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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-23
OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that the sub
~ scriber has been duly appointed Executor Of
the last will and testament of
W1LLOUGHBY TAYLOR, late of idney,
In the county of kennsbcc, deceased. testate, and
has undertaken that by giving bond ms the
directs. All persons, therefore, having demands
against the estate of said deceased are desired TO
exhibit the same for settlement and all indebted to
SAID estate requested to make immediate payment
to JOHN TILTON.
Feb. IL, 1888. 3Wss
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-23
THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBS co.
II BARCLAY ST., N. Y.
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(No. 2071)
Mail Lettings.
Notice to Contractors.
Post Office Department,

Washington. u. c., March /, 1883.
PROPOSALS will be received at the
Contract Office of this Department
until P. NJ. of April 81, 1888, for
carrying the mails of the United States
upon the routes, and according to the
schedule of arrival and departure
specified by the Department, in the
State Of Maine from July |, 1888, to
June 30, 1885. Lists of routes, with
schedules of arrivals and departures,
to bidders, with forms fol
contracts and bonds, and all other
necessary information will be furnish
ed upon application to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General.
T. o. HOWE,
Postmaster General.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-23

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the sub
~ scrber has been duly appointed Admin ator
on the estate of
GEORGE G. CLARK. late Of Va palboro,
In the County Of kenneb.c, deceased, interstate, and
has undertaken that trust by giving bond the laS
directs AN persons, therefore, having demands
against the estate Of sad deceased are desired TO
exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted
10 said estate requested to make immediate pay
meni to WIN A. AUSTIN.
Feb L. 1897 sWts
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AND CoMMERCIAL

New York MOneV Mafkets
EventaS Report.
NEW YORK. Feb. 81.
Money loaned between from to 81 and closed At 3
Prime Mercantile paper. s . g. Exchange steady
81 for long, and S5i for shOrt Governments strong
State bonds neglected. Railroad strong.
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To Let
U'dnteti.

NVANTED.-Lady and Gentlemen school teach.
w ers and Others of energy and good address, To
act rs travelling and local agents in permanent,
IT possible, or write to J h. CHANDLiR, corner
Patterson and Pearl ots., Augusta. decssit
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
How to Settle Love Ouarrels.

In the Crimea two Tartars quarrel
led on account of their common sweet
heart, and they agreed to settle their
troubles in their own way. Without
any artificial weapons, they met each
other as the bucks do, striking each
other with their foreheads. They
made half dozen rounds; blood
flowed from both of them, yet neither
OF the Tartars would yield. After an
other furious round, one of them fell
down exhausted. Being crazed by de-
feat, he drew his knife and cut his
throat on the spot. The winner,
crowned with a wreath of bumps, re-
paired to his sweetheart, whom he
now possesses alone.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
The French President at Home.

Making jam is one of the favorite
holiday recreations of President Gre
Wy, according to the Paris Figaro,
which tells us that the head of the re-
public may frequently be seen in his
kitchen at MISUNDERSTANDING envel-
oped in large blue apron, and skim
ming preserves over the fire. Every
thing in the presidents country home
is of the plainest description. Sport
ing trophies ornament the dining
room, the drawing-room is scantily
furnished in red damask, and even the
boudoir of the presidents daughter,
Madame Wilson, contains no pretty
feminine nick-nacks, but is full of fire.
arms, and collections of coins and in
sects. M. Grevy's study is hung with
an ugly green paper, and the walls are
covered with books; while the bust of
Voltaire surmounts the clock. When
not engaged in his favorite pastime of
shooting, NJ Grevy strolls about the
neighborhood in an old blue cotton
coat and big straw hat, talks to every
peasant he meets carefully esche wing
politics, however land delights to take
children on his knee to recite to them
one of La Fontaine's fables.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29

a stick of wood burned on the sur
face mostly passes off in gas, leaving
only the ashes: but the same stick, if
burned in a coal pit, excluded from
the air, forms a mass of carbon of
nearly or quite its original size. Now,
all decay Of vegetable matter is a slow
combustion. and when this is done I'M
der the soil not only are the gases re-
tanned in the soil, but more carbon is
formed, and this carbon has the power
to appropriate The valuable gases al
ways present in the atmosphere. The
great value of clover as a fertilizer is
due, first to the carbon furnished by
the decay of the plant, and second to
the fine mechanical effects on the soil,
which renders it porous, so that the at
mospherc penetrates it and deposits
plant-iood. 1t is clear that better fer
tilizing effects will result from the
ploughing down of the crop to decay
in the soil. Ordinarily more can be
made out of the tops than they are
worth for manure, and, if rightly man
aged, the roots will supply the needed
fertility .-PeRnsylcania Farmer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
An English Picture.

The fish markets at Shrewsbury and
the other cities were full of fine fish
fresh from these rivers. The reason
is that there is strict system Of pres
ervation. There are times when net
ting is allowed, and rod-fshing in the
season is permitted on application; but
the American method of scOoping out
the contents of river in one year,
and of indiscriminate and improvident
consumption, is not tolerated. At all
the railroad stations in this vicinity
you see fishermen with rod and reel,
and, of course, waterproof overcoats,
on their way to or from the river
With all the abundance, however, the
salmon is not so very cheap. 1t brings
shilling, or twenty-five cents a
pound, in the markets, and regret to
say they do not seem at the hotels to
know how to cook it. As a rule, they
fry it. When they undertake to boil
it, they stop before it is half done, and
thus save coal, and fish also, for that
matter. This, though, is the only
hasty act | have yet discovered. AS
rule, as much time as possible is con-
sumed at whatever is done. For in
stance, they pronounce Hereford in
three svllables, instead of two which
can be accounted for on no other
ground than to use up time.
The place itself, however you pro-
nounce it, is one to be heartily enjoy
ed. Here, for the first time, we put
up at a real English inn-the Green
Dragon. 1t was neat as wax, and save
for the boot-black and porter, differed
throughout by women. The clerk was
young woman; the bar was tended
by two neat and tidy maids with
pretty white caps, and the bar-room
was as quiet and orderly as parlor.
1t is possible thus to pass judgment
upon it without tasting the liquors,
because with its flowers, its easy
chairs, its big, open chimney, and its
opportunity to smoke there, it was the
cosiest room in the house. 1t certain
ly offered most suggestive contrast
to the bar of an American saloon.
Here there was no vulgar talk, no spit
ting on the floor, no profanity or filth.
One man after another, and one group
after another, would drop in and order
their drink, oftener whisky than any
other, and would drink it, chat bit,
and, with Il pleasant goodnight, 60
out. At home such a room is scene
of riot, confusion and profanity, noisy,
and indecent. Perhaps it is better
that it should be 50, but am only
drawing contrast and not a moral. -
English Cor. Hartford, CT, Courunt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
ApDiyinE Manure.

+. c. Griffin Of Vermont, writes to
the Mirror: In the application of
fertilizers find a difference of opinion,
some advocating spreading and plow-
ing under, while others think it best
to leave it on or near the surface.
think the manner depends on the kind
of crop to be raised and the kind of
soil to which it is to be applied. If a
crop of roots or clover, and corn even,
whose roots extend to a considerable
depth below the surface, is to be raised
it might be well to pillow under por-
ton of the manure; but from my eX-
perience, it would be better to leave
the largest portion near the surface
for most crops. as manures are rend-
cred more soluble by the action of
water and air, and therefore better
fitted as food for the different plants
to which they are applied. BY many
the practice has been adopted of draw
ing barnyard manure and spreading
both on grass and plowed land the last
of winter or early spring. From my
experience and observation / am salts
fed that it is a good plan, as the action
of the frost and melting snow causes a
more thorough disintegration and it
fits it better as plant food for the COM
ing crop.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
working Butter.

Butter that Mas been well washed in
pure cold water until the buttermilk is
all extracted, will not require the eX-
cessive working so often necessary to
take out the buttermilk when not
washed. Butter thus washed will be
less liable to have the oily look which
it gets often by too much working, es-
pecially If done with the hand. 1t
will require less salt to keep it, and
will have the fine waXen appearance
that forms so great apart of the attrac-
tiveness Of the "gilt-edge' butter.
Great care shoulLbe taken to have the
water pure and of temperature not
exceeding forty-eight degrees, about
the temperature of cold well-water,
and it will be still better if little ice
used and the temperature lowered
TO forty degrees.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29

The Prince of Monaco, feeling that
the day is not distant when the COM
bined efforts of France and Italy will
prove too much for him, has offered
his principality to the former country
for S2,OOO,0O0. By the convention Of
1850, the principally passes direct to
the French government in the event
OF the present line dying out. The
prince. although he received $780,
ooo for his right in the gambling es.
adjustment only last year, is in finan-
clal straits again, chiefly on account of
the Hamilton litigation, which costs
enormously. The Monaco concession
to the Blancs does not expire until
l9lO, and Nine. Blanc is naturally
nervous about the remaining time Of
her tenure, for the French government
VIII not recognize its liability to her
any more than Germany did to its
hells at the time of the unifcation.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29

Few persons who wear watch
know how to take care of it. 1t is a
most delicate piece of machinery, and
yet more is expected of it, without
care and attention, than of Il steam en-
CINE or any other piece of machinery
We oil the engine or sewing machine
or whatever it may be, keep it free
and clean from dirt and exposure. but
our watches are frequently let run as
long as they will keep ticking, and
then when they suddenly cease to beat
we wonder why they have stopped
Could an engine or sewing machine be
run five, six or even eight years with.
out oil, or cleaning, or attention? Ger.
tainly not A watch should be clean.
ed and oiled not less frequently than
once in two years, once year is not
too often. If this is done it will last O
life time, and, if good article, may
be handed down to several generations
Neglected, it will wear out and become
worthless in a few years. Just think
of your watch making $4,000 beats ar
hour, $4,000 a day, and 15s,6S0,00 4
year. Is there any other piece of ma
chinery doing the same amount OF
work that really has so little care ant
attention and costs so little to keep in
orderP
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
How to SpOii Things.

To spoil eak-fry it.
TO spoil tea or coffee-boil it.
TO spoil custard-bake it too long.
To spoil pies--make them too rich.
Tospoil house. plants-water them
too much.
To spoil butter-do not work out
all the milk.
To spoil a carpet sweep it with a
stiff half worn broom.
TO spoil pancakes bake them on a
lukewarm griddle.
TO spoil a breakfast--grumble all
the while you are eating.
TO spoil potatoes let them lie and
soak in water after boiling.
TO spoil bread-use poor flour and
sour yeast and let it rise until too light
and it runs over.
To spoil scissors-cut everything
from a sheet of paper to a bar of cast
iron.
To spoil garments in making-cut
them out carelessly and run all the
seams.
To spoil school-change teachers
every time some one in the district
finds fault.
TO spoil children --humor them to
everything they happen to think they
want
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29

A veterinary surgeon, on the ques-
ion of feeding ashes to horses, gave
the following answer: 81 have been a
long time combating with the use of
salt and ashes. Why men will persist
in feeding ashes cannot see If asked
what good effect they have on horse
their most sanguine advocate cannot
tell, neither can |. One thing do
know is that those who feed the stuff
would not dare to hold a finger in I've
very long at a time. If the salt is
left out, the poor brute will exhibit
more sense than his owner by refusing
the ashes alone. ! would never think
of administering ashes to horse I'M
til | had been convinced that it had
some good effects which is quite i'm
probable. Quit its use and assure
you you will not regret it," 1t is a
common practice in the West to feed
ashes with salt regularly to swine, and
if there has been any bad effects farm
crs have been unable to discover it. But
the hogs stomach may not be proof
against the corroding influence of I've,
while the horse is not. Home JOeunQL
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29

The COW must be well fed. 1t is not
enough to feed COW all the hay she
can eat. Generally it is not advisable
to feed a mich COW on all the hay she
can eat, Hay is dillicultto digest, and
II as much is fed as the COW can eat the
digestive organs will be burdened to
such an extent that the animal cannot
digest enough nutriment to enable her
to yield as large a flow of milk as she
otherwise could. In regard to this
matter, Professor l.. b. Arnold says:
"The slow and imperfect manner in
which common hay digests is and an
objection to using it to the extent
many dairymen do as the main food
for the dairy. 1t is often the boast
that cows have all the hay they can
eat, and it is a boast that does not
speak well for the largest returns.
Hay will not allow of the best returns
in milk production. Dried grass will
do very well; but common hay would
require an amount burdensOme for q
cow to carry, an amount beyond the
capacity of her stomach, to yield the
material for a good flow Of milk with.
out drawing on her store of flesh to
produce it. The more | study the food
of milch COWS. the more | am inclined
to limit the quantity of hay to the
smallest amount which will afford
comfortable distention of the stomach,
and make up the rest of the ration
with food richer and more rapidly di-
gested. 1t is the best way to get large
and paying returns" 1T is not adyis.
able to give cow all the hay she will
eat even when she is fed with grain to
a considerable extent. She will take
in more food than her digestive organs
can properly digest, and portion will
be wasted. by feeding only enough
hay to produce a comfortable disten-
ton of the digestive organs, the re-
digestive power can be eX-
pended on more easily digested food,
and thus enable the cow to yield a
larger flow of milk. If the hay used
is early cut or dried grass" it will be
permissible to feed it more freely
than late cut hay. - MaSSachusetts |
PloloNan.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

There are more than 5000 brass
bands in the United States.
The old smiths had a tradition that
the best sword blades should be cool
ed in mountain streams.
International military races are to
be held at Vienna next year for Off
GERS of all the standing armies in
Europe.
Lieutenant Switzerland, Of the Brit
ish army, is eight feet four inches
high, and weighs about three hundred
and sixty-four pounds.
The most costly pharmaceutical
preparation in the market is the Dres-
den ergotine, the active principle Of
ergot of rye. The manufacturers
price is $3.50 grain.
The dome of the new Paris observa-
tory will be floated in trough filled
with an aqueous solution of chloride Of
magnesium, which will not freeze,
and will preserve the equilibrium of
the dome even if the building should
settle unequally.
1t is estimated that Pennsylvania
has coal enough to supply the demand
for three centuries. The total anthra-
cite area before mining commenced
was 100000 square miles. Allowing
1000 tons to the acre, a foot in depth
would give 320,000,O0O tons. Assum-
ing that the depth averages thirty feet
it gives grand total of 9,600,OOO,OOO
tons. At the present time the con-
sumption averages about 30,OO0,OOO
tons a year.
London jewelers. have been making
IL remarkable ring for the king of
Siam, which is to be used by his maj
esty only once year, and then as
head of the Buddhists in Eastern
India. The central stone is one and
one-fourth inch in diameter, and is en-
circled by a ruby, an emerald sap
phire, and five other stones. The
is described as light and ele-
giant, though strong. Emblems of the
Buddhist faith are displayed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
Value of Fertilizers.

George II. Cook, director of the New
Jersey Agricultural experiment sta.
ton, gives analyses and valuations of
complete manures and special ferti-
lizers sold in that state. In this bulle-
tin Professor Cook reminds his real
ers of fact often overlooked, which
is, that fertilizers do not always return
to the farmer benefits that are equiva-
lent to their cost in market. In a
word, the agricultural value may differ
widely from the market value.
In the selection of fertilizer the
fact is gradually coming to be recog-
nized, that each crop requires larger
amount of some one of the fertilizing
constituents than it does of the other;
that in q fertilizer for wheat large
amount of nitrogen combined with
phosphoric acid and potash can be used
with profit, while in a fertilizer for
corn an equal amount of nitrogen
would probably result in loss; that fer
tilzers for potatoes and tobacco
should contain an abundance of potash
and that large quantities of phosphoric
acid generally yield profit on turnips,
while, on the contrary, nitrogen has
very little beneficial effects on clover
and other leguminOus crops.
Questions of this nature must be
studied by field trials. When once set.
tied by each farmer how much nitro
gen, phosphoric acid, potash, ETC., he
can profitably use on each crop, the
valuation as given in this bulletin will
enable him topurchase what is required
at the most favorable prices. Farmers
are advised 10 avail themselves of the
station valuations as protection
against excessive charges.--Ne,o York
World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
A PugnaciOus Sailor.

Lord BereStOrd Is small IN stature,
careless, easy-going follow, with good
face and bright eyes He is brother
of the marquis of Waterford, and be-
longs to family of fighters. William
the son selected for the army service,
would sooner scufile than eat. 1t is
nothing to hear that one of the Beres-
fords has broken a bone. Charles
William de la Poer Beresford, the
naval captain, is u favorite of the
Prince of Wales, because he is zone of
the boys About his face and head
he resembles Lord Byron, and has the
shoulders of an athlete. Several
times he has jumped overheard and
saved some of his men. William
Beresford is said to like nothing better
than to prowl about of an evening
with some other military officer, put
their caps in their pockets, turn up
their collars, enter saloon, and engage,
unrecogniAed, in rough-and-tumble
fight with priyates.
"A great social and diplomatic scan
dial has just TRANSFERRED from the actions
of Lord Charley" NJ. Washington,
the French minister to London, was
given Il special entertainment and
dinner at the house of noble lady at
her summer retreat at Cowes, on the
isle of Wight. The occasion was
graced by the presence of the Prince
of Wales. The French minister was
accompanied by Admiral Keppel.
Everything went well and merrily
until after the ladies retired from the
table and the cigars and light wines
were brought in for the gentlemen.
The conversation soon drifted to the
Chinese war and then a debate was
started by Lord Charles Beresford upon
the merits of the English and French
navies. The hero of Fort Merv grew
warm with wine, and he gradually be-
came very offensive in his remarks.
The efforts of the Prince of Wales and
others to check him into decorum
served only to make him pugnacious.
He fell to ridiculiag the entire French
fleet, and wound up with the state
ment that he could take the Condor,
the little gunboat with which he nosed
around Fort Merry during the bonn
bardment of Alexandria, and chase
the whole French feet in Chinese
waters away from the Amman coast.
NJ Washington considered Lord Beres-
ford's conduct so extremely insulting
that he arose from the table, demanded
his carriage, and actually left the
house. The hostess followed him, and
by the most earnest solicitations. final
ly persuaded him to refrain from going
to a hotel and to re enter the house.
In the meantime the British officers
present compelled Beresford to leave
the place, and such was the noble lords
resistance of this treatment that his
ejectment practically amounted to
being kicked out. Every effort was made
to hush up the matter but nothing
could suppress M. Waddington's indig'
nant denunciations of the treatment to
which he had been subjected, and the
affair is the scandal of London.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-29
Tricks in the Markets.

Cut this out and run it over prepar.
atory to marketing:
Oranges are occasionally boiled tc
make them larger.
Dried peas are soaked to initiate the
fresh, green article.
Samples of nuts or fruit cracked OF
cut and exposed are not at all truthful,
The best or biggest fruit is always
on the top of the box or basket.
Observe if your butcher allows
your meat to remain on the spring bal.
ance scales until the scales have ceas.
ed to culver and the index is station
airy.
The markets are full Of these little
tricks of the trade. They come OF
generations of study and practice,
and as Il rule in buying any kind of ar.
ticle, if you find the dealer putting up
package out of sight look out for
some kind of shave.
In the pyramids and regular EN-
bankments of oranges the best are al
ways in front, while the dealer fills
your paper bag with the poorer ones
concealed in the rear.
Keep your eye on the dealer when
he fills your banana paper bag, for il
your glance wanders moment he
deftiy casts in from poorer lot close
at hand. ,e-a:5sf
Look at the nice, fiat punches of eel.
cry and you find the greener and
tougher stalks in Its rear.