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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-19

The enterprising tailor. just now. is max
ing Preparations for his fall and winter trade.
Inc prevailing style for business suits will
De scotch plaids in bannocks and tweeds,
eoior' rich and plaids medium sized; also
SIX mixed whip-c rds, wide and medium vale
Wors'eds. For dress purposes fine vale Ger
man and French worsteds of dull finish will
nave The preference. For evening dress,
garments will be trimmed with very narrow
SIX binding. The change in the cut will be
WI silght' consisting of slightly increased
length of roll in coat ard vest. All coats will
ue made up soft so as to roll long or short.
sleeves will be slightly increased in size and
mOfe shapely. For dress coat the regular
'"ie continues to rule, notwithstanding the
innovations the introduction of which has
Ueeo attempted. Pants are growing in size,
"s ultra fashion being twenty and twenty
"o lches at the knee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-19

"arceiius j. Dow, of Brooks, G.. c. T. of
maine Good Templars, announces that he
VIII personally devote his entire time and en-
wy! TO the extension of the order and the in
'''e"s OF the cause, during the remainder of
"s year de will be pleased to hear from
n'eaus at any time on the subject, and will
DO'u himself in readiness to answer calls to
N"enu special meetings of the order and gen.
val temperance meetings whenever he can
,r''onsoiy do so. Mr.. b. C. Jersey of
"'"'nfop passed through this city yesterday
''uins on his way to Lincoln county where
~ III spend few days in the interest of the
uood Templars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-19

BUY 1T! TRY 1T! Keep it In the house this
warm weather. Having 1t by for ready use may
save serious sickness.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-12

ORB LIFE.
Astronomical Problems That Present
Themselves to the Observer.

Astronomical Problems That Present
Themselves to the Observer.
Two problems of interest present
themselves to our consideration. In the
first place, we have in the sun an ex.
ample of an orb in that particular stage
of orb life during which, we have been
led to suppose, meteoric election takes
place, and we are naturally led to in
quire whether the sun ever elects flights
of discrete bodies from his interior; and
this inquiry will naturally be extended
to his fellow-suns, the stars. In the
second place, we are led to ask how
these comets and meteor streams are to
be explained which assuredly have not
been elected from the earth or any of the
planets; and this inquiry will have to be
extended to those comets and meteoric
streams which not only can not have come
from any member of the solar system,
but can not possibly have been derived
! from the central ruler of that system.
Now, among the remarkable discover
| les made by means of the spectroscope,
one of the most striking has been the
recognition of tremendous solar dis
turbances of an eruptive or rather of an
explosive nature. In 1872, Prof. Young,
of Princeton, N. j., observed a solaI
eruption, in which what looked like fila,
ments of glowing hydrogen (averagins
a thousand miles OF so in length!)
seemed to travel upward from the sum.
surface at the rate of about one hundred
and forty-fve miles per second till they
had reached a height of not less thar
two hundred and ten thousand miles
Even then they did not cease to ascend
but, losing their luster. faded out o
view If shreds of hydrogen were real
| ly shot out on that occasion, we shoult
scarcely find in the event anything bear
ing on the matter before us-the posi-
bic election Of meteoric matter. r.--Lono
! maas's MAGAZINE,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-12
A HORSE TRADE.
How the Professionals of Texas Manage
Questionable Transactions.

How the Professionals of Texas Manage
Questionable Transactions.
G. w. Bulger is one of the best horse
traders in Western Texas. Not long
since he offered for sale a large ba,
horse to Colonel Witherspoon, who
thinks he knows all that is to be know
about horse. Colonel Witherspoor
bought the horse at very low price.
Gilhooly, who happened to be presen'
when the trade was made, took the pur.
chaser aside and said to him:
"Colonel Witherspoon, how did yor
come to let yourself be taken in on thai
horsep Don't you see that he is lame il
his left hind legpn
Colonel Witherspoon winked ant
whispered to Gilhooly.
81 am not fooled a blame bit in tina
horse. / know he is lame, but his lame
ness comes from nail in his hoof. II
just have that nail pulled out, and thei
the horse will not limp and will be WORT
twice what l gave for him. It's biz
bargain and don't you give it away"
Gilhooly whistled and remarked
swell, you are shrewd one after all.
"It will be cold day when get LEI
on horse trade replied Witherspoon
as he led off his limping purchase.
Next day Gilhooly met 6. w. Bulger
"Bulger, you are not as smart at
horse trade as thought you were. Yo
let Witherspoon have that horse for hal
what he is worth"
care you sure of thatp"
"Certainly / am. That lamenes
comes from nail in his hoof. Withel
spoon will pull the nail out, cure up til
sore place, and the horse will be wort
twice what he paid you.n
~ don't think SO, )" replied Bulger.
know all about that nail in the horse
hoof. drove it in myself"
"You didp"
eyes. You see WANTED people to b
J lieve that it was the nail that made hi
limp, but he evas lame before. He w
keep on being lame after that nail is ou
He always will be lame. Do you S
nowp"
"Well, yes, ! think I do. I'm gil
you told me. When want to buy
horse / know who not to buy from"
! IcGas Sitti1lgs.
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PIrH AND POINT.

The first woman complained of hav-
Ing nothing to wear, and her daughters
have kept the game old story going from
that day to this.-Chicdgo Ledger.
81 can give you cold bite" said
the woman. ''Why not warm it upP'
asked the tramp ''There amt any
wood sawed" s'That sop Well, give 1t
me cold. IN z. San.
Up to the time of going to press
New Haven possesses the champion
mean man. He looks through amagni-
flying glass at a cent to see that nobody
has stolen feather out of the Indians
head.-NeU Haven Nea0s.
A certain judge was not remarkable
for sagacity on the bench. At an otli-
cial ball he criticized the waltzing of a
witty member of the bar. .'Ah! my
friend, you are bad waltzer." "Ah!
but you are q bad judge" was the re-
joinder.--Praisfe Farmer.
Sliding down hill and shinny-stick
are all the rage under the more elegant
appellations Of tobogganing and polo.
If somebody will only invent a high
sounding name for them, we shall not
despair Of peg-top, marbles and hop
scotch one day becoming exceedingly
fashionable among the elite.-Boston
Transcript.
-"Look here" remarked De Wiggs
| to the corner grocer, "this pavement
here is awful slippery. Why don't you
throw some sand on itP" Cant get a
bit, replied the grocer. "Well, throw
some sugar over it; the pavement won't
know the difference" ''Chestnut!'
yelled the grocer.-PiHsburqh Chronicle.
Up in the choir the tenor was max.
ing love to the soprano in muff1ed voice
while the preacher was waxing eloquent
in the pulpit below. you're dear,
the young man whispered. "a doe
rather" the soprano smiled back. "Ah
yes" replied the tenor; ''you're the dt
ia mi" She killed him with a look
Chicago Tribune.
--"Some folks say I'm conceited," re
marked young Popinjay the other day
"but Tn not. I don't believe in hidin'
what I've got under a bushel, that's S all.
'.That's where you're right, youn
man," exclaimed a bystander, approx
ingly; 81 wouldn't waste a bushel on
if were you. A small-sized pint meas
ure would be amply sufficient. "-Some'
ollie Journal.
Young artist think my picture
going to be accepted by the academy
Friend-You don't say so! Good. I.al
glad to hear it. Young artist-Jenkir
told me to-day that while he was befor
the hanging committee my work We
brought up for discussion. Jenkins sal
that the chairman, who has great de;
to say about these things, exclaimed vel
pronouncedly: %, hang that picture
, 1t looks very encouraging, doesn't itp
--IIdbitS.
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---E8--
BALD MEN.
The Startling Increase of Alopecia in thu
United States.

The Startling Increase of Alopecia in thu
United States.
1t has been estimated that one-half the
adult men of American birth living in
our cities are bald-headed. The estimate
is not exaggerated, if it is applied to
persons above the age Of thirty, and il
may be rather under the mark. If, now,
it be conceded that one-half of our Amer
lean business and professional men are
bald at the present time, it would be in
teresting to speculate as to the condition
of the heads of their descendants some
hundreds of years from now. The prob
abilities point toward race of hairless
Americans, for badness is extremely
liable to be propagated in the male line,
and to appear little earlier in each
generation. The American Nation is
threatened with the catastrophe of uni
versal alopecia.
The answer has almost always
been that it is due to the excessive
strain and ceaseless mental and physical
activity to which American methods oi
business and modes of living conducc
From the visitors gallery of the Stock
Exchange, for example, one views 6
mob of shining pates belonging, as {
rule, to rather young men.
The sons of prematurely bald fathers
should bear in mind that if they wish to
save their hair it will only be through
industrious attention to their scalp
This much-neglected surface should b.
thoroughly cleansed at certain intervals
1t should be carefully and regularl,
examined, and if it be unhealthy. DIR,
and scurvy, the proper application
should be made to it. The wearing of un
ventilated hats is one of the creates
sources of failure of nutrition of tn
hair, and these must be avoided. Th
beard never falls out, because it get
plenty of sunlight and air. These ar
what the hair Of the scalp needs, also
Women are less bald than men, because
for one reason, their scalps are bette
ventilated. In fine, civilization ha
made the hair-producing organs of tn
scalp delicate and feeble. They hav
to be nursed and cared for, or the
atrophy and disappear. Young Amer
cans who do not wish to lose their hai
before they are forty must begin to loo
after their scalps before they are twent,
-MedtcaI Record.
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NO. H..
SILVER SPOONS.
But Little Machinery Used in Their Manu-
facture.

But Little Machinery Used In Their MANU-
facture.
Probably there is no article OF table
or of other household use in the pro-
duction of which so little of machine
working is employed. Almost all the
work on solid silver spoons is hand
work; the exceptions are the rolling
of the ingot into plates, and the pro-
duction of spoons with ofnamentatlon
in relief, which is produced by recessed
patterns on the rolls.
The material for spoons is coin silver
obtained from the Government mints
in ingots, or from trade for old silver,
or from the use of current coin. This
is melted over charcoal fire in plum
bago crucibles to q certain heat, known
to the adept by the appearance OF the
surface of the molten metal; it is
poured into cast-iron molds, forming
bars of about seventy ounces each.
| These bars are heated over a Jorge
| fire of charcoal and worked on the
anvil by hammer and sledge, precisely
as iron or steel is worked, or are rolled
into plates or ribbons. Occasional an
nealings are necessary to prevent
cracking.
The ribbon for the ordinary teaspoon
is four and half inches long by three
eighths of an inch wide. When rolled,
blank of two and quarter inches is
heightened to four and half inches,
to thin it down to spoon thickness. Be
|. fore rolling or hammering, silver 4
very nearly as soft as lead; but with
these mechanical processes it can be
made hard and rigid. Good springs car
be made of silver hammered or rolled.
To form the bowl of the teaspoon
the bar, of three-eighths of an incl
wide and less than three thirty-seo
ondths of an inch thick, is hammered
, fiat on an anvil with crowning fac
until the workman has spread it int
an oval, which is much thinner in tn
middle than at the edges, as the edge
t are to receive The bulk OF the veal
!. The handles are formed also by tn
: hammer.
: The curvature of the bowl Is pre-
). duced by repeated "coaxing" blows b
a steel punch and die of cast compe
sition of lead and tin. No file-dressin
, is employed on the faces of the spoor
!. only the edges are file-dressed to form
q From the anvil and the die the spoor
q come to hand-smoothing with Scotc
2 . gray stones and polishing by sti
e ,se brushes, generally revolving brush,
# charged with .'grits'' and oil. Burnisl
: ing is the finish of spoons as Of q
a. all bright silver goods.-Pansy.
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READING FOR THE YOUNG.
GONE TO SCHOOL.

Where is our merry-hearted baby2
How strange the silence seems!
Where is helm the land of mischief,
Or in the land of dreamsl
Tying the reins of patient Royer9
Coaxing puss with spoolf
All, me! how slowly we remembers
Baby has gone to school.
Here ut home he began his letters,
Finished with X, w,
And conquered the multiplication table
AS far as the three times three
Then papa laughed, and suggested shyly;
Mamma forgets one rule,
Babies must learn to be more than babies,
And 30 they must go to school,"
Well we recall the September morning,
When our sturdy, little man
Kissed us goodbye, III the pleasant sun
shine,
And the growing-up began.
Looking back he cheerly shouted.
AS we watched from the doorway cool:
"Good-bye folkses! I'll come and see you
by, after school.
Many tale he finds to tell us,
Mingled in smiles and tears.
Brayey his heart goes out to the FUTURE
Untouched by doubts aud fears
Yet we know life holds harder lessons
Than those from book or tool.
All, timel deal gently with us and BABY,
Till we all are home from school.
Leslie Waite, in Chicago Advance.
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A USEFUL FISH.
The Carp ana Its Marvellous AdaptAtion
to Environment.

The Carp and Its Marvellous Adaptation
to Environment.
Some amphibious habits on the part
Of certain tropical fish are easy enough
to explain by the fashionable clue of
adaptation to environment" Ponds
are always very likely to dry up, and
SO the animals that frequent ponds are
usually capable of bearing very long
deprivation of water. Indeed, our ev-
olutionists generally hold that land
animals have in every case sprung from
pond animals which have gradually
adapted themselves to do without water
altogether. Life, accordingto to this theo-
Nv, began in the ocean, spread up the
estuaries into the greater rivers, thence
extended to the brooks and lakes, and
| finally migrated to the ponds, puddles,
swamps and marshes, whence it took
at last, by tentative degrees, to the
solid shore, the plains and the mount
aims. Certainly the tenacity of life
shown by pond ANIMALS is very re-
markable. English carp bury them
selves deeply in the mud in winter,
and there remain in a dormant condi-
ton many months entirely without
food. During this long hybernating
period they can be preserved alive for
considerable time out of water, es-
pecially if their gills are, from time to
time, slightly moistened. They may
then be sent to any address, by par
GELS post, packed in wet moss, without
serious damage to their constitution;
though, according to DR.. Gunther.
these dissipated products of civiliza.
tion prefer to have a piece of bread
stepped in brandy put into their
mouths to sustain them beforehand.
In Holland, where the carp are not Sc
! sophisticated, they are often kept the
. whole winter, being hung up in mel
to keep them from freezing. Atlirst the,
:. require to be slightly wetted from tint
! to time, just to acclimatize them grad
ually to so dry an existence; but afte
awhile they adapt themselves cheer
I fully to their altered circumstances
! ! and feed on an occasional frugal mea
: : of bread and milk with Christian resig
! nation. COrnhaU Magazine.
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A BUSY METER.
why Gas Consumer Desires to Have
Line Drawn Somewhere.

Line Drawn Somewhere.
my gas bill, / notice." SAID a citi.
zen going into the gas company's
office sis the same this month that il
was last"
"Yes, sir" responded the clerk, 1--WE
\ try to do the fair thing
THAT new meter you put in my eel
lar is wonderful invention" continued
the consumer.
''Oh, / don't know about that; il
doesn't differ much from the old ones. "
s'Is that SOP Well, do you know !
thought it was something remarha-
able"
SIN what respect, sirp"
why, it not only measures all the
coal gas we burn, but it has way OF
| getting around the house and con.
verting all the tallow candles and
lamp oil into gas and registering il
right along, just the same as if il
came from headquarters. Can't you
arrange it some way so that line o.
demaTcation, as it were, may b.
drawn, and my share of the profits OF
raw material furnished be put to m,
creditp"
The matter was referred to the boari
Of directors. Merchant Tlauslsr.
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a VALUABLE MAGNET.
Some of the Late Prof. Henry's Historic
Apparatus.

apparatus
Among the many valuable and his
toric pieces of apparatus about the col
lege are several instruments which
were invented and used by the late
Prof. Henry in his experiments ON
electricity. In one of the laboratories
of the School of Science may be found
his .'big Magnet" as it is called,
mounted on large frame, which.
when charged with electricity by means
of his "big battery" of one cell, was
capable of lifting thirty three hundred
pounds. He afterwards made one of
nearly the same size and capacity for
Yale, which has been in constant use
there until within few years. when it
was laid aside, and is now preserved
among other relics of the college. Prof.
Henry's large magnetic globe, made
partly of wood, constructed so as to
show the electric currents of the earth
and the dipping of the needle, together
with the galvanometers, coils, electro
magnets and recorders, are of special
interest and peculiar historical value.
In the E. M. Museum also there are
several pieces of apparatus worthy of
mention, not made, however, by Prof.
Henry, among which we note mag
netometer used by Humboldt in South
America, an original Fahrenheit ther-
mometer, large collection of barome-
ters and three sections of the Atlantic
telegraph cable. Such relics are spec
tally Invaluable among the large col
leotions the college already has,
P7'ipcet0niQfs,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-12
FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1885,

astonishment as best they might. l re-
turned to the house iii, high spirits. The
name, Count VILLAIN, had given me the
clew to the whereabouts of Lenore. The
dwelling of which / have spoken as sit
uate across the plain and opposite the
rock was the residence of Count Villani.
/ had met the old gentleman in the city
and formed a speaking acquaintance
with him. As neither of us had men
toned our private affairs, / had no
means of connecting his daughter with
my invisible girl. That afternoon ]
presented myself to the Count and, after
amazing him with my story, which q
few tests convinced him was true, for.
mally proposed for his daughters hand.
As my wealth and social position were
well known he offered no objections and
his daughter was sent for.
As she entered the room / saw that
my idea of her had been less than true.
/ had never seen so lovely a woman nor
one who so perfectly embodied my high
est conception of grace and beauty. Her
dark eyes, still wet with tears, met mine
inquiringly.
''Lenore," said I, II have come as
promised"
George she said, with radian
smile, sis it youP"
.'Are you Disappointed" asked
"Am l what you expected"
"You could not be more" she an
swered naively, 'you are no less. =
"Now that we meet as solid and ma
terial beings" ontinued, fare yol
willing to ratify the contract we mad
when we were only voices, Lenore
Your father gives us permission. !"
1t may be supposed that / received
satisfactory answer, when the good
natured Count found it discreet to turl
away his eyes during my reception c
it.
As to the strange circumstances whic
was the means of uniting us, q series 9
tests revealed remarkable acousti
property in the rock by which person
standing in certain positions with refer
ence 10 it were able to hear each othe
with ease more than quarter of q mil
apart. 1t is very matter-ef-fact solr
ton of the mystery, but Lenore and
are none the less grateful for the goo
offices of the rock.-C. L. Htldretb, .
N. Y. World.
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LINCOLN AND GRANT.
Their First Meeting Prior to the Campaign
of the Wilderness.

of the Wilderness.
In my first interview with Mr.. Lincoln
alone he stated to me that he had never
professed to be military man or to
know how campaigns should be con-
ducted, and never wanted to interfere in
them; but that procrastination on tic
part of commanders and the pressure
from the people at the North and Con-
gress, which was always with him,
forced him into issuing his series OF
''Military Orders '-one, two, three,
etc. He did not know but they were all
wrong, and did know that some of them
were. All he wanted or had ever want
ed, was some one who would take the
responsibility and act, and call on him
for all the assistance needed, pledging
himself to use all the power of the Gov
ernment in rendering such assistance.
Assuring him that / would do the best /
could with the means at hand, and
avoid as far as possible annoying him or
the War Department, our first interview
| ended.
The Secretary of War I had met once
before only, but felt that knew him
better. While commanding in West
Tennessee we had occasionally held con-
versations over the wires at night, when
they were not being otherwise used. He
and General Halleck both cautioned me
against giving the President my plans
of campaign, saying that he was sc
| kind-hearted, so averse from refusing
anything asked of him, that some frienC
would be sure to get from him all hi
knew. / should have said that in oul
interview the President told me that ht
did not want to know what / proposed
to do. But he submitted plan of cam
paign of his own which he wanted me tt
hear and then do as l pleased about H,
brought out map of Virginia on whicl
he had evidently marked every position
occupied by the Federal and Confeder
ate armies up to that time. He pointed
out on the map two streams whicl
empty into the Potomac, and suggested
that the army might be moved on boat
and landed between the mouths of thes
streams. Wewould then have the Poto
mac to bring our supplies and the tribu
taries would protect our flanks while w
moved out. listened respectfully, bu
did not suggest that the same stream
would protect Lees fanks while he wa
shutting us up. did not communicat
my plans to the President, nor did | t
the Secretary of War, or to Genera
Haileck. "--GeneraI Grant. in Centur,
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MlLLENNIAL CLlMAxES.

SHere 10 book I'd like to SELL"
The speaker was shot dead.
ssThis homicide was justified"
The Judge and jury said.
sYop want barbed wire and lightning
rods"
The farmer wanted rest
EHs bull-pup tore the agent sore
J'Twas taken as Jest.
The plumber forwarded his bill
With figures 1t was rife.
The court decreed that for his greed
He must be sent for life.
The Ice man gives away his crops;
Good gas is served for fun,
And coal abounds. Two thous sand
pounds
Are crowded in ton.
~ n. IFdIdron, IN Judge.
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