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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-01

\ writer ia The Philadelphia Press -
marks hat In the rrception-rnom Of The
State Department hang pictures in cray
on Of IA" different secretaries Of state
from The b"ginnIng Of the Government to
the pre- cnt day. Looking st them the
other day W.. struck with It curiou-
feature. or the entire list Mr.. Blaine il
the only man who wears mu-thrhr or
heard Mr. Calhoun A. Il Nr. Frehnghuy-
-eh wore deep fringe u hair about their
throat-, but nofhing On their chin- or up
per lip- Hamilton Fish and Martin Van
Buren wore side Whi-kers, but no bcard-.
II was only few tcar- ago that the
beard be- gan to be- regarded a. nc all toll
erahie. cur forefathcr- wore clean faces,
and many Of thrm regarded hairy check
=, an evidence of .avagcry. The first
president Ia wear q beard Na- Abraham
I.iurolu No president before hi time
wore either beard o. mu-tIthe, and most
IT them were smooth Of face. After Linz
coin, Grant a. time. wore a full beard.
lIavc- and Garfield wore full boards. and
the present chief Executive la hlir all
oyer his face. Mr.. llarri-on- gr,ndftth-
rr -ltved hi fpcr clean every morning.
u Walter Indlev of Los Angelo
Cat, editor Of the southern California
Practitioner and President of Ihr STATE
Medical So irty, Hon. Josiah sims of
N.NadA tily, member of the California
Legislature aud trustee of the State Re
torn ~tinul. Hon J VI Dnmron of Los
Ang be-. IA, utter Of the california Legs
latnrr, and Il. &. Dung, i los Angclr-
az, huttf. att'. an It visit in New England
rh- California Legislature ha~ recently
npproprilind 500 600 {" build STAT" re-
form and Iudu.iriaI school At the town of
Whittier a nmc-ak" Of the poct-tWcIvr
uir- from i"- Angeles, and thr-" gen
tleu,u hay been commissioned To visit
th. industrial and Rcformat"ry ~ahools
Of Bo- on sud other Eastern cities in
orI,r tutt the best plans OF construction
aud Inanr cement may he studied. Il il
interesting to note how the interest in in
u-trnl -ch"ol- for the children of both
sexes 60 ou Increasing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-01

Dog collars at Owens Bazaar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-01
NONSENSICAL,
BUT LIKE MOST NONSENS +,
AMUSING.

sing
of ocoun of
rnotcr in
Of 10
is OF "Hh SEXES
than advertise
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25

shouldn't go back there, of course, until she
sent for me, and some kind of other self
seemed to be looking over my shoulder
while 1 thus marked out nv conduct, calmly
aware that, whatever resolved, would be
there tomorrow at her feet.
1t was not till the next morning, when I
woke up after short and disturbed sleep, that
my mind reverted to the cause of all this
purely sentimental disagreement, and I felt
strong desire to have events prove that the
Judge was slightly monomaniacal and
that was right. 1 went to Riccadonnas'
for my breakfast and got all the morning
papers as usual, but this time with dis
tinct confidence that the news would be the
best vIudication of my good sense, and that
should yet have a good laugh at the
Judge. 1t was beautiful June morning.
sat in Riccadonnas' bay window and
glanced out upon the dewy park in Union
Square. The birds were singing in the
trees; men were going to their work
blithely. heard them whistling as they
hurried along. Even the horse cars with
their bells seemed to have an extra jaunti-
ness as they jingled along over the morning
shadows of the avenue. Some early pupil
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
LONDON FOG Is HEALTHY,
Figures That Show a Very Small Death
Rate in England's Metropolis.

Figures That Show a Very Small Death
Rate in EngIand's Metropolis.
London Daily News.l
If London is the metropolis of the land
of fogs, there is much consolation to be
found in the fact that in spite of the smoke
and its fogs it is not only one of the
healthiest cities in the world, but it is
growing healthier every year. According
to the ofncial statistics for the quarter end
ing June last, our annual deaths are only
at the rate of 16 per 1000. If we could
eliminate from the calculation some over
crowded and notorious unhealthy districts
tine figures would, of course, drop considera-
bly,. Still more remarkable would
our sanitary condition appear if the area
were confined to the high and airy suburbs
in which SO large a proportion of those who
are by day "in populous city pent" are for-
tunate enough to dwell.
We have only to contrast the condition of
things with the statistics of other capitals
to see how great is the advantage we enjoy.
In Paris, which shows a comparatively
good record, the mean annual death rate is
22.10; in Berlin, it is 27.5; in Vienna, 267;
in Munich, 329; and in St. Petersburg,
43.7; In Brussels which appears to be the
healthiest of Continental cities, it is 1879.
To sum up the case, the death rate during
tine quarter in % colonial and foreign cities,
having an aggregate population exceeding
16, 900, 600 persons, was 26.6 per 1000, or
more than 10H persons per 1000 in excess
of the London death rate.
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THE END OF ALL.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
By NYM CRINKLE.

to the subject repeatedly, which appeared to
have an entirely unwarranted interest for
her.
Imention these trivial incidents because,
Insignificant as they may seem, they were
the first ripples of that disaster. which was
soon enough to overwhelm us all, and to
show you what were the only premonitions
the world had of the events which were to
follow.
On the 26th of June the subject did not
occur to me. A hundred other things of
far more immediate consequence to me oc-
cupied my attention. A young man who is
preparing to get married is not apt to take
somber views of anything. Nor is he very
apt to allow the contumacv of age in his
prospective father-in-law to aggravate him.
1t was a pardonable freak 1 thought in a
man who had retired in most respects from the
active world to dogmatize a little about that
world, now that he judged it through his
tavorite evening paper. When, therefore,
on the night of the 26th, while at the tea
table, the Judge broke out again about the
meteorological wave on the Pacific coast,
his daughter Kate and exchanged rapid
but furtive glance which said, in the perfect
understanding of lovers: "There comes the
old gentleman's new hobby again, and We
can well afford to treat it leniently."
The Judge had the damp evening paper
and he disregarded the steaming cup OF tea
which his daughter had poured for him.
swell" he said. with a tone of self-satis-
fed import. "Now the newspapers are
waking up to the significance of the Cali
fornia news" He then read from the paper,
as nearly as I can recollect something like
the following:
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.
There is an intense and growing anxiety
on this coast with respect to the non-appear-
ance of any eastward bound vessels. The
breeze from the east continues and is unpre-
cedented."
"Now. should like to know" said the
Judge, as he laid down the paper and took
up his tea cup, why a breeze from the east
in California should be unprecedented"
Because" ventured to remark, "it
usually blows from the sea at this season."
Nonsense" exclaimed the Judge with
vigor. ga variation for few days in wind
or weather is a common occurrence every
where. Fancy a message sent all over the
world from the West Indies that the trade
winds were six days late, or a telegram from
Minnesota that the winter frosts had been
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
THE POWER OF MANS WILL.
Three Remarkable Stories That Were Told
Over After-Dinner Cigars.
From the Boston Gazette

Three Remarkable Stories That We're Told
Over After-Dinner Cigars.
From the Boston Gazette.l
Three stories were told over after-dinner
cigars the other day showing the power of
mans will. One was young officer in the
English army who was peculiarly stubborn
and irascible. He had been confined to his
bed after a severe attack of the heart and
was unable to move. His physician asked
one of his fellow-oficers to warn him that
he would never get out of bed again, that
might arrange his affairs before death.
When the sick man was told what the doc
tor had said he arose in bed excitedly and
said: 81 will never get up again, eh?
will walk to the doctor myself and show
him." He jumped to the floor, walked
across the room and fell dead.
The other was about a Sheriff out West,
who, when arresting man, was stabbed
through the heart. He seized the man by
the shoulders. after the blade had struck
him, pressed him to the ground, drew his
revolver and deliberately thrusting it down
the struggling prisoners throat pulled the
trigger at the same instant he died.
The third story was regarding another
officer who was hunting down thief. The
man thought be had given his pursuer the
slip, but just as he entered one door of
railroad car the officer appeared in the other.
The thief instantly fired, the bullet pene-
trating the pursuer's brain. The officer,
however, returned the shot, bringing his
man to the ground. He then dragged him.
self along the aisle of the car, firing as he
crawled, until his revolver was empty. He
was dead when he was picked up q second
after he ceased to shoot
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25

in music room upstairs was drumming q
fantastic sonata of Chopin's. AZ any other
time the clumsy attempt to weave the Cos
samer would have annoyed me, Just now
distance and indistinctness did what the
executant could not do, and the pulses Of
the song reached me as if they were part Of
that scintillant morning.
1 opened the paper as 1 slipped my coffee,
and the first thing my eve fell on were the
headlines of a dispatch from st. Louis. I
read them with an inexplicable sense of
something sinking in me. As recall them
they ran about as follows:
Strange news from the West. All COM
munication west of Salt Lake City ceases.
Meteorological puzzle. What is the matter
with the wires?'
Then followed the dispatch which I have
not forgotten:
ST. LOUIS, June 26, M.
A dispatch received here from Yuma ON
the Texas Pacific, announces that no East
ern bound train has come in since morning
and all attempts to open communication by
telegraph with points west Of that place
have failed. 1t is the opinion of railroad
men that great storm is raging in Cali
fornia. Weather here pleasant with a
steady dry wind from the East blowing"
Immediately following this was another
news item which 1 can quote from memory.
DENvER, June 26, 9P.M.
Intelligence from Cheyenne is to the effect
that railway travel and telegraphic commu-
nication west of Pocatello, on the Union
Pacific, and Ogden, on the Central Pacific
have been interrupted by storm. The tele-
graph wiresiare believed to be in good con-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
ARABELLHS HINT SUFFICIENT.
How a Modest Maiden Encouraged n Very
BashfuI Suitor.

How a Modest Maiden Encouraged n Very
BashfuI Suitor.
Boston Courier.l
George was a bashful lover. He scarcely
dared to touch his lady's hand. He loved
her well and she was worthy of his affec-
tions, for she was modest, intelligent, sweet
and lovable; but like all good women, she
yearned for the respectful caresses that are
the evidences of pure affection. She however
yearned in vain. George worshiped her.
He might kiss the hem of her garment,
but to kiss her lips or cheek-the very au-
dacity of the thought made him trembie.
They sat together by the sea looking out
upon the track of the moons light which
white-winged yachts were crossing now and
then:
at was witching hour. a scene
For love and calm delight"
Suddenly she moved slightly away from
him.
please. George, don't do that" she said.
WHAT" he asked in genuine surprise,
"Oh! you needn't tell me-" she replied.
"You were just going to put your arm
around my waist and-and were going to
try and kiss me-"
Dear Arabella-"
''Ohl you nsedn't tell me different; you
were going to do it-Well, after all, 1 sup
pose You are not to blame. 1t is just what
a lover would do to his sweetheart, and
suppose must not be offended if you do
do it.
And George grasped the situation and
did exactly what Arabells supposed he
would do, and the moon grinned and the
stars winked and the wavelets laughed and
a mosquito that was about to alight on the
the nose of grass widow who was sitting
near the band stand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
A HUDSON RIVER INCIDENT.
Why the Clerk of the Boat Didn't Bounce
Old Sam Hammond.

Why the Clerk of the Boat Didn't Bounce
Old Sam Hammond.
Kingston Argus
"You do not remember old Sam Ham
mond of Hudson, who built the steamboat
Legislator, which ran between Hudson and
New York As years ago?" said an old resi-
dent to reporter. "Oh, mol you had not
seen the peep Of day then. But I will tell
you an amusing story connected with old
thy man for his time, liberal with his
money, but Indifferent and careless with his
dress. Hit appearance was slovenly, while
the knot of his necktie generally rested
above his shoulders.
''Old Sam thought he would take a trip
to New York upon his boat, and when the
gong sounded for supper the old man found
his way to the table, and took a seat at the
side of well-dressed lady. The clerk of
the boat, only employed the day previous,
and never having heard of its owner, es-
pied Hammond. and Immediately made for
him. Say, old man, he said, you will
have to get up and eat at the next table,
Hammond was little deaf and either did
not hear him or pretended not to, and kept
on munching his food. The clerk rushed
to the Captain, and asked permission to
'yank dirty-looking old top from the sup
per table
''The Captain came into the cabin and
gave one glance at the offender. Good
heavens, young man, he whispered, do you
know who that is?' No. replied the af-
trighted clerk. That is old Sam Hammond
answered the Captain. who owns 90 build
ings in the city of Hudson, and owns this
boat
''The paralyzed clerk was speechless for
time. Finally he said, Captain, lend me 50,
and let me off at the next landing"
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furnished by mills in this city or its imme-
diate vicinity, and, in return, hundreds of
thousands of dollars from the much talked
of surplus in the National Treasury are
finding their way into the pockets of our
wage earners.
All this material is furnished under a
rigid system of inspection, which insures
the best steel that the mills can furnish, and
the test of time will give evidence to all
that the manufacturers of this city are in
the van in the worlds march of progress.
The first step taken toward the construc-
tion of a navy composed of modern ships of
war was the passage of an act of Congress
dated August 5, 1882, authorizing the con-
struction of !, 1,5OO-ton dispatch boat, two
9,OOO-ton partially protected cruisers, and
one partially protected cruiser of 4, 500 tons
displacement. The contract for the building
of these ships was let to the company con-
trolled by the late John Roach, and the
assignment which he was forced to make
threw the completion of them on the hands
of the Navy Department. They are now all
in commission, and compare favorably with
ships of European nations, designed at
about the same date, but inferior, in point
of speed, to those designed during the last
four or five years. Like nearly all the ships
now in course of construction for our navy,
thev are unarmored, but have turtle-back
steel deck of a thickness from 1 to IL
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with which she silently regarded me, and I
we'll remember, too, the thought that came
came into my mind. said to myself, this
is the same obduracy that her father has
shown: odd it is that / never noticed the
trait in her before" Then added with an
equal obduracy that was not conscious o.:
Perhaps you, too. have discovered some
peculIarity of good sense in me that IL
offensive, and you are afraid that something
will happen if we
Here she interrupted me in her quiet,
resolute and reproachful wav.
Something has happened" she said.
was amazed. Ii 1 had suddenly discov-
cred that the woman L loved was unfaithful
to me it could not have produced, in my
frame of mind at that moment, greater
shock 1t seemed to me then that the
wooing of months; the confidence and af-
lection of year were to be sacrificed in q
moment of infatuated stubbornness. The
very thought was so unnatural that it pro-
duced a revulsion IN my own feelings"
MY darling" said, as 1 went toward
her impulsively, "we are playing the un-
worthy part of fools. Nothing can ever
happen that will make us love each other
less, or prevent you from being my wife.
1 put nv arm around her in the old "a
miliar way. She was passive and irresp6n-
sive. She stood there Imply holding the
curtain with one white arm upraised, her
beautiful head bent over, and her eyes cast
down so that could not look into her face.
This stony obduracy was so new and unlike
her that 1 withdrew my arm and stepped
back little to regard her with astonish-
ment not unmingled with pique. At that
moment she lifted her head slowly, and as
she looked at me with a dreamy and far
away pathos, 1 saw that her eyes were filled
with tears
SIT seems to me-" she said, with voice
that sounded as if it was addressed to an in.
visible phantom way beyond me, sit seems
to me that shall never be your wifeP'
L nust have stared at her several seconds
in silence. Then said:
"You are i'll. You are not yourself.
When you have recovered your normal con-
dition 1 will come back"
snatched kiss from her lips, that were
strangely cold. and rushed from the house.
This was the night of the Goth. As L re-
call all the events OF the terrible week that
followed, nothing so rankled in me as this
trivial and misunderstood incident. 1 spent
the sleepless night in lovers misery. A
thousand theories were formed in my mind
like mists, to be blown away by my instincts.
A helpless Judgment professed to see in
Miss Brisbane's unexcusable conduct only
a pretext to quarrel with me; then my affee-
tion recalled the numberless proofs of at
tachment, and the tears in her eyes. 1
reasoned it all out as a lovers quarrel that
a strong man would not notice, and then L
remembered the inexplicable and shallow
freak of the father and the distraught man.
ner of the girl, and said it was an under
stood thing between them to annoy me and
bring about a rupture. My vanity said
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25

pressing button on an annunciator the
engineer can tell at once which compart-
ment is being flooded. Al automatic alarm
also gives him notice should fire occur in
any OF the coal bunkers. On either side Of
the engine room are huge pumps and large
blowers for forcing air into the fire rooms.
The latter are beautifully neat and trim,
and delicious sense of coolness strikes one
on entering. How different is their appear
ance when the ship is under stream! The
fire rooms are closed air tight. Brawny
men are heaving coal into the glowing
furnaces, and the inrushing air keeps up
constant rumbiIng accompaniment. Jolly
Jack Tar, on the deck above, has been
made the hero of many a romance, but the
hard-worked fireman below is too essentially
a modern and prosaic element to be re-
garded as other than a portion of the
machinery with which his work is associ-
ated.
JACK TAR's SLEEPING QUARTERS.
Forward of the engine room is the space
where the men sleep in hammocks stretched
on hooks from beam to beam. 1t is day
time, and the hammocks are lashed and
neatly slowed In nettings on the deck
above. To one side is the suck bay and dis
pensary, where, at sick call each morning,
the blue-coated and brass-buttoned surgeon
prescribes for Jacky's ills and ailments.
Against the ships sides are closets of wire
netting in which the men keep their cloth
ing, locker two feet square by two feet
high being allotted to each man. Below
are the storerooms where spare gear and
provisions for the crew are slowed.
Back on deck we go, and reach the wharf
just as the band is playing Hail Colum-
bia," and the starry flag is slowly being
lowered from the staff where it has proudly
f1oated durinp the day The sentries are all
standing at parad- rest, and officers and men
lift their caps in salute as the emblem of
their country comes down.
May the good work inaugurated by Con-
gress, of building up our navy, go bravely
on, and may foreign nations learn more than
ever to respect our country since she has
shaken off the lethargy which for so many
years has crippled all efforts to give her a
navy worthy Of her greatness. A. NJ. II.
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A PECULIAR CREATURE,
A Natural History Lesson on Sea Horses
and Their Ways.

Natural History Lesson on Sea Horses
and Their Ways.
Detroit Free Press.I
The sea horse is so called because he
hasn't the least resemblance to a horse, and
because he is never seen in the sea. The
name was given him by some smart Alec
who felt awful funny that day. Some years
later another smart Alec changed the name
to sea COW, but that doesn't hit any closer.
They are found in rivers and lagoons in
stead of the sea, and they resemble cows as
much as stuffed woodchuck does q live
lion.
The principle occupation Of the sea-horse-
COW, as we are obliged to call him, is
promenading around in the muddy bottom
of muddy rivers, satisfying mis- hunger on
the best the land affords and making the
neighborhood highly uncomfortable for
African gentlemen out fishing in their
canoes. He has no ambition beyond that.
and If undisturbed would let the world wag
along and mind his own business. Natnr,
alists claim that he is very docile and af.
fectionate when in captivity, and the day
may come when he will replace the poodle
dog as pet. His span OF life is supposed
to be go years, and that doubtless denends a
great deal on the care he takes of biIoseif
If the discovered elixir of lie works
as is hoped for, the sea-horse-cow's davs NAV
be extended over 100 years.