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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-18
RAILROAD PETITIONS.

The object of the NEE ting being bearing on
the petition of the Portland Railroad Com
pany to lay double track from Park to State
STREET, was brought up The width of the
street varies from 405 t. so feet bet ween Oak
and State street at different places.
Aldermen Hawkes. aud kelsey, while not
particularly opposed to the order, made some
inquiries in regard to it. II was suggested
that if the double track be laid, the city, to
make the street in good con 1ition, would be
obliged to pave the street with granite blocks
outside the tracks.
Mr.. Wheeler thought the right already
granted was satisfactory to them, although it
would be easier to build the double track and
would obviate the use of frogs, turnouts, etc.
On motion of Alderman Kelsey amended
by Alderman Hawkes., the order granting the
tah1a - - 49,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-18

The ordinance in relation to the erection of
wooden buildings came up from the Common
Council, passed to be engrossed.
This order bad passage in concurrence in
this board. This is substantially the order
introduced by Alderman Moves, except that
the limits are changed to between High and
Franklin, and Cumberland and Commercial
streets, inside of which limits no wooden
buildings shall be erected, without complying
with certain conditions.
Adiourned
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-18

Hn Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
A special meeting of both boards was held
last evening, aud the following business tran
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-18
CHANGE IN GRADE OF bTREEr.

Alderman Hawkes. presented profile pre-
pared by City Engineer Goodwin of the grade
to be established on Cumberland street at
Grove. The change of grade is 24 feet The
order had a passage. This necessitates the
raising of two houses, and $475 was appro-
nriatad
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-18
SEMINARY NOTICE

VyHE Trustees of Westbrook Seminary hereby
IL notified that their annual meeting will be held
at the Seminary Building on Wednesday, June %,
1884 at o'clock P. NJ, for the transaction of the
following business:
First:-To fill vacancies that may exist in the
Board of Trustees.
Second:-To elect officers for the ensuing year and
to transact any other business that may
properly come before the Board
GRENVILLEM. STEVENS,
Secretary Board Trustees.
Deering, June II, 1854. jn1sdtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-18
LICENSES GRANTED.

james z Pine, for license as vctualler; W.
ID. Jones, as auctioneer Peter Grant, victual-
Ter: j. P. Maddox victualler.
Alfred Woodman was granted permission to
enter the Cumberland street sewer.
POLICEMEN WITHOUT PAY.
The following were appointed special police
men without pay:
John Ell. DennisoD, Jacob Fl. Groves, Henry
Il. II. Bracket, Melville G. Sterling, Josiah
FL. Dill, VIM. W. Ruby, Horatio F. Ruby.
Joint Convention.
In joint convention George A. Barrows was
appointed inspector and cutler of hoops an
HtaVaH.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
The Pyrami Is Built Downward.

Mr.. Cope Whitehouse, who seems to
be treated as Il crank by the Science
Association in meeting at Philadel-
phia, got the stage of the academy as
the scientists were leaving the hall
Wednesday, and proceeded to give an
illustrated lecture on "The Libyan
Deserts" Some of the audience re-
manned and others out of curiosity
turned back to hear him.
Mr.. Whitehouse enunciated some
singular scientific theories, based upon
the most careful researches. One of
these was that the Pyramids had been
built practically downward, not up
ward. He took Herodotus and other
ancient writers for his authorities, and
on the strength Of personal eXamina-
ton, which he had made, expressed the
opinion that the chambers, at the base
of the Pyramids, had been used for
temples and were constructed beneath
the center OF big hills, and that the
apex OF these hills had been cut of,
and, through the holes thus made, the
big boulders of rocks had been dropped
one upon another until they had risen
to new apex. The hills, he said, were
then Smoothed of and the sides of the
Pyramids nodded, leaving them as they
are seen to-day. The theory presented
by Mr.. Whitehouse is not novel. 1t has
been advanced before. Whatever its
merits, and if the Judgment of the
standing committee be taken as final,
it has none-it is the subject of much
comment to-day. that the committee
should have shown such animoSity in
the matter. There are probably many
more dangerous ''cranks' in the ranks
of the association than Mr.. Whitehouse.
There are many scientists whose opin-
ion is entitled to weight who think that
Mr.. Whitehouse's services in other
branches of science have been eminent.
He is, for instance, recognized as an
authority on the Lybian deserts. But
his notions regarding the Pyramids are
generally ridiculed and little attention
paid to them. IN. 7. Tribune.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
POLITICAL FrEHS.

1t looks very much now rs L
Blaine, who has described prohibition
a. a local issue, would be merely local
issue himself after the 4th OF next No
yember.
The New York Herald puts it
neatly. 1t says that the election re-
turns show that Blaine is about 1900
votes less popular in Name than K. Is.
Haye,, the well known hen raiser OF
Fremont, o.
The New York Post says very
truly of the Blaine-Phelps letter:
Those, whether politicians o. not.
who encourage the activity of creatures
like Rev. DR.. Ball. must be held an
swera5ie for THIS great and novel dep
rayalion of orr political manners.
The latest Republican consider is
the young lady who has set her we'd
ding 1.-The day after Blaine is elected. :"
The girl Is fortunate in one thing. She
need to be under no anxiety about the
Marriage Laws of the State where she
lives. 1t will make no difference TO
her whether q License is required or
not.
The dispatches say that "jn each
town in Michigan which General Logan
has passed through, the schools have
been closed and the day recognized as
n holiday" The schcOl-boys who take
advantage of this holiday to hear Logan
will probably be convinced by him that
they can get along very We'll without
schooling.
NJ uo,J-;ol-e J,,,;,,. a. 1o.,.
period OF his retirement from public
Ii e. has not been an Indifferent or I'M
philosophical observer OF passing
events. His speeches strike the National
mind like n freshet of new ideas He
makes us distTust the accuracy of the
impression that old bottles are not tit
ted to hold new wine. BroOtiyn EGqI.
We'll posted Democrats say that
New York State IS good for at least
10000 majority for Cleveland. The
drift in the interior of the State is all in
favor of the Democratic candidates,
and New York and Kings Counties can
be depended upon to duplicate their
famous maiOrities of 1876. In fact.
Kings County, if reports can be relied
upon. will give an unprecedented ma
jority for Cleveland.
The latest defense of Blaine in
the railroad matter is the worst of all.
II is urged now that he was an inno-
cent man VINO fell into the hands Of
the shsrpers, Fisher and Caldwell.
Aside from the direct evidence that
proves the contrary, this is an extreme
II stupid defense. Blame and his
friends have insisted so long that all
his transactions with Fisher and Cald-
well were perfectly upright and honor
able that it is too late to play him for a
} -TnOn
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
1 Morrill, Question.

The Republicans have tried II hreaS
the force OF Mrs. Lot NJ MorrilrS share
denunciation of Mr. Blaine by appeal
Ing 10 the brother OF the late SenatD n.
The widow OF the latter. who may ba
assumed to have possessed a larger
share OF his confidence than anybody
else. says that her husbands estimate
of Blaine was years AFRO precisely what
that o. the Independent Republicans i:
to-day: that he told her in 1850 that.
although they would succeed that yea
if the Republicans did not take a sharp
turn in the direction Of personal fitness
in tire selection OF candidate thcv
would be beaten in 1881. Moreover,
she was satisfied that if her husband
were now alive he wou.d oppose Blaine
election. In this emergency the Repub-
iicanS appeal TO Ex-Governor Arson Z.
Morrill,. lie Is said to be all old man
whether IS old as Uncle Alien We
ar not told But he retains control OF
ms faculties SO far IS to TANK Just what
tire Republicans want him TO think.
lie is convinced that Blaine will be
elected and that If his brother Lot
were alive" he would be ''one of Mr..
Bla.ne's waCmeSt supporters Here is
a conflict o. evidence which. it is to be
hoped, will not lead to family quarrel
1t VIII be noticed that Arson Z. gives
no reason Tor the faith that is in him
such rs that Lot N. told him he would
be proud of a chance to support Blaine
or gave him an exalted estimate of
Blaine's character. On the other hand,
Mrs. Lot Ms testimony does not lack
this sort of continuation. We have had
the brother-in-law and the uncle. and
now we have the brother-in-law and the
lister-in-law together in politics.
Among the various questions upon
which the intelligent voter must make
up his mind before going to the polls is
whether Mrs: Lot NJ. or Mr. Arson p.
is better informed as to what Mr. Lot
NJ. would Go if, rs some stupid mem.
Ter Of the Ohio Republican COMMITTEES
supposed, he were alive to-day. al
though buried nearly Two years ago
.8ro9etya EGgie.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
Seeking Thrifty Wives.

Castle Garden in New York, where
immigrants are landed, is visited every
day by men who are seeking wives.
Some of these men, strange as it may
appear. find young women willing to
marry them, although in some instances
they scarcely know each others Ian
guage.
Anybody might suppose that men in
this country would not have to seek
wives in that way. Everywhere there
are manageable young women. They
are in such numbers that many of them
can hardly hope to get married. They
can not be ignorant of the reason the
men who seek wives do not seek them.
Men who 90 to Castle Garden are not
poor men and tramps whom no one
wants to marry. They are in nearly
every instance well-to-do farmers, who
want wives to be of some assistance to
them. They have no fancy for the
merely ornamental girl. They want
women who can make bread and per-
haps look after the dairy. They there
fore do well to seek them among the
thrifty people who come from abroad.
We raise cooks and dairy maids IN
this country in very rare instances.
There are not enough of the domestic
kind to supply wives to all those ava
ricious people who insist that wife
shall be no deadhead in the family en-
terprise. American girls make excel
lent wives in general and are not in
capable of intelligent management, but
they do not make good servantS.-PbI-
ddeLphia Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
Playing With Edg, Tools.

The man who has given Blaine the
most trouble in this campaign is that
iuiet and unoltrusive but clear-headed
and honorable gentleman, James MALI
gan. a lite over eight years ago he
went to Washington, summoned asl 4
witness by an investigating committee,
carrying with him a little green bag
which contained letters from james q.
Blaine to Warren Fisher. il, and which
over Blaine's own signature afforded
full and complete evidence that the
writer was corrupt man using the Sc
ond Office in point of infuen in the
United States for purposes of private
ga n. These letters came into Mr.. Null
igan's hands in a perfectly proper and
honorable way. His testimony as to
the way in which Blaine got them into
his own hands and kept them there is
chapter OF shame with which our cDun-
try is thoroughly familiar. II has made
absurd all attempts of the Blaine apol-
ogistS to whitewash the record of their
candidate. IS long as that testimony
i not impeached Blaine must stnnd
before the country blotched and
stained with the evidence of proved cor
ruption. Those who remember the cir
cumStances under which the testimony
of Mr.. MulliGan WAS given rs well a.
the character of the man, have not
dared to utter q word impugning his
vcracity. But there are signs OF rash
ness abroad. II there is any discretion
in the Republican party leaders they
Will call OIL their hounds. Senator Hear
in his open letter to his dear vouag
friend intimal cd shat Mr.. AIulligan was
drawing upon his ina .ination when he
drew that startling picture o. MI
Blaine's distress. 4 Blaine organ az
far away as Richmond, Va, attacks his
personal honor and character as the
only way to break the force of his test.
mony. Mr.. George p Lawton, Of Troy,
" Y. has been telling the people OF
Nassau that Nlulligan is thief Now
tn 5 is dangerous. Mr. MuIligan car
prove by thousand OF rs good men a.
there are in Boston that he bears an en-,
viable reputation rs gentleman OF
truth and honesty. hnd when that
reputation is thus established NJ. Mui-
igan is in possession OF vet Unrevealed
facts in the lie of Blaine which he can
give to the pWbiic. The I'ri,Gne should
send around the word no. to provoke
Mr.. Mulligan. He is loaded.
Post
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
People Who Do Not Eat Bread.

Baked loaves of bread are unknown
in many parts of South Austria and of
Italy, and throughout the agricultural
districts of Roumania. In the villages
of the Obersteiermark, not very many
miles from Vienna, bread is never seen,
the staple food of the people being
sterz, a kind of porridge made from
ground beech-nutS. which is taken at
breakfast with fresh or curj!ed milk.
at dinner with broth or tried lard, ami
with milk again for supper. In the
north of Italy, the peasantry live chief
y on polenta, porridge madeof boiled
maize. The polenta, however, IS NOT
allowed to granulate, like Scotch por-
ridge or the Austrian sterz, bet IS
boiled into solid pudding, which is
cut up and portioned ont with string.
It Is eaten cold as often IS it is hOt,
and is in every sense the Italian peas
ants bread. The modern Rolmanans
are held by many scholars 70 be de-
sceaded from a Roman colony in other
words to be the cousins of the italians;
and. curiouSlv enough. variation OF
the pOlenta called mamaliga ia the na-
tional dish of Roumania. The mama
liga is like the polenta in that it is
made of boiled maize, but it is unlike
the latter in one important respect, as
the grains are not allowed to settle into
a solid mass, but are kept distinct,
after the fashion of oatmeal porridge.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Never put blueing in babies clothes
which come next the skin, as it causes
painful chafing.-ErchanJe.
From the statistics furnished from
the Office of the Secretary of the State
Board, it is nearly demonstrated that
the yield OF wheat is guaged by the
number OF sheep kept on the farm
Michigan Farmer.
Canada thistles, plowed under in
the blow in dry time, are good
manure, apparently sent from heaven
for a valuable purpose. Allowed to
get rips, we readily imagine they come
from the other place.-FTairie Farmer.
Apples may be fed to cows in con-
siderable quantities, with the effect Of
increasing the milk, but it viii be best
to peg;n Nth small quantities at first,
and gradually increase the ration
Cincinnati Times.
A practical housekceper recon-
mends Oiling kitchen floors with boiled
iinseed oil to be applied boiling hot
with large paint brGsh, aid in a few
moments rubbed in and of with wooden
cloths. Grease spots do not show.
Put your clothes in warm water
over night; in the morning wiring them
from this into boiler containing strO1g
hot sudS, to which is added salsoda the
size of hickory nut. Boil them one
half hour, dip them into cold water, ru5
them out, rinse in clear, cold water.
then in water slightly blued, and you
will be surprised to see how easily your
washing is done. Albany Journal.
Vinegar without cider: MolaSses
one quart; yeast. one pint; warm rain
water, three gallons. Put all into
jug or keg, and tie piece OF gauze
over the bung to keep ont flies and let
in air. In hot weather set in the sun;
in cold weather set it by the stove. and
in three weeks you will have good vim
egar. When part of this has been
used fill up with the same preparation,
and in this way supply of good vine
gar can be kept constantly on hand
Utica Herald.
Baked fish: First, dip the fish
quickly in boiling water; then wipe the
scales off; rinse in cold water; wipe it
dry; sprinkle salt both inside and out,
about as much as you would for steaks.
Then dip in -four; place the pan that
you are going to bake it in i'll the stove
with piece of butter in it the size OF
an egg. Let it melt so that it covers
the pan. Your pan should be about
the length of your fish; if iarger, the
butter will be apt to burn. Place your
fish in it, the inside of it next to the
pan. Put it in a hot oven. and bake
one hour, if it is a large fish, less time
if smaller. 1t should be well done and
Of nice brown color Tic Household.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
Charles Reade's Faith.

1t seems appropriate to recall that on
that occasion, as we had done many a
time and oft before, we discussed the
everlasting problems of life, death, time
and eternity. Years ago he appeared to
me somewhat agnostic in his views;
now he hoped with a child's humility.
When l was leaving, after some hours
of earnest conversation, he said:
well, when all is said and done, when
Tyndal and Huxley have demonstrated
to their own satisfaction that protOplasm
is the beginning, when Darwin has
shown that the great gorilla is the mid
die, and Mill has proved that annihila-
ton is the great end, there yet remains
this fact which they can't get over
there can be nothing more wonderful
in our going hence than our coming
here. Therefore perpend, my son, here
are two quotations, both by great authors,
Charles Reade and Alexander Pope
The first is this 1.-TWO lines from your
pet poet, john:
There are on earth but two things
which never die-Love, which decays
not. and Faith, which binds the soul to
Heaven.
The last is this:
Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions
soar;
Wait the great teacher. Death, and God ADORE
John Coleman, in LfppiRcOtts Magazine.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
A Germ Filter for Water.

The tendency of research is to show
that the germs believed to cause so
many diseases are not found in the air,
except under exceptional circumstances,
but exist chiefly in water. This Is
probably due to the fact that rain and
filtration eventually br;Ay the products
of fermentation and decomposition into
the water-courses. Water may, there
fore, be considered as one of the princi-
pal agents in the propagation OF such
diseases; and N. Chamberlain has re-
Gently turned his attention to the pro-
ductiOn of microbe filter which would
purify water net only from its mineral
but its animal impurities. NJ. PaSteur
has employed 4 porus vase OF baked
porcelain to separate microbes froIS the
medium in which they are generated,
and this is the basis of NJ. Chamber
lands filter. The latter has observed
that water filtered through one OF these
vases contains neither microbes nor
their germs; and proof of it is that such
water can be added in any proportion to
susceptible liquids without causing any
change in them. The apparatus of NJ.
Chamberlain, which was recently
brought before the French Academy of
Sciences, can be fitted directly to any
water-pipe, and acts by the pressure eX-
listing III the latter. Under pressure of
about two atmosphereS. which is the
pressure in N. Pasteur' laboratory, N.
Chamberlain obtains with single po-
rus tube or '.filtering candle Gas he
called it) twenty centimetreS long and
twenty-five millimetres in diameter.
some twenty litres (about four gallOns)
| of pure water per day; that is to say, a
sufficient quantity for the uses of an or
binary household. BY multiplying the
number of candles or filter pipes, so as
to form sets or batteries" of them, a
supply of pure water sufficient for Il
school. hospital, works or barracks, can
be obtained. The filter, therefore. is of
! a practical kind, and being simple and in
expensive, will supply much feltwant.
The filter is cleaned by brushing its ex-
ternal surface, and plunging it into
boiling water, or by heating it directly
in a fire to destroy the organic matter
lodged in it; and properly cleaned, the
same tube will last indefinitely. While
upon this subject we may mention that
electricity has been suggested as means
of Kidding water of microbes, and fill
ter which electrifes the water has actu-
ally been designed and constructed
ERgtneeri1l9.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
Farmers, Care rGr Yourselves.

1 often think it strange that. as 4 rule,
a farmer is kinder to his horse than he
is to himself. If he takes O.: us road
ster. how careful he is on returning to
groom the animal till perfectly clean,
TO see that water is not given till the
animal has cooled; yet he will go
straight to the well and drink, often
without sense or reason; and, without
needing the perSpiratiOn that streams
from the pores, which are eiogged by
dust. he sits down TO dinner, satisfied If
hands and face are clean. A change
of underwear would no: occupy five
minutes, and any wife who thinks
about these things will place the gar
ments where they can be easily reached.
for man is an impatient being, and
must have what he wants there before
his eyes. Leather slippers do not alb
sorb moisture and are therefore best,
and nothing refreshes the feet more
than a regular washing in tepid water
aud clean socks.-N = ReraId. y
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
4 st amer sunk.

CAIRO, Ill, October 3.-The steamet
Metropolis, the regular packet between Pr
ducah and Metropolis. was swamped while
trying to land. amid The terrible storm which
passed over this section at five p. m. DAY be
fore yesterday, near BROOKLYN. The waves
ran entirely over the hoat, filing the opcl
hull, liz which The machinery was located
aid turning her ever in eight feet of wa 'pI
Her upper works Were badly wrecked. Ne
lives were lost. The vessel was valued at
$4,000. and may be saved if the water does
not rise 10 fast. No insurance is reported.
George Cowling and Richard Austin, Of
Metropolis, are the owners. The boat WIS
light at the time.
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WILMINGTON, DEL, October S-A
special from ElktOn, Md, says: Intelligence
las reached here that caiSSon No y of tile
Baltimore & Ohio bridge, over the Susque-
hanna River at Frenchtown sunk at eight
o'clock yesterday morning. The caissnn
was finally foatei with air pressure and
the water pumped out of the first chamber.
ODrien, the foreman, descended and opened
the door where the men were found. six i'm
all, in an exhausted condition. As soon as
OBrien signaled up that the men were
alive, loud cheers were given. The depth
of water where the caiSson sunk vas sixty
five feet - -
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09

WAsHuNGoN, October 1.-The Interna
tional Prime Meridian Conference began a
session yesterday. Forty delegates were
present represent ng twenty-three conn
:rieS. Secretary Fre,inghuysen welcomed
the delegates, and suggested that Count
Lewenhaupt, the Swedish Minister and
Dean of Diplomatic Corps he made tenn
rorary chairman. On taking the chair
Count Lewenhau?t suggested the Admiral
{. r. L. Rogers. chairman of the
American delegation, he made permanent
chaiTnain. Admiral Rogers, on assuming
the chair. defined the object CT the con
ventiOn TO be the establishing of prime
meridian. and be hoped there would be very
little trouble in effecting such result