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The Portland daily press., 1891-07-11
KeIcey's Bill for Trousers.
[Boston Home journal

Herbert Kelcey's d1gn1tied appearance
is part of his reputation. His fault
less coats and his well creased trousers,
which never seem to have discovered
that their wearer is jointed at the knees
like the rest of the world, have been the
envy of plenty of fellows who cannot
sit down once in pair of breeches with
out letting them into all the secrets of
their shape. 1t is not generally known,
however, how much care Kelley takes
to keep up his appearance.
OF course in New York it is perfectly
easy to keep ones self pressed, but when
he is travelling on the road it is quite a
different matter. The actor resorts to
various methods to retain that beautiful
crease down the front Of his trousers,
one of which is to take his trousers when
he undresses, stretch them carefully into
shape, and lay them between the mat.
tresses of his bed-when his bed has two
mattresses.
Last year he left western hotel in q
hurry and left pair of trousers behind
him, for which he telegraphed back from
the next town. In the meantime Mr.
and Mrs. Barrymore had arrived at the
hotel the next night and been assigned
to the room Kelley had occupied. The
bellboy was sent to the room to ask the
occupants permission to look for the
neither garments. They were found be
tween the mattresses, and Barrymore
undertook to do them up and forward
them to his brother actor, When Kel
cey received the package it contained, il
addition to the trousers, bill stating
that Mr.. Herbert Kelley was indebted
to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Barrymore TO
pressing one pair of trousers.
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nosron stocuce Harxot.

BOSTON, July 10, 1s9l.-The following ara 70
days quotations OF Provisions, Sc:
Pork-Long cuts Is SCALA 90; short cuts Is rs
OLA 20; backs at Ia O0914 rs; lean ends Is 90
IL so. -
Hams at 1Oc; small at 1o1sc; pressed hams
111ac.
Lard-,Choice 81 p III in tIerces and tubs; 10
Hogs-Choice city dressed sac p ID country do
SAC. y
Butter-Western extra creamery lSa1S1Se:
fancy higher; hrsts and extra hrsts 15@l7c;
extra imitation cream 159I6c; others = &C:
factory choice at l3a15c: New York and Yer
mont extra creamy 1920; New York and
VT dairy good to choice a 16G17Hc; Eastern
crm good to choice at 16@18c. The above
sale lots.
Cheese Northern choice s@sAc; Western
extras 71zG8c.
Eggs-Eastern extras at SHs Gle fancy nearby
stock higher: hrsts 18c; extra Vermont and New
Hampshire at 181a@l9c ;Western extras at l7G
0oc; Michigan choice at 17Gooc. Jobbing price
lie higher.
Poqltry--ChoIce Northern and Eastern fresh
fair to good at l1@13c; Western iced turkeys
12G0oc; fowls 139131ac; chickens zoe.
BeanS-Ch0ice small New York hand-picked at
4O92 80 y bush; choice New York marrow
hand-plcked 2 $500 40: chOlce screened pea
lOg2 20 ;choice Yellow Eyes at sO@2 90. Job
Hay Choice prime hay at SIT O0@S1S SO: fair
to good S14 009l6 90; Eastern line S12613;
poor TO ordinary $10911: East sWale Solo:
8 &c.
Potatoes-we quote new Norfolk rose, reds
92 20. Sweet potatoes, Tennesees 81; Floridas
so O101 co
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-11
Formally In the Corean Army.
youths Companion

In battle Corean generals are always
accompanied by their servants. When
he rides on horseback, a general has a
servant ON each side of his war horse to
hold him in position, and a third stands
at the horses head to hold the animal
during the fight, or to lead it to the ad.
vance or retreat.
These servants accompanied General
Han to the gate of the kings audience
hall. They left him there, and he walked
alone across the yard, with his head bent
and his sword hilt toward the ground.
He walked softly up the steps at the left
leading into the roomin which his males
ty the king of Corea stood, bent down
on all tours and bumped his head before
him as a sign of the reverence he felt for
his king.
Then, rising, he stood, with his sword
uplifted, at the right of the king, while
my audience took place. At the close of
it he backed out from the kings presence
with Bonded head, and so continued till
outside the gate, where he again sprang
into greatness, and had a whole host of
servants to do him homage.
This oriental formality runs through
all ranks of the Corean army. 1t il
| the ruin of the service. Corea will
never have good soldiers until the off
GERS learn military tactics by the
same hard knocks that our officers do,
and until they put themselves more on a
level with their troops. and work with
Them
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The Truth in Hot Weather.
rHarper's.I

We are accustomed to say that the
Americans are generally truthful peo-
pie. Is it owing to our climate? That
has great extremes. The mean is fair,
and produces national veracity. Whence
comes, then, the habit of playful exag
geration, usually harmless, and perfectly
understood as humorous? Is it the re-
suit of the extremes of heat and cold, es-
pecially of heat? Observation ought to
tell us whether we are more truthful in
the winter than in the summer, and
whether the national habit of using ice
water for beverage is an attempt to
counteractthev eracity destroying power
of a high temperature.
There is no doubt that we unbend in
summer; moral reforms relax; the city
churches are closed; society falls into a
hirtatious way, and only rounds up into
seriousness of intention with the advent
of the bracing autumn. Apparently ii
is the first frost that tones us up into
veracity. 1t is a hurpiliating depend
onc0
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wait In the HAIL."

The author of England, Without and
Within" gives an anecdote of an easy
going English gentleman who was not
bound by the absurd law against parcel
carrying.
A shoemaker had missent to him a
pair of shoes intended for a neighbor,
and had probably sent to the neighbor
the shoes that should have been sent to
him. AS he had no prejudice against
carrying bundles he went with the shoes
to his friends house.
On arriving at his friends door he
asked to see Mr.. Dash, but was under
stood by the servant to ask for Mrs.
Dash, and was ushered into her presence.
The lady, who had never seen him be-
fore, looked up and CURLY asked:
"What have you there9"
''Mr. Dash's shoes, replied the gentle
man.
"Oh, yes; it's all right. Mr.. Dash is
out, but he'll be in soon, and if you want
to see him you'd better take seat in the
hall and wait till he comes"
''But, madam began the gentleman,
who was a baronet's son.
"Neyer mind, never mind; it's all
right. Step out in the hall, please, and
wait for Mr.. Dash"
The gentleman, of course. appreciated
the situation at once. But he was too
well bred and had too keen a sense of
humor to explain, which would have
both mortified the lady and prevented
him from enjoying her mistake. He
stepped into the hall, intending to give
the shoes to a servant and leave the
house.
But meeting his friend coming in, he
gave him the shoes and, after few
words, babe him good morning. Though
pressed to remain, he refused, knowing
that his return to the wife's presence
would cause her embarrassment.
His consideration for the feelings of
another person would have made him a
gentleman if he had been hodcarrier.
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Domestic Markets.


NGM a0 SH1, July 10, 1891.-The Flour market
Aes saapS oora packages: exports 1898 bbs and
inc easy: sales OK and moderately active, clos
o,t rIo ns qe Sts extras at 1894 4O
ei 5ii ko eAa n a. OOa5 l5 city mills patents
40; fair to fancy at 5OS5 * nateSt ~ eo ~
@5 80; Minnesota clear 4Oa4 Of: strsiSSts Do Do
at 65g5 20; do patents 655 So do rye I w
lures 40a4 80; superhne 5000 OK avg Tye NIX ailH
"a 90; Southern -four dull and easv p nno ED 10
let ana anchangeaa: o. Corn n meal quiet and steady
bush: sales 421 900 bush; lower and aetys sos
export, closing weak; No 2 Red at / oa1E .Sr
02ASf Ell os1s fob; No Sorshef ES e s srT;Ts
l o5s4 al O5gs; No hard to arrive 81 00sl "a
l o9zs No 2 Chicago at 029l o2s4: Rye quiet
105, TIT bush sales 10000 bush weaker with
moderate business; No at 7Og7Ic elevator, II
afoat; No White ate. ORIs-receipts 1890
bush; exports 2S79 bush; sales Ill 900 bush;
unsettled, irregular and less active; No at 4Sc;
White do at 4614@47c; No 2 at 44Q451sc; do
soc; mixed Western 4I047c; White do at 4s0
81; White State at 48@6lc; No 2 Chicago at
45945l4c. Coffee-Rio fair demand and firm;
firmly; refined frmer and fairly active; No
at 3Rci No q at ice; No at SAC; No
standard A at 5-16c; Confectioners A at 414 /;
cut loaf and crushed 51sc: powdered at 45sc;
steady: united at CSC. Pork quiet and firm.
Beef firm and quiet; beef hams quiet and steady;
uerc6Q Deer IN tar demand and firm; cut meats
unchanged; middles firm and quiet. Lard quiet
and firm: Western steam at So 6096 621z city
at 50 95ge; renned nrmer; Continent So 209
Checsesteady ana in fair demand.
Freights TO Liverpool firm, 10 fair demand.
/. CHICAGO. July 10, 189l.-Flour market Is
quiet and unchanged. Wheat dull and easy No 2
spring 9J--9Ic; No 2 Red 9lG92c. Corn weak
and lower; No 2 at 58 1ac. Oats dull; No at SIC;
No White-c. Rye-No at 7bc. Barley nomi-
nal. PrOvisOns-POrk at $40 l0@l0 1919. Lard
higher at So 2696 30. Dry salt meats-shoulders
SIS 1895 15 short clear sides So 50d6 go.
Recelpts-Flour {, 900 bbS wheat 81 900 bush,
corn 214000 bush. oats 106,000 bush;rye 1000
bush, barley 5000 bush.
Shipments-FlOur 5000 bbls wheat 1900
bush, corn $4,000 bush, oats 258, 900 bush, rye
10000 bush. barley 1900 bush.
ST LOUIS. July 10, 1891 The Flour market
Is quiet and unchanged. Wheat lower; No 2 Red
at 87B@S8Ac. Corn lower; No 2 at 551a0
56Ac. Oats dull; No at $50. Rye quiet. Pro
visions steady ;pork-standard mess at $40 509
10 Is. Lard at So 30. Dry salt meats-shoulders
at So; longs So 20; ribs at So STA; short clear
So 90. Observation-Disclosures at So so; longs So 80
as SO; ribs at 9697; short clear at 81 o5.
Receipts-Flour, 1000 bbls: wheat 10000
bush; corn A 900 bush; oats 1000 bush; rye
1000 bush; barley, 00.00 bush.
Shipments-Fl0ur. 5000 bbls: wheat, 1000
bus corn. $4,000 bush; oats. 1000 bush rye
5000 bush; barley 5000 bush.
DETROIT. July 10, 1891.-wheat-No White
at 06 bid No 2 Red old at 99c; ne 94c. Corn
No at &C. Oats-N0 L at 43c; No 2 White at
461ac. Receipts-Flour 900 bbls, wheat $4,000
bush; corn $500 bush; oats 1900 bush.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,
Money Easy-Stocks Dull and ste adv
with an Upward Movement.
Sterling Exchange Quiet and Strong
Railroads Dull and Firm.
Quotations OF staple Products In New
York, Chicago and st. Louis.
Stocks and Bonds /.

At New York money has been easy, ranging
from 11s92 per cent, last loan at 2, and closing
at per cent. Prime mercantile paper at 51hD7
per cent. Sterling Exchange is quiet and strong
with actual business for bankers bills at s5A
for eO-day bills, 4 81 for demand; posted rate q
s6Q4 SO. Commercial bills are 84h
and s51s. Government bonds are dull and
steady. Railroad bonds dull and generally firm.
Dealing in the general list in the stock market
after IL o'clock was marked by no feature Of
interest, but firm tone prevailed and prices ad-
vanced slight fractions. Sugar, on large bust.
ness rose l to 1914. More animation was shown
toward and an upward movement became more
pronounced. After delivery hour the market
relapsed into intense dullness and the upward
movement made no more further progress, all
feature disappeared but best prices were fully
maintained and the market closed dull and steady
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggre-
gated lie, 400 shares.
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Portland Wholesale Market.


PORTLAND. July 10, 1891.
The following are to-day's closing quotations Of
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-11
Gloucester Fish Market.
ENR THE wick ENnrNl Inlu O


Fresh shore goldfish 81 p cwt; haddock STA;
Butterfsh 81 " cwt
Canning mackerel 50 per Dbl.
81 30.
Medium fresh mackerel at 81 per hundred !;
mackerel in ishermen's order Sill 20 for large,
$40 20 for medium, So rs for small.
Fetched halibut at &c y ib.
Last fare sales Bank cod S0d3 20 per cwt Rips
do So 00@3 90: Georges S3@4.
Cashes Goldfish 81 81 ~ cWt; small do and cusk
81 40; haddock at 81; haKe Toe.
Last fare sales of Bank hahbut and y
ID for white and gray.
We quote new Georges Goldfish at SO0S6 % q
qti for large, and small at 20; Bank at So rs for
large and SGT so for small; Shore at IS on
and 50 90 for large and small Dry Bank at S5s4 4;
lips Beach Goldfish 81 pr qtl.
We quote cured cusk at 81 IL y qtl; hake at
" u maddox 50 81; heavy sailed Pollock S215,
and English cured So q per qtl.
BoneleSS and prepared fish at sac % ID for
bake. haddock and cusk, 71s@10c D ID for cod.
fish, as to style and quality. Smoked halibut al
6911c; smoked salmon 18c; do haddock &c,
Medium herring at 1Sc % box ;tucks 1Sc; length
trout 81 " fresh halbut at So 90 fresh salmon at
1.2O; clans 81 90 lie bsters 2 00;mackerel 20
herring S5c.; American sardines, quarter oils,
S4A half oils So, three quarter mustards at
SAYS; spiced 4 90 ;clam and fsh chowder, So 90.
Labrador Herring at So 90 u Dbl; medium spit
50 90; extra No do at 90; Newfoundland do
$61s: Nova Scotia do So 90; EastDort S4; split
Shore S4A found do 4 so; round Eastport A 90;
picked Goldfish 81 20; paddock So; halibut heads
3 s0i sounds at Sill; tongues and sounds SO;
alewtyes at 50 SO; trout S14 90; California sal
mon S14 20; Halifax do S23; Newfoundland dc
SIG. Clam bait 81 to so; slivers S4; halibut fins
SID; shad $12; swordhsh at IS.
We quote cod oil at soc p gal; medicine oil al
SOC; backhsh oil soc; menhaden oil 20. Liy.
Fish scrap at IS y ton; dry do SIG do liver So
nsh SKINS SIS; waste So y ton.
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ALAZY MANS PARADISE.
The People of Paraguay take Things
Easy and do not Like to Work.
[Harper's.l

HarperS.l
Butter is very rare in the Paraguayan
capital, because the peasants will not at
tend to their cows, lead them to good
pasture and work churn At Asuncion
we have seen the COWS turned out into
the street to Craze where there is next
to nothing to eat. At Villa Conception
the case is the same, whereas if the cows
were led half a mile to the edge of the
town they would find abundant pasture,
and give good milk. This is cnly one
instance out of thousand.
Take, again, those old and young
women we saw squatting in the market,
with little scraps Of produce spread out
before them. Suppose they sell this for
ten cents, they have enough to buy mate,
tobacco and mandioca, which are their
chief ailments, and thus they keep the
household going, with the help of Or
anges, that lie in many places foot deep
on the ground. A caustic observer has
said that the Paraguayan peasant lives
on mate and the smell of CREASED rag.
The CREASED rag is an exaggeration.
Mate, mandioca, tobacco, sugar cane,
oranges, and cana rum as a luxury, such
are the ordinary and extraordinary ar
ticles of consumption. With poor food
such as this the men are naturally weak
and indolent; and being at the same
time the lords of creation they pass their
lives in meditative laziness and leave the
women to do what little work is abso-
lutely required to keep roof over their
heads.
These Paraguayans, poor and ignorant
as they may be, are proud and suscep-
tible; they never say thank you except
as formula Of refusal; it is useless to
order them about; they must be treated
with gentleness and persuasion, as equals,
and even then not much can be got out
of them. So I was told by dozen men
who had varied experience in the coun-
try. The educated Paragraphs them
selves admit this much, but without
notable disapproval, and with an impa-
tent click of the tongue against the
teeth and much writing and Struggling
of neck and shoulders they will protest
against Americanism, progress and doing
things quickly.
at is not in the character of the
nation" they will say. cit is in om
nature to go on slowly, quietly, withou
effort; and fortune comes to us almos
while we are sleeping"
The Portland daily press., 1891-07-11
NAVY DEPARTMENT. July 6, 1891. Al

NAVY DEPARTMENT, July 6, 1891. An
~ examination min Of applicants VIII be held be
N. H., for filling the following positons:-Con
struction Department: /, Master Shipwright; 2,
Master Joiner; 3, Master Ship-ftter; A, Master
ship-smlth; 8, Master Boat-builder; 6, Quarter
man Plumber; a, Quarterman Spar-maker; 8,
Quarterman Calker; 0, Quarterman Painter; 10,
D0ck.master. Steam Engineering Department:
II, Master Machinist; IL, Master Boiler-maker;
13, Quarterman Pattern-maker; L 4, Quarterman
Molder. Equipment Department: Is, Quarter
man Sail-maker; 16, Quarterman Rigger. Yards
and Docks Department: II, Foreman Laborer.
The examination will be open to all corners who
kind OF work for which they seek employment,
and who are citizens OF the United States. Per-
sons now w noldng Posons az the aard VIII Dc al
other applicants. Applications Will be addressed
to the Commandment, Navy Yard, Portsmouth,. N.
H.. and must be delivered to him on or before
July 18th. No applications received after that
date will be considered. Each applicant will
state In his application his name, age, residence.
citizenship, present occupation Stating shop and
position therein), and previous employment or
work done. The application Will be accompanied
by evidence Of citiEenship' and by certihcates
preferably from previous employers, as to char
acter, habits of industry and sobriety, and skill
and experience in conducting work of the kind
required. Applicants will be informed as to the
date on which they will be required to report for
examination. The examination will be practical
In character, having reference exclusively to the
requirements OF the position TO be filled. 1t will
be directed to aseertaining the applicants know
ledge of his business, and his possession OF the
qualities that will enable him to get good work
out of his men. The applicants antecedents and
experience in his trade, as well as the character
OF his previous work, will be duly considered by
the Board in making its recommendations. Where
there is substantial difference in the merits of
two applicants for the same position, the Board
will give preference to a candidate residing in
the neiGhborhood Of the locality where the Yard
is situated rather than TO a candidate from
distance. The Board will make sufficient inquiry
to ascertain that the applicants recommended are
fit for the work; that they have enough education
to make the required reports, estimates, and cal
CII1fiOnQ.
and of sober and Industrious habits; and that
they have not been convicted of crime or INSIDE
meanor. At the close OF the examination the
Board will make report, through the Command
ant, TO the Secretary Of the Navy, showing the
comparative merit of the applicants for each
vacancy and designating the name of the indi-
vidua VINO, in its opinion, is best qualified for the
place. The record of proceedings of the Board.
with all applications, certificates and other
ant. j. r. solely, Acting Secretary of the
Navy. jly9.11,13&
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Oldest House In WASHINGTON.
New England MagaZine.].1

Down at the foot of Seventeenth street,
away from the usual route of the guide
book sightseers, stands the Oldest house
in Washington. The moss had grown
thick around its humble roof long before
quarreling congresses wrangled and dis
puted over the location of the future
"Federal City," and when at last the
dispute was ended and definite site Sc
lected it was found that the unpreten-
tious home and paternal acres of asturdy
old Scotchman, David Burns by name,
occupied large portion of the proposed
situation. The homestead itself was 10
Gated almost upon the immediate bank
of the Potomac, here mile or more in
width, and only little distance away
from the beautiful hill upon which the
observatory now stands-the hill upon
which, it is related, Braddock's forces
camped on their first night out from
Alexandria, in that i'll starred march
into the wilderness.
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PORTLAND & WORCESTER LINE
Portland & Rochester IL. II.
sTATIOs FOOT OF pRsBLE STREET.

On and after Monday, June 40, 1891,
Passenger Trains will Leave Portiandi
Fer Worcester, Clinton, Aver 1unetion.
Nashua, Windham and EDpinE at 1928
a. ma. and 1880 p. IA.
For Manchester, COucordS aud points North
at7.25 n. M, 1880 y. m.
Fer ROebester, = ring vale. Alfred, Water.
boro and saco River &C 5.2J n. M, 1880
and $50 p. m.
For German at = rs and 1000 n. ma, 1880
3.I5, $50, Gao and HIS p. IA.
For saccarappa, Gum erland IN ills, West.
brook Junction and Wo0dford's at ,7.2J
and HIS y. nm.
For Forest Avenue (Deering), $40 D. m.
The 1880 p. M. train from Portland connect
at Aver Junction with "Mo0sae Tunnel
Route" for the West and at Union Station,
Wog cester, for Providence and New Yorxe
via "PrOyidencs Line,o for Norwirh and
New Work, via Norwich Linev with Rosfoa
q Albany * q, for the West, and with
New York all rail, via, "springneld.,'
Trains arrive at Portland from Worcester
at 80 y. M; from Rochester at S.25 n. ma,
l.3O and > 80 y. M; From Gorham at $40,
$50 and IL $50 n. M, Lao, 4.3O, $50 and
t5.35 y. mn.
For through Tickets TO all points West and
Portland, Me. j. w. PErERS. Snpt.
O. j. WIGGIN, Genl Ticket Agent. ie27dti
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Miss SNOWFALL Mister Johnsing, seen VI
wife dis aft'noon wuz shakin' tableclof OF,
front no;ch
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Cotton Markets.

NEW YORK, July 10, 189l-The Cotton market
is.qulet and easy; sales $50 bales; ordinary
uplands at SAC: middling uplands at 7-l6ci
Gulf ordinary 3l6c: middling 84sc.
NEW ORLEANS, July 10, 1891.-Cotton mar
ket is steady; middling 1910
SAVANNAH, July 10, 189l.-The Cotton mar
ke. Is easy; middling 7s4c.
CHARLESTON. July 10. 1S91.-Cotton make
quiet; middling 77sc.
MEMPHIS, July 10, l89l.-The Cotton market
is steady and quiet; middling 77sc
MOBILE, July 10, 1891.-The Cotton market
steady; mlddling 77sc.