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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

II. V. St. Clair, who has been playing
with the lakewood park band since the
opening of the summer theatre, 1t is I'M
derstood, will go to Togus, and join the
National Home band and orchestra.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Ralph Plaisted left here for Squirrel
Island, yesterday, where he will pass sew
eral days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

The new furniture store of James Boyd
is In high glory on account of accumula-
ting business. A portion of this week
showed among other articles sold five
chamber sets and a fine parlor set.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10
IndefensihIe.

Mudge-A fellow called me a blamed
idiot last night. Would you challenge him
if you were l?
Yabsley-No; you couldn't be n blamed
idiot, because an idiot is not blamahlo
Therefore his statement is not worth con.
tending over.-lndianapolis Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Caterer Stafford will furnish refresh
mcnts for the reunion Of the Third Maine
Regiment at lakewood park, the first of
next month
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Mrs. f. c. leighton, with party of
friends from Salem. Mass left yester-
day, for Mooseheld lake on a pleasure
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

The large pictures which tho Maine
National Guard marksmcn will shoot fl
today, at Brunswick, attracted much al
tention in the store windows, yesterday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

I. H. Starkey of Vassalboro, was a
guest at the North last evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

NJ. r. Dwinell of Waterville, was in
Augusta, last evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Fl. II. Blanchard and wife of Jefferson
are in tie city visiting at Capt II. +.
Blancbard's 9.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Landlord Burns has recovered from is
severe sickness sufficiently to come down
to the hotel occasionally.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

W. g. Reynolds of Waterville, was in
the city, Friday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Hon. C. +. johnson of Waterville, was
n business visitor to the city, Friday,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

Two DRINKS lodged in the police sta
ton, last evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10

J. 2. Geraux and wife of Waterville
we're guests ut the North, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10
Aroh tsct Spofrord of Boston, is here.

G. c. Vaughan of Winslow, was in the
city, Yesterday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-10
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

Large posters for the Eastern Maine fan
have been hung up about the city.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
Novel Idea.

Season of '95.-Mrs. Spritelie- I'm so
glad you've all kept well. I've had love-
y health add too While fa away BY the way
vorce for you"
Mrs. Homelove-''W hat?"
"A divorce, you know"
''Merciful heaven! Has my hus-
band -"
..Oh, he doesn't know thing about
it."
'But I don't want a divorce
''Of course you don't now. my dear,
but you might some time. and then it
would be real handy to have in the house.
l thought that, being in South Dakota,
might as well get divorces for all my
friends and save. them the journey. OF
course you needn't use it until you want
to-
And have you given others such pa,
pers?''
mot yet. You know, I give reception
next week, and thought I'd use the di
vorces for german favors. So novel, you
know" New York Weekly.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
Puff Balls Good TO Eat.

Probably you have all noticed the little
white puff balls in spring, and "shot off
the same in autumn, when they are dry
and full of dark powder. This is one of
our choicest eatable mushrooms. One adj
mirer says he cut slice from giant puff
ball, which grew near his home, every day
for week, and had so many fresh fritz
tiers. If he had cut it all down the first
day it would not have made nearly SO
many delicious meals. One giant puff
ball, when young and creamy, if well
cooked, will satisfy the appetite Of twelve
people, In olden times slices of this
mushroom were used to bind up cuts,
and were said to insure their speedy
healing. In the day of flint and steel,
before matches were invented, the pow
der Of the dried puff balls was often used
to catch and hold the sparks. Another
strange use to which it was put was to
burn it before a beehive. The fumes
made the bees drowsy, and the honey
could be removed without dif1culty.-St.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
"MERITs OF CHICKEN TERRAPIN. .
Properly Prepared it is Claimed to be
Equal to the Real Article.

Properly Prepared it is Claimed to be
Equal to the Real Article.
People whose pocketbooks are not sufi-
GENTLY expansive TO permit of frequent
dishes of terrapin, or who have not cooks
who can properly prepare the dish, will
delicacy that, though known to few, is a
capital imitation of terrapin.
1t is device to which the negro cooks
of Washington, the old mammys, who al
ways wore bandannas on their heads and
were generally corpulent, ,resorted. Their
skill, along certain lines, rarely eXcelled,
has to a great extent been lost. With
chicken their experiences was remarkable,
and anyone who has eaten their chicken
terrapin is measurably willing to declare
that it is not whit behind the real terra
pin in toothsomenesS. Those trying it
should follow this recipe in absolute de-
tail, for it has been taken down, line for
line, from the lips of mistress who has
succeeded with it a hundred times:
Boil two chickens until they'are thorough
~ tender, which may be learned from
the fact that then and not until then will
the meat peel readily off the bone when
fork is stuck in. Let them get cold, and
then cut them into small "dice'' about
the size of a thumbnail. Take the yolks
of six eggs and, after beating them well,
set them aside. Rub together two table
spoonfuls of -four and half pound of
butter Heat one pint of milk and when
it has come fully to boil stirvthe butter
and the flour into it. Take from the fire
and stir in the beaten yolks, seasoning
with one saltspoonful of salt. dash of
cayenne popped and four gratings of nut
meg. 1t should be remembered that the
tastes of people differ, and that cayenne
pepper and nutmeg are to be used with
judgment and caution. Put the agate
saucepan containing the mixture, for
agate is the best sort to use, back upon
the fire, and stir in the chicken "dice."
Let the mixture heat, but not come
to boil. Before serving put in half a
pint of sherry or madeira. wine. If posi-
BILE, put upon the table in the pretty terra
from platter, however, it is well to ac-
company the dish with fricasseed pota,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
The Monthly Allowance.

A girl who receives monthly allow
ance from her father and is supposed to
spend it as she pleases complains that
she really has nothing to say about the
disposition of it. II don't see any use
in my having an allowance. / know
that my father deposits a certain sum
to my credit in the bank each month, and
am also aware that my mother gets me
or tells me that / ought to get a certain
amount of clothes and other necessaries.
Then pay for the clothes and other nee
essaries that my mother has seen fit to
provide, but ! have no say in the pro-
vision of it's spending; my mother attends
to all that; it's all decided for me- Of
course, my individual taste is consulted.
If don't like certain hat or cloak my
mother doesn't insist that / must take it,
but as for my planning and continuing
about the spending of the money, l don't
do it. For instance, | should have been
perfectly willing to wear last years gown
this spring for the purpose of going to
Alaska with the Blanks, but my mother
wouldn't hear of my getting anything
but that stunning tailor-made suit, and so
/ must stay at home. I'm really no more
Independent than / was before / had my
allowance
No doubt this young lady would make
mistakes if she were given entire control
of her income, but just such mistakes as
these might be the means of teaching her
to avoid similar and graver ones in the
future
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08

of which can be regulated by pinching
the India rubber tube between the thumb
and first finger These bubbles fly up to
the ceiling at great rate, and may be set
on fire as they ascend by means Of a
lighted taper affixed to pole.
Now allow gas bubble to form on the
pipe, but before it detaches itself apply
the moistened aluminium ring, to which
has been previously fastened the end of
piece of sewing cotton some two or three
yards in length. The bubble will ascend
when released and carry up with it the
floating in midair after the manner of a
captive balloon.
These are only few out of many ex-
periments which may be made with the
soap bubble. Others equally interesting
and wonderful will no doubt suggest
themselves and so far from regarding the
soap bubble as something trivial and only
worthy Of the attention of a child it must
be looked upon as one of the most mar
velous and beautiful objects with which
we can possibly have to do.-New York
Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
Soldiers Queer Pets.

In Algeria, North Africa, the officers
of the Third Chasseurs d'Afrique have a
pet lion which they took, when very
young, from the African desert. It is a
lays outside the officers mess on the We
randa and looks just like an artificial one.
Many have been the visitors who took to
flight on beholding his majesty rise to
greet his guests. The lion, by way of
assuring them that he was harmless, or
perhaps as a sign of his disapproval of
their impolite actions, would generally
send a gentle roar after them, which, in
stead of having the desired effect of recall
ing them, would make them increase their
pace, if it were possible to do so.
In the British army several regiments
have pets. For instance, the Twenty
third Welsh fusileers have pet goat that
Seventy-fourth Highland Light infantry,
the Seventy-eighth Seaport Highlanders
and other corps have pet deer that also
march in front
In India the soldiers make many pets,
such as monkeys, parrots. owls, crows,
pet is the minot, bird like a starting,
but larger. This bird, after having his
tongue split, will talk quite well, and will
follow his master about constantly. Often
it will follow dragon regiment for four
or FIVE miles on a field day, and will fly
round and round the regiment until he
finds his master, on whose shoulder he
will settle, even though the horses are 60
ing along at full gallop.
A trooper in the Cape Mounted Rifles
in South Africa had a green water snake
for pet, which would follow it's master
through the grass to the river and would
go in bathing with him. The trooper,
who was an expert swimmer, would wor.
ry the snake by diving under water and
coming up dozen yards away. He fed
it on frogs, raw meat and little fish. 1t
slept on his jack boot at night. He,
however, was not doomed to have it long,
as before he had it quite five months a
hawk carried it off before anybody could
rescue the poor little thing.
Ladies also have their peculiar tastes for
pets. A gentleman farmers wife in Nor
folk, England, made pet of a pig. The
animal lost its mother early, and the lady,
taking pity on the poor little orphan, sue
ceeded, with the aid of feeding-bottle,
in rearing it. It became a great pet and
would follow her about like a little dog.
It's good qualities quite repaid her for her
kindness. The pig certainly has many
good points, and according to Eugene
Bodichon, the great French traveller, who,
after a careful study of the porcine spe-
cies, described it as an animal ''qui beau
coup d'esprit." Another singular pet was
a frog, which was tanned by young girl
from the Dublin mountains. 1t would
come out from it's bed of leaves at her ap-
proach to be fed with strawberry or
blackberry.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
Lord Beaconsfie1d and the Queen.

It does not fall to the fortune of many
men to be honored as was Lord BeacOns-
field. On the walls of Hughenden
church is memorial tablet. 1t bears
the following inscription, written by, the
Queen herself: ''To the dear and hon
ored memory of Benjamin, Earl of Bea-
consfeld, this memorial is placed by his
grateful and affectionate sovereign and
friend, Victoria r. /. Kings love him
that speaketh right.'-Proverbs xvi, 49,"
A memorial, coupled with expressions of
gratitude and friendship, thus erected
by a sovereign to a subject is unique.
And it is the more remarkable when we
remember that ,Disraeli started up his
ministerial career with the strong preju-
dices of the court against him. His Bit
ter invectives against Peel had given the
greatest possible ofense. Indeed, the
whole nature of the prince consort re-
volted against the Hebrew adventurer.
ITO his Teutonic eyes Peel was the noble,
broad-minded English gentleman, slowly
beaten down by the arts of this Satanic
jew" These feelings were fully shared
by the Queen; indeed, so violent was her
prejudice against him that her majesty
acquiesced in his appointment as chan
cellor of the exchequer mainly on the
ground that the holder of that office was
not brought into personal contact with
the sovereign. But few years later
the Queen bestowed upon him that strong
regard which had not been gwen to any
prime minister since Lord Aberdeen.
Lord Beacons6eld filled, indeed, the place
long left vacant, and became the friend
of the Queen as well as the first min
lister Of the crown. Disraei educated not
only his party. but the country and the
sovereign: ''He converted his country
men from "a nation of shopkeepers' into
Rhodesian imperialists, and inflicted a
mortal blow upon the Manchester school,
The Queen he converted from a wing
sovereign into the Empress of India
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08

ceiving homage greater than that which
is paid to Queens, that Mrs. Siddons was
painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds as the
Tragic Muse.
The actress herself has related the cir
cumstances attending that celebrated
painting: when / attended him for the
first sitting, after more gratifying en-
comiums than l can now repeat he took
me by the hand, saying: Ascend your
undisputed throne and graciously bestow
Muse I walked up the steps and in
stantly seated myself in the attitude in
which the Tragic Muse now appears
This idea satisfied him so well that with
out one moments hesitation he deter
mined not to alter it.
When the picture was finished he told
her that the colors would remain unfaded
as long as the canvas would keep them
together, calamity adding: And to con-
firm my opinion here is my name; for [
have resolved to go down to posterity on
the hem of your garment" Sir Joshua,
by the way, was not in the habit of sign
ing his pictures.
ssSir joshua wrote Mrs Siddons aft
erward, ''often honored me by his pres
ence at the theater. He approved very
much of my costumes, and of my hair
without powder, which at that time was
used in great profusiOn, with a reddish
brown tint My locks were generally
"
certain the size and shape of my head,
which, to a painters eye, was of course
an agreeable departure from the mode
My short waist, too was to him a pleas
ing contrast to the long stiff stays and
hoop petticoats which were then the fash
ion, even on the stage, and it obtained his
unqualified appreciation. He always sat
in the orchestra, AMI in that place were to
be seen, 0, glorious constellation, Burke,
Gibbon, Sheridan, Windham and last,
not least, the illustrious Fox"
Mrs. SiddonS was once seen on the
boards in the character of the Tragic
Muse She was drawn in a car in that
role when Garrick's Jubilee" was re-
vived. This was sort of pageant or pro-
cesson of the whole company, CHIEFLY in
the costumes of Shakespearan characters.
Apropos Of the plan to fix Mrs Siddons
in marble in the pose of the Tragic Muse
it may be said that she herself studied
sculpture and practiced it just as Sarah
Bernhard does today. In the Dyce IL
brary at South Kensington at the present
time is her own bust of herself Moore
records that she told Lord Lansdowne
that ''the first thing that suggested to her
the mode of expressing intensity of feel
ing was the position of some of the Egyp-
tan statues, with the arms close down by
the side and the hands clinched."
She exclaimed before the Apollo Belvi-
dere when she saw it for the first time in
the Louvre, What a great idea it gives
us of God to think that He has made
human being capable of fashioning so di-
vine FORM"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
Left Hand vs.. Left Leg.

An English officer tells the following
story of a game of billiards he once wit
messed in India: "As the result of an ami
mated discussion a match was agreed
upon, 500 up, between two of the best
billiardists among the oficers-one to
play with his left hand, the other to use
his right, but to play standing on the left
foot only. The latter was allowed to sit
between strikes, but had to proceed from
his seat hopping and make his stroke
while only standing on the left leg. Left
Leg was the favorite, but the result
proved that billiards require two feet to
play them, for, when game was called,
the officer playing with his left hand
was found to be more than seventy
ahead of his OppOnent%
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
The Electric Candle.

The electric candle is in great request
in England for the lighting and decorating
device for lighting the candles is provided
by placing small pads under the table
cloth and taking the current from them
by means of two pin points in the base
of the candlestick. The candles, of
course, are extinguished on being taken
from the table, and are relighted when
they are replaced in the proper position.
the glass imitation of wax candle can
be removed, when the candlestick can be
used for an ordinary candle. When used
with shades Of colored silk, the electric
candle makes one of the prettiest addi-
lions to a dinner table that is possible to
ina -Machinist
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
English Tramps and Their Babies

On arriving at York, we went at once
to Warmgate, the kiphouse district, and
picked out the filthiest one we could find.
The inmates were principally in pairs;
each moocher had his Judy (wife), and
each little kid had his Mol SISTER.
These children are the very offspring of
the road, and they remind me very much
Of monkeys. Yet one has to feel sorry
for them, since they did not ask for life,
and yet are compelled to see its meanest
and dirtiest side. Their mothers love
them, when they are not drunk; and
when they are, their fathers have to play
mothers, if they are not drunk them
selves. Never in my life have / seen
more serio-comic situation than in that
York kiphouse, where two tramps were
rocking their babies to sleep. Moochers-
Bohemians of the Bohemians- fondling
their babies! should far sooner have
looked for a New York hobo in clergy
mans robes. But tramping with children
and babies is fad in English vagabond-
app L SQnfurV
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN



F'The Supreme court of the United States
has decided that an income tax is unconstl-
futiona, and cannot be levied. daily Pa
per.
To the West! To the West! To the land Of
the free!
Yes, that is the country in future for me!
You may say it's the home OF the BLIZZARD
that's true,
You may talk of Its SunStrokeS-my answer
is "Pooh!'
Enlarge as you may on its active Judge
You can't from my purpose induce me to
finch.
It's twang may be nasal, it's etiquette lax,
But, oh, it's the land where there's no in
come tax.
'Tis useless to dwell on its ''bosses'' and
''ringS,"
Its monkey-Iike dudes, it's ill-bred ''silver
kingS;''
It's papers grant, may be lacking in taste,
But in hints such as these you your labor but
You may harp on it's faults for week If
you WILL
But my heart unaffected, would turn to it
still;
For whatever it likes and whatever it lacks,
IT'S the land of all lands where there's no
income tax!
So I'm off to the West! where the courts,
wisely stern,
Have ''sat on all chance of the "sur-
charged return"
Where that harsh Schedule Dr. will not
VeX as of yOre,
Nor the especial commissioners worry me
more
I leave thee Old England, own, with re-
greet.
But though parting teardrops my eyelids
may wet,
Still my mind is made up, and / mean to
''make tracks,
To the land where they cannot impose in
come tax! London Truth.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08

absinthe has had on the social organiza-
ton of the nation, and the power it has
had ON the political history of France, on
political agitations and questions of ma
tional Importance. Five years ago no
one would admit that alcoholism was on
the increase in France. They that dared
to raise a warning voice were called
traitors, foreigners, spies in the pay of
Germany. Today we cannot shut our
eyes to the truth: it is seen to exist ON
every hand, and the cry is now to estab-
lish legal boundaries for the prevention
of the consumption of absinthe, the ma
tons most dangerous enemy, and similar
alcoholic poisons.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-08
The Manners of Men.

The influence that women exert on the
manners of men is acknowledged to be
very great. Without the refining con-
tact with gentle womanhood a man will
never loose the innate roughness with
which nature has endowed him.
High birth and good breeding are the
privileges of the few, but the habits and
manners of a gentleman may be acquired
by ALL 1t is of no use to assert that
their acquisition is attended with little
difficulty, for perfect manner in society
is the result of a succession of small sac
rifces. No one can be perfectly we'll
hammered who is selfish, and even the
minor virtue of punctuality can only be
attained at the expense of pleasure.
Etiquette is not to be learned from as
ISOLATION with men; it is woman who
creates society. Just as the height of a
stage of civilization can always be meas
ured by the amount of Difference which
is paid to women, SO the culture of a
particular man can be gagged by his
manner when in company with ladies.
Primitive men used to gather round the
food which they had won in the chase
and throw the bones over their shoulders
to the women who sat outside the circle.
Primitive men made the women do all
the hard work, and gave them all the
heavy burdens to carry. Civilized man,
on the contrary, gives precedence to
woman in every particular; he does not
eat himself till she is served, he is care
full to give her the best place at an en-
tertainment, he let's her walk on the in
side of the path, and opens the door for
her when she is leaving the room. Wom-
an was wise in forming society, for these
small observances not only conduce to
her own comfort, but are highly bene-
fetal to the character of the man, who
would without them become rough and
selfsh-Philadelph Times.