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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-14

hESSEBEC.

1t is said that Wsterville people will at
once begin preparations for laying pipe to
bring water from snow pond in Oakland, un-
der the old charter If this is done Oakland
will contest the matter far as the law will
allow
Col, Smith of the Boston Journal has been
invited to deliver a memorial address on the
life of the late ex-Gnv. Coburn at the Colby
commencement next summer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-14
SAGADAHOC.

The Cornelius Pond Ice Co. of Phipsburg,
under the management of the Stewards of
Bangor, has closed up operations for the
present, having shipped 5000 tons of ice to
New York, and having housed 81 900 to be
shipped later. The Manager Harry ID.
Stewart, has made full settlement with the
employees, for the winters harvest of ice.
Wages, sl.0O and 81 % per day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-14

The Commercial says; The smoke stack
at the electric station will be s feet square at
the base, 4 feet square at the top. and about
100 feet high. 1t will contain 60. 900 bricks
The boot factory of Parker and Peaks,
Bangor, will commence running again on
full time very soon. This factory has a ca
pacity of 60 cases a day and employs $50
hands. Only about third of that number
has been employed this winter and they for
only a part of the time. The factory is equipped
with machinery of the most recent inven-
ton, there being machine for every part of
the work
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Three Meals q Day Necessary.

An English writer gives some much
needed advice a t. the times and fire.
luency OF meals. In his opinion the
present usua! practice Of three meals a
,lay has good reason. as wen as custom.
in its fav, When work of any kind
is being done. whether mental or
bodily. the intervals between taking
food should net he so long As to entail
demands on the system when its store
for the generation of force is exhausted.
An ordinary full meal, in the case Of
healthy man, is generally considered
to have been completely digested and
to have pas sed cut Of the stomach in
four hours. A period Of rest should
then he granted TO the stomach. As
Stunning that two hours are allowed for
this, the interval between one meal and
another wonld he six hours: and this
nccords with the experience Of most
men. During rest and sleep there is less
waste going on, and especially during
sleep there Is a greatly diminished activ-
NV III III tne IuucJlonS VI tDe
body. The interval. therefore, between
the last meal OF one day and the first of
the next may lie longer. as il generally
is, than between the several day meals.
Assuming that breakfast be taken
about \ or 9 o'clock. there should be a
d-day meal about or =. Tn. char
acter Of this must depend on the nature
of the days occupation and the con-
venience Of the individual. With wom-
en- and children this is generally their
hungry time. and the midday repast,
whether called luncheon or dinner. is
the chief meal. So it is with the mid
die and laboriDg classes, for the most
part. But for merchants. professional
men and others, whose occupations take
them from home all the day, this is in
convenient. and moreover, it is not
found conductive to health or comfort
to take full meal in the midst of the
days work. There can. however. be
no doubt that much evil arises from at
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The Aeystone Of q Great Tower
Laid.


Philadelphia Times.
Three hundred people with upturned
faces and staring eyes. watched the mon
ster marble keystone of the arch Of the
big tower of the Public Buildings Of
Philadelphia rs it swung in air. 4
slight board railing kept the crowd from
gcttinc under the stone. Slender two
inch steel cables. looking hardly strong
enough to bear a workman's weight.
held the mass. 4 tall man with red
dish whiskers. made the signal tn ''hoi,t
away" and black giant arm stretch
ing out from above the marble top, Ion
feet in air, gathered in the slender.
cords. The figure of workman. seem
ing rs though viewed from the large
end of telescope. walked ont
upon the giants arm and looked
down. Beneath the stone o mason
nonchalantly Clipped away with
hammer and chisel at marble block
The grimy giants arm made a sweep
and then stopped over the aperture
where the six tons Of marble were to
lodge. From the courtyard below the
immense block looked as though two
men could lift it. Across Penn square
the brass hands of the Broad street
station clock noted the flight Of two
hours before the keystone was in place.
"The heaviest stone in the tower il
the covering place in the circl. forming
the lower front OF the tower. 1t weighs
thirty-two TONS" said foreman Law.
renee. II expect TO have al the stone
work completed 10y the end of the sea.
son OF 1856 The hrigth Of the tower
then will he :f0 feet. From that 70
vation the iron work commences and
goes 1915 feet highcr. until. To the crown
of William PENIS hat, the height of
53J feet is reached"
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ness. but / always make it Q rule he
fore beginning to take up collection
Fifty cents is the regular donation.
Taking of my hat / started around
All that presented the hat to threw in
90 cents until I came to young gam
bier. He looked at the hat, shook his
head. saving. 'Parson, I'd like to chip
in, but I'm busted got more money
in that place than any have been IN.
Holding services at place one time
took mp collection for the support of
missions. There Was q poor old lady
present who noticed dropped . five
dollar gold piece in the hat. knew
she was very poor and not able to afford
SO much, and thought she had intended
to throw in Q quarter, but made q mis-
take. So next iay met her husband
and said to him: Look here, your wife
put q five-dollar gold piece in the hat
Yesterday. I think she must have
made mistake No, no. he replied,
my wife didn't make no mistake. She
don't fling often. but let me tell Won
when she filings she Aings.'"
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'rtin the Galveston (Texas) News.

frt1n the Galveston (Iexas) News.
Texas still has some pioneer preach
erl The San Angela Standard reports
briefly o sermon delivered in that place
by Andrew jackson Potter, the fighting
person. Among other things, he said
= have preached out here on the from
tar for the past I6 years, and I lived
a,d supported large family. I must
81, though, got most of my support
fpm the cowboys. Years ago, where
IT, town of Uvalle now stands, l have
slipped from thicket to tl,icket in my
etleavors to escape from the lealen
bllets that were flying around in order
ttreach little old log house where I
ctild preach to few women and chill
den. Now, look at the Uvalde to-day
with its five fine churches, whose spires
pant heavenward. l went to Fort Clark
ttpreach several years ago, and started
irwithout church member and at the
ell Of II months quit withouta men,
br. Thought that was the hardest place
HAD struck. One day. inst after the
l'ys had been paid of. was walking
NJ the street and noticed lot of sol
dhrs and gamblers in front of saloon.
y / was passing. one OF them hollerel /:
Eullo Parsonr l went across, and
;ley asked me to preach, saying this
ASS the biggest crowd Ill ever have an
opportunity to talk to in Bracket. I
said: Gentlemen, preaching is my busi-
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ne Way 0sssy 0srssss aaA Pare Afr Ga.
tribute - tie Beauty sfousSse women.
There are no homely girls in Que
bec." native-born Canadian said to o
visitor to the ancient citadel city Of
Canada. II have often stood at Q win
dow and watched for one in the throng
passing on the sidewalks, but I have
never yet seen Quebec girl who could
be described Is ugly. ! don't claim
that they are all absolutely beautiful;
but there is something in the clear, in
MIGRATING air. and perhaps in the soil
and surroundings of tins lofty and rocky
city. that gives them sparkling eyes,
brilliant compilations and elasticity Of
step. Montreal is full of pretty women.
but Quebec can beat her in that respect.
Have you noticed how easily our Quebec
girls climb the steep city streets? When
they are ascending . sidewalk that
slopes upward at an apparent angle OF
thirty degrees. they don't seem to mind
it. They don't lag. they don't get out
Of breath, they don't stagger from one
side Of the walk to the other. They
just 60 up as lightly and gracefully as
any lady can walk across . parlor
floor. You can't do il and keep
pace with them. unless you've been
brought mp here. They'd tire yen ont
before you got half way from Break
neck Steps to Dufferin Terrace. The
exercise they get is partly the secret of
their good looks.
"Then there's another thing that
helps. THERE out Of doors half the
time. On pleasant evening the ter
race, That bro: d plank promenade
which stretches for quarter Of q mile
along the top Of the precipice under the
brow Of Cape Diamond. is crowded
with them, strolling in pairs or groups.
chatting, laughing, and perhaps fiirt-
ing little. You don't mind that. do
you? No. Well. look what a pleasure
ground it is. Two hundred feet above
the waters of the st. Lawrence, and
facing one Of the very finest views in
the world, as every body admits. which
extends from Point Levi down the river
to Cape Tourment. and from the gorge
OF Montmorenci far back among the
Lourentian Mountains. Yvu can't
blame us Quebeckers for being proud
oft. And there's where the Quebec
girls breathe the pure air that puts
roses in their cheeks and the snap into
their eyes. Yes. sir, steep streets and
plenty Of fresh air, and, perhaps. the
subtle influence of world famous
landscape, form. the chief secret of the
beauty Of our girls.
The Mineral argus., 1885-02-19
ROMANCE OF A RAILWAY.


Soe 11t0t 8o1l40r0o N America ana what
Was thought Of Them.
B.,-ton Advertiser.
Mr.. W. 8. Kennedy has published .
book on the "Wonders and Curiosities
of the Railway" which presents the ro-
mantle side of the railroad. II was. he
says, Erasmus Darwin who wrote these
two prophetic lines:
Soon shall thy arm, uncouquered steam, sfar
Draw the slow barge or drive the rapid car.
1t 10 not true that Mother Shipton
ever embodied this in her weird writ
ings:
Carriages without horses shall 20
And accidents fill the world with woe
These lines are proved to he forge
ries having been written in London in
1867.
Mr.. Kennedy traces the history of the
railrorl in England and the United
States, and gives proper precedence to
the ''Grapite Railroad" of Quincy,
Mass, as the first actual iron road IN
this country. Itiwas built in 1926 by
Grizzly Bryant, and designed for carry
ing stone from the granite quarries Of
Quincy to the Bunker Hill Monument
in Boston. The next railroad was one
constructed by the Delaware and Hud-
son Central Company to connect their
mines at Carhondale with Honesdale.
at was on this road" the author tells
us, ''that the first revolution on Ameri.
can soil ofthe driving wheel of a lOcomO-
Ia 81
engine, and was built ut StOurbriige
The 'Stourbridge Lion" weighed seven
tons, and some uneasiness was felt a.
to its crossing frail heinlock trestls
over the Lackawaxen River. Mr.. Ho-
ratio Allen had charge, and the trial
trip took place August 4. 1929. but
the chief honor in due to tho late Peter
Cooper, who built the first American
locomotive, the Tom Thumb, which
ran over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. The little machine weighed
ton. and had one independent
invention about ia steam blast,
which is the fundamental featurs
of all modern locomotives. Once
there was o race between the Tom
Thumb aud q horse belonging to RI
val stage proprietor. The horse dis
tanced the locomotive because the belt
Of the blowing engine slipped its drum.
These were the beginnings Of the sub
stitution of steam for horses, and to- day,
with 10000 locomotives in the United
States, the work Of 1000 900 horses is
represented.
Mr.. Kennedy has not overlooked all
the strange objections made to rail
roads in England and France. When
Mr.. Stephenson was cross questioned
by special committee Us to the speed
Of his engine. an inquisitor with a
deprecatory smile asked, "Win YOU say
that Won can go thirty miles an hour?"
and the reply was, Certainly" Then
every. member Of that committee leaned
back and roared with incre,lulous laugh
ter. NJ. Theirs was ut first violently
opposed to railroads. They might do,
he thought, for short distances, but
were impracticable for long routes.
NJ. Arago thought tina. tunnels would
he injurious to health. In 1895 there
were DIRECTORS in the United States.
1t was Bostonian who wrote: "The
rich and the poor, the educated and the
ignorant, the polite and the vulgar all
herd together in this modern improve
mcnt in travelling all this for the
sake of doing very intentionally in
two days what would be done delight
fully in eight or ten days
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tempting to go through the day with
out food. and then with exhausted pow
ers sitting down to . hearty meal.
Something of light, easily digsstible.
hut sustaining character, should Ike tax
EN- toward l or 2 o'clock. Boston Tran
script.
The Mineral argus., 1885-02-19

Dak bv United 0tstee Deputy Marshal Paw for
taking boul,iers from the school section
HE Iirt OF cuhtempiateo DuiidinS ihPr"Se-
s"e.s 49,. eSs,.ss, "' ''' "
Al Otnmwa, Iowa, eignteen saioohkeepcrs
we're arrested and nned v" each
Al the recent term OF district court III harri-
son county, Iowa, s','N" IN fines was imposed
ON Missouri Valley saloonkeepers. One man,
John Henry, who was fined s:lU, went To jail
for five months rather than pay.
m, cut, wu, q.
ihe 'hicaSo' "h"aukee :" ~ r"u' IA"
special train over the Council BUNS road,
carrying physicians to vaccinate all agents,
All VIZ mnmiJ ~, sm,,m,a ~ Ia,.cn. ,;", ,,.,s
discharged
~, ,., nj, r,, ..,,,,,, roo,n,. in .s
'"' ,"'" VI -
-ion ut Madison, VIE, elected Albert Saiiroury
president of the Whitewater normal school, To
M we 'acah'! ,aurcu ~ 'uc Tsihhas"n ~
W i, a.. -. ,,,;v.rI;,v ' ''"' " i'"'
e'"' III '''
The sou Of the pastor OF church near Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, came to the latter city recently
in search of his sister. whom he found in a
house OF i'll fame, and took her home The
cc,ullicap says, a. had boon led as,,av and
Ia, ITO w,.T[,d Iv villain in Lor n.tive
,nuu"a nan wLo ,orscssed the conf fence Of
her father and Is sun = bright and shining
nS ;, ~ ,mG "n''! ''H'o' VI '"e MAJ" ""o'o
'"'''' '' '"''"
A Austin, MINI, the spring bed manufac-
tory OF j. l. Nevins caught fire from the stove
Nm Tnis' : ,s %a "''" "s"'e' up s"o'"! 'e'ors
'''s' '''"
. ~ "oo"wlh Oh neio''' Wis aged seventy
90, u, ,a, al ~ wa one VI ,nr VI" nesr ,,,,
linn with the hotel and onera housc hearing
his name. lie was very wealthy. possessing
large blo,ks Of American and ilni,ed states
tApress ana western mon iemsraph s,o.ks
iarre anount f''
u,, c,,
u. ha''''hc's'a"si', 'hie'S" u"Vehhs
man, vino stole sealskin cloak, valued at s3si0.
from ,ho Deek.r house, Maquoketa; Iowa. was
rEak beinr found j., his sample case lilo was
bound over for trial
The residence of Geor,c R.,,.,. i, I;,,,s
Fails Mimi burned Ins. ri i,o '''
TIA nhv.c;.n. ~ Rca corn,v MINI mat in
1890, C~
Nos'""e'", anu organiAeu inc i"ce Coun'v nou-
ical society. The following are the officers
f'e C Tor an9 ensuing year; fresaens Dr N IL
IL ICON. Northneid; hrst VICE pre:,dens, II
The Mineral argus., 1885-02-19


New Orleans, SPECIAL Correspondence, Feb.
e-Ninneso.ians arc jubilant over the list Of
premiums taken BY our dairymen in tho dairy
division of tho agricultural department Of the
great exposition ct New Orleans. There wsre
entries from 20 Individuals and firms. repre-
souting al Of tho dairy statea There were
fofty-6ve premiums awarded, exclusive Of the
pro rata and the sweepstakes, in butter These
represent o., 40 in money. Ofthese Minnesota
takes fourteen promiums and oS0O In money.
In the pro rata list Minnesota had six out Of
nincteen sncccssful competitors, winning e3l4-
~ ont Of 81 ,0N The following IN the list OF
premiums awarded 70 Minnes0tians on butter.
Grand Sweepstakes Premium ON Butter Mads
at Any Time or Piace-W. II. Patton 4 Co, IS
Sueur, $50 and gOld medal
June Made Creamcry-First premium, A. r.
McKinstry. winneba 90 City, eco; second, New
ulm Creamery company Ssi
October Ma.le-Second, Marvin Cammack,
Rochester, o1h
December, male-Fir.s, ". n. Pstsen 4 Co.,
June Made Dairy First. r. D. Holmes. owa-
Print and Ornamental Butter-Eirst. r. D.
isoii Butter~First' +. d. Holmes. go.
Granulats,l Butter-Second, J. L. Williams.
butter in Fancy Designs-First, Mrs. Mary
ID Kelley, Pennington, va; second, MRS. L.
v. Holmes, Owatonna, en-
Butter Packed for Warm Climates Third,
y y. Holiness, Owatonns, e:'h
Beet Butter Made in Fourteen Northwestern
Ststes-Second, N. Olson, Spring Grove, go;
third, f. H. Holmes, eaa
largest and Best Display Of Butter by any
Individual manufa cturer-1hird A. +. Mckin-
stry, WinnebagO City, $50
Pro Hate Premiums 4 Cammack,
Rochester. e5l.O: N. Olson, Spring Grove,
o5l:i5: New Ulm, Creamery company, e!l 10;
T. T. Wilcox, l;ushford, eIi:p; 4. +. Mckin--
try, winnebago City, e2l.W; Raymond Gray,
Lmvernc, e5i.3h
This showing in particularly creditsbIe in
view Of the fact that the dairy interest in Win
nesota il scarcely five years old The tests at
New Orleans have proved beyond question tina.
Northern Minnesota, At least, 10 peculiarly
adapted to the manufacture Of butter that pos
sesses in high degree the qualities which cause
butter to hold Its flavor for the longest time.
Tho manufacture OF cheese in Minnesota In
comparatively limited. Yet the quality Os that
produced IL excellent, % shown by the fact
that five premiums were taken in cheese, 40
follows:
June Checsc-Second, Marvin 4 Cammack,
Rochester, eS5.
Largest and Beet Display by any Individual
or firm-Firat, Marvin 4 Canlmack, e1O0
Best Five Boxes Of Sage Cheese-SecOnd,
Maj win 4 Canmack, go
Swnzer Chccse-Second, G. BoOs, Leroy,
Si0
Three Cases Of I.imburger Cheese-Second,
@. Boos, Leroy, eN
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hungry tn bed in poor business for a dyspep-
tic II he can COMMAND fresh air in . sleeping
room. by bimsc.f. ami can get the fool that al
ways satisfies his rei-anabe appetite That
ong't to make a mar sleep as ali animals sleep
when they are well fed
Arrived In Chicago one recent day ~.
railway ears loaded with live hogs. The Prai-
rie Farmer fgu res that this would have made
a continuous train eleven and onc-third miles
long The animals would bavs covered COM
plctcly more than twenty one acres Of land and
stretched In continuous line seventy miles.
, 1885-12-19

The Coca is a bush from 6 to s feet high,
having bright green leaves of an oval
shape. BotanicalIy it is called ErythrOry-
lon coca, and is found wild in the high val
leys on the east side of the Andes. 1t is,
however, largely cultivated throughout
Peru and Bolivia and in parts OF Brazil.
When the Spaniards conquered Peru they
found that the plant had been cultivated
and used by the Peruvian Indians from time
immemOrial, and it is to this day most extern
sively cultivated and used by those people.
The leaves are narcotic, and are cheWed by
the Indians for the sake Of the soothing
effects which they produce. They are also
said to have the remarkable property OF
pOstponing the pangs Of hunger, so that
they appear for Il time to enable a man to
do without food. "A confirmed cleWer OF
coca leaves is called Il c0QUeyO, ana he IS
said to become occasionally more thorough
ly a slave to the leaf than the inveterate
drunkard is to spirituous liquors. Young
men of the best families of Peru become
sometimes addicted to this extreme degree
of excess, and are thea considered as lost.
Forsaking cities and the company OF civil
lied men, and living chiefly in woods
or Indian villages, they give themselves
up to a savage and solitary life. Hence
the term a a0hite coquerO, has there some
thing OF the same evil sense as irreclaima-
bic drunkard has with u.s."
We are indebted for the above facts to
Johnston'S "Chemistry Of Common Life,
and after reading them it is less surprising
to find that Cocaine, the essential principle
Of the plant, is as dangerous as opium i'll
lis effects, and like opium, can, in over
doses, be a deadly poison.
Cocaine is doubtless Of great value as
- Io~J - Ill Z = :co,I 80 o4n
that with its aid an oculist can remove
an eye from it's socket, perform whatever
operation he wishes, and replace the eye,
all without the patient having experienced
the least pain. LII such operations as
these it is invaluable, but as an internal
remedy it would appear that it must be
used with the greatest %cautiOn.
, 1885-12-19
Your Obedicnt Servant,
Effects Of Cocaine.

Much has the attention of scientific men
been called to an extensive article publish
Ell in the Medical Record OF st. Louis, by
the eminent Professor Of Medicine, DR..
BraUduy regarding the miSchievOuS effects
Of Cocaine, abuSively administered BY some
practitioners. Considering it to be Of inte-
rest we have extracted the most important
parts of said article. which run thus:
The Cocaine, this new and marvellous
An1Sthetjc of which so much has been spO-
ken and written lately, is undoubtedly a
useful discovery, but all that may be said
against the abuse of it is nothing cOmpar-
ed to its mischievous effects.
1t dpgrades the individual that uses it,
it leads him, without knowing, to the most
criminal acts.
To use it, it is necessary that the indlvi-
dual ignores entirely that it is Cocaine, as
the habit Of taking it is easily acquired
and it is almost impossible to prevent it.
BY the use of Cocaine you can convert
in less than two weeks the man of the very
best sentiments into a wicked character.
AS a local AMGSthetjc it j, excellent, bat
it would have been much better had this
drug never been discovered, the pernici-
Gus effects of which have already i'll SO short
a time, sent some victims to the Lunatlc
ASylums.
Its use in local surgical operations for
the amputatiOn of legs, arms, Nc, as we'll
as dental extraction of eye teeth, and the
e~xtirpation of tumours and other assesses,
is very recommerGable; but these must
not be over-stepped, as the least excess
determines the moral disgrace of the patti
ent, who acquires the most pernicious ha.
bits, loses his energy and all sentiments OF
dignity, converted into Il perfect beast OF
ferocious instinct. 1t destroys the intelli-
gence, villifes in a most visible manner
the individual that uses it, and it is, SO to
, 1885-12-19

say, a Drug more p~rejudicial than benefci-
al.
/ knew, he adds, a young lady, that was
morally and physically al angel, convert
ed in a short time into a worthless being
by having abused this Drug. All that was
done to keep her from the vices into which
she had fallen, WAS useless, and this is not
the only case l can cite. The experience
of several practitioners comes to my aid.
1t is proved that Cocaine supplies rapid
ly the intelligence, attacks the memory,
degrades the moral and debilitates the
physical parts of the individual
Its effects on the brain are almost in
Simultaneous. Cocaine used in subcutaneou1
injections can change in a few days the
most angelical character of an individual,
by converting him into a wicked charac-
ter Of the worst kind.
, 1885-12-19

In Mondays Bulletin we Stated CHROME
Ously that the Barracuda had left on
Saturday evening. She did not sail until
Sunday evening, having been occupied till
quite late on Saturday IN landing cargo.
She is expected back here on the 20, h or
3Oth, on her way to New York. In connec-
ton with the visits of the line of steamers
of which this is the first, we should lik to
call attention to the opportunity which they
will offer for disposing Of any surplus fruit
that can be grown on the NOrthSide estates.
Our island is certainly not as fav0nrab!y
placed as some of the larger islands, for the
growth of fruit and other products which
might contribute to make up for the falling
off which threatens in the cane cultivation;
but this is no reason why we should not
make the most of what opportunities we
have. There are many valleys on the
Northside which produce excellent
oranges. shaddOcks and mangoes. and the
quantity could no doubt be largely increas-
ed. Here is what jamaica has done in the
extension of GENERALIZATION during the
past ten years, as given by Mr.. Morris in his
Report on the Botanic Gardens Of Jamaica
for 1884.