davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01
CITY OF PORTLAND.
p IA O p O . a r. .

SEALED PROPOSALS for furnishing all mate
- rails and labor for making the additions to-
and alterations of, the Casco Street School House,
will be received until SATURDAY, July 9Th at IL
O'Clock noon, at the Office of the City Clerk, City
Building, where plans and specifications may be
seen.
Proposals must be addressed to Committee on
Public Buildings.
The Committee reserve the right to reject any or
all bids.
Per order of Committee on Public Buildings.
Je27 dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01
THE WALDO

q Little Chebeague Island, Portland Har-
ErzEN Dor, Me-, will be opened to the public june
lrA!!S 9Th, 1884. This Island seven miles from
EsAg gem of "Casco Bay"
The Hotel contains Sixty Sleeping Rooms of good
size, Broad Halls, Spacious Dining Room and Par
lor. Veranda on all sides 14ft. wide. Lighted
throughout by Gas, Electric Bells in every room,
Pure Spxang Water conducted into each story,
Drainage perfect, Good Sea Bathing.
The situation of this Island gives superior facili-
ties for Sailing, Boating, Shore and Deep Sea Fish
ing: Landing float for Boats with competent man
IN charge One or two Cottages to let with board
Hotel. new and commodious Steamer has been
built expressly for the convenience of the guests of
"Ihe Waldo and will run regularly and directly be-
tween the City and Little Chebeague.
For information and terms address s'The Waldo -
Portland, Maine, or enquire personally of FRANK
LIN J. ROLLINS, Esq, Secretary f Little Chebea-
que Association, 20 Exchange st. ortland, Maine.
may6eod3m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01
RNTERrArNmENrs.
PICNIC.

Pine st, and West End Methodist Sabbath
schools VIII make their annual excursion to Old
Orenard and Ferry Beach Park on Tuesday,
July list. Tickets for children 80 cts, for adults
90 cts, can be obtained at Eastman BrosS Bancroft
or 81 ne committee at the depot before the 6.16
and 40 trains only. Tickets good for any train on
that day. n. WATERHOUSE,l
PERLEY CHASE, Committee.
ID. NJ. G. DUNN,
iun3O m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01

The PRESS has received from the Sand
witch Islands postal card, with the follow
ing printed thereon
SATURDAY PRESS, EXTRA, June a. 1884.
HAwAIIs CONGRATULATIONS TO THE UNITED
STATES
The Saturday Press of Honolulu H. l., upon re-
ceipt of the news of the nomination of James G..
Blaine. as Republican candidate for President of
the United States, hastens to send congratulations
to its contemporaries across the water and unites
with them in the hope of victory at the coming cleo
ton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01
CITY OLE PORTLAND.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
June rs, 1884.
OWNERS of Hackney Carriages are hereby re-
W quested to present their teams for inspection,
and to receive their licenses and inspection cards
Marshal's Office, MONDAY, July 9TH, from to IL
a M. and from 2.30 to O'Clock D. m.
je25dtd j. D. DECELLE. City Marshal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01

State Street Society and Sunday School,
with friends win 90 to Long Island Thursday July
3rd. Steamer "Emita'' will leave State Street
Wharf at S.45 a.. m, and Franklin Wharf at 200
p: M, returning about p. m Tickets 80 cents for
der, Ice Cream and Lemonade) For sale at Isor-
ing, Short Harmon's and by Commit 90, Take
and Lemonade. ivld3t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01
SpecIaI Rates for the Campaign.
FIFTY CENTS A MONTH.

To new subscribers, during the political
campaign of 1884, the price of the DAILY
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-01

lThe Portland Daily PRESS is the largest daily
paper published In the State, and has the largest
circulation. AT the special rates it is also the
Ahnaraa
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
THE DAIRY.

An exchange says filthy cow stables
may cause abortion. We doubt that,
but do not believe an intelligent, pains
taking farmer will tolerate a filthy sta
BILE. Cleanliness is next to goodness,
in a constable as well as elsewhere. -
Elgtn Advocate.
The american DdirynaH insists
that if the dairyman wants to make a
first-class article of butter he must
churn often. Never let the cream get
over three days old, no matter how cold
it may be kept. If cold, it will get old,
fiat and frinky. If sour, the whey will
eat up the best butter globules. Churn
as often as you can.
The time is not far distant in this
country when good. practical women
butter-makers will be in general de-
mand, at extra good salaries. The rea-
son is plain; women are naturally much
neater and cleaner in their work than
their brothers, and if there is one thing,
aside from another which we eat that
we especially desire to be neat. clean
and in tasteful order, it is butter
Colman's Rural World.
I'm the great majority of farmers
diaries the labor of milking, caring for
milk and cream and making the butter
is large item in its cost. Unless the
farmer is able to get something more
from the milk than butter he will not
make much from his dairy. Hence the
necessity of keeping pigs to work up
skim milk into pork, and at the same
time to retain in the manure heap the
most valuable elements of the milk SO
far as maintaining fertility is concerned.
IN Y Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
A MARINE MONSTER.
A Floating Palace Baiit in the Days Of
the ipcieuts.

A Floating Palace Bailt in the Days of
the Ancients.
The most prodgious vessel on the
records of the ancients was built by
order of Hero, the second Tyrant OF
Syracuse, under the superintendent of
Archimedes, about $50 years before
Christ, the description of which would
fill small volume. Athen@us has left
a description of this vast floating fabric.
There was, he says, Us much timber
employed in her as would have served
for the construction of fifty galleys. 1t
had all the varieties of apartments and
convenience necessary to a palace
such as banqueting rooms, baths,
library, temple OF Venus, gardens,
ish-ponds, mills, and spacious gym
'nasium. The inlaying of the floors of
the middle apartment represented in
various colors the stories of Homer's
Iliad; there were everywhere the most
beautiful carvings. and every embellish-
ment and ornament that art could fur
nish were bestowed on the ceilings,
windows and every part. The inside of
the building was inlaid with cypress
wood, the statues were of ivory. and the
floor was studded with precious stones.
The vessel had twenty benches Of oars,
and was encompassed by an iron ram
part or battery; it had also eight towers,
with walls and bulwarks. which were
furnished with machines of war, one OF
which was capable of throwing stone
of 300 pounds weight, or a dart of
twelve cubics long, to the distance OF
half mile. To launch her, Archimedes
invented screw of great power. She
had four wooden and eight iron an.
chors; her mainmast, composed of a
single tree, was procured. after much
trouble, from distant inland mountains.
Hero, finding that he had no harbors
in Sicily capable of containing her, and
learning that there was famine in
Egypt, sent her, loaded with corn. to
Alexandria. She bore an inscription OF
which the following is part: ''Hiero,
the son of Hierocles, the Dorian. who
yields the scepter of Sicily, sends this
vessel, bearing in her the fruits of the
earth. Do thou, o Neptune, preserve
in safety this ship over the blue waves. :"
The Sea.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27

A Tall Story Which Scattered . Crowd,
and Made the Grocer Take Down His
SHOTGUN.
Yesterday q lot of men were seated in
the "corner grocery, when their atten-
ton was attracted to pumpkin which
was just then brought in. Being of an
uncommonly large size, it set the more
laxative ones to telling squash yarns. !"
After somebody had told very extrava-
CANT one about squash that weighed,
as he solemnly asserted, seven hundred
and ninety-nine pounds, an old fisher
man arose and addressed the assembly:
my very good fren's, can jest beat
sich squash yarns as that, way yander.
wy" he went on. "when was plyin'
my trade in the West Injies, kept a
kind of squash seed which l always
planted little before my reg lar fishin
'scursions. Well, then in bout week,
in that hot kentry, Mr.. Squash he'd got a
good start. and | took him by the helm
and steered 'em toward the water where
| wanted to do my fishin'
"Only one squash growed on this 'un,
TO wich tied big lump Of cork to keep
i'm afoat Ye see. the blame thing
growed SO fas that il just dragged the
squash over the water like double 'geared
lightnin'. Thinks /, 4 d better be go
in if / ketch you;' so jumped into my
boat, first tyin' about fifty fish lines to
the vine as it rushed past me. / he'd to
row for all l was worth to ketch up with
him, he had got under such Roadway.
Howsomever, got round on the lee
I side of it, as it glided onward toward
the settin' sun, and veered it square
around with an oar, and headed the
thing for port agin.
II he'd mighty hard work to keep the
side of my boat from getting stove in
by the squash Gavin around so; but
when l got it started she went fer the
land at the rate of forty knots an hour.
This did, so as to land my fish.
which l could plainly see, jerkin' my
vegetable trollin line about sixty ways
a minute. 1t took that vine just three
seconds to grow back. again to the
| shore, and the distance was three miles.
| This squash, contrary to all my expec-
tations, didn't stop when it touched the
| ground, but took the overland trail
| draggin' vine, cork, fish and all. II
was beautiful sight to see the speckled
sinners go sailin' across lots, mixed in
with the em'rald green Of the squash
leaves, foppin' again one another an
| glitterin' in the sunshine.
| II didn't hey much time to admire
| it, fer l see that | was li'ble to lose the
benefit of my catch. so got ashore
| quick and cut the vine to stop the thing
but found out afterwards that the
squash had knocked down seven huts
killed dog, and crippled three natives
for life who tried to stop it
''WhcnI got to my fish found tt
my astonishment that ev'ry. blamed one
of EN- by rubin over the sand so fast
he'd been cooked to nice brown
| and"
| But when this disciple of truth
gazed around to see the effect of his
words, not man, with the exception
of the grocer, who had taken down his
shotgun, was left. His audience 'hat
silently departed by the back door,
Toledo Blade.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
CENTRIFUGAL FORCE.
Instructions I'm the Principle of Ralsin
Cream by this Method.

Instructions In the Principle of Raising
Cream by this Method.
In answer to a correspondent who
asks us to give the principles of raising
cream by centrifugal force, we would
say that the butter globules in milk are
suspended in a watery solution. Phe
butter globules rise to the top of the
mixture because their specific gravity is
less than the solution in which they are
suspended Now the separation of the
butter globules by centrifugal force is
based upon the principle of increasing
their specific gravity. If new milk is
cooled to low degree the watery solu-
ton spoken of is cooled sooner than the
butter globules are, and the difference
in specific gravity is thus increased in
favor of the globules. Hence the cream
rises up quickly The use of centrifugal
force, therefore, is intended to increase
this difference of specific gravity, and
it does it very much more quickly
than any other means. The system
has been employed to some extent
in one way or another since 1859.
1t was about fifteen years since
a Massachusetts man made simple
hand machine by which he demon
strated the correctness OF the principle.
But in more recent years machines have
been invented which work nicely
Some one has given very good direc-
tons about buying q separator, which
we have several times seen in print, and
which first of all, of course, embraces
safety, strength, and tirst-class workman
ship. 1t should run steady-thatis is, with
out shaking, and the foundation should
be solid. Its construction should be such
that it can be easily cleaned. without
taking it apart very much. Its construc-
ton, too, ought always to be plain and
simple. Never buy complicated ma
chine of any kind. People in practical
common life have no time to perfect
themselves in a knowledge of intricate
mechanism. The machine should have
such capacity as will enable the dairy
man to finish the work in hand in g
reasonable time. The machine should
be reasonable in cost. There is otter
mistake made in the estimation of the
| power necessary to run separator
Many think itrequires very great power
This is not true. Of course, there mus
be power enough, but any ordinary
creamer can supply sufficient poweI
without difficulty. Western Rural.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
The Lapps in Summer.

The Lapps seemed to consider the in
terror of their houses somewhat stuffy
on summer night, for they were all
lying in the open air, wrapped in their
rugs of reindeer skin-men, women and
children, and the old grandmother of all
the Lapps. The men wear tight trous-
ers and jackets of untanned leather, as
do also the children, and the women
have sort of loose blouse of the same
material, stopping above the knees, their
legs being swathed in cloth, bound with
long strips of leather.
They are very unprepOssessing race
of quaint, elfish-iooking little creatures,
with straight, sandy-colored hair. small
gray eys. The men have stubby NOUS
faches, suggestive of retired tooth
brush. They are all undersized, the
average height of the men being five
feet and the women four and half.
When the others had departed to seek
the reindeer, we made friends with q
woman who was by herself in q small
grass hut. and who very proudly ex-
hibited her newborn baby-a queer lit
tie creature, with q yellow, leathery-
looking face. The babies are strapped
on to boards, aud SO carried on the ma
ternal back, after the manner Of the In
dian papoose. - Cdssclrs Magazine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
At the Churn.

At what temperature ought churning
to be done? The traditional one is sixty
to sixty-three degrees. Some go littls
higher, and man a good deal lower.
1t is probable that much depends on
conditions. 1t is pretty positively de.
cided that you must churn sweet cream
at lower temperature and for longer
time than sour cream, If you get the
most butter. 1t is claimed by many
that sour cream yields the most butter.
Do they not overlook two things? Don't
they churn sweet cream in the same way
and at the same temperature that they
do sour cream. and don't they overlook
the fact that there is more caseine in
the sour cream butter that adds TO the
weight but not to the amount of fatp
In some cases we know this is true.
There are some anomalies about churn-
ing that are still unexplained such ~
varying amounts of butter under ap-
parently the same conditions and q fair
yield Of butter one day with none the
nsxt. 6yrasvss Farmer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
A PHYSICIAN IN ASIA.
The Curious Patients He Had to Deal
With, and How He Managed Them.


With, and How He Managed Them.
As my patients became numerous and
pestered me at all hours, fitted up a
spare tent to serve as my dispensary,
and gave out that received at the time
of afternoon prayer fassr.) l took my
seat at the door of my tent, and soon
had crowd around me, many suffering
from real diseases, many from imagi-
nary ones, and many bringing for my
inspection the effects of diseases, such
as palsied limbs and stiff joints. A
young man was the first who presented
himself, most vociferous to see the
lakeem. He entered my tent and de-
sired private interview. "Esttdreed,
what do you wantp" l asked. "Ya
hakeem, shoot" he began; ''look here, l
am married to wife, and am some
what tired of her, and have fallen in
love with a virgin, whom l wish to
marry; but my wife, curses on her! has
found it out, ee wdllah! and has given
her charm which prevents the beauti-
full virgin from loving me. / have
beaten my wife, but that is of no use.
Va hakeen,, / am your sacrifice" taking
me by the beard, which he kissed
God bless you, hakeefa, give me strong
medicine to kill the charm, and | am
your slave and sacrifice" Here"
said l, ''take this pill fasting, and you
are cured" And as he retired with the
precious bread pill, which he led up in
the corner of his sleeve, he called down
blessings on my head. An old woman
next came forward, and taking hold of
the corner of my cloak she kissed it, and
then kneeling before me began in a very
wheedling manner to call my attention
to her case. She went on to describe
the most anomalous symptoms, affecting
her eyes, ears, limbs, and sometimes
every part of her. On further inquiry
she confessed to be quite well at that
moment, but a year ago having had
these strange complaints, she dreaded
| the same thing would invade her this
year. | then promised to give her strong
medicine, but ordered the crowd to
stand at a short distance from us. A
space is cleared and all wait in silent
admiration for my remedy. l slowly
draw forth bottle of strong liquor of
ammonia Tor smelling salts) from my
medicine chest, and holding it before
my patients eyes, tell her to draw in a
strong breath when | put it to her nose.
l accordingly first hold her nostrils,
then, having removed the stopper, l
| apply the mouth of the bottle to the
nose, the fingers are removed, long
sniff is taken, followed by spasm, and
she falls to the ground. A hum of
horror runs through the crowd; the
patient after short interval rises, her
eyes streaming with tears, and then
broke from the crowd: LA ilaha lila
| 'laha lMohamnied rasulu 'Hahaa-
There is no God but the God, and
Mohammed is the apostle of God. y
Humphrey Sandwich; a Memoir.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
THE MIsTLEToE.
Relic of the Days of Druidism-A Bust
ness Legend. lf

A Relic of the Days of Druidism-A Bust
ness Legend. 4f
In the old-fashoned English families q
branch of the mistletoe is suspended on
Christmas eve from the ceiling of the hall.
Any woman who passes beneath the mystic
spray incurs the penalty of being then and
there kissed by any man who chooses to
avail himself of the privilege One OF the
superstitions associated with the custom is
that the maid who is not thus kissed at
Christmas will not be married during the
year.
The hanging of the mistletoe is relic OF
the days of Druidism handed down through
centuries. The Druids reverenced the
plant when found on. the oak, the favorite
tree of their divinity Tutanes. At the win
ter solstice great festival was celebrated in
his honor The people, led by their priests
the Druids, went in procession to gather the
mistletoe; when the oak was reached on
which it grew two white bulls were bound
to tree. The Chief Druid, clothed In
white, assembled it, and with golden knife
cut the sacred plant, which was caught BY
another priest in the fold of his robe.
The bulls, and often human victims, were
sacrificed, and the mistletoe, divided into
small pieces, was distributed among the peo-
pie. They hung the sprays over the doors
of their houses as Q Precipitation and shelter.
to the sylvan deities during the season OF
cold.
In the Scandinavian mythology the mis-
tletoe is plant Of no mean importance, 50
the legend relates, having been the instru-
ment Of the Staying Bladder, the god of elo-
Quence and poetry.
Bladder one day told Friga, his mother,
that he had dreamed dream which fore
BODIED his death. She. to protect her son,
secured an oath from fire, air, earth, water,
the animals and plants. that they would do
Bladder no harm. He, being thus assured,
took his place amid the combats of the
gods, and fought without fear.
Loake, his enemy, seeing that not one o.
his arrows, which fell IN showers upon
| Balder, did him the least harm, determined
to discover the secret Of his inyulnerability
| Disgusting himself a. an. old woman y
! paid his court to Friga and compliments
| her upon the valn and good fortuns u ~
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
DAIRYlNG IN DENMARK.
How the Frugal Danes Manage the Busl'
ness and Make Money.

How the Frugal Danes Manage the Busi,
ness and Make Money.
Danish farmers get their COWS to calve
in November, December and January,
and begin their feeding with two pounds
of oil-cake only. They use meal very
largely because the country is agricul-
tural, and the transit facilities being
perfective it is cheaper to consume the
produce of the farm than to buy oil
cake They use all the poorer quality
of the grains in this way and sell the
best. Then, instead of using timothy
and very few roots, they use more nutri-
tious mixtures of grasses for fodder
crops, such as clover, lucerne, prickly
comfrey and variety of roots. re-
cent visit to one of these farms showed
how exact all their methods are. On .
farm of fifty acres was found weighing
machine for the milk and another for
the butt err, and also two thermometers
and graduated glasses to test the quality
of the milk; in fact, all the same appli-
ances that are to be seen on the largest
dairy farm. This farm was one on
which most of the work was done by
members of the family. One of the
daughters produced tabular statement
with entries she had made from day to
day, which showed how carefully every
operation of the processes is recorded,
from the yield of milk per COW and tho
product of butter. 1t is the object of
every farmer to select from his own
breed of cattle the very best mixers for
the dairy and to sell off those which
don't pay for milking to the butchers.
BY this principle of allowing the sur
vival of the fittest only race of mixers
is maintained and improved. One large
farmer has 700 COWS on several farms
on one of them he has had $50 for sew
eral years. On that farm there is no
permanent grass land, and these 230
animals are fed entirely from arabic land
crops. Canadian Dai7yDidn
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-27
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

With polar bears at $1,000 each
and ostrich eggs at $120 q dozen. It 10
no wonder the tramp can't save money.
burlington Hapkeye.
Cream cures sunburn on some com.
plexions, lemon juice is best on others,
and cold water suits still others best. II
is also well to use soap occasionally
ArkansdU 1rdUeler.
Several people will be mad to learn
that $4,000 human beings can stand on
an acre of ground. Some folks tickle
themselves with the idea that they take
up at least ten square feet.
"A Chinaman has run away with .
Chicago mans wife. That's the de-
graded meanness of Chinaman," OBJ
serves Robert j. Burdette; ''he'll steal
anything rather than walk up and ask
for it.
Before offering to ring the street.
car bell for lady about to get of look
closely at her right hand. II she wears
diamond ring and you pull the strap
she will be your enemy for life. De
troit Free Press.
lis woman capable Of filling an
oAnoO' a'nS :A =
woman mas just been inquirng siDef
some rejected manuscript IN tnls once,
and she hlled II compieteiy ior tnc utne
being. -Burangtom FREE Fress.
--"You Americans" said an English.
man to young lady, ''have no ancestry
to which you can point with pride. :"
THAT is very true" she assented
Most of our ancestors came from Eng.
land, you know. IN. T. Independent.
A banana skin Law on the grocer !
aoor ..What are Won ding fhere p,;
ssrad the SCALES neekino over the eiys
Of the counter. 70. I'm wing in wall
TO- The rrocer ), ..Pshawr' said tbs
soa,as ..f'vc hear do;no IN az FIR wars >
Wnehi,otom Hntchef
$1,000. "a;
Vas s;.Sd ~ no'. s.aI .;a q D,s ~. .nnp
anu nus man n'oou siu :5 s ns
lnlhe ,ne SAT- please sa'n ~. Ia n. ~
man IA no' snc Wallet . s1su sns
pig man ~ ssuiy .1ne. Acuse
me, was .ne re.o '..,a III ~ was 49,. ms !,
5ake any ome woulu navc iauo
f'a'so1'9" o"'o"'c'e-1 e'eg'ep"
The following advertisement re-
Gently appeared: "belng aware that It