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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07
General News.

In China $3.50. .ooo, 900 are spent every year
in ancestor Worship.
Pevton Harris. colored, q veteran Of the
war of 1872. died at Buffalo, last week at the
age of 90 years.
Mr.. Barnum has insured his new baby
(elephant) for s300, 900. It, name is ssAmer-
lea"
4 black walnut grove which Wisconsin
farmer planted about twenty years ago on
some waste land recently sold for sz7 900.
.'Roman punch" is called because is is
made of frozen lemonade and Medford rum.
things entirely unknown to the Romans
ter Orleans Pieayune.
The water of the holy well Zemzem at
Mecca has been anaiyzed and pronounced to
be '.the vilest specimen Of sewage that could
be concocted.'
In small grove near Cincinnati an army
OF crows roost every night as they have done
for the last sixty years, according to the OBJ
servation Of an old inhabitant.
The business men Of . town in Wisconsin
were much exasperated At the nou-arrival Of
many letters mailed by them, and complain.
ed bitterly until il was ascertainsd shas they
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07
Personal.

Horatio Seymour is better and out of i'm
mediate danger.
Miss Cary denies that she is 10 be married
to one of the Lorillards.
Mr.. Battell, who built the Battell chapel
at y ale, is to present it ith chime of bells.
Mrs. General Sherman has been elected
president of the Tabernacle Society, an
organization OF Catholic ladies', which aims
to provide for poor churches of that faith
necessary altar ornaments and vestments
\ kinswoman OF the Sieur de la Sale, the
explorer, now lives in New-Orleans in the
person Of Mrs. Blanchard, in her maidenhood
Mile Hermione de Ia Salle and now the wife
of General a. g. Blanchard Of the United
States Army. She is the great great great
niece of the discoverer.
Miss Elizabeth Hazard, a very wealthy and
philan,hropic lady. died at her residence in
Newport r. l., Thursday. She was one of
the plaintiffs in the row famous Credit Mo-
biier suits brought against Thomas c. Durant
by Isaac 7. Hazard and others. In 1874 she
published neat volume of poems in Phila-
delphia which attracted attention in literary
circles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07
Queen VictOria's Whims.

With regard to the ''relic room" not only
at Balmoral, but also at Osborne, the suites
which were occupied by the Prince Consort
have never been altered since his DEATH Ev-
erything remains as he left it, The rooms
are kept locked UP during the absence of
the court, but as the Queen comes to each
palace, they are opened and lighted up every
evening during her stay. At Windsor, her
Majesty usually passes part of each even
ing in the Prince Consorts sitting-room, his
suite adjoining her own, which open from
the grand corridor. Frogmore has been
practically rendered unavailable as a resi-
dence. in consequence of the Queen having
closed up the rooms which were used hab-
itually by the Duchess Of Kent. This house
was always an inconveniently small one, and
shutting up the best rooms makes it imp0ssi.
BILE to accommodate a family and establish
| ment there, which, however, is not regretted
by the royal family. as it is very dull place,
and exceedingly damp. The Queen passes
every morning at Frognore while residing al
Windsor. In summer her Majesty has tents
put up on the lawn, breakfasts in one, and
writes letters and transacts business in the
other. driving back to the castle to lunch.
Two grooms are kept constantly employed
conveying the boxes of papers from Sir
Henry Possonby at the castle to the Queen
in her tent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07
BALM Krnnebtr .JournaI.
Storms.
DEVELOPMENT. MOVEMENT AND VELoC-
ITY.-PREplCTIoNS OF IMPORTANCE To
FARMERS AND OTHERS.

These storm-eenterS, or ''areaS of low
barometer" or ''low pressure" oftenest
make their appearance little east of the
Rocky Mountains, very often in Dakota,
and then move with greater or less rapid
ity toward the Atlantic. generally due
east. Occasionally storm-center de-
velops in Texas. and moves northeast.
More rarely cyclones make their appear
ance in the West Indies. and follow along
the course of the Gulf Stream, the outer
edge sometimes reaching the Atlantic
coast, very rarely extending inland.
Out of 100 >torn-centres noted during
1879. one moved north. 3 southeast. u
northeast, and - nearly due east. Their
velocity varies from 20 to 40 miles per
hour. so that either storm-centres or cold
waves travel from the mountains TO the
sea in from two to five days. then passing
off upon the ocean, frequently taking a
north-easterly direction after reaching the
coast. Sometimes a storm may be de.
fected from lis course. or spend its force
midway. or increase in severity, as il
moves eastward. Ii is these possibilities.
together with the varying velocity of the
wave which render us dependent on the
telegraph for its record of daily or even
HouIiN progress. anu Wn1cn some
times contradict the best-founded predic-
tions. But with all these possibilities of
error. so to 80 per cent of the predictions
are verified. and upon perhaps Is per cent
our reliance may be almost perfect At
times, either on land or sea. single warn-
ing may save propertyto an amount great
er than the whole annual expense of the
bureau, to say nothing of life and comfort
Our weather then. in general terms. comes
from the west, and when we read in the
papers that ian area of low pressure with
heavy rain and severe gales is developing
in the upper Mississippi, or upper Lake
region" the farmer had better not begin
his haying or his harvesting. and the
traveller had better not SET out by way of
the lakes or the ocean, until it has passed
by. While. if in the fall or winter YOU
read that ''an area of high pressure with
violent winds and rapidly falling temper
ature is prevailing" in the same regions,
the farmer had better look to his Young
stock, and make all snug about cellar and
barn, and the traveller will do well to take
his heaviest overcoat.-1merican .foricul-
turiSt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07
AUGUSTA MAINE Z, 70
NO 30.

had been posting them in disased mail car
al the railroad station.
A sharp conflict has beea raging in Phila-
delpha between the conductors of the electric
light business and the insurance companies.
II is asserted that VIII the wires are stretch
ed from roof to roof they are liable to sag
and chafe against lower buildings, rubbing
off the insulating material, when the next
rainy day would ground the current with
probably unpleasant results.
The Garfield Memorial Window which 10
TO be placed in st. James Protestant Episco-
pal Church, Long Branch. was exhibited Fri.
day, in New York. II commentaries the
last act of public worship by the late Presi-
dent, for he attended the services at ST.
James on Sunday, June 20, while at Long
Branch with his convalescent wife. The
money for the window was raised by the
whole congregation, the subscriptions ranging
from twenty-five cents upward
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07

DIR. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription is
most powerful restorative tonic, also CON-
bining the most valuable nervine properties,
especially adapted to the wants Of debilitated
ladies' suffering from weak back, inward fe-
yer. congestion, inflammation, or liberation,
or fruin nervousness or neuralgia pains. BY
druggists. jan31-t&vIw4thp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07
Railroads ann Steamboats,.
Maine Central Railroad.
Change Of Time.

On and after SUNDAY. DEC. ith. 1881.
trains will leave Augusta
For Portland and Boston at 500 A. NJ. and TO- l0A.
NJ; 1885 NJ.
2.f5 and l0.55 L. NJ.
FOR Kockland, 900 A. N. and 10. A.
For FarmIngton, TO- 10 A. NJ
For Bath, 6UU A. IA, 10. 10 A. NJ and 2.1J Z. NJ.
For watcrvile 2.25, y.55 A. Nj, ana 3.Js 4 .M.,-
500 7. NJ. on Saturdays.)
For Skowhegan, Belfast. Dexter and Bangor, 3.3s
I. NJ, ,and2.25 A. NJ.
Night Pullman Trains each way every night. Sun
dav Ind
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07

The honest public sentiment of the people
Of the United States is unanimously in favor
of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup. The druggists
pronounce it TO be the only standard Cough
Remedy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-07

The following Advertising Agents authorized
10 receive subscriptions and advertisements for the
kEsSEBRC JoCENAL:
BOSTON :: :: 81 PETTENGILL & Co. 10 State
street.
). X. NILES, No. 256 Washing
ton ST.
T.L. EVANS, fremont Temple.
HORACE Dom, 265 Washington
street.
NEW iOkk :: DAUCHY 4 Co., "a Park Place.
GEO. L. HOWELL Co., 10
Spruce Street.
JAMES II. BATES, Al Park Row.
PHILADELPHIA n. W. AVER & son, Times Bldg
Chestnut and sth streets.
NEW HAVEN. CONN, II. 7. HUBBARD, - Elm ST.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
A NEW YORK HOTEL.

Heretofore when visiting New York we
have always stopped at downtown hotel;
but this time, for a change, thought we
would try an uptown house, and put up at
the Grand Union, corner of Fourth avenue
aud Forty-second street.
1t is needless to say that hereafter we will
take no more down-t, wa hotels In ours when
stopping in New York, AS we have found II
much pleasanter and more agreeable stop
ping up town. The Grand Union, which is
run on the European plan, with prices to suit
all sized purses-having rooms ranging from
S1.O0 a day UPS model house, every de-
partment being first-class. Besides being
Just across from the Grand Central depot,
street ears, omnibuses and elevated rail-
ways run directly past the house, enabling
guests to take either of the three for any
part of the city. To those who have made
practice OF stopping downtown when in
New York, We would say. try the Grand
Union. and If you don't find Mr. Garrison,
the manager, a model landlord, running a
model hotel, at popular prices, you will be
unable to find such in the land.-Railroad
Record. Atlanta, Ga.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
EARTH'S LOWEST LAND.
A visit to Deaths Valley in the Desert
Region of California.

From Letter in the san Francisco Chronicle.
On the 18th of July last, with a train of
five mules and two companions, one of
whom was partially familiar with the
country, ! climbed the summit of Cerro
Gordo. At last we stood upon the lofty
ridge Of the Telescopes, and beheld be-
low us the fateful valley, which lies 2s0
feet below the level of the sea and ex-
tends for hundred miles northeast and
southwest, with a width of from thirty to
forty miles from east to west. Upon no
landscape can one look so deeply into the
interior Of the earth, for it occupies the
lowest part of dry land upon the conti-
nent and, so far as am informed, of the
earth itself. Before us it lies, long, deep,
wide, vast basin, its shining patches dis
closing through the distance its beds of
soda, salt and boray, which cover thou
sands of acres and blaze and simmer
and burn in the steady blaze of light and
heat which pours upon them from a cloud
less sky. The valleys deep declension
grows upon the senses and becomes more
marked as the eye is held steadily upon
it, and it is emphasized by the swift de-
clivity of the inclosing mountains. Drear
and desolate it stretches its full length
along in frame of painted mountains,
which define, in strong and mighty lines,
its aspects of terror.
Though leaving the summit at 3 p. m.
and riding steadily down descending
trails night settled upon us before we es-
capped from the canyon and reached the
borders of the valley. BY the brilliant
moonlight we were enabled to trace the
trail along the rocky washes as we rode
out into the night At last, worn and
weary with hours Of riding, we reached
the centre of the valley, known as the
"Big Hole" the point of greatest depres-
sion.
Though time and exploration have
drawn from out the ancient story most OF
its fearful threads, this is still Deaths
Valley and is still and will remain re-
gion of dread. Indians familiar with its
face from infancy know its treachery and
cannot be prevailed on to go into it
beyond their time-worn trails. To the
lost emigrant it was "the valley of the
shadow of death" The daring prospec-
tor enters it with fear. He knows its
terrors, and the bleaching bones of many
a skeleton warn him to beware. Once
lost within its embrace, and a mans doom
il written. Without water to cool his fe-
vered frame, the sweltering air drives
him to agony and bewilderment. Con-
fused, he wanders without aim. Reason,
unseated by fantasy, gives Imagination
rein to play tricks with his Judgment.
Beholding heaven at last in the mockinng
waters of the mirage, he sinks to die in
the flame of the desert.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
OtlTSHINING THE BUTTERFLIES.
Charming Capotes, Pretty Pokes. and the
French Fnncies in Boun.t.

Charming Capotes. Pretty Pokes. and the
French Fancies in Bonnets.
Birds and breasts and triple tips form
the mass ofthe feather garniture used on
| little hats.
The greatest novelty of the season is
leather lace, an ecru guipure net, with
the pattern run by tiny threads of leather
or brown kid, or ornamented with pat
tern of leaves and vine cut from leather.
This lace, laid over velvet or satin, forms
the crown of the bonnet, which is small
A handsome velvet capote in military
or Ariba red has crown of plain velvet
covered with crown of leather lace and
and finished on the edge with wreath
Of velvet ribbon and breast of a red
bird or a cluster of three red feathers low
at one side.
Some quaint hats are also shown in
velvet, with soft crowns and wide,
pleated border of velvet.
The prettiest pokes for young ladies
are of solid, colored felt or velvet, to
match the suit of the wearer, and trim
med with plumes or tips in solid color,
and finished by wide roll of velvet on
the edge.
A stylish black bonnet for a young
married lady is of black velvet in capote
shape. The crown is smooth, with a
pufled edge and garniture of velvet rib
bon at one side, while on the other
black bird, with projecting wing, is held
close to the bonnet by a strap of velvet
ribbon. Strings of velvet finish up the
bonnet.
A pretty English hat is shown in cas-
tro-colored felt trimmed with velvet the
same shade, and young seagull in gray,
black and white at the side.
Another hat in army blue felt Is trim
med with electric blue and a blue bird at
the side.
The quaintest little birds seen ON new
hats are the gray cedar birds, with their
wings tipped with cardinal.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
Transporting II Delicate Instrument.

The new Yale College heliometer with
its delicate mechanism was packed in the
most careful manner for transportation
from Germany to the United States. II
was first enclosed in a tin box, this was
packed in straw in a larger wooden case,
then this was covered again with straw
and the whole done up in canvas, and
fitted with handles, so as to be carried
easily. The case was not opened in New
York by the revenue authorities, but an
officer of the custom house was sent to
New Haven by permission of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to look on while the
instrument was being unpacked and see
that nothing dutiable was contained in
tha raga
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
WHAT Is A GENTLEMAN?
How Cardinal Newman Answers the
Question.

How Cardinal Newman Answers the
Question.
It is almost definition of gentleman
to say he is one who never intlicts pain
This description is both refined and, as
far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly oc-
cupied in merely removing the obstacles
which hinder the free and unembarrass-
ed action of those about him; and he
concurs with their movements rather
than takes the initiative himself
His benefits may be considered as par
allel to what are called comforts or con-
veniences in arrangements of a personal
nature; like an easy chair or a good fire,
which do their part in dispelling cold or
fatigue, though nature provides means of
rest and animal heat without them.
The true gentleman. in like manner,
carefully avoids whatever may cause
Jar or Jolt in the minds Of those with
whom he is cast; all clashing of opinion,
or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment;
his great concern being to make every
one at their ease and at home. He has
his eyes on all his company; he is tender
IOWaTu tuc DdSlliui, Stutic ttNtTu tlle
distant, and merciful to the absurd he
guards against unreasonable illusions or
topics which may irritate; he is seldom
prominent in conversation, and never
wearisome.
He never speaks of himself except
when compelled; never defends himself
by mere retort; he has no ears for any
slander or gossip; he is scrupulous in iuI-
putting motives to those who interfere
with him, and interprets everything for
the best.
He is never mean or little in his dis
putes; never takes unfair advantage; new
er mistakes personalities orsharp savings
for arguments, or insinuates evil which
he dare not say out; he has too much
good sense to be affronted at insults, and
is too well employed to remember inju-
ries.
If he engages in controversy of any
kind, his disciplined intellect preserves
him from the laundering discourtesy of
better. perhaps, but less educated minds,
who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack
instead of cutting clean, who mistake the
point in argument, waste their strength
on trihes, misconceive their adversary,
and leave the question more involved
than they find it. He may be right or
wrong i'm his opinion, but he is too clear
headed to be unjust; he is as simple as he
is forcible, and as brief as he is decisive.
He throws himself into the mind of his
opponents, he accounts for theirmstakes,
he knows the weakness of human reason
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
BUCkwHEAT CAKES,

Warm one pint Of sweet milk and one
pint of water lone may be cold and the
other boiling; put half this mixture in a
stone crock, add five teacups buckwheat
flour, beat well until smooth, add the
rest of the milk and water, and last II
teacup ofyeast Orthe same ingredients
and proportions may be used, except ad-
ding two tablespoons of molasses or su-
gar and using one quart of water instead
of one pint each of milk and water.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16

as well as its strength, its province and
its limits
He respects piety and devotion; he
supports institutions venerable, beautiful,
and useful, TO which he does not assent;
he honors the ministers of religion, and
il contents him to decline its mysteries
without assailing or denouncing them.
He is a friend ofreligious liberation, and
that, not only because his philosophy
has taught him 10 look ON all forms of
faith with an impartial eye, but also from
the gcntleness of feeling which is the at
tendant on civilization.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
Health and HappIness.

1t seems strange that any one will suffer
from the many arrangements brought on
by an impure condition of the blood, when
scoville's Blood and Liver Syrup will re-
store perfect health to the physical organi-
zation. II is indeed a strengthening syrup,
pleasant to take, and has proven itself 10 be
the best hood purifier ev1 diseouered, effect
ually cures scroiula, Syphilitic Disorder,
Weakness OF the Kidneys, all nervous dis
orders and debility. II corrects indigestion.
A single bottle will prove to you its merits
as healing renewer for II acts like n
charm, especially when the complaint Is OF
an exhaustive nature, having n tendency
TO lessen to natural yigor of the brain and
nervous system.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
A London Practitioners Advice to Young
Women Studying Medicine.
London Queen.


London Queen.
The London School OF Medicine for
Women opened on Monday, October 2,
with an Introductory address by DIR.
Dupre. In considering the objections
made 10 the medical education Of women,
DR.. Dupre stated that they turned mainly
on two questions-the first beingas tothe
reasonableness of the demand formedi-
cal women, the second regarding the in
tellectual ability of women to become
well-educated and competent medical
practitioners. The advantage of a system
which will enable women and young
girls to consult with medical advisers of
their own sex appears to answer the first
question; and, provided female practition-
ers would aim at advising the cases af-
fecting women and children only, great
part of the opposition against the move
ment would disappear. As to the highest
intellectual ability, Dr. Dupre maintained
that women were unequal To the other
sex, but that they possessed as great an
amount of average intellectual power,
which was the requisite in ordinary prac-
tice; and that the necessary coolness and
frmness required in medicine would be
acquired by familiarity with the ordinary
routine. DIR. Dupre maintained that in
feriority in the highest intellectual quail
ification had no bearing whatever on
medical practice, which was dependent
on ordinary ability; and that women, be-
ing even quicker in perception than men,
and being more conscientious in their
work, would make in some respects SUI
perior practitioners especially as the fe-
male branch of the medical profession
would be recruited from those women
who manifest distinct calling for the
work, and are willing to pass through
the painful and weary training necessary
to enter the profession. DIR. Dupre adj
vsed the new students TO overcome the
disadvantages which the female students
labor under by increased diligence in
study, both theoretical and practical, and
to gain their knowledge in thorough
manner, avoiding all idea of cramming
for examination.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-16
AN ODD INDUSTRY.
How the oil of wintergreen Is Distilled in
the Forests Of Pennsylvania.

How the oil of Wintergreen is Distilled in
the Forests of Pennsylvania.
The manufacture of the oil of winter
green has some interesting features-in
fact, nothing from shoe peg TO locomo-
tive is without details of more or less in
terest to all readers.
Just at this time the oil of winter
green is high-as high as three dollars a
pound. The oil of wintergreen comes
chiefly from New York state, and from
Pennsylvania, where the wintergreen
vine and birch trees grow in abundance.
Wintergreen is common plant in nearly
all parts of the country, but not in every
part do the inhabitants thereof make the
oil of wintergreen. The makers of win
tergreen essence are under the surveil-
lance of the government.
The oil is made from wintergreen
when that vine is abundant If it is not
plenty birch is used.
The plant of an oil-maker consists of a
furnace made of rough stones, a boiler, a
tin pipe, trough, a barrel and a
running brook. The tin pipe leads from
the top of the boiler through the water in
the trough to a barrel. Under the end Of
the pipe is placeda barrel, and on the
end of the pipe in the barrel is hung a
glass jar. The boiler is filled with water
and birch bark and wintergreen twigs; a
fire is built the steam is forced through
the tin pipe, and is condensed by the
pipes passing through the water in the
trough. The oil and water fall into the
glass jar, and the oil, being the heavier of
the two, goes to the bottom of the jar,
while water the runs over into the barrel
and is used again.
The business is carried on in certain
seasons both day and night, as the pot
must be kept boiling. The men who
work at this business make their homes
during the season in the forests or fields
wherever the wintergreen or birch is
to be found.
They enjoy an all-season picnic unless
the Internal Revenue Collector drops
down" upon them, as he has done upon
many, and collects thirty-six dollars for
every still-like apparatus he finds. II is
supposed that some of the rude affairs for
condensing, which the government calls
stills, are so hidden in the forests that
the collector cannot find them.
The manufacturers dispose ofthe oil to
apothecaries at two dollars per pound.