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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-01-31
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Pain in the Back ana

Pain in the Back and Side.
There Is nothing more painful than these
diseases; bot The pain can b. removed md
Tie disease cured - Isl O, Perry Davis
Pain Killer.
ai.i> remedy J. not "A cheap Renrins
or t"'r"iTCtn product that must De kent
away nom lire or heat To- avoid danger
OF explosion. nor l. IA an untried expert
i"eat that may do more harm than good.
Pain Killer his l-en in constant u,e
'v- forty years and tn universal testimony
nun All paris q III world - IL never
tails. L not only Effects "a permanent cure.
'i- Z. relieves pain almost inStautaueUusly.
Being a purely We table remedy. Il Is safe
~ tAe hands u the "a. inexperienced
iLe rec-l 90, Cures o. the Use q PAIN
KILLER would III volumes The following
extracts from letters r'ceiyed show what
tAose who have tried 6, think:
Edgar Cady. owatonna. MINI. saws.
Aplat a year siloc ms wife bccAilie subject
y severe saic-u-- frlia racaIlsts,r oar
TF2yi ges y ihe PAS kILLEi Which speedily
Charles Powell writes from the Sailors
Home. London:
Iiic violent -IasIis % tllr stomach Thr ic.-;Srs
= Mestl!in-ter Hospital ave ur nv 49, ia
ne iini1eyii4,e relief I have r,s-iped NV
a.-e-lSt.l and Al Dug abe . fll0w tlly usual
@. d Walworth, saeo, Ne. writes:
icy. FENCED nlli e,.ate relief from pain In
Z. York says:
seyc used your PAX KILLER for rheumatism
Gli have 7eCeiyed rre1t bSIeat
Barton Seaman SAYS:
and have found y a r-r~T-C,I.iisS rsrss..ir -
~. rae---.4t lss-l and 4azlzeusSe.
Ny. Burditt writes
~, a.. - give relsf IN cases o. rheumatism.
FHA' SHoert, somerset Pa, writes:
Iriiil actual -. know yoy.r Pax Eurxp
" Tie lest medicine can ~
Al druggists keep PAry KILLER. Its pr,ce
+ 50 low that II Is within the mach of All
al II vii save many times its cost IN doctors
VS. <Se., Soc and sI.OO bottle {
FERRY DAVIS & SON, Projectors.
Providence, RI.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-01-31

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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-01-31

M Mssnrs Stem vinaers tiss White metal rtan,,,-c
NIH. Imitation Enia Sc salir ara ,s.r--., 1870,
% ier your own use speeuisfivs purpcssa Sa.s.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-01-31
New Gazetteer of Maine!

SlE,N 10 eel frur and Ornamental J,ets
Grape Shrub R,,es. .fc. ~. .a-
WhuTpn ps'ss"s~ qair.d salary az.
WnHihD expenses pad. LECL RES MucaE-
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

and sending down divers whenever the
tide suits The hackers of the scheme
are Boston company. never heard OF
their recovering anything except few
wooden cups and platters and sundry
guineas bearing the likeness of the first
gentleman of Europe, George Ill. And
yet the search has been kept up for thirty
years, and good money has been sunk in
the wreck of the old Hussar-thousands
and thousands of it. Myfriend who in
vested the $4,000 called to see me when
| returned from Russia, and told me he
was sorry he had not taken my warning.
but could see that he still hankered
after the supposed treasure, and that he
still had lingering belief in its exist
ence, despite his sad experience. l went
out to MOrrisania and witnessed the
diving for the treasure, which was done
without concealment, and became more
and more convinced that there was
nothing worth diving for. The theory
of the manager was that the Hussar's
guineas had been packed in iron boxes,
and that the material in these had been
oxidized by the influence of the sea, and
that thus the divers were forced to work
slowly with drills and could accomplish
no satisfactory results. The fact is that
certain persons interested in the scheme
saw chance of making money without
raising it from the deep, and availed
themselves of One man whose whole
life has been devoted to the Hussar and
its supposed treasures, has built a row of
brick dwellings in Boston, | am told,
and is very well.to-do, but the money
did not come from the Hussar. need
not say more. This is one of the most
persistently- followed searches for sunken
treasure that ever heard of, but then,
you see, there. were treasures that never
had been sunk that were available for its
promoters. philadelphia Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
An Amazing Coronation Feast.

A coronation is always signalized by
acts of Imperial clemency, and in this
respect the ukase issued by Alexander
Ii. on the 9TH of September. 1856 re-
mains memorable. 1t granted COM
plete amnesty to all the political offend
ers of 1926 and of the Polish rebellion
of 1881 who were still in exile or in prison;
also pardons to press offenders, military
defaulters, and to about 5000 other indi-
viduals in gaols. The Empire was en-
tirely exonerated from military conscrip-
ton during term of four wears. A new
and more equitable assessment of the
poll-tax was decreed. Most of the disa-
bilities which weighed upon the Jews
were removed. Thousands of Crown
serfs were manumitted and received
grants of land. Finally, the children of
soldiers who, under the former reign,
had been brought up by the State to enter
the army were restored to their parents.
These truly wise largesses evoked the
most cordial popular gratitude, insomuch
that the Car began his reign as peo-
pies darling. He was so well aware of
this that he convinced the grandeose idea
of giving a banquet to 200, 900 of his
poorer subjects from Moscow and the
adjacent villages in the plains around
Petrowski. Preparations were made for
this amazing feast by covering a square
mile with tables, and the tables with
hunks of beef, bread and cakes of kaOaSS
Unluckily, the Impotence of the guests
did not allow them to wait till the day of
the dinner. A flagstaff had been erected
in the middle of the plain, and it had
been arranged that the signal to 'fall-
to- should be given by the hosting of
the flag. On the evening before the day
of the feast, while some 10000 mujiES
were lettering round the plain shifting
the food, an English officer named
Minakoff, wishing to try if the ropes of
the flagstaff worked we'll gave them a
tug and sent the bunting flying aloft. In
the twinkle of an eye the multitude of
maytbS swooped upon the table and made
a clearance. No hords of famished
wolves could have done the work better.
Beef, bread, beer, -everything went,
and when these were gone the wooden
dishes were carried off also. The CZal
laughed when he was told of the matter
"Well, well, so long as they enioyed
themselves that is all | wanted. But
we must give something to poor Minakoff
| am sure he must have feared that they
were going to eat him Also
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
An Interesting Story.

An interesting story of Shipwreck and
adventure has recently appeared in the
London newspapers. 1t appears that
the harque RoSeneath foundered last
May in the Straits of Magellan. The
captain, his wife and seven of the crew
were picked up by a passing vessel.
Another boat containing five of the men
was supposed to be lost. The first Of
ticer, named Samson, now turns up with
story of exciting adventure. He re-
counts in his deposition that the day af-
ter leaving the ship they sighted the
shore near Cape Horn. Here they were
overtaken by savages who boarded their
boat. Samson tried to conciliate his
captors with biscuits and tobacco They
seemed friendly at first, but afterward
massacred all the sailors except himself
with hatchetS. They then landed on one
of the Terra del Fuego islands (which
abOunds with rats about the size of En-
glish cats" Whether the cats on the
island were of proportionate size is not
stated. They lived on shell-hsh and an
occasional seal. AT night they all slept
in a wigwam, ''men, women, children
and dogs" The Indians were addicted
to smoking, which produced results SINH
lar to those well-knOwn to small boys who
begin the habit with strong cigars. Sam
son suggests that he was saved, as two
other men that he met among the savages
were, in order to get reward from
passing steamers. The reason given is
hardly satisfactory. In all probability
the savages had at the time no cold mis-
sionary in the pantry, and thought that
with little fattening he would make a
choice dish, either roast or corned. u
timately he escaped with some other
Indians who encamped on the same
shore, and was rescued by the Pacific
liner Aconcagua, which conveyed him to
Valparaiso, whence he reached England
The tribe of Indians by whom he was
rescued belonged to the Patagonian
shore. Steamers of the North Pacific
line are in the habit of stopping to con-
ciliate the tribe with food and tobacco,
so as to induce them to save the lives of
any poor fellows who may be wrecked.
He thus accounts for being brought off
to the vessel and adds that the occa-
sional treachery of the Indians results
from the i'll treatment they have had to
put up with at the hands of the whites. -
~ Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Value OF New York Bank Stock.

One of the best tests of the financial
condition of the metropolis is the value
OF bank shares, some of which may be
given as follows: The North River has
advanced from par to ia, and the Park,
which was also down to par, is now 1873.
The Phoenix has risen from SO to 10l.
The Bank of New York, which is the
Oldest in the city, stands 145. The I'M
porters' and Traders is quoted at 155,
the City is 26l. while the Chemical has
reached the dizzy height of 1852. The
latter presents the most remarkable ex-
pansion in the records of finance. Its
capital is only 100000, being divided
into 5000 shares of 500 each. At the
present quotations this capital is worth
So, 856,0OO This, | repeat, is unequaled
in the history of banking.
The Chemical is the great note buyer
of the metropolis. Having surplus of
$1,000, 900 and an average of deposits of
nearly double that amount, it is ready to
discount or purchase all the good paper
that can be offered. At any time from
twelve o'clock to two o clock you can see
the note brokers rushing into the Cash
ier's rooms to display their array of
names, over which he rapidly glances
and checks off all that meet his ap-
prOval. Business is done rapidly, and
transaction of S250,00O may be finished
in fifteen minutes. Year after year the
Chemical has been buying paper, and
its former President John Q. Jones)
could call off the gilt-edged names as
readily as he could repeat the alphabet.
He knew all the first-class men in the
city, and they were always under a close
surveillance which insured the bank
against loss. As soon as any man paper
was offered too freely suspicion was at
one aroused, and purchases were
stopped. The question always before
him was how much paper the gilt-edged
houses were issuing, and this could
easily be learned by the offering made
by the brokers. Hence the Chemical
made but few losses, though its pur-
chases were estimated at S50,000,000 a
year. Out of town banks frequently in
vest their funds in the same manner, the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank, of AL
bany, being the oldest and most extensive
of this class. There are a half dozen
| first-class note brokers who clear from
$4,000 to So, 900 per year, and a score of
smaller men could be mentioned who
make living at the business.-M. Y.
| Letter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

was called up. In the emergency he
replied: Here we have an example of
word in English taken almost without
change from the Greek. Edipus being
in desperate circumstances, called loudly
Police! Policer"
Professor in mechanics at Brown:
.'Now, Mr.. g., what was the first phe-
nomenon noted in connection with the
force of gravity" (Mr. G. hesitates and
B. prompts G. y ''Adam fell"
Professor in Shakesperian reading at
Union; You have not told us how Mae
beth appeared to his wife?' Senior
Yes, but you asked me to tell you how
he appeared to others, and you know he
and his wife were One.'
Freshman, transIating Tacitus: They
protracted their sleep till late in the day"
Professor: "What is the objection to
that?" Freshman: "Well, really, never
could see any myself"
Student in moral philosophy: doctor,
who was that Scotch philosopher con-
temporary with Reid, named Douglas
somebody or other?" Professor: ''Du-
gald Stewart" Student: 80, yes!
knew there was Dug. somewhere about
it, but couldn't get the right focus on
him"
Scene in the class in Green's English
History Student--"Do you wish me
to describe the character of the King"
Professor-"Yes." Student-"Heh hadn't
any character.
Professor in History 'Methuselah
lived until the time of the flood" c.
"Then he was drowned, was hep"
''No, Mr.. f., you can not leave the
room. Intermission was intended to
break this thing up" "Well, profess
sor, that's why | want to go. Intermis-
sion has broken me up"
"Mr. W., L should like to have you
answer one question this term"
Eyes, sir. -SprtngfeId Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Took a Tumble.

A farmer and his wife came riding
into town the other day in a big two
horse wagon, and the woman carried in
her arms baby wrapped up in an old
bed quilt. As there was a good deal
more bed quilt than baby the little one
slipped out and tumbled unhurt into a
soft place in the street, and the couple
logged on serenely unconscious that any
thing was wrong until bevy of small
boys chased after them yelling:
Say, mister, you have lost some
thin"
Don't look round" said the woman,
nudging her husband. ''It's them city
boys, and they allus act jest So"
Say! missis, be this yours?' shouted
the boys in chorus.
"Hain't You dropped nothin', Sue?"
inquired the farmer, anXiously.
"No, / haven't answered his wife,
This amt the fust of Aprile, is it? It's
jest them city young'uns up to their
tricks" she continued, shifting the bed
quilt little, then as she felt its empti-
ness-"Lord MASSEY, where's the baby
gone to?'
They both looked back and then saw a
crowd of boys swarming at the end of
the wagon, and in their midst happy,
dusty baby delighted with the situation.
1t didn't take them long to recover the
youngster, and, wrapping it more Sc
curely in its patchwork, they logged on
again. Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
For Young Readers.
THE PUPPY IND THE BONE.


dear, it's very hard, indeed, to sit here pa
tiently,
And see that heartless little girl eat chicken
for her teal
She don't know how to take hint, for have
said "Bow-wow,"
And no one could look hungrIer than l am
looking now.
n surely is drum-stick that she's holding in
her hand,
If had that I'd be the happiest puppy in the
land!
l wonder if she hears me crying softly through
I'd yelp out if 1 dared but it would never do
s'pose.
Ma had some meat like that one day, and l
gnawed it, but since then
She's watched me, and I've never had a single
chance again.
I've dreamed of it sometimes !-ydp!-ud
Twould move IA heart of stone,
That I'm too old for bread ana milk, and yet
too young for bone.
Perhaps if should come up near, and play d
little trick,
My mistress would throw down bite; but no.
49, Twill make him sick
That what she always says, and she laughs at
my big head and feet
Twould serve her right if should go ana get
lost in the street.
look 30 young, she often says-as if she didn't
tool
There comes bone! I whned so hard, lido be-
leve she knew.
My, what nose! With teeth like that pug
like me deserves
Something beyond such trashy stuff as pickles
and preserves.
Clara Louise Burnham, in st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

But after putting the flowers in the vase
her eyes fell on Maggie's breakfast
How poor and unappetizing the corn
meal mush with its drop of blue skim
milk looked to Alice. who remembcred
the tempting trays her mother prepared
for her when she was not well. She
opened her lung h-basket and took out a
custard in cup which was packed in
beside the sandwiches and cake.
Here" she said, mora bakes one
for me most every morning early so as
to have it. cool. I've got plenty be-
sides"
After that the choicest morsel from
the basket was many time left with
Maggie. never known to Alice's mother
for the little girl knew that if it were
more good things would be put in, and
her kindly little heart was learning dear
ly to prize its little labor of love for the
Masters sake alone. She brought the
book of the Language of Flowers" to
Maggie, who whiled away many a weary
hour in spelling out the fanciful mean
ings given to the precious things which
brought such brightness into her shad-
owed little life. And Alice before long
found her way to the "poor body next
door who had nobody to be good to
her.
Your flower-mission lasts very late
in the season, Alice" some one said.
meeting the sweet-faced little lassie as
she carried bunch of white chrysan-
themums to Maggie, knowing she would
hunt in her book till she found their
language was ''Truth.n
"-H9 tower-mission" Alice looked
up with an astonished smile as the
speaker passed on. She had never
dreamed before that she had a flower
mission of her own. --Syd1aey Dayre, in
ChicaQO Standard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

"A San Francisco policeman who got
nothing but curses for rescuing a would
be suicide from watery grave is said to
have soliloquized "If you are crazy the
world won't miss you; if you are not
crazy and want to put at end to yourself
YOU are fool not tit 70 live. | ought to
throw you in again" Which he did, and
the lamp of the once rescued man y life
went out beneath the salty water OF the
bay.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

In jacksonville, Fla, there lives an
Egyptian by the name of SIN tn On
the Nile he was known as Hamet Nous
er, and his father was Captain of the
turkish man-of-war Domiteer. He
came to this country w>an fifteen years
ca with an American family and set
tied IN Utica, N. Y. Joining the Con-
hecucut volunteers during the rebellion,
ne went to the front, and by the vi is
STUDIES OF war was thrown into Florida.
brief visit
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

An article is going the rounds en-
titled How to Make Home Happy"
The article doesn't state that the follow
ing is the way, but it is, though, just the
same. One grand piano, $1,000; opera
tickets, $50; summer at Newport, 1000;
sealskin sacque. $3.50; tea gowns, $500;
season tickets for opera, $500; fashion
able iewelry, $4,000; fashionable dogs,
$500; sundries, $4,000 Total, 1874, POO.
plcE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

The Shore Line express, on the Bos
Ton " Providence Railroad. recently
made the run between those cities in
hity-lour minutes. On a certain stretch
OF ten miles speed of eighty miles an
hour was attained.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-01

mixed 56057c: Pennsylvania, 5506sc. provis-
ions closed firm: Ness pork, SIS 500IS75. Bulk
meats-shoulders and clear rib sides PACKED.
SIC and 111xc. Becon-shoulders9l fc: clear rib
l2S4c. Coffee quiet; RIO csrgoes ordinarv TO
fais: S1x0e16c. angs- steady; SOFT. 9zk,
Whisky irm at 81 q. Freights Unchanged
NEW ORLxAss. April 2s-Flour quiet but
o. .. Corn dull; yellow and white, CSC. Oats
easier; prime, &c; choice. SIC. Provisions
FORK lower; mess. $l9 bid, Si9 25 asked.
Lard closed quiet; refined in tierces 11l6c: in
kegs, 12c. Bulk meats scarce and firm; Shout
Qers, packed. 75c. Bacon quiet; shoulders,
s Csc; clear rib and long clear lower at II 40c
Hams, sugar cured, scarce and firm; can
vased, 139Jl3A according to size and brand.
Whisky firm; Western rectihed, 81 05N1 90
Coffee quiet but steady; Rio cargoes, ordinary
to prime, s16G1lc. Sugar, yellow clarified lower
at 61f0S9Ec. Molasses duh and UNCHANGED
Rice steady; Louisiana. ordinary to choice ga
75zc. Bran dull and lower, 81 30.
ST. LOUIE. April 29-F1our quiet and un
changed. Wheat opened lower, advanced, but
closed weak and a shade off from highest
point; No. red fall, 81 s31l for cash; 81 80
for May. Corn a shade better, closed pretty
firm; 74Ac for cash; re for May: 715sc for
June. Oats hiaher Sac Whisky firm at 81 10
Provisions higher: Pork. mess SIS 30 bid for
cash and April; SIS 32l< bid for May. Bulk
meats higher; car lots of shoulders at 25c:
snort RIO, 10 SOc; short clear, 10 zoe. Lard dull
LoUIsvILLE, April 29-Provisions quiet: Mess
pork, sig 25- Bulk meats-shoulders, 371<c;
clear rib, 10 40c; clear sides, 10 s5c. Bacon
shoulders, Sasc; clear rib, 1880; clear Sides
i2c. Hams, sugar cured. 1S1k0i4c. Lard firm (;
cholce leaf, 1910. Flour in fair demand:
nominally unchanged; extra family, IS $50
575; No. /. IS 2o06 IS: patent. s. OO0S IS;
choice 10 fancy. 50 7507 rs. Grain dull and
nominal: Wheat, No. 2 red winter, 81 2S11 80.
CornoNo- white, S0n6lc; No. 2 mixed, IS q
79c Oats-mixed, sec
WTLAIsaToS. April 29.-Spfrfts turpentine
firm at Sic Rosin firm at 81 IS for strairsd,
and 81 go for good strained Tar firm at R2 TO-
Corn steady; prime white, 971kc; mixed, 93c
CHARLESTON, April 29-Spirits turpentine
quiet; small sales at ACC but held at Soc Rosia
unchanged; strained and good strained, So 0O0
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-01
The Channel Tunnel.
Mem York World. 18Th


Mr. Ernst Won Hesse- Wartegg lectured
last night in the hall of the Academy Of
Medicine under the auspices Of the
Academy of Sciences. His topic was
''The Submarine Tunnel Between Eng
land and France" In 1874, he said,
when the project was first talked of,
many objections were urged, but no one
thought Of any political opposition. 1t
was simply the solving of the problem
of connecting a country with thirty mil
lions of inhabitants and nations with two
hundred and fifty millions. The width
to be tunnelled was twenty-five miles
across the narrowest part of the chan
mel between Dover and Calais. The
first consideration was the charac
Ter of the rock through which the tunnel
would run. At the bottom Of the chan
mel was bed of chalk. Not homoge
neOus, because there were to be great
assures in it. But it was believed that
these assures had been filed up with
stones, gravel and silt, and were not,
therefore, regarded as being great Obsta-
cles. Tunnels under the water were no
new thing. Through the chalk bed the
channel tunnel was to be driven $50
feet below high-water level. 1t had
been supposed that the water might seep
through and fill the tunnel, but expert
ments had shown this to be an impossi-
bility. The tunnel itself will run from
the centre down towards each shore at
an incline of 1 to 2,640. Four miles
from each end it will begin an ascent on
grade of one to eighty. So that a
train will run down from England four
miles, then up to the centre, then down
again to within four miles of France,
then up again to the station. Any
water collecting will run down into sinks
from which it may be pumped to the
surface. The size Of the tunnel will be
Is by 25 feet It will be cased with brick
and a space left for what water does
come in to run down the outside of the
brick tube into a canal at the bottom.
The brick tube will have two tracks.
The lecturer gave an interesting descrip
ton of the machine used. The chalk to
be removed would make a pyramid as
large as the great pyramid in Egypt and
about {, 800 working days will be requir.
ed to complete the undertaking. 1t is
estimated that the receipts will be from
passengers, $3.50, 900; from freight $780,
900; from mail, $50 900, or 81. 200, 900
in all. Expenses at 40 per cent, e468,
600, leaving e732, 000 which is equal to
II per cent. on e10, 900. 900 capital. The
lecturer alluded at some length to the
the opposition the project had receiv-
ed from the people and concluded amid
general applause.