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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
PERSONAL.

Mr.. A. S. Bean of West Bethel was at
the Falmouth yesterday.
Miss Fannie Bestow Of Marietta, Ohio,
is visiting friends in town.
W. H. Fogler, ESQ.,, of Rockland, was
at the Falmouth yesterday.
Savings Bank Examiner G. A. Written
of Augusta was at the Falmouth yester-
day.
True P. Pierce, ESQ.,, OF Rockland, is
in the city, in attendance on the law
court.
President Spear, of the Maine Senate,
was in attendance on the law court yes
terday.
Mr.. S. Fl. Cousens of Steep Falls, is
taking well earned rest with his family
at Old Orchard.
Captain E. P. Pickett, of the barge Of
flee, starts for Boston tonight on his an
nual vacation.
O. D. Cashier, Esq, of Waldoboro, was
in the city yesterday, on business before
the law court.
William G.. Soule and family are en-
joying their summer vacation at the Ho-
tel Imperial, Old Orchard.
President B. L. Whitman, of Colby,
was in town yesterday, and spent the
night with friends at Great Diamond ISL
and
Mr.. Charles Adams, formerly ticket
agent and telegraph operator at Augusta
has been appointed station agent at
Woodfords.
Mr.. Frank w. Van Kirk of Jonesville,
Wis, who has been visiting the family
of G.. M. Tucker at Steep Falls, leaves
for his home today.
Mr.. w. Ell. Brownson, city editor of the
Advertiser, leaves the city today for a
vacation of two weeks. which he will
pass on the Cape shore.
Professor Woodbridge, who will sup
ply the heating and ventilating apparatus
for the High school, was in consultation
with Architect Fassett and Mayor Baxter
yesterday.
Mr.. Charles Small, formerly of the
firm of Small, Clark & Thompson, and
Mrs. Small celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of their marriage at their home
No. u Hanover street, Thursday morn
ing.
State Secretary R. H. Shelton. of the
Young Mems Christian Association, will
act as.secretary of the Portland Y. M. c.
A., during the months of August and
September, taking the position left va
cant by the resignation of Secretary Nc
Donald.
Rev. Mr.. Clarke, who assumes the pas
torate of the Abyssinian church next
Sunday, promises to be valuable addi-
ton to the ministerial force of Portland.
He brings the strongest commentator
from Dr. Rankin and Professor Clark of
Howard University, Washington, D. c.,
as an able scholar, modest and hard
Christian worker. The venerable church
may well be congratulated on its new
pastor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
Odd Fellows Celebration.

City Auditor Tobie has been appoint
ed chief marshal of the great Odd Eel
lows parade on anniversary day.
The procession will be in three divis-
ions, and it will form at $50, so the start
can be made promtly at 10 o'clock.
The procession will form on Elm,
Chestnut and Congress streets and pass
through the following thoroughfares:
Congress to Franklin, to Cumberland, to
High, to Congress. to Middle, to Pearl,
to the Casco Bay steamers, where the
Forest City, Forest Queen and other
steamers will convey the party to Peaks
Island.
The dinner will be served by Joseph
Mitchell in Greenwood Garden. The
American Cadet Band has already been
engaged for the day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
France interested in Our Crops.

This week, the French and Spanish
consul at Portland, E. Deb. LIE Prohon,
received letters Of inquiry from the
French Consul General at New York.
Information was sought regarding the
hay and apple crops in Maine, prospects
as to abundance and prices, facilities for
shipping, etc. IF these commodities can
be purchased in Maine at reasonable
prices, they will be sought after for ex-
port to the above mentioned countries.
1t must be pleasant for the farmers to
see the market come a-chasing them thus
early.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
He Isn't q Martyr,

The Argus contained some very I'M
called for structures on Deputy Sheriff
Chase and Mr.. Themes yesterday, in the
case of the seizure at Long Island. The
facts are very simple. Mr.. WEIGH was
caught selling liquor by Deputy Sheriff
Chase. He had been watched for some
time. After he was arrested, he admit
ted, SO we are informed, that he had
been selling liquor; furthermore, we are
informed, he had the three walnuts in
his pocket prepared for use. that are
used by three card monte men. The Ar
gus cannot make a martyr OF Mr.. WEIGH.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
Drank Turpentine by Mistake.

Thursday some small boys at South
Portland, visited the new house belong
ing to Mrs. York. A tonic beer bottle
was found which contained liquid sup
posed by the lads to be tonic beer. Mas
ter Everett Nelson, the 7-year old son of
Mr. Niles Nelson of 36 Sawyer street,
South Portland, drank about cupful Of
the liquid when he was at once seized
with terrible pain. DR.. J. W. Lowell
was called and worked five hours over
the suffering boy who was pronounced
out of danger yesterday morning. The
bottle contained turpentine and was left
there by the painters.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
Names Exhibit Damaged by Fire.

Hon. Hall G. Burleigh of Vassalboro,
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens of Portland, D. j.
Collahan, Esq, of Lewiston and Hon. j..
P. Bass of the Board of the Worlds Fair
Managers for Maine, had a consultation
in Bangor Thursday. Mr.. Burleigh has
received word that some very essential
features to have been added to the agri-
cultural exhibit had been destroyed in
the fire in the cold storage building.
Thursday he was given authority to
make the exhibit complete according to
his own Judgment. Attention will also
be given to the genealogical exhibit.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
The City's Coal.

The bids for the city coal for the ensu-
ing year were opened by the committee
on public buildings yesterday noon. The
bids were for furnishing 800 tons of Lee
high, 400 tons of egg, and 900 tons of
Cumberland coal. There were two bid
ders, Randall & McAllister bid $6.15 a
ton on the hard coal and $4.5S on the
soft coal; A. r. Wright bid 1923 on the
hard and S4.6S on the soft. Randall &
McAllister got the contract.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
Don't Miss 1t.

The day fireworks at Peaks Island to-
day will doubtless draw a big crowd.
The exhibition will be novel and ex-
ceedingly interesting and coming as it
does in the afternoon especially desirable
for the attendance of the young folks.
The show will consist of balloons, drag
ons, bears, dogs, elephants, bombs, etc.,
and will be great attraction. Take
CascO Bay steamers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
CITY OF PORTLAND
Notice to Contractors.

oEALED PROPOSALS for constructing
purtenances in Aims House Valley will be re-
ceived at the office of the City Engineer, until
Tuesday, the fifteenth day of August, 1898, at
O'Clock p. M, when they will be publicly
onened and read.
The successful bidder will be required to give
a bond in a sum and with sureties satisfactory
to the committee on drains and sewers to insure
contract.
Blanks on which proposals must be made and
plan, specifications and further information can
he obtained at the office of the City Engineer, on
and after Tuesday, August 9Th.
The committees reserve the right to reject any
or all bids should they deem it for the interest
of the city SO to do.
u Bids should be marked Proposals for Sew
err" and addressed to ~
oi' j. A. MCGOWAN,
Chairman Committee on Drains and Sewers.
aug5-dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
BRIEF JoTTINGs.

There will be hop at the Ottawa this
evening.
Yesterday was bright and warm, with
a stiff southwest wind.
At p. m. today, the celebrated j. B.
Thornton estate at Scarboro will be sold
at auction.
A green punt drifted down the harbor
yesterday afternoon, and was picked up
by two boys in dory.
The great oak on the Thornton estate
at Oak Hill blew down in the late torna-
do. 1t was 300 years old.
Steamer Madeleine will make trip to
Peaks Island from Falmouth Foreside
this evening, at $50, if pleasant.
Mr.. Baxter's little steam yacht Pa
poose made IA IA knots in an hour, in
the run from Bar Harbor last week.
A. Fl. Berry 6 Co., of this city, have
claim of $1,000 against the Blue Label
Shoe Company, now in insolvency at
Lewiston.
The work of paving Commercial street
opposite the foot of Moulton street. and
on the side next the harbor, is going on
apace.
Mr.. Walter Ackroyd, of the plush mill
has received check for $500 as part
payment for patent on an Improvement
in plush looms.
The water main on Pine street, near
the Butler school, broke yesterday, and
a large amount of water dubbed up
through the roadway.
Two handsomely painted Congress
street cars, Nos. "a and 66. have been
sent out from the company's paint shop
on the Hill.
Judge Webb, in the United States Cir
cult Court yesterday morning, fined
Howard B. Cakes of Dover for violation
of the internal revenue law.
A milk dealer said to a Portland pat
ron that the milk he delivered these dry
times was mighty good. When asked to
explain, he said, water is scarcer than
milk
c. The guests of Sea View Cottage char
tered the steamer Leo yesterday, and
went to Harpswell, where Manager Pool
er of the Merryconeag House, furnished
them an elegant dinner.
The officers of the steamer Emita dis
covered flames issuing from under Little
Diamond Island wharf Thursday after
noon. The hose was put on and the
flames extinpuisbed
A large excursion will come over the
Maine Central railroad next Wednesday,
from Bangor, Waterville, Augusta and
Brunswick. They will partake of
clam bake at Ponce's.
It is estimated that the repairs to the
bark Skobeleff, lately run into by the
Hamburg steamer Normannia, will cost
upwards of $2700. The Germans will
probably settle this bill.
When the electric lights were started
up at Peaks Island, Thursday, a gas jet
blew out of the boiler filling the house
with steam. Mr.. Clark, the engineer,
was slightly scalded on arms and hands.
The Boston & Maine railroad has just
received two new parlor cars from the
Pullman works, which completes the Or
der of Is vestibuled parlor cars ordered
some time ago, together with Is vesti-
buled sleeping cars, which have also
been delivered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
Hallelujah Wedding.

A hallelujah wedding is announced for
the evening of August 9th at o'clock
and to take place in the Salvation Army
barracks, Federal street. The ceremony
will be conducted by Adjutant Brengle.
district officer for Maine and New Hamp-
shire. The names of the parties to be
married are kept back for the present.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
Deering County Road.

The contract to build the new county
road at Deering has been given to Adam
w. Wilson and Stewart Worster for
about S21OO.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-05
cANVASSERS WANTED

for the Clauss bread, cake and pairing knives
and carver: also improved pot cleaners. Write
OF call at THE CLAUSS SHEAR CO, 100
Chambers st., New York. aug6S&WH
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
WHOLE NUMBER, 1, ,149.
Not a Foot of Lumber to be Used in the
Great Building,

A proposed mansion to be erected by
Il millionaire diamond miner in the
TcmcScal district, near San Francisco,
is to be entirely of steel. Not foot of
lumber of any shape is to be used in
the building. The material will be iron,
steel, aluminium, brass, bronze, plati-
and the only stone used will be Sculp-
tured marble in the stairways and the
main frieze, and onyx and decorative
marbles in the bathrooms, the stairs
and few other places. Even the foun-
datiOnS will be of steel and concrete.
The floors will be of concrete, brass
and aluminium, the walls of steel and
the roof of steel, brass and copper.
The inside walls will be some of oxi-
died sheet iron, some brass, covered
with a preparation that protects the
burnlSh of the metal, some copper,
some nickel, and so on to correspond
with the decorations of the room. The
ceilings will be arched and relieved
here and there with great brass medal
lions. The partition walls will be COM
posed of metal grilles extending from
floor to ceiling, arranged in various de-
signs; forming vast network, through
which the visitor can see from the
grand stairway at one end to the grand
ballroom at the opposite end "Archi-
lecture and Building" does not men
ton the material for doors. Prcsrlm-
ably they will be of iron The pro-
prietor of this house, Ralph Brisbane
NOnesuch, is reputed to be worth $25,-
600 600
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
The Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire was founded
2,10O before Christ, but its history does
not extend above the Green Olympiads:
the first dynasty when Prince Yu
reigned, 2207 before Christ; before this
time the Chinese chronology is impcr-
feet; by some Fohi is supposed to be
the founder of the empire. and its first
sovereign, 2247 before Christ; litrea-
ture there revived, and the art of print
ing practised 206 before Christ; the
first history of China was published
by Sematsin 81 before Christ: first
grant the island of Macoa, at the en-
trance of the river of Canton. to the
Portuguese, 1886; the country conquer
ed by the Eastern Tartars, when the
Emperor and his family killed them
selves, 1855; an attempt to establish
Christianity there by the Jesuits, 1862;
the missionaries expelled 1924. 1t is
fifteen times larger than Great Britain
and Ireland, though not half the size
of Europe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
A Snake That Climbs Glass walls.

In the Natural History Museum at
Paris there is snake that climbs up
the polished glass walls of its cage.
The process is described as follows,
and Is vouched for by NJ. Leon Vail
liant, "Professeur dErpetologie:' The
snake, which is thirty centimetres long,
first raises its head some way against
the glass, and proceeds to disgorge
from its salivary and lachrymal glands
an adhesive viscous fluid, by the aid
of which it succeeds in drawing its
whole body up the cage. A curious
fact is that the end of the tail Is kept
tightly curled, so as to afford broad
er and more substantial base of oper-
ations This phenomenon seems to
dispose Of the question whether snakes
are able, as reported, to climb up walls
and penetrate the ceilings of houses
Pail Mall Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Tho Creole,

A creole, strictly speaking is any
person born in this country or the
West Indies of European ancestors;
also any person born In or near the
tropics, and this is the sense in which
the word is usually employed. The use
of the word, however, has been by
some restricted first to children of for
cign parents born in Louisiana, and,
second, to children of Spanish or
French parents born in Louisiana, and
then in the North the word has been
perverted so that it is believed to inn
ply some strain of negro blood in n
person to whom it is applied. 1t does
not imply anything Of the sort.-New
York Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
FRosrBURG, Md, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2S. 1898.

stinacy melted before the fire of her
curiosity, and vanquished she asked:
What in all this world are you look
ing for, my man.
Jumping to his feet, he burst into a
hard laugh that shook the old hut and
answered:
II often told you you'd lose or wear
it out some day, but now that I've
found it, take care of it for the future
After all. 'tain't worth while to lose
one's"-and being given to gesture,
he touched with his thumb the tip of
his tongue, to indicate that of his wife,
the use of which he had miss ii ST
much during the long, ulg day
adapted from the French, by BoLy
Blake, Paris, France.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Fruit in stone.

A collector of odds and ends in New
York city has a remarkable representa-
ton of fruit In stone. 1t is bunch of
grapes carved from amethyst of rich
purple, with stem, leaves and tendrils
cunningly wrought from malachite,
serpentine and jade. A basket is also
heaped with apples, peaches, oranges,
plums, apricots and raspberres that
prove on inspection to be made Of
malachite, rhodonite, Jasper and oddly
,-,lored marbles. The Russians are
clever at this kind of work, and they
make handsome tables Of malachite.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Didn't OyerIOnk Any.

There is a young country boy stay
ing at our boarding house. writes cor
respondent, "who is a perfect little
gentleman in his way. The other day
he brought his sister in to dinner and
gave her general introduction some
what aa follows: Ladies and gentle
men, this is my sister Then he clcc
trifiod the gathering by continuing: My
sister, these are ladies and gentlemen.
Whercat the ladies and gentlemen pres
ent were highly delighted. ."-,rit-Bits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

Comedian Nat Goodwin is in this
city rehearsing for his new play. His
latest story deals with a tough poker
game in Western mining village, says
the Chicago Post.
Two sharpers have supposed vic
tim in tow. They are after his cash,
and they mean to get it by fair means
or fOul-especially foul. So one of
them stands behind the sucker" and
signals the hands he holds to his part
ner
Their code of signal is simple in the
extreme. One finger laid on the table
means that the man has a pair; two
fingers signals two pair; three fingers
three of kind; four fingers a straight;
and the whole hand a flush. Now the
sucker" is not too green, and he soon
drops to the signal game. He gets two
pairs, the man behind him lays two
fingers on the table by him, and, quick
as flash, the stranger draws knife
and slashes the two fingers off. OF
course there is an uproar. The stranger
is taken in charge by the marshal, and
the pal of the card sharp is taken to
the hospital. The next day the sharper
calls on his MANNED friend and finds
him sitting up in bed nursing his ban
daged hand and singing gayly to him
self. The visitor is aStOniShed.
Well" he calculates, you have a
heap of nerve How can you sit there
and sing with two fingers lost?"
Easiest thing in the world. my
boy" says the patient. Il think that |
am the luckiest man on earth. Sup
pose that chap had held flush instead
of two pairs. l would have lost my
whole hand"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

The human skin is composed of three
layers, averaging in all between one
twelfth and one-eighth of an inch in
thickness, and in extreme cases as
much as one-fourth of an inch in thick
ness. The skin area of the average
adult is therefore estimated at 1000
square inches. The atmospheric pres
sure being about fourteen pounds to
the square inch, person of medium
size is daily and hourly subjected to Il
pressure of 2SO,00O pounds Each
square inch of the skin contains $500
sweating tubes, or perspiration pores,
each of which may be likened to lit
tie drain-tile one-fourth of an inch in
length, making an aggregate length of
the entire surface of the body of 201,-
1916 feet, or a tile ditch for draining
the body almost forty miles long
iC thn yrb
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Cav Attire of Peasants.

1t is only among the rural classes
that anything approaching artistic
looking dress is at present to be found,
says the London Telegraph. If we
turn to Italy we must begin by giving
up male Italians in despair from the
artistic point Of view.
The slop-shOp is king from the Alps
to the Adriatic, and "store clothes
are now the universal wear-'pot"
hats, suits of "dittoes" and ulsters hav-
ing replaced the romantic garments in
which the people of the sunny land
once rejoiced.
In the Italian cities also there is lit
tie that is distinctive to be found in
the dress of the women of the indus
trial orders, while in Rome the pictur-
eSquely attired women who have been
banished by the police from the steps
of the Trinniti del Monti, but who still,
with their ragged and quantity dressed
little children, file about the Piazza di
Spagna and the Via Condotti, are, in
great many instances, professional
mcndicants, who pretend to be artists
models.
When the begging season is at an
end-that is to say, when the tourists
have left the Eternal City-the pictur-
cSuuply CRU women, WIN tne Wmte
"faZzoletti' on their heads, retire to
their villages to live for while in COM
fort on the profits Of their Roman so
licitations of aims, and there, perhaps,
they may continue to assume their
traditional costumes.
Pretty dresses may also be seen with
frequency in Southern Italy, particu-
larly in the villages around the Bay of
Naples, in Calabria and in Sicily. The
south of Spain is again happy hunt
ing ground for pictorial peasants
dresses.
The gypsies, too, who swarm both
at Seville and at Granada, are sufii-
cicntly picturesque, although in the
way of cleanliness and completeness
of garments they have a good deal to
be desired.
1t is perhaps in Switzerland, the
Tyrol, in South Germany, in Austria,
in Hungary, in Norway, and through
out Southeastern Europe that pictur-
esquely clad peasant women are most
abundantly in evidence.
Varied and really -gladdening gear
is assumed by female Hungarians. Sty-
rians, Wallachians and Dalmatians,
comprising, as the costumes do, lancer
caps, furred pelisses, braided jackets.
baggy trousers, plated pigtails and
other eccentricities of feminine garb.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
lOmaJOes Are rruII.

Tomatoes are fruit as well as melons
and cucumbers. The distinction be-
tween vegetable and Il fruit is puz-
zling at times. A technical difference
is that fruit incloses the seeds of the
plant and natures above ground, while
plant growth matured under ground is
vegetable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Already Done,

Starter-tI met man this morning
who said l looked like you.
Smartley-Tell me who he is and I'll
go and knock him down.
Starter-I did that myself.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

People who think thirteen is an un'
lucky number seem to forget that the
great Yankee nation grew from thir-
teen colonies.-Boston Transcript.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
r TPrAn


son theatre nights leave Cumberland at close
of performance.
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berland.
Nos |, p 3 and idaily except Sunday Nos.
and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays only.
No baggage car will be hauled On trains Nos
5 and t. H. NJ. HAMILTON,
May21 Superintendent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28
WINTER TIME.

When to 90 out, my nurse doth wrap
Me in my comforter and cap;
The cold wind burns my face, and blows
Its frosty pepper up my nose.
Black are my steps on silver sod;
Thick blows my frost! breath abroad:
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like wedding cake.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

1t is the comic opera composer who
is most apt to steal march" on us,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-10-28

Have you got the pip, or have you
tired your tongue? SayY'
"If l have, am going to be quiet in
order to be cured or rested"
That will need fifteen minutes or Il
half-hour," he added, half mischievOuS-
ly. half angrily.
1T will last until you take back what
you said, or talk yourself"