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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06
Tennessee Indorses Harrison.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 5.-sThe plat
form adopted by the Republican conven-
ton, strongly indorses President Harri-
son, "who, with the aid of his brilliant
and patriotic Secretary of State and his
other cabinet officers, and the Republi-
can majority in the Fifty-first Congress,
has achieved unparalleled success in
devising, enacting and enforcing laws
which have proven and will prove highly
beneficial to the nation, and who, by
wise, enlightened and conservative Amer
lean policy has made the American ma
ton and the American flag respected
throughout the world.n
1t indorses the Mckinley bill and the
reciprocity treaties, and arraigns the
Democratic party for the incompetency of
the present Congress; calls for the full
use of silver as coin metal upon an
agreed ratio, and commends the Fifty
first Congress for increasing the currency
by enacting a law for the purchase of
silver bullion and the issuance of an
equivalent in paper currency.
Endorsement without Instruction.
HUrcHINs, Kan, May5.-The Repub-
liean convention to-day adopted resolu-
tions which demand such amendments
to the interstate commerce law as will
prevent the discrimination by railroads
against the merchants and consumers of
Kansas; urges the passing of such laws
as will increase the coinage of silver
with view to coming the products of
our own mines when j. can be done with
out injuring business interests; approve
the efforts of the administration in seek
ing the cooperation of the principal
commercial nations in bringing silver to
a parity with gold, and endorse Harri-
sons administration, but do not instruct
the delegates to vote for his re-nomina-
ton.
West Virginia Backs the President.
WHEELING, W. Va, May 5.-The Re-
publican State convention assembled at
Martinsburg to-day. The resolutions
adopted endorse protection; commend
the Mckinley law and reciprocity; ex-
hort Americans to purchase American
products in preference to imported
goods; condemn the free wool bill; de-
mand decisive legislation to restrict inn
migration; favor honest money and al lib
eral pension policy; denounce Democratic
sion Office and endorse Harrison.
In the Old Dominion.
ROANOKE, Va, May SIN the Republi-
can convention today the following were
elected delegates at large: Gen. William
Malone, j. B. Allen, A. w. Harris and
Hon. Henry Bowen. The convention
was enthusiastic over Harrison.
The Result in Delaware.
WILMINGTON, Del, May 5.-The Re-
publican convention elected as delegates
to the National convention today Gen.
A. Anthony, Gen. Jas. II. Wilson, Geo.
V. Mussey, Geo. w. Marshall, j. F. Da-
con, Geo. F. Pierce. They are unin-
structed, but favor the nomination of
Harrison.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06
THE WEATHER.
Washington and Boston Guesses at vari-
ance.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-For New Eng
land: Generally fair; northwest winds.
BOSTON, May 5.-Local forecast Of the
weather for New England for Friday:
Rain and cooler; except in northern
Maine, fair, followed by rain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-06

WILMINGTON, Del, May 5.-The Re
publican convention elected as delegates
to the National convention today Gen
A. Anthony, Gen. Jas. H. Wilson, Geo
V. Mussey, Geo. w. Marshall, j. F. Da
con, Geo. F. Pierce. They are unin-
structed, but favor the nomination Of
Harrison.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
Sex in Flowers.

A skilled botanist and horticulturist,
whose annual displays of rare plants
and flowers are one of the features of
his city conservatory, said; "The
mysteries of plant life are even more
interesting and intricate than the
secrets of insect life The sex in
plants, and flowers, and trees is just
as distinctive as in the human species,
and it is no uncommon thing to OBJ
serve at the close of the day or at
early morn a dashing male plant or
flower bending its form over far enough
to kiss the nectar from the petal lips
of its nearest floral Juno. Then some
of the handsomest and most deIicately
formed and tinted plants and flowers
are ruthless and as savage in their in
stincts as the cannibals of the Fiji isl
ands. The entire order of pitcher
plants, notably among them the beau
tiful wild dick or Indian moccasin'
plant, whose delicately pink shaded
purse-like sack is the admiration of
all wild-tloWer seekers, owes its exist
ence to the flies and small insects
which are attracted within its folds by
the delicately favored moisture of its
cup, and smothered and starved to
death by the spasmOdic closing of its
outer door, hemming all intruders in
as completely as a cell of the old Bas-
tile, and on these strange feasts the
beautiful plant lives and thrives. -
PhlLadetllct0 Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
Didn't Come to See Him.

Two pretty young women mystified
the attendants at the hearing on clos.
ing the Columbian fair on Sunday,
says Kate Fields Washington. The
hearing was appointed for half an hour
after 10 o'clock, but they came at half
past 9, and the clerk of the committee,
rather interested at the event, told
them the hour appointed. Yes, they
knew it. "Were they interested in
closing the fair Sunday?" One of them
said they were. "And is that all you
really came for?" asked the clerk, sur
prised for once out of his serenity.
The prettier one looked him in the
eye with cold, contemptuous stare,
and said: maybe you think we came
up here to see your handsome chair
man; but we didn't" The clerk went
outside to tell Durborow that there
were two girls inside who didn't want
to see him, and the girls waited in
triumph.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
One Way to Keep an Umbrella.

A prominent young club man OF this
city, who is noted for his faultless at
tire, was exhibiting a costly gold
mounted-handled umbrella, which was
ingeniously fastened with tiny silver
paddock, to number of friends, and
remarked: "If it had not been for this
locking device / would have lost this
valuable umbrella long ago. Picking
up the wrong umbrella on a rainy day
is as time-honored habit as the bor-
rowing of your neighbor's lead pencil
and returning it back to your own
pocket. To test this question to my
full satisfaction I went into the lobby
of well-known hotel one wet, stormy
day, and, swapping the little lock
through the wire spring under the
folds of the umbrella, placed it in a
others. On looking over a morning
newspaper l pretended to be deeply
interested in it's columns. L hardly
turned my eye when a respectfully
dressed gentleman picked up my um-
brella and off he went. 1t was raining
in torrents, he couldn't open it, and in
a moment or two he returned, RAM
ming it back, and muttering some
thing about mistake took another
one and was gone for good. You may
not believe me, but for one hour that
umbrella came and went every five
minutes, with men, women and chill
| dren, old and young, grave and gay
| The performance was kept up until II
tired me out. took charge of il
| finally and sauntered off home. Phil
adelphia Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
An Indian Fight.

An old Indian fighter on one occa-
sion was called on to make statement
concerning a battle to Congressional
committee, and he was requested to
couch it in language ineligible to the
statesmen instead of using the vernacu-
lar of the plains.
"Win you be kind enough" said the
Chairman, "to give US an account OF
this fight?"
@Co1rse, that's what I'm here for,
he responded. "You see our company
of 100 men set in game with about
that many Injuns, and it was our deal.
fer we had slipped up on 'em. They
stood pat, right from the start, and we
filed and went in at 'em from behind
the rocks on a straight bluff, fer we
didn't know how many there wuz, and
they met us in the open and kivered
orr ante, fer they thought they had
us. 1t was hot in thar, shore, and
both sides was shootin' and slashin
and yellin' when night settled down
and ended the game"
"What was the condition of the CON
testants at the close?" asked the Chair.
man.
"That's hard tellin" was the franl
reply. "All know is, after both side'
pulled out, thar was pile OF reds anG
pile of whites on the fiat an nobody
on neither side had sand enough il
his craw to show up and claim 'em."
The members of the committee aft
erwards stated that more lucid and in
telligible testimony had never beel
produced before them.-Detroit Ere
Press
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29

Earnestina worker-@If l give you
money will you spend it for drinkP"
Keggy Tom-"No, mum; I'm saving
up to go out west and try the gold
cure. Puck.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29

By an act just passed in South Aus
tralia all hotels are TO be altogether
closed SUNDAYS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
squelched by a Poser.

A quack doctor stood on his wagon
at the street corner selling his cure
all. A group of people gathered about
him and he undertook to explain to
them the anatomy of the throat. "My
dear friends" he began, perhaps you
don't know it, but there are two pass
ages that go from the back of the
mouth to the stomach. One is called
@sophagus and the other esophagi.
Now, the solid victuals go down the
@sophagus and the liquids down the
esophagi. Over the top of the holes
is a cover with hinge in the middle,
and when you swallow beefsteak the
little door over the @sophagus flies
open and the little door over the
@sophagi drops down, and vice versa
when you take drink of coffee" This
description proved too much for a
farmer who stood on the edge of the
crowd. Shaking with laughter, he
remarked in loud tone: "Gosh, but
those doors must go fipper-foppel
when fellow eats bread and milk"-
Youths CO1raDd7liO71.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
HERE'S A HARD LUCK TALE.
The Hunter Got Lost in Snow-storm
and Had a Fearful Time.

To be lost in an unknown country
with storm coming on is dangerous
and uncomfortable situation. Only a
hunter familiar with woodland craft,
and possessed of courage and hardl-
hood, can hope to escape death or
serious misfortune. A hunter who
had lived for many years among the
Indians went out on beaver hunt
and got separated from his companions.
The snow fell thick and the wind blew
violently when te tried to find his way
back to camp, and he was soon COM
PEELED to admit to himself that return
was impossible. His story is told in
Youths Companion
AS l had only a bow, arrows and
tomahawk with me, and no way to
strike fire, | was in dismal situation;
and as the air was dark with snow /
had little more prospect of steering my
course than should have had in the
night.
At length | came to a hollow tree,
with hole at one side that could get
into. l went in, and found the place
not only dry, but about three feet in
diameter and high enough for me to
stand in, while a considerable quanti-
ty of soft, rotten wood lay at the bot
tom.
l concluded to lodge here for the
night. With my tomahawk l chopped
off the branches of fallen tree and set
them against the opening, until l had
it several feet thick all around, with
the exception of space left to creep
in at. Then prepared block that
could pull in after me to stop this hole.
When l went in / took my tom
ahawk and cut down all the dry, rot
ten wood | could get, and beat il
small. With this | made a bed like q
goose-nest, and with the small sticks
stopped every hole, until my house was
| dark.
| took off my moccasins and danced
in the center of my bed for about hal
an hour, till my feet and whole body
were agreeably warmed.
The snow in the meanwhile haC
stopped all the holes, so the place wa
dark as dungeon; though l knew i
could not yet be dark out of doors.
coiled up in my blanket and had fai
nights rest. When l awoke all wa
dark. l could hear the storm stil
raging, and concluded | would remain
where | was.
After a while tried to find the door
, and as l had nothing but the sense c
feeling to guide me, the operation too
, some time. At last | found the block
but it was heavy, and so much sno'
had fallen on it that | could not NOV
it.
< was terrified. OF all the hardship
r l had ever endured, this seemed tn
worst l worked desperately, and {
? length, after what seemed hours {
g effort, l made my way out of the der
: The only guide l had by which
s steer my way was the trees; as the mo:
| generally grows on the northwest sid
e of them, if they are straight. [ wei
r on slowly and toward night came ]
: sight of the camp.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
"PAlNLEss pENTIsr.".
He Lived Up to His Sign and Inflicted
Tribulation Otherwise.

MANY wears ago, writes western
correspondent to the Youths COnlpG1s-
ION. a group of cowboys rode into the
frontier town of Prairieville and while
cantering down the principal street
came to a sign-"Painless Dentist"
They emptied the contents of their re-
volvers into it, and then one OF the
company dismounted and announced
his intention to 60 in and get a sore
tooth attended ta. "And l don't pay
no fancy price for 1t, neither" he NUT
tered, as he walked noisily into the
office.
The dentist was quiet-looking
young man of 25.
"See here" shouted the cowboy, as
he advanced toward the chair, 81 want
a tooth fixed and l don't want any
high-toned prices charged, either"
He threw himself into the chair,
hitched his belt around in front of him,
laid his revolver across his lap and
told the dentist that if he hurt him he
would shoot the top of his head off.
every well," replied the dentist, with
a slight laugh; "then you must take
the gas, for this is bad tooth and
| will give trouble"
| The cowboy swore, but finally yielded
and with a parting threat submitted
to the respiration, and presently was
insensible.
With great skill the man of the for
ceps pulled the tooth, and then before
his customer regained consciousness
he securely tied him hand and foot to
the chair, which was firmly screwed to
the floor. Then, taking the bully's re-
volver out of his belt, the dentist took
up his position where the patient
could see him when he came to.
AS the cowboy struggled back tc
consciousness the first thing of which
he was sensible was the dentist point
ing the revolver at him and saying II
quiet tones:
"Now, then, don't move. just oper
your mouth as wide as possible and
| will shoot the bad tooth off. This i:
the painless process. No danger, sir
unless you happen to swallow the bul
let Are you ready? Then here goes
One, two, threem
Bang! went the revolver, knocking
hole in the floor under the chair, ant
, the dentist rushed forward, holdin!
out the tooth in his hand, to show tn
now terrified bully, who roared fo
mercy and begged to be released
thinking that he had fallen into tn
; hands Of madman.
! The dentist finally cut his bonds O
.. condition that his customer should re
) store the riddled sign outside th
office. And after paying S. for the e.
tracted tooth, which the dentist griml
declared to be the regular price fc
. painless operations, the crestfalle
= cowboy departed, convinced that al
j, pearances are sometimes deceitful an
that even a tenderfoot may haV
= | nerve.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
THE pL LAcuE OF AFRICA.
rerrtb,e Devastation Enected ThrouSs
the Alighting OF Cloud of Locusts'

The awful cloud, black in it's center
on account of its density, gray toward
its borders, and scintillating on the
side where the suns rays fell, was ao-
vancing straight toward the OASIS. IN
another moment | guessed the terrible
reality, says Hilarion Mlchel, III ehe
ChastGs4qatdss. 1t was an INVASION
of locusts bringing ravages ana Iam-
inc. Noise is the only anuoote Ior
this evil, the purpose being to Irlgnten
the locusts. A frightful and 1noe-
scribable tumult now peryadeo the
city. 1t was terrible confusion OF
sounds caused by the screams OF men,
women, and children, and the clashlng
of pieces of iron and the firing OF guns
From our standpoint we could wleness
part of the scene. The people were IN
their gardens, gathering around the
palm trees, and no one was 70 Dc seen
idle. The men and boys, each with 9
tin pot hanging upon his back, CHM mDeo
the palms with astonishing raplolty
and sat upon the top branches. But
vainly did they exhaust their lung
force and the energy OF their arms; the
awful, irreparable disaster fell upon
the city; it was ruin for three-quarters
of the population and subsequent lam
inc for all. During eight hours the
locusts rained upon the palms and up
on all that was green. The trees were
loaded with swarms of them, the sol
was covered, and even in the streets
the pedestrian could scarcely avoid
crushing some at every step. Even
ing came, enveloped in deep gloom
of woe, and drove home the distressed
and respondent people. The sun ros'
with bright, 1parkling rays. showing
the inhabitants the extent of theil
misfortune. The first sight was th'
present aspect of the lofty and grace
full palms The leaf stalks, denude'
of their fringed borders, raised thei
points like spindles; the green dates
whose stalks had been devoured, wer
spread over the ground; the soil, whicl
was previously covered with lucerl
and garden vegetables, was now bar
as trodden road; all verdure not to
tough for the teeth of the insect ha
been annihilated. The desolation wa
complete and famine certain, for tn
products of the soil are the princips
resource of those little clusters OF lii
lost in the depth of the desert.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29

81 see you have written your poetry
in gas meter, Mr.. Rimer." "Gas me-
ter, sir?" "Yes, there are many re-
dundant feet" y. Y. S,tn.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
Aerial Navigation.

The inventor, Hiram Maxim, writes
as follows to the Century: "Since my
article on Aerial Navigation. The
Power Required appeared in the Gem
tury, have received large number
of letters on the subject. Those re-
ceived from France and England have
been of congratulatory character,
while two written in the United States
have been of depreciatory character.
"The apparatus described and shown
in my article was not intended as
complete fying-machine, as some of
your readers seem to imagine. 1t is
simply an apparatus which designed
and constructed for the sole purpose
of ascertaining how much power was
actually required to perform flight
with screW-driven aeroplane.
"The apparatus was provided with
every requisite for accurately deter
mining the energy required, and fur
nished me with data which l could not
obtain at that time from any other
source. My article related wholly to
this apparatus.
ESome of your readers lay great
stress upon the impossibility of such a
machine moving straight through the
air, saying that it would be quite i'm
possible to preserve the angle of the
plane as relates to the earth's surface,
or to anything else, and if the machine
was cut loose from the arm that guided
it around the circle, it would run up a
steep incline and fall back to the
ground. This might be true of the
apparatus shown.
an the machine which I am build
inh SC int frnn
flight, the most intricate part of the
whole thing is the apparatus for keep
ing the machine on an even keel while
| flying. This apparatus does for the
machine what the brain does for the
bird. The least DETECTION from pre-
determined angle instantly applies an
enormous amount of energy to the
planes of the machine, changing the
angles of some in order to maintain
| the angles of others.
"The machine consists of one very
| large plane with smaller ones attached
! to it. | do not anticipate any insur-
mountable trouble in the direction of
maintaining the principal plane of my
machine at any angle desired. My
apprehensions at the present time are
altogether of another kind: VIII my
engines be strong enough?
with the data and formule which
I have at hand, it would appear that
they are, and with a large margin OF
energy to spare; but the machine is
very much larger than any that has
ever been made before, and possibly
there may be another and an unknown
factor-the factor of size"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29
CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY.
An Incipient Revolt Spoils the Harmony
of tho McSwat Family.

%If we had house of forty-seven
rooms, Lobelia," said Mr.. McSwat. set
ting down his coffee-cup with some
emphasis and raising his voice. 81
shouldn't kick against you filling them
with gewgaws and jimcracks and GU
rios, but do object, madam, to you
making Japanese bazar out of the
McSwat family dwelling"
simply because / want to get
small cabinet" replied Mrs. McSwat,
"to hold few antiques presented to
me by friends"
"When you have two old bureaus
and hair-trunk and a chest full of
revolutionary relics, mahogany ward
robe filled with Indian costumes,
case of old English books that no man
alive can read, and a box of dried in
sects already, and no place to put half
of them except the library"
"You seem to find room about the
house, Billiger, for collection of hor-
rid old meerschaum pipes and rank
old smoking-iackets, anyhow"
"But can't walk about the house at
night without STUN bling over box of
horned frogs or knocking down cabi-
net of dessicated butterflies, or jam
less hornets nests"
"Billiger McSwat, you know as well
as do that you can afford to build an
addition to this house if there isn't
room in it for all our things"
What is the use of building an ad-
dition if you expect to fill it with auto
graph albums and stuffed lizards and
things?"
"You can save a corner in it, you
| know, for your old boots, dear can't
walk about the house in the dark
without stumbling over pair or two,
or go down cellar without touching
something and bringing down shower
of them on my head"
"But see here"
"And your old hats and canes, love
you know you need more room for
those. They would be of no value to
me - curios, but it is not for me to
question your taste in preserving
them. They may be of interest to pos
terity"
Clearly this would not do. The dis
cussion was becoming irrelevant. Mr..
McSwat rose with dignity and put on
his hat.
"Lobelia," he said, with his hand on
the door-knob, "as the head of this
family shall insist hereafter on my
rights. If you are going to turn this
house into Worlds Columbian Expo
sition," he added, in the stately man
ner of a great man announcing an ul-
timatum, Il shall assume the office OF
director-general."
"And in the mean time, Billiger." "
Il shall continue right along to act as
lady manager. Good-by, dear. Bring
some porterhouse steak for dinner
Chicago Tribune.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-29

1T is stated that Paris hrm of glass
makers has produced some porous glass
to be used for window panes. The
pores are too fine to permit of draught,
but cause pleasant and healthy ven
tilation in a room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-21
NEW JERSEY CLUBS ELECTION.

New Directors Chosen with Becoming
Festivities
The annual election OF direcIars of the
New Jersey Club took place last night.
The festivities attending this event in
the past cannot be compared with those
OF last night. There never was such a
time at the clubhouse, and in all proba-
bllity it viii be long remembered by those
who were present.
The rules of the club are to elect dfrec-
tors and these officers in turn elect a
president. vice president, secretary and
treasurer. Last night the terms of Direc-
tors j.. l.. Shawda, r. L. Lawrence and
6. II. Larry expired, and three new direc-
tors were elected.
The Directors for the ensuing year will
be Messrs. A. A. Bedell. w. j. Mont
gomery, Thomas d. Jordan, C.J. Cronan,
William II. Henderson. John D. Frazer,
Joseph Warren and William H. Hooker.
Next Tuesday evening the newly
elected directors will meet. elect officers
and appoint the various committees.
There will be some changes In the House
Committee. The old officers will prob
ably be reelected.