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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-03

stow away from ten to sixteen glasses
an evening. That this is harmful TO
health and morals goes without say
ing
While the laws of the university pro-
hibit dueling, on pain of expulsion,
and equally severe penalty is threatened
the student-spectator, yet the practlce
IS quietly winked at. Five or six weeks
after the opening of the semester evil
dence begins to appear that the long,
sharp swords have been unsheathed.
Students appear on the streets with
their faces bandaged and exhallng the
odor of iodoform, from the recent strong
dressing of their wounds. 1t is nothing
unusual to see a fellow parading the
streets with big black bunch on the
end of his nose which is kept in place
bv strings passed behind his ears. This
is the bandage applied to his recently
slit nasal apparatus. No attempt IS
made to conceal the dueling, nor is
any regret expressed when man gets
the end of his nose nipped off or his
cheek slashed into burrows or a notch cut
in his ear. Rather, these wounds and
scars are proudly worn. The fights, be
it understood, are not the outcome OF
personal quarrels, but the order Of the
society. Each man takes his turn.
Two men are detailed to fight. and
fight they must, fight they want to.
There is president Of the fight and
everything must be done according to
definite rules. A surgeon is present
with lint bandages, etc. The men are
SO protected about the neck, eyes, etc.
that no serious damage can be DONE At
a given signal they fall to-there is a
perfect rain of blows-sparks fly from
the clashing steel, there is the skillful
thrust and parry, when-halt! The left
cheek of one is slashed with cash
three inches long from which the blood
is streaming. The surgeon examines
it, sponges away the blood, dresses the
wound, the fight proceeds with the
same antagonists unless the wound is
too serious. Sometimes the breaking of
a sword produces sad results.
It is common to meet on the streets
fine looking men whose faces are dis
figured with horrible scars, the
souvenirs of student days. "You
would hardly know me, said a Stras-
burg student writing recently to a lady
friend in Berlin, my face is SO cut
up"
There is movement in the universe
ties against dueling, as brutal
practice. Some of the students are
organized to discountenance it. They
are distinguished by white caps. They
are regarded by the regular corps
students as the offscouring of the
earth.
After the first year Of 'esbummel'
or society pleasures the students gener-
ally settle down to real work, though
many scarcely recover from the effects
of the first year.
AMOS w. PATTEN.
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General ButIer,s shrewdness,

It is said that the veteran lawyer,
Gen. Butler, formerly owned a
large mastiff, who became famous
for continued depredations on var
ious butcher carts as they passed
through the streets of Lowell on their
morning rounds. The dog was so
ferocious that none dare attack it, so
for time he was quite master of the
situation. Finally one victim decided
to- approach the general on the subject,
SO one morning, accosting him on the
street, he said: Gen. Butler, if a mans
dog steals meat from my butcher cart
what would you do?" "Why," said the
lawyer, II should make him pay for it. !"
Every WELL" continued the butcher;
"your dog has stolen two and half
dollars worth of meat from my cart
and want you to pay for it." Ger
tainly," said Gen. Butler, "but shall
have to charge you five dollars for pro-
fessional advice" 1t Is said the case
was not pressed.-N. Y. Tribune.
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every society to have weekly meeting
which concludes with t'kneipe." The
"kneipe" is peculiarly German insti-
tuition. A master of ceremonies pre-
sides, university songs are sung out of
the students ''commers buch,'' and at
his direction the glasses are emptied.
It is not uncomn:oa for each man to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-03
Sweet and Sour Cream Butter.

Two tubs of sweet cream butter were
made. One of these and a tub Of ripened
cream butter made the same day were
brought to Ames for storage and to be
compared as regards keeping quality.
For the remainder of the winter and
until about June 90 they were stored in
a cellar, without ice, and examined once
a month OF oftener, with the aid of a
trier. When the weather became so
warm that the butter was softened
throughout, they were placed in an ice
chest and there kept for nearly two
months, when the trial was brought to
a close, Aug. 20.
For the first three or four months
from date of churning both remained
perfectly sweet.
At the end of five months Gempera-
ture of cellar being then Sc dogs. Fahr-
enheit; earlier it had. been as low as 46
degs.) it was shown that the ripened
cream butter showed signs of deteriora-
ton.
At the end of six months several
Judges agreed that the sweet cream but
ter was in the better condition-that it
had suffered less from age than the
ripened cream product.
Soon after the warm weather softened
both throughout. They stood in this
condition two weeks, deteriorating much
naturally.
After hardening up on ice, seven and
a half to eight months after churning,
while both were rather strong, the
ripened cream sample was rather the
stronger of the two.-Professor Patrick.
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Notes.

One school of butter makers will stake
their all that you get as much butter
from the churning of sweet cream as
you do from sour or ripened cream.
The other side says it is very well
known fact that sweet cream will yield
something like a fifth less butter than
sour cream. Between the two ''you pays
your money and you takes your choice. y
Try for yourself and follow the method
that suits you individually
Hoard's Dairyman tells us about a
Texas ranchman who had 400 cows in
his herd Of cattle, yet bought all the
butter he used and had no milk OF
cream for coffee. How is this, Texas?
We commend this remark of an ex-
change to American dairymen: There
are IL, 000, 600 COWS in the country and it
does look as if there should be milk
enough to go around without having to
wear out so many pumps.
An owner and operator of very
large creamery says that he pays for
milk on the relative value plan and that
his faith both in the Justice and prac-
ticability of the plan increases constant
ly. His patrons feel that they get what
belongs to them and make no complaints
at the creamery. If they do not get
enough for their milk and cream, one
remedy is open to, them-to get better
COWS, and that they will do in time,
wedding out the ones that give small
quantity of thin milk.
When the butter after ii. is made falls
short in quantity of what it should have
been according to the reading given by
the cream test, do not set in and abuse the
cream test, at least not at once. Find
out first whether there is not some lack
of skill in the butter maker.
Have the cream worked up at one
churning as near the same age as pos
s:ble.
Now breed COWS for winter dairying
next winter. They will come in in
October.
There ought to be dairy school in
every state of the union. There must
be, sooner or later
Don't allow the hens to roostin the car
riage house, woodshed or on the big
beams over the barn floor.
Don't try over one breed at time.
Don't expect eggs in return for neglect.
Don't cram today and starve tomor-
row.
Don't expect poultry to thrive in damp
9uarters-Maine Farmer.
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greatness is due. Suffice it to say that
it is a thorough rigid training. No ma
ton, perhaps, has a more compre hen
sive educational system. Greatly need
ing reforms in certain departments, it
is, however, wonderfully efficient IN
producing splendid scholars. There are
common schools, gymnasia and univer'
stiles. The gymnasium is nearly akin
to the American college. The universe
ty is for professional life and higher ed
ucation, embracing all knowledge. In
the gymnasium the student is put
through a most vigorous course OF tram
ing, especially in mathematics and the
languages. From seven to nine years
lasts this course. AS result the stu
dent comes out with his Latin and
Greek at his tongues end, but not SO
well prepared in a general way as are
our college graduates.
The student who goes to the uni
vcrsity must present his "abstua'" or
dismissal papers from the gymnasium
when he enters his name for matricula-
ton. This admits him without exami-
nations There are four faculties in
the university-theology, law, medi-
cine, philosophy. Every student must
select one of these as his department. OF
study. The fees are quite small. For
matriculation the fee is about five dol
lars. The same amount is paid for each
course of lectures.
The first year of German students
life does not usually amount to much
in the way of solid work. The rebound
from the rigid discipline of the gym
nasium to the freedom of the university
life often is the occasion of reckless
excuses. He goes to the lectures or
not, just as ne pleases. He does not re-
cite, but merely listens to the lectures.
All be is required to do is to secure tho
signature of the professor to his
.Aumel-debuch'' at the beginning and
the close Of the term. His first year he
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-03
A Bonanza Of the Mechanical
World.
THE LONE STAR
Cotton Picking Machine.

The machine, working model of which is at
the Parker House, is attached to the axle OF two
wheels like those OF a moving machine, which
when in motion, operates its various parts to
produce desired results. The wheels are four
feet apart to enable it to cover row of cotton
plants, and two mules or horses, walking in the
burrows drag it along. On the axle is drum or
cylinder which travels around with it. Around
this drum are ranged at intervals 16 small cylln-
ders. Into a segment of the surface OF these
latter, at stated points there are fixed nine
wooden pins or fingers, about a foot in length,
making IA fingers in the machine. These are
screwed into a socket in the cylinder con-
nected with the beyeled gearing on the inside,
which, when the machine is in motion, rotates
them rapidly. 1t is to, these revolving fingers
that the collection of the lint is entrusted. To
enable them to accomplish this work, they are
prepared with longitudinal grooves crossing
each other at right angles, into which are glued
strips of hair cloth, the hair Of which projects
about the goth of an inch outside the surface,
Just enough to catch the lint from the boil and
twist it off. These fingers rotating laterally
gather the lint, and when they are lifted up
loaded, so to speak, on reaching the upper side
of the drum, the lint is quickly removed from
them by brushes, which throw it into receptacles
prepared to receive it. The cylinders and fin
gers are operated by gearing, and the dip of the
fingers into the plants, by an ingenious cam
movement is made vertical and their withdrawal
in the same manner by a forward movement OF
the cylinder before engaging with the plants,
and by retarding movement before withdraw
al. At first glance the machine appears to be
somewhat complicated. but on more intimate
acquaintance it is notso. tits claimed that it
will pick from ~ to 8 bales of cotton per day,
according to the produetiyeness of the field, and
would seem to be in the line of vast economy
and Improvement in cotton production.
The Lone Star Cotton Picking Machine Com
pany has been organized to put these machines
upon the market and now offer a limited
amountof stock to raise money for that purpose.
That stock in the company must become very
valuable goes without saying. It owns all the
patents under which this machine can be manu-
/ featured The cotton crop is an increasing one
and that increase will be enormous as soon as
machines drawn by mules supersede the human
hand picking the crop, Thanks to Angus Camp
bell. that time is now upon us. 1t now costs
214 cents pound to pick cotton as weighed in
the bale. This machine will do it for one-half a
cent. feD2d3t
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Tur GUTTER ACCUMULATION.
A Practical Creameryman's Opinion OF
s+,,e New Machine.

Practical Creamerymahs opinion of
"tne New Machine.
Tha ,.+est dairy machine is the sac
cu1nulator.r which drives the butter
directly from the milk. 1t looks all
riabt Int Is it practicable3 At our re-
n,7est the manager of large creamery
,,anan+1y examined it and sends this as
his candid opinion:
did not see the machine in opera
ton, SO my opinion IS formed from what
conld learn from the managers, whom
know to be reliable. decidedly think
If GOOD thing; certainly it has the
merit Of simplicity. The butter sam
Med said to be two months old, was
fine. have, however, two serious OBJ
factions TO it. but the causes of both will
probably be overcome. First comes the
necessity of cooling large body of milk
from temperature OF 50 or 80 to 60 degs.;
this is also applicable to the extractor;
second is it's inadequate capacity. If
nv information is correct, it will not
accumulate or churn over one-half the
amount of the capacity of the machine
when used as a separator.
Now, this would be serious objec-
ton. as to use it in creameries doing a
large business, or up to the capacity Of
their separators-as all creameries do
during the flush or warm part of the
season-they would be obliged either to
double the number of their separators or
Law it aside during such a rush, as the
milk would sour in the vats before it
could be run through. The managers
say the dairylnen must supply the milk
in the winter. Well, to do that is sim
ply out of the question for some time to
come. at least in some parts of the world.
Winter dairying is a step in advance not
vet generally taken, and the supply Of
milk to creameries in winter is one of
the good things yet to come.
One fine feature of this method is that
it does away with the loss from churn-
ing, which, as l have found during the
past season from repeated tests of the
buttermilk, is considerable, varying
without any apparent reason; in fact,
the machine would annihilate the butter
makers most serious dificulty-that OF
ripening cream just right every time
Rural New Yorker.
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CITY OF PORTLAND.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
February 1, 1892.
All persons are respectfully requested to take
notice that sliding upon other streets than those
designated above will not be allowed.
feb2d3t HORATIO HIGHT, City Marshal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-03
WONDERFUL NIGHTS.
An Experience in the Land of Mysterious
Egypt.

Egypt.
Nights there were, too, full of enchant-
ment-such nights as Cleopatra once
outwatched on some wave-washed AL
exandrian terrace when the moon,
burning with a white fire unknown to
the north, Hung over her own perfect
image in the water; or when the sky,
stclad in the beauty of thousand
stars" was mirrowed on the still river
below, and we seemed to float through
a starry world. In the crystal-clear air
the great consultations famed with
unwonted splendor; above Orion blazed;
the Hyades and Pleiades glittered like
diamond fbulae in nights dark cloak;
Campus great lamp burned with
mellow light; Berenice's shining locks
hung on the vault like votive offering;
Cassioreia .queened it in her silver
chair, while Gemini's twin beacons
fared and paled.
Under such a sky, from the terraces
of the Alexandrian museum, King Ptol-
emy's astronomers watched these
cleaning worlds in their ordered
march through space, seeing in each
plaucU d ulV1uC cuCTiSCST Ill tut luuulto
symphony and hearing family the pre-
lude of the celestial harmony centuries
before. it Numbered in Galileo's ears as
he stood at midnight on the brown Tus-
can tower among the olives.
Most precious of all these expert
ences, says a writer in Scribner, is the
remembrance of the hours spent on
deck at what the Arabs call "the time
of evening prayer" when the sun
dipped behind the Lybyan chain and
Mustapha's fire rose in pale yellow
flame against the violet water. The
mountain tops still glowed, the desert
was ashes of roses, the high bank
turned to bitumen, the sky to molten
gold, and darlzly silhouetted against its
splendor, a frieze Of living bronze
against golden wall, the ever charm
ing figures of the Egyptian pastoral
Canephorae, on their stately march;
Chloe, 1.-THE and slender, driving home
her sheep; Daphais herding his goats;
the cleaners of Virgil; the husbandmcn
of Theocritus; the loves and-nymphs of
Anacreon-passed before us in the gla-
mours of the evening light, every low
proved profile outlined in sharpest re-
lief against the glowing west.
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= = ! I AM.

Stamped Bureau Scarfs 1 IL yards long,
Is cents each, usually sold for rs
cents.
Stamped Mummie Linen Bureau Scarf,
L. yards long, Is cents each, never
sold less than 81 IL cents.
Colored Center Bureau Scarfs, all colors,
11-2 yards long, % cents each,
worth 81 IL cents.
Plain Mummie Linen Bureau Scarfs, 2
yards long 60 I-2 cents each. A
great bargain.
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is called 'sFuchs," or a ''fox." His
life is usually one of good fellowship
and society enjoyment.
He is found in associations Of various
kinds, usually called "corps," or "Ver-
bindungen." These societies have
theirregalia, banners, caps, etc, which
are often very elaborate. On the street,
caps of various colors are worn-violet,
red, green, purple, ETC., to distinguish
the various CORPS On special occa-
sions the regalia is quite striking. A
skull cap, about four inches in diane
ter and one inch deep, is perched ridic-
ulously on the Uranium, adjusted by
invisible bands. White kid gauntlets,
white pants, silk sashes, long boots,
silver spurs, long basket-hilted swords
complete the outfit. 1t is usual for
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-03
GERMAN STUDENT LIFE.
Embryo Savants Who Have Peculiar
Ideas Of Fun.
The Studies They Are Supposed to Pursue
and How They Really Spend Their
Time-The Dueling Mania-a
After tho First Year.
Especial Berlin letter.

Especial Berlin letter.
The German student is species by
himself. By the German student" is
not meant the foreigners who come to
study at a German university, but a
genuine Tcuton, to the manner born,
roofing his ancestry, perhaps, in the old
Saxon barons.
Germany's educational system is well
worth careful study, for it is to this as
much as to anything else that German
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-03

Old Chappie-Of all the women in the
world that you know whom would you
rather see me married to?
Old Chum-To my wife, dear boy
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CITY -OF PORTLAND.
TO PRINTERS

YENHE Committee on Rules and Orders will, I'M
IL tilThursday, the 4th inst, at 5 O'Clock p. M,
receive bids for printing, stitching and binding
in paper one hundred copies of the Revised
Ordinances of the City of Portland, about two
hundred pages, small plea. The bid to be per
page, size of the Auditors Annual Report"
Title and outside page to be counted.
Bids may be left at the City Clerks office,
directedto CHARLES r. LEWIS,
Chairman Of Committee.
February 1, 1892 feb2d3t
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-09-26
HOPE KETIIES ~ H4MBCRG.
The Plague Is Abnting and Life Is Return.
Ing to the Streets.

HAMBURG. Sept. 25.-The revival OF hope and
courage has been apparent everywhere to-
day. PromenHdes. churches. theatres. and
cafes havo been filed with such crowds as
have not been seen before since the plague
began. The services Of thanksgiving and
prayer for further relief were attended by half
the respectfully dressed persons left in the
city. After seats and standing room were
filed thronGs gathered at the entrances and
Joined in the singing and responses. On the
promenudes the atmosphere of mourning was
gone. and the Fairgrounds for the first time in
four weeks were alive with children and their
nurses. The theatres have been open a week.
hut not until this evening have they lone a
nayinE business. Thirty strangers registered
Keepers K say. the number VI viii be ' treIiieii. "o'e'
The ,clearness, and GOODNESS of the weather
or - fewer than Yesterday: SO deaths. or II
t tTESst y t.s. zss'eF To,nig sHl 9 s!ia Ds ar 80 isW sss
than yesterday. The total npmiero Of cholera
300 have been fatal. The Official figures.
however. concede only 1905 deaths. ,,.
Shisdort Central nasI1 ce Mas r, il" Bodies N w ene
bo1iss i" /" f SS1ied p'} ty To ten ot"f Bod iiim'l car4 Hiti
from the hospitals were buried moro often
than not TWO or tnre6 IN n grave. The num-
Der otthe unknown graves is probahly in the
thou sands. The hospital authorities are over
whelmed with Inquiries Of families as to the
Jority Of cases can give unsatisfactory answer.
The demolition OF the worst infected houses
hundred. persons thus deprived Of shelter are
being lodged and fed in Concnrdin Halle. Sanct
PAUL, Tho work Of tho Relief Committee
peals for help have received answers from un-
expected sources during the last few days.
marks. and every mail brings more. 'Yester-
day several heavy individual contributions
in that city is growing RAPIDLY. Thirty thou
sand marks were received from New York
n-Amcricans. 10000 marks from Baron
Schroeder. in London. and 1000 marks from
Count Won Buclow-Bralicns.
Pettenkofer denies tho statement OF Koch
the pollution Of the Elbe.
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JCCHO At A FIRE.
A Clever Monkeys Behavior Durirg q Con.
A,Erntion In His Own Cage.

Prot. Garner. In his ende avor to acquire a
knowledge Of tho monkey language. could
learn something to his advantage by visiting
Fort Hamilton. wheie he could observe and,
perhaps. with one Of the most INTEL
ligent and interesting specimens ofthe monkey
tribe in captivity. This monkey is small and
black. and botrays an unusual amount Of
curiosity even for a monkey. Associated with
the agile creature are n little Skye terrier and
n monkey Of light complexion and open coun-
tenancc. Tho three comrades are confined in
a cage nenr the electric railroad station. All
OF them are exceedingly active: even the dog
occasionally resorts to tricks In imitation of
his companions. The black simlnn. however.
is tho observed Of NIL observers as he skips
about indulcing in his plonsantries. or seats
himself before a crowd o: spectators and chat
tiers with extraordinary volubility. to their in
tense delight.
One Sunday recently the black monkey was
more than ordinarily mischieyous, and tho
concourse OF sightseers was therefore large
On tho floor OF the cage lay u pink programme.
some one threw pnrlor match into the cage.
a Hash, seized !" It and institn yo"N an d" in v"stn ~
tion. lie shifted ii. took n little bite Of il. aud
syi,h "nm is i1Gked stsaa'astIy at It and ,hsn.
flavor evidently did not suit his fastidious
Alter blinking at it for n few minutes he
made q grab for the match. and it was icnitud
on the floor Of. the cnge. Tile monkey was as
tonIshsd, but h held the turning match for y
Crane. which immediately caught nro. Then
ensued . scene which impressed q behollrr
with the idea that this monkey was worthy OF
q medal for his bravery and, promptitu1c.
The paper tinmed IN quickly; and the NOM
key fairly danced about it III his excitement.
Then. with remarkable rnpidity, he ran around
To- II part Of the cage where there was a basin
ri. water in when lays tin, spice boX. The
water. hurried lmck to the blazing paper.
shook the water out 81 the box directly on the
nre. and II was speedily rytinguishad Then.
fearing tho fire was not entirely ont, II. Jumped
on the partly cllnrred frnG n"nts and STAMPED
assurance doubly sure. hs picked up what
paper remained and tore it into many pieces,
making certain that not a snnrk was left, His
shouts OF laughter; and also expressions oi
wondsrmsnt regarding the intelligence and
presence ~ mind displayed. but tho little
monkey. like all true heroes. bore his honors
modestly and with becoming gravity.