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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11

In a letter printed in the Tribune
Mr.. Porter continues to expose free-trade
fallacies. Under protective tariff the
wooden industry of Germany has been
steadily increasing, while the same indus
try in free.trade England has been as
steadily decreasing. The difference is
the more striking because Germany was
decreasing her wooden exports previous to
the adoption Of protection tariff. Since
that time the home produce has been
enormously increased, imports have large
ly fallen off and the export trade has been
almost double. As the figures show,
Germany under protection has come near
or by 5000, 900 to supply her own
wants and yet can manufacture cheaply
enough to increase her foreign market
s30 900 900. On the other hand Eng
land has lost s76, 900, 900 of her foreign
trade in the same class of goods, and
increased her importation Of them to the
value of about $4,000, 900. These are
solid facts, the importance of which is
heightened by the knowledge that during
the same time there has been great I'M
proyemeht in the wages of Germany.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11
The diamond fields of South AfricI

line diamond nelus OF cOutn Alrica
produce large quantities Of yellow dia-
monds. Their color, of course, lessons
their value, white diamond being worth
five or six times as much as yellow one
Of the same weight. 1t was recently re-
ported that method Of changing the OBJ
jectionable color had been discovered.
f" Such,' says the London Truth, sis
the case, but the important addition has
to be made that the yellow reappears at.
ter a slight washing, as some French
merchants have lately found out to their
cost, after purchase, at a high price, Of
some perfectly white diamonds. The
method is simple application of the
law Of complementary colors. The yell
low diamond is put in some violet solu-
ton, A slight coating of violet sufices
to render diamonds Of the most pro-
nounced yellow tint perfectly white"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11
NOn-ReSident Taxes,

In the town OF Bethel, in the County Of OK
ford, for the year 1852.
The following II Il of taxes on real estate OF non
re.ilent owners in the town OF Bethel for the
ear lss2 In bills committed 10 T. II. Chapman,
collector OF sad town. on the 2Sd day Of June,
isss has been returned by him TO me ~ remain
ing unpaid on the 23d day OF June, 1873
by his certificate OF that date and now remain I'M
nsid notice is hereby given that fthe said taxes in
terest and charges are not paid Into the Treasury
of said town, within eighteen months from the
date OF the commitment OF the said bills, so much
OF the real estate taxed as VIII De sumcient 70
nav the amount due therefor including interest and
Charges will without further notice be sold at pub
lie auction al the Treasurer's office in said town,
on the sth day OF JAnuary lisa, &C O'Clock In
the afternoon.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11
A RENDEZVOUS OF DUELISTS.

A RENDEZVOUS OF DUELlSTS.
One of the most noteworthy buildings
in the Rue du Jour, an old Paris street
now about to be demolished in order to
make room for the new post-office, is
large house which two hundred years
ago was known as the Hotel de Royal
mont, and which when it was occupied
by Francis de Montmorency Comte de
BotteviIle, became notorious as the rem
devious of all the duellists in'Paris. Ev-
cry morning those gentleman who had
managed to pick quarrels over night re-
sorted thither and were Hospitality enter
tanned by the eccentric count. If they
needed such things, they were supplied at
his cost with swords or rapiers, and then
they fought in one of the rooms, sur
geon who was a permanent retainer OF
the house, assisting and rendering all
requisite services. At midday, every
thing having been settled dejeuner was
announced, and NJ de Montmorency had
the pleasure of hearing his surviving
guests fight their battles over again
One morning, however, an unfortunate
affair happened. Two jealous ladies
came to the hotel, took some light re-
freshment, chose their rapiers, fought,
and managed to kill one another in the
salon, whereupon the police. thinking
that things had gone far enough. obliged
the count to close his establishment.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11

Kimbau Cross. part 20 "a s3 -
same school house tax, 80 30
John G. Tibbetts, II Ioo ~
lanes Wilbur, l0J lie
Heirs OF EIoridge Chapman,
real estate as described In 80
inventory. oU
same, undivided half of three
fourths OF FRYE LOT, - 20 &d
Same Undivided half OF e
hsk of Harris lot, ~ - sEo
ID. NJ. Co.'S or unknown, the
ID. NJ. Goss farm all east OF
road, ~. IL oi
Emery & Bradbury, the ID.
NJ Goes land. all west OF
road TO Beans corner, 3U D 10
Chas A. Mimbali, piece of
land described in inven-
soIon Coma 4 L. y. FArwell,
meadow lot. III on
Hiram Putnam, meadow %.
Thomas P. Blake, the Spot
ford place, 90 q
John Holt, a part of Is ~ -
same, school house tax, ~
Mrs j. L. spencer, house -,
lot on Church ST, %
Robert W. Baird, house lot
near /. p. Towns, 70
o. II. MASON, Treasurer of Bethel.
Bethel Aug. end 1888.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11
NUMBER SO.

days. Quite sum was thus added to
the amount already secured, and the re.
CURED subscription was at length COM
pleted. Houlton and Hebron acadmies
were selected as the two preparatory
schools, which, with Waterville CLASH
cal Institute should receive the aid of the
endowment fund
AS fast as the subscriptions were paid
Governor Coburn paid into the treasury
Of the University an equal sum for the
endowment Of Waterville Classical Insti-
tute. But there were some shrinkages,
and 1t was also necessary to pay the ex-
pense of raising the subscription from the
money thus secured The result was
that at the meeting of the trustees of
Colby University, held at Waterville,
October 2, 1882, it was ascertained that
about $4,000 were needed in order to
secure the full amount of Governor CO.
burns pledge. Governor Coburn stated
to the trustees that if this sum could be
secured he knew of a man who would
give the Classical Institute at Waterville
building to cost not less than $40, 900.
Here was new challenge to the Bap-
fists Of Maine, and the trustees appointed
committee consisting of President Pep
per, Rev. A. X. Crane, and Hon. p.
Bonney, to raise the $4,000. President
Pepper and Judge Bonney gave not a lit
tie time and strength to this work; but
the greater part Of the burden fell upon
one vino has learned how to bear heavy
burdens for the Baptists of Maine, and
DR.. Kicker at length gave himself TO
the task. 1t was his hope that the work
would be completed at the recent COM
at Colby University but the
Flying Yankee was too fast for him,
and generous as the subscriptions were
on that occasion so long as the time per-
mitted, yet at the close Of the dinner
about 81 900 were needed to make up
the full amount.
We now learn that this amount has
been secured and that Hon. f. c. Fitz
Of Boston is the man who has relieved
DR.. Kicker from the burden of anxiety
he has so long carried, and thus complet-
ed the work begun eleven years ago. OF
the Sl5 900 nearly two-thirds, we learn
have already reached the treasury OF the
University, and there is bright prospect
that about all the rest will be paid with
in the next two or three weeks. The
endowment fund of our three academies
will then amount to more than the one
hundred thousand dollars originally pro-
posed. Of this sum Governor Coburn
God bless him y gives $4,000, which
goes to Coburn Classical Institute
at Watervile and the balance, amount
ing in the final result to more than $780,
900, is given by great army OF donors,
nearly, if not quite, two
and goes to Hebron and Houl-
ton Academies, giving each abeut s3O-
900.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-09-11
Education and Employment
co M E r s
Commercial College,
666 Washington Street.
BOSTON, MASS.

nm nan prosperous Boston Blu 'iness Men OF to.
IbUlU day were trained for active business lite
az this Institution, and II is the only one whose
teachings stand the prac teal test Of the counting
room The course of study IL elective. and just
the one every young person should take before
entering business.
No Classes. Students received At any time.
Graduates aided 70 employment. The best
course of study the best teachers the best rooms,
the best everything. Send for the i3d Annu al
Catalogue.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18

When they come tripping in, we greet
them kindly with aninc-inch smile, give
them warm grasp of the hand and ask
them to be seated. Then they say ''cy-
clopedia," aud before they get their
sample case unlocked. we open on them
with little story about the western
farmer who told the book agent who
came to sell him encyclopedia that he
didn't want the darned thing because
he couldn't ride encyclopedias il he had
one. Tho agent demonstrates when we
begin to tell him this. and hs would say,
if he had q chance, that he has heard il
4. 637 times before, and that its recital
is fast sapping his young life away, but
VIC go right on giving him the story in
all its ghastly details just rs though it
was entirely new to him. BY the time
we are done the agent is going toward
the door, and when we intimate that we
have another story to tell him about
bssDk agent out west. he grabs his sam
nle case and runs. If everybody will
adopt this plan of dealing with the cy
clopedia agents, they can soon crush
ont the entire crop, and not disfigurc the
corpScs either. Middiet0Wn Transcript.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
Young Old Ladies'.

There are few old ladies in the fash
.ionable world nowadays, says The
World. and there need not be any.
Women triumphantly pass for IS who
have recently kept in commemoration
their 50th birthday. True. there are al
ways few friends with inconvenient
who could mention the exact
date on which the 35-year old bi-centen-
arian first opened her eyes to the light;
and then there is the record in the old
family bible. But, fortunately, the first
dare not tell, lest question be raised
rs to their own age; and as for the old
fashioned book, ike many other old
fashioned things, it is not priced rs an
antique and therefore does not adorn the
,drawing-room table or betray them.
In a word. women on the down-hill
path Of life may and do practice the art
of rejuvenation without fear or trem-
bling. Art completes with time, and
victory perches on the banner of the
restorative artists. Years in passing are
no longer permitted to mark their pro-
gress ON woman's visage with crow $
feet, wrinkles, scant locks, faded COM
plexion and toothless gums. Specialists
in the varied departments of rejuyena-
.tion are ready with preyentives and
restoratives Mt moment S warning. The
instant Il woman feels she is on the de-
cline, she has but to call in their aid
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
The Result of Ambition.

Competition is the soul of trade. A
case like the following, which happened
in an obscure village in Westphalia. de.
serves to be mentioned for its original.
ty, strikingly illustrative of the above
axiom. The selectmen of said village
proposed to give TO the lowest bidder
the privilege of cleaning the school
house and making the fires in the same
for one calendar year, a privilege for
which the incumbent had hitherto been
granted the round sum of II marks
per annum. This year competitor
came forward, and, after repeated IN
derbiddings. finally offered to do the
work free gratis for nothing, Unwill.
inc to be ousted, the party lin Office
thereupon actually agreed to pay
mark into the village treasury-nay,
went up to , marks, but was in the end
oyerbid by the persistent cflice-seeker,
who offered to pay marks SO pfennigs
for the incalculable privilege OF clean
inc and making the fires il the school
house. -Americd'. Register.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
No Such Person.

He had a hy-screen under one arm
and bunlle of sticky ily-paper under
the other as he entered a Michigan av-
enue saloon yesterday and Said
why don't you keep en- OUT
who wash dot?" asked the salOoniSt.
-4Mhv. the pesby flies. You've got
EN- by the thousand in here. and the
nv season has only begun. Shall put
hy-screens in the doorso'
What forpN
10 keep the flies out.
"Why should keep der flies ondt?
Flies like some shance to 60 aroundt
und See der city, same ash peoples. IL
fly sh kept oudt on der street all
der time he might ash Well be
horse.
Yes. bat they are o great nuisance.
I'll put you zap a screen door there for
81.
Not any for nue.. If fly WANTS to
come in here. uud he behaves himself
in n respectable manner, | have moth
iGgs to say ii he don't behave | bounce
him oudt pooty queek, und don't he
forget heri'
well, try this fly-paper Every sheet
will catch 500 flies
"Who WANTS to catch EN-?
Il do-you-e everybody"
Il don't see it like dot. If put dot
fv-paper on der counter somebody
comes along und wipes his nose NIT it,
or somebody leans his elbow on her
und vhalks off nit him. 1t would be
shust like my boy Shake to come in und
lick all der molasses of, to play shoEe
on his fadder. y
Say, I'll put down a sheet, and if it
doesn't catch twenty dies in five min
utes I'll say no more.
IF YOU catch twenty flies | have to
pry 'em loose nit a stick und let EN-
90, und dot vhas too much work. No,
my frendt; flies must have shance to
get along und take some comfort. |
vhas poor once myself, und | know all
about it., d"
"I'll give you seven sheets for ten
cents.
"Oxactly, but | won't do it. 1t looks
to me like shmall peesness for a big
man like you to 90 around nit some
confidence games to shwindle flies A
fly vhas born to be fly, und to come
into my beer saloon ash often ash he
likes. When he comes | shall treat him
| like shertleman. | elf him fair
show. | don't keep an AK to knock him
in der headt, und l don't put some mo-
lasses all oafer a sheet Of paper und
coax him to come und be all stuck up
nit his feet until he can't fly away. You
| can pass along-Tm no such person like
| lot. ~ Detroit Free Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
Crushing the Oyolopedia Agent

We have adopted new and entirely
successful plan to crush the smiling and
winsome agents who come tripping ever
and anon into our sanctum sanctorium
to sell US o cyclopedia in twenty-one
volumes at six dollars volume, one
volume free to editors. Heretofore we
have been in the habit of killing them
on the spot. We have not held converse
with them, nor waited for them to take
a specimen volume from their sample
case and proceed with deliberation and
sang fr0td to talk us to the verge Of
madness. We have risen up IN our
might and shirt sleeves and felled them
TO the floor with 4 chair or the decorat-
ed cuspidor or other convenient weapon
and have then called the cOmpositors
down to gather up the remains and lay
them away in the neat Office cemetery
in the back yard But this means Of
dealing with the smiling and winsome
cyclopedia agent has not been entirely
satisfactory. Occasionally the furniture
has been married, the compositors have
had 10 come down stairs to curry the
body when they could not well be spar
cd from their regular duties, and the
memory of the remains living about has
east gloom over US, as it were, so that
all the remainder of the day there was
vein Of melancholy in what we wrote
FOR these columns And. besides. some
times the cyclopedia agent was . large,
able-b bodied man whom it was not
healthy to crush. In such eases we
deemed it better to spare him. But, as
we said in the beginning, we have de-
l~ised an entirely new and original plan
of dealing with these winsome visitors.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
BLACK SILKS

or the best American and Lyons manufacture.
and in An Qualities at our usual LOW PRICES
for these goods,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18

Having greatly enlarged our silk Department,
making 1t one Of the largest and best lighted de
partments in this country, We have lately pur-
chased and are now showing an immense stock
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
ue,d heen raltzing via as most )

He'd been Waiting with his hosts
ugly elder daughter, and was in cor
ner repairing damages. Here ne was
espied by bis would-be Papaa-in-law,;;
"She is the flower Of my family, sir
said the latter. $50 it seems, answer
ed the young man. PITY she comes on
so, amt ito" be continued, s. he essay
ed another vigorous rub at the whlts
spots on his coat-sleeye.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
An Eyeto Bustness.

Prof c. X Moffett, the druggist, is always
wide-awake To business and spares no pains 10
secure the best o. every article in his line. He
has secured the agency for Kemp's Balsam for
Consumption, Coughs. Colds, Asthma, Broa-
chitis, and all affections of the throat and
lungs. Sold on 4 positive guarantee. Price
so cents and 81 90. 2lly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18

REMEMBER ]. A. Spratler keeps
everything usually kept in a first
class grocery store, which he sells
at very low prices, and guarantees
everything strictly pure.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18

A CARD.-The undersigned here.
by offers his services as teacher for
the coming fall and winter term of
school in any place.
Very respectfully,
ALBERT WILLIAMS.
Mineral Point Wis Aug 2.ird 1883,
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-05-10
SCIENCE.

BY wearing gloves made of asbestos
hot Goals and iron may doubtless be
handled with impunity, and this fact
offers suggestion to performers OF
sleight-of hand tricks.
The Lancet concludes that sewers
must not be ventilated by street graf.
ings, but only by pipes reaching above
tie houses, SO that the gases may min
gle with the higher strata of the atmos-
phere.
Nj. Fourmant has concluded a series
of exact experiments upon trichin9 in
meat He finds that to pack the dis
eased flesh in salt for fifteen months
does not kill the parasites; mice fed
upon the meat died of trichinosis.
The post-mortem examination of
mulatto who died recently in Cincinnati
revealed brain weighing sixty-one
ounces. There are on record but two
brains heavier than this--that of Cuvier,
weighing GA 33 ounces, and Aber-
crombie's, which weighed siXty-three
ounces.
A French scientist says that buck
wheat cakes are equal to pure white
bread as regards the phosphates or
bone-making material and nitrogenous
principles which they contain, and are
superior to bread in fatty matters. The
general yield of buckwheat when
cooked is about three times the weight
of flour used, showing that such flour
will retain from forty to forty-one per
cent of water.
The idea that oats have direct effect
to excite the nervous system of horses
and other animals which eat that grain
has been entertained to some extent in
France. Recent experiments by M.
Sansom indicate that it has some foun-
dation in fact. He finds in oats nj
trogenous substance, which he has
named avenine. 1t dissolves in alco-
hol, is granular in form and brown in
color. When present to the amount
OF one-tenth of one per cent, or over,
it excites the motor cells of the nerv.
Gus system. AS rule, dark oats have
a more exciting effect than white oats,
if Nj. Sansom is to be believed.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-05-10
Cautions in Eating.
Youths Companion.


l. OF course, don't eat too much
The digestive fluids are limited in
quantity. All above enough is undi-
gested, irritating and weakening the
system, and often causing paralysis of
the brain by drawing on the nervous
force more rapidly than it is generated.
2. Don't eat between meals. The
stomach must rest, or it will sooner or
later break down. Even the heart has
to rest between beats.
5. Don't eat a full meal when ex-
hausted. The stomach is as week as
the rest of the body.
4. Don't take lunch at noon and
eat heartily at night. The whole di-
gestive system needs to share in the
rest and recuperation of sleep. Be-
sides, the tendency is to put full meal
into weakened stomach.
D. Don't substitute stimulus for food,
like many women who do half DAVIS
work on strong coffee or tea. As we'll,
in the case of horse, substitute the
whip for oats.
6. Don't have a daily monotony of
dishes. Variety is necessary for relish.
and relish is necessary to good diges-
ton.
z, Don't eat blindly. There can be
nothing in the body-muscles, men,
branes, bones, nerves, brain-which is
not in our food. One article furnishes
one or more elements, and another
others. We could starve on fine flour.
Some articles do not nourish, but only
warm.
8. Eat according to the season-one-
third less in summer than in winter.
In the latter season, fat meat, sugar
and starch, are appropriate, as being
heat-makers; in the former, milk, vege-
tables, and every variety of ripe fruit.
81. Eat with cheer. Cheer promotes
digestion; care, fret and passion arrest
1T. Lively chat, racy anecdotes, and
innocent gossip, are better than Hal
ford sauce.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-05-10
Casting Thousands of Horoscopes.
New York Tribune.


Andrew Jaquith, who died at the
st. James hotel, Washington, on
Thursday, was better known in this
city as Prof. George Greggs, the as
trologist. He had an Office at No. 3OS
Mercer street, where he received visits
daily from numbers of persons who
sought to know from him something of
the future. Mr.. Jaquith, who was
about 80 years of age was born at Ash
burnham, Mass, and his father was q
Baptist minister. He was educated at
New Ipswich, N. H., with the intention
that he, too, should join the clergy, but
to this he would not consent. For a
short time he was a dry-goods clerk in
Boston, but from a child he had taken
an interesG in what he called the
''science of astrology," and, after hav-
ing read much on the subject, he set
himself up about eight or ten years
ago rs professor. His reputation
quickly grew, and he made money.
In 1878 he came to New York and
opened an office with even greater sue
cess. Not only was he visited by
women and men who might be expect
ed to be credulous, but among his
patrons were bankers and brokers and
professional men, who sought his as
sistance in their speculations. Some
of them are said to have paid him
regular weekly salary, and to have Wis
tied him every day. His friends tell
wonderful stories of his predictions,
one of them having been, it is said, the
assassination of Garfield. The esti-
mates placed upon the value of his
practice vary, but $50 day is consid-
cred not extravagant, as his clients ex-
tended throughout this country and
parts of England. He is said to have
cast twenty thousand horoscopes.