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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
ParIOI' Furniture.

In this department we wish 10 say our stock IS very
complete and we are continually making TO order from
the Boston factory Please remember that we will sellyou
one piece, two pieces or four pieces from almost any
Pao Suit We have in stock, or We will make to order
for the same price in any oolors you may DESIRE Come
and see the line.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09

HARPER's BAZAAR. This beautiful weekly pub
lication is welcome visitor to the parlor circle.
The number for the ensuing week has been re-
eeived by N. G. Fessenden, 484 Congress street.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
The Death Rate.

The whole number of deaths in this city last
week was IA, from the following causes:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
We SPEAK NOW !.
DeaneBrOS&SaWyer
URNITURE!

Don't buy cheap goods
and pay high prices when
you can buy good reliable
Furniture of us and save
money.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
Zine Vermont Butter.
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

in small packages, just received at w. L. WILSON
& Co.'S, cor. Exchange st. oc23dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
Look at Our Prices E!
PARLOR SUIT DEPARTMENT.

Anice MOhair Plush Suit,
S45 and upwards.
A nice Tapestry Suit for
S35 and upwards.
A nice Hair Cloth Suit
for $35 and upwards, and
all the new styles i'm Crush
and Plain Pushes at the
same proportion. These
same goods are of our own
manufacture and are made
up first-class and are war
ranted.
CURTAIN DEPARTMENT.
TurcOman Curtains for
$500, $500, $1,000, S15.-
90 and upwards.
Maddrass Lace Curtains
for $2.75 and upwards.
Nottingham Lace 1915
and upwards, former price
$500. These LaceS are the
newest patterns and are a
very fine quality.
CHAMBER SET DEPARTMENT.
Black Walnut, Marble
Top Set, $35 and upwards.
Cherry Wood Top Set,
$50 and upwards.
Ash Wood Top Set, S23
and upwards.
Pine Wood Top Set, SIS
and upwards.
The Sets are made by the
best manufacturers i'm New
England.
ParlOr and Library
Desks, Tables, ChiffOniereS,
Easy Chairs of all kinds,
and an endless variety of
Rattan and Reed Rockers,
all of which must be sold
at some price to make room
for our Holiday Goods,
NAMMON CT1DNITITDC
of all kinds, Mattresses,
Bedding, Spring Beds, Com
fOrters sc. Don't buy I'M
til you have called on us.
Remember now is your
time to buy good reliable
Furniture and save money.
Remember fireplace.
DEANE BROS. & SAWYER,
nos. 1873 & 1S5 MIDDLE ST.
move diff
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09
Par|Or Stoves.

We would respectfully call your attention TO our enor-
nous line Of paror, Chamber Dining Room or Office
Stores. We are confident We have the very largest line
in the State, and all from the we'll known foundry COM
panes Please call and see the different styles and
get our prices, We know we can suit you.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-09

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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
Plain Black Dresses.

Mohair of demi-lustre. tamise cloth.
albatross cloth and black flannel are
used for plain dresses. These fabrics
cost from fifty cents 81 yard double
width. The mohairs, alpacas and
brilliantines have never been given ur
by English women for useful mourning
dresses, as their smooth surface sheds
dust and is not injured by moisture.
The tailor styles so popular for winter
dresses are repeated in these service.
able fabrics, and such a dress may be
worn in the house throughout the au.
tumn and winter. Tucked and pleated
waists that may be worn with or with
out belt are especially liked for fan
nels and mohairs. One pretty way to
make these is to let the fronts lap
plainly for about three inches, button.
ing on the left side with small buttons
and holes, and have corresponding
row of buttons on the right side; then
just beyond the buttons have three OF
four small tucks a third of an inch wide,
and repeat the tucks down the middle
form of the back; these tucks can be
overlapped at the waist line to taper
nicely with the lining. and thus belt
is not needed, though it may be added
If liked. -Harper's Bazaar.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19

You see by the last example the
five-carat stone, which would be worth,
according to Tavernier's formula,
taking the carat standard at 800,
100 $50, 500. is now only listed
between 81. 800 and 81, 400"
What is the price of flawed and off,
colored stonesp"
THAT is rather hard conundrum to
answer. There are SO many gradua-
tons that each large parcel is taken on
its merits and disposed of alta special
price. If we have time to sort them
properly and can strike the right GUS
toners we can often make much larger
profits on these goods than on the finer
varieties. But it's risky business, as
after a large shipment from Africa they
60 down with rush. have sold stuff
as low as $3.50 a carat and up to $45.
Large stones. from four to ten carats,
always fetch fair price, as there is a
a class of people about who will buy a
big diamond even if it looks like frag-
ment of soda-water bottle. All they
want is to wear large genuine dia-
mond; the quality is quite matter of
Indifference to them"
who are the largest buyers of this
class of goods?"
eve generally sell ours to pawnbrok-
ers and small dealers, who have them
set in handsome mountings, either alone
or in combination with fancy stones, for
gamblers or the sporting trade, or
where there is a large parcel of almost
uniform size, say from one-quarter to
three-quarter carat, we sell them to
settlers, who mount them in common
gold in snowy manner. sometimes a
gross or more of one pattern. and they
are distributed broadcast throughout
the country and worked off at holiday
times. There is a large profit in these
goods; they average from $50 to 200
per cent. Chicago Tribune.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
HAD MONEY!.
How Prosperity Affects the Average Col.
ored Man.

How Prosperity Affects the Average Col.
II spies ter see er man, case he.
got money. think hisse'f better'n uder
folks" said old Martin Smith. the shuck-
collar maker, addressing a prominent
citizen.
whats the matter; some man think
ing himself better than you are?"
"Yas. sab, dat blamed Tony SEWER,
whut runs de gin down on de Haywood
place, passed me jes' now an hill up his
head like one o. desc heah crab apple
shoats. He wouldn' speak ter me.
Reckon he's dun forgot de time when
he chopped wood down in de swamp.
He wuz er powerful frenzy man in dem
times"
whats the matter with him nowp"
"Oh, he's got money, sab, an is too
proud ter speak ter er po' man. like
myself is. Use gwine ter figger er
roun' an see eff kahn hab him turned
outen de church, an Use got de Bible
on my side. case it say er rich man an
or camel KANT go ter Heaben nohow,
When l had money didn' hol' myself
erbove uder folks. o, sab, l tuck
cherry 'tunity O. shown po' folks dat l
wuz dar fren'. o, l want proud when
l had money"
so you were once well of. were
your"
"Yas, sab, WIZ. had money"
what became OF itp"
LOS IL. sah."
.Howp"
LOS it outen my pocket"
How much had your"
"Lemme see. he'd er fl dollar bill.
two quarters an some dimes. sab; but
want proud, 'cose doan b'lebe in er
rich pusson grindin' er po' man down "
-ArkansdW Traveller.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
SELLING FOR PROFIT.
The Hebrew Clothing Gentleman Who wa
Cured of Selling Goods Below Cost.

The Hebrew Clothing Gentleman Who was
Cured OF Selling Goods Below Cost.
There is Hebrew dealer in clothin o
in Bloomington who has recently been
cured of selling goods for less than
cost. During the very hot weather he
was visited by Wallace Backward, who
wished to buy a seersucker coat and
vest.
''Dere wash youst der ardicle you wash
need" said Moses, ''und he wash so
sheap like dirt"
"How much are they worthp" asked
Backward.
well, I tole you dot" Moses repl ed,
speaking very confidentially. He vas
wort five tollar-"
Great horned spoon!" snorted Black
wart, Il can buy the same goods at a
half dozen places for three dollars"
We'll, you see l wash not tole you all
apond dot. He vas wort five tollar, but
wash sold him NIT you NIT thri tollar.
Dot was less than he wash cosht nit der
wholesale
so you will lose money on it. if buy
it?" asked Backward
yah, dot wash how l vas" Moses re-
Piled.
We'll, then, will buy one around at
Spreckel's place"
"Vy you do dotp" asked Moses, great
ly amazed.
well, Moses, l am warm friend of
yours and don't want to see Won lose
money. Twill go around to Spreckel's and
buy coat and vest from him. don't
like him very well. and here ia a cbanoe
to get even,' and Backward was gone
before Moses caught his breath. The
Hebrew clothier would not offer a Gus
toner anything at figure pretending
to be less than cost now for forty-thrce
cents cash in hand and prom Sc of a
life interest in the land that i fairer
than day. He tn nks the pubic has
penetrated the gauzy swindle he has
practiced so long and successfully.
Through Mail.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

When the bad small boy returns a.
night to his home he often finds there is
breeze brewing. And usually it is a
spanking Once Chicago Current.
Although a million copies of Web
ster's spelling book are annually circu-
lated some people still persist in spell
ing their names "Smythe. oil City
Derrick.
Bell, the telephone man. has an
article in Science, telling how to avoid
icebergs. We haven't read it, but one
good way is to travel only by railroad
Burdette.
20, where does beauty lingerp" sings
a Phlad tlphia poetess. Considerable
OF it usually fingers upon ayoung mans
shoulder, unless her head rests very
quietly.-N Y. Sun.
The Mormon Bishop Snow has been
in Mexico to negotiate for the purchase
of large tracts Of land in that country
for the occupation of colonies. We
should think Mexico would be too hot
for Snow. -NorristoWn Herald.
The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as refuge for more than four
hundred species of insects. We can now
understand why Mr.. Longfellow was so
strenuous in advising the aspiring
young men to "beware the pine trees
withered branch. "-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
"A forlorn-looking man said: "I'vo
tried everything that l could turn my
hand to. but couldn't make anything
answer; and now have decided to go
up among the hills. where they say
there's wonderful echo, to see if can
make that answer
Its terribly CALLING to a man OF
my sensitive pride to depend upon rela-
tives for my living" remarked youth;
"but what is one to doP" Il thought
that Smith & Smith offered you situa-
ton at fourteen dollars week?" so
they did, )" replied the sensitive youth,
Indignantly, ''but do you suppose that
I'd sell dry goods over a counter for
fourteen dollars wcekp No, sir"
Y Times
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Fourteen of seventeen pupils Of .
class in o school at Bronson, Fla, re-
joiee inl the euphonious name of Smith.
The British Bible Society issued the
New Testament at two cents copy.
In nine months 950,000 copies have
been sold.
Zone High Jens and Fizzeology"
vas North Carolina school-teacher'
requisition for new manual just pub
lished by the State. Chicago Times.
"A local set of Baptists called '.the
Koonites," with one association. five
churches and $50 members has been
founded in Florida. They hold that the
body of Christ was unlike ours.-Chris-
tian onion.
The land belonging TO Cornell
University comprises 240 acres. of which
100 is specially devoted to the farm.
Not originally fertile, it has been made
sufficiently so to yield $1,000 annually
in gross products. IN y Jour
nal.
The venerable little church at
Tadousac. the Oldest in Canada, having
been built by the Jesuits in 1915, is soon
to be replaced by a more spacious
temple. But the judicious pastor has
determined to keep it intact all the
same.
The Commissioner of Education
reports that in the South the school en-
rollment of white children has increased
297. 1S5, and of the colored children
1922 during the past two years. The
total expenditure for public schools in
1884 was $17,053. 467. an increase of
30. 2S2, 495 over that of 1882.
The Central Baptist thus happily
hits off the fallacy of calculations and
prophecies based on ratios: If our
numbers should increase in future as
in the past, then in eighty-seven years
everybody would be Baptist. but If
the decrease in contributions continue /,
then in ninety-one years nobody would
give cent TO the cause of Christ"
On the Isle of Patmos there are
more churches than houses. The
churches stand together in couples and
triples, and in groups almost like ham,
lets. All of them are small. The
largest have domes. but the great ma
jority are merely small, oblong, vaulted
apartments, with small apse at the
end, and incapable of accommodating
more than twenty or thirty persons
with comfort.
The past year in the Illinois Wesley
an University has been the most salts
factory and successful in the history OF
the institution. The professors have
boon earnest and thorough. the labora-
tory and museum are in fine order, and
the students have studied with zeal and
profit. A good religious interest has
pervaded the school, and many were
converted. = Chicago Interior.
The instrumental music question,
which has been debated annually for
fifteen years by the Presbyterians of
Ireland, but never satisfactorily settled,
well nigh caused schism this year.
Indeed, number of ministers and
elders did secede from the assembly for
short time and held an opposition
meeting. In a few hours, however, a
truce was arranged, but such was the
tension of feeling that it was deemed
expedient to continue debate on the
subject, which was accordingly post
poned till next year Chicago journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
A GARDEN OF QUOTATIONS.

Queer Conceit of New York Clergyman.
Four miles west of Brookfie]d Centre
Conn. is "Waldstein, the home of the
late Rev. DIR. Samuel Osgood, for many
years the pastor of the Church of the
Messiah, in New York City. When DR..
Osgood purchased the place some thirty
years ago it was wilderness, covered
with cedars and stones and suitable
only for pasture lot. Upon it he built
a cottage, and it was soon transformed.
There was upon portion of the ground
a ledge of rocks oddly arranged. which
DR. Osgood made use of to testify his
admiration for the great poets of the
world. On separate rocks at various
angles he carved in the most graceful
manner the names of Homer. Virgil,
Dante, Tasso, Petrarch. Shakespeare,
Milton, Corneille. Aliieri, Schiller,
Chaucer, Goethe, Wadsworth. Kebles
Scott, Emerson, Longfellow and Bryant.
and surrounded them with trees and
shrubbery in most beautiful and PIC
turesque combinations. Over them is
placed the inscription. The groves
were Gods first temples" Upon an
other rock near the path is carved the
saying: know myself" inscribed over
the entrance to the temple of Delphi.
Another portion of the grounds is
devoted to religious subjects. One rock
is inscribed ITO God" the next to
"Our Father" and third "In Christ :"
Three other stones compose an outdoor
pulpit, on one side of which is carved
the words, 'God is love-" and on the
other the words, "Glad tdings." Here
are also to be seen, upon natural monu-
ments of stone, quotations from the
Bible, such as BLESSED are the pure in
heart, for they shall see God" Honor
thy father and thy MOTHER Where
the spirit Of the Lord is. there is lib
erty." On other rocks there are CHS
eled. THE Holy Spirit" The Com
forter." On an elevation a long stone
is inscribed to 1.-The prophets" and
another is marked with watch and
pray" At the base of this knoll, in
letters OF stone, may be read the words,
ITO do justly, love mercy. and walk
humbly with thy God" which DIR o.
good cons ders perfect description of
the Christian character. This region is
denominated Carmel" and the whole
ground is here dedicated ITO truth,
and students Offering" which sem
tence is carved upon the middle ledge
of rocks.
On long stone under bank are
seen the words Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow" In another
place dedicated by him to sentiment.
on one rock he carved Psyche" and
on another ''Strong Son of Gods I'm
mortal Love-" from Tennyson's I'm
Memoriam." Another group of rocks
near the road bears the names of AL
fred" Lincoln" Washington. On
another great rock is cut in most
prominent manner the inscription
God and our country. 1862" The
whole place. thus wrought into grot-
toes, recesses and monuments, is GER
tainiy unique and beautiful concep-
ton. Frank Leslte's Weeklu.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
Flax.

A remarkable instance of the waste
of valuable product is afforded by the
fact that out of $500 tons of FAX fibre
grown last year in the United States
only 500 tons were utilized for manu-.
facture. At the same time 5000 tons
Of fibre are imported yearly. This
waste. no doubt. occurs because farm
ers have given more attention to grow
ing seed than to the fibre. Seed and
fibre cannot be grown together For
seed, thin sowing and stout stalks are
required, and this produces coarse fibre,
for fine fibre, thick sowing and slender
stalks with few side shoots are desired:
moreover, for the fine silky fibre the
stalks are cut before the seed is ripe
The ripe stalks, however, are exceed
ingly valuable for Irvine. but unfortu.
nateiy this fibre is driven out Of use BY
9 substitute made out OF papsr.--N.jX
zymes.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
A Bright Boy.

Colonel Percy Yerger has got boy
named Sam, who has never been
aned to habits of obedience. He gives
all manner of impudence to his parents,
who. having become desperate, put the
boy in the grocery store Of Mr.. Sid Blu
ford, who has the reputation of being
very severe, and is one of the heaviest
retail grocers in Austin
"Now, Sammy" sad Mr.. Bluford to
the incipient tradesman, "when you see
me waiting on customer and clap nv
hands, you come to me right of. Now
mind. don't want any nonsense
Il don't want any nonsense, either, ="
retorted Sammy, when you are wait
ing on customer and clap your hands,
II you see me shake my head you may
know I'm not coming till get ready"
-1exas 'Stftiugs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
IN THE TROPICS.



This is evident in the fruit markets
filed with bananas, pineapples, mango
steens, oranges lines and durnans, MS
well as in the flowers and foliage of the
trees along the public thoroughfares
and in the private grounds and places,
where they have, when permitted, an
unexampled luxuriance Trees, bushes
or shrubbery left short time to them
selves become Jungle richly over
grown with vines and convolvulus
Pineapples grow wild on the hillsides
within the city limits. All nature, with
tie exception of few places here and
there neatly kept is in tanglc. the
the people and forbidding all exer-
ton b.yond that necessary for
actual existence. Hence an uninviting
encourage of the shops and prevailing
slovenly aspect about the business quar-
ter and the residences so different from
the solid primness of British settlements
in China. The European population
does not much exceed two thousand, #
whom little more than half are En-
glish, the rest being principally Ger
mans. There are not probably dozen
Americans in Singapore. The process
of commercial determination by the
Chinese does not proceed SO rapidly as
n Hongkong, but it is bound to come.
The itch Oh nese merchants are buying
the land n the business quarters of the
city, are concentrating buildings and
all kinds of property in their
hands, and even venture to use
some Of the land purchased by their
country men in the heart of the town for
burial grounds. They display their
wealth with vulgar ostentation not to
be observed in any other place where
their people come much into business
contact with Europeans. Fine horses
and carriages are an especial weakness,
and it is no uncommon sight to see a
Chinaman in a splendid turnout. with
coachman and footman, or Chinese
boy of ten or twelve years lolling back
on the cushions of an expensive vehicle
behind pair of blooded horses. It
brings to mind the cd adage: Put
beggar on horseback" and it is only
illustrative of what will in time be seen
wherever the Chinese are allowed to
take root and pro sper at the expense of
even the existence of the people with
whom they are associated. = Cor San
FrdEcis o thr0nicle.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
THE TABLES TURNED.

The Story OF q Little Boy Who Went Fish
ing.
A little boy, one pleasant day,
Toward creek pursued his way;
He kept the schoolhouse out of sight,
Looking behind ofttimes in fright,
And in one hand. as on be stole.
He ciutched a willow fishing.pole.
Down by the meadow swift he passed
Until be reached the creek at last;
Then. with no thought to mar of school,
He cast his line into pool,
And, with smile of calm delight
He waited for the fish TO bite.
The moments gllded swiftly by;
The sun Nerhead was getting high;
But not a Ash would deign to look
The while at his seductive hook:
Though hungry insects DER his head
Bit condescendingiy instead.
A frog upon lily-pad
Kept grinning at the luck he had.
The smile contracted to frown;
The little boy he sat him down.
And there, upon the streams soft brink.
ftie ufuNhf eyes btEuu 10 uiluhs
TIL, with his head upon his breast
He sank back In the sedgo 10 rest;
When suddenly he heard "swisb,"
And from the water rose q fish
A fish of such prodigious size
That it would make thousand fries
A fish of which troop might dine
With gigantic rod and Incl
And in gruif tones the monster cried,
Tho while the little boy II eyed:
BY no barbed hook can We be caught;
We're not so foolish asyou thought;
The tables have been turned on you,
And we can go afishing tool
This very night shall all enjoy
A chowder made of little boy!"
And. looking hideously grim,
The creature cast Its limo at him.
The truant watched the hook descend,
While every hair stood up on end;
TIL. with atwist expert and neat.
IL caught him by his trousers seat;
And then, with Juvenile despair,
He dangled wildly in the airl
And while. with a eomplacent grin,
His sealy captor drew him in,
A piercing scream the silence broke,
And then-the little boy awokcl
And, though of Ash there was no trace,
Fresh danger threatened In its place;
With look forebodne little good,
Before him his stern father stood
Malcolm Douglas, IN fouth's Companion.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
The "knowsomethings."

A new secret political organization,
called the 'Knowsomethings." was
gotten up in 1854, by some German Re-
publicans, to Offset the "Knownoth.
ings." The founders were Germans,
and their constitution opposed the ex-
tension of slay cry, stringent Sabbath
laws, and the Maine liquor hypocrisy
1t was short-lived. but upward of six
thousand members were enrolled. and
for some time an organizer" made n
good living by going about the country
and organizing lodges. each one Of
which paid him twenty-five dollars for y
charter. Boston Budget
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
"a paper piano is the latest produs

"A paper piano is the latest product
of Partisan ingenuity. The color of the
instrument is cream white and the ma
terial is so tightly compressed that il
has hard surface and will receive a
perfect polish. The tone of the instru-
ment is said to be very sweet and its
music without the short. sharp sound
that marks every touch Of the keys Of
the ordinary piano.