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BOSTON & MAINE II. r.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
On and after Monday, Oct. go, 1884,
Passenger Trains will leave

UR anu AICer MOnuays Uct. ~, 1cofs
Passenger Trains will leave
PORTLAND for BOSTON at
10, 8.45 m, 90 and 600 p. m,
$50 s@sW=3arriving at Boston at 1O.45 a. m,
Lib, 500 and $50 p. m. BOs-
TON FOB PORTLAND at 900 a. M. II. 80,
$50 and 100 p. m, arriving at Portland LOO
500, $685. 1O.45 p. m. PORTLAND FOR
SEA II 5000, PINE POINT AND OLD
ORCHARD at 6.16, S.46 q. M, 800, $50 p.
m. FOR sACO at '6.15, 8.45, a. M, LOO,
500, $50, 6.OOp p. m. FOR BIDDEEORD,
IA ENNEBUNK AND NENNEBUNA-
PORT at 6.15, 8.46, a. M, LOO, 800,
$50 p. m. FOR WELLS at 6.15, 8.45 a. M,
800 .. m. FOR NORTH BERWICK
AND SALMON FALLS at els, S.45 a. M,
LOO. 800 p. m. FOR GREAT FALLS
AND DOVER at 6.15. 8.45 a.. M, LOO 800.
500 D. m. DOVER FOR BOSTON at 5.53.
7.55, 1926 q. m. 2.45, $40, 1928 p. m. PORT
LAND FOR NEWMA II EFT at els, 8.45,
a. M, 8 00* p. m. FOR ExETE q, HAvER
HILL, LAWRENCE AND LOWELL
at 6.15, SAB a m LOO. 5000 90 ?. m. FOR
AND ALTON BAY at 8.45 a. m, LOO, 800
pm. FOR MANCH ESTER AND CON
CORD, N, H., (via Newmarket Junction. at
6I5 a. M. 3.00* p. M. via Lawrence at 8.45 q. m.
MORNING TRAINS FOR PORT
LAND will leave Kennebunk at 7.25, and Dover
at 500, arriving at Portland at $50 and 1000.
GR-The 90 D. m. tram from Portland connects
with sound Line Steamers for New York and
all Rail Lines for the West and the 500 D. m. train
connects with all Rail Lines for New York
and the south and West.
Parie Cars on all through trains. Seats So
cured in advance at Depot Ticket Office.
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For Passport and Nova scotia.

Leave Mt Desert Ferry every FRIDAY at p.
m on arrival of day train from Boston, arriving
on SA rURDAY at Eastport a. m, Digby at 10 a.
M aud Annapolis at IL noon. making close connee-
tons with trains for Halifax, Yarmouth and all
ties Railways.
Returning, leave Annapolis MONDAYS at 1.30
D. m. on arrival Of day train from Halifax, touch
ing at Digby and Eastport, and arriving at Mt De-
sert Ferry TUESDAY at 4 a. M, in season to con-
meet with express train for Portland and Boston q,
Portland.
Rates Of fare and freight as low as by any other
route.
For further information enquire at Company's
Office r. r. wharf.
PAYSON TUCKER,
Gen'l Manager P. B. Mt. ID. & M. st. Co.
e. CUSHING,
GenI Manager N. e. q Acadia s. s. Co.
October 81, 1884. oc21dtf
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CCHR. EMMA A. HIGGINS, of Wellheet, SO
- AS 100 TONS new measurement; built in 1859;
suitable for banking or coasting business.
Apply to JOHN H, RYDER.
oct25eodtf Welfeet, Mass.
The Portland daily press., 1884-11-01

Miss Sawyer's salve cures erysipelas, salt
rheum, blotches, pimples, scrofulous sores, old
sores, and all diseases of the skin. Best fami-
ly salve in the world. Sold by all druggists,
and sent by mail for % cents.
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For Sale at a Bargain.

A TRUCK TEAM consisting of two horses in
n frst-class condition, weighing 1900 lbs. each,
harnesses, jigger and sled. Enquire of
ARA eESHMAN g. CO.,
oc21eodH Auburn, Me.
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SPOKE EN-.


Aug 20, lat "a. lon 5S E, barque supposed the
Harvard, Pray, from Iloilo for Boston.
No date, lat % 30, lon IA "a, sch M Q Moseley
from Gonoives for Boston.
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No adul Grafton in the Congress Yeast Pow
der, it is a perfectly pure Cream Tartar bak-
ing powder. 1t was never known to spoil
batch of -four.
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BEGINNING Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1884,
THE STEAMER CITY OF RICHMOND"
will run as fOIIOws-COastwise to East
port.

Leave Portland every WEDNESDAY at p. m.
or on arrival of Express train from Boston, touch
ing at all the usual landings including Mt Desert
Ferry where close connection is made with Night
train from Portland and Boston, arriving at East
port Thursday night. Also making connection at
Rockland for Penobscot River points, at Sedgwick
for Bluehill, and at Bar Harbor for Gouldsboro,
Lamoine, Hancock and Sullivan.
Returning-Leave Eastport every FRIDAY, at
a. M. touching at Machiasport, Jonesport, and
Millbridge and arriving Mt. Desert Ferry in
son to connect with afternoon train for Portland
and Boston.
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For Sale.

NINTH good garden for sale or to let on Grant
w St., at head of Lincoln St., Woodfords Cor
Enquire Of L. j. PERKINS, 489 Congress street,
Portland. oct25du
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EHOR SALE.-County rights for the State OF
Il Maine for patent applied to every door IN
the house, a smart man can make $1,000 per month.
5000 required. Call on JACOBS & MURRAY. 33
Beach ST., Room 1, Boston, Mass. oc2o-l
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Dry Goods Wholesale n1ar1es.


fhe following quotations OF stocks are received
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Personal-If the young lady who bangs the
piano and sings, Nobody Loves Me-" would
60 into the kitchen and help her mother, per-
haps somebody would.
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Wit and Wisdom.
BURNETT,s COCAINE

ST like bread covered up, best" said little
girl, meaning biscuit, "and walker" (the leg
of fowl.
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Raslread Reccips /.

PORTLAND, Oct. 81
Received by Maine Central Railroad, for Portland
80 cars miscellaneous merchandise; for connecting
roads, SO cars miscellaneous merchandise.
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One day Jessie was sitting in her grand
fathers lap and noticed that his head was
bald On top. She exc aimed: "Oh, Grandpa,
your heads peeking frool''
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fCAsAsAA n y O~pOOAAkNE
Promotes Vigorous and Healthy Gro,oth of
the Hair.
e. has been usedin thousands of cases where
the hair was coming out, and has never failed
to arrest its decay.
Use BuRNETT's FLAvoRMG ExTRAcTs-the
best.
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FOE SALE.
For Sale ar no lei.
House and stable.

nR. T. A. FOSTER having moved to ITO High
~ Street, is now ready to sell or let his house
No. II Brown Street. Possession given at once.
oc28 diff
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Grand Trunk Railway Of Canada,

CHANGE OF TIME.
On and after MONDAY, Sept. Sih, 1SS4,
Trains will rum as follows;
DEPARTURES
For Auburn and Lewiston, 7.16 a. M, Lilo
Rnd $40 D. m.
For Gorham, 1855 a. IN. and 400 D. m. mixed.
For Gorham, Montreal, Quebec and Chi
ARRIVALsi
From Lewiston and Auburn, 6.S5 3. M,
3.I5 and $50 p. m.
From Gorham, $40 q. m. and $50 pm. mixed.
FROM Chicago, Montreal and Quebec,
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on night train and
Parlor Cars day train between Portland and Mon
TICKET OFFICES
IA Exchange Street. and Depot
Foot of India Street.
TICKETS SOLD AT REDUCED RATES
TO
Canuda, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee,
CINCINNATI, 81. Louis, Omaha aaxi-
naw, So. Paul, Salt Lake City,
Denver, san Francisco
and all points in the
Northwest, West and southwest.
JOSEPH HICKSON, General Manager.
nm EDGAR, G. P. A.
sep8dtf j. STEPHENSON, Superintendent.
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Barque Gettysburg. Baker. from New Yorh for
Dunkirk. anchored of Dungeness 2Sth with loss OF
foremast having been in collision with a steamer.
Sch Stephen G Loud Torrey, at Savannah from
New York, reports, Oct 20, off Hunting Island,
lost part of sails.
Sch Edward Stewart Harlow, from New York,
with stone grounded below Savannah 28th and re-
mains. Tugs failed to pull her off,
Sch Eugenie of Machias, in ballast, dragged her
anchors and went ashore at Vineyard-Haven during
the night of 30tk She lies easy and will pro-
badly come off without damage.
Sch Eva & Belle, which recently capsized and
sunk in Deer Isle Island Thoroughfare, has been
raised. The money and guns We're recovered.
The Portland daily press., 1884-11-01

Georges Codash--We quote prime Georges at S41a
~ qtl for large and$3M for medium; Bank $2a and
$214; dry do at $31a@S36s and So " qtl. Shores
Haddock at s2:B qtl Hake s21a Pollock at $1M
slack salted Pollock $2ss@21s % qtl.
Boneless and prepared fish to 41ac - 10 for
Hake Alto 412c for Haddock and Cusk, and 44 -
&c for Codfsh.Smoked Halibut at 10c ~ fbSmoked
Salmon at tic; Scaled Herring at 16c % box; No
tucks at lac. Bloaters 75c; new Smoked Mackerel
&c " fb.
Mackerel-In moderate receipt with sales of
Shores at Sl41a@Sl5 for Is, S7@S71a for rs and
S24 ass for S. List sales of Bays out of pickle at
S121a y DBL inspected do Sic, $11 and So for Is,
Herring-we quote Nova Scotia large split at S5
~ Dbl; medium do at $34s; Labrador at 81; large
gibbed at $lA.
Trout at So p Dbl; Picked Goldfish and Haldock
at So. Halibut Heads at $31s, Tongues So; Sounds
at $11, Tongues and Sounds at $12, Alewives at
$31s; Salmon at Sill; New Fins at $1l; Fins and
Napes 81; No Shad $40; New Swordfsh S12.
Fresh Halibut-Last sales at 7 and 4c 9s fb for
white and gray in cargo lots.
Last sales of Pollock at 45c % cwt round.
Pure Medicine Oil 81 10 ~ gal, crude do al SOC.
Blacklist oil 7Oc Cod do 46a4Sc; Shore do at 44t@
45c;Porgie do. none on the market.
Porgie scrap at$12 % ton;Fish do $9;Liver do So.
Fresh livers soc % bucket.
Fish Waste 81 ~ ton.
Fifty fishing arrivals have been reported at this
port the past week, as follows
Fares. Grounds. Goldfish. Halibut. Mackerel.
10 Georges 41I.ooo 1900 ''is'
Grand Blk $4,000
Cape Shore 1000
Hank halii'tg $4,000
% Mackereling 1920
70 6o5,7oo zoo, 200 1880
Other receipts, 1856 bbls herring, 300 satls hake,
1856, 600 Tbs pollock and 1900 boxes smoked her
ring.
Recent mackerel receipts at other ports-At Port
land ll6 bbs, Boston 1865, Wellfeet 600, Booth
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WALDO STEAMBOAT CO.

I'm and after MONDAY, Sept. 10, the steamer
" "Alice" will leave Burnham's Wharf daily
Sundays excepted at 2.15 pm. for Little and Great
Chebeague Islands.
Leave Great Chebeague at 7.3o a. m, and Little
Chebeague at 800 a. m.
For freight or passage apply on board to
sep15df CAPT. STEPHEN KICKER.
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rRnM oup ooRRFspoNnENT

BOOTHBAY. Oct 3l-Ar, schs Lulu, Leighton
Portland for Millbridge; Aida, Lindsay, Portland
for Calias.
wISCASsET, Oct 3O-Sld, schs Hope Haynes
Otis, for Providence; Susan Stetson, Frlsbee. fol
Boston.
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ROOMS TO LET.
TO BE LET.

TNFURNIShED rooms at the st ,yulian Hotel,
u No. 1876 Middle Street.
The Dining Room will be thoroughly renovated
and reopened about the LIST of November and will
be under the proprietorship of Richard W. Under
wood. For rooms &c. apply to
RICHARD W. UNDERWOOD,
oct2dtf Janitor.
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MARRIAGES..

In this city, Oct. 3d. at the residence of the BRIDE
groom. by Rev. j. W. Bashford. Louis P. Clark and
Miss Ada M. Smith, both of Portland.
In Denver, Col, Oct. 15 at the residence of the
brides father, John l.. Curtis by Rev. r. S. Cross
Richard s. Storrs of Boston ana Miss Clara F.
Curtis of Denver.
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ENOR sALE-S50O buys stock and fixtures OF
IL LIST class confectionery store, located on WASH
ington St.; low rent good trade; one of the best
chances in city of Boston. w. F. CARRUTHERS,
"a fremont Row, Boston. octzo-A
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NOR SALE-S25O0. Stock and fixtures OF nice
II cash grocery and provision store; we'll stocked
and well fitted business $3.50 per week; established
years; thorough investigation invited; great par
gain. W. f. CARRUTHERS, "a fremont Row.
Boston. octz9-l
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MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY
For New York.

steamers leave Franklin Wharf, on Wednesday,
and Saturdays at p. M. Returning leave Pier 35
East River New York, on Wednesdays and Satur
days at 4p.m. j. B. COYLE. JR., Genr Ag't.
sep21 dH
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

TyOR sALE-S1200 buys 1st-class dining sa-
4 loon, seats 35; located in the business centre
Of Boston near r. Ii. Whites; furnished rooms
connected that will pay all the rent; terms easy;
owner has two places and must sell one; enjoys a
large transient trade. W. z. CARRUTHERS, "a
fremont Row, Boston. oc3O-l
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FROM MnRoHANr's ExoHANeE.

AR at Liverpool Oct 80, sch Helen A Chase, Ad-
ans, Great Wicomico River, Va.
Ar at Grayesend Oct 80, barque Gettysbnrg Ba-
ker, for Dunkirk.
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[An...N NOVEMBER
MARINE NEWS
PORT OF PORTLAND.

FRIDAY. Oct. 81.
Arrived.
Sch Andrew York, Wallace. Hillsboro, NIB, for
New York.
Sch Grace Gushing. Drinkwater. Gardiner for
New York.
Sen 9 Minout, Hathaway. Machias for Boston.
Sch Cocheco, Harris, Bangor for Boston,
Sch Hiram, Hibbard Calais for Boston.
Sch Sybel. Newbury, Calais for Boston.
Sch j b SIinson, Stinson, Deer Isle for Boston.
Sch Mazurka, Lane, kockport for Boston.
Sch Radiant, Hardy, Camden for Boston.
Sch Clio Chillcott, Fullerton, ClaTk's Island for
New York.
Sob Mary Elizabeth, Dunton. Boothbay.
Cleared.
Sch Uranus Clark, Hillsboro, NIB Winslow
g. Co.
Sch Ella Presley, Pressey, Rockland-J Nicker-
son 81 Son.
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REDUCED OCEAN TICKETS.

10y the largest, fastest and best passenger and
ID mail steamers between America and Europe.
Rates: First cabin $50 to 500; second cabin $40
to $50; intermediate $50 to 40; Storage, outward
and prepaid, to and from British ports S16, round
trip $50; steerage, outward and prepaid. to and
from Continental ports, SIT to S26. Scandinavian
and Sterling sight checks at lowest rates. Apply to
j. L. FARMER. ~ Exchange street. ie19dH
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RAILROADS.
Eastern Railroad.

On and after Monday, Oct. goth,
Trains Leave Portland,
At 2 n. mn. Daily Might Pulman) for Saco, Bid
deford, Kittery, Portsmouth, Newburyport, Sa-
lem, Lynn and Boston, arriving at 6. 20 a. m.
At 8, AS m. for Cape Elisabeth, ScarDoro, Saco,
Biddeford, Kennebunk, Wells, North and South
Berwick, Conway Junction, connecting for all
stations on Conway Division. Kittery, Portsmouth,
Newburypcrt. Salem, Gloucester, Rockport,
Lynn. Chelsea and Boston, arriving at Lib p. m.
At Leo d. ma. for Saco, Biddeford. Kennebunk,
Conway junction, Kfttery, Portsmouth, New
buryport, Salem, Lynn, and Boston, arriving at
800 p. M, connecting with Sound and Rail Limos
for al Southern and Western points.
At 600 p. mn. Express) for Boston and principal
Way Stations, arriving in Boston at $50 D. M,
connecting with Rail Lines for New York.
Sundays at 200 pm. Express for Boston and prin-
cipal Way Stations, arriving at Boston $50 p. m.
Trains Leave Boston,
At $780, 900 a. M, and arrive in Portland at IL 55
o. m. and LOO p. m. At 1890 p M. and arrive
in Portland 800 p. m. At 700 p M, daily, and
arrive in Portland at 10.45 p. m.
Pullman ParlOr Cars
On trains leaving Boston 9 90 a. M, ~ 80 and 90
D. m and Portland 8.45 a. M, LOO and 600 p. m
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars
On Trains leaving Boston at p. M, and Portland
200 a. m.
Through Tickets TO all Points south and
agent; also at 40 Exchange street.
october II, 1884.
PAYSON TUCKER,
d. W. SANBORN, General Manager.
Master Of Tram. LUCIUS FUTILE,
ocl7du Gen'l Pass'r Agent.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24
ASTONISHING A CONDUCTOR

"The last time / went to Boston,
confided thin, consumptive-looking
traveller on the Eastern road to a
fellow passenger, "the conductor
grew monotonous. He insisted on
examining my ticket at every station
and grew restless as we passed wa
tering troughs. sThis time," the
traveller continued, as he looked
anxiously toward the car door, eve
play change of programme and the
boxes are all TAKEN
AS the conductor entered with a
pompous ''tickets, please" the
stranger quietly presented single
trip ticket for the next station. The
next time he entered the unknown
handed him mileage ticket, follow
ing it later with sportsman's ticket
for Labrador. AS the conductor was
passing him on the next round the
traveller passed in an emigrant's tick
ct for Puget Sound into his hand
then tried to get him to take a first
class passage to Sing Sing with a
sleeper check.
'sDidn't I just punch a Puget
Sound ticket for you?" demanded
the astonished conductor.
ssMust have been another party"
quietly replied the traveller, burying
himself in the last Ha,per's.
Again "tickets, please" echoed
through the car, and the stranger
confronted the conductor with a
ssFlorida for the winter" via the
Richmond boats.
'sSee here" said the enraged Off
cial. .sWhat does this mean?
have punched tickets for you for all
parts of the globe. Haven't got a
a child's ticket to Patagonia or a
Hong Kong show excursion, have
you? If you give me any more tickets
| to punch, I'll punch your head"
eyes," replied the director, I u.s.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24

Eau REvoIR. ''-s'Why are you sad
when speaking those words ?" he asks.
No answer. The vesper chimes of
the cathedral league away come
stealing over the hills that lie to the
westward, and as their tones-sweet
and solemn and faint-fall upon Car
ollne's port ear, Jasper feels a shud-
der pass over her 1.-THE form. She is
intensely religious, this girl, and with
the sudden instinct of man who has
played third base he resolves to turn
this reverence or hers for all things
spiritual to account. ssListen," he
says in whispered tones. SIT is the
vesper hour. The chimes are calling
the faithful to worship, and one who
deliberately tells falsehood at this
time can never be saved. You know
this, Caroline, do you not?"
eyes" murmurs the girl.
"And would you perjure yourself?" 2"
'No." The voice is faint and low.
''Then tell me" he says, "why you
were sad when saying 'Au revolr' to
me little time ago."
II cannot" she says.
''But you must" continues Jasper.
II demand an answer"
For one instant she looks up at him,
her pure young face as white as if the
hand of death were upon it, and then
she whispers softly: II cannot y
"But why can you not tell me the
cause of your sadness when speaking
those words p
Because" she says, looking at
him tenderly. "I do not know what
they mean.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24

ually travel on this, presenting di-
rector's pass, "but we understand
that passengers on your train get
lame in the arms showing their tick
cts, and have no time to take in the
scenery; so l am instructed to noti-
fly you that there is good vacancy
on the night freight unless we hear
of Improvement, and the director
returned to Puck and the frightened
conductor passed two tramps one
hundred miles, not daring to call for
tickets.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24
Young Needless.
oung Needless is a boy

Young Needless is aboy
Who lives in every town.
His name? 'Tis sometimes Jimmy Smith,
And sometimes Tommy Brown.
Young Needless goes to school
When he can find his hal
At home he loves to play at ball
When he can find his bat.
Of mittens, one is gone;
OF frubbers, two or more;
And on the very coolest day
He never shuts the door.
The hammer s always lost;
The saw left on the ground;
And when he wants his button-hook
1t never can be found.
To buy piece of beef,
You send him to the shop;
He loses all the change he had,
And brings you mutton chop.
For all those careless things,
And more that could name,
Young Needless always feels quite sure
He never is TO blame.
His father would despair,
But that this thing is true
That forty years or so ago,
He was Young Needless too.
Tile Aduance.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24
The Advance.
The River.

The lights of the city glimmer
In the swift, black wave below;
Like ghosts that fit in the cleaning
The white ships come and go.
White and dim and stately,
The good ships seaward go;
Luck to you, captains and sailors,
However the winds may blow!
White and dim and stately.
The good ships homeward throng;
Welcome, captains and sailors,
Your voyage has been long!
And sweethearts' eyes shall glisten,
And wives shall joyful be,
As the little children listen
To your tales of the stormy sea.
But what are the wrecks you tell of
To the wreck of love like mine?
The river murmurs and glitters;
Above the cold stars shine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
year, cotton wedding second year,
paper wedding; third year, leather
wedding; fifth year, wooden we'd
ding; seventh year, woolen wedding;
tenth year, tin wedding; twelfth year,
silk and fine linen wedding; fifteenth
year, crystal wedding; twentieth
year, China wedding; twenty-ffth
year, silver wedding; thirtleth year,
pearl wedding; fortieth year, ruby
wedding fiftieth year, golden we'd
ding; seventy-ffth year, diamond
wedding.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24

over the whole human family, over
you and me, over Belle and her car
penter.''
s.You are more sentimental than I
thought. hope the fates have some
worthy carpenter in store for you."
'And a nobleman for you p
Years after, when Bellies carpen-
ter was judge, these friends remem-
bered this conversation, and the de-
piser of manual labor remarked:
81 see you are right. 1t is better
to be carpenter with a noble heart
and fine mind, who las the energy to
wolk for something higher, than to
be a so-called gentleman, willing to
rest on the laurels of his ancestors. +"
Eyes, in this country at least, all
pride of family and caste is out of
place. The carpenter of to-day may
be the judge of tomorrow, and the
humblest mechanic may have all the
instinct of the gentleman.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24

Did She Die?-"No: she fingered and suffered
along, pining away all the time for years the doc
tors doing her no good; and at last was cured by
this Hop Bitters the papers say so much about.
indeed indeed how thankful we should be for
that medicine"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24
ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR SAY.
INGS.

/ have had as to the origin of many
familiar old sayings, they may like
to have here the explanation of some
such, which found recently in an
English book. The majority of these
proverbial sayings are, l suppose,
of the old date, and come down to US
from our English or Dutch fore-fa-
theirs. Here is the origin of the ex-
preston ''tick" for credit, which !
have always taken to be quite mod
ern slang. 1t seems, on the contra
ry, that it was in the seventeenth
century and is corrupted from ticket,
as tradesman's bill was then COM
monty called. On tick was then on
ticket.
''Humble pie' refers to the days
when the English forests were stocked
with deer and venison pastry was
commonly seen on the table of the
wealthy. The inferior and refuse
portion of the deer, termed the cum
bles," were generally appropriated to
the poor, who made them into pie
hence ''umble-pie, became suggest
i've of poverty and afterwards was
applied to degradation of other kinds.
"a wild-goose chase was a sort
of racing resembling the flying of
wild geese, in which, after one horse
had gotten the lead, the other was
obliged to follow after. AS the Sec
ond horse generally exhausted him.
self in vain efforts to overtake the
first, this mode of racing was finally
discontinued.
The expression "a feather in his
cap' did not signify merely the right
TO decorate ones self with some to-
kens of success. but referred to an
old custom among the people of
Hungary, of which mention is made
in the Landsown manuscripts in the
British museum. None but he who
had killed Turk was permitted to
adorn himself in that fashion, or to
"show the number of his slaine enc
mys by the number of feathers in his
cappe." 1t occurs to me to question
whether the similar phrase "plume
himself has not its source in the
same tradition.
A "baker's dozen" was originally
the DEVILS dozen, thirteen being the
number of witches supposed to sit
down together at their great meetings
or Sabbaths, hence the superstition
about sitting thirteen at table. The
baker YVES an unpopular character
and became substitute for the devil.
The explanation of the proverbial
saying about "Hobson's choice" is
given by Steele in the Spectator No.
500. Hobson kept livery stable,
his stalls being ranged one behind
another, counting from the door.
Each customer was obliged to take
the horse which happened to be in
the stall nearest to the door, this
chance fashion of serving being tho't
to secure impartiality.