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The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
HAMBURCS.

Nine lots Hamburg Edging marked
down from 10, 90 and 20 to IL 1.2 cents
per yard. ),
Five lots Hamburg Edgings marked
down from 80 and 30 to Is cents per
yard.
Four lots Hamburg Edgings marked
down from %, 80 and 3S to 15 cents
per yard.
One LOT Swiss All0yer marked down
from 3S to 10 cents per yard.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10

Tu,O LET-A pleasant rent Of seven , poSns
with sun all day, large y abbos So ahu Also u two
nleasant rents Of six rooms each, with plenty OF
sun and yard, and modern conyenlences, az l1 ne
corner Of Mayo and Lincoln streets; E EpIhs
TABEZ TRUE, No 394 Fore foot OF E4cnange
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
POCKET BOOKS and PURSES.

One lot Purses marked down from Is
to cents each.
Three lots Purses marked down from
go and 25 cents to 13 cents each.
One lot Purses marked down from ~
to Is cents each.
One lot Pocket Books marked down
from SO to AZ cents each.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
Lace Department.

One lot Spanish Lace Fischues marked
down from $1.25 to So cents each.
down from S2. 90 to S1.38 each.
One lot Spanish Lace Scarfs marked
down from 1926 to $1.45 each.
One lot 40 inch Black Chantilly Lace
Fl0uncings marked down from $1.62 to
to $1.15 per yard.
One lot 40 inch Black Spanish Gui-
pure Lace FlOuncing marked down from
slice to SLIP per yard.
One lot 40 inch Black ChantiIly Lace
FlOuncing marked down from $2.SS to
els per yard.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10

DARTNEW-E Either silent or active, with a
capital from 81 900 to $4,000. 70 engage IN
manufacturing business, well estaDlisheds iaLge
nrofits splendid chance for young man VINO mas
had experience as travelling salesman, references
furnished and required. Address +. X. DAN
IEI.S Carrier No. z, City. iV-A
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
RINES BROS
MARK DOWN SALE {!

largely
the reliable but at the WELL
TUESDAY, APRIL 10th,
md a are the following:
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10

One lot Jet Passamenterie marked
down from 1926 to SLAP per yard.
One lot Jet Passamenterie marked
down from $1.SS to $1.1S per yard.
One lot Jet Ornament Gimp marked
down from $2.S7 to $1.92 per yard. !.
One lot Mourning Fringe marked
down from $l.25 t075 cents per yard.
One lot Mourning Fringe marked
down from $1.OO to so cents per yard.
from one st mG ~ Fgng ya marked down
One lot silk Braid Fringe marked
down from $500 to $1.0O per yard.
Two lots Black Braid Gimps marked
down from $1.25 to IS cents per yard.
One lot Braid Gimp In Brown, Navy
Blue, Green, Drab and Olive, marked
down from 75 to so cents per yard.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
MARRIAGES.

ssWhati in name?" &c L do you
mean?" Index of course.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
COTTON SKIRTS.

One lot Ladies' Striped Cotton Skirts
marked down from 68 to so cents each.
One lot Ladies' Cotton Skirts marked
down from 81. 90 to IS cents each.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
HANDKERCH|EFS.

One lot Ladies' Mourning Handker-
chiefs marked down from ~ 1-2 to s
cents each.
Two lots Ladies' COl0red B0rdered
Handkerchiefs marked down from IL
1.2 to 8 cents each.
One lot Mems all Linen Handkerchiefs
worth IS, at III cents each.
One lot Mems all Linen Handkerchiefs
worth %, at IA cents each.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
Spring Medicine

spring Me0iclne
Is needed by nearly everybody to expel the
impurities which have accumulated in the blood
during the winter, to keep up strength as the
warm weather comes on, create an appetite and
promote healthy digestion. Hoods Sarsaparilla
is the most popular and successful spring medi
cine. Try it.
PORTLAND, ME.
"w value Hoods sarsaparila very highly in
our family. My white has been severe sufferer
from dyspepsia, and has found great relief by
taking this excellent medicine" A. NELSON, 88
Walnut Street, Portland, Me.
sACCARAPPA, ME. or
"For two years was troubled greatly with salt
rheum ON my hands. They itched intensely, were
very sore, and would crack open and bleed very
often. i commenced using Hoods Sarsaparilla
and Hoods Olive Ointment, and am happy to
say that am completely cured" MISS LIZZIE
s. TRoTT, Saccarappa, Me.
BRIDGT0N, ME.
II had salt rheum humor in my right foot for IL
or Is years. 1t discharged and frequently satur
ated my stocking and shoe. was unable to
walk any distance, and suffered intensely. l
heard of Hoods Sarsaparllla and tried bottle.
Found it was doing me good, and in short time
the humor entirely disappeared and can walk
as well as any one advise all afflicted with salt
rheum or any humor to try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
MARY A. JOHNSON, South Bridgton, Me.
Mrs. C. W. Marriott, Lowell, Mass, was com
pletely cured of sick headache, which she had
had 16 years, by Hoods Sarsaparilla-
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
STAMPED LINENS,

One lot Splashers marked down from
so to 35 cents each.
One lot Tray Cloths marked down from
SO to 20 cents each.
One lot Tides marked down from so
to IS cents each.
One lot Bureau Scarfs marked down
from $1.25 to IS cents each.
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
Hoods SarsapariIIa
100 Doses One Dollar ola, ;,,,

Sold by all druggists 81; six for So, Prepared
nv q. I. HOOD & co. .Apothecarles, Lowell, Mass
The Portland daily press., 1888-04-10
Furniture fringeS.

Two lots Furniture Fringe marked
down from Is to 8 cents per yard.
One lot Furniture Fringe marked
down from so to 3S cents per yard.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
A Certain Rich Man.

There is certain rich man possessed of a
name known far and wide in the United
States, who enjoys very queer custom an
nually at the festive season. During fifty.
one weeks Of every year he is model Of
sobriety, propriety and gravity; he is a man
of stern style and habit, family man and a
graybeard, and he applies his prodigious
energies to the great business out Of which
his fortune has grown. But each year, dur
ing the holiday week from Christmas to New
Years day, his family leave home and join
their relatives elsewhere, while he, having
invited a half dozen boon companions, locks
up himself and party in his mansion, and has
a week Of high jinks in their company.
Wines and viands of all kinds fill the dining
room; fiddles and drums decorate the draw
ing room, and madness rules the hour to such
degree that the expense incurred for the
mending of furniture and crockery is almost
equal to the other bills of the occasion.
On the morning and the day after New
Years he parts from his companions of the
week, resumes his business with his usual
gravity, and pursues it with uninterrupted
energy through the year until the arrival Of
the next holiday season. When one of his
worn out inmates, after the close of the revels
one year, made remonstrance against the
abominable practice, he replied: II have to
do it. am SO overburdened with business
and responsibility all the year that if did
not let up in a jamboree at its end, would
go mad. l let myself out by shutting myself
in at the holidays and then stick to busi-
ness like a galley slave from January to De-
cember. My wife and family know that I
have this weak spot in my head."-New York
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
Treatment for Dropping Shoulders.

This is serious evil. 1t compromises both
appearance and vitality. A STOPPING figure
Is not only familiar expression of weakness
Or old age, but is, when caused by careless
habits, direct cause of contracted chest and
defective breathing. Unless you rid yourself
Of this crook while at school you will proba-
bly, go bent to the grave. There is one good
way to cure it. Shoulder braces will not
help One needs, not an artificial substitute,
but some means to develop the muscles whose
duty it is to hold the head and shoulders
erect.
know of but one bulls eye shot. It is to
carry weight on the head. A sheepskin or
other strong bag filled with twenty to eighty
pounds of sand is good weight. When en-
gagged in your morning studies, either before
Or after breakfast, put this bag of sand on
the head, hold your head erect, draw your
chin close to your neck and walk slowly
about the room, coming back, if you please,
every minute or two to your book, or carry
ing the book as you walk The muscles,
whose duty it is to hold head and shoulders
erect, are hit not with scattering shot, but
with rifle ball. The bones of the spine and
intervertebral substance will soon accommo-
date themselves to the new attitude. One
year of daily practice with the bag, half an
hour morning and evening, will give you a
noble carriage without interfering moment
with your studies. 1t would be very difficult
to put into paragraph more importan. in
structions than this. Your respiration, voice
and strength Of spine, to say nothing of your
appearance, will find new departure in this
cure of dropping shoulders.-Dr. Dio Lewis.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
The Science of Hippophagy.

The science Of hippophagy is not under
stood in this country, where handsome for
tune could be made if people would only
consume the many horses which are turned
into soap and butter on account of having
broken leg on slippery streets Americans
do not relish the idea of dining on horse flesh,
but 1, who tried it long before the siege Of
Paris made the diet compulsory, can attest
to the fact that the meat is tender like veal,
and far better than stringy beef, which is so
common in this country. Then, the crop Of
burros is SO large that there is no means Of
utilizing them. Why not send them to the
slaughter house, and get back a nice little
carcass SO tender, juicy and sweet that you
would pronounce the meat better than the
choicest spring lamb. ate asses at Paris,
but in Mexico my mouth watered when saw
those fat little donkeys at every station we
passed. Not wasting any strength or mus
cular energy in frisky antics, they pile on
alternate layers Of flesh and fat that would
please any epicure if he was ignorant of their
origin. In Paris there are thirty-six licensed
vendors of horse meat and asses flesh. When
ever an accident occurs by which horse is
lamed the nearest butcher is called. He kills
the PROSTATE animal, bleeds him, and pre-
pares the carcass for sale. Parisians have no
predjudice on this score. but ON the American
continent beef, toughened by Texas northers
or Montana billiards, is preferred.
Ramirez in Globe Democrat.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
Little Newspaper Humbugs.

The claim of omniscience and the assump-
tion of omnipotence are the amusing parts of
q newspaper 1t is artless and transparent.
The omniscience is that of the encyclopedia
and the omnipotence is the frown of Jove
It is a stage effect, which is pretty, but
which deceives nobody. The roar is well
done But the performer is not mistaken for
a lion. He is plainly seen to be the excellent
Mr.. Snug, who is professionally engaged in
the support of his family. The elaborate
proclamations of the newspapers private
business as matter of public i'm
portance is another aspect of the same
comedy. The newspaper soberly annouGce ces
that after prolonged deliberation it has Ge-
Cided to widen its columns, and that for many
months the most prodigious machinery has
been in course of construction to enable 1t to
satisfy the demands of its swiftly increasing
host of advertisers, who will have nothing
less than all the conveniences provided by the
most modern science The newspaper is
gratifed to be able to state that it is now pre-
pared to smile at all rivalry, to outstrip its
esteemed contemporaries at every point, and
70 enable manki nd to dispense with all other
journals but itself. This is as simple and
Childlike as if great mercantile house should
announce that it had just bought new set
of massive account books in Russia leather,
and laid new floors of southern pine, and
added another story to the warehouse. The
buyer. meanwhile, is interested III the goods,
and inspects them, and them only, to decide
whether to buy or to look elsewhere. These
are the little humbugs of the trade of the
UeWspaper.-Harper's
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
Sanhir's Wit and Philosophy.

A lady having expressed surprise that DR..
x. should pronounce all his patients, even
those who merely had feverish colds, seriously
i'll, Saphir said: ''He is quite right, anybody
whom he attends is really in danger"
81 won't make way for fool!" cried an
envious scribbler, on meeting Saphir in
narrow passage, where at first neither seemed
disposed to give place. "Oh! | will with
pleasure" replied Saphir, stepping aside and
bowling courteously.
Standing in crowded theatre some one
leaned on his back, thrusting his head over
his shoulder Saphir drew out his handker-
chief and wiped the mans nose violently.
The latter started back. "Oh, / beg your
pardon" said Saphir, 81 thought it was
NINE"
Requested to define the word dentist
Saphir said: "He is a man who pulls out
other peoples teeth to get something for his
own to bite"
An Australian prince, who was also an
archbishop, swore horribly at a banquet and,
perceiving that Saphir looked at him in sur
prise, angrily asked the cause of his aston
ishment. II thought an archbishop would
not allow himself to swear" answered the
wit. 81 was not swearing as an archbishop.
but as prince" explained the prelate.
"Ah," said Saphir thoughtfully, ''but sup
pose the devil fetches the prince, what will
become of the archbishop!'-Frolnt the Ger
man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
Senator JacksOn's Bloody Duel.

Senator James jackson of Georgia fought
bloody duel before he came to Washington.
He was an Englishman by birth, but he came
leading Freemason, and fought gallantly in
the Revolutionary war. He killed Lieuten-
ant Governor Wells in 1850, in duel, and
was engaged in several other affairs Of
honor" until he finally determined to accept
q challenge ON such terms as would make it
his last duel. So he prescribed, as the terms,
that each party, armed with double bar
relied gun loaded with buckshot, and with
hunting knife, should row himself in skiff
to designated PORTS on opposite sides Of
the Savannah river. When the city
clock struck IL each party should start and
row his skiff to q small island in the middle
of the river, which was wooded and covered
with underbrush. On arriving at the island
each party was to moor his skiff, stand by it
for ten minutes, and then go about on the
island till the meeting took place.
The seconds waited on the mainland until
after o'clock, when they heard three gun
shots and loud and angry cries. Then all
was STILL At daylight, as had been agreed
upon, the seconds went to the island and
found jackson lying on the ground, insensible
from the loss of blood, and his antagonist ly-
ing acrosJ him, dead. jackson recovered,
but would never relate his experience on that
night, nor was he ever challenged again. He
died in Washington while serving his second
term as United States senator. March 10,
1S06-Ben: Perley Poore's Letter.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
CENTRAL PARKS CHIMPhNzEE.
CrOwley's Destructive Propensities-Cap'
ture of a Policeman's White Gloves.

CrOwley's Destructive PrOpensities-Cap-
ture of Policeman's White Gloves.
Crnwley's worst quality is the irresistible
propensity to destroy every object he can lay
his hands on, including live animals. A dog
or cat he will almost instantly tear to pieces;
in fact, the sight Of a small animal seems to
put him into a fury. A tiny monkey brought
by lady on her shoulder made him so wild
that he acted like maniac; he threw hand
full after handful of sawdust all over his
audience; he shook the bars of his cage with
suggestive violence; he put up his lips like a
trumpet and cried "Hool hoo!" at it; he tore
around the cage in a transport, and lastly he
spit at it. This is one of the bad tricks he
has learned from i'll bred and teasing boys
who visit him, and he has become SO expert
that he can reach his mark eight feet away.
During the above exhibition of temper the
unfortunate little creature, q beautiful squir-
rel monkey, six inches long, was out of its
senses with fright, chartered and fairly
screamed in terror.
This lamentable destructive tendency de-
mands strong guard rail before the cage at
the length of Mr.. Crowley's arm, for he is
always ready to thrust out one of those long,
sinewy members and snatch at hat, parasol,
or anything he can reach; once in his clutches
it is lost. A park policeman stood one day
talking to him, inside the rail by virtue Of
his Office. Crowley sat on the floor close by
the bars, absorbed in contemplation of his
brand new white gloves. Very gently he
pulled the tips of the fingers one after the
other, quietly loosening them, till suddenly,
like a flash, he snatched it off and bounded
to the back of his cage. In vain the hapless
policeman commanded and coaxed, begged
and threatened. Mr.. Crowley, entirely SIN
moved, sat calmly down to enjoy his prize.
First he put it on his hand, using his teeth to
help and then held it up for the audience to
see, with every finger spread, grinning with
delight. But not being able to arrange it to
his satisfaction he tore it to strings, and
passed happy fifteen minutes while reduc-
ing it to its primitive state of thread holding
one part in the bend of the thigh-the
monkeys convenient pockea--while he worked
on another.
On another occasion one of the park men
went inside of the rail to speak to the CHM
panzee. Crowley sat quietly on the floor
looking at him and thrusting his hands out
to play, as was his custom.
"Look out, therel" warned the keeper
"Ob, Mr.. Crowley knows me-" was hardly
out of his mouth in response before Mr.
Crowley fastened his fingers upon the lapels
of his coat, one on each side, and gave them
such jerk that the man was dashed violently
against the bars, and the coat split down the
back like SO much paper-Olive ThorIe Mil
Ter in Cosmopolitan.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
Rates of Subscription.
QUIET CHUCKLES.

"Did you ever go tobogganing, Mr..
Winterwheatn "No,n said the old man,
''but l once stepped into the elevator well
and fell down four stories in three-tenths of
a second. That is fast enough for me; I'm
getting too old for much excitement. Bur
dette
a New York heiress had n marriage pro-
posal from an English duke, but her parents
were proud and ambitious and made her
marry an American editor-Norristown
Herald
They say up around st. Paul that it is so
cold that the air fairly glistens with the bits
OF frost that fill it. We noticed those bright
specks, but we thought that they were frozen
portions of the speeches made by Governor
McGil and Mayor Smith at the time of the
laying of the corner stone of the ice palace.
Chicago Times.
An ice bridge has formed at Niagara Falls,
and American defaulters who want to reach
Canada can now slide.-Norristow Herald.
The Transcript speaks of the turtle as
taking a leading part at dinners" We
thought he generally appeared as a supe.-
Boston Bulletin.
An effort is being made in New York to
abolish hanging, and substitute killing by
electricity. There is one thing to be said in
favor of the change. The abolition of the
gibbet would retire the moss covered
phrases "dull thud" and "launched into
eternity "-Norristown Herald.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
Voting for School Committee.

''Good morning, Mrs. Black. Are you
going to vote for school committee todayF'
"Yes; and I'm awfully glad l met you.
Tell me what kind of person this Mrs.
White is. don't know whether to vote for
her or not"
"Oh, she's splendid woman; so devoted,
you knowl and they say she knows more
about educational matters than all the men
on the board put together. There she is
now"
"What! that woman over there in blue
bonnet trimmed with greene Why, Mrs.
Gray, I'm astonished that you could think of
voting for person who has SO little taste."-
Boston Transcript. H
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-03-01
THE SHAFTS GREAT WEALTH.
Curiosities Found in the Persian Rulers
Museum-Pearls by the Peck.

CuriOsities Found in the Persian Rulers
Museum-Pearls by the Peck.
What the shah of Persia terms his museum
is curious place. 1t contains profusion of
costly articles and objects of art such as
exist nowhere else at the present day, it be-
ing the opinion of well informed Europeans
who have viewed these treasures that their
money value is perhaps twentyfold that Of
the contents of the SO called green vaults at
Dresden. 1t is impossible to give exact
figures, for they could only be obtained after
a long and minute inspection and valuation
by experts; but roughly estimated it is prob
able that there is more than 500, 600, 600
worth of jewelry, precious stones, coined
and uncoined gold, costly objets de vertu,
fine porcelain and glassware, old weapons
and armor, tableware and ornaments Of ex-
quisite Persian and Hindu workmanship,
etc. The so called peacock throne IA part Of
the plunder Nadir Shah carried off from
Delhi $50 years agol is alone valued at many
millions, even after q number Of the large,
rough and uncut jewels have been broken
out and stolen.
1t is an incongruous place, this museum.
There you will see vases of agate or gold and
lapis lazuli, said to be worth millions, and
alongside of them empty perfume bottles of
European make, with gaudy labels, that can
be had at wholesale for about five cents
apiece. You will see priceless mosaics and
exquisitely painted cups, and cans and vases
which were presented by some European po-
tentate, and side by side with them you will
notice horrible daubs, veritable ten cent
chromos, picked up the Lord knows how and
where. You will perceive glass cases filed
with huge heaps of rubies, diamonds, emer-
aids, sapphires, turquoises, garnets, topazes,
beryls, of all sizes and kinds, cut and uncut,
and cheek by jowl with these your eyes will
see cheap music boxes, Jews harps, squeaky
hand organs
The shah must also be in condition to
"bull" the market on pearls, for here is, for
instance, big glass case, twenty-four inches
long by eighteen inches wide and high, that
is more than half filled with beautiful pearls
mostly from the Persian gulf fisheries) of all
sizes and degrees of loveliness In a separate
long case the orders and decorations of the
shah, coming from nearly every country in
the world, are kept on exhibition; but the
crown jewels are in a little box that is al
ways locked, and for which the shah himself
forever waking or sleeping, carries the keys.
The contents of this box and of the several
vaults where he keeps his piles and piles Of
bright, shining, unused money, he never al
lows others to view, although the museum
may be visited once year by the European
diplomatists and the friends that they vouch
for.-Wolf Won Schierbrand in Cnsmnnnii--