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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-12-28
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The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

1t has just been disclosed that Mr.. Amos
r. Emo whose son ruined the Second Nation.
al Bank of New York in 1884 and then fled
to Canada, paid 'oyer $2,6O0,000 to clear off
his sons Indebtedness and preserve the sol
yency of the bank.
General Alfred II. Terry is declared at
Washington to be hopelessly i'll with Bright's
disease. He is now ON four months leave
of absence, and the correspondents have 1t
that his retirement may be expected at the
end of that time. 1t is, however, said at
New York, where General Terry has been
staying since Dec. %, that these reports are
greatly exaggerated.
Mrs. Henry Clews, wife of the New York
banker. is said to be the only American
woman who owns a chariot. The vehicle
was built expressly for her. 1t is very large
and is hung on springs that swing gracefully
up over the back and front. A high seat
heavily upholstered is for the coachman,
while at the rear is step for the foOtman to
stand on, with the wide straps for them to
cling to. Around the top of the chariot on
all four sides is row of coronets in raised
brass.
Senator Lamar is reported as telling the
following story of his experience at politi-
cal meeting in his own State, soon after the
war. He was one of the speakers, and allud-
ing to the civil war, suggested as parallel
case the parable Of the prodigal son and the
joyful reception at his home when the
naughty boy returned He was succeeded
by negro, Republican, who, after some
general remarks, paid his respects to Lamar's
parallel. 'sForgfben!' said he. ''Dey for
giben-dem brigadicrs! Why, dey'se come
walkin' into de house an bang de do an go
up to de OF man an say: 'Whar dat veal p"
Official statistics show that brunettes are
rapidly gaining upon blondes in numbers.
The examination of Il, 100000 school children
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the
countries that have been proverbially the
home of yellow hair. shows that Germany
has only 31.80 per cent, Austria 1879 and
Switzerland lilo of pure blondes The
average of pure brunettes has increased to IA
per cent .Fifty-three per cent. of the mixed
types are found to approximate to the pure
brunette type. In England the type is
found to be nearly equally divided in num-
bers.. Ten brunettes are married to nine
blondes.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

are of smooth stone blocks of somewhat
larger size laid diagoDally and street and
walk with low curb and gentle incline, look
as Il they had been carved out of the solid
rock
The Ring Strasse, so called because it de-
scribes a full half circle to the little Danube
and encircles the entire inner city, is fifty
five yards in breadth, or nearly twice the
breadth of the boulevards of Paris, and has
double sidewalks, and in many places rid
ing alley; but it must be admitted that the
trees are miserable specimens of arborcul-
ture.
Everybody win tell you that Vienna is a
delightful place, and that life there is as gay
as it is in Paris; that the cooking is quite
passable, and the music the best that Strauss
can produce. While Vienna is not great
beer-drinking city, yet the beer that is drank
every day in the restaurant while we are
eating our midday meal, would surprise the
prohibitionists of our good old State. Sun
day here is not held in great respect After
II o'clock noon nearly everything is going
on as of week day. Many of the stores
and concert halls are running as usual, and
the people seem to have total disregard for
the day. Before closing this short letter
must not forget to mention Vienna's hospi-
tai, which accommodates between three ana
four thousand patients, and is all in one en-
closure. While from a hygienic point OF
view not much can be said in its favor, new
ertheless one can see here in one half day
that which it would take him nearly week
to see in London or New York.
G.. A. BAKER, M. ID.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

The accident OF the Boston & Maine APP
pears to be one of those rare cases which no
ordinary foresight on the part of the compa-
ny could have guarded against. Assuming
that flaw in the wheel was the cause, then
the blame, if there be any. belongs to the
maker and not to the user. The train may
have been running at higher rate of speed
than was prudent when going round sharp
curve and approaching bridge. If so some
body would seem to be culpable. The gen.
eral rule on railroads is to slow up when
approaching bridge, and it is a rule found
ed on common prudence. If this is one of the
rules of the Boston & Maine Company, and
the employees paid no regard to it then the
employees are primarily at fault OF course
there win be thorough investigation by
the Massachusetts railroad commissioners
and the responsibility placed where it bel ngs
1t speaks well, however, for the manage
ment Of the Boston & Maine road as far as
regard for the safeguards of life and proper
ty is concerned, that this is the first acct.
dent on that road for many years.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

Mr.. A. p. Marble, for many years superin-
tendent of the Worcester schools, and gen.
tleman well known in Maine, writes to the
New York Evening Post letter in opposi-
tion to the Blair educational bill. When the
matter of Federal aid to Southern schools
was first preached Mr.. Marble was inclined
to favor it. But reflection and a study of
the results of analogous experiments have
changed his mind. He urges four reasons
why the Blair measure should not. become a
law. In the first place he thinks the South
ern people need no stimulus of this sort.
"They have awakened" he says, ito the
necessity of public education and are ac-
lively and successfully at work in the right
direction" Secondly the South does not
need the aid 1t is as well and better able to
establish and maintain proper schools than
the border States of the West. Thirdly a
good deal of the money would be frittered
away in distribution, and would never be ap-
piled TO the use for which it was intended.
Lastly Mrs. Marble believes the duty of tax
ing care Of schools Is one that belongs to the
people and not to the government "If,"
says Mr.. Marble, ''the people cannot take
care Of themselves, and if the government
must take care Of them, we reduce ourselves
to an absurdity, since the government is
nothing, but the expression of the peoples
will" Mr.. Marble says that nobody has a
right to say that Massachusetts teachers are
in favor Of the Blair bill. Several associa-
tions have apparently declared for it, but
these declarations cannot be said to be fair
expression of the sentiment of the members
~ 4.
emanated from minority and without a full
discussion. 1t is quite evident to the most
casual observer that discussion has not
helped the bill in public favor, At first
great many assumed without much examina-
tion that the measure was going to promote
education in the South, and for that reason
favored it. Examination has cast suspicion
on the correctness of this assumption, and
consequently weakened public confidence in
the bill as an educational measure
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

The report Of the civil service commits
sioners of Massachusetts, discusses the propo-
sition that has frequently been made to sub
nit the whole eligible list to the appointing
power and unsparingly condemns it, The
commission say that it would amount to the
practical abandonment of the civil service
reform system, since that system aims at the
selection of the fttest candidates for public
office. and the submission of the whole eligi-
BILE list would defeat that end. The commits
sioners say that the soldiers exemption bill
has not helped the veterans. Indeed if it
has had any effect it would seem to have
been the opposite.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

The Hon. Samuel j. Randall opposes the
reduction or removal of the tariff on sugar.
Sugar growing is Democratic industry and
upon its continued production depends the
electoral votes of Louisiana That propably
explains Mr.. RandalPs affection for sugar,
as it does probably Mr. Cleveland's also.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

Martin A. Foran, the Democratic Congress
man from the Cleveland district of Ohio,
refuses to walk in the way pointed out by
President Cleveland. His district is close.
and he is wise enough to know that where
the wool and iron are no attempts to destroy
the protective system viii be tolerated in a
Representative. The fate of Frank Hurd is
no doubt ever before the minds eye of the
cautions Foran
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12
Tho waIdoboro customs District.

The Rockland Courier Gazette of this week
presents some customs statistics which show
how foolish was Secretary Fairchild's
sweeping reduction of the force of employees
of the customs served on the Maine coast,
and display in an unfayorable light the Off
cial ignorance that encouraged such order.
In the district of Waldoboro, which includes
the ports of Roekland, Waldoboro, st.
George, Thomaston and Damariscotta, there
is annually transacted Tan amount of bust
ness of which Mr.. Fairchld could have had
little idea when he issued his order. The
business during the fiscal year ending July
1st 1887 in this district is shown by the fol-
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12
EXCURSIONS TO CALIFORNIA.
EVERY WEEK VIA ALL LINES.

For tickets and Information, apply 70 the TIcke
Agent, Boston Maine X. r., Commercial street
Station. Lowest rates to all points West and
South. dec2Odu
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

Among the devices that has come to the
New York commission appointed to consider
the best mode of inhicting capital punish
ment is one that ends the victims life by
suddenly seyering his spinal cord. A
Frenchman is the inventor and he says that
il will work beautifully"
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12
TmURSDAY MORNING. Jam. IL.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nicaiions. The name and address of the writer
are IN all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as a guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake TO return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

Speaker Carlisle's friends are paying much
more attention to Mr. Thobe's contest than
they were. They have begun to Justify
shout fraud. A Southern Democrat shouting
fraud reminds one very forcibly of a thief
shouting stop thief.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

The great port Of San Francisco had in
the same time but $50 foreign entries, $3.50
foreign clearances, and 1912 vessels docu-
mented, though the number of men en-
ployed there was 219 at an expense of $780,
O99 annually. In the number of foreign
entries Baltimore exceeds the Waldoboro
district only 100, and New Orleans by only
about 70. In the Boston district but 1112
vessels were documented only twice as
many as in the district of Waldoboro. In
this district is the port of ThOmaston, with
its large feet Of ships and three and four
masted schooners, taking second rank in the
State in the amount Of its tonnage In the
city of Rockland, where two customs Off
GERS were stationed under the old arrange
ment, there were in 1876 but six foreign
entries. The past year there were 5S6.
Every one Of these vessels must be boarded
by an officer, so it is easy to see how rapidly
the business Of the port is increasing, and
how necessary it is that the force of customs
officers should be increased rather than cut
down. Then along the coast and around
Tenants Harbor, Port Clyde and st. George
are hundreds Of fishermen aud other vessel
owners, who have necessary and frequent
business with customs officer, and who
would be obliged to suffer great additional
expense if the reduction in force should be
made as ordered 1t is true that the revenue
of the Waldoboro district is not sufficient to
pay expenses, but this is because a large
part Of the imports are such that few duties
are levied on them. The Courier Gazette
points out that If there was tariff on wood
of only 20 cents cord, the revenue from
that alone would be sufficient to pay the
entire running expenses of the district.
Whether he mobiles his order or not, Secre-
tary Fairchild will get some valuable infor-
nation about Maine industries that he did
not have before.
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12
vIENNA
A Portland Physician in the Austrian
Capital.

VIENNA, Dec. 10, 1887.
Thinking that the readers of the PRESS
might be interested in a letter from one OF
the prettiest cities that it has ever been our
good fortune to visit, send you the follow
ing hoping it may interest some one. Wen
ma is the chief commercial city as well as the
capital of Austria. Its splendid streets and
magnificent public buildings, palaces, bust
ness blocks, hotels and cafes are equal, if not
superior to those of any other city we have
seen on this side of the Atlantic. Twenty
years ago Vienna was an old city.of rather
tortuous streets, lined on either side with
tall houses, which kept the thoroughfares
cool and shady in summer, and made them
dismal in winter.
One day, stimulated by the example of
Napoleon Ill and M. Hausman, the Emperor
decided to abolish the Notifications Of Wen
ma, and to encourage arch itecture and the
fine arts in grandiose manner The build
ers and stone-hewers have been at work
ever since, and the result is that what is left
Of old Vienna is surrounded by belt of
gorgeous palaces and monumental edihces,
both private and public erected in the Ring
Strasse, which runs around the city, on the
site of the old Notifications.
Jnere Is Spleuulu 0Obnlc NOIlft cuuTCIls
n Gothic town hall, a Parliament House
resembling confused mass of Greek tenn
nles. surmOunted by divinities driving four
horse chariots; land allow me TO say here
that the buildings are not so large nor nearly
SO handsome as the capital at Washington
there are museums, fine art galleries, stock
exchange, Court theatre, Imperial opera
house, comic opera house, music academies,
all in the style OF the Italian Renaissance,
and adorned with statues and more dlyini-
ties and chariots Of Hellenic type. There
is a new theatre in the course of c0nstruc-
ton, which is to take the place of the one
that was burned few months ago, when so
many people perlshed, which in exterior will
the world. On the front of the building are
life size statues Of poets and musicians.
Then there are private palaces and public
palaces-otLerwise spoken OF as hotels-and
immense blocks for shops and dwellings;
The Prater is park Of four thousand two
hundred and seventy acres In extent, Volks
Garten, Hof Garten, Stadt Park, all OF which
demand admiration. The streets are paved
with solid cubes Of stones and the payements
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12

1t is now said that the nshery negotiations
will be prolonged, in the hope that Congress
viii place fish upon the free list If that
should happen, the Canadian commissioners
would doubtless soon get into an agreeing
mood, for that is all the Dominion is fighting
The Portland daily press., 1888-01-12
CURRENT COMMENT.
WE HOPE so.
49, IrR.nra 4

WE HOPE so.
[Machias Unonl
The Atlantic terminus Of the Canadian Pa
eific has not yet been fixed upon, but points
to Portland.
NEARING THE TOP NOTCH
philadelphia North Americana
Biologists say that diamonds and coal are
made of the same material. They are fast
reaching the same value.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20

grocer, whose opinion of the flour was
different from that of the lady. carried
it back, took off the head of the bar
rel and replaced it with the head of an
empty one that had held the ladv's
favorite kind, and sent the same bar
rel, thus ''doctored,n back to her. 1t
suited to charm that time.
4 gentleman named Lord, from Ala
bama, some days ago had a fly sud-
denly enter his ear, from which it
was promptly extricated. The insect
then as suddenly disappeared. That
night Mr.. Lord experienced 4 sensa-
ton of itching in his ear. This grew
in intensity and pain until it was IN
bearable. He went to Athens for re-
lief, but remedies applied failed to af-
ford 1t. Going to Woodville, he stated
his case to 4 doctor. The acute pain
had by this time nearly thrown the
gentleman into commissions. The doc
tor, after applying an anasthetic to his
ear, inserted q copious drench, which
brought out no less than eleven we'll
developed maggots, wriggling with re-
bust life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
The Awful Court.

The late Captain James III. Arm
strong, of Texas, as honest and patri.
otto a man as ever lived in any age OF
country, emigrated from Kentucky tc
Texas Immediately after the Republic
had been organized. Soon after his
arrival at NacOgdoches, he found out
that the refugees from 1.-the States, =
who were then quite numerous, were
in the habit of holding from time tc
time what they called The Awful
Court" Every newcomer was arrest.
ed was brought before the ''court, :
which sat with an imposing array of
officers and spectators in a secluded
room, was arraigned, and asked,
''What made YOU come to Texas?" Il
in his reply he did not admit that he
came as a refugee, the Judge would
order him to be whipped until he con.
fessed, and when he had confessed, he
was sentenced to treat the crowd. Nc
newcomer was permitted to claim that
he was innocent, or came of his own
free-will. If the person arrested, how
ever, answered promptly, stating some
crime that he had committed before
leaving "the States,n and giving time,
once discharged without costs.
1.-The Awful Court was generally
presided over by gentleman who was
known to have robbed a gold mining
company, which was the immediate
cause of his leaving Georgia. One day
in conversation he observed to young
Armstrong, young man, we will
shortly have you up before our Awful
Court"
Armstrong, with an air of surprise
and diffidence, said he hoped not, and
passed on.
On the night of that very day he
was arrested, and led through devious
ways to where the Awful Court was
sitting Although late, the dimly-light-
ed courtroom was thronged. In a
few moments the presiding Judge or
dered him to stand up, and asked him
the following question: Young man,
what made you come to Texas?"
Armstrong replied, hesitatingly, with
an air of embarrassment, ':It was such
a mean little thing that [ don't want
to tell about it.
The question was calmly put a Sec
ond time, and received the same an
swer
Thereupon the Judge sternly re-
marked, 81 now ask you for the third
and last time, what made you come to
TeXas?n
Armstrong responded, with appar-
ent confusion: IF | must tell, must.
| stole sheep"
''Stole a sheep" exclaimed the pre-
siding judge, in real astonishment.
''Stole sheep! Men, did you ever
hear the like? Young man, what made
you steal a sbeep?"
Armstrong dryly replied, Because
they who came to Texas ahead Of me
left nothing else in the criminal line to
do"
The prisoners discharged, and the
court adjourned" said the Judge.
Men, it's my treat. ''-Ha1per's Iuaga-
zine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
Heat in the Comstock Mines.

..The Comstock mine in Nevada is
wonderful work." said Mr.. Cecil Nor
gan, of Aspen, to the Gossiper. at is
1890 feet in a vertical line to the bot
tom of the shaft, and one can make the
descent in three CT four minutes in the
cage which is used to haul ore to the
surface. This cage will lift about six
thousand pounds, or three carloads of
1000 pounds each. Work on the Com
stock is now confined to the upper lev
els, the workmen having been driven
from the depths by the steam generated
through the action of the air on the
amphurous rock penetrated by the diff
ferent levels. The temperature aver
ages about 120 degrees down there,
and it is simply impossible for the
miners to work under such conditions.
Whether science will ever be able to
overcome the difficulties met with in
those lower levels remains to be seen.
| think, however, it will not, for the
reason that such intense heat denotes
the near presence Ofsubterranean heat"
-HunSHS lity Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
The Triple Of the Ladies'.

''WOmeH drink more soda water
than men do, said well-know Chest
nut street dispenser OF temperance be-
verages. They are our best custom
ers, and suppose that the reason why
our men customers are not so numer-
Gus is because they prefer beer. The
women are generally fond OF ice cream
in their soda, but those who prefer on
ly the strip call mostly for vanilla
flavor. Next to this they prefer straw
berry and pineapple" An expert who
has taken note of the special peculiari-
ties of female soda-water drinkers
says that schoolgirls generally want
strawberry and vanilla mixed: the
older brunettcs, coffee or chocolate;t the
blondes, pineapple OF lemon; old wom-
en-, sarsaparilla or raspberry; and the
widows and unmarried women Of a
certain or uncertain age, apollinaris
or yichy, which has no idle froth to
prevent their looking over the edges
of the glass while drinking, and does
not fizz up the nose.
Every frst-class soda-fountain now
has a milkshake machine attached.
The milk shake is a new Inventions and
is merely boiled milk sweetened and
favored and shaken up in a machine
which puts great froth on it. 1t is
mostly a woman's drink, but since so
many liquor saloons have been COM
PEELED to 90 into the temperance bust
ness, has become quite popular among
the old beer drinkers, who like to
patronize their old haunts, but are COM
PEELED to do without their favorite
beverage. The man who invented the
machine to make milk shakes is said
to have made 100000 already on his
patent. There are now more than
1000 of these machines in this city,
PjttI0deLphi0 Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
WOman'S COnstancy.

"This with my slover' Thus spake a jet
crowned maid:
And with the word, with trembling
fingers, deft.
From many a sister tress one curl was
reft
And in his outstretched palm with sweet
trust laid
saThis as my Iove for, though Times
frosts shall fade
The locks this touchstone act hath left.
This curl, in Hopes bright Spring time
cleft,
Shall know no change till Natures debt be
paidr'
This, thirty years agone. He met to-day
The bright-eyed maiden Of the tress and
vow:
Lo! silver circlets clustered round her
brow,
Yet in her orbs was loUe He went his
way
And 'mong neglected keepsakes found a
curl
Ebon as when it crowned the faithful
girl
From ''Woman' BIZ Thomas J. Ham.