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81 heerd to-day" remarked Mrs BangwhaekeT,
.sthat youny George Sampson, who has only been
to college year writ nome thet ne abe TsS@so
mo: AM don't want to know neither are,
the way he carried on with them Nlpper gals las
summer: an all the time he was probly engaged
to tibet Amy what's-her-name? It's enough 10
make body weep"
If YOU are tired taking the large old-fashioned
gripping pills, try Carter's Little Liver Pills and
take some comfort A man can't stand every
thing One pill dose.
Observing Little Girl--Mamma, WHO Is tia'
vounp man on the other side OF the car?
Mamma-I don't know dear; why?
Little Grille looks so queer lie mas three
eyebrows. .,,o+o onto
Little Grille has one over each eye anu ONO
over his mouth. ,.., 20 +ror
The young man had important business TO 0d ran an
saet in the first barber shop to be seen, ana we
passengers ali wondered why he got on just to
ride one block.
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Portland Daily Press Stock List.

Corrected by SWAN & BARRETT, Bankers and
Brokers, ] sc Middle street.
or n CRG
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Passed Port Mulgrave 18th, sch Margaret nj
Smith, from North Bay for Portland, with 800
bbls large mackerel.
Reports from the Bay state that mackerel are
solid from North Cope, PEI, to Second Chapel,
and vessels are filling up fast
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New York Mining Stocks.
TBv TELEGRAPH
NEW YoRK. july 10, I88e.-Thelfollowing
California Mining Stocks.

| SAN FRANCISCO. July 10, 16S6.-The follow
ing are closing official quotations OF mining stocks
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AGENTS WANTED.

"aNTED-Agents,g general agents and can can
w yassers for every city and county III n tl nS
ctt4 Eorso household article with merit. III you
nCe ~, cod business call address, 499 CON
GRESS STREET, Room =. o-l
AGENTS ACTUALLY
w clear $50 daily with my wonderful new
ratent rubber undergarments for females one
pa dt .oId fifty first two hours. Address MADAM
r. + LITTLE, lock box 443, Chicago Ill. je11-0
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HARPSWELL STEAMBOAT co,

Delightful Sail (twenly miles, down Cas-
CO Bay.
On and after June 80, 1886, Steamers Gordon
and Alice will leave Custom House Wharf, Port
land daily, as follows, viz r.
land jerks $50, 1920 am, 90, 800, 100 pm
For Harpswell, $50 a. m. 200, 300 600 p. H.
For Orr's island, 900 a. M, 70. 90 p. m.
Return for Portland-Leaye Orr's Island at GIG
a. M, 1.3O p. m: Harpswell at 515, 40 a. M ~ =
345 D. M; jerks at $50, 7.35, II 20 a. m, 2.5o,
400 D. m Hope Island at 5.55, TAO, 11.30 a. m,
2.55 425 p. m; Little Chebeague at 6.96, a.9e'
IL 80 m, 3.05, 435 p m Long Island az p BE-,
land at 100, S.45 a. M, 1890, 400, $50 p. m.
rs O'Clock trip will not run through to Orr's IS
land Saturdays only to Harpswen.
SUNDAYS.
For Harpswell and intermediate landings at
1000 a. M, 200 D. m. Return leave Harpswell
for Portland and intermediate landings at llou,
a. M, 4. 80 p. m. Round trip tickets, Sundays, 10
Harpswell So cents. other landings % cents
ie30dtf GEO. f. WEST, Manager.
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30 CENTS
EASTERN DIVISION.

For boston at 200 and 1900 am, tsl:VO ant ~,
re- 90 ~ m Returning Leave Boston at 7:3o
and 900 a. m. and 1890 and 100 p. M For
Riddeford at 200 and 900 a. M, LOO and o.OV
d, M For Portsmouth and NewburyPorI ~
300 and 900 a. M, LOO and 600 p. M sc'
Amesbury 900 a. m. 1 90 and 600 p IN. F en q
lem and Lynn at 200 and 900 a. m, i.V 4a o.,
FConnects with Rail Lines for New forA' 'ou'''
and West. ~ro,v vorr soi,t
sConnects with Sound Lines for New horA' oou'
Through Tickets to all point. South ana M West
for sale AT Portland Depot hicke. Umecas
and at Union Ticket O"ee' ="
s"ee' d. j. FLANDERS, Gen. P. S 7. a
JAS. T. FURBER, Gen'l Manager a.
je2S
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CONGRESS- ST. STATION ONLY

For Bangor, Ellsworth and Bar Har6or
1888 D. M Fast Express stopping at Bruins
wick, Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta and Water
vile only.
All other trains timed as above from Commercial
st. Station, stop at Congress ST., where through
tickets and baggage checks may be obtained fer
principal points East and West.
1.-THE IL is p. IN. train is the night express with
sleeping car attached and runs every night sun
DAYS included, through to Bar HarDor put n0t 70
SkoWhegan on Monday mornings or to Belfast
and Dexter or beyond Bangor, excepting to Bar
Harbor on Sunday mornings.
Trains ara due in Portland as follows: The morn
ing trains from Augusta and Bath 8.45 q. IN.
Lewiston, $50 a. M; the day trains from Ban
gor at 1916 and 1885 pm. the afternoon trains
from Waterville, Bath. Rockland and Lewiston az
5.35 D. M, Flying Yankee at 5.45 p. M; tho
night Pullman Express train at L. 80 a. M
Limited Tickets, first and second class, tos
all points iu the Provinces on sale AT re-
eel lafe
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old ORCHARD.

UNFINISHED COTTAGES to let; situated on
Il the sea wall and on the camp ground. Apply
to MRS. III. G. GILMAN, 361 Congress street,
street Old Orchard. je10dn
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STEAMERS.
ocean Tickets and Coal.

First Cabin, Second Cabin, Intermediate and
Storage tickets by fast and best steamers 1ne
man. State. Red Star North German Lloyd Ham
burg American Amsterdam, and Italian lines 70
England and Continent, at lowest rates. STEERING
and Scandinavian exchange.
COATrGeorges Creek Cumberland, and Gas
Coal Nova Scotia, Coarse and Culm, Patent Fuel
all for immediate shipment, for sale by y: E'
EARMER. D Exchange 81. ap24t1
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NOR sALE-Lodging and boarding house, al.
E ways full of good dodgers; rent only SHIo
month: rood furniture and carpets paying Wen ;
sold 3SEy if sold this week. MAINE REAL ES-
TATE and BUSINESS AGENCY, 40 Exchange 81.
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"ANTED-Men Of good moral and temper per
Washington, Penobscot, Waldo and Lincoln, this
state; Will pay SIS month and expenses r hg En
work; call at once. MAINE REAL ESIAdE
AND BUSINESS AGENCY, 40 Exchange st. FL
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.ns 1onowlng are to-day,s quotatlons q Goyern

The following New York stock market IS re-
ceived daily, by private wire, by Pullen, CROKER
& Co. No. SO Exchange street. Portland. Me:
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09
TroubIed in HIs Lunes.

had occasion last week to call on q man
of business In the Standard Oil building j
found him in his private Office, with the end
of a section Of rubber pipe, such as Is used on
extension gas lights, in his mouth. The other
end fitted in a metal plate In one Of the paneE
OF the window nearest TO his desk. He ap-
peared to be sucking away at the rubber tube
as if it was the stem of tobacco pipe, and
was writing letters with great speed and de
cisiveness of hand He emptied his mouth to
talk, but ever and anon, in intervals Of con-
versation, seized the tube again and took an
other Whit at it. This singular proceeding
so completely demoralized me that at last
asked him, point blank, what it meant
"Only fresh air" he replied; 81 have been
troubled in my lungs for soma time, and the
high temperature of these steam heated Of
fees nearly kills me. By this means can
breathe fresh air all the time am at work
It's the greatest invention Of the age. It
ought to be in every Office building in New
York"
It is not uninteresting, as illustrating the
average consistency Of mankind, that this
gentleman, who sucks in a steady stream of
cold air while at his desk, as sanitary
measure, wears respirator In the street, TO
keep the harsh breath OF out OF doors from
his delicate lungs. The invention he dis
played to me is, I believe, Of European
origin and was imported by him.-Alfred
Trumble In New York News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09
A Native Dance I'm Persia.

Two girls come forward slowly-for
the true Oriental is never in a hurry
remove their chagats or head covering,
and bow to the assembled guests. For
some seconds they stand quite motion
less, then the eye-lids begin to move, and
by degrees each muscle commences to
quiver until every limb is affected. Al
though all present, with the exception of
myself, had seen this 1000 times be-
fore no sooner had the dancers advanced
than the attention of everyone was en-
crossed. The performers then bent
heads gradually back until they almost
touched the ground, then they raised
themselves, and leaned forward until
they sank down upon their knees, still
quivsring in every muscle, until at
length they lay proven on the ground.
For some seconds they remained there
quite motionless, as though animation
were entirely suspended. The first sign
of returning life was to move the heads
from side TO side, the quivering motion
recommences, and the dancers assume
their upright position and break into a
sort Of badly danced polka. This native
dancing might almost be called song
illustrated by gesture, and posturing
rather than dancing in our acceptation
of the word. These song dances are
usually accompanied by a din Of TOM
toms, or a squeaking sort of violin, but
played by the fingers only; the sounds
produced are monotonous, and not pleas
ing to European ears; the movements Of
the dancers are marked by castanets.-
London Society.
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PROFESSIONAL SECRECY.
A Case Before n French Court in which II
was Tested in Life Insurance.

was Tested in Life Insurance.
We learn from The Union Medicale that
case was lately tried before French court in
which the secrecy imposed upon medical men
by the law was pleaded by physician as his
justification for refusing to certify as to the
nature and duration of the last illness of a
man who had insured his life in the sum Of
10000 francs The life insurance company
demanded the certificate as one of the condi-
tions on which it would pay over the amount
to the estate, and it appears that the heirs,
for their part, united in absolving the physi-
clan from the obligation of secrecy. But the
doctor held that it was not within the legal
power of any representative or heir of the
deceased to dissolve the obligation-that, he
contendsd, was function vested only in the
sick person up to the time of death, and one
that could not pass into other hands after the
death. He held also that he was not at lib
erty TO use his own discretion in the matter,
but was absolutely bound to secrecy.
he laid the question before his professional
brethren of Havre, the town in which the
case was tried, and they sustained him. Fur
thermore, the court affirmed the validity Of
the position taken. It was laid down that,
admitting that a patient might in certain
eases relieve his medical adviser Of the obli-
cation of secrecy, that power was absolutely
personal and could not be transmitted to tht
heirs; also, that the physician must be the
sole judge as to whether or not, In any given
case, he had been consulted under the seal of
secrecy,
The writer in the French journal expresses
the bope that these points may be sustained
ON appeal, and thus the rule of procedure be
definitely settled. It might work hardship in
exceptional instances, unless. the insurance
companies were compelled to pay regardless
of the cause of death, but it certainly seems
as II in the generality of cases nothing but
the public good would be promoted by en-
forcing the points put forward in this case-
New York Medical Journal
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A tarantula's nest is owned by citi-
zen of Rome, Ga, who found it while
travelling through Nevada. It's exterior
is earth, and at the first glance it has the
appearance on the outside OF a potato,
being about four inches long and an inch
in diameter. The taraAtula, which is a
species Of spider, makes this nest by
scooping pit in some dry. uncultivated
soil, and spinning a sort Of web around
the inside. The web is very closely spun
and forms a coating perhaps an eighth OF
an inch in thickness. The entrance 10
the pit is protected by a round corner or
door, which is fastened 10 one side by
hinge or spider-web. The tarantula sits
near the entrance TO his nest watching
for prey, which he carries, when cap
tured, into the pit to be devOured.
capo Times
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09
SHAVING A DEAD MAN.
A LoquaciOus Brooklyn Barber Gives .
Bit Gf His Experience.


A loquacious barber informs me that his
most trying experience is in shaving dead
people. He says on this cheerful subject:
"You would be surprised to notice how fas-
tidious some people are about the tonsorial
treatment of their dead. Last week was
summoned to shave the face Of deceased dry
goods salesman In life he was very fash
ionable person, vain Of his good looks and
possessed of the notion that he made an ire
sistible impression upon susceptible female
hearts.
"His weakness was shown by his desire to
linger in the BARRIERS chair. He always in
sisted upon having his hair dressed to perfec-
ton, and there was great trouble unless his
mustache was curled with the nicely Of exc
cution of which the most skilled artists In my
line alone are capable Well, when l went to
attend him after death his widow, who had
been extremely proud of her handsome hus-
band, insisted that he should be made as at
tractiye as he was before he relinquished the
care of existence.
II worked over him for more than two
hours before she was satisfied. Every re-
source of my profession was brought into
play, including liberal expenditure Of bay
He looks real nice,' was the widows COM
ment when had finished. She was so well
pleased that she never demurred when 1
charged her the rather stiff price of IS for
the job For work of this kind the rate or
dinariky runs from fifty cents to $2,H-Brook-
lyn EaPle
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"A SCENE FOB AN ARTIST.
! Sharply Drawn Contrast s..,la.. between


Hopeless Use1essness and Industry.
Clouds of smoke belched from gravel
heap on Fifth avenue, opposite Delmonico's.
A furious fire was roaring in G section of iron
tubing under the heap, which it was heating
to proper degree of caloric to be of use to
the street paving men. Around the glowing
mound gathered as squalid and miserable
group as ever camped by the roadside over
in Jersey. Swaddled in rags and shuddering
in the cold wind they cracked their cold
knuckles over the hot pile, and two or three
gnawed fragments of food like hungry
wolves.
With the smoke billowing up in whirling
clouds of dun and black comrningled, the
piles Of Belgian blocks, the smoking pitch
boilers, the carts and wagons of the contrac-
tors, and the bare park dripping in the No
vember drizzle, the picture was one that no
artist could have passed by unnoticed. But
it is not the tramps alone who find comfort in
the contractors fires. When the workmen
knock Off for dinner they gather about them
in picturesque groups.
If you want to note the contrast between
absolute and hopeless uselessness and patient
industry you can do it with glance at these
contraSted groups of the men who work and
earn their bread and those who do not. The
labereEs view their squalid neighbors with
small favor. Inc siSnG OF IneSe nu1klDB
idlers, with their hands in their pockets, look
ing sullenly at better men earning their hon
est living is not calculated to make the better
men good tempered. As one of them put it,
"God knows, sir, its no crime to be out of
work in this town. But to be willing to be
out of work, like those vagabonds, is enough
to make any decent man tired. That big
fellow there was offered job to handle dirt
this morning. What do you think he told
the bossG That he was not ditch digger
But for three days he has hung about here
and not been too proud to pick up the scraps
we throw away."-Cor. New York News.
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The Insects of southern California.

Southern California is full Of insects
and reptiles. There are thirty-fve va
rieties of ants. Occasionally a tree is SO
full of them that if, as Mr.. Van Dyke
naively says, mother grizzly bereft OF
her cubs were raging in ones immediate
rear it would be serious question
whether to climb the tree or the bear.
There are about a dozen kinds of wasps,
each with business end, the largest
being the tarantula wasp, which is nearly
two inches long. The tarantula proper
is found only in few places in the low
lands. There are two kinds-the black
and the brown-and the largest are
nearly two and half inches long by one
and one-half wide, with long, thick,
curved legs, and the body hung low so
that the curved part of the leg is above
the back. They look like huge spider,
and their bite is said to be fatal, though
Mr.. Van Dyke never heard of anybody
being bitten by them.
OF beetles, butterflies, bugs and fieas,
there is apparently no end. Centipedes
and scorpions are occasionally met with,
but are by no means common or danger
Gus. Lizards are pretty thick, and rat
tlesnakes are often seen, but are usually
sluggish. In fact, the commonly ac-
cepted theory TO the contrary, the poison
GUS reptiles of California do but little
harm The Californian would gladly
take twenty times his present share of
snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, centipedes
and earthquakes rather than give up his
present immunity from windstorms,
hydrophobia and lightning g.-Review of
Van Dykes "Southern California
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09
The Clever Old PIagiarist,
IWashington Star.


We are now promised literary sensa-
tion in the shape of book to show that
Milton stole the idea and to consider
able extent the phraseology of his three
principle poems, Paradise Lost, Para
disc Regained aud Samson Agonistes,
from Joost van Vondel, an eminent
Dutch poet of his times. 1t is not un-
likely that Milton, who was universal
scholar, took freely wha tever literature
had to offer in the way of materials.
Possibly he was as bare faced thief in
this field as Shakespeare himself. The
old writers do not seem to have had as
nice literary conscience as our authors
of to-day.
But one thing is certain: Those old fel-
lows had way of dressing up their
stolen property the secret of which has
apparently died with them Lincoln
sighed for few more generals who
could use whisky like Grant, and mod
ern literature would like another crop
of such plagiarists as Chaucer, Shakes
peare and Milton.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09
PhenomenaI e,rowth OF a Toyxn.

Durham, N. c., is another southern town
which has had phenomenal growth. In 1870
its population was only $50; now it has
population of $500, with 2,0e0 or 5000 jua
outside the corporate limits, The property
assessed for taxation in 1870 amounted to
$4,000; it is now $500, 600. The amount
assessed in manufactures In 1870 was S25, 900;
now, s., ,250, GOO. The retail trade of mer-
chants in 1885 was $3.50, 900; wholesale, $780,
Q00i cotton and fertilizers, s250, 600. There
are two banks, with resources of $500, 600.
There are twenty odd tobacco factories in
successful operation, with an annual value of
products amounting to more than s3, 900, 900.
In addition, there is large cotton factory of
6,0OO spindles, and wooden mill turning out
thousands of shuttles, bobbins and other neces-
sary articles. There are employed in the
above factories alone about 1 100 whites and
500 blacks. A contract has been awarded for
water works, and there are electric lights on
all the principal streets.-Caa ,cago Herald.
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READY FoR THE NAVY.
rho Books Found on Board ship
Fow Nove1s-various Works.

Few Nove1s-various Works.
Although there have always been
libraries on board our naval vessels, it
was not until Commodore Walker be-
came chief of the bureau of navigation
that they were of much use to any of the
crew except the officers. Formerly the
books on board a ship were for tho ex-
elusive use of the commander and the
higher officers, and were principally con-
| fined to works of purely technical and
professional description. Now no ship
going to a foreign station is considered
to have its full complement without a
library, and by the endof the voyage the
books are well thumbed by tAe many
hands through which they have passed.
The favorite form of reali;ig IS shat
contained in books OF travel, aud this
propensity is encouraged by the navy de-
partment because it is well for the men
to be informed as to localities t,sg may
visit. Books OF technical natf:rc. SEQ.
are read with interest, as well as his-
tories and philosophical woclSs. Very
few novels creep into the libraries. 'Fhe
books are furnished the government al
about so per cent. of their published
values, and are paid for out of the up
preparation for navigation purposes. a
ships library, as it is now constituted
under the system used by Commodore
Walker, consists of about 900 books. The
same list is used for all the ships, of
which there are about forty, which have
the libraries. This list begins with the
Bible and the prayer-book. There is
quite little law library of nineteen
standard works. A few books on
diplomacy are also added and number
of works of naval and military char
acter. This department. also includes
book of naval songs, which is now but
seldom used, because the sailors have
learned them all by heart.
Then there are technical books on
steam, German and Spanish handbooks,
with an unabridged Webster's dictionary
and Roget's @Thesaurus, provide the
requisite instruction in language. All
the published volumes of "the American
Commonwealth, american States
men," Campaigns of the Civil War"
and @Epochs of Ancient and Modern His
tory" series are provided, and many
other works of history and biography,
Literary books belonging to ship are
intended for the use of all officers at
tached to the vessel also to be loaned to
petty officers and men when the com
manding officer may think it expedient.
Boston Transcript.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09

This morning dyspeptio looking man en-
tered blacksmith shop at Rondout. He
waited until the blacksmith put hot shoe to
the foot of the horse that was being shod,
when he bent and drew in with his nostrils
several draughts of smoke that rose from the
burning hoof. After the man left the shop a
reporter of The Freeman asked the black
smith if the man who bad just taken his de-
parture was crazy. "Oh, no,S responded the
blacksmith, "he is only working up an appe-
tite. Strange as it may appear to you, yet
the fact is true that inhalation into the lungs
of smoke from horses hoof when it is being
shod is the best appetizer in the world. That
man you saw here viii now go home and eat
q good square meal. He came into the shop
for an appetite and went away hungry. I
have on an average five patients day who
visit my shop for an appetizer, Kingston
IN " Freeman.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-12-09
Queer Business Ideas.

A Georgia newspaper illustrates the aver
age southern pegro's poor business ability by
telling Of one who asked the price Of coats in
a store The store keeper offered him various
garments cheap for cash, but the darl1y would
not buy, and finally the merchant picked out
a coat that cost him S1.65 and offered it to
the negro for SO, agreeing to take 81 in cash
and trust him for the balance. The customer
jumped at the offer, and without even trying
on the coat, paid the 81 and went away happy
in his ability to owe IS. The store keeper
viii not worry If he does not get the money.
Exchange