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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
Personalities.

There have been q cases of insanity
in the BavariaR royal family during
the last 100 years.
The returns of the census in Egypt
taken on June 1. show the population
on that date to have numbered 9, 700, O00
an increase of 100000, as compared
with 1882, or about AZ per cent in Is
years.
A suit for dissolution of partnership
has been brought in Jersey City by L
man who declares that his partner
swears at him and threatens him. So
that he dare not enter the place in
which the business is conducted.
Mrs. Materna, the great Wagner
singer. has decided not to appear on
the concert stage again. She retires
now so nearly at the height of her
power that no unpleasant impression
of failure is left, and she means there
shall be none.
The late Professor Joseph Henry, for
many years secretary of the Sdnithson-
ian institution. left, to the national
museum a valuable collection of models
which formed the basis of many
modern inventions. The collection is
now being prepared by George C.
Maynard.
Thomas Hussey, bellringer, of Leigh,
in Lancashire, So years Of age, rang the
church bell in honor Of Queen Vie
toria's long reign. He had rung the
mourning peal for George w., and also
rang for the coronation and death of
William W., and fer the accession,
coronation. wedding and 50-year jubilee
of Queen Victoria.
Mr.. Mittermayer, a recently elected
anti-Semitic member of the Austrian
reichsrath, brought suit for libel
against political opponent who ac-
cused him of having stolen moneywhen
he was waiter at Vienna hotel. At
the trial his adversary produced his
written confession and Mr.. Mitter.
mayer was turned over to the criminal
court.
Miss Virginia Fair, the great heiress
and beauty has gained considera bic
distinction as an amateur photograph
er. She is frequently seen on New
ports streets with camera in her
hands, and anything that pleases her
eye she photographs. She has several
hundred pictures Of the comical sort
in her collection. and during informal
afternoon entertainments shows them
to her guests.
George Winn, a Windsor, VT, jewel
er, was much surprised the other morn
ing at the way in which a bat with
three young ones got away from him
He had found the four in front of his
house, and he took them in and put
them on a table. The old bat, which
had shown fight, then turned on it's
back and feigned death. The little
ones fastened themselves to it, and the
old one Topped instantly and flew
away, taking it's family along.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

about eight inches in height. The style is
modification of the Gothic. The body of
the vase is oval. with two graceful hand-
les bound or applied with. the Linnia DO
reals. the Swedish national flower. The
gift Is beautifully decorated.
Fewer limbs are amputated nowadays
than ten years ago. Such is the verdict
of one of London's largest hospitals
While surgical operations have increased
20 per cent they have become more con-
sentative and science now devOtes itself
to the saving of limbs which ten years
ago there would have been no option put
10 cut off. At the same time mortality
mas decreased. owing to the improved
methods of nursing and better sanitation.
Only two per cent of the operations today
are amputations.
A movement is now on foot at the Uni.
versity of Virginia to create the office Of
president of the university. Many persons
do not know that it has never had presi-
dent. this being one feature in its Organt-
cation on which Jefferson felt strongly
He provided that the only title distin-
gushing one of the professors above an
other should be that of chairman of the
faculty" and he seems to have expected
and desired that the principle of rotation
in office should apply Ito this place, SO
that there should not be permanent
chairman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
Nexsx Bits.

In France a boy born on French soil OF
parents one of whom may be English.
burt born in Francois regarded as French.
and is liable to conscription.
Tobacco is indigenous to the western
hemisphere, but, curiously enough, has
never been found growing wild. The
Indian tribes which first produced it were
those living in Virginia. the Carolinas and
the southern Appalachian region.
Tennessee is up near the head of the
snake column this year with the record Of
Jesse ShOun, vino killed on Cross noun
tain. near Bristol, a rattlesnake measur-
ing three inches across the head, five feet
in length and six inches in diameter. 1t
had tfrirty-two rattles besides the button.
The little village of Hartford. on the
perquimans river, in eastern North Caro-
lima, boasts the possession of the only
floating bridge, supported by alright
whisky barrels, in the world. This bridge
was the happy idea of an old inhabitant
half a century ago. and it's result still
stands, a monument to his genius.
Helen Hartman. 13-year-old girl liv-
ing in West Philadelphia. recently felt a
sharp pain in one of her ears. The pain
subsidized, but the girl gradually became
deaf and was taken to the Presbyterian
hospital. The physicians extracted a
mosquito. The insect was alive and Wig
orous. Its removal gave the child instant
relief and restored her hearing.
1t seems that the old system OF bleeding
patients may be revived in certain cases
to advantage. A man who had been
poisoned with laudanum and who was
practically dead had life and strength
brought back to him by removing the
poisoned blood and replacing it with the
constituent parts of blood, letting nature
do the rest This was successfully ac-
complished in a Philadelphia hospital re-
Gently.
Riccadonna's is no more. 1t fell under
the hammer of the auctioneer recently
Nothing is left burt the bankrupt pro-
prietor and the memory Of the most FAM
Gus of all of New York's bohemian
restaurants. 1t was at Riccadonnas
that John 7. Raymond sent his dis
patch to John Chamberlain In Washing
ton: Toss a penny for me for hum
dred. / take heads" The reply came
back, while Raymond fingered over his
coffee Tails / charge your account
with hundred
8 The Swedes of Philadelphia are to pre-
sent a magnificent silver vase to the king
Of Sweden and Norway on the occasion
Of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his
reign next month. The vase is thirty-two
inches high and stands on an onyx plimh
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
Hon. Thomas 8. Reed on the New Tariff Law.

In a recent issue of the illustrated
American Hon. Thomas B. Reed con-
tributes an article on The Passage of
the Tariff Bill" which gives clear
analysis Cf the conditions under which
this legislation was accomplished. and
of the difficulties which had to be met
and overcome. Referring to the effect
of the measure he says:
1.-THE passage of a general tariff bill
is a great event and all great events
are liable, like birth, to be exhaust
ing; but in the end it means two lives
instead of one. Moreover business, iii
adjusting itself to new rates, finds out
all the errors more surely than any
combination of the keenest intellects.
1T should be remembered that this
bill has been enacted under all the
usual disadvantages, with others of its
own. The refusal of the Senate to
adopt the retroactive clause which
would have discouraged anticipatory
importations has inflicted severe
blow upon the revenues of the coun-
try for one year at least and perhaps
two.
1T may be also that we have i'm
ported too much even from the
standpoint of the importer. and a rise
in certain prices may be but the pre-
cursor of an injurious fall. These im-
portatiOns, too, will for a period dis
courage our manufacturers by an over
stocked market. We have certainly in
the time spent in deliberation cost our
selves for a year all the increased in
come and influence of our new act, and
we must take the consequences.
Notwithstanding all these draw
backs, it certainly seems most likely
that confidence will now revive in this
country and place us on a higher level
than the other countries of the world.
Our manufacturers have accomplished
wonders in the way of economical pro-
duction. Ii has been at d heavy cost,
however, and has been forced by 4
great loss of profits. But if the world
begins to work together again with
nope and some fruition, as it always
has after such periods as the one we
are now in. we may not only again
astonish the earth by our vast produce
ton, but also give a greater measure
of prosperity and leisure to all who toll.
I'VE have learned at least one lesson
worth all the suffering and thas is that
the great problem is not prices, but the
employment of all our people. There is
but one standard of real prosperity.
and that is the whole nation at work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

Mr.. e. Terrell, middle-aged Auburn
man, has learned to his sorrow that it
is not safe to carry large sums of
money on ones person when going on
excursions. One Sunday recently, Mr..
Terrell, who is prosperous shoe maker
at the Foss, Packard & Company fac
tory in Auburn, went to Old Orchard.
taking. as he says, his entire summers
earnings with him. He had it in one
of his pockets and had the pocket
fastened down. The pocket, however,
was not burglar proof as Mr.. Terrell
discovered. He thinks that his pocket
was picked while he was in a crowd
boarding the train at the Old Orchard
depot. 1t was rich haul. Two other
local men. one from Lewiston and one
from Auburn were victims of pocket
picking that day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

Comptroller Eckels seems to be in
d ,mand. Already a number of fiatter-
ing positions have been rendered him
including the presidency of the Colonial
Trust Company of New York. When
President Cleveland appointed Mr..
Eckels to his present position he was
a comparatively unknown man, and
grave doubts We're expressed by cOnser-
vative men. as to the wisdom of his
selection. 1t is due him to say, how
ever, that he has made a most palms.
taking and capable official. He has,
moreover, impressed himself upon the
country not only as a man of marked
ability, but also as one with deep con-
victions. and the courage of them.
Mr.. Eckels has struck some strong
blows for an honest currency-and has
made many friends, both in and out of
his party, who will wish him abundant
success in whatever field of labor he
may engage at the close of his official
life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

hurriedly climb tree, where the dogs
kept him until the men came up. IT is
possible that a suggestion may lay
here for the benefit of small cities ana
towns. The keen scent of these hounds
has been often established. II put
upon the scent of a burglar in the early
morning the chances would be pretty
good that they would find where he
lived. Now that Protective Associa-
tions are being formed in the South
supplied with these well trained and in
telligent dogs, burglary and theft is
business in that section.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

Elias ]. Baldwin, Familiarity known as
Lucky Baldwin" is among the latest
of notableS to declare his purpose t.
visit the Klondyke region. AT one
time Baldwin was reputed to be worth
500 900, 900; but he has "blOWn 1t in"
with lavish extravaganza. He fully
believes that he was born lucky, and
that, once in the KlOndyke region, he
will have no serious difficulty in re-
building his shattered fortunes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
BUSINESS CHANGES
For Sale.

$500 Buys one of the best furnished and
located lodging houses 1 ever. had on my
books for the money. u rooms all beau
tifully furnished; party who occupies the
house owns it and is about to- move out
of city. rent SIS; lease Of three years.
This house is on Milford St., Boston,
South End, most of the occupants of
houses on this street own them and the
street is free from any Objectionable
features usually found in most streets.
This would be. desirable house for a
could reduce the expense by letting part
of it. Come and see for yourself
w. F. CARRUTHERS.
II School St., Boston.
aug1&71wa .ye,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

The transportation of gold from
Alaska has placed a great load of re-
sponsibility upon the North American
Transportation and Trading Company
whose steamers are engaged in this
work. This company some days ago
asked the treasury department to fur
nish a revenue cutter to convoy the
steamer Portland out of Behrng sea
on her last trip from Alaska. about
September 1, when she is expected to
carry about 81, 000, 900 in gold. The re-
quest was granted. Afterward the
company asked for the loan of a rapid
fire gun from the government for use
on the Portland. This request was de-
MED and the company is now negotiat-
ing with the agent of the Maxim Com
pany in Portland for the purchase of
two on its own account. With such an
equipment its steamers should be able
to make matters decidedly interesting
for any piratical bands that may seek
to interfere with them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
For Sale.

$4o00 Stock. fixtures and machinery Of
an old established machine shop, good
run of bicycle work. also manufactures
a bicycle of high grade well recommended
and hundreds of them in use. Shop Is
3xSO feet. well equipped with improved
machinery, located In that part of Boston
easy and sell at valuation; rent is only
SIS per month. good lease. best Of reasons
for selling;it Is one of the best bargains
on my books. w. F. CARRUTHERS,
augl6d1ws II School street, Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
For Sale.
aug14.d1ws

$4,000 buys stock and fixtures Of nrsf
class grocery and provision store. years
established; rent SIS per month: finely To-
Gated on Dudley street. Boston. In that
known as Roxbury district, doing nne
trade, mostly cash; one horse, two wAg-
ons and a democrat all In good order.
This store Is SO situated that any one ear
reasonably expect to remain as long ~
they would care to engage In busineeS,
being fine residential neighborhOOd, ana
one of the principal th0roughfares from
Cambridge to Dorchester; wanting suoh
place you would buy II you should -
it. w. F. CARRUTHERa.
II School st.. Boston.
aug14, dlws ID
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

A new scheme in the tracking of
criminals is ins use in the town of
Joplin. Missouri. ., whose people for a
long time were annoyed by a success
sion of petty thefts. At last the Spring
City Protective Association was called
upon for assistance, and it's four blood
hounds We're taken to John Burgess
field, from which lot of corn had Just
been stolen. They took up the trail
and after hot chase through the
woods freed the thief. He had been
forced to drop the sack Of corn and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
For Sale.

$500 buys furniture, stock, fixtures and
right to sell specialties OF one Of the best.
known manicure. Embarrassing and facial
treatment parlors In Boston, has beei
successfully carried on for years ana h
patronized by the elite of Boston, located
IN the immediate vicinity of Temple
Place which Is the center Of the ladies,
trading district. all goods bearing the
name Of this well known establishment
Is guarantee OF quality. This ad should
attract artists of the best reputation IL
this line of business.
W.T.. CARRUTHERS,
u School St, Boston :.
aug14 d1Wh 20
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
For Sale.
auglSd1ws

$500. Stock, fixtures and team OF one
of the best bakery. creamery and Ice
cream stores in that part Of Boston
known as the Dorchester district, loca-
ton is unsurpassed. on the principal and
main thoroughfares, residential dis
trict insuring local as well as transient
trade; store has two large show windows
finely fitted. (Middleby) oven, has day
and night bakers. Wholesale and retail
ice cream business connected; trade Is al
ways here. Come and investigate for
yourself. w. F. CARRUTHERS,
augl6d1ws 12 School street. Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

Infant Gotham, remarks the Boston
Herald "CIna tterer," has taken to wear
ing overalls. All the incest little boys
go out to play in that sensible rig made
of blue jeans, and their mothers, if
they don't know Where their young
STEERS are. feel sure they are not spoil
ing their little clothes. But one of
these days the blue blouse of the
French workingman will also be
ment was never fashioned than that.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

The New England fair has been
favored with two beautiful days thus
far this week, and all the reports that
come from it attest it's decided sue
cess. 1t certainly is to be hoped that
old Sol may present, a smiling face to
the many and Interesting features of
this great show during the remainder
of the week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
Ilxily 8tnafase 9aassuxl,
TERMS: $500 PER YEAR.

No notice whatever will be taken of un-
signed communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE for the preservation or
return OF rejected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
DURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers, Au.
gusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

On account of the strange belief of their
pastor. Rev. Otto Duessel, nearly 100
members of the German Lutheran church
of Bristol, Conn.,, who have been carrying
The pastor holds that according to
strict Interpretation OF the scriptures. it
is sinful and wicked, rstV distrust Gods
promise that The will provide. I"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

By the way who has heard anything
from. Mr.. Bryan of late? The return
of prosperity appears to have driven
him into retirement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

A Machiasport man recently conceiv-
ed the idea of supplying the western
markets with live frogs At quite an
expense crates for shipping the croak-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

And still no news from Explorer
Andree
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

The Record calls attention to the
fact that four ministers have recently
left Biddeford leaving unpaid laundry
bills to the amount of $15. 1t is proba-
BILE though that the bills in question
were duly credited as church subscrip-
tons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

The summer resorts appear to .be
having a prosperous August; but the
earlier part of the season was so dull,
owing to the continued bad weather,
that those of them who break even
will be fortunate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19
Maine GOssaIp.

In the last issue of the Bath Times,
Manager Frank 3. Nichols publishes
his salutatory. He says: THE Daily
Times, Mr.. Patterns interest in the In
dependent, the job department and
oversight over Cotillion hall all pass
into the hands of the; new management.
1t will be our earnest endeavor to main
tain all the best features of the paper,
besides adding new ones from time to
time. The politics of the paper will re-
main unchanged and the Times will
continue as the leading exponent of the
Republican party of SagadahOc county.
No ring, however, has any hold upon it.
Other political parties will be accord
ed proper treatment and always given
a fair and square consideration. First
last, and all the time our efforts will be
directed to the giving our readers all
the legitimate local news that's fit to
print The Times is certainly in
good hands, and the Journal is glad to
extend to Mr.. Nichols it's cordial good
wishes and the hope that his conduct
of the Times may meet with the gener-
Gus measure of success it will be sure
to merit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

This is the gentle humor with which
a Maine exchange refers to a physi-
clan of it's town: "Dr. Blank, after a
successful season of dispensing pills,
has Discontinued the same and taken up
new vocation that of mending crock
cry" In which vocation he will doubt
less be far more harmless than in his
former business. 4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

The beautiful lake underlying the
surface of the earth some 80 feet" from
which Mechanic Falls was to receive
her water supply proves to be a bed of
clay and ledge and the water is taken
from Waterhouse" brook Experts from
Boston have been drilling for water in
the vicinity and have given up the case
as hopeless. Many of the consumers
will give up the city water and go hack
to pumps and well sweeps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

In fact every ache. lameness soreness everywhere,
Internal or External, be relieved and cured by
the use Of this old and reliable family remedy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-19

There have been q cases of insanity
in the BavariaR royal family during
the last 100 years.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-29
OLDEST CITIES OF TIRE WORLD.
Damascus the Most Aged, with Jeru-
 salem Next.

Damascus the Most Aged, with Jeru-
 salem Next.
 London as a place of habitation we rightly regard as being of great an- tiquity, but in this respect it is a babe in swaddling clothes when compared with some of the cities of the world.
 It is over 1,950 years since Caesars legions visited London and Paris and brought them under the worldwide aesninion of Rome. But at that time they were nothing more than little col lections of mud huts inhabited by rude and uncivilized Britons and Gauls.
 The city of Marseilles has been in existence 2,497 years. It was founded by colony of Greeks when Rome, the future conqueror of both it and Greece, was nothing but d tiny village. Rome is about 2,650 years old. Of all the cities that were in existence when it be- gan, and still retain their places on the maps, Rome is the most fiourishing and best preserved It has gone through so many wars, sieges and captures without being destroyed that it Is called the eternal city"
 But Rome is by no means the oldest city on the globe, or even in Europe. Athens, the capital of Greece. is about 8.453 years old-older than any other European city. Tangier. in Morocco, is probably over 2,700 years of age.
 Several Asiatic towns are credited with continuous exstences covering longer periods than those of Europe or any other part of the world Picking. the capital of China. is said to be about 1000 years old or more; Jerusalem, which was Jebusite city in the days of N5raham, Is 5000 years old ct least.
 But there is one other city, and prob- ably ory one, that surpasses even Je- rusaem in antiquity. This is Damascus. once famous for it's manufacture of silks, jewelry and arms. A Damascus
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-29

blade was prized as superior 10 all others They are no longer made, the method by which the arnnorers of Da- maseus tempered the steel being one of the lost arts. The exact date of the founding of Damascus is not known, but it is said to have been begun by great-grandson of Noah. It is proba- bly, 4,200 years old, at any rate, and the oldest city in the world.--Lond0n Mail