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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-30
BricklayGrS Wanted!

At Portsmouth, N. Fl. Steady work and good
pay. Apply to NJ. C. FOSTER son, wateryiIle
Me-, or at Portsmouth, H.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-30
Notice.

My wife. Mary Fitzpatrick. having left my bed and
board without provocaton, this is to give notice
that will pay no bills of her contracting after this
date. JAMES GILIPATRICK
Whitefed, Me-, Oct. &c, 1886. oct2sd3t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

separate heaps as your dinner requires and
! fractional currency +" is needed in change,
the accommodating dealer will chop a taco
"a coin worth one and a half cents into as
many pieces as the emergency calls for.
One seldom sees a four-wheeled wagon
anywhere in Mexico. The carts are
PoNDERoUs VEHICLES,
Each with two enormous wheels OF solid
wood, which look of themselves a sufficient
load for any pair of animals. Iron, you
know, is a greater rarity here than silver,
and the import duty on such articles of
foreign manufacture has been not less than
$40 per wheel. The carts are usually pro-
PEELED by several lean oXen-driyen four
abreast, three abreast, tandam, ~hap-hazard
and always with heavy wooden yokes
fastened upon their foreheads by ropes
around the horns. The poor creatures
heads are thus bowed nearly 10 the ground
by the weight of wood upon them, and
their eyes wear a look of suffering Iitiabie
to behold. The driver muses. himself con-
stantly %prodding them with a sharp iron
spear stuck into the end of a long pole; and
not infrequently a boy is employed to run
alongside carrying a bag of stones with
which he continually pelts them-both
driver and boy keeping up IN incessant
racket Of pSth psth! a harsh sort OF Missing
sound, which to Mexican beasts of burden
signifies all the gees, haws and "swear
words" known to other cattle.
FANNIE 3. WARD.
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Breathing Through the Mouth.

Tight dressing. though the most serious
hindrance to the habit of good breathing,
is not the only obstacle. There are careless
ways of sitting and standing that draw the
shoulders forward and cramp the chest
and it is hard for the lungs to do good work
when the chest is narrow and CONSTRUCTED
as it is for a closely bandaged hand to set a
copy of clear, graceful penmanship. Then
there are lazy ways of breathing, and one
sided ways of breathing, and the partieu-
larry bad habit of breathing through the
mouth. Now the nose was meant to
breathe through, and it is maryelously ar
ranged for filtering the impurities out of
the air, and for changing it to a suitable
temperature for entering the lungs. The
mouth has no such apparatus, and when
air is swallowed through the mouth instead
of breathed through the nose, it has IN in
furious effect upon the lungs. A story is
told of an Indian who had a personal en-
COUNTER with a white man much his supe-
rior in size and strength, and who was
asked afterward if he was not afraid. "Me
never afraid of man who keeps mouth
open" was the immediate reply. Indeed,
breathing through the mouth gives a fool
ish and weak expression to the face, as
you may see by watching any II asleep
with the mouth open. 1t may be noted
that an anemic, or low, condition Of the
blood is seldom found where there is an
established habit Of full, deep breathing
with the mouth closed.-Helen c. S,0dzey.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

THE SAILOR FIsH.-In the warm waters of
the Indian ocean q strange mariner is found
that has given rise to many curious tales
among the natives of the coast t%hereabout.
They tell of a wonderful sail often seen in
the calm seasons preceding the terrible hur-
ricanes that course over those waters. Not
a breath her disturbs the water, the sea
rises and falls like a vast sheet of glass
suddenly the sail appears, glistening with
rich purple and golden hues, and SEEM
ingly driven along by a mighty wind. On
it comes, %quivering and sparkling, as if be-
decked with gems, but only to disappear as
if by magic. Many travellers had heard
with unbelief this strange tale but one
day the phantom craft actually appeared to
the crew of an Indian steamer, and as it
passed by under the stern of the vessel the
queer "sail" was seen to belong to a gigantic
| sword-fsh, now known as the sailor-fish.
The sail was really an enormously devel-
| oped dorsal fin hat was over ten feet high,
and was richly colored with blue and ri
descent tnts and as the fish swan along
on or near the surface of the water, this
great fin naturally waved to and fro, SO
that, from q distance, it could easily be
mistaken for a curious sail. Some of these
fishes attain a length of over twenty feet,
and have large, crescent-shaped tails and
long, sword-like shouts, capable of doing
| great damage. In the Mediterranean sea a
s~word-fish is found that also has a high
fin, but it does not equal the great sword
fish of the Indian ocean.-C. r. Holder IN
| 81. Nicholas for October.
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SoFT AND WHITE HANDs.-A woman
whose pretty hands are being ruined by
washing in hard water writes to ask a rem
edy. Water can be easily softened with a
few drops of ammonia, or, what is better,
a small piece of lump borax. Warm water
into which enough borax has been dis
solved to make the water feel a little slip
perry when pressed between the thumb and
finger is very good for washing the hands.
Hands kept dirty are never smooth and
white. Absolute cleanliness is necessary.
Many people who do not work wash their
hands but seldom. The days accumula-
ton of dirt is allowed to remain on the
hands all night. Upon rising the hands
are washed in cold water. The possessor
wonders why, when she does no work, her
hands do not look any better, if as well, as
her chamber-maid's. The hands should
always be washed in warm soap .suds be-
fore going to bed. White soaps are safest.
Highly scented and colored soaps are al
most invariably made from rancid and i'll
smelling fats. After the hands are thor
oughly dried use a few drops of mixed
glycerine and camphor, which the druggist
can prepare for you. Drop into the palm
of the hand and rub on the hands. This
will be all that will be necessary to show
decided improvements Good Hoasekeep-
ing.
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MARIAN IN

The pa'son's been preachin' bout heaven
To us who'er outen the fold
Bout gates made of jasper and pearl.
And streets paved with nuggets and gold
Says the folks there are saints, or else angels,
Some playin' on harps with gold strings
q allow it's a sort of accomp'mentlE
To une which tn rest of EN- sings.
And l wonder and think of Marian,
Who left me a year ago May,
How she tackles to all them fine fxin's-
For she didn't set by much display.
She were humble and shy-like a Twin
As any with whom I'm acquaint
l reckon she don't feel to hum yet
When she talks with an angel or saint.
When she looks at the amethyst fences,
And walks on the streets paved with gold,
Don't you s'pose there are times when she long;
for
The lane in which me and her strolIed?
The old grassy lane through the medder.
And the stile where my comm she'd wait
Don't you think she'd as lief have the stile there
As the beautitulest, Pearly-hinged gate?
And the pond on the farm by the willers.
Where she used to pick cat tails and flowers
Ruther than have the big crystal ocean?
Cause she did love this old farm of ours.
Set me thinkin' in this way this mornin',
When looked at her pansies and roses,
And | couldn't help wishin' her with me,
Stead of stayin up there long 18th Moses.
AS for me, it, lonesome 'ithout her
So solemn like round the old place,
That I'm longin' to die and go to her,
Tho I recken I'm lacking of grace.
But if l should be sent down to-t'other,
And could sit down it'll her by the fire
Why, what would be nicer in heaven
Than sittin' 'longside of Marian?
'Taint Orthydox, this way of talkin',
SEE the pa'son to me ticther day
And he fetched me to his way o thinkin',
Which was just like Mariar's old way.
So I'm tryin' to live jest as she did
Go to meetin' as she used ter do
And her spirit hangs round me and whispers
Josiah, I guess you'll pull through ~
M. S. KimbdU, in CHICAGO Current.
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Industrial Education,

There is q new kind of school and there
are new lessons and new teachers coming
Books we must have. To learn, we must
read. But we may read all about boats,
and vet we can never learn to sail a boat
till we take the tiller in hand and trim the
sail before the breeze. The book will help
wonderfully in telling US the names Of
things in the boat and, if we have to read
about sailing, we shall more quickly learn
to sail but we certainly never shall learn
till we are in a real boat. We can read in
a book how to turn a heel in knitting, and
may commit to memory whole rules about
throwing off two and purl four" and all
the rest yet where is the girl who can
learn to knit without having the needles in
her hands?
This, then, is the idea of the new school
to use the hands as well as the eyes.
Boys and girls who go to the ordinary
schools, where only books are used, will
graduate knowing a great deal but a boy
who goes to one of these new schools,
where, besides the books, there are pencils
and tools, work-benches as well as writing
books, will know more. The other boys
and girls may forget more than half they
read, but he will remember everything he
learned at the drawing-table or at the work
bench, as long as he lives. He will also re-
IiellDSI lIOlC IL lAdi NllICh HG lSdlo DC-
cause his work with his hands helps him
to understand what he reads.
remember long ago a tear-stained book
OF tables of weights Il measures, and a
teachers impotence with a stupid child
who could not muster the " tables And
| have seen q school where the tables were
written on q blackboard-thus two pints
are equal to one quart, " and on q stand in
the schooi-room was q pint measure and a
tin quart measure, and a box of dry sand.
Every happy %youngster had a chance to fill
that pint with sand and pour the sand in
the quart measure. Two pints filled it.
He knew it. Did he moi see it, did not
every boy try it? All Now they knew
what it all meant. 1t was plain as day
that two pints of sand were equal to one
quart of sand and with merry smiles those
s~ix-year old philosophers learned the ia
bles of measures; and they will never for
get them. This is, in brief, what is meant
by industrial education. To learn by using
the hands-to study from things as well as
from books. This is the new school, these
are the new lessons. The children who can
sew, or design, or draw, or carve wood, or
do joinering work, or cast metals, or work
in clay and brass, are the best educated
children, because they use their hands as
well as their eyes and their brains.
You may say that in such schools all The
boys will become mechanics, and all the
girls become dressmakers. Some may
many will not and yet whatever they do,
be it preaching, keeping a store, or singing
in concerts, they will do their work better
than those who only read in books.-ChaS
Bernard IN 81. Nicholas for October.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

WHAT SUNsTRoKE REALLY Is.-The full
meaning of sunstroke is not included in
that term. Heartstroke or insulation is a
better word, and implies a further peril be-
sides the downward glare of an unclouded
sun. The concentrated heat of a close
work-room, as well as the exposure in
Cured by some careless laborers in the
open field, may lead to most serious conse-
ouences. The exhaustion of work also,
particularly if clethirg is heavy, is apredis-
posing condition which should not be lost
sight of. Ventilation, regular nutrition,
light clothing and, as far as possible, re-
mission of the pressure of work are strongly
indicated by the weather conditions under
which we are now living, and we therefore
venture to impress their importance alike
on employer and employed. Beer and
other stimulants are hurtful rather than
helpful, and the substitution of non-intox-
icant cooling drinks for those beverages is
a truly scientific and sanitary advance in
public taste. Protection of the head is a
subject which is now fairly-well under
stood. 1t should not be forgotten that the
neck as well as the Uranium requires to be
covered.
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SHE WAS WIDE AwAKE.-He had been
counting a girl a long time. 1t happened
on Sunday night after church. They were
sitting as close together as the sofa would
permit. She looked with ineffable tender.
ness into his noble blue eyes. GEORGE"
she murmured, with atremor in her voice,
I. didn't you tell me you would be willing
to do any act of heroism for my sake?'
"Yes, Fannie, and l gladly reiterate that
statement now he replied in confident
tones. mo noble Roman of old was fired
with a loftier ambition. a Drawer resolution
than l." "Wel, George, l want you to do
something really heroic for me-" "Speak,
darling, what is it, Ask me to be your
wife. We've been fooling long enough
New York Mercury.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

RIDING ON A CoEDUCToR.-One day / was
on a train running towards Atlanta, when
we stopped at a little station, where a big
Southerner got on. He was apparently as
strong as an. OK. He had been drinking
and had two demijohns with HMM fact
that's about all he had with him. AS soon
as be got fairly seated he announced that
he was going to Atlanta, Georgia. to nave a
time and wanted to get a good ready. With
this be pulled up one of his demijohns,
and took a large and evidently enjoyable
swallow. He invited everybody in the car,
the passengers happened to be all men, and
insisted that each one should take a swal-
low or two as he expressed it, with him.
/ saw everybody else take one, sol followed
suit. Pretty soon the conductor came in.
He asked for a ticket, which the big pas
senger claimed he did not have, whereupon
the conductor announced his intention of
stopping the train and putting the nom
paying passenger of. The big man told
him to take a drink at his expense, and sit
down and talk it over. The conductor of
course refused, Hhereupon the big man
said that if the conductor didn't quit
bothering him he would ride on the con-
ductor TO Atlanta. More words followed,
and the first thing he knew the conductor
was fiat on the floor of the car, and the big
mar was sitting on him. The big fellow
managed to get one of the axes from the
wrecking outfit at the end of the car, and
with this he kept the brakeman at bay as
well as the other passengers, and actually
rode on the poor conductor to Atlanta, some
eighteen or twenty miles.-Raiiuc1y Ne1s.
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take much time to recover. While the
writer is not yet prepared to offer any rem
edy, it is very evident that present condi,
tons can last only 30 long as growers and
shippers are willing to pay for the privilege
of giving their fruit away.
Amore thorough and extended inquiry
into the Eastern fruit question may enable
your correspondent to offer, in future let
tiers, some hints and suggestions that may
be of interest. For the present he can but
say that concerted action on the part of
growers and California shippers must be
effected. Should both continue their pres
ent policy, both must finally be ruined.
H. WEINsToCK.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

A RuMoR FROM SHILoH.-" Endurin' of
the war it was not safe in Kentucky for
Southern sympathizers to rejoice over
Southern successes. A certain old "secesh"
from the hills of Tate's creek, in Madison
county, had been frequently ~admonished
by Judge Turner of Richmond, KY. that if
he was not more cautious he would land in
Camp Chase or some other Northern prison.
One day the Judge observed his old friend
glancing ~anxiously into his office as he
passed and repassed the door. Calling
him in, the Judge asked him what was the
matter. Well, = said the old man, ledge,
if you'll lock yer door I'll tell you After
assuring himself that there were no listen
ers he proceeded ledge, I learn as the
rebils an the Yankees has had a master
fight. As l learn it, the rebils and the
Yankees they met away down on the Mass
is-sippi river, an they fit three days in and
three days out, an the cen Nv the third
day cum John G. Breckenridge, Kentucky's
noble son, an axed fur the priverlidge Nv
thefier fur fifteen minits, an ledge, they do
say he slew er hundred thousand Nv en-
October Century.
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Brother Gardner's Sermon.

A note has been left on my desk akin me
why de present aige has not produced a
Cicero, D~iogenes or Milton. Ianswer to de
effeck dat each aige has produced of itself
an fur itself.
Diogenes was looked upon as a wise man
in his day an aige. Put him an his tub
on airth to. day, an it wouldn't be twenty
four hours befo' he'd be jerked to de jug fur
a crank, an de law would fo'ce him to cut
his ha'r, dig out his finger nails an put on
a clean shirt.
Cicero was applauded by thousands fur
his mastery oratory. AT dat aige de gift
of CAB was a rare thing. In dis aige you
kin attend a $5lawsu1t befo' any Justice of
de Peace an find a match fur Cicero in
a S3-lawyer. If he could drap down
among US he'd find it hard work to get a
resolushun fur a new sidewalk frew de City
Council.
Shakespeare was a bigbug fur de aige in
which he lived. He was probably de only
person on airth who could have writ his
writings, and he deserved all praise. If he
was among US to-day he'd find cherry news
paper givin' him de guy. an all de boys
yellin' out =" chestnut y as his works ap-
peared in Seaside form. Dis aige demands
a different style. We want suthin' bout
angels comm down an takin' leetle chiren
straight up to Heaben, or a Teller gwine
out to Texas an KILN half a dozen 1niuns
a day fur a vacashun. We want plain Eng
fish, widout any had words in it. We
doan' know muffin bout me lord, me
duke, me lady, an SIGH, an we doan' want
to. Dis aige has produced 5000 pussons,
who, while dcy can't write like Shakespeare
did, kin waltz all round him in keepin' de
readers ha'r on eand from de fust paige to
de last.
Nero was a big gun for his aige, but jest
you emagine SIGH a chap cavortin' aroun'
dis kentry at dis day an date De VERY
fust time he sounded his baZoo in de Ninth
Ward a peeler would give him de collar
an walk him down, an de next mawnin'
you'd see it in de papers dat ole Nero was
sent up fur sixty days fur disturbin' de
peace.
We has no poet to ekal Milton, but if we
had de newspapers wouldn't gin him a
fair show. Dey'd refer to his produck-.
shuns as spring poetry, an he'd likely be
dubbed de Ba'ngate Balladist of Indiana.
Dis aige doan' cry for poetry half as much
as fur pork, an a chap like Milton would
hev to turn a hand-organ to make a Twin
De aige doan' demand no great man in
any line. When it does he will bob to de
surface an his name will appear in de
papers. We am all mo or less orators.
We am all wise huff in u way. We am
all philosophers huff to see why water
won't run up hill, an statesmen 'nuff to
know dat what ais dis kentry am its over
production of boot-jaeks.
My advice TO you am to keep right on
being common folks. If you want to git
above de common herd pay cash for your
groceries; let odder folkses ~woodpiles
alone; keep whisky an SIGH at arms
length put in six days a week at hard
work; read mo- skule books an fewer
novels. You may not become q Napoleon
nor a Plato, but you'll be remembered in
your own nayburhood, when de names of
State Guv'nors beY bin forgotten.-Detroit
Free Press.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD ON EUROPEAN COM
MON ScHooLs.-In Matthew Arnold's es-
say in the October Century he says AT
Trachenberg, near Dresden. I entered the
common school with the Inspector, and
found the upper class at their reading les
son. The Inspector took the book the
children were reading a well-known ballad
by Goethe, Der Sanger and he began to
question them about Goethe's life. They
answered as no children in a similar school
in England would answer about the life
of Milton or of Walter Scott. Then the
ballad was read, and the children were
asked to compare it with a ballad by Schil-
Ter, which they had been reading lately
Der Graf Won Habsburg.' They were
asked what gave to each of these ballads
its charm; what the Middle Age was. and
whence is the attraction it has for US; what
chivalry was, what the career of a minstrel
and so on. They answered in a way in
which only children of the cultivated class,
children who had had all manner of ad-
v%antageous influences to mold them, would
answer in England, and which led me to
write in my notebook the remark which
l have already mentioned: the children
human. You will Judge whether you have
in your COMMON schools a like soundness
of performance in these matters whether
you really have it, 1 mean, and are not
merely said by parents and newspapers to
have it"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

As A CURE for sore throat and coughs,
" Browns Bronchial Trcches" have been
thoroughly tested and maintain their good
reputation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

DEALERS who claim that their prepare
tons are as good as Hoods Sarsaparilla, !"
by so doing admit that Hoods is the stand
ard and possesses peculiar merit which
they try in vain to reach.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-02

Sc~RoFULA and all forms of scrofulous dis
eases are rapidly purged away by the use
of Ayers Sarsaparilla.
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NOTICE TO CREDIToRs.-EsTATE OF
N CONRAD Bitter, deceased. Notice Is
hereby given by the undersigned, administra-
trix of the estate of CONRAD Bitter, de-
ceased. to the creditors of and all persons hav-
inc claims against said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary afidavits or vouchers,
within four months after the first publication OF
this notice, to said administrators at the law
oace of Young x Dunn, at southeast corner OF
Fifth and ] streets, Sacramento, California.
Dated September 4. 1886.
BLONDINE Bitter, Administrative
YOUNG i DUNN, Attorneys for Admlnistratr1x
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FRUIT MARKETING.
RESULT OF THE YEARS EXPE.
RIENCE.
California Fruits and Growers
Slaughtered by Eastern Block
AIDES and Hucksters.

The following letter from a prominent
business man and fruit-grower of this city,
who is now at the East, will be read with
much interest by all. The question OF find
ing a sufficient and reIaunerative market
for all our fruits is the one a~ll-important,
to a large class of our people individually
and to the entire State collectively, by its
influence upon every interest and every en-
terprise within our borders. The letter
was addressed TO the Rural Press, and APP.
pears in that journal:
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AToTICETo CREDIToRs.-EsTATEo OF Z
~ SON SLATER, deceased. Notice Is herepy
GIVEN nv the undersigned, administrator OF the
estate of NELSON SLATER, deceased, TO the
creditors of and all persons having claims
against said deceased, to exhibit them wlthtne
necessary affidavits or vouchers, within Jour
months after the first publication of this NOTICE,
to said administrator, at the office of Taylor q
Holl, No. $50 j street, Sacramento city.
Dated September 10, 1886.
EMILY SLATER, Administrative:
Taylor & HoLl, Attorney for Administrative