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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28
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Paris and Vicinity.
VILLAGE DIRECTORY.

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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

He. caa.s OF South Paris was A. The
Hll Monday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

Everybody viii attend The cOuuv Fair
tA.s week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

william G. Harlow OF DIasld Was In
town isst week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

Hoses Bounsy has boaght he SprAgu'
cottage Al -. Paris and nos offers hi, iAru
To- sale
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YARNS |!
AN EDITORIAL OPINION.

Ths editor o. ihs portland. Ms.as. Eiprsss. 80.
,.i.iof.tiy. 'u q frcsai lssue II BIZ paper
"AiaarIes Hlkrr Co. 81 - AL - MILF ~,
rrr'snl. Man, ars proprietor q Bakers ''ifsi
AmffIrln ~lrf|nf It's unf n ~ tfst mflifines
thsf 90 have ussd Az ons safsfnT Eiih oois. sofs
Irrss .afr fHfDaf lniIersf.0r ca.frt mofhus teeth
shr rrufs ga fhfumsilsl. sprsins ~ sesk ryts
Cot fh.s a. H. q stie anl surr rmfdf. We 'pfsA
frofn sxrfr.fnrf, brrF wguifsni 70 - use - lhe
Far.nus AIssasfs nan1f.l n ssFs ny slir's uie in
an affark % rusunrnIs We feel r. Aduiy a. say ths
90 co. hsnfff 81 cher. w kn1s - msuy - ths
i-f citizens ~ Ioftsnl shs 10 endorse sFrry sofi
AT u.rrr tttn 80 have al la fs praise
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

Dr. A. c. Hamlin OF Bangor WAS N
town several days last week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

Addilson Y Hsrrick. Esq % Bethel
called on the DENocRAr Wednesday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

A family By the name 90 Chaplin hA''
moved iuto The oii Ripley house.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28
DR.. R. C. FLOWERS
Blood Purifier

No th,sician In Amsrics tofay "a. sush n
tiaaaf feuatstlou 80 DR.. X q. fLONth tef fsii
calls curins Csassrs. Tu~ors. sercfuis. AM
III IA ssa ds stated and tefrih biuri disprisfs
.hst for esntafies the mefleal " ~ regarded a.
s.lLsixh incu,Ab =. Dr. flosef's ni"ed rus-
,nsr, 10 prs thsu snyts IA slss, las eont'ibuteit
~ unparalleled rcpatsti. ~ hssp'ndll fsseh'
I'm .fes-iliy eliminating al p 'isonoas germs nos
tne ba-ig, and 40 ctly sappiyiuf 90 Abueiahcs ~
49, Tur~ itch 81 Cd es-sntt ." perfect h~Aih
this pfepafsiipn q -" cheap "eshi"e 800
auoa q the facet aud most costiy blood femsdiss
Ou~ Rattle u equal tn eight az
amy other blood medicine in the
market.
In pr Flower. haal.R Ia, cured thousand.
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SOUTH PARIS.
VILLAGE DIRECTORY.

Pastor % >andsy. prvsehinx service. ie.s5 A n
rabbat1-sClosl. u ~ yuaaF pe1ris's uestlnf. 40
?. a.. prvsf nssung, 80 . n. Wednesday prayer
msstlnE. IA.
schnoi. ~ ~ mrrn NJ pravgf mreiInr. 80 a. n, {,
exenlnE lrsfsf meefInr. ~ r. n. tuss.iay prayer
nrstInE. - ?. n. Osss urstinx. trilsf. fsa Y. -
bsItisi CaarCh. Hav. =. A. Cg-rkrkne, fastof. o.
Han.isy. lrt. hlns ssrvire ~ r. -. ~stlsih Sshnoi
~ r ~. PRAYER meetlnE 9 ~ - fndty sssn.
nr payer nesf.l.. fF.n.
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CANCERS,
Bsaltiiying The Complexion.

Tn II AMI you will nni n - immeasurably su.
perier 20 other pfsparsti0ns that you VIII htfef
arcspt sny other blood remedy. II 10 purely veg
cable, and IL bsJond AL question the noel
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-09-28

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A n ueisss. Canton. b m MAgxie 49,
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A A. r...@l. Harkasli. b -tsr natef.
A. n Dr.ke. Issisfon. b q oleuafth
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19

whisky, and the walters were a-scrap-
ing and allowing as polite as you
please. After that l stuck to hotels. Z
o a different coat every night
Cause why? Cause | didn't want the
boss to tumble to the racket. Now,
mister, please don't give me away.
I'm going to quit this job; it's too trying
to the nerves, and a man don't get a
chance to satisfy his thirst more than
once in a blue moon. My Cousin
Moloney, the policeman, has political
%intlooence. and he's a goin' to get me
on the force. Say, now, you amt GO
in to give the snap away, are youP
"Well," continued the detective, IL
promised him Iwouldn'tand | haven't.
appreciate a joke wherever | find it,
even when it comes a little bit rough
on myself. | saw the overeoat man
parading a street up in Harlem yester-
day in the full majesty of a blue-coat
and brass buttons, and | don't believe
the furrier has discovered to the pres
sent day the game his night Waterman
played on Hmm. Y. Star.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
Your Habits.

II any of you have paid visit to a
dentists office, and have had a tooth
extracted, you know what a painful
operation 1t is. 1t has been growing
and roofing there, deep in the socket,
from your childhood up, and it is hard
severing it from its attachments.
just as hard and sometimes more
painful is it to break up bad habits.
They have grown with your growth,
and become a part Of yourself, but
they must be rooted out or they will
destroy you.
Remember" said Lord Colling-
wood to a young man he loved, "that
before you are live and twenty you
MUST establish character that will
serve you all your life.
DR.. johnson says hat .'the habit Of
looking at the bright side Of every
thing is worth more than a thousand
pounds a year" There are other
habits, even more valuable, which the
young should most carefully cultivate.
The habit Of temperance in all things,
of curblng the temper, Of love and
kindness to all, Of diligence in bust
ness-thcse are a few Of the good
habits we can not place too high a
value upon. 1t is as strange as sad
that bad habits are far more tenacious.
Even what is at first distasteful may
become at length a necessity. l never
heard YET Of a person who enjoyed his
first quid Of tobacco. - Young Peoples
Helper.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS,
IN THE KITCHEN.

I went to the kitchen. wanted to see
Ii Nora had any thing good there for me.
She stood al IA table with sugar and spice
And raisins and currants and every thing
nice,
And stirred with a spoon just as fast as
'twouid go,
And put in some -four and rolled ont some
dough,
And sui little round things as fast as she
could,
And baked them, and then they were cookies
III good!
/ ate one and two and then three aid thsn
four,
And when they were finished l ate a few
more,
And then Nora gave me . nice lump of
dough,
And told me to make her a jolly fine beat.
/ made something round and put c~urrants
for eyes,
They stared, and looked solemn and sober
and wise.
I pinched up a nose in the middle and made >
A hole for a mouth-'twas a beautiful head!
I made him a waist with a beautiful row
OF buttons-'twas currants, a dozen or so,
l made him some arms and some fingers and
feet.
If you could have seen him. 30 funny, and
stGfet!
l gave him a cinnamon stick for a gun,
A cap of a raisin and then he was done.
We baked him and gave him to Polly and
Ned;
They ate him all up in a hurry, and said
That of all things on earth they did really
enjoy,
No goody comes up to a sugar-dough boy.
Sidney Ddyre, in Youths Companion
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
FOOD o HOGS.
Impure Food Productive of Impure and
UnhealthfuI Pork.

Impure Food Productive of Impure and
Unhealthful Pork.
Almost any thing is supposed to be
good enough for a hog to eat, provided
it will eat it. Why this idea is SO
prevalent, it is hard to say, unless it
be because the hog has such strong
digestive powers, and is, therefore,
able to make use of food that the
stomachs Of other animals will
reject. The hog has the longest d.
gcstive canal, or intestines, of any OF
the domestic animals, the sheep COM
ing next with 70 feet to the hogs 70
feet. But while the hog has the long
est alimentary canal, it has also the
smallest stomach. The stomach and
contents of the OK are said to average
II! per cent, of the entire weight of the
body; Of the sheep, 7! per cent, and
Of the hog, 1t per cent. But when it
comes to the intestines, the case is re-
versed, the intestines of the hog and
their contents constituting St per cent.
of the entire weight of the body; of the
sheep, 3! per cent. and of the OK q per
cent. So it would seem that the Won
derful digestive powers Of the hog de-
pend upon the length and capacity Of
the intestinal canal as compared with
the size of the stomach. 1t can digest
and assimilatem more foodin a given time,
according to scientists, than any other
animal. This is why it lays on fat so
much more readily. But is this any
reason why it should be compelled to
live on refuse which no other animal
will touch and which evidently will not
produce wholesome flesh for human
food? The meat Is made of what the
animal eats, and ever the splendid d.
gestive organs of the hog can not puri-
fly wholly that which is impure, and
convert it into a wholesome and nutri-
tiOus diet for man. For us, we want
no slaughter-house fattened pork, no
distillery slop pork, no pork made from
the undigested material taken from
the manure of other animals. As we
prefer cider made from clean apples
with the rot and worms left out, SO we
prefer portland we like good ham
and bacon-made from clean, sweet
food. and that of the vegetable kind.
In this way, we stand a chance 10 steer
clear of tapeworm and trichnia. and
we have II much solder, sweeter meat
can be made from animal refuse,
distillery Stops and rotten vegetables.
We have known farmers, who were
OF pork, that never ate pork away
from home, unless they knew how il had
been fed and fattcned. They made
their own pork out Of clean food, fed
10 a clean lot of hogs, kept in q clean
pen. VIZ %sympathize with the squeam-
Of such men. 1t has a founda-
ion in reason and is conservative Of
good health National Live- Stock Jour-
aaL.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
COULDN'T TELL A LIE,
An Old Mans Heroic Sacrifice in the
Cause of Truth.

An Old Mans Heroic Sacrifice in the
Cause of Truth.
A prominent Maine journalist, for
merly editor of a Portland paper, once
practiced law in Foxcroft, and at that
time a quaint old man named Graves
lived in the neighboring town of Gull
ford. He had a little property, but
was very slow about paying his bills.
He became indebted for small amounts
to a number of store-keepers in Dover
and Foxcroft, and they gave their
claims to this journalistic lawyer to
collect. He wrote several letters to
the old man, which produced no effect,
till n day he threatened to attach his
farm if he did not call and settle with
in forty-eight hours. The threat made
the old man pull out his stocking, and
on the next morning after receiving the
letter he appeared at the lawyers Of
flee and announced that he was pre-
pared to pay. ''How much does it all
amount to, squirrel" he asked.
"Twenty-eight dollars" said the
lawyer.
"How's that, squirep' demanded the
old man.
"You W. Ferguson six dollars and
Snickerson nine dollars and Jcggerson
eight dollars, and my charge for col
lecting is five dollars"
Il did not know you had any bill
against ME, squire
Il must have my pay for writing
those letters to YOU"
"Well, | declare, squire, 1 wasn't
calculatin' on that. I'm a pretty old
man, most e%ighty-two, and it was hard
for me to get this money together to
pay these bills. Pm not prepared to
pay you"
The old man begged the lawyer to
let him off, and after considerable talk
the lawyer said: Look here, Mr..
Graves, you have made considerable
talk about me. You have
gone through the country calling me a
big liar and other hard names. Now.
if you will 60 around and see every
to whom you have made this talk
tell them that what you've said
about me is false, I'll knock off the five
dollars"
After rubbing his old gray head, the
old man answered: ''Mr. Pullen, I'm
most eighty-two years old, and too
near eternity to tell such a 'tarnal lie
that. "-Lewiston (Me.) Journa,.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
SUGAR STATISTICS.
The Amount Of ~Saccharine Products Com
sumed Annually.

sumed Annually.
The worlds production of sugar is
probably well toward eight million
tons a year. or this, British India and
China produce and themselves con.
sumo over a million tons each of can
sugar, their exports being small, and
these of very low grade sugars. The
estimated product of all countries
available for export was, in 1870, a
year of large production, 2,l62,0Oo
tons of zane and no less than 2,557,S00
Of beet sugar. 1t is estimated that the
cane-sugar crop marketed this year
will increase to 2,2lS, 600 tons, and
that the b%eet-sugar crop will fall off
$40, $50 tons-partly the result Of a
lower acreage resulting from the low
prices of last year. Cuba produces
more than a quarter of the whole ex-
port supply of cane sugar, last years
product being 627, 900 tons, while this
years will probably equal her largest
crop $50, which was 500, 900 tons.
Of this, more than half Tin 1885, &c.,
$50 gross tons) comes to this country,
which gets nearly half its total supply
for refining from that island of revolu-
tons. Louisiana produced last year
but "a, ZOO tons, but its normal product
is nearer 125, 900 tons, to which Texas,
our other chief sugar-growing State,
adds 10000 tons more. Five other
States contribute some cane sugar.
The Sandwich Islands crop, under the
stimulus of the treaty which permits
its sugar to enter duty free, reaches
$4,000 tons, but it is said that the use
of all the available land, and the poor
quality of native labor, the prohibition
of Chinese. and the high price of white
labor, fix the limit at the present figure.
OF the beet-sngar supply, Germany
produced last year l, l55, 900 tons, Aus
tria $4,000, Russia $50, 900, France
1926, 900, Belgium 10000 and Holland
$4,000 tons. Our chief contribution to
this crop is from a factory at Alvarado,
Cal, producing about 1000 tons, but
it is believed that this will become
an important Pacific coast industry.
Beet sugar is largely imported into this
country for refining purposes, and we
get also some datc-palm sugar, called
commercially "date iaggery." Our
yield OF maple sugar, in which Yer
mont still leads, was about 25, 900 tons
last year. Sorghum, although large
quantities Of sirup are made from the
large acreage at the West, has not yet
into the market as an important
commercial source of crystallizable
sugar, the largest crop having been but
5000 tons; our scientific agriculturists,
who give good reasons for looking to
as IL of the great American
crops OF the future, have yet to justify
their faith by their works. The manu-
of commercial glucose, or arti-
fetal starch sugar, has of late years
reached enormous proportions in this
country, amounting in value to a third
If our cane-sugar crop.-R. r. Bowker,
n Hatper's Magazine.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
WASTES N LEAKS.
Financial aeverses Frequently Caused By
the Carelessness Of Farmers.

rinanctAi heverses FreQuehtiy s"use" W
the Carelessness Of FafIners.
II farmers were more diligent in
watching for and stopping the many
little wastes and leaks upon the farm
they would prosper much better than
they do. Too many things are consid-
cred unimportant and of no conse-
queice that should be looked after and
turned to some advantage. We know
farmers who work harder than their
more prosperous n%eighbors, but fail to
give proper attention to small matters
neglect stopping the little leaks-and
lay all their misfortuncs at the door Of
''ill luck and an unkind Providence.
In the matter of saving manure the
leaks that are found upon the great
majority of farms are serious
drawbacks to profitable farming. A
large part Of the vast expenditure Of
money annually paid out for CONNER
cial fertilizers might be saved by giving
this subject the attention its importance
deserves. Something more is necessary
to be done in order to get all there is
in the manure supply than simply to
clean out stables and stock pens when
accumulations make it indispensably
necessary. During the winter season,
when the feed rations of stock are
composed largely of grain, they should
be housed and fed where their drop
pings can all be saved; but when this
can't be done conveniently, feed lots
should be scraped up carefully at this
season of the year, and especially
should corn cobs be carefully gathered
up and properly cared for. There is
nothing else about the barn-yard 10
rich in potash.
Nor is it good policy to let straw be
wasted or trampled by cattle; neither
is it advisable to leave corn-stalks in
the field, when cords Of good manure
may be manufactured out of them by
saving the fodder and feeding it in the
barn. Even the rank weeds can be
made serviceable, if removed and
dumped into the compost heap or
turned into ashes. 1t is a damaging
leak to allow weeds to grow, as they are
extravagant robbers, appropriating to
themselves the best and largest part
of available plant food found in the
soil. Such farming don't pay, and it
is nc wonder that such farmers grum-
BILE about short crops and tight times.
There should be kept on hand plenty
of suitable absorbents, such as dry
muck or road dust, stored in some
convenient shed or out-of-the way |
place in the barn. Every few days it
should be sprinkled under the roosts
in the hennery, and removed to the
compost heap rs fast as any amount
~accumulates, at least once a week.
Nearly the same treatment may be
adopted for the piggery, for there, too,
is an enormous waste each year. A
supply should also be provided con-
venient to the privy, where it should
be used literally and often. There is
really nothing on a farm to waste, if
in good hands; but there are, however,
and leaks on many farms that
can and should be avoided.-Cor. Vest
P1oagyau,t,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
NO FOLLOWERS.

What's the hardest of all things to follow,
An ostrich, I'm told, tries our mettle;
But there's something that beats that quite
hollow,
As, in singing, a lark beats Il kettle.
A fox Is a puzzle sometimes,
That battles the best in a chase;
Or, sound-led by far.away chimes,
One wanders a wearisome pace.
A lady's a hard thing to follow,
Coquettish and full of vagaries,
Who feeds you with snubs hard to swallow,
And acts by the rule of coutraries."
To follow professional starving,
Is very hard following, guess,
Yet harder than mere want of carving
Is the thing on your notice l press.
And I've heard that a flea n a blanket
Is a very hard matter to follow;
And very hard driving they rank it
A certain brute given to wallow.
i know many hard things to do:
lis hard. when you're wrOng'd, to say
"thankee,"
IT'S hard to bambo0zle q Jew
But very much harder. a Yankee.
AND hard It's to take up your bills
without money; and hard to get credit
When your failure the newspapers hus,
And all your acquaintance have read It
Blu see you are wearicd with guessing,
I'll tell you what It's and be done,
P~erplexity's always distressing,
So here is the answer my son:
VI all things We know, great or small,
In sea or in air. hill or hollow,
On this here terrestrial ball,
Good advice is the hardest to follow.
-TcEdS SiftuCs.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
An almanac three thousand wears

An almanac three thousand years
old, found In Egypt, Is in the British
Museum. Il is supposed to be the old
est in the world. 1t was found on tho
body Of an Egyptian. The days are
written In red ink, and under each Is a
figure, followed by three characters,
signifying the probable state Of the
weather for that day, Like the other
Egyptian manuscripts, it Is written on
papyrus. 1t il written in columns, but
Is not in It's integrity, having been vi
IDENTIFY torn before IL owner died,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
The Fall of Niagara River.

The recent survey for the Mag ara
Falls d Whirlpool railway appears to
have completely upset a theory as to
the incline Of Niagara river from the
falls TO Suspension bridge. A gentle
man who recalls the building of the
Great Western railway and the Sus-
pension bridge, about 1862, states that
a survey Of the bank at that time con-
vinccd engineers that the river actually
ran uphill, or, in other words, that the
river bed was four feet higher at the
Suspension bridge than at the falls.
The current was accounted for by the
supposed great pressure Of the water
as it came ovcr the falls. The present
survey shows that there is a fall Of six
feet from the foot of the American fall
to the cantileyer bridge, and that the
lastmlle Of the grade, which ends 1.-THE
whirlpool. has a decline Of fifty-four
End one-half feet. BoSton 1ranscriDt.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
The Rural WORTH reminds n rm

The Rural Worid reminds farmers
thai by using a two-foot square space
in a hot-bed potatoes can be started
suilcient to plant a row two hui dred
leet long, and by so doing probably
three weeks could be gained over
planting ct first out Of doors.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19
Squaring Accounts.

Mrs. Grccning How strange IL
seems for us to be married. We who
used to quarrel 50 much.
Mr.. Greening-Yes, we did have
some trouble at first.
Mrs. G.-Do you remember that
night last June when you firted so and
l vowed that would be revengedg
MI. G.--Well. you got ever at last,
didn't your
Mrs. G-Why, howp
Mr.. G--By m arrying me!--Rambier.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19

An express train on the Central
Vermont railway dashed around d
curve the other day and rushed head
long into a herd Of cattle blocking a
crossing. Five ANIMALS were killed,
but the train did not leave the rails.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19

--"1iive me the moon and | will be
signs a poet. Let him hayt
It. Most poets want the earth.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-19

what's the hardest of all things to follow
An ostrich, I'm told, tries our mettle;
But there's something that beats that quite
hollow