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The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
railroad Building in Russia.

There have never been such large Or
ders for rails from the Russian govern
ment as at present, and these are all be-
ing given to home manufacturers by the
minister of war. The Jastovo line to the
Austrian frontier is to be built on a
double line of rails to be laid down on the
Kursk-Kief line. intact, all southwest
ern lines are to be furnished with double
rails. The s%trategical line to Petrofsk,
on the Caspian, is also to be commenced
in the course of the year, and probably
some progress will be made as regards
the great Siberian line. What is consid-
cred as rather ominous is that all the
new and double lines in European Rus
STA, for which orders are now given out,
are to be finished by 1s92.-Cor. London
Times.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
A pauper,s Sad Life.

Recently a poor, demented being,
about SO years old, was brought to the
Waterville house by a man by the name
of Light, from Palermo, who left him to
be cared for until the following Monday.
The man, Amos Murray, has been a pau
per since he was 8 years old. From time
to time the support of Murray has been
sold at auction; the last time Ire was bid
off by a Mr.. Light, who IA to clothe
and feed him for $40 per annum, the
balance of the expenses of keeping him
alive and in working condition coming
out of his body as a slave. Light sub
let Murray to another person by the
name of Prescott. The pauper ran away
from his last owner and found his way
to Waterville. He was a a of rags,
his feet being incased in pieces of old
lunny sacks, and he vas hungry, tired
and exhausted. Landlord Waite kindly
cared for him and, finding him sick,
gave him extra attention. The man who
brought him disappeared, and when he
returned next day his poor unfortunate
was dying. Saturday he died, and his
remains were taken away by the person
who bid off his support. - ennebec
journal.
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Wealth Well Spent,

A current whimsicality of wealth is
the gifts of money to Jay Gould's chill
dren by the multiple-millionaire's mo-
t~her-in-law, who, on dying, has left a
will devising $4,000 apiece to each of her
grandchildren. Of course, only an ex-
preston of love was meant, yet it seems
ridiculous ON the face of it. However, l
learn that the recipients will devote the
money to charity, probably to the en-
dowment of beds in hospitals. That is a
charming fashion with some Of our FASH
ionable and wealthy women. The income
from a donation Of S., 900 suf6ces to sup
port mi bed, and the donor may, if she
chooses, designate an occupant. Thus
she may, upon learning Of some person
poor and ill, place the sufferer comfort
ably in a hospitals The young Gould
ladies intend to use their special inherit
ances in that way.-New York Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
French Cremation Society.

The French Cremation society, which
was founded in 1882 for the purpose of
f%amiliarizing people with the idea of the
new method for disposing of the dead,
has for its president NJ. Kechlin-
Schwarz, mayor of the Eighth Paris
ward, where periodical meetings are
held, and among the members who make
up its committee are a goodly number of
deputies, municipal councillors, engineers
and doctors. In order to become a titu-
lar member Of the society a minimum
sum of 50 must be paid the frstyear, and
81 for each successive year afterward.
Donation members are expected to con-
tribute at least a sum of $50 or entering.
The last report shows that the body mum
bers at the present moment upward of a
thousand members. The receipts for the
first year of its existence were $780,
Paris Letter.
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Saving an Arm OF.

Col. II. G. Hamilton, clerk Of the
United States district court, was telling
yesterday how it felt to have a limb cut
off. He was perfectly conscious when
his arm was cut off in a field hospital,
and says of it:
SIT really doesn't hurt except when the
first cut around the limb is made, cut
ting the skin. That's because the nerves
are all situated just under the skin, and
after they are cut there is nothing to
convey the sensation of pain. Cutting
through the flesh is like cutting a nail or
a bit of dead skin-a dead feeling. Even
saving the bone is only a dull feeling.
The real pain is over when the knives
get into the flesh. Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Old Love Letters.

A special dispatch from Canajoharie,
N. Y, says: "While at Stone Arabia a
few days ago a citizen of Palestine
Bridge found a begrimed and badly bat
tered metallic box. 1t vas opened with
much difficulty, and its contents consist
ed of a locket, a bundle of parchment
letters and a piece Of faded blue ribbon.
The locket is of gold and of fine work
manship. On one side in monogram are
the letters "A. II. d. and on the other a
curiously wrought hunting scene The
letters were all written in 1778-89 by a
lady of evident royalty residing in Lon.
don. They were to her betrothed and
couched in the most tender language"
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Persian Flower worship.

Arecent traveller in India gives Cassells
Journal the following description of flow
er worship as practiced by the Persian,
in flowing robe of blue, and or his head
a sheepskin hat-black, glossy, curly,
the fleece of Kar-Kal-would saunter i'll
and stand meditatively over every flower
he saw, and always as if half in vision.
And when the vision was fulfilled, and
the ideal flower he was seeking found,
he would spread his mat and sit before it
until tp setting of the sun, and then
fold up his mat again and go home.
And the next night, and night after
night, until that particular flower faded
away, he would return to it and bring
his friends in eve increasing troops to
it, and sit and play the guitar or lutte be-
fore it, and they would all together pray
there, and after prayer still sit before it,
slipping sherbet and talking the most
hilarious and shocking scandal late into
the moonlight, and SO on every evening
until the flower died. Sometimes, by
the way of a grind finale. the whole com
pany would suddenly arise before the
flower and serenade it together with an
ode from Hafix and depart.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
African Musical Instruments.

cit is rather curious to notice that all
the instruments originally identified with
negro minstrelsy have come from Africa"
"The bones and tambourine, tool"
eyes. Both tambourine and bones, or
castanets, were brought into Spain from
Africa by the Moors. They are both
savage instruments, almost unmodifed.
The funniest and most primitive musical
instrument I ever heard of, however, l
saw used by a darky down in Florida,
who laid one horny and previously licked
forefnger on the edge Of a table and
sawed across it back and forth with a
round stick. The table served as a sound
ing board, and at each stroke of the stick
across the finger a long drawn, lugubrious
note of some loudness was produced. It
did the bass for an orchestra at a negro
party-consisting besides of a banjo and
a tambourine. "-Interview in Washing
ton Star
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/ THINGS NEW.


Old sorrows that sit ut the hearts scaled gate.
Like s~entincls grim and sad,
While out in the night damp weary and late
The King with q gift divinely great.
u waiting to a us glad.
Old fears that hang like a~changine cloud
Over o sunless day;
Old burdens that keep the spirit bowed,
Old wrongs that rankle and clamor loud,
Shall pass like o dream away.
In the world without and the world within
He maketh the old thingsn new.
The touch of sorrow, the stain of sin,
Shall fee from the gate when the King comes In,
From the chill nights damp and dew.
Anew in the heavens the sweet stars shine,
On earth new blossoms spring;
The old life lost in the life divine,
''Thy will be mine, my will he thine"
Is the song which the new hearts sing.
Washington Post.
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DON'T BLAME THE WORLD.

blame the world because the thorns are
found among the roses;
The day that breaks in storm may be all sunshine
when it closes.
We cannoth hope to always meet with fortunes
fond caressing;
And that which seems most hard to bear may
bring with it a blessing.
The buried seed must rot in earth ere It produce
the flower,
And the weak plant to fructify must have both
sun and shower;
So man, to gain development, must struggle with
life's crosses,
And view with calm philosophy his trials and his
losses.
A deadly, pois'nous weed may yield q salve Of
surest healing,
The sweetest bloom may pois'nous be although
its bane concealing.
Things are not always what they seem. but still
twas heaven designed them,
And we should class them all as good. and take
them as we find them.
Little we know of this brief life, and nothing of
its sequel;
Then let us take in humble trust oil that may seem
unequal.
Gods ways are not our ways, and he should Ger.
tainly be trustedJ
All that is wrong In - good time will surely be
adjusted.
Hawkes. lay (New Zealand) News.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
UNDERWRITERS, SHOP FUNERALS.
Many of Them Now and They Are Es
nccte,l tn Isorou,a Vat Move Counvwou.

Many of Them Now and They Arc E1-
pccted to Become Yet More Common.
Successful undertakes in New York
nowadays have to be prepared to furnish
a church and Clergyman along with the
other requirements for u funeral. Not
very long ago it was an exceptional thing
for funeral services to be held in an un-
dertaker's shop. Only the bodies Of the
friend!css or of those whose friends were
too poor to afford any better accommo-
dations were then taken from the under
takers direct to the grave. OF late, how
ever, the phrase: ''The funeral will be
held at the parlors of So-and-so, under
takers" is frequently seen attached to
death notices, and even more often the
place where the funeral is to be held is
designated by its street number only.
Nine times out of ten the place so desig-
mated is an undertaker's shop.
The way this has come about has. been
chiefly through the increasing rSluc-
lance of hotel and boarding house keep
ers to have a funeral in their house.
Friends of those dying in such places
are generally given to understand that
an immediate removal of the body would
be highly appreciated, or, if the friends
appear within a few hours, the proprie-
tor summons an undertaken and has the
body removed. Unless the deceased per-
son has near r%elativesin the city it is gen.
orally a matter of difficulty for the
friends to find a place in which to hold
the funeral, unless they wish to go to
| the expense of a church funeral, and
have a claim upon some church of which
they can make use. In this way it has
naturally come about that bodies have
been left to lie in the undertaker's rooms,
and at the time set for the funeral the
friends have gathered there and listened
to a brief service pronounced by some
clergyman, supplied by the undertaken,
too, perhaps, and thence have borne the
body directly to the grave.
With the increase of this custom the
undertakes have been compelled to in
crease the size of their rooms and to fit
them up better and differently from Or
binary shops of the sort. One city I'M
dertaker has gone so far as to clear out
the whole front of his store and leave a
large room nearly seventy-fve feet deep,
with paneled, church like ceiling and
walls, which can be filled with chairs if
necessary, where the services are held.
1t is not unusual for as many as two or
three hundred persons to gather at fu-
neral services held in this shop. Some
quite we'll known persons have been bur-
led from there. One, a woman, who
had been in life a well known advocate
of cremation, went from there to the
crematory only a few days ago.
Some undertakers think that this Gus
tom will continually increase in a city
like New York, and that in time every
undertaken will have to keep a sort Of
small chapel in connection with his shop
for the use of his customers. At present
those who have the facilities for allow
ing services to be held in their shops
make an extra charge for the use of the
rooms for that purpose, but competition
is already doing away with that.-New
York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
A Domestic Episode.

American Heiress (now a countess)-
My dear, have you put OF your coat
with the padded shoulders?
The Count (from behind the portiere)
Il hat.
A. H.-Has the valet laced your stays
properly?
The Count-He hass, ma lofe.
A. H.-And penciled your eyebrows,
adjusted your wig and applied the rouge
and powder artistically?
The Count-All is beautifully done.
A. H.-Then you are a good boy. You
shall have another thousand for your
gambling debts, and shall ride with Fido
and me.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
A Russian Verdict.

An engine driver on the Central Asian
railway who sustained conclusion of the
brain in a serious accident on Gen. An
nenkoff's line some time ago has just
sued the railway officials for damages
in a court at Samarcand, and obtained
very satisfactory and somewhat origin
al compensation. The court decreed
that he should be paid 1000 rubles down
at once, and, in addition, should receive
80 rubles, or e3, o month, with an ex-
ira 10 rubles for every child which might
be born to him.-Cor. London Times.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Sound Legal Opinion.

E. cambridge Munday, Esq, County
Atty. Clay county, Tex, says: "Have
used Electric Bitters with most happy
results. My brother also was very low
with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but
was cured by timely use Of this medicine.
Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his
life"
KY, adds a like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
well as cure all Malarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach
Disorders stands unequaled. Price SIC.
and 81, ct ]. j. Freeman's.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
WAKED UP EXTRAORDINARILY.

A lethargic, dormant condition Of the liver is
hardly to be overcome with drastic cathartics
and nauseous cholagogues. A gentler, pleasanter
and far more effective means exists Of arousing
Bitters, youched for by the medical
fraternity, tested by the public for many years.
A resumption by the hillary organ Of its secretiye
function, with the activity attendant upon health,
a return to regularity Of the bowels, and q renew
al Of Digestion, ore the no less happy and certain
results of using the Bitters systematically. Its
effect is never painful and drenching,
its tendency being rather to perpetuate regularity
than to produce q copious action. Malaria, merry
business, debility, kidney troubles and neuralgia
it subdues effectually.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Wood Pulp Mortar.

New uses for wood pulpare constantly
being devised. One of the latest is its
employment as the basis of a plastic
compound to serve as a substitute for
lime mortar in covering and finishing
walls, and the process has been patented.
It is designed to possess all the desirable
qualities of ordinary mortar with the ad-
ditional qualities Of being harder, and
when applied to wood work in a thin
coat rendering it both fire and water
proof.-New York Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Washing In y

Washing was and is still done in Japan
by getting into a boat and letting the
garments drag after the boat by a long
strong. 1t is an economical habit of
travelling Japs to get a large amount of
washing thus accomplished by a steam
boat excursion, and has given rise to the
story that once a year they travel to
wash. They have no instinct for laun-
dry work like the Chinese, and think it
complete when the soap is in the gar
ment, and will not wiring it out.-Ex-
change.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Carefully Selected.

Of the Gladstone library at Hawarden
The Pail Mall Gazette says: "Mr. Glad
stone is not only himself selecting allthe
books and arranging them on the shelves
with his own hands, but in each case he
is marking those passages which seem to
him most important and which have had
most influence on his own mind and life.
The library will thus be an actual collec-
ton of books that have influenced him."
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29


The San Francisco Examiner reporter
says the doctor pulled out drawer from
under the counter and exhibited hun
dreds of mummy grasshoppers.
"These are good for little children" he
said. SIN China every spring millions
OF these bugs come in the fields. Pretty
soon the grasshopper dies and the meat
turns into a fly. The hind legs and little
tail drop off and the little fly goes away.
Then there is nothing but the shell left.
The laborers in the fields gather these
and dry them in the sum-. They make
good medicine in powders.
"Chinese babies never die from con.
vulsions when teething like white babies
This powder acts on the stomach wher
the stomach teeth are coming through
and makes them good and strong"
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The New Discovery.

You have heard your friends and
neighbors talking about it. You may
yourself be m of the many who know
from personal experience just how good
q thing it is. If you have ever tried it,
you are one of its staumh friends, be-
cause the wonderful thing about it is,
that when once given q trial, DR.. Kings
New Discovery ever after holds a place
in the house. If you have never used it
and should be afflicted with a cough,
cold or any Throat, Lung or Chest
trouble, secure a bottle at once and give
tia fair trial. It is guaranteed every
time, OF money refunded. Trial Bottles
free at j. j. Freeman's Drug Store.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29

1t was shown in a lawsuit in a New
England town the other day that n
Ebenezer Skinner made affidavit that a
certain remedy had cured him of rheu-
mats of twenty years standing, and all
he charged for this swearing was fifty
cents. He had never had the rheumatis
in his life.-Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
How Barnum outwltted the Canadians.

How Barnum Outwltted the Canadians.
"Do you know why P. 7. Barnum is
unpopular in Canada2" asked a theatrical
agent. 81 will tell you. There is a heavy
duty on posters i'll Canada, and the show
man who takes a large quantity of print
ed matter into the Dominion is under an
enormous expense. Barnum determined
to avoid the exaction. He planned a
Canadian tour for 1886, and two years
before he sent tons of posters to Canada
and neglected to pay the duty. The stuff
laid in the custom house without being
called for, and at last the officials decided
to advertise it for sale at auction. Bar
mum sent an agent to the sale to buy up
the show bills, and he did so at a bar
gain. The secret leaked out, and that's
the reason the patriotic citizens of Can
ada are down on Barnum."-Rochester
Post-Express.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29
Cupid on the Wire.

When business is dull many a pleasant
hour is spent by telegraph operators in
talking over the wire. A certain tele-
graph operator in Maine first became
acquainted with the young lady who is
now his wife over the wire. They used
to chat every evening after business
hours. One day this young man thought
he would take a trip down the line and
see the young lady with whom he had
done SO much talking. 1t was a case of
love at first sight, and the couple were
O married.-Lewiston Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29

Statistics and careful estimates of the
increase of population in the United
States since 1880 indicate that there will
be a total of 67,0oO,O 900 people at the
time of the next census. July 1. $780,
Statesman.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29

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terestcd party comes back and leaves a
considerable fee for the pages he will
find the desks piled up with his circulars
the next Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-29

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AGnOt From Oregon.
Oregon Republican.

From the oregon hepuDhCah.
An old gentleman broken down,
ragged and foot-sOre, who gave his
name as Thomas Whitworth, and his
age at 81 years, was seen by Re-
publican reporter at the Union Pacific
depot yesterday to whom he told a
pitiful tale.
He had been living for some time in
Harvey county, Oregon, where he
was unfortunate and lost the little
competence he had saved up for old
age, through the villainy of pretend
ed friends. Too proud to become an
inmate of the poOrhouse, the old gen,
Uleman determined to 60 to his friends
in Tennessee, who, though in very
poor circumstances could give him a
home.
Without money and intirm with old
age and rheumatic joints, the poor
old man started out on journey OF
over 5000 miles on foot.
He arrived in Omaha yesterday
having walked the entire distance
with the exception of about 200 miles
| He is war veteran, and was witt
Col. Joseph Lane in his celebrated
Rogue river campaign against the In
dians when Oregon land was opened
to settlement.
The Freemasons of this city pur
chased a railroad ticket for the ageC
pedestrian yesterday afternoon, anC
he will finish the rest of his journey
| by rail.