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The Portland daily press., 1884-01-14
I'm BOARD of Mayor and Aldermen.

I'm Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen held q
special meeting Saturday afternoon at o'clock
Aldermen Hawkes., Emery, Melcher and
Tukesbury were present.
The City Clerk called the meeting to order
and Alderman Tukesbury was chosen chair.
man.
Abial Carter, Geo. c. Shaw and Wye,
Greene were drawn as grand jurors for the
next term of the District Court, and John
Gooding, Jr, and Alpheus Griffin were
drawn as traverse jurors.
The meeting then adjourned.
EVENING MEETING.
A netice of q special meeting Of the MAYOR
and Aldermen at 7.45 Saturday evening had
been handed the members of the board, but II
was nearly $50 before His Honor appeared
from his private room and raped for order.
The Mayor sal the meeting had been called
at the request of the Aldermen, and stated
that the city would have no representative at
the meeting of the Portland & Ogdensburg
stockholders the 18th inst, unless some action
was taken. What is the pleasure of the board
In the matter?
Alderman Brine rose, was recognized by the
chair and moved s'that the Mayor represent
the city's interest at the meeting Of the stock.
holders Of the Portland & Ogdensburg Rail
road on Tuesday, Jan. 15th."
The motion was seconded by Alderman
WinsIow.
The chair put the motion and declared il
carried unless doubted.
Alderman Hawkes. doubted the vote and
called for the yeas and nays.
On the roll CALL Aldermen Birnie, Gould
and Winslow voted yes, Aldermen Tukes-
bury, Hawkes., Emery and Melcher, no, and
the motion was lost.
Alderman Hawkes. then presented the fol.
lowing order:
Ordered, That John @. Tukesbury be and he
is hereby authorized and instructed to attend
the annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Portland aud Ogdensburg Railroad Co., to be
held on Tuesday, the 18th day of January, A.
ID. 1854, as agent of the board of M ayor and AL
dermen, and as such authorized agent of said
board he Is instructed and directed to vote for
the following named persons as directors of
1 saI nan tn for fl~
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05
THE CHILDREN WE KEEP,

The children Kept coming one by one
iii the boys were five and the girls were three
And the big brown house was alive with fun
From the basement door to the old roof tree:
Like garden flowers the little ones grew,
Nurtured and trained with the tenderest care
Warmed by loves sunshine, bathed in its dew
They bloomed into beauty, like roses rare.
But one of the boys grew weary one day,
And leaning his head on his mother 8 breast,
He said Il am tired and cannot play.
Let me sit here on your knee and rest"
She Graded bin close in her fond embrace,
She hushed him to sleep with her sweetest song
And rapturous love still lighted his face
When his spirit had Joined he heavenly throng.
Then the eldest girl with her thoughtful l'eyes,
Who stood where "the brook and river meet"
Stole softly away into Paradise
Ere "the river" had reached her slender feet,
While the fathers eyes on her were bent,
The mother looked upward beyond the les;
"Our treasures" she whispered. "were only lent
Our darlings were angels in earth's disguise"
The years flew by and the children began
With longing to think of the world outside;
Aud as each in his turn became man.
The boys proudly went from their fathers side.
The girls were women gentle and fair,
That lovers were speedy to win;
And with orange blossoms in braided hair
The old homes were left, new homes to begin.
SO, one by one the childIen have gone,
The boys were five and the girls were three;
And the big brown house is gloomy and lone,
With but two old folks for its company
They talk to each other about the past,
AS they sit together at eventide,
And say, An the children we kept at last
Are the boy and the girl who in childhood died"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

Hooks AND EYEs.-For more than Il
dozen years the manufacture Of hooks and
eyes for women's and children's dresses
may be said to have been dead, buttons
having superseded them. But there are
indications that hooks and eyes are again
to come into use, at least to Il considerable
extent. If this should prove to he the
case. it will gladden. the hearts of some
who have preserved their machinery from
the scraphead Thirty years ago the state of
Connecticut had manufactures within her
territory that produced these little articles
to the value $4,000 annually at fifteen
cents a gross. Previous to 1880, or there
about. hooks and eyes were made by hand
and sold at 81 80 per gross.
The machines for making hooks and
eyes are quite ingenious, those for the
hooks being capable of making ninety per
minute, and those for the eyes one hun
dred and twenty per minute. That for
making the hooks take the wire from a
reel through a straightner, cuts off the
wire to the exact length, when a blade
strikes the piece in the middle of its
length, and two side blades moving sinful
taneously bend the wire double, laying the
two halves Of its length close together and
parallel. Then two pins rise. one on each
side of the ends of the wire, to form the
eyes of the hook, and two semi'rotating
pushers bend the ends round the pins,
making the eyelets for sewing the hook
on the fabric. The unfinished hook is still
perfectly fat when a horizontal pin and
vertical bender working upward curve
the double end of the hook, and presser
hattens the end to Il "swan hill" The
eye is formed by another machine, but by
means of similar appliances. Brass wire
is used for silvered hooks and eyes, an iron
wire for the black or japanned goods. The
silver coating is made by mixing an acid
precipitate OF silver with common salt and
the cream of tartar of commerce TO pro-
duce paste. Certain proportions of this
paste and the brass hooks and eyes are
placed in tumbling barrel, and by attri-
ton and affinity the brass and the silver
unite. The articles, as they come from
the tumbling barrel, are OF a lusterless
white, but are polished by being placed in
cotton cloth bags with bar soap and rub
bed with hot water under the vibrating arm
of washing machine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

WHERE HAS THE BUFFALO GONE PA
Winnipeg (Manitoba) correspondent of
the Montreal Globe says: 'In early times
the buffalo was seen as far east as the
Atlantic coast, but in recent years he
has seldom been met east of the Mssis-
sippi river, and he is still moving
westward, even across the Rocky noun
tains. l was told by an old settler that
when he came here fifty years ago the buff
falo would come right up to the stockades
around the forts on the Red river to graze
and tho half breeds found it more profita-
BILE to hunt them than to farm. To give
an idea OF the hunting bands that went
out on the plains every summer, the
brigade that left the settlement in 1910
consisted of 1910 carts, 655 cart horses,
$50 draught oxen, 483 saddle horses for
the hunt, 1,249 butcher knives, 740 flint
lock guns, 120 gallons of powder, 1900
pounds of balls. $3.50 gunaints, and the
number of persons in the band amounted
to 1880 souls, men, women and children.
But buffalo is rarely seen in the Cana.
dian northwest now. Only a few stragslers
have been met with in the far west this
season. The railroad has driven them
away forever. They have not gone north,
as the limit of their natural habitation Is
sixty north latitude on this continent, but
southwest. There are some peculiarities
in the habits of the buffalo. He is,
perhaps, the only animal that turns his
head 10 the storms, his forequarters being
protected with long shaggy hair. which
Also gives him formidable appearance,
and especially in the spring, when he sheds
the hair on the rest of his body. A very
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

CASTOR OH FOR SHOE LEALHER-
There is one simple article which will
render any decently made boot thoroughly
impervious. 1t is nothing more nor less
than cold.dr castor oil, "pure and
simple" 1t is pest applied before mol
crate fire. The boots to be dressed should
be quite clean and dry, and special care
should be given TO the welt and the
tongues, and their stitching to the upper
feathers. l generally begin by pouring
the oil from the bottle all around the welt
so that the angle between the sole and
upper leather is quite filled with oil, and
then proceed all over the boot, including
the edges of the soles, rubbing it in with
the hand. When one is done, have a turn
at the other, and so alternately till you
have got in about a tablespoonful and a
half in each boot. The tongues, being
thinner leather. should be quite saturated.
Subsequent dressing will not require so
much oil. have never found anything to
touch this as water proof dressing; the
gelatinous oil seems to effectually stop
every pore in the leather. There is another
advantage for those who are natty in such
matters-the boots will soon take good
Common blacking) polish-so much so
that man may, if he likes, waterproof
his ordinary walking boots for bad wealth
er without spelling their appearance.
With common walking boot of ordinary
thickness apply the OF. over the sole.
Shooting, l wear boots so treated, over
thick wooden stocking, from eight to
twelve hours day, or more, without
feeling the slightest inconvenience in any
way; but they have the chilly feeling
inseparable from all boots that are oiled
in that way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

ANYTHING BUT DIRT IN THE NAVY. -
Did you notice that man walk over TO the
curb and spit in the streetp I'll bet he's
been on shipboard. There mans got to
use either the spit-kids or spit over the
side of the vessel into the water. They'll
stand anything but dirt in the navy, you
know. How is this for IA daily routine.
When the bo's'n pipes up all hands in the
morning they turn out. put up their
hammocks stow 'em away in the nettings,
hen sweep the decks Mess cloths are
spread, and after breakfast the decks are
swept down again. At 1880 A. NJ,
sweepers are piped and then mess'cloths
are laid for dinner, after which she is
swept fore and aft once more. It's done
twice more before supper and after supper
making six times day. You mustn't
think they sweep only. Not day passes
but that the decks are either dry or wet
holy stoned. holy stone is a big stone,
fiat and smooth on one side. The center
of Il long rope is made fast to it, and a
squad of men lay hold of opposite ends
and pull it backward and forward over
the decks, which have been first wet
down and sprinked with sand.
In places that they can't reach, corners,
you know, they make men get down on
their knees with little hand stones, called
prayer books. and scrub EN- out. After
this they bend the hose to the pumps and
wash the sand away. Men follow with
squillgees, arrangements shaped like
hoe, with a strip Of rubber tackled to the
edge. They use 'em to rub the heaviest
part Of the water off the decks. Next
comes another detail with swabs. They
are big hemp horses tails, and are swung
right and left. When the fibres get well
saturated the swab is wrung and used
over again. Light, fat sheet iron char.
coal stoves, the under side three feet
square, are then suspended by long rods
to within about foot and half of the
deck, and swung backward and forward
until Me place underneath is pretty dry,
when they shift them to other hammock
hooks and repeat this process. This is
done three times a week and dry holy
stoning twice. On such days the sweep
ers are used five times. The decks are
always like the driven snow, and wouldn't
soil u cambric handkerchief at any time,
Now you can understand why IL sailor
learns to use the spit. ds-wel, cuspidors
look here, who's spinning this yarn?
Cincinnati IQUi1er.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05
FATE OF THE APosTLEs-St. Mattbsw

FATE OF THE APosTLEs.-St. Matthew
is supposed to have suffered martyrdom,
or was put to death by the sword, at the
city of Ethiopia. St. Mark was dragged
through the streets of Alexandria, in
Egypt, till he expired. st. Luke was
hanged upon an olive tree in Greece. S..
John was put into caldron of boiling oil
at Rome, and escaped death. He after
wards died natural death at Ephesus,
in Asia. St. James the Great was
beheaded at Jerusalem. St. James the
Less was thrown from pinnacle or wing
of the temple, and then beaten to death
with fuller's club. st. Philip was hanged
up against pillar of Hierapolis, city of
Phrygia. St. Bartholomew was hayed
alive by the command of barbarous
king. st. Andrew was bound to cross,
whence he preached to the people till he
expired. St. Thomas was run through
the body with lance, near Malibar, in
the East Indies,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

Most people who use screw drivers
must be occasionally inclined to use
strong language at their persistency in
slipping out of the nick and their refusal
to 90 into it. All that is wanted is a
short tube, big enough to enclose each
screw head somewhat tightly, but only
spring tight, so that it may rise as the
screw head comes near the wood. Also,
to provide for heads of different sizes with
the same driver. All this can be done by
Just turning up strongish tin tube, three
or four inches long, like slate pencil
case, big enough to slide over the widened
point of a round screw driver, and then
fitting spring tight on the shank by means
of piece of leather wrapped around it;
and for larger screws than usual you
might pull the socket off and put larger
on, with thick piece of leather. 1t
answers perfectly. You need not look
at your screw, but just put the tubed
screw driver on and turn. 1t will drop
into the nick at the first half turn, and
stay there till the screw is screwed home.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

There are some people who turn gray,
but who do not grow hoary, whose faces
are furrowed but not wrinkled, whose
hearts are sore wounded in many places,
but are not dead. There is youth that
bids defiance to age, and there is kind.
ness that laughs at the worlds rough
usage. There are they that have returned
good for evil, not having learned it as II
lesson of Righteousness, but because they
have no evil in them to return upon
others. Whom the gods love die young,
and they die young because they never
grow old.-F Marion CraUford.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

One of set of small drawers in my
pantry is called the salve box. In one
end is small compartment Nike the till
of an old fashioned chest, and in this are
kept salves of various kinds. In the
drawer there is always to be found an
abundance of old soft cotton and linen
cloths, with few strong strips for ban.
dages. ball of soft yarn (Which, being
flexible, is much better than twine for
tying up inflamed fingers,) fluffy bits of
cotton batting and pieces of old kid gloves
for spreading salve upon. Something
very adhesive, like balsam fir salve, is a
necessity, as a very little here and there
along the bandage for a sore finger will
make a string unnecessary, beside keeping
the cloth in place much better than If tied
on.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

BRILLIANT CONNECTICUT INVENTION
A Bridgeport Conn., professor has in.
vented neat thing in the way of a
steam heater to carry about on the person.
1t is called the portable body steam
heater" The apparatus is a small affair,
consisting of a copper boiler, under which
is diminutive lamp, all incased in a
nickel box, and balanced something like
compass, so that, no matter what
position the outside box is in, the boiler
and lamp will always remain in the
required vertical position. The entire
apparatus Is so small that it can be carried
in the pocket. After the lamp is lighted,
the water in the boiler is heated and
circulated through rubber tubes, which
run down the legs, around the ankles. up
around the back, and back to the boiler.
The circulation of warm water keeps the
body warm on the coolest day. A safety
valve and escape for higher pressure of
steam than the affair is allowed to carry
flows off at the back of the wearer's neck
Elaborate heaters are being constructed
for ladies' wear. They can be worn
inside the hustle, and entirely obscured
Before going out of the house the lady's
maid can light the lamp, which, by the
way, is gagged to run six, eight, or ten
hours, and my "lady" walks out under a
free pressure of steam, and warranted to
keep warm during the promenade
Ne1O HaUen Ne1OS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

BAD AIR.-When person has remained
for an hour or more in crowded and
poorly ventilated room or railroad car, the
system is already contaminated to a great
er or less extent by breathing air vtiated
by exhalations from the lungs, bodies, and
clothing of the occupants. The immedi-
ate effect OF these poisons Is to debilitate, to
lower vitality, and to Impair the natural
power of the system to resist disease,
Hence it is that persons who are attacked
by intlammatory diseases, as pneumonia
or rheumatism, can generally trace the
beginning of the disease TO chill felt on
coming ont of Il crowded room into the
cold or damp air, wearing, perhaps, thin
shoes and insufficient clothing. If these
facts were generally understood and acted
upon, thousands of lives might be saved
every year. 1t is a well known fact that
men who "camp OUT" sleeping on the
ground at all seasons of the year, seldom
have pneumonia, and that rheumatism
with them comes, as Il rule, only from
unwarrantable imprudences. There are
two facts that should be learned by every
person capable of approaching them, and
they should never be lost sight of for a
moment. Oae is that eXhalations from
the lungs-the breath-are deadly poison,
containing the products of combustion in
the form Of carbonic acid gas. and if a
person were compelled to reinhale it un
mixed with the oxygen of the air, it would
prove us destructive to life as the fumes
of charcoal. This is an enemy that is al
ways present in force, in assemblies OF
people. and only a constant and free lntu-
sion OF fresh ar prevents it from doing
mischief that weuld be immediately
apparent, The other fact is that pure air
is the antidote TO this poison. The oxygen
of the air is the greatest Of all purifiers.
Rapid streams of water that pass through
large cities, receiving the sewage, become
pure again through the action of the air
after running a few miles Air is the best
of all 'blood purifiers" Combined with
vigorous exercise to make it effective, it
will cure any durable case of consumption.
-HaWS Journal of Health.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-08-23
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beneficial Influence oyer mind aud body
when exhausted by labor " mental
strain, H. effects afe mora luyigorat
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vt mulantq
Breakfast Gems One teaspoonfui
" baking powder mixed with n pint ~
flour, add to The beaten yelks " Two
eggs u pinch " salt, q cup of sweet
milk and n tab espoynful Of melted but
ter mis- with the flour, and, lastly, add
tho beaten whites Of the eggs. Beat
well, and bake In gem tins In a quick
oven-K y Times.
a correspondent Of IIck's MoHtiiy
says n good word for the mangel.
worzcL II does not require extra prepa-
ration Of the soil, II may be sown late,
or rs early as June LIST. It w~ithstands
dry weather brayely, IL has no special
insect pest, and h Is relishcd by all
farm stock. II Is, perhaps, not quite
so nutritious rs some other roots. but
is n valuable nd unct In winter feed
ing, and imparts nc bad taste to milk
and butter.
Remember the bow that Is always
bent soon loses its elastic ty, and tho
arm with q constant load soon gets
: red. SO II you would have the Toys
vely and interested in their work,
don't fail to give them a play spell Of
Let them 20 fishing, or swimming.
or loating in any good place so they
have u rest, and it won't hurt you
10 go with them either. Try it, and SEQ
how much good it will do you, and
them, too. a days good romp with
The children will take live years from
your aye. -Cecetand Leader.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-08-23
Lucky and unlueky Farmers.

IL Is quite amusing TO hear. as one
frequently does. farmers say that such
aud such one. are always lucky, while
they are always having bad luck. Now
nothing a more absurd than such talk.
IL Is true that with some farmers many
things go wrong. A COW will grs
chokcd eating rpots; cause. careless.
ness ON the part Of the owner In no.
cutting the roots. The cattle will &c,
through the pasture and Into the corn
or cabbage field and do considerable
damagei cause. want If cars In BUILDING
er keeping the fence In repair. A horse
will get loose In the stable and cat too
much meal and perhaps die: cause. care.
iessness. Wemight ~ on and give a long
list OF bad luck 90 that Is likely TO como
to the careless farmer each year. There
y no such thing a. luck In the matter.
some farmers spend some time and
a good deal Of breath In denounelnv
their III luck. when. n they would oply
he o careful. they would have no
such trouble. They seem to envy their
more fortunate nelghbons who have
only good luck. n they would oplv
ask these same neightors. they would
Ind that those they term lucky werp
only saved from losses Of cattle and other
things by the are they take.
Let no young farmer start out with
The idea thai success or failure : n mat
ter ni luck and ehanee. Il Z aid
God helps the man that helps him.
self. and Il l. true. II Is VERY seldom
that n fails 10 sucesed who starts
Fi7ht ard with N. aesns-~s~sssre =
snccel The lazy and shiflszs rrn.
rally talk me=s about het: the indus.
'fions msa says rissk rather than ia<L.
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The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-08-23
Aslatic Perjury.

The extraordinary rccklcssness Of
Asiatics In committing deliberate and
circumstaniial perjury always causes
amazcment to Europeans newly arrived
among them. II Is not merely the
scoundrcls who hang about courts Of
justice. ready to swear TO anything for
u shilling or two, who do this, but in
many lawsuits the principals indulge
In false testimony TO an unlimited ~
tent. A notable instance occurred ut
Calcutta the other day. when n nRtiyc
sailor lodged formal information with
the police that the chief officer Of a
mail steamer. then on her way down
tho Hooghly, had murdered a Lasear
and thrown his body overheard. Every
particular Of the crime. including the
name Of the murdered man. was given.
and the police authorities fclt bound,
therefore TO telegraph orders to have
tho steamer stopped and the accused
officer arrested. This was duly done.
and the supposed murderer being
brought before the magistrate, The
formal inquiry took place. For some
time the defendant found II very din.
cult TO meet the charge brought against
him. supported as Il was by his accuscr
on oath. but Just when Il looked As II
the charge would DC sent for trial. the
Lascar who was supposed TO be muir
dercd turned up In court Instead OF
being killed and thrown overheard. he
had deserted the ship just before her
departure, and the aceuser. becoming
AWARE of the fact. thought Ii gave him
a capital opportunity TO pay of an old
grudge he bore against the chief officer.
lie imagined. no doubt. tina: the Lascar
would Keep silence, for fear Of being
proceeded against for desertion. Lon
don Uiobe.