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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-17

Leaders
 Tn Handkerchiefs. over s70oo worth of the most unique styles. the incest
 patterns, the best quality, and the
 lowest prices ever known. Space will
 not admit of enumerating all the values. but beginning at 5c each we
 show the grandest display in this
 market
 Don't forget to look at our 12kc and 25c Embroidered Handkerchiefs.
 They tell Us others ask 25c and 50c
 for no better quality. ALL LINEN TRAY CLOTHS.
 Stamped and extra size. bought to retail at 19c, but being the last week we'll rush them off at 121ac. MANY ASK EVERY HOUR WHERE DID YOU GET
 Those beautiful Headrests and Pil- lows ? They are certainly wonderful value and need no eulogy from us. but you cannot duplicate under double our prices the 15c and 25c quotations are phenomenal. STAMPED
 Stand Covers and Table Covers Also Bureau Scarfs, etc., have received a markdown that will fairly clean the counters before the end of the week. SPECIAL.
 A great bargain-18 inch Pillow, hand painted, with ruffies, worth $1, at only BOG each.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-17

All styles, handsome mounts, best silk and initials engraved free, sl.50 ups wards.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-17
Dress Goods,

~A >S0 NAOONRSS
 For Xmas Gifts. are done up in
 Dress Patterns and marked at con-
 siderable less than cost to us. 100 Dress Patterns worth $50, at 9Sc, 200 Dress Patterns worth $2.00, at $1.29. 200 Dress Patterns worth s2.5O. at $15O. 100 Dress Patterns worth $500, at s1.75. 200 Dress Patterns worth s5.00, at g. FINE SATINES,
 For Holiday Gifts, latest patterns, 10 yards for $1.25. FINE CAMBRICS.
 For holiday presents. In very choice patterns, at extremely low prices 10 yards for 9Sc. AN ENTIRELY NEW
 Line of English Flannels in fasci- hating tints. were 121ac, our price 100 yard.
 OUTING FLANNELS,
 In Plaids and Stripes, 1Oc grade, go- ing at 5c yard. GINGHAMS,
 For Aprons, at only 5c yard,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-17
Warm Weather:
$2.OOO.OO

@<,OUU.UU
 Worth of Mems All Linen and Jap anese Silk Hdkfs and Muffiers, an endless variety. Our Silk Initial at 25c. 39c and soc, are bargains that pay to look at. Our All Linen at 121hc, 19c and 25c, are worthy of your immediate attention. Dolls.
 A great display of Dolls. jointed and kid bodies, from 10c up. DOLLS TRUNKS.
 39c. TOOL CHESTS, !i.i!i Only 19c. DOLLS
 Parlor Furniture. 2Sc. BEAUTIFUL
 Assortment of Japanese Cups and saucers, Cracker Jars. Vases. etc., 50c to 75c Cups and Saucers, only 25c each CRACKER JARS,
 Only 25c each. FINE FIGURED VASES.
 Only 15c each. IT,. Lamps.
 We offer extraordinary values In Lamps: keep only the best makes, and sell them lower than the poor grade.
 A very excellent Lamp at 9Sc.
 Specially fine Lamp at $1.29. Superb Banquet Lamps-our stock is going fast. People say our prices are half. ,g,-a~s # = r.. JARDIN1ERS,
 Only 18c. -#s -5s. Umbrellas.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-17
Dinner and Tea Sets,

Tea Sets.
 Now Is the time to make your friends q present of something substantial and good. We purchased large stock for the New Store, and, as you know, have to sell them here. AL though our quarters are not as in- viting as they will be later. yet we are determined to close this lot out before moving. and have made the prices so low that you cannot help buying. l12 PIECE
 Dinner Set with gilt edge, also finely decorated, worth S15, at S10.5O set. 13O PIECE
 Dinner Set with gilt edge, also beautifully decorated, worth s25.oo, at s16.50 set. 13O PIECE
 Dinner Set with gilt edge, charming decorations. entirely new shape, worth $3S.O at s21.5O. TOILET SETS,
 English decorated. at only $2.25.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

A man and woman. who have been board
ing at the Riverside house, East side, tried
to skip, Yesterday, without paying their
board bill. They came across the bridge
and went down the back street. between the
Maine Central Railroad and the blocks on
the west side of Water street, coming out
at the rear of Aliens publishing house.
From there they went to the postotfice and
as the Electric car came along went out to
get on, when Deputy Marshal Bachelor
stepped up detained them and collected the
amount of the bill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
narrow escape

Gov. Cleaves will be here during the
greater part of muster week. August 10
he goes to Camp Benson with his staff.
There will be great interest in Camp Ben
son in witnessing the veterans shoot for an
elegant gold badge which Gov. Cleaves has
offered for the veteran making the best
score. Gov. Cleaves will be one of the
speakers at the Republican district conven
ton at Biddeford to renominate Hon.
Thomas B. Reed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
STATE NEWS.
Kennebec.
WINTHROP.

WINTHROP.
The remains of the wife of the late Ezra
Whitman were brought to This place from
Massachusetts for burial last Monday. The
floral display was the best that has been
seen here for some time.-Last "Wednesday
evening benefit concert was given Miss
Addie Dealey at Craig's Point. The con-
cert consisted of piano recitals, solos
both vocal and instrumental and closing
nm with ice cream at the hotel
Mrs. Thomas Patman is quite i'll at the
home of her father, VIM. French There
was A dance at the Grove, Tuesday evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
Learn to I.augh.

LEARN to laugh A good laugh Is bes-
tor than medicine. Learn how to tell o
story. A we'll told story is as welcome as
. sunbeam in n sickroom. Learn to keep
your own troubles to yourself The world
= 700 busv to care for your ills and sor-
roxs Learn to stop croaking. If you
cannot see any good in the world, keep
the bad to yourself. Learn 10 hiae your
pains and aches under pleassne sihIie
No one cares to hear whether you nave ,i,e
earache, headache or rheumatism, p9n
cry. Tears do well enough IN novels, :. ou w
they are out of place in real me a,S learn M -
meet your friends with smile. lne so eH
humored man or woman is always W
come, but the dyspeptic or hypocnonur,as
Is not wanted anywhere ana Is . nu's''no'
a. well" says family doctor.
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.ex.div. ibid. tasked..
New York Produces market.

NEW YORK. July 90,
FLOUR Receipts. 1858 pkes; exports. 6775
bbs; I6,l4l sacks: sales. 400 pigs; dull.
weak, buyers holding Of; 1;..eS ex,5as,
ents. ooa4 rs; winter wheat, low grades,
is5 a25o fair to fancy, 40 2 30,
patents. 2 90a3 %. --hinnesota clear. 25a2 IS,
straghts. ooaS 90. patents. 20 500, rye
SOUTHERN FLouR-dnll, weak; = common to
fair extra sa3 good TO choice 3.0oas.50.
Rye FLouR-guist, easy; ----e2 6oas3.2o.
CORN MKAL- duh steady;
Western, 65a2 20; Brandywine 40.
RYE-dull: estsrn. 4Sa57.
BARLEx-out of season No. Milwaukee, 65a67 !;
western, e3a6.; two rowed state 63a65; No.
BARLEY MALT-quiet;- - western 7oas2;
two rowed state 7os55, x-rowed state soss5 city
made Canada locales.
WHKAT-Reeespts. i22,4lS bush; exports, - 20;
sales, =; dull, &c. lower closing steady; -
No. 2 red. slore and elevator. 56l a5Gi !;
afioat 56ls56i. TOD. IA57l, No. hard. 70ia70i;
No. 2 spring 77is7s; No. northern 6ss6s
No. red. -a--; No 2 spring solasol; ulgraded
red, 72la73l; No. white. so.
CoRN-Receipts, 2a25, exports. i.,loi; sales,
5000; dull, firm;
.. 47ia47l elevator; t7ia4s aiost: No. 3. i9ia
-; steamer anoat. ~. yellow, ios; M
graded mixed. SASH; steamer mixed. ssla
4Sl No. s white, i21a u ca. sxn,,.. ,,.,
sales. 81. COO; fairly active, Irregular
No. 2, i3aiS, do Whit. 42.ef3; No. Q
Chicago, ilaii, No J, iia- white.
ioa-: mixed wes.erp. 4laii; do whit !,
F-quiet, steady; beef hams. dull; tierced
beff. inactive, steady; city extra India mess.
sl.asls; rnt meats. quiet, steady: picked
bellies. IL lbs, at sas; picked shoulders, 6ia6i ;
picked hams. IA; miadles, nominal.
LARD quiet, easier; -
western stesaa ciosed. s7.22a - city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
To Test Black SILK.

Says an expert in The Dry Goods Econ
omist: ITO test whether black silk is heav-
lily weighted take small sample of the
fabric and burn it. If the silk is pure and
has not been 'doctored,' it will burn readily
to crisp brittle ash of gray black color.
If. however, the silk burns slowly and with
difficulty, leaving soft dusty ash of red or
reddish brown color, it is proof that the
silk is very inferior in quality"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
Children SleepiuR.

II you have two children, one robust and
strong and the other delicate and sickly,
never let them sleep together The strong
er child will draw from the strength Of the
more delicate, and the effect would be dis
astrous. Neither should young child
sleep with one who is very much older. In
fact, it is now an accepted theory that dou,
BILE bedsteads are a menace to good health
II occupied by two persons.-Health Jour.
nal. *>
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

A. r. Boardman was sitting in his yard
on Weston street the other day under a
tree, when he heard cracking sound over
head. He got up and just as he stepped
away from the settee a large limb, IL feet
long and four inches thick, fell where he
was sitting, breaking the settee. 1t was a
narrow psCaDe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

$G.75a6.75; - refined, quiet; Continent,
t7.55a--; 3 A. a7.S5, compound, $60OaS6 %.
PoRK--dul steady; ----sales. - bbls;
mess, $l4 O0,Sl4 %: EXITS prime, $l3 0ca$l3.25
BUTTER- quiet, choice firm; " .-.,-.-------
state dairy new. 2a17i do old. i0al4; do creamery
new i4laIs; Penn. DO, HAAS; Western dairy
new ioal4 do creamery new, l3a1s, do factory.
9ls14; Elgins. l7aals: rolls, llal6.
CHEESE fair demand, easy ;-------
state large. 7la9 do fancy. ea9; fancy old,
9Is9i: state small, 7la9l; do new,
9laioi; old, a; DO white. 1oalo1: part skim' Z,
25s5.; do new '4sel; full skims, lla2: Western
small, old, 1olal29; Western part skims,new, 3a6
PFTRoLFrM- dull. steady: United. Si.
CoFFEE-rio. dull, nominal; No. :. l6ia-.
sUGAR-raw. quiet hrm; refined. quiet -
No. /. 8 a.l6s4; No. 2 s16s7: Nc. =.
4 al 3-16; No. 6, 3l6s4; No. ,. Bias Is l6;
No. 8. 5 sas 1916; No. .. 3 e-l6a3 "a
No. TO- a-l6a3i; No. II. la3 ll-l6: NJ.
IL, 37.l6ass; No. 49, 3; of. l5-l6Ai;
mould, 9lsati; standard. 45-lsa4i
confectioners. "a Sl6a4s; cut Loaf. 5is5 80;
crushed, 5aa5 sic; powered. ?-l6a4i; graz
ulatcd, 4 5.16a4g: cubes 4 o 1eais
Freights to LlverDooi-market, quiet, steady =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

w. S. Ladd was before the police court,
yesterday, for being drunk, and was al
lowed to go, upon promise that he would
not again get full
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

F. II. Alden and wife and Miss Edith
Alden of Cincinnati. and Miss Grace Nc
Kown of Boothbay Harbor, are stopping al
the Augusta house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
Special ADVERTISEMENTS.

Small advertisements not exceeding four line
thirty wordsl coming under the head of WANT.
I'D, For SAIE, To Int. LoSr. &c, VIII be inserted
two times for . cents three times for IS cents and
one week for so cents, advance payment
In sending by mail, remittance OF postage stamps
OF postal note should be made with order, as
the charges are too small to open accounts for.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

John B. Riley, who claimed to. be from
Portland was before the police court for
drunkenness, yesterday, and was told to
leave the CITY,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
YOU WISH To MAKE MONEY

- Man. Woman. or Child. | will tell you Of
an investment tina. is absolutely safe and sure.
Buy or more lots in the principal manufactur.
ing suburb OF Seattle, state Of Washington. The
from the proposed ship canal which IL TO make
Seattle world famed. Ttere are nine thing.e
mills and four mills along the water front
six shipyards, also boiler works, foundries
and other industries. Negotiations are now
pending for the erection of steel works
1t cost of s5,0Oo,0o0. have ex.
amined this locality. and every statement make
is true. Don't hesitate, buy while the chance Is
for you. ii will soon be passed. Lots SIS each
Warrantee deed and abstract. Letters enclosiup q
stamp will receive prompt at. entioD. Call at
5. Stphen, Richmond Maine. Box i55.
iuneosd5w*
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
MARKET REPORTS.
The Stock Market.

These quotations are furnished daily by s. j
Hegarty. manager Baldwin Bros. Co., stock brok
erage office in this city.
o.. July 20, 1894.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

INTERPRETATION OF DISPLAYS.
No ], alone, indicates fair weather, station.
AIRY temperature.
No 2. alone, indicates rain or snow, station
AIRY temperature.
No. 3, alone, indicates local r..in, stationary
temperature.
No. /, with 80. above it, indicates fair
weather, warmer.
No. !, with No. below it, indicates fair
weather. colder.
No. =, with No. above 1t, indicates warmer
weather, rain or snow.
No. 2. with No. below 1t, indicates colder
weather, rain or snow.
No. 3, with No 4, above 1t. indicates warmer
weather with local rains.
No, D. with No. below 1t, indicates colder
weather with local rains.
No. |, with No. 5. below 1t, indicates fail
weather, cold wave.
No. = with No. 5, below 1t, indicates wet
weather cold wave.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

The State muster will take place August
Is to Il. 1t will be known as Camp Cleaves,
in honor of the esteemed Governor of the
Sfota
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

Workmen were busy, last evening, dig
ging out and filling in front of the founda-
lion for the new Masonic temple.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

LNOR SALE-Houses in different pats OF The
II city. ranging in price from 500 70 5000.
Also good farms in this city and elsewhere. APP
ply At the Office Of T.. 5. Fogg Atty at Law ano
Dealer in Real Estate. ianGd;f
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

EHOH sALE-Old papers, whole and clean,
IL at kENSEBEc JOURNAL office, price
Is cts. per hundred. ianl9dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

BY special request the steamer Gardiner
will run to Merrymeeting bay, Sunday,
leaving here at | p. M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

Miss Mccartney, who has been visiting
Mrs. M. l.. Downes, State street, has re-
turned to her home at Fairfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
9itg ono Gounfp

The Augusta board of trade is thinking
of running an excursion soon, probably
down river.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

LNOR SALE-The east half Of the Weston
- House, II Couy St. Apply 10 Mrs. II. NJ.
Harlow, - Stone st. june3Odtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

INOR sALE-Bsst Granite Tool, Bessemer
II and Machinery Steel, also Lathe aud Planer
Tool steel, and Norway and Retired Iron at whole,
sale. Lowest prices quoted on large orders.
Telephone. l0o Bangor st. II. II. Harvey.
pUIr2idtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21
Chicago Market.
July 20, 1894.
New York Munsy Market.

Money, easy |. s~
Prime mercantile paper. 81 at.
Government bonds. steady.
Railroads, weaker. #:#.*
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

NOR SALE-About 100 feet best quality OF
Il iron fence, with posts. good AZ new, suitable
for cemetery lot front yard of priva.e re.dencc
pattern at one third Of cost. John l..
Stevens, Augusta, Ne. iune5dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

The new ambulance just added to the
ambulance corps of the Second Regiment
10 a very fine one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

LNOR sALE-At big bargain. Top Phaeton,
~ standard make. Enquire Nat Robinson ;
sable, East Side. idnz6dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

YINO LET Tenements. Inquire of A. A
i Nichols, rs Gage street. Aprl6dtf
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LOST.

7 OST-A black enamel tar pin. with two da
IL monds in the center. The finder will be
suitably rewarded by returning the pin TO Mrs
Mary J. w,mau. Richmond. Me. iuly2ldSt'
7 OST-0n Tuesday afternoon. on Water,
i Winthrop OF State str,ets,a package contain.
ing oxidized silver buckle and betting. Find' r
please IL ave at Pension Agency, pos'oilice build
log. iaye0dlw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-21

Western stsam closed. $s.22A -; city.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-17
DUN'S REVIEW.
The Advance In Corn Discussed-How the
Short Crop Will Affect Railroad Traf-
Ac.

The Advance In Corn Discussed-HOw the
Short Crop VIII Affect Railroad Traf-
fc.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-R. G. Dun &
Co. IS weekly review of trade says:
The advance in corn discloses a general be-
lief that the injury to this most important crop
has been so great as to affect materially the
traffic of railroads, the demand of manufact-
ured products and the cost OF meats for the
coming years. Unless the markets deceive
and are entirely deceived, our country will
have to face real calamity in the loss of some
thing like SOD 900 bushels of corn and this
loss consumers have to share through the adj
vance OF ii cents in two weeks and cents
since Friday of last week. Neither official nor
unofficial statements as yet preclude the hope
that the loss may prove less serious. but atcur-
rent prices I,5OOO)0OOO bushels would cost
as much as 2,0lO.0)000o bushels would cos:
fortnight ago. Wheat has risen 80 cents in
the fortnight and 2H cents during the week,
although western receipts have been 5.2l3,l'3
bushels against 3.162.69i last year. Atlantic
exports are still about half as large as year
ago, 1.S99. 49, bushels glinst 2.73iSSi last year
Pork products are a little stronger, as is nat
ural Cotton has twice risen and again de-
clined a sixteenth with increasing prospects
OF a very large yield, closing without change
for the week.
The sales of wool would have been large. ac-
cording to reports from the different markets,
il there had been sufficient stocks available.
but amounted to 7,633,4OO pounds at the three
eastern markets, against 9,2e0,70O pounds two
years ago. Country holders OF wool do not at
present appear anxious to let somebody else
speculate ON its price and are said to be keep
ing back supplies quite generally, although re-
cepts at Chicago were 406O.5Ol pounds for the
week, against ,I27 O99 for the same week last
year.
The failures for the five weeks ending Au-
gust showed liabilities of sl,,1H7l3. OF which
sI,626594 were Of manufacturing and s5,22O.2F
OF trading concerns.
The failures during the past week have been
PSI in the United States. against S94 last year
and fifty-four in Canada, against twenty-five
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-17
cURIosITIEs ABOUT SUGAR.
A Necessity of Modern Life Which Was Un-
known to the Ancients.

A Necessity of Modern Life Which Was Un-
known to the Ancients-
Sugar, the modern commodity which
we class among the indispensable ne
cessities, was wholly unknown to the
sncient nations. The word ''saccha-
rum occurs but once in the Latin
translation of the Bible, and the equiv
alent to our word sugar" is first used
by Pliny. whose writings are almost
contemporaneous with the ministry of
Christ. He calls it Honey collected in
from reeds, " and says that the Romans
first became acquainted with its use in
Arabia Felix. Stains, in his account
of the old Saturnalia ceremonies, men,
lions vegetable honey" as being used,
and winds up his account by saving
that 1.-The same honey is boiled from
Elosian reeds" Dioscorides, the Greek
physician who fiourished in the first or
second century of the Christian era,
and whose great work, DE Materia
Medical treats of all the then known
medicinal substances and their proper
ties, says that the name of sugar has
been given to the honey which is pro-
duced by reeds without bees" and
Strabo, writing concerning it. says:
''They (the people of Arabia Felix,
make honey without bees from reeds
and it sometimes resembles salt" Ar
rian, in his ''Circuit of the Red Sea. -
alludes to the sap which flows from
reeds, thickens like honey and is sweet
to the taste" Seneca, whom Cham
bers' encyclopedia says was born at
Cordaba few years i. C., writes con-
corning the use of burned sugar
among the people of India. and con-
cludes by adding: In my opinion the
use of sugar spoils the teeth Nearchus
says that sugar cane was first made
known to the western countries by the
conquests of Alexander the Great. The
first of the sugar canes were brought
from the east of Sicily in the year I14s.
and two years later were introduced in
Spain. In 15Os the Spaniards brought
some of the seeds or plants to the West
Indies, and from these the present
sugar industry has grown. According
to the London Economist, 5.1o7, 600 tons
of sugar were consumed by the inhab-
itants of the world in 1s93.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-17
FAOS AND HOBBIES.
Absurd Sometimes, but They Often Serve a
Good Purpose.

Blessed. indeed. is he that hath a
hobby of any kind. Somebody has said
that fad is the most effectual anti
dote to the miseries of everyday life
that can be found, and will keep even
the arch-enemy, old age, at bay longer
than anything else. Let it be music,
painting, or the study of, and conse-
quent interest in, anything scientific
or even a thing of elementary intelli-
gence only. Collections of all kinds
add an immense zest to middle-aged
Observation-Disclosures of books and rare
brac, down to collections of
pressed flowers or insects. Interleav-
ing book of history or a story with
suitable photographs will be found
interesting and satisfactory occupation
for idle hours: and although school
girls diaries have been laughed out of
existence, anyone might compile most
interesting story of his life by adding
to a simple narrative of passing events,
pictures from. illustrated papers, pho
tographs. clippings from newspapers,
and odds and ends of drawings, all of
which would be most valuable in the
years to come, not only on account of
association, but as furnishing trust
worthy data in regard to events.
A woman who had a fancy in this
way kept for years, for the amusement
of herself and her children, sort Of
illustrated log book or consecutive his
tory of their domestic life, as we'll as
of their connection with the world
at large. as it was completed on the
library shelves. She had a complete his
tory of their lives extending over a pc
riod of twenty years and more, when
suddenly an important lawsuit cropped
up in the family. Charges were made
against her husbands administration
Of certain estates. and it would hare
been hard to refute them without the
aid of her record; and she had The sat
isfaction of seeing the books brought
into the court to afford a complete vim
dication of his action.-N. Y. Tribune