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The Portland daily press., 1894-11-09
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Real Estate Transfers.

The following transfers of zeal estate
have been recorded with the Registry of
Deeds:
otisfeld-Mary A. Cannon to Bertha Z.
Cannon.
Gorham-Richard L. Libby to Mary G.
Plummer.
Gray-Louis 7. Cushing to Charles F.
Hill.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-09

kEven horses are taking part in the
temperance crusade at Fairfield. A de-
crepit animal walked up to the back of
wagon the other day, and with his
teeth turned the faucet of cider barrel,
and let the fluid run into the street.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-09
PoRTLAND's HEALTH.
Report of the Secretary of the Board of
Health

Secretary Dyer, of the Board of Health
makes this report of deaths and conta-
gious diseases for the four weeks ending
Saturday, November g. 1894:
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IF YOU w AMT

We Old English Salt Cod or an old
fashion white Salt Cod, go TO the
BRAMHAAL FISH MARKET,
19s Bracket, near Cor. Pine ST.,
s. LANG, MANG.
nov3 div
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DR.. A.G. Young of the State Board Of
Health, says that as yet he has nothing
definite to say regarding the cases Of
typhoid fever that he has been investi-
gazing at Detroit, resulting, it is report
ed, from bad wafer used for an oyster
stew during dance at that place, Sept.
90.
The Maine Sportsmen's Association
is receiving applications for mem bership.
and among those that have recently be-
came mem be1s are. Hugh j. Chisholm of
Portland, and F.C. Plaisted of Bangor.
Els. Coe of Bangor has very literally
contri buted, TO the work of the associa-
ton, s9
The Lewiston Sun says the superin-
tendent of the Electric Light station in
that city and the man who looks after
the pumping had a lively scrap Wedes-
day nisht.
A few sleighs were in use about
Brewer Wednesday forenoon and added
to the wintry scene produced by the snow.
The fine big shade trees-in front of the
Pine street Free Baptist church i'll Lew
lston were cut down Wednesday and
cafted away much to the sorrowiof many
They. have stood there many years and
the spot looks barren without them.
Mr.. G. #. Palmer of Bangor is conduct
ing an immense operation this winter
for the Bangor Pulp and Paper Co., on
the Mattawamkeag and Millinocket
rivers. He has eight camps and is
EMPLOYING 225 men, He will emf eiohf
or nine million feet of pulp wood which
will be shipped mostly by rail to Orono,
where the company's mills are located.
The wood is shipped from Wytopitlock
and Kingman. The company has re.
Gently had track put in this side Of
Kingman to be known as Crandall siding.
and it is proving a great convenience
in loading cars.H Mr.. Palmer will also
cut 200 cords of pulp wood for the Ka.
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The Gardner Gun Club was organized,
Tuesday evening, and the following
officers were elected: DR.. W.P. Gliding,
president; o. M. Blanchard, vice presi-
dent; G.B. Barstow, secretary and treas
urer; VS.. Whitmore. CD. Libby, G. 81.
Holmes, F. Harrington, directors. The
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The Portland daily press., 1894-11-09

A studio cat in Lewiston which has
once before jumped out of three-story
window had been watching an English
sparrow perched on a telephone wire
fifteen fest from the front window of
the third story Tuesday morning. Some
one opened the window and the cat
sprang out like an arrow and, seizing
the bird in it's mouth, chung desperately
to the wire minute and then fell. 1t
landed right side up and ran off with
the bird.
The annual concert and ball of Pine
Tree. Division, Order of Railway Con-
ductors, will be held in Bangor City
Hall on Wednesday night, November IA,
and will be asbrilliant event. The mus
ic, decorations. and all other features
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Caterer j. Fields Murray will have
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hall through the evening.
Dunn & Eliott's new schooner, being
built for Captain James Fales of Ten
ants Harbor, will be ready to be
launched some time in December. She
is being caulked and planked and hav-
ing her decks laid. Will be about 110O
tons, the largest schooner ever built in
Thomaston.
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Track-laying was begun on the Fort
Fairfield branch of the Bangor &
Aroostook yesterday. 1t is now expected
that Caribou will be reached By the Both
of this month, if not delayed by the work
on the bridge across the Aroostook river
at Presque Isle, on which crews are
working day and night, two pile drivers
being employed in setting the piles.
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tahdin Pulp Co., at Vim, and about
1000 cords of fuel wood for the Bangor
Pulp and Paper Go.
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STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Hon. Parker Spofford set out 10 years
ago large number of Illinois maple
seedlings at Bucksport About 1900 OF
chusetts.
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MAINE TOWNS.

Items of Interes Gathered by CORES
pondents of the Press.
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The State board of railroad commiss.
toner's have sent letter of coincidence to
Mrs. Wildes of Skowhegan wife of the
laJe Colonel A. Wildes, who was men,
Der of the board.
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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
The Drug Store Telephone.

Accommodation bureaus are ali right
when they are conducted as such" said
a west side druggist, "but the sign over
my door was intended to inform the
public that drugs were dispensed within
and not information doled out Or tele-
phone messages delivered blocks away.
l make no kick when stamps are asked
for and the city directory consulted by
people, but when they ring up the tele-
phone and call me from my work to an
swer it and then want a message deliv-
cred to a friend living a long distance
from the store only a certificate of men,
bership in the Antiswearing club which
l have pasted on the transmitter keeps
me from uttering fancy language. This
morning l was at the breakfast table and
was called to the phone. I found it was
a lady who ~patronized me about once a
month. She didn't talk plainly and
kept me guessing for 10 minutes what
she was driving at. I discovered that
she wanted me to tell her next door
neighbor that she wouldn't be home to
dinner and ask her to open a window of
the house and for mercy sake feed the
poor little cat The telephone has been
removed. Buffalo Enquirer.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
Gifts at RaDtiSm.

Gifts to infants ON their baptism are
of ancient origin. Formerly the spon-
N generally offered gilt spoons to the
child. These spoons were called apostle
spoons, because the figures of the IL
apostles were carved at the top of the
handles. Rich sponsors gave the COM
plete set of 10, while for those who were
not so opulent four was considered the
proper number, and poor sponsors would
content themselves with Offering me-.
In the latter case the handle of the spoon
generally exhibited the figure of any
saint in honor of whom the child receiv-
ed its name. 1t is in allusion to this
custom that, when Cranmer processes
himself to be unworthy of being spon-
sor to the young princess, Shakespeare
makes the king reply:
Come, come, my lord, you'd spare your
spoons"
The mug or spoon and fork offering
of the present day appears as a very
debased survival of a really beautiful
christening offering.-Westminster Re-
view.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
CreSts.

"You will not find n woman in q
hundred who is familiar with the rules
of heraldry," said a fashionable stationer.
Ladies insist on having crests embossed
on their writing paper, even when l tell
them that they are permitted by the
usages of centuries to use only the arms.
A handsome woman came in the store
one day and said, Mr.. B@,I wish you
would put a crest ard arms on my paper
I knew it would be useless to argue
about the crest, and SO l asked her,
Have you any crest with your oh, mol
I haven't any, she answered. You can
make a nice one, can't you? | learned
that her husband was a grain dealer, sc
for a crest l designed a sheaf Of wheat.
For the arms l designed some hawk
heads on a shield, and she was delighted"
Women who are interested in these
things should observe the regulations set
down for the use of spinsters, married
women and widows. A specified frame
for the arms should be used by each.
The spinster is required to put her fam
lily arms into a diamond frame, with
very simple adornment. When a wom-
an marries, the arms of her family must
be put ON the same shield with the arms
of her husband. The shield is impaled,
the wife's arms occupying n position
and the husbands the other. If she be-
comes a widow, the frame for her arms
again assumes the form of a diamond,
s~ymbolizing her unmarried state, while
her arms and the arms of her deceased
husband remain impaled as formerly
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
Reformed Geometry.

Almost 100 years ago two men set
out from Virginia to visit the Scioto
valley, of the beauty and fertility of
which they had heard alluring reports.
On the third night they reached Clarks-
burg, where they put up with a man
who appeared to be honest, but old fash
Toned and illiterate.
"Can you tell us how far it is to Ma
rietta and what sort of a road we shall
fnd?'' asked one of the travellers.
Eyes" answered the host; 'tthat is
exactly what I can do, for I was appoint
ed n Of the viewers to lay out the
road and have just returned from the
performance of that duty"
"That is fortunate. What do you call
the distance?"
"Well, the distance on a straight line,
which we first ran, was rs miles, but ON
our way back we discovered and mark
ed another line which was much near
En-"
The two travellers had each spent some
years in the study of surveying and were
more or less amused at the idea of a
line shorter than a straight line be-
tween two given points.
However, the next morning they took
the route which their informant had
pronounced the shorter, and true enough
they found his statement correct, for
the crooked road went round the hills,
while the straight n went over them,
and the distance round was less than
the distance owe r.-Youth's Companion.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS.
Buperstitions Of Modern Gamblers Which
Are ssas Old as the Hills"


If there is one active principle that
enters into gambling, it is superstition,
and for almost every man that hunts the
elusive dollar over the desolate waste of
the green baize cloth, or on the race
track, or in any Of the other multitude
nous ways or places that one may lay
siege to alluring fortune there is a sep
arate fancy.
Jack Mcdonald, one of the best known
bookmakers of America, believes that
he is most successful in those years
which are indicated by odd numbers,
and if you are doubtful of the truth of
it he will offer you figures to prove it.
"Carley b." as Bookmaker Woolf is
best known, has a steadfast belief in
SO, and after he has selected a horse
to bet upon he will place an extra heavy
wager on him if he discovers that he is
numbered SO" ON the programme.
Several superstitious betting men at
the Morris park races few years ago
noticed the coincidence hat the thir-
teenth day Of the meeting fell upon
June ID, and they straightway sought
out a horse numbered "13" on the card.
They found one and bet upon him, and
to make the coincidence most strange
he won.
That this belief in luck as applied to
certain numbers is as old as our philoso-
ply is shown by the fact that centuries
before the Christian era the P~ythagorens
and Platonists, who represented all
movements and phenomena of nature by
numbers, invented the science of arith-
nomancy, consisting of the use of magic
al squares and applying occult powers
tonumbers. On the combinations of GER
tain numbers depended systems of divi-
nation, and particular virtues were as
cribed to numbers accordingly as they
were odd OF even.
There's luck in odd numbers is a
saying az old as the hills. AS ancient a
writer as Virgil says the gods themselves
esteemed the numbers odd, for in the
eighth eclogue he wrote:
Around his waxen image first 1 wind
Three wooden fillets of three colors joined;
Thrice round his thrice devoted head,
Which round the sacred altar thrice is led
Unequal numbers please the gods.
The Chinese have similar ideas. With
them heaven is odd and earth even, and
the numbers l, g, 5, z, 9 belong to heav-
en-, while the even digits are of the
earth earthly.
So it is little cause for wonder that
QUIZ modern gamblers stick to their be-
lief that fortune abounds in odd num-
bers on1y.-NeW York Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
In Duplicate.

Gus de Smith came down Harlem av,
enue with his chin cut in several places
SO that it looked as if a drunken barber
had been practicing on it.
"Merciful heaven, Gus!' exclaimed
Pete Amsterdam. What did you do tc
the barber? You ought to have murdered
him. That was the least you could have
DONE"
81 didn't do anything of the kind. Aft
er he was through shaving I invit-d him
across the street and treated him to a
cocktail and a cigar"
well, you are a fool"
mo, l amt such a fool, after ALL" re,
sponded Gus, ''for you see 1 shave my.
self"
"Oh, that's a different thing. You are
a kind Of a double barreled fool. Texas
Siftings.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
Telling Trees by Electricity.

Trees are felled by electricity in the
great forests Of Galicia. For cutting
comparatively soft woods the tool is il
the form of an anger, which is mounted
on a carriage, and is moved to and fro
and revolved at the same time by a small
electric motor. AS the cut deepens
wedges are inserted to prevent the riff
from closing, and when the tree is near
ly cut through an ak or handsaw is uset
to finish the work. In this way trees ar
felled very rapidly and with but little
labor.-London Tit-Bits.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
A FAT MANS DEED.
Story of a Tragic Scene on a Brooklyn Troll.
ley Car Which Might Be True.

y O0A II DC 4IuCs
A very stout old Brooklyn gentleman
squeezed himself past two women on q
Putnam avenue car and wedged in be-
tween one of them and a man at the
other end of the seat. The fn was such
a tight n that the women held their
breaths and assumed a pancake appear
ance. At the corner where the Car turns
into Putnam avenue the fat man turned
like a big turret and put up a chubby
finger. The car stopped.
Putnam avenue; Grand avenue and
Fulton street," shouted the conductor.
The fat man settled back and resum-
ed reading a newspaper, which he had
dropped in his lap.
want to get out here?'' asked the
conductor, with his hand on the bell
rope.
The fat man shook his head. There
was an angry twang of the cord, and
the trolley began to whiz.
At Nostrand avenue the chubby fin
ger went up again. The a stopped.
Nobody moved. Then the man who rings
up the fares got angry.
"See here" he exclaimed after he
had climbed along the step on the side
of the car until he was opposite the
fat man, "what do you mean by telling
me to stop for when you don't want to
get Off"
why" responded the mountain of
flesh as coolly as such mass of adipose
could be cool, "the car jolts so that I
couldn't read this paragraph, which is
slightly blurred. 1 merely wanted to
have the car stand still until l had fin
ished it. That's all. Now, if you can
go along slowly without jolting, I will
be able to get along very nicely, but if
l come across another bad line Or two
I'll put my hand back of my head, a d
you stop. It's too much trouble for me
to turn around"
The conductors eyes twittered in the
orbits. He placed his hand to his head
and uttered shrek after shrek. Reason
was shattered. He had become cross
eyed and insane.-New York Mail and
EXDress.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
Angeles Verdict

Once a painter notorious for plagia-
risms executed a historical picture in
which every figure of Importance was
copied from some other artist, so that
very little remained to himself. 1t was
shown to Michael Angelo by a friend,
who begged his opinion of it. Excel
lently done" said Angelo, "only, at the
day of judgment, when all bodies will
resume their own limbs again, 1 do not
know what will become of that historic
al painting, for there will be nothing
left of it."-San Francisco Argonaut.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
ANCIENT
Beacon Lights to Guide Mariners Coeval
With the Earliest Commerce.

Beacon Lights to Guide Mariners Coeval
With the Earliest Commerce.
Beacon lights to guide the wave
tossed mariner to a safe harbor must
have been almost coeval with the earli-
est commerce. There is positive record
that lighthouses were built in ancient
times, though few evidences now re
main to US from old writers or in crum-
bled ruins. This is not strange, for light
towers, the most stable architec-
tural form, were exposed to the storms
Of sea and war.
The Greeks attributed the first light
houses to Hercules, and he was consid-
cred the protector of voyagers. 1t is
claimed by some that Homer refers to
lighthouses in the nineteenth book of
the "Iliad."
Virgil mentions a light on a temple
to Apollo which, visible far out at sea,
warned and guided mariners. The Co.
lossus at Rhodes, erected about 800 B.
c., is saio to have shown a signal light
from it's uplifted hand.
The Oldest towers known were built
Dy the Llpyans IN lower Egypt. Ihey
were temples also, and the lightkeeper
priests taught pilotage, photography
and navigation. The famous tower ON
the isle of Pharos, at Alexandria, built
about 2S5 B. c., is the first lighthouse
of undoubted record. This tower, con-
structed by Sostratus, the architect, was
square in plan, of great height and built
in offsets. An open brazier at the top
of the tower contained the fuel for the
light. At Dover and Boulogne, on Ell
Their side of the English channel, were
ancient lighthouses built by the Romans.
But the lighthouse at Corunna, Spain,
built in the reign of Trajan and recon-
structed in 1854, is believed to be the
oldest existing lighthouse P.
Adams in Casters Magazine.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
Growth of the English Language.

In the year 1894 the habitual users o.
the English language did not number
vel $4,000, 600; in 1892, 105. 000, goo. Il
these figures are correct (and they are
from a recognized authority, by the enc
of the present century not less than 1870,
600, 600 people will use the language il
their everyday conversation. If the
same ratio of increase holds good, Eng
lish will be spoken by at least $40, 000, O0(
of people in the year 2000.-St. Louis
ReDDbljc
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
AGONY.
The music ceased, the curtain rose,

The music ceased, the curtain rose,
did not heed the Play,
But gazed upon her lovely face
She sat two seats away.
Her cheeks like tinted apple bloom,
Her teeth like cleaning pearls,
Her eyes as blue as summer skies,
a wealth of golden curls.
And es gazed upon her face
There came a loon of pain.
Like cloudy shadow DER the land
1t passed, then came again.
saw the teardrops in her eyes,
The rose tint fade away,
And that fair cheek grow deathly pale
In speeches. agony.
She turned and touched her escorts arm,
Then slowly went away.
My heart beat fast with sympathy.
did not heed the play.
He soon returned and took his seat.
IgaZed in great surprise.
He read the question l would ask
Flash from my eager eyes.
And as the music die away
His lips this answer bore:
"My sisters feet are number five.
Her shoes are number FOUR
Boston Globe.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
The Origin of Dyspensia.

Doctor-It's merely a case of dyspep-
STA, ma'am.
Wife-And what does that come
from?
Doctor-It from the Greek,
ma'am.
Wife-Ah, 1 thought he'd been get
ting at something. He was all right as
long as he stuck to Observation-Disclosures
Newsdealer.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05
Japan and Foreigners.

In the last century there was a Japa-
nese law providing that no ship or ma
tive should leave Japan under pain of
forfeiture or death; that any one return
ing from a foreign country should be
killed; that no one should purchase any
thing from a foreigner, and that any
person bringing a letter from abroad
should die, together with all his family.
-Chir.lgo Tribune.