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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-14

Tomorrow at the Methodist church the
subject of the sermon will be. The World
for Christ" 1t is the annual missionary
sermon.
The A. o, U. W. fair management esti-
mate that they have cleared $3.50 by the
recent fair. This amount will 20 to sick
members Of the Order and their families.
Charity, indeed, was the object of the under
taking Much credit is due MIR. ID. b. Low
for his activity - member of the manage
ment. Following is list If the prizes and
gifts distributed: Ring, value %, slice No.
2y, MIR. c. II. Richards; slippers. No. 1903,
Mr.. John O'Leary; hat, height of pole feet
2 inches and nine ne-sixteenths-winner guessed
eight Frank Kltredge; but.
ter dish, No. l2. Miss Sadie Lougee;' guess
cake. weight pounds II ounces
winner guessed exactly-Mr F. Beane !;
Chair. No. 1877, Mr.. George II. Willis; Bar.
rel -four, l4l votes, MIR. John Holland !;
Blanket, No. ., Rose N. Fall; Cane, III
votes, Mr.. c. L. Dnsmore: Chamber set,
No. 500, Mr.. c. II. Richards; Ton coal, No.
800, Allie Atkins Tea set Mr.. Thaddeus
Richards; Chamber crockery set, Mr.. George
Varney. Praise of the new Hallowell or
chestra in which Mr.. Elmer Douglas plays
first violin. was heard on all sides, especially
the last evening, at which the organization
furnished the excellent dance music. The
dance order consisted of fourteen numbers.
The floor directors vera Messrs c. Z. Dins
more, F. 4. Besne, p. ii. Leighton, and
james Leighton. In an account Of the fair
especial mention should be made Of the fair
solos by Messrs Rogers. Datson, and Hodg-
don on the piccolo, cornet, and clarinet
respectfully.
An accident occurred yesterday afternoon
At the Cascade pond, which came near re.
sulting in the loss of three y0nng lives
Miss Lillian Stockman, and Masters Willie
Howe and George Stephens were skating,
when, in going over spot where the ice
was worn thin by the current, il suddenly
broke ard let the three into the winter
cold water. Cries for help brought
George Chase. Winnie Brown, and
others to the vicinity of the strug-
Cling skaters and after considerable
effort, by pushing a plank out and other
measures, the three were rescued in . fright
ened and chilled condition. The water at
that spot, some fifty or sixty feet from the
shore, is about twenty feet deep. Master
Howe was in the most dangerous position,
and it was only after repexte lily pushing a
plank out to him that he was finally drawn to
firm ice. That their young lives were spared
isa matter of much heart felt thankfulness
on the part of their parents and friends. 1t
is not necessary TO point the morsl-'hews-A
OF thin re o. re- 4Hs i-if SDfA
of Mr. Cltas, ael.e 4is.-. t. scopaa
must have Aty4 fAia!
Col. ihossl iiubt4s5. NJ Eaa Ysfs
came H. lay IL A. SRI Al, .ar iHd f..
turned 81. als G'isaer isy Nisf
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-14
FOREIGN intelligence.
"Jitl The Ripper" Victim Among Vessels
Ballast.
Drowuins's Rsmains May b Laid h
Wsstminstsr Abbey.

LONDON, Dec. iS.-rhe mansled body of
. woman vas found among the ballast Of .
vessel at Middlsshorengh and shipped to Mn
Wall. The hand was found elsewhere. Ths
police suspect another victim Of Jack The
Ripper. The presence Of the body iu the
ballast calls new attention 10 the theory shas
tho successful murder 10 . sailor.
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coupEnsED DISPATCHES.


P.n-Anssisan congrsss sdjeusss y Jah- =
Robert Drovnine. peet and dsanaass. a'so
n "a hens IN Enela1d. Thassday na9ns.
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NORWAY. Nov. 20. 'eT.
fs. dsys ago sss suffering from Chill
blains. Aitet using many remedies vi.hou.
benefit. ! trfi Browns in.tsat Relief"
gtgsve immediate relief and few spplics-
tons completely cured ne
WALLACE DcRsls.
Yoar moo, rs-4cfNe y u fstis 20 ben. at you
gbsn ussd -.fies ts lse-et-i o. Inside wrnpt er
- yoa tax be riss 10 trying f.
sSsoid ~ -u ffs'rrf dec5dfn,opcoitf
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HALLoWELL.

a. o. q. VS. Fair a Grand Success
Those Who Got Prixss-rhres Young
Skaters Break Through Ice and are
Barely Rsscued from Drowning.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
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HousA
WAa DspARruRuf,
Once Of the Chief Signal OMcsr.
wAsaIHoros. Dec. "a IA. II.
For Maine: Pair. norshvssteriy vinds.
lower temperature; fair Sunday.
Metz Jroiogtoal Report.
Dee. ~ isss. 800 p. Nj
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-14

Of thin ne al t. .hs i-h vofs
Of Mr. 'las, ael 3d. sts.-, H. scciie
must have hty4 fAia!
Col. ihees4 iiuhtA4j NJ Sae 5fs
cameo T.o iaJ iH a. SRI AZ; .ar 1pd F..
turned ~ ass Ei.aer y isy 4lsN
Annie is Accomplished b b
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
EVENING FUNERALS.
A Custom Which Is Having a Rapid
Growth in New York.

mo, it isn't exactly a fashion,"
thoughtfully responded prominent
uptown undertaken in response to a
question concerning the comparatively
recent prevalence of evening funerals;
''it is becoming a custom. Severa
causes combine to encourage it. First.
it is less expensive. The interment
takes place quietly the next day, and
the funeral cortege may be, perhaps,
only the hearse and one carriage con-
tanning a clergyman and some repre-
sentative member of the family. Ere
quently, too, funeral is appointed in
the evening, because the body is to be
conveyed to some distant town for in
terment and an early start must be
made the following morning.
Still, another influence is traceable
to the city's great increase of area.
You will notice evening funerals seem
more frequent in the upper wards. To
attend the final services over friends
remains where the residence is above
Fifty-ninth or Seventy-second street
the downtown business man must
easily relinquish two-thirds of his day
at the Office, which is not always con-
venient or even possible. In the
evening he finds it much easier to be
present.
For my own part" concluded the
undertaken, emphatically, II don't
like it. There is something incon-
gruous about gaslight and funeral
trappings. Death is natural; its &C.
cessories should be as little artificial
as possible. Just as the light from a
chandelier increases the ghastliness OF
the corpse beneath, so, to my mind do
evening funerals accentuate the gloom
of such sad occasions. IN Y Sun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
A PERSISTENT PEDDLER.
But He Failed to Dispose of the Articl
He Had for Sale.

But He Failed to Dispose of the Article
He Had for Sale.
81 should like to sell you a gimlet, Z"
said care-worn-looking man, as he
walked into an Office the other day.
I'VE have no use for one" replied
the cashier.
But you should always look into the
misty future" went on the friend, de-
murely. Next winter you will want
to make holes in your boot-heels so you
can get your skates on"
81 use club skates-no straps requir-
ed"
You may want to screw some boards
together some time. The old-fashion-
ed method of driving screws in with a
hammer is pernicious, as it deterior-
ates the tenacity of the fangs of the
screws, as it WERE"
Nothing to-day, sir. y
The gimlet also acts as cork
screw"
II don't want it.
at may be used as a tack hammer, a
cigar-holder and also as a tooth brush. ="
Il don't want ii.
at has an eraser, a pen, an ink
stand, table for computing compound
interest and lunch-box attach
ment"
81 can't help it; don't want it."
81 know you don't. You're one of
those mean men that won't buy GIN
let unless it has restaurant q trip to
Europe and an Italian opera company
attached. You're the kind of man
who would live near an electric light to
save gas bill"
And the peddler walked out with his
mental plunge on the Perpendicular
Texas Siftings.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
DURABILITY OF RAILS.
The Comparative Wearing Qualities OF
Iron and Steel.

Iho comparative wearing Qualities OF
Iron and Steel.
The comparative wearing qualities of
iron and steel rails formed very fruit
full topic of discussion at one time in
railroad circles, but the question sud-
denly lost its vitality when the price
of steel rails fell below the cost of pro-
duction of iron rails. 1t is, therefore,
matter of much less interest than
would have been the case, say ten
years since, to note the experience in
this respect of the Wabash railway,
which has just been made public. The
company removed from its tracks this
fall some iron rails which had been
first laid down in 1856, and about the
same time they took up some English
steel rails which were first used in
1878. The iron rails, after life of
thirty-tw years, were sold to be re-
manufactured, and the steel rails,
which had been used for fifteen years.
were relaid on branch road, where
they are expected to last for twelve to
fifteen years more. The ''expecta-
ton of life in either case would there
fore seem to be nearly the same, with
the difference in favor of the iron rails,
PROBABLY due to the fact that the latter
began their career in an era of less
traffic, slower trains, lighter loco
motives and smaller freight cars.
Nevertheless, the facts cited go far to
sustain the position of the erstwhile
advocates of the continued use of iron
rails, that well-made iron rails would
sustain the wear and tear Of regular
railroad traffic as well as steel rails.
1t is worthy of note in this connection
that the Wabash steel rails cost $103
per ton, in gold, in 1873, and that the
old iron rails were sold this fall for
more than three-fourths the price of
new steel rails. ton for ton. Iron Age.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
-
HISTORY OF CORSETS,

According to Strut They Were Used as
Early as the Thirteenth Century.
Toward the conclusion of the four
teenth century women were pleased
with the appearance of a long waist,
and in order to produce that effect they
invented a strange DISBURSEMENT called
corse or corset" The word corset
appears as early as the thirteenth cent
ury, and in sumptuary laws made
early in the reign of Edward w.
wrought corsets and corsets wrought
with gold are restricted to certain
classes of the female nobility. They APP
pear, however, to have been worn by
both sexes, and were usually quilted,
having slips of whalebone between
the quilting. Their breadth, together
with the mode of fastening them by
lacing, permitted of their being drawn
very tight, aud thus produced the slim
waists referred to by various writers
OF the period. "A French moralist q
who wrote during the reign of Henry
VI, says: BY detestable vanity la
dies of rank now cause their robes to
can scarcely respire in them, and so
often suffer great pain by it in order to
make their bodies SMALL" I'm the
time of Queen Elizabeth says Strut,
1.-The bodice was also used by men,
though this custom, | believe, was
never generally adopted Pictures
of some OF the remarkable men
of that time are represented
with slim waists, which are pre-
sumably the result of such tight lacing.
From that period up to our own day
corsets have been worn by women of
England and of most other civilized
nations They combine in one the
mammillare, the strophion, the zoster,
the IONA, etc, of the ladies of ancient
Greece and Rome. That the wearing
of corsets is gar to many women is
evident enough from the fact that they
are worn under conditions in which
the wearers are regardless of mere APP
pearance. For instance, we may cite
the working peasant women, unmar-
ried as well as married, of France,
RNltHCI tilS NiOls <hhclIId anu
Hungary. etc, who wear stays during
the performance of very laborious
work, yet who, one could not
suppose, would do this if their
stays interfered with their comfort
or movements. Another example OF
the same fact is illustrated by the very
poor working women of our own Ma
ton, who, when obliged to sell their
clothes, or when these hang about
them in rags, still, as a rule, stick to
the use of stays. Many other ex-
amples to the same effect might be
given, showing that mere regard fol-
appearance will not, as is generally
supposed, explain the widespread
adoption by the women of our OWE
time of corsets or of tightly-bounG
sashes, as in the case. for instance, oil
the country women of Spain.
Review.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
sTANLEYs DIPLOMACY.


Confederation shown by the Explorer -
an African Chiefs Fetish.
remember on one occasion, when
was staying with Stanley at Leopold
vile, he invited me to accompany him
on cruise round Stanley Pool. He
had arranged to meet an important
chief named Ngantshu on an island In
that lake-like expansion of the Congo.
Ngantshu had hitherto been reported
as decidedly hostile to SANKEY'S adj
vance up river, but meeting was ar
ranged, and Ngantshu had come down
the river some one hundred and fifty
miles to see ''Bula Matadi" and confer
with him. He arrived escorted by
number OF canoes and many followers,
and show Of state Above all. he
brought with HIM his ancestral fetish,
a borrid-looking object made OF a
monkeys skull and red clay, studded
with cowries and hung with little bells.
This thing, to his mind and bringing
up" embodied the spirits of his de-
parted ancestors, and must be treated
with great consideration and respect.
Libations of palm wine must be
poured over its head when it was
thirsty, and chewed-up food spat into
its mouth when it was endangered.
The fetish was introduced depreciat-
ingly to .'Bula Matadi" Instead Of
doing as 50 many needless explorers
would have done-rudely laughing and
saying through the interpreter:
What nonsense! Ask him why he
believes in such rot?n Stanley grave
ly sent for camp c.A,ir and respect
fully seated the fetish in it, so that
Ngantshu's ancestors might be pres
ent at the conference, and when lunch
time came and Ngantshu squirted palm
wine over the beaded skull of the
fetish and spat chewed-up fish and
manioc into its gaping mouth, Stan
ley, with a serious face, followed suit
with weak claret and water and minced
chicken. The result was that Ngan-
tshu signed treaty, and was forever
after Stanley's friend. No doubt, long
since the Baptist missionaries or the
fathers of the Catholic mission estab-
lished at the mouth of the Kwa have
taught Ngantshu that his ancestral
fetish is foolish and nseless and dirty,
and have gently persuaded him to put
it away, but this result would not
have been easier brought about had
Stanley, on his first acquaintance, COM
menced by ieering and flouting the
savage's belief. That Stanley had
consistently acquired the sympathy
and respect of Afghans, those who
have seen him at work can testify, and
therefore. it is that those who know
him can not believe him to be dead,
for his decease even in the heart of
Africa-the death of '.Stamlee,
''Standili," "Mzung Mkubwa," Mum
dele Munene,n "Bula Matadir-would
have made such retentis senient
among the natives that the noise and
news of it would have even reached
our ears.-H. H. Johnston, in Fort
nightly Review.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
A Friend and Renefactor.

"Confound your awkwardnessw ex-
claimed the man whose corns had been
stepped on.
II beg your pardon, SIR" answered
the offender, "but think you were as
much to blame as l was. You stepped
directly in my way"
''Do you claim the whole sidewalk,
sir, as yoursp Has every body got to
get out OF the way when you come
alongP"
Sir, l have apologized to you for
the accident. If you want any further
satisfaction shall be happy to accom-
modate you at any time. Here is my
card"
(Reads) ok. X. Guppins. Manu-
facturer of Railway Lamps Do you
make these lamps they use on the carse"
II do, SIR"
with emotion)-'My dear friend,
permit me to grasp your hand! am
spectacle peddlerr'-Chica3o TriA-
uHe-
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
A HARMLESS TALE.
How Honora Quieted the Juvenile Ps
ton of the Perkins Household

How Honora Quieted the Juvenile Por-
ton of the Perkins Household.
Remember, Houora," said Mrs.
Perkins to the new nurse girl, ''that
do not allow the children to hear
stories that might brighten them when
they go to bed. You may tell them
about birds and harmless little fairy
stories, but nothing about bears or
lions"
"Yis, men," replied Honora, and
this was the harmless little story she
told that night:
"Wanst there WIZ a gr-r-r-eat big
monsther of an animal wild horns an a
tail of hot fire an teeth yard
long that whit around in the
dead of the noight attn up
little byes I'M girruls that boddered
their nurse askin' her to get up an
give them wather in the noight an tell
in how she lift the baby for a wurrud
wild the perlace-minO in the parruk
and little things loike that. An this
TERRIBLE big monsther could go
roight through solid walls, moind yeez,
an he'd ate yeez up fore Jez could
scrame out. Now cuddle up an go to
Shape like good byes an girruls or he'll
be afther yeez av yeez say wurrud
Moind that. Sthop yer shiverin' now,
Birdie; an phwat do yeez mane by
chatterin' yer teeth loike that, WilieP
To Shape wild yeez or yeez'll be ate up
the mint | takes the light out. y
Time
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
AMERICAN AMENITIES.
Some Foreign Criticism which We @
Dismiss With a Smile.

some Foreign Criticism Which We Can
Dlsmiss With a Smile.
The ordinary receptions at the
White House are characterized by an
almost equal amount OF freedom. The
people walk about the rooms in an
artless manner, picking flower hero
and ripping off leaf there, thumbing
the editions de lure which lie upon the
tables, salivating anywhere although
a large number of spittoons, euphe-
mistically called ''cuspidores. !" are
provided on such drawing
their chairs up to the tables, and gen.
orally making themselves quite at
home. Indeed. more than once or
twice have a couple of democratic
danes INDUCED in set-to for chair
they had simultaneously selected.
That all is both ''painful and free" we
do not need to be assured by the sight
OF the coatless colored gentleman
who pushes his way through the
throng to "grip massa President.
Nevertheless conversation among our
American cousins is constructed on
VI LON huu DuSiflcSS-lih0 lluGS. 4H6r6
may be small charm OF expression or
conventional prettiness of phrase, but
the words, be they drawled slovenly or
intoned at high rate of speed, are
directly to the point. OF course the
language differs greatly from our own,
although there is deal that passes
for American slang which is to be
found In our dialects or in Elizabethan
literature.
The promiscuous use of selegant" is
an evident importation from the Emer-
aid Isle; mad" for ''angry' is pure
Sussex, as is also the ''down East"
''axey" for "ague." A square meal"
is an expression well-known to the
dramatists of the Shakespearean era,
and the indiscriminate use of the word
bug for all manner of insects is good
old English enough. Many of our
country folks to this day call the lady
bird the "lady bug" the cockchafer
the MAY bug" and the green beetle
the June bug"
We seem to strike new ground, how
ever, when we find shirts spoken OF as
waists" short coats as 'sacks,"
boots as "shoes." purse as pocket
book" goloshes as ''slip-gums," hand
bags as ''grip-sacks. the smaller
articles of feminine attire as ''no-
tions," and scents as ''odors." 1t is a
little surprising when an American in
forms you that he is going to tell you
goodbye" when he arrests your at
tention and prefaces his remarks with
laconic "Sayr' and request you to
repeat remark with an invariable
'.how" in place of our "what" And
when fair American insists on your
seeing Niagara in winter, because 1.-THE
tall is jest as big and the trimmings
are so nightly elegant"
thereby the beauty of the surroundings
of ice and snow-it is, to say the least,
little painful. But then, when a
beautiful sunset. a tasty dish, the
weather, certain route, or drive, or
view, are all equally elegant" what
can we expect?-London Standard.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
THE FATAL BARRIER.
MISS oarpickie Gave the Mitt., >.
Iove-slck BardeIph KiIJordan.

why Miss Garpickie Gave the M,,,.
Love-slck BsrdcIph KiIIordan.
Miss Garpickle, you are trif,ino With
mem " i''hg WIN
narooiph Kiljordan stood before be,.
as erect, i'uperious and gloomy as The
star actor OF a broken and dismemba,oS
dramatic combination standing nm 80
sioe OF the track half way between
stations and watching handcar nro-
peiled by section men sweeping ranidlv
past and disappearing in the hazv dis.
lance. J ui'-
Mr. k'ljordan burned with the in
olgnation Of an abused, insulted man
for months and months he said
you nave encouraged me. You have
smiled upon me. You have accented
my attentions. You have listened ~
me with apparent approval when have
ventured to hint at feeling stronger
than friendship"
Mr.. Kiljordan," interposed tho
young lady, II will not DENY that vo,r
attentions have been agreeable to me, y
Then why, Winnie, he exclaimed
impioringly, why do you tell me it
can never bep Why do you look at me
coldly and say we were not meant for
each otherpn
would have saved you this pain II
could, Mr.. Kiljordan. l have waited
and waited, hoping that the barrier be-.
tween us might disappear-that Won
would-would see what it is that inter
poses SO fatally"
winnie, . he exclaimed, TREMENDOUSLY
and excitedly, perhaps it is not too
late, even yet! Perhaps l may be able
to"
1T Is impossible, Mr.. Kiliordan, ~
replied the young lady, firmly vet
Kindly. 81 shall always entertain the
highest esteem for you as a man. a citi-
zen, friend and an excellent judge
mere her voice faltered-' of post-thea-
trical refreshments, but any closer re-
latlonship, l am now convinced. can
never be thought Of"
Winnie Garpicklew he exclaimed,
with bitterness, 80 be it! shall not
go down on my knees 1t would do no
good. The carpet, besides-"and the
young man looked at it deiectedly-.if
you will excuse me for saying so, Miss
Garpickles, isis not in that condition
of-ah-of tidiness that-er-''
Perhaps, Mr.. Kiljordan,n suggested
the young lady, freezingly. 'you will
put an end to this painful scene by"
"GoingP Certainly, Miss Garpickle,
certainly. But think I have the right
to ask you, since this will probably be
the last time / shall ever have the OBJ
portunity, what the nature of the bar
rier is that separates us. Have notp"
You have. sir"
Then why have you refused to be
my wife,"
because, Mr.. Kiljordan,n she re-
piled, with ineffable sadness, 81 can
never link my destiny with that of
young man who wears reversible cuffs. ~
Chicago Tribune.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01

He had been to jewelers. and Sc
lected an alleged diamond ring, price
IS, and had arranged to pay on the in
stallment plan, when his girl suddenly
said to him the other evening:
James, feel it my duty to tell you
that ave been engaged no less than
four times, and that / have broken
each engagement myself. In each in
stance the young man presented me
with a paste diamond, and could re-
spect him no longer. Please take warn
ing and govern yourself accordingly. "
He has countermanded his order and
will give her box of plain candy
Detroit Free Press.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01

The following remedy for that
troublesome pest, the buffalo moth. is
said to be as eificacious as it is easy:
Take strips of red or blue flannel Gas
these colors are particularly attractive
to them), dip in liquid arsenic, and lay
around the edges of carpets. or wher-
ever the pests are troublesome They
will soon eat enough to destroy them
without the least injury to the carpets.
1t would not be advisable. however, to
leave such cloths around where there
are young children, or in any case after
they become dry. .