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The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
Portland yynm.xa,e MARX,

Portland Wno,sxass Marx
PORTLAND Oct. IA.
Breadstuffs easy. The feature was in Corn,
which dropped 1875 for December. Wheat was
off about "a C, and Oats s4c. Flour Is unchahg-
ed and fairly steady. Pork ESQ lower. Hams
easier. Burning Oils 14c off.
The following are to-day'S wholesale PRICES VI
Provisions, Groceries: etc
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
Ros,on rroenee Market.

BOSTON. Oct IL. ls97-The following are
to-day's cuotauons of Provisions. etc.:
FLOUR
Spring.patents. 8 2oab So
Spring, clear ana straight. i S0d5 %.
Winter patents. 8 20G6 70.
Winter. clear and straight, 609o 40
Extra and seconds 90.
Fine and Supers-.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
hailroaa Eecel0ts.

PORTLAND, Oct. IA.
t;ecetnts by Maine Central R. R-For For
and, It'll cars misce ilanoous mercAanalse' tSr
connecting roads 1877 cars.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15

Retail Grocers sugar kases.
Portland market-cut loaf 7; confectieners al
Ne" pVlye rised &C.; powered. So; graduated
51a eehiee crushed Bet yellow ~.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15

tBy Telegram,
CHICAGO, Oct a. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
25.oUu; left over 5000; active and steady to
stronger; light at 65a4 mixed at 8 6oau
4 u21a: heavy at 4064 90: rough 4Og3 80.
Cattie--receipts j SEQ; steady; beeves 8 500
5 40 cows and heifers 9ota4 50: Texas steers
at 7O83 70; westerns az 00g4 so; stocKers
and feeders 2 sOlrA 40.
Sheep-receipts 1000; strong to Toe higher.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
European Markets.

FurOpenn MarketM
Nv Ieeeraph.
LONDON, Oct. A. 1sl27.--Consois closed at
11lss for money and ] IL ] l-1H for account.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. IA 1s97--Cotton market
lower; American middling % sd; sales ~
900 bales, including 800 bales for speculation
and export.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
Print Cloth Market
Chicago Lave stock Market.

FALL RIVER, Mass. Oct. IA IS97.--The
print Goth market is quiet steady at 7-16c.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
PORTLAND Daily Press stock ouotation,.
STOCKS.

Corrected by Swan & Barrett. Brokers, 1876
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
Memoranda.

Barque r LYMAN. from Portland. Is reported
badly damaged at Bahia Blanca and proDaoil
a total wreck.
Baltimore, Oct 12tll-Sch Mary L II y DOW
hence for Boston, befare reported ashore, GOING
off without injury, and proceeded.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15

SpOktn,
Oct II. forty miles NE OF Hatteras. sch Dora
Matthews, from Brunswick tor New York.
Oct l, off Cape Hatteras, sch Josephine Eli
colt, Murphy from Charleston for Boston.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Queeu a Creaceut.

During the Tennessee Centennial and In
ternational Exposition at Nashville, Tenn,
low rate special tariff has been established
for the sale of tickets from Cincinnati and
other terminal points on the Queen & Cres-
cent Route.
Tickets are on sale daily until further no.
tice to Chattanooga at 1918 one way or $7.20
round trip from Cincinnati, the round trip
tickets being good seven days to return;
other tickets, with longer return limit, at
$3.50 and at $3.50 for the round trip
These rates enable the public to visit
Nashville and other Southern points at rates
never before offered. Vestibuled trains of
the finest class are at the disposal. of the
passenger, affording a most pleasant trip,
and enabling one to visit the very inter.
esting scenery and important battle. grounds
in and about Chattanooga, Lookout Noun.
tain and Chickamauga National Military
Park. Tickets to Nashville to visit the
Centennial can be repurchased at Chatta
nooga Cor $3.40 round trip. Ask your ticket
agent for tickets via Cincinnati and the @
& G. Route South or write to
w. G. RINEARSON, Genl Pass'r Agent
Cincinnati O,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

and directly against the old bridge,
running parallel to it.
How well they have kept thei7 part
of the contract any one visiting the
Long bridge can see. To be sure, it is
free bridge now. and safe; but it is
unfit for the use OF pedestrians on ac-
count of the clouds of dust arising from
the vehicles in dry weather, and on ac
count of the mud in wet weather, there
being no sidewalk.
And what of Andrew Jackson's
dream! Let us walk over the Long
bridge and view Jackson City. A few
gamblers seated on stumps, few low
and tumble-down shanties. dives. beer
saloons and gambling dens is about all
we see. The place has forlorn and
worn out appearance. About the only
respectable place there is the store of
commission merchant, who roosts on
the outer end of the Long bridge to
catch the farmers trade. 1t was a
famous and fashionable gambling re-
sort at one time; but lawlessness, out
RACES aE& sa,.rders have given ii bad
name. There is policy game there in
full blast. This is patronized mostly
by colored people, who, twice day, go
over the Long bridge to attend the
drawings.
Strictly speaking. The Long bridge
consists of three parts; the center being
over what used to be the Potomac flats,
but which is now causeway about 300
feet in length; that part across the
Washington channel, being about 700
feet, and that across the Virginia chan
mel. being about 1000 feet; 1900, in
all, or nearly one mile. The Washing
ton end of the bridge consists of wood
en- spans, on masonry piers.
The Virginia end of the bridge is
wooden Howe truss, consisting of 13
spans of 135 feet each. and one draw
span 1S2 feet in length, swinging on
a pivot pier, giving two openings. only
one of which is arranged for the pas
sage of vessels. Each span except the
draw, consists of,three wooden trusses.
The extreme width of the bridge. from
out to out of the trusses, is 40 feet. On
the up stream, or northwest side, is n
wagon road 1912 feet wide, but with
no sidewalk, while on the down stream
The bridge spans rest on masonry
piers built of an inferior quality of
sandstone, on pile and grillage founda-
tions, the grillage being at the level of
low tide.
In order to prevent these insecure
foundations from being undermined by
the river currents, large quantities of
rip-rap stones have been thrown into
the river and piled about the piers, un-
til now there are immense mounds ex-
tending across the channel. So great
is this obstruction that the natural dis
charge area of the river at Long bridge
is reduced no less than 80 per cent.
DISTINCTIONS also arise from the OBJ
liquity of the piers to the direction of
the current. The lower chord of the
bridge is 1913 feet above low tide; whilc
the floor is but 13 feet.
SMITH d. FRY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE DRESSES WE WEAR.
why Gowns Made at Home Lack Chic
and Smartness.

why Gowns Made at Home Lack Chic
and Smartness.
Why is it that professional dress
makers, who are, presumably, women
of little education, and no particular
talent, can produce satisfactory gowns
with pronounced chic in cut and style
that proclaims them at once to be "cus-
tom made" while the amateur, with
greater taste and cultivated artistic in
telligence and perception, should make
such abortive creations whenever she
tries to make her own dresses, is prob
lem that is often commented upon.
"Home made" gowns are certainly not as
smart as those built" by professionals,
and why not? Why cannot women of in
telligence, who have straitened in
comes, dress themselves and their
daughters without calling in extraneous
aid? 1t seems such simple thing to
dc, especially in these days when the
most reliable patterns of the latest
fashions may be had almost for the ask
ing, and materials cost next to nothing.
What is it that stamps it, as it undeni-
ably does, dress made at home, as sec
ond-rate?
in the first place, the trademark, as
1t were, is wanting in amateur work.
A dressmaker does everything by rule
and rote, but this want of technical
knowledge could be easily rectified
either by taking the trouble to learn the
| trade, which is taught in comparatively
few lessons, or by copying in detail the
construction of gown from a good
dressmalter's. Finish" is also one of
| the great essentials in which profes-
| SIGNALS score to advantage. Take the
wrist of an amateurs sleeve, for in
| stance, and that of a professional of
good reputation. The difference is
| most marked. The bottom of the skirt
too, almost invariably betrays its or
| igin, besides many other little details
| dependent upon the character of the
dress. Finally, another marked diff.
| ference between amateur and first-class
| professional work is in the generous
use of material. The former never
"skimps," whereas the latter, if she
makes her own gowns, obviously tries
to save every penny. In homemade
millinery, especially, this skimpiness is
very apparent. A young woman with
pretty taste in trimming bonnets who
could easily have half dozen hats fol
the price she pays for one, confesses
naively that she is obliged to buy heI
headgear and give large sums for eacf
confection, because she simply cannot
make up her mind to buy as much rib
bon or as many flowers as is really re-
quired.
MY hats always look economical
she declared, but when l am buying
ribbon by the yard 1 cannot bring my
self to buy enough" So this season
she pays 1926 for hat that she might
easily have made herself if she would
purchase the same materials.-N. Y
Tribune
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
BRIDGE WITH A HISTORY
II Connects the Capital with the
Virginia Shore
During the War Long Bridge was
Talked About in Every Nook and
Corner of the Lnnd-Its
Best Days Gone.
LspeeIal washlngton Letter.l


All mature reading people know of
the existence of the Long bridge which
spans the Potomac at the national cap
ital. 1t has occupied an important
place in history, and during the civil
war it was constantly mentioned in
the telegraphic dispatches.
The Long bridge was originally con-
Btructed nearly 90 years ago In the
yearlsos congre S passed an act author
izing Daniel Carroll, of Duddington,
and others of the District of Columbia
TO constitute board of commissioners
with authority to open books for re-
ceiving subscriptions and raising cap
ital stock, not exceeding 100000, in
shares of $1oo each, for the purpose OF
erecting n bridge over the Potomac
river between the city of Washington
and the Virginia shore. The act OF
congress styled this board "the Wash.
ington Bridge company" 1t was stip.
ulated that the bridge should be SO feet
wide, with at least one draw over the
channel, and be lighted with "2o good
lamps well furnished with Dill" That
was long before monopolies in gas and
electricity were known; and the sallow
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
New odors for FIowers.

1t is fad in Paris to perfume flowers
artifcially. Experiment has proved
that it is possible not only to take away
the natural odor of a flower, but also to
make it yield perfume derived from
ONE other vegetable product, Some vio-
let's, for example, are perfect in form
and coloring, but without fragrance,
while others, very insignificant to look
at, emit delicious fragrance. The
transfer of the odor from one species
TO the other has been accomplished.
Those who have been most successful
in this branch of horticulture refuse
to tel their secret. 1t is said that the
African marigold has been robbed of its
disagreeable odor and endowed with a
perfume that makes ii much sought,
The fad has been carried 10 the extreme
of giving to the sunfiower the odor of
the rose and to the chrysanthemum
that of the violet.-N. Y. Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

railway constructor, to repair the
railroad between the south end of
Long bridge and Alexandria in ~
days. He completed the work in 13
days. The Long bridge was then test
ed. tracks were laid and in 1861 the first
railroad engine ran across to the Vir-
ginia shore 1t was over this bridge
that the armies of the United States
marched into Virginia during the war
of the rebellion.
BY act Of congress dated June 21,
1870, the government turned over the
Long bridge to the Baltimore & Poto-
mac Railroad company with permits
sion to run their tracks across it to the
capitol grounds, their station then be-
ing on the other side of the river. This
transfer was made to them on con-
dition "that the said Baltimore & Po-
tomac Railroad company will maintain
it in good condition for railway and
ordinary travel; and the bridge shall,
at all times, remain free bridge for
public use for ordinary travel; and
also, that if the said railroad company
shall, at any time, neglect to keep said
bridge in good repair and free for pub
lie use for ordinary travel the govern
ment of the United States may enter
into possession of said bridge again."
Their cars were to be drawn by horses
across the bridge, and to the capitol
grounds. This mode was continued
until 1872, when the railroad company
was given authority to build its de-
| NOT on n Dublir reservation in the city
where it now stands. 1t was also given
authority to construct railway bridge
on the same piers with additions east Of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

(This Outfit Represents an Outlay of s7i6.)
and worn with series of vests and
shirt fronts.
1t sounds very simple just to say: "I
shall order at least three vests for my
new bicycle suit" doesn't it? Well,
that is what the "millionairess' in
question did, and these three vests are
going to cost $25 apiece. The principal
color in her suit is green, so she has or
dered one vest of sage green, one of
geranium red, embroidered in black and
gold, and one of white broadcloth, en-
broidered in silver. With these vests
she will wear snow-white linen shirt
fronts and black satin ties.
And $25 is not so very eXtravagant for
a vest, when you stop to consider that
the garment is MAIDS when the material
is wet and has to be nodded to the
figure.
4 Panama straw hat, fawn color and
trimmed with scarlet and green, will
add one $40 item. and bicycle boots of
finest leather will add another of $1S.
Coli stockings in mixed greens and
tans will be worn in place of the high
top boot. An entire box of these stock
ings has been ordered, as it is difficult
to match them exactly. Fifteen dollars
half dozen will buy the softest and
best in the shops.
But the crowning extravaganza of
this particular "biking" maid is yet to
come. Her belt of elephant green leath-
er is clasped with a buckle of oXidized
silver set with emeralds. The buckle
is in the form of two bicycle wheels; the
rim of each wheel is bordered with
small green stones, a large single em-
crald forming the hub. This trifing
decoration to adorn the slender waist"
of the pretty wheelwoman will cost
treble the price of her wheel; that is to
say, exactly SOON. Y. Sunday Jour
nal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Common-sense Beauty List.

An authority on physical training for
women gives the following directions
for securing the best results, which
naturally must be modified by indi-
vidual characteristics and circum-
stances: "Sleep nine hours out of the
"a, battle in cold water, exercise five
minutes daily with light dumbbells,
drink cup of hot liquid before break
fast, spend half an hour every day in
outdoor exercise, make the best of bad
bargains, and always keep your tenn
per-"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

The hot air motor patented by NJ. Helm
rici works without steam, and, there
fore, many of the shortcomings of
small steam engines are entirely OBJ
waited The hot air motor has re-
markably regular and soft motion,
quite contrary to the steam or naphtha
engines, where each stroke of the pis-
ton occasions a shock. The main en-
ployment to which the Heinrich hot air
motor is put is the work of a pump in
the center of the flower stand, as shown
in our illustration. The benefit of hav-
ing a continuous jet of water in room
during the summer is obvious.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
SWELL CYCLING SUIT.
One Ordered for n New York Girl II
to Cost ST1S.

NhG Tot new hoEG SlEA ~
to Cost S71S.
The most expensive bicycle suit on
record has just been ordered Mt one of
the swellest tailors in New York
The girl who meets the bill is worth
a million in her own right, is an athletic
beauty and reigning belle in the ultra
smart set.
The suit which makes the bill is the
most elaborate ever designed in this
country. 1t is lined with silk, finished
with jewels and will cost lump sum of
$715.5O
Two "Scott and Adie" shawls at SIS
apiece will be employed in making the
skirt and jacket. And, by the way,
these English shawls are the very latest
thing for any sort of fancy outing suit.
The skirt will be stitched half way
to the knees, with the lines of stitching
not over a sixteenth of an inch apart;
this is the new device to stiffen the
lower part of the skirt without adding
to the weight.
The edges of the jacket are also
stitched, and, together with the skirt,
it is elaborately braided, which latter
touch adds some $25 to the expense.
Bloomers and Innings of suit through
out will be of silk-not less than 10
yards of silk to be used, which gives an
other item of $3.50. With the bloomera
have been ordered half dozen i'll.
terlining of the finest lawn at $3.50 q
pair.
Loose jackets are no longer the cor.
rect thing for the crack bicyclist. Thr
newest waist is tight-fitting ALWAYS
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
HER LlFELlKE STATUE.
siEnnlized Her Departure from the
World of ArtIgta.


Before her marriage she had been fa-
nous sculptress. She had made several por-
traits of well-known men, and everyone pre-
dicted for her a still more brilliant future,
when she suddenly set all predictions at
naught by marrying wealthy man who dis
approved of her keeping up her professional
work. She was very quiet under this re-
'striction, but was supposed to rebel inward
ly. Therefore when, at dinner party one
-evening, she asked her old friend, Gen.
Bashar, to come and see her on the follow.
ing evening and inspect her last piece Of
work, which she thought the best and most
lifelike she had ever executed, he sup.
posed he was to use his influence to prevail
upon the husband to permit her to resume
her place among the working fraternity of
artists:
II am sure you will like it, general" she
said. with winning smile. at fairly lives
and breathes. confess 1 am in love with
it myself"
On the appointed evening the general,
with some misgivings over the delicacy of
the task intrusted to him, presented him
self. Instead of inviting him to the studio,
his hostess, to his surprise, offered to bring
her last bit to him.
"Oh, it's a statuette, is it?" he asked.
"Well, yes, you might call it sc" she an
swered as she went out of the room. In a
few minutes she returned, bearing in her
arms-a baby!-Chicago Times-Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
To Save the TabIecIoth.

Nothing contributes so much TO the
soiling of the dinner cloth as the glass
of water which during meal is being
continually picked up and set down
again in a new place. Some thrifty
housewives have adopted the custom of
setting the glasses on tiny plates such
as are so generally used for bread and
butter nowadays. 1t has been found
that tablecloth keeps clean much
longer by the use of these plates, and
the idea is especially popular among
boarding house keepers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

AS she stood upon the top stoop and
kissed him goodby before he went out to
battle with the cold, cold world he thought
that she had never looked so winsome, even
ia their old counting days.
"And now my bad boy must have as many
slaps as years he has lived, for to-day is his
birthday" she went on, beginning the
Christening salutations.
"Why, so it is" he said, with that mo-
mcntary sensation of years passing helpless
ly away which middle-aged men experience
upon these occasions.
."'And what lovely thing shall his darling
wife get. him for a birthday present this
year," she went on. You already have a
smoking cabinet and card table, and my
dining-room lamp, you know, was one Of
my birthday presents to you. And then"
"Pd go kind of light, my dear" he an
swered, somewhat moodily. Get me some
pay for my last years birthday present
yet,"-N, Y Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
His After-Dinner speech.'

Around the table were gathered many
men. The dinner was almost over and now
in the interval of service general conversa-
tion had ceased and they were all looking
at him and waiting for him to speak. He
was a handsome man; clean shaven and
commanding looking, in irreproachabls
evening dress. He stood, his left arm
hanging at his side, his right hand resting
lightly up SSpg5n the table ses Every syfb yb
he said:
GSorry, gents, but de plum puddin' is all
out. Dere's rice an tapioca, an dere's
plumpeachanapple creamorrhubarb an
Hincerlemon pie. Whachergo 'nterhavep-
N Y .Innrnnl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
PARLOR FOUNTAINS.
They Are Operated by n Diminutive
Hot Air Engine.

A small hot air motor is now fire.
quently employed in European houses
to run a tiny water four tain in an
aquarium flower stand, and the sim
plicity of it's construction, as well as
its arrangement within handsome cab
met or underneath an ornamental
stand, permits its being used in the
parlor without appearing out of place.
These hot air engines are constructed
in different sizes, representing from
one-siXtieth to one-fifth horsepower,
and their price in Germany is very
small, varying from nine dollars to
500 each, according to size and style.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
July 4th, Low Rates via II. &. O. saw
RY.

The B. & o. S-W. Ry. Co. will sell Round
Trip tickets July 8, and at ONE FARE
between all stations on it's own and rrinci-
pal connecting lines, within radius of two
hundred miles from selling point, good go.
ing on date of sale and returning to and
including July 9th, 1897.
For further information call on agents B.
4 o. S-W. Ry.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
A Deem Imnrennion.

Pat returned from London after holiday,
and meeting his priest one day stopped to
tell his adventures.
Now, of all the sights you saw, what OBJ
ject struck you most-in fact, left the deep
est impression on your" asked the priest.
Faith, it was brick from scaffold as
struck me most and left its deep impression
on me-" said Pat, showing cut on his fore
hetd.-Spare Moments.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Not Her Wont.

''Listen!" he hissed.
NO." she answered, and turning upon
her heel brusquely, she left him there alone.
For she was telephone girl by profession,
and it was not her wont to listen to anything
unless she was sure it was none of her bust
ness.-Detroit Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
shuke Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease, powder for the feet;
1t cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery
of the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain cure for
sweating, callous, hot, tired. aching feet.
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and
Write to Allen S. olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
A Youthful Liar.

what are you two boys doing in the
pantry?" asked Mrs. Chafie, sharply.
Bob is trying to steal some JAM"
replied Johnnie, in an indignant tone
of voice.
"And what are you doing there, too?"
me? Weller, l was tryin' to coax
Bobbie not to do it. I'm having lot of
trouble with HMM. Y. World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
From Shnkennenre.

'fBall this evening, dear?" inquired Des-
dsvnona of Othello, when she saw him load.
ing up his old revolver.
No, not this evening, love; SIN other
pillow, and wedged it softly down her
oesophagus-Un.to-Da Date