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BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.

DIR. G. H. HUGHES. the alienist, says that cholera
is essentially disease of the nervous system.
Bob BURDETTE has finished his lecturing for the
season. and says he has hung his chin up nail
for the summer"
JOHN RUsKIN will issue, June 1. the first part of
his Compromised autobiography. under the title
of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Mem
ory."
Mr.. PARNELL since his marriage separates himself
more than socially from the members of his
party and does not come to the House save on spe-
cia occasions. He did not vote on the censure.
To the beginning of his last illness, Victor Hugo
persisted in taking daily walks varied with rides on
the knife board of an omnibus No matter what the
weather was he never would wear overcoat.
A SAN FRANCISCO reporter, who has interviewed
Fanny Davenport is ungaant enough to say that she
owes her recently reduced and comparatively fine form
less to Bantng than to the skllful compression of
Paris corset-maker.
OLD George Bancroft not content with daily riding
on horseback, exctes the envy of Washington dudes
BY wearing close and faultlessy fitting snort black
velvet riding jacket and buff brooches that fit to his
finely formed legs like molds to parafine candles
FRANZ List the pianist at Weimar, has COM
petey recovered from his recent illness and though
seventy four will go to the music festival at Baden
then to the Composers Congress at Carlsruhe after
wards to Antwerp, and will round all summer
like young fellow of forty.
PLUCK wins! 1t always wins. Though days be slow
And nights be dark twixt days that come and go,
Still pluck will win. Its average is sure.
He gains the prize who can the most endure.
Who faces issues he who never shirks,
Who waits and watches, and who always works.
Toronto Mail,
CARL Rosa says that while music is his profession.
politics and paintings his hobbies. His house is
regular art gallery all through Prominent in the
dining room is large picture by Joe jefferson the
actor. Ar. Rosa, forty-two years DID, is spare,
1.-THE man. with light hair and huge mustachs. lie
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GUM-CHEWING.

With all the cutlery against theaters, roller
skating, progressive euchre, tobacco, opium
and 'rum," the guardians of public morals
and manners have by singular oversight
neglected to make any onslaught against that
insidious vice, the chewing of gum. Few
observant persons but must have noticed the
alarming spread of the evil during the past
year or two. Gum has always been chewed
to some extent during the present generation,
but the earlier cases were sporadic, and those
addicted to its use usually persons of so tender
an age that their habits were controlled with
comparative ease by their elders Some of
these infants died young it is true, but far
the greater number abandoned the use of gum
and grew up to be honored and respected
members of society Owing, however,
to the fact that the evil was not
completely stamped out in its incipiency-a
little gum is easily fattened-it survived, and
has assumed enormous proportions. The hab-
it is no longer confined to young children,
though among them it is epidemic. It does
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Victor Hugo's Last Days.

new YORK sun
A Paris letter to the Courier des Etats Unia
describes the scenes at Victor Hugos bedside
during his illness. On Holy Thursday several
guests, including NJ de Lesseps, dined at Hugos
house, and the poet was in high spirits, and gave
no token of approaching illness. In the middle
of the following night he was seized with some
trouble of the heart which rapidly developed
into the malady that ended his life. In q few
days he became convinced that he could not
recover, and to those who spoke to him en-
couragingly of his condition, he replied:
mo, it is the end. feel that am going ia
die"
On the morning of May 10, three days before
his death, Nine Lockroy asked him:
How do you feel, father?'
''Well very we'll, he replied. "It is death; il
is welcome"
Then to M. Lockroy he said "My friend, il
is dying man who speaks to YOU" He added
an instant later:
death is very long; it is too long" In the
course of the preceding night, during a moment
of delirium, he pronounced in loud voice this
line:
"C'est lei lie combat du jour ct de la mutt"
Then he talked of his grandchildren. Be-
tween his fits of deirium he conversed freely
with the members of his family. One day ha
seemed buried in recollectons Of his youth; then
he talked nationally with the bystanders and
suddenly. in the midst of the talking, he began
to recite verses of a Spanish poet. He had al
ways had liking for Spain, in which country
he passed part of his childhood.
AS soon as the attacks passed he would resume
his cheerful mood.
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knew the result of the battle and the works
were quietly evacuated by them in the night.
Morris pursued the retreating force, however,
until the retreat became rout, the enemy max
ing their last stand at Carrick's Ford.
There was and could be no question OF the
success of the campaign and as little OF the eff
feet upon the future of Mcclellan. He received
the honors and was as he says in the Century
article. suddenly called to Washington But
as have intimated, the credit of the campaign,
so far as the strategic plan is concerned, has
never been given where it belonged. The public
naturally attributed it to Mcclellan, the general
commanding. and the modesty of the soldier who
originated 1T has permitted it to rest there.
Another word, and this contribution to history
is ended. There was meeting at Grafton be-
tween Mcclellan and Morris on the day the
former was suddenly called to Washington
Major Love and myself were present, and
think no one else. In that interview General
Mcclellan expressed his gratitude to General
Morris for the services rendered, not only in the
conduct of his immediate command, but for the
very efficient service in suggesting the campaigns
which had been so successful to our arms Other
things were mentioned and matters talked of in
that interview not necessary to mention in this
communication, but which could net we'll be
forgotten by some of those present, in the light
of subsequent events. CYRUS G. HINES.
PRoCToRsvILLE. Vt, May 90 1885.
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is notably domestic in his habits, spending all his
leisure time with his wife and children and is scarcely
prouder of anything than that his twoyearold boy
Herbert can sing the ''policemans song in THE Pr
ates of Penzance" correctly
THE wife of Mr.. Chandler, exSecretary of the Navy,
was the daughter of former Senator Hale, while the
wife of Senator Hale of the present day is the daugh
ter of former Secretary Chandler No relationship
exists between the families. One has son named
Hale Chandler, and the other named Chandler
Hale.
1T is announced that 500 900 copies of Miss
Alcotts works have been sold by Roberts Brothers
Little Women" published in 1868, had sale of
IT'S 900 copies. Within six weeks from publication
As 900 copies of Little Men, were disposed Of The
advance orders for IAN Oldfashoned Girl called for
$4,000 copies.
THE time of day is announced every day at Wool
wich England at l p M, and $50 P. NJ by firing
off a blank charge of powder from nine FOUNDER
bronze gun. Notwithstanding this fact courageous
little sparrow has made her nest in of the boxes
of the carriage which the gun rests, and has
Matched out FIVE little sparrows.
STATUE of the poet printer, Stephen Dolet, is to
be erected in Paris upon the spot where he burned
at the stake on Aug. g. 1916. for doubling the i'm
mortality of the soul History records that he
endured his doom with fortitude and even INDUCED
in Latin pun--"Non dolet ipse Doet, sed pia turba
dolet'-while on his way to the fatal stake
NEW YORK Tribune: understand that the appoint
ment of Carl Schurz financial agent and attorney of
the foreign bondholders of the Philadelphia, New
York & Buffalo railroad was the result of recon-
mendations of Henry Willard who is still abroad and
that the retainer was $40, 900. There are between
81 900 600 and So, 600, 600 of the $25 900 900 of
the bonded Indebtedness held by a syndicate whose
headquarters at Frankfort.
MARSHAL gallant, grand and tall,
figure fit to move stole,
About to meet the fatal ball,
Unbanching barred his breast heroic.
But why that elder day recalli
We surely haven't refrigerated.
Fair women now, for every ball,
Unfinching bare-aye, more than Ney did.
New York SUM-
1T ought not to be forgotten Of Lord Dudley, says
London Truth that during the terrible Crimean win
ter of 1954-55 he fitted out large yacht with
cargo of comforts and necessities for the wounded
and went with her to the Black Sea, where his OPP
por tune gifts most gratefully received for they
at the very worst of the distress All the game
shot on Lord Dudleys estates during-two seasons
sent to the wounded and convalescent who had
returned from the war;
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Hugo's Strange Belief.


Victor Hugo was always convinced that he
would meet all his friends in a future world. He
was equally sure that he had always existed
from the antediluvian times when the Creator
placed him on earth. He believed that he would
exist forever, inasmuch as he felt in his soul
thousands of hymns, dramas and poems that
had never found expression. When the
atheists would say to him: 1.-THE proof
that you will not exist in the future is that you
did'not exist in the past" Hugo would answer:
Who told you | did not exist in the past centu-
ries? You will say that is the legend of the ages
The poet has written: Life is fairy tale twice
written. He might have said thousand times
written. There is not an age in which cannot
find my spirit You do not believe in the doc
trine of surviving personalities for the reason
that you do not recoeet your
anterior existence But how can the
recollection of vanished ages remain imprinted
on your memory when you do not remember o
thousand and one scenes and events of your
present life! Since 1902 there have been ten
Victor Hugos in me- Do you think that / can
recall all their actions and all their thoughtsi
The tomb is dark, and when shall have passed
the tomb to emerge into light once more. all
these Victor Hugos will be almost wholly
strangers to me, but it will always be the same
soul"
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The Best Selling Books.

John Wanamaker's Advertisement.
The best selling book in the store today is the
Bible. 1t always is. Just now, of course it is
a long way ahead The next best is always a
novel, Now it is Ramona, by FL. H. CD pub
lished just before Christmas. In the holiday
furry it got overlooked-began to sell about
February. The third best, reckoned by the
number sold in day, is Ben Hur, by Lew Wal
lace ISL. 10y, published four years ago. 1t began
slowly, went on steadily gaining, and for two
years past has sold faster than any other book,
except now and then brief interruption by
something new The fourth best is either Web
ster's Dictionary, Mother Goose, or Robinson
Crusoa
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not even stop with the high-school girls,
though the dealers in their neighborhood grow

not even stop with the high-school girls,
wealthy; its ravages have extended to old and
otherwise reputable members Of the commun-
ity until it is not uncommon to see staid la
dies biting off sections of 'tolu," and mothers
in Israel moving their jaws, not in prayer but
in the mastication of tutti-frutti' Ard
this they do, not in the privacy of their own
apartments, but on the public streets, in
shops, on the cars, and in places of amuse
ment. Indeed the latter are a favorite resort
of gum chewers when they wish to indulge in
uninterrupted revels, for the reason, perhaps,
that they are not required to talk at the
same time, not that conversation is necessar-
lily interfered with by the prevalence of the
habit; alas, no. Gum-chewers can talk and
chew with great vigor at one and the same
time. Articulation is somewhat impeded, of
course, by the presence in the mouth of a
"wad" Of gum, but the girl who hesitates to
speak unanimously on this account is not to
be classed with the hardened and hopeless
chewers.
1t is matter of dispute, however, among
those who have considered the matter.
whether it is more dangerous to the we'll being
Of the victim to humble conversation with
the mouth full, or to remove the gum
and hold it in the fingers, or
place it in some conspicuous spot while talk
ing. There is also some disagreement in
regard to the varieties of gum, some main
tanning that the sort which fiavors the chewers'
breath with turpentine is the most objection
able, while others hold that the paregoric-
scented species is calculated to produce
pestilence. 1t is not known that the chewing
of gum causes cancer, but there is no ques-
ton that the evil is the source of such dis
tress and much suffering that some means
should be devised whereby it may be abated.
The victims of the vice suffer more mentally
than physically; they shun companionship,
especially of the feminine sort; they
become misanthropical, and are inclined to
pessimistic views of the future. They have
heart ache, if not actual disease of the heart,
and are filled with disgust of life which is
only dissipated by removing them from the
sight of gum-chewers. For, Of course, it is
understood that the victims are not they Of
the active jaws; the victims of the vice do not
chew gum. A cruel fate compels the suffer
ers from the habit to gaze upon the rapidly
moving chins of those who do, to listen to the
sounds of mastication, and to inhale the pene-
trating odors of the various compounds. The
same fate forbids them, as in the case of those
who suffer from the onion habit in others,
from mitigating their misery by INDUCING in
the same vice. Will some reformer who is
looking about him for a job please immortal
ize himself by opening crusade against
oI1m2
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A Great Man in Every Sense of the Word.
Cleveland Leader
Vice president Hendricks, looking as clean
and natty as ever, passed by with his plug hat
balanced on the side of his head. Seeing him,
an Indiana Democratic congressman remarked:
1.-The people of the country have wrong idea
as to Hendricks position in Indian. He has
hold upon the people there which nothing can
shake, and he is the great man OF the State.
The Hooslers like Voorhees,, but they
look upon him as a great, big
hearted, overgrown boy, with intellect and
wit enough to be senator They are willing to
keep him senator as long as ne lives, but
they do not look upon him in any other way.
Hendricks is great man in every sense Of the
word The papers are sneering at him now, and
talking about his ms and outs with Cleveland,
but he is getting his work in all the same, and
Indiana has her full share of the appointments
Cleveland and Hendricks are intimate terms,
and Hendricks never has to cool his heels in the
private secretary's room waiting to see the Pres
ident -
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Not Altogether without Hope.

Louisville Courier Journal.
The disappearance of the tally-ho coach from
Louisville is much lamented, but it should be re-
membered that the fire department wagons are
still painted red, and that the patrol wagon is at
the service of our citizens, day and night
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The Church Row Over Instrumental Music.
Pittsburg Chronicle.

The Church Row Over Instrumental Music.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
1t is the misfortune of the churches that they
make their tendency to magnify insignificant
things more conspicuous than their great deeds
for humanity. Thousands of people know all
about this dispute over instrumental music who
know nothing of the heroic history of United
Presbyterianism. and like truth will apply to
all the other churches That is something which
the religious press invariably overlooks. 1t
studies all such questions from the dis
putants point of view, imagining that
everybody is as profoundly interested in the
question as the disputants themselves. The
religious press views these questions exclusively
from the professional stand point and estimates
their Importance exclusively from the effect
which they have on the mind of the church; the
secular press views them from the non-profes-
sional point. and estimates their Importance
from the effect which they have on non-religious
men and women. The mission of the church is
to these. Anything which raises barrier be-
tween these and the church is an obstacle to that
mission.
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also progress quite as rapidly in the road to
pure and holy life, if they obey the reason
God has given them, and obey the Apostles
injunction to '1et all things be done decently
and in order"
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Ready for His Duty.

Leary tGa.) Courier
We return our sincere thanks to our friends
for the kind expressions of best wishes over our
recent marriage. We shall endeavor to fill the
full measure of husband
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Like All Male Peanle.

Burlington (vt) Free Press
The male Goldfish always takes care of the eggs
and young. The only peace in life which the
male Goldfish enjoys is when he gets salted down
and stored away in q country grocery.
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A Possible Change.

Baltimore American
Will it be necessary for pilots in New Yorl
harbcr to call it hereafter 'Sheol Cater
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LITTLE CROWLEY" the sick chimparzee in
Central Park is improving and will get we'll.
His fellow mugwumps were very soiicitous about
him
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THE tomb of President Zachary Taylor was
decorated yesterday by the people of Louisville
The memorial address was delivered by Gen.
James A. Ekin, y. S. A.
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A NEW YORK horse has distinguished himself
by eating dozen bananas, ''skins and ALL" a,
one sitting. Heretofore the horse had been re-
garded as very intelligent animal
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The Portland daily press., 1885-08-24
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.
June 2S, 1855.
OFFICE HOURS

OFF1CE HOURS:
s, From 7.3o a. m; to 500 ?. M, SUNDAYS excepted.
Sundays, open for Carriers and General Delivery,
from 9 to 10 a. IN.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate offices-Arrive at 1906
p.m Close at 8 L. a. M, 300 and 800 ?, m;
and lilo p. m. Close at S.15 a. M, 1900, BIO
and 900 p. m.
Intermediate or Way Mails, via Boston s. Maine
Railway-Arrive at 1920 and S25 p. m Close at
S.15 a. m. and 1900 p. m.
Great Southern &Western-Arrye at IL. 05, 5.15,
S25 and lilo p. M Close at 5.15 a. m, 1900,
Glib and 900 p. m.
Bangor and connecting routes-Arrive at Ito
p m. Close at 11.45 a, IN. and 9.00p.m
Augusta and connecting routes-Arrive at 900
a. M, and lilo p m. Close at 11.45 a. m, 40
and 800 p m.
Arrive at 9.45 a. m Close at 800 a. M.
Lewiston and Authoritative at 2.05 and 900
a. m. and LILO p. m. Close at 615, 11.45 a. M,
Eastport, via each steamer-Arrive at 600 a. M
Close at 440p. m
Foreign Mails, via New York day previous to
sailing of steamers-Close at 8.15 a. M
Express, Augusta, Bangor and the East-Arrive
at 205 a. m. Close at 800 p. m.
Skowhegan, intermediate officeS and the North
Arrive at Ito p. m. Close at 11.45 a. IN.
Skowhegan also closes at 900 p. m.
Canada and intermediate offices, via G. I. R.
Arrive at 12.45 p. m. Close at 12.45 p. m.
Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island-Close
at Lao a. m. and 900 p. IN.
SW2ntOn, VT, and intermediate OtfceS via p. & o.
r. R.--Arriye at $40 p. m. Close at As a. m.
Bartlett, N H., and intermediate offices, via P. g.
o 4 R.-Arriye at 800 a. m. Close at II 40 a. m.
T. s. r. r. R-Arrive at LOO pm. Close at 1890
p. m.
Rochester N H. and intermediate offices. via P
g. II. r. R.-Ciose at 100 a. m.
Carriers deliveries are made daily Sundays ex-
cepted) III the business portion the city at 100
and 1000 a. M, 1920, LAO and 500 p. M In
other sections at 800 a. m., LAO and 500 D. m.
Collections are made on week days at 100 and
II 90 a. m, and 400 and 500 p m. On Sundays
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-24
M -ARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.
SATURDAY, August %.
Arrived.

SATURDAY, August %.
Arrived.
Steamer State of Maine Hilyard st John, NIB
via Eastport for Boston.
Sch Katie j Ireland, Fisher, Baltimore-coal to
Portland & Ogdensburg RR.
Sch Ellen M Colder, Mcleod Baltmore-eoal
to Portland y 0gdensburg RR.
Sch Thos w Hyde, Sherman, Philadephia-coal
to Sargent, Dennison g. Co.
Sch Lizzie Dewey, Peters, Philadelphia-eoal to
Sargent, Dennison & Co.
Sch Sallie Pom, West, New York-coal to JOS II
Poor
Sch Fleetwing, johnson, New York for Lubec
;, Sch Ida Billiard, Richards, Boston, to load for
BuenoS Ayres.
Sch Witch Hazel, from Boston, for repairs
Sch II II Colson, Staples, Boston.
Sch Hooper, Calais for Boston.
Sch Lulu, Leighton, Boston for Millbridge
Sch Tiara. Chatto, Bluehill-fsh barrels to d
Themes.
Sch A T Haines, Dodge, Brooksville
Sch Emma, Littlejohn, Kennebec, for Phila-
delphia.
Schs John Somes, with 200 bbls maekerel; Jas
Warren, so do; Annie Sargent, 80 do.
Cleared.
- Steamship Eleanora, Bragg, New York;
Coyle, Jr.
Barque Geo W Sweeney, Hewitt, Philadelphia
Clark & Chaplin Ice Co,
Sch Cyrus Hail. Coombs, Kennebec, to load for
Baltimore-Chase, Leayitt & Co.
Sch Portland Packet, Gardner, Eastport-N
Blake.
Sch Mabel, STout, Millbridge-N Blake
Sch Louisa Frances Thorndike, Rockland-
Kensell & Tabor.
Sch Orissa B Kimball, Kimball, North Booth
bay-N Blake
SAILED-Schs Moses Webster, and Emma.
SUNDAY, August %.
The Portland daily press., 1885-08-24
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, AUG. "a.
The PRESS.

May be obtained at the Periodical Depots of N.
6. Fessenden Marquis, Armstrong, Hodsdon,
Robert Costello, Fitzpatrick, Jewett Peterson,
Starks, Strange, Gould, flanagan, Wade, Boston
4 Maine Depot and Chisholm Bros, on all trains
that run out of the city.
auburn, Willard Small & Co..
Augusta, j. +. Pierce.
MBangor, Bangor News Co.
f-1Bar Harbor, +. S. Jordan.
EBath, j. o. Shaw.
6 BiddefOrd, f. M. Burnham.
Eg%%s +" A. l.. Jefferson.
t1lBrunsWick B. G. Dennis0n.
WCumberland Mills, +. A. Verrill.
MDamariscotta, e. W. Dunbar.
MFrseport, w. A. MITCHELL
MFryeburg, A. f. Lewis.
Fairfield, E. II. Evans.
NFarmngton, ID. HI. Knowlt0n.
Gardiner, Palmer & Co.
Gorham Jas. H. Irish & Co.
sHaowen, c. L. Spaulding.
Lewiston, Chandler s. Estes.
r:jLong Island, T. NJ. Glendenning.
dsLivermore Falls, G.. d. Hughes.
elMeehanic Falls, A. W. Bridge, f. A. Thomas
rlNorway, S. l.. Crockett, A. 0. Noyes
sold Orchard Geo. E. Fogg, A, l.. Jellison.
IlRichmond, G. A. Beale.
r-1Rockland, O. s. Andrews.
] 5Sabattus, E. H. johnson.
aSaccarappa, A. I'll. Adams.
-Saco, H. b. Kendrick & Co.
| SpringYale. G. III. Pierce.
sESo. Paris, A. NJ. Gerry.
EThOmaston, s. Delano.
Vinalhayen, II. NJ. Roberts,
ssWaldoboro, G. Bliss
Waterville, G. H. Hayes.
Yarmouth A. H. Seabury.