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Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

The Grand Lodge of Maine, +. & A. NJ.
will be here tomorrow to dedicate the new
Masonic temple
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

Commissioner Matthews OF the bureau
of labor and industrial statistics went to
Bangor, Tuesday morning, on business
trip
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

Second hand bicycles, 1891 model, at bar
gain. c. E. Shorey, 22s Water street, Augusta.
ouV
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

Sec notice in another column respect
ing the instituting of the new lodge N.
E O. p.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

George V. S. Michaelis of the staff of
the Boston Journal, has been selected as
confidential secretary to Manager Stan
wood
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

At a bargain. A good sewing machine in
flee. aprI3dtf
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

W. r. Hind and W. X. Deeham wer
in the city from Richmond, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17
Local Matters.

A. B. Haskell OF Bangor, was in the
city, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

The following item was clipped from
the Newspaper Maker of the last issue and
will be perused with interest by many
Augusta people:
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

John Bradley went up to Fairfl I'D, on
the morning train, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

T. o. PEASE the whitener may be found at
No. 10 Gage street. All needing his services
please call or address with card and he will
call at your residence. 81. apr16d2t
Eva Chadsey, who has just returned from
Boston. will open dressm King rooms, April
%, at Mrs. Martins, 2S Winthrop street, near
Baptist church. Will be pleased to see her
old friends and also new ones. aprl2dlwt
Upon arriving at Union Station.
BOSTON, MASS,
take electric car, and in five minutes reach
the large and comfortable
AMERICAN HOUSE.
You are then centrally located.
apr1d1mo
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

Ex-County Commissioner Wentworth
was in the city from Clinton, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

"Trilby'' will bo the next attraction at
the Opera house.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

The State prison inspectors visited that
institution, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

number of Upright Pianos. If you are
thinking of buying piano this spring do not
fail to call and look my stock over. 1t will pay
you. viii sell low for cash or on small month
~ payments. c. S. Downing, 207 Water St..
Augusta. apr17dlw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

G. Fl. Cunningham went to Boston,
on the Tuesday forenoon train.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

W. W. Lancaster, Harvard '97, is home
to pass his vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

Two Estey and two Wilcox & White organs
will sell very low for cash or on small monthly
payments. C. S. Downing, 207 Water St, Au-
gusta, Me. aprl7d1w
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

A. B. Haskell OF Bangor, was in the
city, yesterday.
"Trilby" will be the next attraction at
the Opera house.
w. W. Lancaster, Harvard '97, is home
to pass his vacation.
The State prison inspectors visited that
institution, yesterday
John Bradley went up to Fairfl I'D, on
the morning train, yesterday
G. Fl. Cunningham went to Boston,
on the Tuesday forenoon train
W. Il. Hind and W. X. Deeham were
in the city from Richmond, yesterday.
Ex-County Commissioner Wentworth
was in the city from Clinton, yesterday.
Sec notice in another column respect
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17
Waldo.

CENTER MONTvILLE.
Mr.. John Terry, one of our oldest resi-
dents departed this life April 7th. His
son, J. H. Terry, accompanied by his wife,
Also one Of his daughters. Mrs. Eliza
Graves, came from Massachusetts, to at
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

A few more gentleman boarders at No. 81
East Crescent ST. First class board and rooms.
Four minutes walk to middle of Water st.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

Cheap. Singer bicycle in good condition
new Dunlop tires. Apply, L. w. Hamleu, /;
Sewall street, Augusta. apr17dlw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17
EoR SALE

Steamboat, 2s feet long, 10 foot beam; good
steel boiler; suitable for excursions and
pleasure purposes. In good order. Inquire
of Frank I. Clark. aprill7dlw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17
SECOND HAND STUFF

should 1ot be permitted
Fou hare no longer need
somcone else will nav
WANT COLUMN of tn
It will pay you to do 50,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17
WANTED.

Christian man wanted, not employed, ac-
quainted with Church people, $1S per week.
Write Standard Manufacturing Co., il Frank
lin Street, Boston, Mass. apr3 wed st
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-17

to cumber a homo. II
se any useful article,
Advertise /. in the
I sENaEBEC JoUKEAI.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
ERyptfan Geometry.

The Ahmes papyrus doubtless repre-
sents the most advanced attachments of
the Egyptians in arithmetic and geom-
etry. It is remarkable that they should
have reached SO great proficiency in
mathematics at so remote a period OF
antiquity. But strange indeed is the
fact that during the next 1900 years
they should have made no progress
whatsoever in it.
4 All the knowledge of geometry which
they possessed when Greek scholars WIS.,
tied them, six centuries B. c., was
doubtless known to them 1900 years
earlier, when they built those stupen.
dous and gigantic structures, the pyra.
mids. An explanation for this stagna-
ton Of learning has been sought in the
fact that their early discoveries in math.
ematics and medicine had the misfor.
tune Of being entered upon their sacred
books, and that in after ages it was
considered heretical to augment or mod.
ify anything therein. Thus the books
themselves closed the gates to progress.
History of Mathematics, Cajori.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
HORSEPOWER of the Worlds Engines.

Horsepower OF the Worries Engines.
A steam "horsepower" is equivalent
to the actual strength Of three horses Of
the average weight and size and each
horse represents the strength Of seven
men of the average weight of 1854
pounds. The total horsepower Of the en-
gines of the world (not including loco
motives, of which there are 1O5, 900, with
a total horsepower of 5000, 0O0) is 49,
900, 900, which represents all the force
that could be exerted by 1000, 600, 900
men, or more than twice the total work
ing population of the entire globe. Four
fifths of the power machines now in &C.
tive service have been made during the
past IS years. This country has the
highest amount of horsepower, 7.5O0,-
900; England comes second, with 1000, :
900; Germany third, 4,50O, 900, only
two other countries, France and Aus
tria- Hungary, having engines represent
ing over 1000, 900 horsepower, that of
France being reckoned at 8, 900, 900 and
AUSTRIA Hungary at 100000 The
above figures are for 1891 and are the
very latest on that subject. st. Louis
Republic.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
WHAT THE CHINESE EAT.
Their Breadstuns Seem Sad. Solemn, Sod
Z den and Bilious.

Their Breadstuh Seem Sad, Solemn, Sod
den and Bilious.
A member Of the English parliament,
Florence O'Drisooll. has lively paper
in The Century describing life and street
scenes in Canton. Mr.. O'Driscoll says:
The food purveyors made most
striking display; the fruiterers exposed
ON fiat trays bananas, pineapples, mel
ons, figs, pears (the latter beautiful to
the sight, but hard and tasteless), to-
gether with many Chinese fruits, whose
shapes and tastes were familiar to me,
but whose names knew not Some Of
these fruits were most artistioally peel
ed, pineapple peeling being quite an art
A great variety Of vegetables was Offer
ed for sale. Among them were the white
shoots Of the bamboo, which seemed to
be a favorite article of diet. But to what
use indeed may not this wonderful grass
be put? From it Cinnamon make almost
everything OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, oloaks,
sheets, carpets, roofs, buildings, baskets,
chairs, carrying poles, fishing tools; the
list might be prolonged ad infinitum.
And then they eat it as we'll.
Preserving ginger in many forms was
noticeable trade. The roots were
washed and left in water, as an English
cook treats potatoes before boiling them.
A number Of men and women holding
two pronged fork in each hand sat
around table with the tubs Of peeled
ginger beside them. They picked ginger
roots out of the water, and laying them
on the table pierced them all over very
rapidly with both forks until quite soft
The pierced roots were then put into
another tub, where they were boiled in
sirup The ginger went through various
other minor processes until eventually
it was packed in the earthenware jars
in which it is sold in European shops.
The whole process was certainly clean
one, and the smell of the aromatic root
in preparation was both grateful and
pleasant.
In the bakers shops I saw nothing
corresponding to our European loaf,
Solid looking little yellow patties, slabs
of fabby brown cakes, emblematio Of
concentrated dyspepsia; scenes or an
equivalent, apparently Of fried batter,
and great fakes of milk white, slippery
looking pas, not above an eighth of an
inch thiok-to be rolled up and deity
sliced with a cleaver shaped tool into
long strings like macaroni. These foods
were to be seen everywhere in the city,
but nothing light and open. To my eyes
the breadstuffs seemed sad, solemn, sod
den and bilious.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
WORDS AND MEANINGS CHANGE
"Amicted Eselict'' Is Hardly Good English
Nowadays.

"Amicted Relief Is Hardly Good English
Nowadays. .--.
1t is interesting to notice the change
In the meaning and use OF words that
time brings. just fifty years ago the
National Portrait Gallery Of Distin-
guished Americans was published in
Ibis city, says the Boston Globe.
In the account of Mrs. Washington
we read that when ladies called at the
presi: dents mansion the habit was for
the secretaries and gentlemen of the
presidents household to hand them to
and from their carriages, but when the
honored relicts of Greene and Mont
go:nary came to the presidoliad, the
president himself performed the COM
pli;ncnt himself"
We do not call widow 1.-THE afflicted
rslict' nowadays; at least, when we
Elcan to be respectful. But Mrs. Wash
ington is spoken OF in these terms two
several times in the portrait gallery.
Later on we find that Com. Macdon-
ough married member 'of a high
ly respectable family" nowadays we
use that expression only when speak
ng Of a criminals family.
Of DR.. Samuel Latham Mitchell's
father this gallery remarks that he
lived to see most of his children ''repu-
tably settled in life;" and it seems to
think it speaks we'll of him. In this
age we might think that we spoke kind
ly of u 1-lan, though not we'll of him, If
we said that.
ALI the children of Col. Thomas Mar
shall, of Virginia, females as well as
males, possessed superior intellectual
endowments. Henry Clay's father, we
learn. was respectable clergyman
:n avis less rara in those days, we
hould have thought, than now; and
even now we would hardly say that a
clergyman was respectable
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
BRASS SIGNS IN NEW YORK.

Probably Half Million Dollars Invested
In This Sort of characterization.
A stroll along Broadway early in the
morning discloses an army of men en-
gagged in polishing the brass signs that
flank the entrance of the stores, and the
same sight may be noted on Sixth ave-
nue. or any of the other principal bust
ness streets. Walk down one of these
thoroughfares an hour later, and the
rays of the sun, reflected from thou
sands Of Furnished surfaces, made bright
for the day by vigorous rubbing, dance
about you and dazzle your eyes. In fact,
commercial New York is a city of brass
signs
The other day South Fifth avenue
maker was asked if he could give an es.
innate of the amount Of money invested
in these standing ads" of metal.
"Well," he replied, "a door sign Of
brass costs from $25 to $3.50, according
to it's size, lettering and border designs
OF course you can get small Office signs
for less money, but I am speaking of
those used by merchants, bankers and
that class of people. Take some large
stores, and you will notice they are lit
orally bordered with brass signs at the
entrances and long signs beneath the big
show windows. A display OF that sort
represents an outlay of from anywhere
between $500 and So, 900. From the To-
cal business our firm does and from a
general knowledge Of how our rivals are
getting on, I have no hesitancy in say
ing that commercial New York city has
$500, 900 invested in brass signs. -
New York World
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
STOPPED BY oRAssHoPPERs.
Train in New York brought to . stand
still by the Insects. III. IssN

A Train in New York brought to stand
still by the Insects. S%
1.-THE story is an old one about west
ern railroad trains being stopped by
grasshoppers during memorable in
vasion of Kansas and other states by
these insects" said New York travel
ing man to New York Sun reporter;
land it was and is still looked upon in
the east as wild reach of the western
imagination. / believe no one had
deeper doubt of it than myself. But !
doubt no longer, for was on train the
other day right in our state OF New
York which was stopped by grasshop-
pers as effectually as the engineer with
his airbralzes could have stopped 1t.
THE railroad was the Chautauqua
Lake railroad and the train was on its
way between Mayville and Jamestown.
All that region has had most de-
structive visitation of grasshoppers this
year, crops, foliage and even hay, cut
and housed, having been absolutely
eaten up clean by the ravenous insects.
This day the passengers on the train
noticed that frequently it would grad
ually slow up and come almost to
standstill, but after awhile regain
somewhat of it's regular speed. At
last, though, after slowing up and the
engine working in a way that showed
that the engineer was making his
greatest effort to overcome whatever
the obstacle was to the progress of the
train, it came to dead standstill.
trainman was hurrying through the
car I was in and asked him what was
the matter.
'Grasshoppers,' said he. We're
stalled again by grasshoppers. =.
Nobody believed him, of course, but
l got out of the car and it wasn't long
before found that he was in earnest.
Grasshoppers had cfectually stopped
the train. The rails behind us as far
as anyone could see were two glisten-
ing lines Of grease. AS far as anyone
could see ahead the railroad tracks
were hidden by untold numbers OF
grasshoppers. Men had to Sbe sent
ahead to sweep or shovel or. scrape the
insects off the rails. BY dint of much
sand and steam the train was at last
got under way, but for nearly two
miles the advance guard of trainmen
had to keep the train clear of grass
hoppers Immediately ahead of the
Locomotive wheels before we had
passed out of the tremendous swarm
OF insects, fat to bursting on the crops
of the Chautauqua region, and the
train could goits way without dangerof
further stalling. I learned that the
trains on that road had been unable to
make anything like schedule time for
several days and that no trip had been
made on any train in that time on
which it had not been stopped more.
than once by the crushing of grass
hoppers on the rails"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
THE solAclNa WEED.
! Civilized Men Take 60 Tobacco - Laval
| Above the Lower Animals.

Civilized Men Take 70 Tobacco - . Lsvel
Above the Lower Aninals.
In the opinion of about four in every
tive men the essential difference between
man and the inferior animals is that
man smokes tobacco. Occasionally pre-
cocious monkey has been taught to
drink beer and smoke pipe-Old Tom
in the London ZOO, for instance-but
this only emphasizes the exclusive hui
manuess of smoking. The monkey Is
nearest kin to man and is in full prog
ress toward the human. state. As the
ultra temperance lecturers affirm, "A
dog wouldn't smoke the vile weed. +"
No other animal than superior man and
the anthropoid ape will smoke. Perhaps
in the civilized white world one man In
five is the victim of some defect that
disqualifles him Tor smoking. The de-
feet may be a tendency to q cancerous
growth, or it may be wife or mother
in-law. The remaining four are in the
full enjoyment of all their faculties
and the right to pursue happiness
through cloud of tobacco smoke.
Lack of opportunity to smoke is with
out doubt the most affective evil under
which a majority of men suffer: A
large proportion of men are employed
in offices, stores and shops where rules
against smoking are rigidly enforced.
This is entirely proper. No superior
smoker ever smokes while working. TO
do that is to debase the luxury and to
take off the keen edge Of the pleasure.
It is intemperance and dissipation. The
most expert wine tasters never drink to
excess, but find that in moderation only
does the palate retain its power to, de-
tect the delicate flavor. So with smok-
ing. At night, after few pipes or CT
gars have dulled the edge of appetite, it
is allowable to smoke half dozen with
some violence to stimulate jaded pal
ate, but at other times pleasure goes
with moderation. To smoke after meal
is the imperative demand Of the whole
system. Not to be able to do this is to
incur endless disorders Of the nervous
system, the stomach and the entire d.
gestive apparatus and sometimes to in
vite progressive decay Of the mental
faculties. There is no better preparation
for days work for the smoker than a
pipe or cigar after breakfast.-New
York A6vertisar
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
THE WORK OF HER ENEMY.
And 1t Was Such an Awfully Mean
Thing to Do Too.

Thing to Do Too.
1T was Miss Miggs; I know it was!"
she exclaimed angrily. "She is the only
girl in the city who is mean enough to
do such a thing"
"Such a thing as what?" asked her
dearest friend.
+ Gas that'' she cried, holding up q
letter and glaring at it, 1T is an insult
"a disgraceful insult-but know that
he could not be Intentionally guilty of
such an affront. She must have put him
up to it,
"Who is he?" asked the dearest friend,
anxiously working to get at the story.
why, Roger McGurhan, of course, I"
she returned in the same quick, excited
manner. "Who else should it be. Hasn't
he been calling here for the last three
months? Hasn't he been almost on the
point Of proposing twice? Didn't have
everything arranged to catch him next
time? And now comes thisP'
~"What is it, dear? What is it?'
''Read!" replied the naughty young
beauty as she tossed the letter to her
friend. It was as follows:
"Mr. Roger McGurhan presents his
compliments to Miss Daisybelle and
would consider it an honor to have her
company at the polls on registration day.
He will take pleasure in calling for her
at such time as will suit her conven-
ience.''
''I'm sure that's very courteous Of
him." said the dearest friend. "Why
should you"-
Courteous! CourteousP' cried the
beautiful girl. "And only Is years old,
as ] once told himl Oh, some enemy
has done !''-Chicago Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
UNCLE SANS NEW LIBRARY,
1t Has Some OF the Largest Bookcases n
the World.

AZ has some OF the Largest Bookcases n
the World. -:
No s''ch library as this new one of
Uncle Sans was ever planned before.
You must imagine, to begin with, two
iron bookcases, each 65 feet high, liz
feet long and As feet wide. They tower
up through the building story on story.
in nine tiers. Each bookcase will hold
100000 volumes. The metal frame
work is made gridiron fashion to per-
NIT the free passage of the atmos-
phere, for books need fresh air as much
as human beings, else they rot. The
floors are sheets of iron, and fire could
do no damage worth mentioning, for
books will not burn. They will only
smolder under favorable circumstances.
The library, says the Washing
ton Star, has 1900 windows. Those
which admit light to the great book
stacks above described are single
sheets OF fine plate glass. Looking
from the interior courtyards, the walls
inclosing the book stacks appear to be
almost wholly of glass. Thus the title
on tue back of every volume NAV be
easily read. The shelves already pro-
vlded will accommodate 1900, 900 books
twice as many as are now in the Ii
brary.
The building has been so constructed
as to afford space for other stacks,
which may be put UP at any time, and
Will hold S,70O,00O volumes more. A
million Of books in addition may be ac-
conrncs!ated in the courtyards, and
there is room for more besides. The
librarian of congress a century hence
wlll not find himself cramped in the
least. : II
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
The Inventor of the Torpedo.

MI. Brennan, the inventor of the tor
pedo, commenced life as matchmaker
in Australia and at once developed a
genius for invention. From first to last
this torpedo. which has proved SO prof
liable to him, cost him IS years of hard
work. The torpedo was sold to the Brit.
ish government for $3.50, 900, and to in
sure the secret of the mechanism being
kept each portion of this fearful engine
of destruction is made in a different
shop, the workmen are searched on en-
tering and leaving the building, and
Mr.. Brennan and his partner are the
only persons who fix the torpedo togeth-
er ready for working London Globe.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
Pats Way Of Putting It.

Caller-Your masters not at home,
eh, Pat? ~....--
Pat-No, sir! He do be in the uuld
country these tree wakes, sor.
Caller-Excuse me, Pat, but how is
it that when your mistress is on this
side Of the water your masters on the
other, and vice versa? Is there any trou.
BILE between them?
Pat--None at all, sir. Only they have
aRrade beohune 'em that they can live
together better whin they're apart
Richmond Dispatch. 49,, .-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
Much Improved.

From the report Of a missionary to
Africa:
my congregation refuse to give up
cannibalism, but have succeeded in 90
far improving their tastes that they now
eat with knives and forks. "-Reading
(Pa) Telegram.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24

An English French and French Eng
l;sh dictionary is sold in England which
Ia size is only 1-16 inches by n
inches. It has 656 pages. 90, 900 words
with meaning in two languages and
contains In Ill over 400, 1000 words.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
A Straight Tip.

Somebody remarks that there is no
sand in senatorial sugar. True, but
there was considerable sand in the crops
of those senators who invested in Amer
lean Sugar Refining stock just when
they knew it was going to rise in conse-
uuence of their votes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24

Attacks of nervous prostration in high
official ranks are very common now both
in New York and Washington. The dis
ease may infect other cities. It is well
to begin to quarantine against it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24
FOOD For ThouIht,

Chow do you like my new dining
room motto, Eat, drink and be merry,
for tomorrow you die?'" asked the
boarding house landlady Of the old
boarder.
II think it very appropriate " he said,
with q suggestive glance at the famine
before him,-Detroit Free Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24

In how many cities of this Union can
. saloon keeper be appointed judge of
police court, as is done in New York
citv?
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24

It was dead give away when Broker
Silsby would not tell whether any sena'
tors bought sugar stock.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-24

The word Minneapolis is a compound
Of an Indian word meaning curling wa
ter ard Greek word meaning CITY.