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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-11
MAINE CENTRAL r. r..
In Effect, Feb. 18th. 1894.

In Effect, Feb. 18th, 1894.
Square, foc stations named below and inter
mediate points as follow
7.15 a. M, For Brunswick Bath, Rockland,
augusta, Wateryille, Skowhegan, Lewiston via
$50 a. "a, For .Danyllle Jc.. Lewiston,
Winthrop, Oakland, Waserville, Livermore
S.45 a. M. for Bridgton, Fabyans. White.
field, Lancaster. st. Johnsbuny, sherbrooke.
Montreal. Chicago. st. Paul and Minneapolis
LIS p. M, For Gray, Danville Jc.. POLAND
SPRINGS, Lewiston, Pennington, Kingsfcld,
Mil.hrop, North Arson, Bingham, Waterville.
*1.so p. n. For Brunswick, Freeport, Angus
on Knox s. Lincoln iivision, Water
Bangor, Bucksport, Bar Harb s , Vance s,
st. John, Halifax, JSt Stephen, Houlton. and
all Arc ostook County.
Conway, Bartlett Fabyans, Lancaster. Quebec,
Montreal, Sherbrooke and Chicago.
sos r. M, For Brunswick, Bath, Lisbon
Falls, augusta and Watervie.
5.10 p. M, For New Gloucester, Danville
Junction, Auburn and Lewiston.
tll00 p. M, For Bath, Lewiston, Augusta
c Maaervls, Belfast DEXTER Doyer and Fox
Stephen, ST. John and all Aroostook County,
Halifax and the Provinces.
For points on
PUR | LAND K RUMF0RD FAl LIS RAILWAY
$50 a. M, LIS p. M, For Mechanic. Falls
Buckheld, Canton, Dixfeld and Rumford Falls
$40 p, M, For Mechanic Falls.
7.2C a. M. Sunday, paper train for Bruins
wick, Augusta. Waterville and Bangor.
ARRIVALS IN PORTLAND.
from Montreal. and Bridgton. s.26 a.
NJ, Lewiston, and Mechanic Falls $50 a. m,
Augusta S.35 a. M, Rockland 1925 p m,
Pennington, Skowhe gan. Rumford Falls and
Lewiston 12.3op. M, st. John. Bangor and
Bar taaIx, aarb er 1925 p n; Nc; Conway
fast and Wateryille, 5.25 p, m, Rangeley,
Montreal $40 p. M. Night Pullman l.41
a. m. daily.
*Runs daily. Sundays included, to Lewiston
via Brunswick, Bath, Bangor and st John
might express with sleeping cars attached
runs every night, Sundays included. butnotte
Skowhegan Monday morning. or to Belfast
Dexter or beyond Bangor, on Sunday morn
ings
PAYSON TUCKER.
Vice Pres. and Gen. Manager.
F. E. BOOTHBY, Gen. Pass and TicketAgens
Portland. Feb. 10. 1894. feb9dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-11
FREEPORT STEAMBOAT co.

STEAMER PHANTOM will leave Portland
- Pier Tor Freeport, touching at Falmouth
Foreslde, Cousens, Great Chebeague and Little
Sundays excepted. RETURNING, will leave
South Freeport at a. M. touching at all land
lngs commencing March 81 1894.
mar27df 81. B. SOULE, Manager.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
THE JAVANESE BAT.
The Fig Fruit Took Wings and FIe
Il

The Fig Fruit Took Wings and Flew
Away.
In the Island Of Java there are so
many wonderful things that one is
never astonished at anything, only curl
Gus to find out all one can about all that
is new and strange.
A traveller was struck, the morning
after his arrival, by the odd appearance
of a fig tree. 1t seemed to be loaded
with very large and dark fruit, hang
ing, not singly or in clusters, but in rows
as closely as figs are packed in a box for
transportation, from the lower sides of
tip.
The traveller intended to ask his host
about this new sort of fig, but darkness
fell before he had had opportunity to
do so. There are no long twilights in
the tropics, but night follows quickly
upon day. So, almost as soon as the
sun was below the horizon our traveller
was bewildered by seeing the fruit of
the fig tree apparently begin to pluck
itself, while the air was famed by a
multitude of softly-happing wings.
The queer-looking fruit was, in fact,
no fruit, but an immense colony Of the
great Javanese bat known as the kalong.
During the daylight, the bats hang sus-
pended, heads downwards, by their
hind claws, but when the night comes
they start out upon their flights in
quest Of food. The kalong is detested
by the inhabitants of Java because one
Of the bats will devour or otherwise de-
stroy in one night fruit enough to be a
weeks supply for food for hungry
man, and this is matter of importance,
even in SO fruitful a land as Java. Ac-
cOrdinglv bat-huntinp though not an
exciting, is favorite amusement for
moonlight nights. The slow, steady
flight of the kaiong is watched until it
descends upon fruit tree and then a
discharge of small shot will bring it to
the ground. When its wings are spread
the kalong measures about five and a
half feet from tip to tip, while its head
and body are more than foot in length.
-GOtdthUdite'S Geoqrdphicdl MdQazi1,e.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
TEA-TABLE SALAD.

LITTLE GIRL--"You bad cat, where's
my bird ?" Cat-"Oh, he's just gone
inside "-Life.
SOMEONE who believes that "brevity
is the soul of wit" writes: Don't eat
stale Q-cumbers. They'll w up. lid
Bits
YEAsT-"Did Church die a natural
death?" Characterization, yes; you
know he was living in Brooklyn and
was struck by trolley car. y Yonkers
Statesman.
SHOULD Prof. Garner, in his Simian
studies, 90 SO far as to get at the mon
key literature, collection of their
tales might catch -PhiIadelphia
Times.
THE happy father of twins in Liver
pool telegraphed to his brother at Man
chester as follows: Immense Joy;
we've got twins. More later on
Spare Moments.
THE razor-toed shoe is the proper
thing in footwear just now. Unfor-
tunately, however, the prices are such
that a man is liable to get strapped in
buying pair.-Bufazo Courier.
PARENT" Aren' you ashamed, daugh-
ter, to be seen in such q low dress? '
Daughter-"Why, papa, you said your
self that you wanted me to cut down in
my clothes while the times were so
hard. "-JaIdge.
THE heavier a mans head becomes
the more it swims.-GdIueston NeaCS.
LITTLE JoENNY-"Pa, what are all
these men going to Washington for ?"
Pa-"Only to fill up the papers; that's
all, Johnny. ''-Boston Transcript.
THE PRoTEssoR- Another peculiarly
about the birds of passage is that they
are not song birds" Precocious Pupil
-'How about the prima donna, profess
sor?"-C Chicago Tribune.
"DoN'T you consider that young
woman's behavior very extraordinary ?"
Eyes; she doesn't pay much attention
to the conventionalities, but she is
worth over a million" "Ah, / see.
Bad form, but a good figure. "-Detroit
Free Press.
MINISTER Have you family circle,
my brother?" Layman-"Y make
'em all stand roun'.' -Pzoin Dealer,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
SIXTEEN YEARS A DERELICT.
A Lumber Laden Craft Which Finally
Landed at Iceland's Capital.

Lumber Laden Craft Which Finally
Landed at Iceland's Capital.
In 1881, when c. H. Hill, now of the
Brazilian navy, was on the jeanette re-
lief expedition in the Arctic regions,
sent out by the government, his ship
for time was laid up at Reykjavik, the
capital of Iceland. While there he saw
a derelict float in and strike the wharf.
II was at once made fast, and proved to
be loaded with yellow pine lumber.
The vessel was literally covered with
moss and barnacles, and investigation
disclosed the fact that the name Of the
old craft that for years by the tide and
winds had been driven hither and
thither was the jamestown. The in
habitants Of the capital thought that
great prize had fallen into their hands.
Everybody turned out and took hand
in unloading. The lumber cane out in
good condition, and the Reykiayikans
estimated that there was enough Of it
to last them twenty-five years But
alas, what a world this is as a hope
crusher After the people had an
loaded and piled the lumber the Den
mark government stepped in and con-
fiscated it and started lumber-yard Of
its own. On the return of the Jeanette
expedition, government made inquiry
regarding the jamestown and learned
that she was loaded in Pensacola,
Fla, in 1865. soon after the close Of the
civil war. Thus for sixteen years the
undertaken vessel had foated as
derelict on the high seas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
SNAKE-BEARING APPLE TREES.
A Remarkable Occurrence in Mich
igan Orchard.

A Remarkable Occurrence in Mich
igan Orchard.
The Pioneer is aware that this is the
proper season of the year for "fish"
and also Snake" stories, and that al
most anything from ten-pound
speckled trout to a 6-inch whale, or a
hairy lizard to a boa constructor passes
cure Mt without question. But it is said
truth is stranger than fiction" and the
facts herein related leave no chance
for argument on this point, unless it be
from natural history or scientific
standpoint, says the Vassar, Mich,
Pioneer.
Last Saturday Rev. J. r. Robinson,
United Brethren pastor in this place,
and his wife spent the day with Nathan
Sherman, a farmer of FairgrOve town
ship. During the day Mr.. Sherman in
vited the reverend gentleman to go
with him to the orchard, where very
his view. From the limbs of number
number Of small snakes, from five to
eight inches in length. The snakes
were dead, and each had small per-
toration, identically alike, just below
the neck, by which they were hung on
to the tiny stubs or sprouts projecting
from the limbs. They were hanging
from all parts of the trees, from the
very tips Of the topmost branches to
the lowest, and furtherest reaching.
On one tree alone, Mr.. Robinson said
he counted thirty snakes thus sus-
pended, while it was claimed that farm
ers' children had knocked off nearly
as many more, which was evidenced
by the fact that large number of
the snakes were lying on the ground
under the tree. The snakes were all Of
the exception of one, which was about
two feet in length, were small.
1t was very remarkable sight, and
Mr.. Robinson says he is inclined to
leave the strange phenomenon for
naturallsts to speculate on. In answer
to the question if it was possible for
some persons to have placed the rep
tiles there, he said he was thoroughly
convinced no human hands could have
done it. In the first place where could
they have got the snakes, and second,
how could they have suspended them
from tiny branches at the highest
points, hardly strong enough to bear
the weight. Mr.. Robinson also said
that Mr.. Sherman was at first quite
superstitious in regard to the matter,
and seemed impressed with the feeling
that it might portend some impending
calamity.
The Pioneer does not pretend to be
cup" on snakeology, but we will ven
ture an explanation that if the matter
is ever solved it will be found to have
been the work of some bird, possibly of
the woodpecker species, 1t is said to
be fact in natural history that in
tropical regions certain bird, when
ever it finds small snake, will per-
1orate it with it's bill and kill it, after
which it will impale the body on a thorn
of a thornapple tree
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
Author of MarCelIa.
way


Mrs. Humphrey Ward is hospitable,
and her beautiful country house at
Tring is often full of literary and social
celebrities. An English writer SAYS:
cit is whispered that the rector of
Tring heard of Mrs Wards advent into
his parish with somewhat mixed feel
ings. His prejudices, however, have
all been disarmed, and he is a great
friend of his fair parishioner, who at
tends the parish church once every
Sunday while living in the country
She sends her servants also. 1t is said
that, like many other authors, Mrs.
Ward is annoyed that the opinions with
which she invests the characters in her
works are always taken to represent
her own in their entirety, whereas she
creates them and builds them up as an
artist paints a picture"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

WHENEVER the Queen goes abroad she
commands that the leavings from hel
tables shall be carefully gathered to-
gether and given to the Little Sisters
of the Poor"
BoURKE CoCKRAN's congressional sal
airy for last month was shortened lit
tie. He was locked two days for time
he was absent at Chicago, where he
went to deliver a lecture on "Pa-
triotism."
The Rev. Natari Kitashima, who re-
Gently preached his first sermon as pas
tor of Unitarian Church in Vinland, n.
j., is the first Japanese regularly or
dained to the ministry in this country.
There are two Japanese students in the
Harvard Divinity School.
Dr. GALEzowsKI, the famous oculist,
who has been called to Teheran to at
ceive $1,000 in fees during the three
months of his residence in the Persian
capital while all his expenses of travel
ing and maintenance are paid.
THERE are now three lady members
Of the peerage acting as church war
dens. The Dowager Lady Heathcote,
for North Ealing parish, Hants; the
Dowager Lady Hindlip, to church IN
Worcestershire, and the DOwaeer
Marchioness of Londonderry, in Wales.
AT dinner to literary men and 9TH
ers given in London by the Guild Hall
literary committee, Chairman Badeley
toasted the American ambassador, and
thanked him for his endeavors TO OBJ
tain pictures for the Guild Hall gallery.
In responding Mr.. Bayard was greeted
with tremendous cheers.
BEERBoHM TREE, the English actor, is
said to have received the following let,
ter: 81 wish to 60 on the stage, and
/ would like to join your theater. have
been a bricklayer five years, but hay
ing failed in this branch, I have decided
to take to acting, it being easier work
| am not young, but am 6 feet without
nv boots. ] have studied Bells Flo
cution, and am fond of late hours"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
SHOES FOR THE BABY.
The Soft Kid Things Not Always Best
for His Tender Feet.

Il
for His Tender Feet.
The dainty kid shoes with their soft
soles that loving mothers delight to
clothe their baby's feet in are very
pretty and answer well enough until
the child is old enough to stand, when
the shoes should have a stiff sole so as
to support the soft flesh of the foot
The kid sole is too yielding and it pulls
up at the tip and really cramps the tiny
foot while it presses on the flesh about
the toes, often causing ingrowing nails
Quite as much care should be taken
in regard to the baby's stocking, for a
tight-ftting one will arrest develop
ment and even make corns and in
growing nails. \ stocking should fit
even more carefully than the shoe, al
lowing every movement of the foot free
play. 1t cannot be too smooth and fine
in manufacture, and it should have as
few seams as possible. Moreover its
color should be considered, as there
are quite injurious dyes causing bad
eruptive troubles and even blood poi
soning, especially in the shades of
green. A large shoe is as apt to create
corns on the foot by rubbing as a small
one is by COMPRISING, and stocking is
as powerful in this regard as either.
A shoe should always be trife too
ong for the wearer, be it child or grown
person, as, owing to the shape that has
been deemed proper among us, there
must be little more room allowed for
expansion somewhere, and it is more
graceful and less noticeable in the
length at the toe than elsewhere. It is
exactly where the action Of the foot de-
mands the most room for play that we
usually see the shoe abbreviated in tie
effort to make and keep it narrow
across the ball Of the foot. When one
takes bold step, springs from car
riage, runs up or down stairs, it is there
that the weight and force are thrown,
and it is there then that absolute free
dom is required and seldom had, so
that the lower joint Of the big toe is
thrown out and deformed irrecoverably
early in life. Especially is this breadth
Of sole across the ball of the foot neces-
sary in children's shoes, as their bones
are still soft and their muscles tender,
and they are liable to suffer a Chinese
sort of compression that takes away
great deal of infexibility and strength
which depend upon development the
bones can never have if crowded togeth-
er. When it is remembered that the
feet have an immediate nervous infu-
ence upon the spine, and that injuries
to them are capable of working havoc
in the nervous health, it will be seen
how important it is that they should be
started upon their growth in the right
Way.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16

The subject of the above portrait Is the
Rev Charles Prosser, much beloved and
most devout minister of the gospel of Car
mel, Northumberland Co., Pa. Mr.. Prossers
usefulness, was, for q long time, greatly i'm
paired by distressing, obstinate disease
How his malady was finally conquered we
will let him tell in his own language. He
says 81 was great sufferer from dyspep-
STA, and I had suffered SO long that l was
a wreck life was rendered undesirable and
ii seemed death WIS near but came in
contact with Or. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and his Pleasant Pellets / took
twelve bottles of Discovery and several
bottles of the Pellets and followed the
hygenic advice of DR.. Pierce, and I am
happy to say it was indeed cure, for life is
worth living row"
For dyspepsia, or indigestion, oliver COM
plant, - or torpid liver, biliOusness, constipa-
ten, chronic diarrhea and all arrangements
Of the liver, stomach and bowels, Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery effects
perfect cures when all other medicines fail.
1t has specific tonic effect upon the lining
membranes of the stomach and bowels. AS
an invigorating, restorative tonic it gives
strength to the whole system and builds up
solid flesh to the healthy standard, when re-
Guced by " wasting diseases"
Mr.. j. F. Hudson, prominent lawyer OF
Whitcherville, Sebastian Co., Ark, writes :
Having suffered severely, for o long time,
from torpid liver, indigestion, constipa-
ton, nervousness and general debility, and
finding no relief in my efforts to regain my
health, / was induced to try DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant
Pellets Under this treatment improved
very much and in few months was able to
attend to my professional duties.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
A Michigan Y arm.

A Grand Haven man named Taylor,
who settled on Grand River in an early
day, is authority for the following:
In 1875 he discovered that ordinary
turtles, found in great numbers along
the river, would live after their heads
were cut off, so he caught dozen of
them, cut the date, Aug. 3, 1875" in
their shells, cut off their heads and
placed them back in the water. This
week he found one of the turtles very
much increased in size with a new and
perfect head. There was Just a per-
ceptible ridge around the neck where
the new head had started to grow CD.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
Curious Musical instruments.

The .<avanese musical instruments
are made mostly of bamboo. They also
was about three feet long and six
inches across. This sounded like a
hollow roar of lion. Another was a
bundle of tubes OF different lengths,
which covered the small boy who
carried it like a big saddle. A log hewn
out with two strings stretched across it
served as drum. A either of sixteen
strings and a mandolin Of two COM
pleted their outdoor band, while inside
one could hear other music made by
gongs of wonderfully pure and beauti-
FIJI tone
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
Tossing on the "Briny'

Is very far from amusing, untraveled reader if
SO be you are one rebellion fomented by
each mountainous wave that smites the vessels
hull threatens absolutely to dislodge your very
vitals from their natural resting place. and a
nausea so frightful that it would reconcile you
to termination of your sufferings by shipwreck
harnesses yon. Well for you then, or rather be
fore this crisis, if you are provided with Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters. a swift remedy for and
preventive Of the nausea of travellers by sea or
land, nervousness caused by the vibration of the
screw Of a steamer-or the Earring Of a railway
train, and an antidote to bowel, liver and stom-
achic troubles caused by impure water and I'M
accustomed food. The Bitters also counteracts
the effects of fatigue and exposuse, and is safe
guard against malaria, rheumatism and kidney
fro
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16
NEW WAY TO COLLECT.
1T Brought the Money, but Was Rather
Severe All Around.


Quite a novel suggestion in the way OF
bill collecting was made the other day
through the mistake of man mailing
two letters in this city, says the Wash
ington News. He had had considerable
difficulty in persuading young woman
that his goods had not been sold to her
for the mere pleasure of selling, and
finally she had dismissed his messenger
with the statement that she did not
want to hear from him again. Nothing
was left for the merchant to do but
to resort to the United States
mails He accordingly sat down and
wrote to the young woman let
ter which was characterized rather by
terseness and vigor than by any terms
of affection. Fortunately or unfortu-
nately for him he had social acquaint-
ance with another young lady in the
same house, and while he bad his pen
he thought he would write to her,
too, personal letter. When he came
to direct his envelopes, though, he sent
the dunning letter to his personal
friend and his personal letter to his
debtor. 1t is needless to say that the
mistake was corrected within a few
moments after the receipt of the let
tiers, but the debtors chagrin at the
revelation of her position to another
was SO great that she paid her bill i'm
mediatelV
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16

leading out Of court and which seemed
to be holding back, attracted the judges
attention. He ordered the child to be
placed between the two parents, con-
siderable distance from each, and then
directed each parent to call it. The
mother called to it first, but the child
did not move. Then the father called
and the child ran to his arms with every
manifestation of affection. This settled
the case. The judge told the prisoner
that the child had saved him from the
penitentiary, as he was satisfied he must
have kind heart or the child would
not be SO fond of him. This was prac-
tical way of settling matters, similar to
that which history and tradition as
crlbes to King Solomon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-16

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If you have any considerable number Of
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