Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-04-04
CHIPS.

For that sweetest gift-a mothers Lowell
Nobody ean-but mother.
CHIPS.
There are 5l2,5OO telephones ln use In
the United States.
Chinese physicians prescribe cats
meat As remedy for lung diseases.
Cremation IL becoming popular in
Italy. That country already has twen-
ty-two crematories.
A pyramid Of 400 pianos, connected by
electricity, and performed upon by one
woman, will be one Of the attractions oi
the worlds fair.
Prof. j. c. Adams, the English as
tronOmer, Is dead; he was the first to
compute the place Of the then unknown
planet Neptune.
Hans Christian Andersen has been
hOnOred In Chicago by having q school
house named for him, and bust OF the
story teller was unveiled therein recent
ly.
Louisa NJ. Alcott once put the follow
Ing query, "If steamers are named the
ASIA the Russia and the Scotia why
not call one the 'Nsusea'T'-Traveller.
The women's department In Brow q
University has registered In this. the
first year, over thirty students; and yet
the freshman class has larger number
Of young men than any previous one.
DIR. Claiming IL to have q monument
at Newport facing the Claiming Me-
mortal Church, and near the stone mill.
Il Il gift to the city by one Who, full
filling the Scripture injunction, has en-
Joined the sculptor to keep his name
secret.
The soft quill pen which Henry Ward
Beecher used In his last literary work is
utilized by Edward Box In doing all his
editorial work on the Ladies' Home
Journal, the pen having been presented
to the young editor by Mrs. Beecher
shortly after the great preachers
death.
II. ii. Bancroft, the historian Of the
Pacific coast, commenced life as q clerk
In book store. His attention was
drawn to historical literature by being
asked by his employers to aid In the
preparation of an almanac of the coast.
lie has collected one OF the most valu-
able historical libraries In the world.
"George william Curtis" says Kate
Field, .had reason to thank God for an
ccstors who stamped upon hlm the I'm
press Of gentleman. Patriclsn 10 face
and figure, the external George william
Curtis tod the story Of the heart and
brain within. thank God that he lived
to show US what manner Of man can be
born Of republican institutions"
This is one Of the stories that they tell
Of Vivian Burnett, the prototype Of
"I.lttle Lord Fauntleroy": When about
eight years old, he noticed one day q
seamstress at work In the family, and
after time asked her II she never got
tired, sewing as she did day after day
ani week after week. "Yes," she re-
piled, III do get tired indeed, my head
aches nOw." "why do you sew then?"
"Becauss I must. have to work to
earn nv living" "well,' declared
Vivian, In princely dignity, "when am
President Of the United States, no
woman shall work."
About century ago, when the COM
mlssiOners who had In charge the selec-
tion OF a site for Bowdoln College were
attending to this duty, they pitched
upon New Gloucester, Me-, az combining
more advantages than any other. place
they visited; but the owner of the land
refused to part Il u Il was used as the
site OF n college, though willing enough
to sell II u II was tn be put to any other
use. The reason thst he gave was that
the students would steal the apples In
IN orchard In which he took great pride
80 Il srem. that this Il the reason why
New Gloucester Il MOTEL for its apples
rather than as being the seat Of Bow
doln College.
Hon. Charles Frsnci. Adsms crested
u decided sensation at meeting In
Quincy one evening. After several
speakers had pulogized Columbus, hr
opened flr- on the eulogists, and with
the real Adams grit, made an lnclslvr
speech. lie said the great dlscoverer
.'brOught With him the lnquisltion, per
secutlon, and that greed for gold th,t
brought With II 80 many misfOrtunes
The vllest sins against humanity AMI
God were widespread In the first TWEEN
ty-Ave years of Americas existence, and
more corrupt country II would be hard
to find. Moreover, the country would
have been discovered without him; and
Il would have been better for the country
to have delayed the discovery one hum
dred years. Better settlers, better rulers
came later; aud to the Pilgrims who
landed on Plymouth Rock America owes
her standing to-day"
The Chinese do everything backward.
Their compass points to the south instead
of the north. The men wear skirts and
the women trousers; while the men wear
their hair long, the women coll theirs 10
u knot. The dressmakers are men; the
women carly burdens. The spoken
language IL not written, and the written
language Il not spoken. Books are read
backward, and any notes are Inserted ai
the top. white Il used for mourning
and bridesmaids wear black,-instead Of
being maidens, these functionaries ara
old women. The Chinese surname comel
first, and they shake their own hands In
stead Of the hands OF one whom they
would greet. Vessels are launched side
wars, and horses are mounted from the
on aide. They commence their dinner
with dessert, and end up with soup and
hsh. In shaving, the barber operates
on the head, cutting the hair upward,
then downward, and then poll shes it %
With . small knife, which 10 paused over
the eyebrows and Into the nose 70 70
NOVA nnv super6uous halrs. and the