ran to the DOOR
The gale first blew the house down, and then
seized the man. carried him through the air a
hundred yards or 80, and landed him in a peach
tree Soon after friendly board from his own
house came floating by. This he seized and
placed over his head to protect himself from the
raging blast, and finished his pie. There was
man from Boston who would not confess as
tonisnment at anything he saw in Nevada. As
he was passing hotel in Virginia City the cap
blew from one OF the chmneys. It was circu-
lar piece OF sheet iron, painted black slightly
convex, and the four supports were like legs
The wind carried it down street. and it went
straddng along like living thing. The Bos-
ton man asked what it was a bedbug from
the hotel. was the reply. "By George / never
added, outside of Boston," party of miners
in the Black Hills compared eyes and ears over
camp fire. One said: ''When | was coming
TO the Hills Hooked for Indians until l could
see mosquito a mile away" Another said
that his eyes were weak, but that he could hear
gnats jumping on the rocks four miles. The
next man had listened for Indians until he had
heard the mountain sheep light on their horns
IN the Rig Mountains. three hundred miles
away: The fourth, with his head on his pillow.
had strained his ears until he heard the Chinese
mailing up tea boxes. The fifth, in crossing the
Rocky Mountains, had found a petrified forest,
the trees turned into solid stone. As he loitered
on the edge deer started across the valley
and was transformed in moment into stone
A bird flew past him, and perching upon req
began to sing. Suddenly the bird was changed
to stone. The song she was singing was also
petrifed. hanging down from the back of the
bird-cOld, cold stone
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A Little Too BAD.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t is related Of an absent-minded young lady
that. having been duly married, she started off
on her bridal tour. The party stopped at q
western city. So far so good. Some time in
the night there came succession Of terrified
slrieks from the room occupied by the bride
and groom, and the clerks, porters and en-
ployes generally rushed up stairs, only to meet
frantic female figure. clad in white, fleeing in
desperate haste from her apartment. crying:
"Oh, there's man in my room -
The clerk rushed in and found the groom half
disrobed standing in the middle of the floor. one
boot on and the other in his hand, the picture
of amazement. He explained that he had Just
come up stairs, and was in the act of undress-
ing (his wife had previously retired) when she
suddenly awoke with shrek and fled.
what was the matter?" asked the clerk
"Damfino," said the husband
Just then the bride. envelOped in huge bed
spread. procured for her by chambermad,
came back, looking very red and foolish. and in
half minute she explained the mystery by
saying:
"Oh, Fred forgot was married, and when
awOke / was so frightened"
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Saturday Smiles.

Saturday Smiles.
Miss Arminta Gushington speaks Of the
''solemn season of loaned" She never could
bring herself to say Lent. 1t is so painfully
vulgar, you know.-BostOn Transcript.
Miss Dora Apple, of Chicago, is suing Mr..
Stone, of Wisconsin, for breach of PROMISE de-
handing $4,000 And it served him right. Mr..
Stone should have paired his apple.-Louisuiue
Cosarier-.Josrndl.
Patti is fortissimo. At least she is above
forte.-The Score.
During the next century a companion story
to 1.-The Man Without Country" will probably
be written. 1t will be entitled ''The Man With
out Pension. Philadelphia Neacs.
Wisconsin woman who was lost in the
woods for three days says she didn't suffer
80 very much, but was greatly annoyed by her
absence of mind in not bringing along q small
looking glass.-Det,od Free Press.
s. b. c.. San Antonia: what's the meaning of the
slang phrase to catch on?'"
That's an expression that cannot be under
stood unless you catch on. Do you catch on?
means and if you don't, you don't, that's ALL
Teras Sittings.
Glass balls and clay counterfeits have been
successfully substituted for live pigeons at shoot
ing matches. Now why cannot somebody
bring forward equally merciful and efficacious
proxies for the pugilsts and baseball PLAYERS?
We congratulate the pigeons. but why should
not this immunity be extended also to men,
Boston Transcript
When mans hair stands on end an ordinary
person says his hair stands; but you can't get
doctor to talk in that way. The doctors call 1t
hOrrpilatOn. This makes the patients hair
stick up worse than ever but it gives the family
confidence in the doctor.-Louisoile Courier
Journal
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A Queens Philosophy.


From the Partisan.
The No,uelle Revue has published, under the
title Of" Les Pensees dune Refine" some reflec-
tions and maxims Of Queen Elizabeth of Rou-
mania. who has attained considerable literary
reputation under the pseudonym of Carmen
SYLVIA" We translate few of her persees.
chosen at hazard:
- Happiness il like the echo; it answers YOU
but it does not come.
( There is kind Of fraternity formed at first
sight between those who have been smitten BY
misfortune When you have long been in
mourning you feel yourself attracted toward
every black dress that you meet.
]; Love, hatred. jealousy, destiny are blind: the
eyes of justice are blindfOlded one must then
quit life in order to be able to see it.
1t is better to have doctor for confessor
than priest Tell the priest that you detest men
he willreply that you are not christian. The
doctor gives you some rhubarb and straight
way you love your fellows. Tell the priest that
you are weary of life he will reply that suicide
us a crime The doctor will give you stimu-
liant, and straightway you find life endurable.
By dint Of writing on the writings of others.
we end by believing ourselves more intelligent
than they are, and II people were not convinced
that Jesus is God, the preachers would find
that He had only moderate intelligence.
Contradiction aninates conversation; that is
why courts are so wfarisdme.
Prudery Is o perfume that conceals vitiated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18

From the Dakota Correspondence Brooklyn Eagle.
One day at the Yanktonian agency, located
on the corner Of Poplar creek and the Missouri
river, 1 besought chief that he decker with me
for head Of lettuce and few lunches of rad
ishes. l should say his farm was about IA feet
long by wide, and looking from the farm to
him, it was difficult to decide which presented
the greater aspect of fertility. But he was a
chief and man of land and must be approach
ed with mingled respect and aims.
No, comrade,' he replied, with an air of
stately grace, the Great Spirit has hold of the
other end of those plants, and they don't come
up till he shoves Them" (Not his exact Ian
guage, but a free translation.) l pointed out
to him that the whole business was going to
seed; that in a few days longer they would be
unfit to eat, and his whole crop of IS square
feet would be ruined, unless he dug it up and
found market
Thereat he knocked me down with an I'M
answerable argument:-
''Comrade, when those shrubs started in they
were small You could have carried the whole
outlying district in your mouth They got big
ger and bigger until they are what you see
them now. Shall l pull them up and lose the
interest? Nay cOmrade; they shall stop where
they are until they are full SIZE and then there
will be feasting in the tent of POtleg."
That's an Indians idea of farming. He won't
harvest for fear his crop might grow larger if
let alone, and he permits it to run to seed. The
agents say that is the worst difficulty they have
to overcome. After little bribing they can in
duce an Indian to plant, and then he will watch
his farm con amore. But to make him take in his
crop has SO far proved an impossibilty, and so
the seed goes to waste while we wait for him to
educate up to a harvester.
told Potleg he was a great man, and asked
him who owned the grave next to his. That be-
longed to another savage who was temporarily
absent skirmishing for q hoe. The bargain was
easily made. POtleg had no conscientious scru-
pies, and made him a present of what few l
full Of vegetables Perhaps the other abOrigine
missed them and helped himself from some 9TH
er patch. l shall never know, but whatever he
did made no impression on the sublime dignity
of my friend P0tleg. or his abiding faith in the
effect of time on crops.
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About Filtration.

From the Whitehall Review
Diversity Of age is no bar to Irritation, pro-
vided it does not pass certain point of maturity
sooner reached by wOmen than men, and few
years advantage on one side often confers a
certain power; but the line must be drawn just
within the boundary when though the knowl-
edge and experience necessary are at their high
est point, the inclination to do mischief or to
confer benefits and instruct youth. begins to fade
1t is perhaps fortunate that the blood of seven
teen is rarely united to the wisdom of sixty.
All, Isl je,tneSse saodH; 81 uieilLesse pou,ait p
1t may be added, that any benefit which
superiority in age is supposed to give is pre-
cisely the one which most feminine flirts would
part with. If it were but possible. One of the first
conditions to the particular relations which we
are discussing is certain amount of equality in
social position; or. in default of this, some great
and counterbalancing quality must not only
exist, but be plainly'apparent on the side Of the
party where the deficiency occurs. Without
this, there is alwaysna degree of condescensiOn
in the one, and q servlity, or at least an embar-
rassment in the other which is fatal to full and
free exercise of their best powers Their con-
yersation or interchange of sentiment is apt to
degenerate into the badindge of gentleman with
serving woman, or the insincere and peremp-
tory affection which weil-born and Jealous
wife displays toward her husbands constituents
when an election is imminent. For this reason
though, as specimen of sedulous Irritation and
the success to which it may ultimately attain,
nothing has ever been written like 1.-THE pro-
vacations of Jane Eyre with Mr.. Rochester have
always struck me as being of faulty and de-
graded type. That gentleman was, indeed.
greatly exercised by Miss Eyre, but there was
too much attitudiniZing as master and servant,
as employer and dependent. to make it an ex-
ample to be recommended for the guidance of
others. When that remarkable book was in
process of demolition by those reviewers whose
predestined fate it was to have to eat their
words, the most sensible remark about it was
made by the wife Of a Scotch minister: 1.-THE
only grudge / have against the book is that
since it was published all the governesses have
taken to initiate Jane Eyre. and the palmer they
are the more they do it," "What are the
signs7" demanded. Keeping diaries, speak
ing IN monosyllabies and addressing all gentle
men as. sir Watch, and you will see." l
watched, saw, and was convinced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18

From the Galveston NeWe ii
Several gentiemen were standing on the cor
ner of Galveston avenue when one of the most
fashionable ladies Of Galveston passed on the
sidewalk. a41s
"Ah!" exclaimed one Of the gentlemen.
what a complexion! There is nothing to beat
it In Galveston. am proud OF that woman, I
am"
"Are you her husbanda" aked stranger.
tNO, SIR"
Her father, ttenf"
No, sir; / am no relation TO her; but / am
proud Of her complexion. ! am the druggist
that sold it to her.. / make it myself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18

w. H. ROsENsfRANCH, o wholesale notions
dealer. af Newark. was arrested on q charge of
blasphemy and calling the Mother Of Christ Inn
proper names. The accused gave $3.50 ball.
The complainant Is q German catholic Bias
phemy in New Jersey Is punishable BY fine or
imprisonment for one year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-18

A SURE REMEDY AT LAST. PRICE, IS CENTS
a MEADS INDICATED CORN AND BUNION
PLASTER. dll
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j. L. BARBOUR, President: c. {. DUNCANSON
Vice President: n. d. LARNER Secretary; THOMAS
SOMERVILLE, Treasurer: JOHN b. LARNER At
torney; FRANCIS MILLER, L. L. JOHNSON, JOHN
NOGT, WASH. Is. WILLIAMS. t16-eolm
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nusDanu ana turns out TO De happy and white
Tor the denOuement.
Several French theaters have placed this
warning on the curtain in view of the entire au-
dence: sin case of fire, the greatest danger to
be apprehended Is an indiscriminate rush for
the doors. Such judicious precaution would
not be miss here.
-"Pinafore" will succeed the 'Pirates of PEN
zance" at the BijOu, NY. After that the MASK
of Pandora" libretto, by Longfelow, music BY
ALI Collier.
Taken from Life' goes on the stage Of
Wallack's to open the season next fall It will
be played by the company, and probably as early
as August. Work Is now going forward on the
scenery.
The Hess opera company is meeting with
great success In the West, although there Ia
great rivalry. In one town of 5000 inhabitants
the four attractions In one week were opera
companies.
The Holiday Street theatre in Baltimore ia
to be enlarged to seating capacity of Q 900 this
summer. 1t will be opened In the fall by Hart
JacksOn's new spectacular play.
- Edward Irving Darling, the composer of
the Jolly Bachelors" "a new comic opera on
the boards at the Windsor Theater, New York;.
Is the son Of Mrs. Darling Of this city, He was
but nineteen years Of age when he produced
this opera in Boston last October, and since then
1t has met with verv good success IN the west
The Ibretto 10 said not to be very strong, but
the music il quite bright and several Of the
songs are excellent. Miss Jeanne Winston and
Miss Amy Gordon have secured marked sue
cess init. Young Darling is at work on another
opera. to be produced next September.
Oscar Wilde was introduced to an actress in
Washington when he was here, whose power Of
repartee is well-knOwn. The estheses snobb-
ishness-next to his long locks-is his chief
characteristic.
when you visit England, Miss ~ said
the langu:sher after the unattainable. land
breathe the atmosphere of antiquity there for
the first time. you win realize what existence
actually means"
''Indeed?"
"Oh, yes! Imbibing the mellow spirit of the
shsdowy past, the Intellectual pleasures that
departed centuries have left behind, then O
then. will you feel what have felt By the
Lye. Miss N, there is nothing of that sort In
this couatry-no lovely relics, exquisite ruins
''fou are quite right, Mr.. Wilde This rs q
new country, you know. For the present we
are compelled to be satisfied With importing
oul curiosities !"
Oscar wilted Ike . culled lily in the hot
midday sun
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A young couple were baptized together at
TrOnsdale, Tenn, and immediately afferWard,
were married, In their dripping garments, By
the same clergyman.
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A big cast-iron dog In Sacramento store
frightened away three armed burr'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
FROM A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN.


wothtom eonehun dred O Respect A
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kendalPs Spawn Cure.


lJN nlmAN fIl,OQ, VERY Eminent for
standing short duration Also for CoRNS BUN
BRUSE O LAME>E>S
wonderful flesh and does
human hesh.