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The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07
PRICE aA YEAR, WHEN PAID In ADVANCE Sc.
About Opening safes.
[st. Louis Globe Democrat.

As matter Of fact you can't open a
safe lock by listening to the click of the
tumbler. They do not click. They are
immovable in their places and do not
drop. Consequently, when read of an
inexperienced plumber boy who opens
combinations at will it fatigues me.
Now | have the reputation of being able
to open almost any safe, but il the safe
Is locked | can't do it. can go tt the
safe, as it stands unlocked, and can gem
tly turn the combination until the re-
sistance warns me that have reacted q
tumbler. note the number and pro-
coed in like manner with all the tum-
blers. Then the owner can lock his
safe, and l being in possession Of this
combination can unlock it without diff
Guilty.
Had / been placed before the same
safe while locked, might turn until
doomsday without success. Now the
various makers invariably send out their
safes set on certain numbers. l, know
ing these numbers, can unlock any one
OF them before the owner has adopted
his own peculiar combination. Ny safes
go out each with separate number, of
which keep careful record, SO that /
can open them i'll case l am called upon
to do so. | have safe now which is
locked, and the combination lost.
| am just as unable to open that
safe as you, although know every de-
tail in the locks construction. There it
stands until l see fit to drill it open. A
safe with two tumblers is susceptible of
10000 changes; with three tumblers,
100000 changes; with four, 100, OOO,-
900, and so on in regular Formulation.
But give me as clew one number Of
the combination employing two tum-
blers, and | will have to make but 100
combinations from to 100 in order to
open the safe in from two to five min
utes' time. The only absolutely burglar
proof safe is the one employing screw
door with II time lock ATTACHMENT On the
inside
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Herodotus knew there were dwarfs in Cen
trail Africa, and Strabo said that great lakes
existed there, but neither ever got thous-
and dollars night for telling the fact.
A Boston drummer, still very much alive
and kicking, who enlisted and went to the
war in Rhode Island regiment, occasion
ally goes down to Providence to see his name
engraved on the soldiers monument there,
among those who died on the battle while
nobly fighting to save the Union.
Mr.. Parnell is the author of play known
as shamrock Green" which for five years
has enjoyed great favor in Australia and
which mas melted its proprietor nearly 5000.
The handbills announce that "Mr. Parnell
wrote this play when young man at COL
lege."
Editor Joe Cain of the Chattanooga News,
who, by the way, is a widower, says in the
last issue of his paper: "a bill has been
Introduced in the GeOrgialegislature provid-
ing that bachelors shall be taxed. That Is
right Make 'em pay, make 'em pay, but
for Heavens sake hold up on the widowers,
at least until collections are better"
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07

feet and half for the man and five feet for
the woman. Make the heads about one
eighth the entire height; one-seventh will
thrustlDg them firmly into the snow statues
body, and then cover them with snow, after
ward packing 1t close with the hand. Pieces
OF coal make very impressive eyes, and other
features may be drawn ON the face with
charcoal. nose can be made of red tur-
nlp-red with the winters cold, of course
ana DTS OF an old door-mat or broom splnts
VIII DO for beard For the woman's figure
an OLD apron and sun bonnet, begged from
mothers attic treasures, will add greatly to
ner appearance. A snow beggar-wOman NAV
% made Infinitely grOtesque with an over
turned basket for hat mat Rawlings for
halr, sticks for arms, punches of carrots for
nands, ana an old broom, made of twigs
tied to stick, for weapon,
The Illustrations we give of the turbaned
Turk, the harlequin and the gymnast stand
ing on his head are pleasing variations from
the conventional snow man. A round, fiat
stone Will make good turban for the Turk,
ana the harlequin's nose will be excellently
produced by carrot. The brush. heap will
furnish sticks for the limbs of these model
statues. 1t is better to model each leg of
the statue separately and then pile up snow
for the body than to shape them in mass Of
hard-packed snow. The Turks crescent can
De cut OF piecs of paper and pinned on,
and the gymnasts clogs can be any old pair
OF shoes placed on the reversed figures feet
IN the conspicuous manner illustrated.
Ii very cold snap comes on water poured
over the figures will freeze instantly and
turn them into ice statues. The rabbit is
easily made using sticks covered with snow
Tor the fore legs and long ears, as shown in
the picture. A great white owl, with staring,
hollow eyes, and claws which once belonged
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07
Good for Little Rhody.
detroit Free Prassl

A Rhode Island man whose trunk was
wrecked by the baggage smasher brought
SUIT Tor damage, and in giving him a
verdict for $50 and costs the judge said:
There should be 500 suits where there
Is now only one. No railroad has the
least anxiety about a passengers bag
gage. The way to bring about reform
Is to go for their pocketbooks- :"
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07
New hazard In Chemical Manufac-
tuFe.
IN. Y. Commercial Advertiser. ]


Attention has been drawn to the dan
ger of fire in the use of chlorate of pot
ash, sugar and muriate of ammonia in
the manufacture of tablets. While it is
generally known that chlorate of pot
ash, together with organic matter, forms
powerful explosive, it should be under
stood that under certain conditions it is
an agent in producing fire without an
explosion.
Sugar alone requires temperature of
600 dogs. Fahrenheit, and if an accumu-
lation of dust or particles of the two in.
gradients named should form mixture
on the steam pipes of a factory fire
might be caused. 1t is therefore urged
that the manufacture of the chlorate Of
potash and muriate of ammonia tablets
shall be restricted or prohibited as being
dangerous to the welfare of the com
munity
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07
POSSIBILITIES.
BY RUDYARD KIPLING.

Ay, lay him meath the SImla pine
A fortnight, fully. to be missed
Beholdi we lose our fourth at whist,
A chair Is vacant where we dine.
HIS place forgets him; other men
Have bought his ponies, guns and trans:
His fortune Is the Great Perhaps,
And that cool resthouse down The glen,
Whence he shall ear, as spirits may,
Our mundane revel on the height,
Shall watch each flashing ricksbaw light
Sweep on 10 dinners, dance and play.
Kenmore shall WOO him to the ball
With lighted rooms and brayiug band,
And ne snail hear and understand
Dream Faces" better than us all.
For, think you as the vapors fee
Across Sanjaolle after rain,
His soul may climb the hill again
To each OLD field of victory.
Unseen, whom women held so dear,
The strong mans yearning TO his kind
Shall shake, at most. the window blind,
Or dull while the cardroom's cheer.
Yet may he meet with many a friend
Shrewd shadows, lingering long unseen
Among us, when "GOd save the Queen"
Shows even extras have an end.
And when we leave the heated room,
AND when at four the lights expire,
Inc crew shall gather rOund the fire
ana mock our Laughter In the gloom.
Talk as we talked, and they, ere death
Ih-n wanly daOce in ghOstly wise
w tn ghosts of tuues for melodies,
And vanish at The mornings breath.
From Barrack Room Ballads.
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRES

Published every day Sundays excepted bv tho
PORTLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY
At 81 EXCHANGE STREET. PORTLAND Mr.
TERMS: Seven Dollars Year. When no,r,,o,,.
is made strictly in advance the price will ~ S
Dollars. %
RATES OF ADYERTISTNG-On inch snaoa ~,
the length OF column, or twel lines rlorDGrsI
constitutes square" P"o"
Sl.5O per square, daily, first week rs cents mar
week after; three insertions or less 81 on. c IN
tinuing every other day after first week 6l censs
Half square, three insertions or less. TX can,s
one week, Sl.o0; 30 cents per week after ''
SPECIAL NOTICES, one-third additional
Under head Of ADJUSTMENTS" and "Auorror
SALES" $500 per square per week; three inseT.
tons or less 1.50.
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
Published every THURSDAY MORNING. at 40 ko
year; II paid In advance, 200 year 'A'oo
Advertisements inserted In the "MAINE sr.rx
PRESS" (Which has large circulation in aver,
part OF the State) for LOO per square for trst IN
sertion. and so cents per square for each snbse.
0uent insertion "SSO
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07
Facts and Fancles /,


" hcI We atuempC 10 snow now rar
matter can be divided the brain refuses
to grasp the infinity. A pins head is a
small object, but it is gigantic compared
to some animals of which millions would
occupy space no larger than the head
of pin. These tiny animals must con-
tain organs and veins, etc, and those
veins are full of blood globules. Pro.
fessor Tyndall informs us that drop of
blood contains 100000 red globules.
So these infnitesimally small animals
must have millions of globules in their
blood also. Thus we see to what an ex.
tent, far beyond our senses power to
grasp, matter can be divided.
But there is something even more
astonishing than this. 1t is stated that
there are more animals in the milt of a
single Goldfish than there are men in the
world, and that one grain of sand is
larger than 1000, 900 of these animals,
each of which must be possessed of life
germs of an equal amount, which would
grow up as it grew to maturity This
carries us back again, and
Vaccinations utmost stretch
IN wonder dies away
Or take ether interesting facts: One
hundred threads Of the silkworm must
be placed side by side TO make up the
thickness # Il line about one twenty-fifth
Of TN inch, and metals can be drawn out
to such exceeding fineness that 900 of
the fine wires viii occupy only she space
of 100 silk worms threads, -
The Portland daily press., 1891-01-07

Sunday School Teacher-Why were
only Noah and his family saved in the
ark?
Small Boy-'Cause Noah was good and
didn't ask nothin'. The rest wanted the
earth, an they got it
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28
The Silver Question.

The Southern Merchant, Nashville's
new trade journal, prints the opinions
of several prominent gentlemen for
and against free coinage of silver, and
then editorially comments upon the
question as follows:
That there are two extremes on this
question goes without saying, and
that selfish interests enter largely into
the advocacy of both is equally APP
parent, but perfect candor will COM
pei the admission that, in the matter
of disinterested advocacy, inspired
more by the desire to secure the best
system for the permanent prosperity
of the country, the majority is on the
side of the gold standard of value as
the basis of our circulating medium.
The Western silver mine owners
naturally favor free coinage of silver,
and but for this considerable interest
in free and unlimited silver coinage
by what are known as the silver
States of the West there would prob~
ably be no "silver question" At the
same time a very large proportion of
the American people, especially
among the agriculturalists, are sincere
in the expressed opinion that an in
crease of the circulating medium is
necessary in the vast and growing
business interests of the country, and
that this can best be secured by some
such legislation as the authorization
Of the free coinage Of silver. That
both would be doomed to ultimate
disappointment in their expectations
provided their proposed panacea for
existing financial distress could be
carried into practical execution, seems
apparent, logically, nationally, and
in the light of eXperiepce.
On the other hand there are advO-
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

paper, gold will have to be accepted
as the measure of value. We realize
also that the circulating medium of
this country is by no means adequate
to its rapid and enormous growth, the
unprecedented industrial expansion
and development going on, but the
remedy for existing evils-the relief
from the commercial embarrassments
of much too restricted currency
are not to be reached through the free
coinage of silver, to be Immediately
deprecated by the thrush of that
commodity from all the other coun~
tries of the world. That way mad
ness lies. We may in this country,
as in France, continue to maintain a
variable standard, not double STAN
dard, as the double standard never
exists at one and the same time, gold
or silver becoming alternately the
standard as the state of the exchange
makes the one or the other more de-
sirable as the practical medium of
exchange, but the measure of value
will be gold.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28
WON BY AMERICANS.
The Leading Prizes Come to the United
States.

In The Queens last word contest,
DIR. Edmund T. Stevens, of Buffalo,
n. Y, won the first prize of free
trip to Europe and 5000 in cash, and
Annie B. Turner, of Deposit, N. Y,
secured the special prize of hand
some Shetland pony.
The publishers of this well-known
Magazine have decided to offer one
more Competition, and to the persons
sending them the largest lists of Eng
lish words (of not less than four let
ters) constructed from letters con-
tanned in the three words, "Domin-
ion of Canada" they offer many USE
full prizes, including $3.50 in cash,
Shetland ponies, China Dinner Sets,
Gold Watches, French Music Boxes,
Portiere Curtains, Silk Dresses,
Mantle Clocks, etc., all to be awarded
strictly in order of merit. An ele-
giant Silver Tea Service (Value S30)
will be given each day to the persons
from whom the largest list is received
that day from the State in which
they reside. The object of this Special
Daily Prize for each State is
to increase the interest in The
Queens Competitions in everylocali-
ty in the United States.
Those desiring to contest for one of
these valuable prizes may start on
their list at once, but send six U. S,
&c. stamps, and receive last number
of The Queen with full particulars be-
fore forwarding your list. Address,
THE CANADIAN QUEEN,
Toronto, Canada.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
OUR AGENTS.

We do not publish anonymous cOmmu-
nications under any circumstances. The
real name of the author must accompany
signed to the waste basket We do not pub
lish the names of correspondents, but want
them simply as guarantee OF good faith.
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib-
utes of respect, ETC., are charged for as ad.
vertising matter. Simple announcements of
deaths, marriages, etc., will be published
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

On LAST Saturday the President
nominated Charles Foster, Exon
gresham and Ex-Governor of Ohio,
as the successor of Mr.. Window as
Secretary of the Treasury. The APP
pointment seems to give very general
satisfaction in the ranks of Mr., Har-
rison's party, and the Democratic
press has been quite generous in its
comments.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

ALL of the newspapers which think
they favor free coinage Of silver, adj
mire Mr., Cleveland's courage for the
bold declaration he made against the
measure in the face of the apparently
popular clamor for it. Sooner or
later they will find out that Mr..
Cleveland's head is level, and will be
admlring his good sense and cool
Judgment also.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

GAINESVILLE Leaf Chronicle: The
leading papers Of the State are all
urging the Legislature to make a
suitable appropriation to enable Ten-
nessee to make a creditable display
at the Worlds Fair. The press,
however, will be disappointed unless
the effort is supplemented and back
ed by still greater pressure. The
Legislature has no such thing in
mind, and will not appropriate more
than $4,000 or $4,000 at the outside,
If anything at all, unless the people
manifest a very earnest desire by
public meetings and petitions. If
the people wish the State we'll repre-
sented at Chicago it is time they were
bringing some pressure to bear.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

CONGRESS will expire by constitu>
tional limitation at midnight next
Wednesday. We look for general
revival of business after that date, as
the country will be relieved of the
uneasiness engendered by the posi-
bility of unfavorable legislation. The
country can stand even the McKin-
ley bill for a while if it can get a rest
from Congress-and Reed.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

OUR friend Griffin, of the Obion
Democrat, makes a home run on the
silver question in the following para
graph:
eff free and unlimited coinage of
silver will enable the people to pay
two dollars instead of one for the
Democrat and not increase the price
of stove wood and turnip Said, we
are for it, in spite of the Cleveland
letter."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

A BILL appropriating $4,000 for
new buildings for the Confederate
home at the Hermitage, and $4,000
for the support of the home during
the next two years, has passed both
the House and the Senate.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

MCHAN, editor of the Farmers AL
lance, Chattanooga, who was ex-
PEELED from the order some time ago
for criticising Mcdowell through his
paper, has been reinstated to full
fellowship.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

THE Nashville papers are unit on
one question, viz: the removal of the
penitentiary. But not a single one
of them has yet given out an express
sion as to how far from its present
site Nashville papers and Nashville
people are willing to have it moved.
1t is important that the present AS
sembly should make some positive
step toward removal. If the build
ings lately burned are re,erected in
side the present walls, it is likely
that the prison will stand where it is
for many years to come. On the
question of the mere removal of the
penitentiary, simply to get it outside
the city of Nashville, many members
of the General Assembly are serene.
ly appathetic, while a number Of
members have expressed their will
ingness to vote for its removal tC
Warren county. Warren county of.
fers many advantages for the location
of the main state prison, among them
geographical center, an altitude free
from epidemics, abundance of pure
water, unlimited quantities of CHEAP
building material, close proximity t
coal, timber, etc. Now if Warner
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

ANOTHER flood is threatened in the
Mississippi valley. Very little dam
age has occurred as yet, however, and
the levees at most points are in good
condition.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

THE law is getting its clutches
upon the barn burners of Sumner
county at last. One of them was
lynched near Gallatin some days ago,
and six others are now in Jail await
ing trial. Several other counties in
the State have suffered severely in
the way of ineendiary fires, and a
few neck tie parties would be of i'm
mense service to the State in curtail-
ing these losses.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

Out of the Democratic party there
never has and never will come any,
thing progressive. 1t isn't built that
way.-Chattanooga Press.
We are willing to admit that there
are some lines along which the Dem
ocratic party is not as progressive as
its Republican contemporary, The
squandering of the peoples money
for instance, and it is only necessary
to cite the disappearance or a million
dollars surplus in two years. Tariff
legislation to Cypress the masses and
enrich the classes is another progress
sive art peculiar to the Republican
party. And in the granting of PEN
sions the Republican party has pro-
crossed at pace which the Demo-
Gratis can never hope to attain. If
the people had not put on the brakes
last fall and brought the G. o. p. to a
halt in its mad career of progress, the
treasury would have been stranded
and the republic shattered upon the
breakers ere the end of another presi-
dental term.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

THE House coinage committee has
reported adversely on the silver bill,
and all possibility of getting vote on
it this session has vanished.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

"N'N" VI i'hN iOl q pChitChNioig VIII
the Nashville papers and the Repre-
sentatives from Davidson county lend
their influence to the removal of the
prison to this county? We don't be-
lieve the penitentiary will ever be
removed until some positive effort is
made for some other location than
Davidson county.
1t is what is on the piece of silver
that regulates its value-the United
States says it is one dollar. There is
not one hundred cents in a greenback
onedollar bill-the paper on which
1t is printed is not worth five cents;
still, Uncle Sam puts on its face that
it is one doLLar-and she goes. AnOth-
or funny thing in reference to the
free coinage of silver is the assump-
ton that it will enhance the price of
gold; still in the face of this assump>
ton we find all the "gold bugs" fight
ing the free coinage idea. They are
certainly losing their cunning, when
they oppose any measure that is
calculated to put shekels into their
pockets.-McMinnville New Era.
We presume that the men denomi-
mated as "gold bhgs" in the above
are the bankers, financiers and sue
cessful business men generally. This
class are opposed to free coinage be-
cause they know it to be an unsound
and dangerous financial policy. Gold
has fixed standard of value the
world over, but silver has not. While
free coinage of silver would not en-
nance the value of gold, it would de-
preciate the value of the silver dollar
to its intrinsic worth, no matter what
the government might stamp upon it.
The government can put the proper
inscriptions upon any kind of matters
al it chooses and it goes for one dollar
so long as the government holds 100
cents worth of intrinsic basis behind
it, but no longer. In our present sill
yer money the government gets the
benefit of the difference between the
bullion value of the dollar and its
fiat value, and can therefore we'll af-
ford to give its faith and credit as a
basis for the fiat percentage of the
coin, but with free coinage the silver
mine owners would get the benefit of
this difference, and consequently the
government would no longer have
any interest in maintaining a ficti-
cious or fiat value of the money. The
"gold bugs" know that free coinage
of silver would not only withdraw all
the gold in this country from circula-
ton, but would rapidly transfer it to
other nations. They know that it
would contract our circulating me-
dunn to the extent of the six hundred
millions and more of gold now in
use, that it would demoralize our
currency, unsettle values, and disturb
the business interests of the country
to their uttermost ramifcations. II
may appear very funny to our neigh
Dor that the "gold bugs" are fighting
free coinage, but the funniest thing
at all is the idea which prevails in
the minds of so many people that
bankers and big financial operators
have no interest in the general wei
fare and prosperity of the whole peo'
pie, The "gold bugs" can stand
financial crises which crush out many
little fellows, but they are not fond
of such periods, and they reap theil
greatest harvests when all classes are
prosperous and all business and in
dustrial interests are thriving.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

THE Illinois Senatorial deadlock
remains yet unsolved. The 10l DEM
ocrats are still sticking solidly by
Gen. Palmer. The Republicans and
F. M. B. A. men have been swapping
around promiscuously to find a man
they could elect over Gen. Palmer,
but have not succeeded yet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-02-28

A KANSAS man has invented an
artificial egg which he claims that he
can manufacture at cents per dozen,
and it is said to be equal to the genu~
inc article in every respect, except
that it won't hatch.