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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-13
The Nominations

We have attempted to give in the list be-
low a list of those residents who took part in
the grand celebration by the illumination
Of their grounds ard residences; but the list
is. We fear far from complete. In many
cases these decorations were quite elaborate.
higs, ba1ting aud portraits OF Gen, Harrison
being displayed from the residences, and
the grounds brilliantly illuminated with Ian
t.rs aud colored lights II was late hour
IN the evening y hen our reporters reached
the loyal section of Cushnoe Heights, and it
Is fearel the names of many in that district
who decorated their houses, were MT OBJ
taiuel. But if any names have been
omitted from the list it has been from ov-
ersigbt or the impossiblity of procuring
Tbs m and if in such ca es the parties will
hand their name. into our counting room to-
isy they will be published in tomorrow's
edition.
Anong the more elaborate decorations
and iiuminations on the route of the parade
and in other parts of the city were the fol-
/ lowing: Gov. elect + c. Bure Oh, fifty
large Japane 80 Ian erns, flags draped over
/ front balcony AMI flags over windo Hon.
/ John l.. Stevens. about one hundred Chinese
lanterns and pleasing novelty in the form
of ground lights over portions OF the Lawn
an idea imported from oweden-with fine
/ iilumlustions in the windows and flag deco
ratiOGs; Hon. James G. Blaine, grounds and
residence beautifully Illuminated with Ian
! terms and flags; HJn. Geo. f. Macomber.
over one hundred lanterns on the grounds
and house finely illuminated; Hon. p. o.
| Vickery, magnificent display of lanterns,
decorator aud colored lights; DIR. Amos
WilleT, house beautifully decorated with
flags over windows and doors, and one
hundred Chinese lanterns; Chas. S. Hitch
born, fine illumination Of grounds and dwell
ing. the effect of the lights through the
staine glass windows being quite unique
Chas. IL. Mason, residence and grounds at
trictively decorated; DIR. E. J. Roberts
elaborate strings of lanterns upon ground,
and about two hundred ligh.s in Windows
J. j Maher. house and grounds very attract
lively decorated; Rev. z. ). Thatcher, yard
beautifully decorated: J. n. Wade has
about one hundred candles at the window
|. of his house from cellar to cupola; L. A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-13
Struck by an Engine.
+ Special to tie kennebec Journal. ]

LIyERMoRE FALLS, Nov. i2.
The 4 so train just below this station struck
A little boy named Burger, who was playing
on the track The boy was hurled twenty
Ave feet be fore he struck and WAS picked up
insens ble. The doctor pronounces the III
iuries fatal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-13

rocket goiag OF every rod aud a do4
Roman candles perpetually singing the ears
of those near by with their
sparks While the procession was
winding along Grove and Capital streets
the rest of the crowd went straight along
State street and by the time the advance
guard arrived the street in front of Mr..
Blaine's was packed with an eager throng.
The files marched in and formed in military
array, while grand display of fireworks il
lumined the heavens, and the band PLAYED
the familiar strains of Aud Lang Syne"
Then a sudden hush fell over the assembly
till Marshal Soule proposed three cheers for
Harrison and Morton, and the shous that
al been pent up for moment broke forth
loud aud long till the dome of the State
House echoed back the harrahs. Then Hon
James u. Blaine appeared on the porch
with uncovered head, and, when the shouts
that greeted his arrival had died away,
spoke as follows:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-13
Chicago Produce Market.

CHICAGO, Nov. l2.
FLoUE-slightly improved; prices steady
WtEAr-"eak, No. spring, ii3alI3l: No.
rel, .i3i
G ,gS--No. 24!s4lI
OATs-No. 2, 2iIa24l
X a---qaist at IS.
. .gLEY-.rrr at 73s7s
PbRg--at IA 6lia.i rs
L NRD---at l7xs.A
B ILK MEAT --shoaldsrs, . "a; .bov1 m. 4 n
shor eiear 50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-13
BY TELEGRAPH.
SIGNAL SERVICE
Weather Indications for the Next "a
Hours

War DEPARTMENT.
Office Of the Chief Signal Officer
WASHINGTON, Nov. l3. A. NJ.
For Maine Fair; slightly warmer in
the southern portions, stationary tempera-
ture in the northern portions; northerly
winds, shifting to easterly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-13
New York Money Market.

NEW YogE, Nov. ia.
Money call easy, ranging from TO ;, last loan ii.
Prime paper at II to 81.
Exchange, dull aud weak
Government bonds, dull and steady.
Railroad bonds, fairly active, nrm.
The following the e,osing quotations Of se
curiiies.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02

time. His services were requisitioned in ev-
cry market, and the effect of his varnish was
SO conclusive that it deceived the most expe-
rienced cooks and housekeepeFs, who often
bought painted turkeys in preference to
birds of the same species which had been
newly killed. 1t would be well if the poul-
try purveyors of the present day confined
themselves to this comparatively pious fraud.
A Typical Russian ssAaair of Honor,
Vienna Neue Freie Presse Jassy letter.
A somewhat curious duel took place few
days ago at Kicheneff, the capital of the i'm
portant Russian province of Bessarabia. A
gentleman of the name of Paul Usakof and
Prince Temariaf quarrelled together about
some trivial matter at the 'tNobles club, +" and
finally determined to settle their differences
by duel. On the following morning they
met with their seconds and surgeon on the
outskirts of the city and exchanged three
shots apiece without doing any injury to one
another. On the following day they again
met at the club, and after short converse
ton began to quarrel afresh with increased
vigor. Growing more and more excited, the
dispute at length degenerated into a regular
kicking and fsticuff struggle. The prince,
who all along had been the aggressor, was in
in act of receiving sound and well-deserved
thrashing, when suddenly the thin varnish
of civilization gave way, and all his innate
and national barbarism getting the upper
hand, he few with yell at M. UsakoH, and
catching the latter's lower lip between his
teeth, bit it completely off. It is needless to
add that that terminated the fight. M. Usa-
kof is still confined to his bed, hepelessly
disigured for life, while his neither lip is de-
posted as kind Of corpus delicti at the po-
lice court, where the case will be tried when
NJ. Usakoff is able to leave his bed. Mean
while the prince swaggers about the town
and the Mobiles club is exceedingly proud of
his sthonne-houchan
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
Jewels In the Fire.

Some of the recent heavy jewelry fires, in
which many thousand dollars worth of
precious stones were saved from destruction,
suggest the question as to which stones can
and which cannot pass uninjured through
the heat Of a confagration. "Many people
believe that q diamond can be heated white
hot with impunity-and a good FIRE; but
wouldn't advise them to try the experiment
teo often. have seen diamonds which had
passed through the great fire at Chicago.
They were covered with white film and
looked like pieces of alum. After passing
through the polisher's hands they were ap-
parently as good as new, but 1 still faneied
that there was certain loss of lustre, and
feel sure that second heating would have
made this still more plainly perceptible.
CHOW high heat will rubies and sap
phires standi Well, I've carefully heated
some dark colored sapphires and been re-
warded by seeing them cool off several
shades lighter. Upon the color of others
heat made not the slightest impression. I
was obliged to be very careful in heating and
in letting the stones cool, as any sudden vari-
atisn in temperature will split then in a mo-
ment.
''Topaz have destroyed entirely by heat,
and rubies are also easily ruined by high
temperature. Heated white hot aad plunged
into water, any of the latter stones will split
into thousand fragments; 30 be careful if
you make any experiments.
Pearls should not be heated either, as the
result will resemble oyster shells more than
anything else."
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
varnish for Turkey Legs,

lPar-s DlSpatch TO the London Telegraph
When the average householder or his cook,
who proceeds to the Paris markets for do
mestic provender is offered embalmed geese,
turkeys with painted legs and diseased chick
ems, instead Of healthy and untainted poul-
try, it is time for the police to interfere in
the interest OF the public. Recent research
es have shown that considerable trade is
done in diseased fowl in all the Paris mar
kets, and short time ago brawny fort de
la Halle, or market porter, died from bleed
poisoning, caused, as the doctors averred, by
the bite of large insect which had been
battening on some turkeys. The practice of
embalming fowl or dressing up long-demised
birds SO as to make them lock fresh is of
comparatively modern origin, but that of
painting the legs of turkeys is as old as the
days of Privat d'Anglemont. The first per-
SON in the field In this department of indus
try was Pere Chapellier, who made little
fortune out of it. He noticed that the legs
of turkeys were brilliantly black for one day
after they had been killed, and that then
they became of dusky-brown color He
accordingly invented peculiar kind of var
nish, the secret of which he sold with profit
on retiring from business, and with this he
touched up the legs of the birds which re-
mained unsold for any considerable period Of
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
RECEN It.

A recent pink luncheon in Chicago is said
to have been carnation fine affair.-Lowell
Courier.
AS the paternal shingle descends upon the
unerring youngster he finds it hard to realize
that he is the father of the son.-Bingham
ton Leader.
The calendar spring begins March /, the
astronomical spring begins several weeks
later, the real spring begins when it gets
ready.-Omaha World.
A poet has written some verses entitled
"The Triumph of March" And March has
been blowing good deal over her triumph,
too.-Norristown Herald.
Grown has threatened to kick me if he
meets me out in society. Suppose you were
me and should see him come into the room
what would you doa''- ''Sit down."-Judge.
From time to time mysterious disappear
ances are reported. The last is that of
man who was driving a load of dynamite
along a rough rosd.-Rochester Post-Ex-
press.
"Mrs Smith has lost her husband" "I
know it; and only think of it, she has put on
only half mourning" every true; but then
you know Mr.. Smith was very small man."
Boston Transcript.
''spring has come, !" announces an exchange
to its readers. That shows the great value of
q local newspaper-to tell the farmers spring
comes, SO they can begin ploughing. Ken
lucky State Jeurna..
Entomologists say that bees always fly in
straight lines. They are too busy to waste
time going the long way round, as a woman
does when she is out shopping with new
clothes on.-Lowell Citizen.
Granger in city hotel (fumbling with the
electric button in his roon)-"By gosh! This
water has been shut off for the last two hours.
IF they don't turn it on pretty soon I'll have
to lug that pitcher out to the well. Hotel
Mail
''But isn't your nephew rather young to
join the armyr' asked Cebwigger. "He is
very young to be sure" replied Mrs. Mala-
prop; 'but then, you must remember that
he is only going to join the infantry. THE
Epoch.
Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady)-"Is your
seat comfortable, Mr.. Dumley, or are you too
near the firs?" Dumiey-"No, am not too
near the fire, Mrs. Hendricks, but I think
am-er-a trife too near the butter. y
brakes Magazine.
''No, James," said young wife, "I don't
like that house we looked at. Why, there
isnt a cobweb in the whole pantry" "What
do you want a cobweb in the pantry fort"
asked her husband. "Why to hang the spider
on, to be sure. Judy.
A Mrs Mumm of Beloit is suing for di-
vorce, and the testimony brought out the
fact that she married on condition that her
husband deed her forty acre farm. Some
women have ground for divorce, but not SO
much as a forty acre farn.-Norristown
Horald.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02

dents and others, to many of whom even 10
kreutzers is consideration, have made it
custom, once out after the appointed time,
to stay out until 5, when the hausmeister is
obliged to let them in for nothing. Restaur-
ants and cofee-house keepers declare that
their trade suffers through loss of respectable
patronage, and movement is on foot, start
ed by them, to do away with the hausmeister
dictatorship.
Paris has great project to talk about. It
is that of obtaining water supply from the
lake of Neufchatel in Switzerland, distance
of 313 miles. The cost is estimated at three
hundred million francs, or about sixty mill
lion dollars. The supply is ample, and the
quality of the water all that could be wished.
The plan contemplstes drawing the water
from the depth of 262 feet below the level
of the lake. The Jura mountains are to be
pierced by tunnel twenty-five miles long.
The surface of the lake is more than sixteen
hundred feet above the mean level of Paris,
and the distributing reservoir near the city is
to be at the height of 394 feet above the
same level. The supply will be 80 abundant
that, with the head proposed, it will be
sufficient to provide not only for all the or
dinary requirements of the people, but also
to furnish power for lighting the city by
electricity and for general manufacturing
purposes.
In paper recently read before one of the
English associations of engineers, the writer
asserted that according to present methods
of dealing with the motive power of the
steam engine, only some twenty per cent.
was made available, eighty per cent. of the
energy developed in the furnace being thrown
away, and it is quite common to realize NO
greater efficiency than about four per cent.
on the gross or potential energy of the fuel
In large factories, that admit of the power
being concentrated in one or two great ma
chimes, condensation can be taken advantage
of, and, with water heaters and other appli-
ances, double the above figures realized-but
in the very best engines with all the latest
improvements and Celebrations, not more
than twelve and one-half per cent. has ever
been realized, nor is it possible to realize
more, and even this twelve and one-half per
cent. can only be obtained by the finest Of
wire drawing and the best of coal.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
A Queer List.

Boston Letter to the Providence Journal
I was shown the other day something of
which I had heard to which indeed it is pos
sible I may have made allusion in these let
ters, but which is so delicious in its COM
pleteness as to merit particular descrip-
ton. This is a list of wedding gifts printed
in connection with marriage in the family
of a western man who had made money, and
whose wife, and daughters fondly imagine
themselves to occupy dizzy pinnacle of So
cisl elegance.
The list is carefully spaced and loaded
printing, with the inclusion of the addresses
of the donors, extended to fifteen pages; all
though something more than dozen people
secured the Immortality conferred by this
nuptial volume by the economical device of
sending flowers. The pamphlet is chastely
bound in white pasteboard tied with white
ribbon, and has the general appearance of an
over stabilized dance order. 1t would occu-
py too much space to go into detailed ex-
animation of this most delicate and refined
specimen of western elegance, but few
points may be noted. In one case the COM
pliers knew the author of book mentioned
and hasten to specify that "Lamia" is by
Keats, their literary knowledge being evil
IDENTIFY exhausted by this gigantic effort. In
not few cases it is specified that the gifts
were ''solid silver" distinction which re-
fleets most invidiously upon those to which
are only accorded the epithet "silver," or
even none at ALL One large vase is described
as of "cloisne ware" and one young lady is
set down as giving ''earel with flowers paint
ed on the coral" The thoughtfulness of the
donor in not Withholding either of two arti-
cles SO intimately connected cannot be too
highly commended. The gift of the parents
of the bride was furnishing house COM
plete and wedding trosseau," whatever
'trosseau" may be; and relative munif-
Gently bestowed upon the young couple a
'check for three hundred dollars $780,"
The exact and business-like duplication of
the statement of the sum is to be noted.
There is on the list a large variety of silver
utensils. and among them one 1 do not
chance to have seen mentioned before,
''sweet meat scissors" As a whole there is
an air of dazzling Occidental splendor and
opulence about the beribboned list which
quite throws into the shade anything the
LVao has Is oh
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
Chicago Street Etiquette.

One rainy day last week good-looking
young man stepped off Lake street car at
Fifth avenue just as buxom, apple-cheeked,
jolly shop-girl started to rnn across the
street. It was dark and the girl did not see
the young man until she ran right into
him. Then a mischievous look came into
his eyes and he threw his arms around her,
gave her good hug and hurried on. The
girl was SO astonished for moment that
she stood still in the middls of the street.
Then she walked over to the other side
walk and stopped beside a lsmp-pest and
looked after the young man and laughed
like the jolly, whole-souled girl that she
was. And three or four people who had seen
the funny act laughed too, and the audacious
youth trotted down the street whistling as
merrily IS though there were no rain.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
Monday, april 2. 1855.
MORE MYSTERY.


Milk Inspector Babcock of Boston has SUBJ
mittsd to the legislature bill to regulate
the colering of all dairy products. There is
a good deal of opposition to it, and Inspec-
ter Babceek has been induced to talk about.
the butter business in a way that is interest,"
ing to the general public.
Mr.. Babcock believes that good oleomarga-
rine and good cottonseed oil are as healthful
as the cheap grades of the articles for which
they are substitutes and much more palatab1e.
And as an inspector of dairy products he OBJ
jects to the hypocrisy of the dairymen who
wish to absolutely prohibit the men in kim
dred business from selling an article that is
a much better and fairer article than much
of the stuff that they are selling under the
guise of butter. To show what he means by
Hypocrisy" he says he will tell secret.
This is that large number of butter men
are engaged in selling an article of butter
that is known as "hasn butter" It,,is a nom
descript article, and entirely fraudulent. It
is sold under the name of "ladle" butter to
the trade, but goes out to the consumers as
fancy dairy butter. It is an unelean and
bogus product. 1.-The men who handle this
hash butter are the men who are bowling
for prohibition of oleo because they can't
sell this inferior product alongside of it. !"
Hash butter is composed of the odds and
ends of all sorts of butter brought in from
the farms in the West, remarked, churned
with milk in many cases and colored with
annato A gentleman who used to be an ex-
tensive buyer of this butter is quoted as say
ing: The small farmers make limited guam
titles OF butter, churning perhaps
Gfty pounds at time or in week. They
bring in this product to the buyers in the
cities, using every conceivable variety Of
package. 1t cones in in dirty half barrels,
egg cases, shoe boxes, crooks, bean pots-in
fact everything that can be scraped. 1t is
white, yellow, half yellow, salted and fresh.
This mixture of butter is culled over, the
best grades being separated and worked over,
many varieties being mixed and salted and
colored so as to relieve the resultant product
from a streaked appearance. It is so mixed
that it is said to be hashed, hence the name.
The seconds and thirds of this butter are al
lowed to remain in the cellar until an eastern
buyer comes along, when they sell him the
whole business. Ten years ago the Boston
buyers were said to be the best buyers of
'hash" butter in the market. The Detroit
factories were largely engaged in handling
''hash" butter, and are new.
This is cheering, if true. Hash hash has
long been a mysterious affair, and now hash
butter is revealed. What nsxti
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
And Editor Paid with oysters.

LFrom -tn9 PaII NIaII ITaZettf.I
Who would look for humor in a consular
reports Our consul at Baltimore, in report
on the oyster fisheries of Maryland, says:
Gin some of the lower counties down the
Chesapeake bay oysters pass as current mon
ey, and in one town which boasts of week
ly newspaper a large percentage of its read
ers pay their subscriptions to it in oysters;
thus the editor receives from one hundred
and fifty to.two hundred bushels of oysters
yearly, which he is forced to consume in his
own family; and as oysters are declared by
the faculty to be most efdcacious in produ-
cling and increasing brain power, it is to be
hoped that the subscribers to that journal
get good value for their oysters.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-02
Suit Patterns,

In harmony with the bright colors now
coming forward throughout the natural
world. Natural blendings in Stripes,
Checks, Plaids, Mixtures and plain designs.
New and novel conceptions in all, remark
able for neatness, beauty and wearing quaI-
tiles. A wide range in Sacks, in particular
favor with young men this season-really
Cutaway Sacks, elegant, airy and convent
ent. The Cutaway Frocks are also leaders
and favorites with a great many. Let as
say again that these suits are not cut and
rushed together by Bashi-Bazouk s1ashers,
but by the best journeymen tailors obtain
able. Made to sell, not only present Suits,
but others offered year after year.