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Year: 1873

That the effects of worry are more to
be dreaded than those of simple hard
work is evident from noting the classes
of persons who suffer most from the
effects of mental overstrain. The case
book of the physician shows that it is
the speculator, the betting-man, the
railway manager, the great merchant,
the superintendent of large manufac-
turing or commercial works, who most
frequently exhibits the symptoms of
cerebral exhaustion. Mental cares &C
companied with suppressed emotion,
occupations liable to great vicissitudes
of fortune, and those which involve the
bearing on the mind of multiplicity of
intricate details, eventually break down
the lives of the strongest. In estima-
ting what may be called the staying
powers of different minds under hard
work, it is always necessary to take
early training into account. A young
man cast suddenly into a position in
volving great care and responsibility,
will break down in circumstances in
which, had he been gradually habitu-
ated to the position, he would haveper-
formed its duties without difficulty. 1t
is probably for this reason that the pro-
fessional classes generally suffer less
from the effects of overstrain than 9TH
ers. They have long course of pre-
liminary training, and their work comes
on them by degrees; therefore when it
does come in excessive quantity, 1T
finds them prepared for it. Those, on
the other hand, who suddenly vaultinto
position requiring severe mental toll,
generally die before their time. Cham
| berss Journal
Year: 1873

A novel method of killing mosquitoes
has been discovered which deserves to
be patented. But we disclose it to our
readers, unconscious that we thereby
infringe anybody's rights. The, ap-
paratus required is simple, consisting
of a broomstick, the cover of tin
blacl1ing- and nail. The inside of
the cover should be anointed thorough
ly with kerosene oil, and then nailed,
hollow side up, to the end of broom
stick. The method of operation is
equally simple: clap the machine over
the nearest mosquito on the wall or
ceiling, end hold him prisoner for a
moment. Then his body will be found
adhering to the oil at the bottom of the
cover, the fumes having put an end to
his existence. Sometimes strong
headed individual will reel about a
while before he keels over and dies,
BY an Industrious use of this machine
room can be entirely cleared of mos
quitoes.
Year: 1873

The people who say that all they
want is chance-are you old enough
to have found them out? OF all the
miserable souls these used to appeal
most quickly to my sympathies. Of
course there are plenty of genuine
cases; I think am expert enough now
to detect them at glance. But I am
inclined to think that the vast mai ority
of chance-wanters are the people most
active in throwing chances away. I
never saw an earnest man long in want
of o chance. The trouble is in the man,
not in the situation. The individual of
all others who has talked to me with
the most persuasive pathos about the
lack of fortunate circumstances, is the
man whom I have found most ingeni-
GUS in evading his opportunities. If
the poor devil had persuaded the art of
action with the same infexibility and in
dustry that characterized his cultiva-
tion of that of inaction, the world
might have mistaken him for genius.
I have seen him occupy days and weeks
in the most remarkable series of moral,
mental and physical skirmishes with
duty and opportunity, in which his in
exhaustible fertility OF resource, perse-
verance, and valor in bad cause proved
ever vic. orious. ..


In fact, a chance could never ap-
proach nearer than the outposts-he
knew we'll the enemy's colors, and took
him at long range.


"Speak to the devil" and so
forth. ] was about to carry out the
above striking military simile, when my
young friend called to borrow little
matter of s., and to say that he had
been looking all summer for situation,
that he was willing to do anything hon
orable, and that all he wantedsin the


Excuse me, sir-here's some money
for you, but I am busy and can't talk
The sold Cabinet" Scribner's for Sep
tenaber.
Year: 1873

Sixty cents day is considered good
wages for workingman in any of the
European countries, except Great
Britain, where the wages are somewhat
higher. In the Tyrol silk region and
in Italy they often do not get more than
ten cents. In the country in Germany
ten cents is the common pay. Women
there often get but five cents. In Swe-
den men often work from four o'clock
in the morning till nine in the evening,
and do not get more. During the late
war many poor women in Berlin were
hired to knit stockings for the soldiers
for five cents. The profit of the poor
who keep petty shops, sell trinkets in
the streets, or act as suttlers do not av-
erage more than three or four per cent.
BARRIERS in Berlin, since the raising of
their prices, get five cents for hair cut
ting and two and half cents for shaw
ing. Servants at hotels get from three
to eight dollars a month. Servant girls
in private families often get but ten
dollars year. Sometimes these classes
cannot get work at any price,
Year: 1873

In the Brighton aquarium, England,
an experiment was lately tried to ascer-
tain how this frightful monster secures
his prey. A crab was SO fastened that
the string could be withdrawn, and was
lowered near to the great male octopus
He was sleepy, and required great
deal of tempting, but the sight of his
favorite food overcame his laziness,
and he lunged out an arm to seize the
precious morsel. 1t was withdrawn
from his reach; and so, at last, he turned
out of bed, rushed at it, and got it un-
der him against the plate glass, just as
was desired. In second the crab was
completely pinioned. Not struggle
was visible or possible; each leg, each
claw, was grasped all over by suckers
embodied in them-stretched out to
it's full extent by them. The black tip
of the hard, horny beak was seen for a
single instant protruding from the cir
cular orifce in the centre of the radia-
tion of the arms, and next had crunched
through the shell, and was buried deep
in the flesh of the miserable victim.
The action of an octopus when seizing
it's prey for its necessary food is very
like that of q cat pouncing on mouse,
and holding it down beneath it's paws.
The movement is as sudden, the scuffle
as brief, and the escape of the prisoner
even less probable. The fate of the
crab is not really more terrible than that
of the mouse, or of minnow swallowed
by perch; but there is responsiveness
about the form, color, and attitudes of
the octopus which hinvests it with kind
of tragic horror.
Year: 1873

The mountain That the morn doth kiss.
Glad greets its shining neighbor:
Lord heed the homage of my bliss
The incense of my labor
Sharp smites the sun like burning rain,
And field and flower languish:
Hear, Lord! the prayer of my pain
The pleading of my anguishl
Now the long shadows Eastward creep.
The golden sun is setting:
Take, Lord ! the worship of my sleep
The praise of my forgetting!
Year: 1873

RATE.


There is considerable anxiety manifested
among tax payers in Brooklyn to ascertain the full bad
rct which 1t is announced will be entirely made at
te next meeting Of the Board Of Estimate, and ready
10 be submitted at the joint session Of the Aldermen and
Board OF Supervisors, who. with the Mayor presid
ing officer will finally consider the amounts asked for
aud determine how little or how much they shall
be cut down. Thus far the estimates have been
fully up 70 the amount stated IN The TRIBUNE aud II
the basis OF taxation remain the same as last year. will
call for over s. for every 500 assessed. Controller
Schroeder, however. proposes 10 apply the amount in
the sinking fund with its accumulated interest toward
tho payment OF the amount required for the Water
Fund II this be done IL viii temporarily relieve the
taxpayers and make the rate equal TO or something
less than las. year. This will save an appropria
ton Of N,676,O0O, which Is ono and si1tyhve
hundredths per cent the rate OF taxation.
While this Will relieve the citizens from an increase
above the rate OF TAXATION which already larger than
II is In any other city, being per cent upon the vaua
ton against per cent IN NcwYork, 1t will wholly wipe
ont the sinking fund and the interest which IL will pre-
sumabIy yisld during the coming year, 10 that
Year: 1873

To the Editor of the Press


Although not a veteran Observer" lover
which signature many articles have been
written for one of our prominent New York pa
pers,) would like to offer suggestions which
for some time have occurred to me, and more
particularly seen worthy of bringing to public
notice since our disasterous fire OF two weeks
ago. Persons familiar with the grain trade of
this CITY. are aware that it is carried on to no
very limited extent, and believe it is capable
of assuming much larger proportions by extend
ing facilities for handling.


We ought to have an elevator with capacity
of-say 25O,OOO to 100000 bushels, located on
our harbor front, accessible to large vessels,
and at place where trade could be laid by
railroads now in operation and to be built, and
am inclined to believe the building of such an
elevator by the different railroad corporations
would add very materially to their interests.


With such an elevator and facilities for ship
ping to this city as we shall undoubtedly have
in few years, l see no cause why we could
not reasonably expect to obtain share of the
export trade to Europe, that other places on
the Atlantic coast are now receiving.


We are well aware that naturally we have an
advantage in a capacious harbor and are near
er the great grain receiving ports of Europe
than Boston, New York or Baltimore, and it
seems from this fact and with such improve
there is no reason why Portland may not aspire
to place as one Of our principle cities for ex.
portation of grain. CHICAGO
Year: 1873

The Portland Steam Packet Co. hereby give
notice that their loss by fire will occasion no
detention to business


The Steamers John Brooks and Forest City will
form daily line leaving wharf foot of Franklin St.
for Boston at 8, P. M. an12sn3w
Year: 1873

Never trife vita what are called small ailments.
disorder easy 10 control at first if neglected for
few weeks may become mortal disease. Be especi-
ally careful not to let debility gain upon you for it is
the door through which all maladies enter the sys-
TEN. If you feel langud inert, and to use common
expression, 'as if there life left in you,''
sort at once to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. That
great vegetable tonic will supply the vitality you so
urgently need. 1t is food. BY its tonic action
the stomach is invgorated that the digestion be-
comes regular, easy perfect; while its mild, cathar-
and its alternative operation benefciay affects all the
secretive organs For the miseries of dyspepsia and
they include almost every unpleasant feeling that
belongs to physical disease and mental wretchedness
this potent tonic is a certain and speedy balm.
Year: 1873

The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to AMI
mails respectfully gives notice that ALoNZo H.
LIBBY, Constable, whose Office is at No. so Middle
street, Cup stairs has been appointed Agent of the
Society.


The public are therefore requested to give prompt
information to him of any cruelty to animals that
may come to their knowledge, and he will see to it
that the offenders brought to speedy and strict
justice. Per order
, apZy sniff
Year: 1873

NJ Office is hereby given that State County and
IN City Taxes for the year 1872 were on the second
day of September 1872 legally assessed by the As
SCISSORS of the City of Portland on the following de-
scribed Real Estate, situated in said city belonging
to proprietors resident therein, in the herein
respectively set against each parcel parcels of said
Real Estate; and Tax Lists with warrant for the
collection OF the same on said second day of Septem-
SCISSORS to HENRY w. HERSEY, Treasurer and Col
lector Of Taxes of said City for the year aforesaid
and nine months have elapsed from the date of said
assessment and the taxes hereinafter named remain
unpaid.
Names. Descript on of yalue Tax
Year: 1873

The GREAT AMERICAN TRAVELLER. Al
most the only fool honored by occasional
mention is Daniel Pratt, the Great Amer
lean Traveller, and hardly anybody knows
who he is. He was formerly a printer, l
understand and never having possessed
much good sense, was made universal
butt of by his fellow-craftsmen, until he
lost the little sense Nature had provided
him with. He went to Liverpool once
In sailing vessel, staid three or four
weeks in England, returned home, and
talked so copiously of what he had seen
abroad that his brother compositors
dubbed him the Great American Traveller.
They ran all sorts of saws on him, put
stories into his mouth of his wanderings
in Asia Minor, Greenland, Australia and
Ethiopia, and so bewildered the poor
devil that he came to believe not only
what he had told them, but that he had
actually been in those countries. Since
that time he has never been more than
800 miles from New York; and yet he is
positive monomaniac on the subject OF
travel. His acquaintances, aware Of this,
keep ont of his way for fear of the fate
OF Narcissus. They frequently send him
to certain persons by telling him that
those persons are deeply interested in
foreign lands, and would be delighted to
hear his account thereof. This is O
standing joke among typos, and is pu,
of on any one they can think of. Pratt's
method is to approach victim with the
remark; II should like to tell you the
story of my travels" and, if the victim
be amiable and patient, he will be com.
PEELED to listen to an incoherent gallima
tia for fully half an hour, when the ra
contour will apply for loan Of fifty Of
twenty five cents, by the way Of paren
thesis. The victim will usually pay tha
price on condition that he shall hear M
more, and Pratt will go off in search o
new beings to immediate on the altar o
ssuperlative prosiness. By such contri
buttons he manages to live in a miser
able fashion, and. as he has vigorous
constitution, and no bad habits as re
spects himself, there is danger OF his be
coming centenarian. The only advan
tageous use to which Pratt might be put
Is in the formation of artesian wells.
he were placed upon the spot to be bored
and turned round certain number O
times, he would certainly reach the antiI
odes, IN. Y. Correspondent Chicsg
Tribune.
Year: 1873

The world is looking glass and gives
back every man the reflection of his own
face. Frown at it, and it will turn and
look sourly upon you; laugh at it. and
with it, and it is jolly, kind compan-
ion.
Year: 1873

have toiled all my life for this 1
thought l had a comfortable home for
the rest Of my days, but now I must
work harder than ever. Five thousand
dollars can't be picked up every day; my
farm will have to be mortgaged, and


He could say no more, but walked
away to tell his trouble to his sister
Kate was about to follow him, when Con-
way caught her by the waist and said;


g You can avert this trouble; give me
the right to pay it.


II could not sell myself so, Mr.. Conway,
papa would not consent to it, and have
already said'-


He interrupted her with:


The sum is paltry one. 1 paid an
equal one not long since for horse;
the ring l wear cost more than half
as much. Mr.. Leonard cannot object
when 1 tell him that you are my
promised wife, and that l claim the right
to it. If you do not love me now, you
will soon learn to do so, am confdent


Kate was silent. She thought of all
that her uncle and aunt had done for
her; how they had befriended her father
how some debts (and heavy ones too) in
Cured by him had after his death, been
eheerfully paid by his brother, so that
no one could have aught with which to
reproach the memory of Guy" Kate
knew that her uncle had labored hard
to repay these debts, that but for them
he might have been almost rich man
to-day. How entirely the old couple had
filed the place of parents to her in her
orphaned childhood, and now by one
little word from her they would be freed
from the greatest trouble of their lives.
She liked Conway, perhaps she might
learn to love him, she wavered.


"You are making rash request. Had
you not better reflect upon it before
requiring my answer p


Reflect" he exclaimed impetuously.
Il want your answer now. Is it ycS or no p


"If you, knowing the circumstances
under which 1 consent are satisfied, my
answer is yes" and without waiting for
any more words she escaped from ihe
room, leaving Conway standing in the
middle of the floor.


He remained there for some minutes,
lost in thought. A look of vexation
passed over his handsome face as he

'tWas ever woman in this hunOr wooed


Was woman in This humor won?"'


(I0 be C0ntinued)
Year: 1873

ber of hands before reaching the consum-
er.


Our home interests will be benefited
by the great development of our miner
al resources and grand opportunities of
investments, and and our laborers will be
benefited by the increased demand for
labor


The opportunity to secure direct com
munica ton with the Atlantic States up
on the South and East upon the one
hand, and Chicago and the great North
West upon the other, by making said
proposed road part of the great through
line from the Chesapeake to the city of
Chicago, thereby connecting us with the
North Pacific Railroad, should not be
permitted to pass, when only one hun
dred thousand dollars is asked to be sub
scribed by this county in order to secure
said road.


1t is now fixed fact that one line of
Huntington, down the Ohio River to
Portsmouth, and by way of Dayton to
Chicago. Now if that line is once built
independent of this then the Chesapeake
Company will no longer have any inter
est in building this line of Road.


But as the matter now stands, the city
of Dayton, on account of the interest it
has in securing our coal, is demanding as
a condition to its voting aid of five hun
dred thousand dollars that while the
= ho
through this county, forming most of the
through line as proposed shall also be
built.


Therefore it is that said Company have
son county as above proposed, by said
County voting one hundred thousand
dollars to aid in the construction thereof.


If this line of road is lost, we can nev-
er expect to be able to procure road
through this county that will be of any
thing like equal benefit to US.


We hope therefore that every one will
at once take hold of this matter, and do
all they can to- carry the vote of said
county in favor of the road.


Inc lOlIOWlnS SlaIlSIlcS nave Ocen care
fully prepared from the official records,
and by competent men, and may be re-
lied upon. and we ask of you;a careful pc
rusal of the same.


The assessed value of all proper t,--t-I i-I5. !.
jackson county in 1852 was $l,5l2,
and in 1856, after building the presef,S
Railroad was $3, ,64O,5 Sis being an in
crease in 4 years of 50. .128, ,5l5 or 35 per
cent appua1ly,-
Year: 1873

There is one lady in Indiana who does not
get dragged all around the room by the hair
of her head when her husband comes home
tight. Patent hairrestoratives have rendered
her exempt from playful tricks of this kind.
She is bald as an egg.
Year: 1873

Josie Mansfield is creating sensation in
Paris, and it is said duel has already been
fought as the result Of a dispute about her,
neither of the parties being, however, serious
ly hurt. Perhaps it is safe to remark that
the fools are not all dead yet.
Year: 1873

A grand child means something in Califor-
mia. A yearling there outweighs its father,
and can already look to the top of the tallest
tree in the Yosemite Valley with its unaided
vision.
Year: 1873

An anecdote is told of a
poor North American Indian.
who returned to the backwoods
Of his distant tribe to recount
the wonders he had witnessed
at Washington. They were
listened to with doubt and in
credulity, until he declared that
ne had seen the white people
attach a great ball to a canoe,
and so rise into the clouds and
travel through the heavens
This was instantly pronounced
to be an impossibility, and a
young warrior, in a paroxysm
Of anger, leveled a rifle at his
head and shot him dead on the
spot, as too great a liar to be
permitted to live. If, then,
what takes place in an other
climate, or in a different state
of society, appears absurd be-
cause contrary to experience,
shall we greatly wonder that
the things of the Spirit of God
heavenly and eternal
things which "eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither
hath it entered into the heart
Of man to conceive e"-should be
foolish to all them who have
not the Spirit, and are conse-
quently alienated from the life
of God?
Year: 1873

I might as well cut up a hog as
anything else, so here goes:


A hog may appear in the person
of man sometimes. We have
seen it manifest, that some men are
more hog than man. They try TO
get all the good things on the table,
and if there are fow eggs they
take three, if not four of them. If
there are three pieces of pie, they
take two, and everything else in
like manner, and the poor little
children come ip for the leaVings,
There are no manners In some Of
these human hogs, no how; and
they don't show their hoggishness,
only at the table, for you often dis
cover it in everything. They will
seek the best place at the fire and
drive the little ones back in the
cold; they will take the only re-
naming chair, and let the old man
stand up. They will keep their
seats in the stage coach, street or
railroad car, and permit the ladies
to stand up or find seats as best they
can; and just as like as not, these
hogs will occupy an entire seat, and
with q grunt, lie at fuU length on
the seat. They are also greedy in
getting money, and will allow their
next door neighbor, although he
may be u son or daughter, 60 hun
CRY, while Mr.. Hog grows fat by
greed. These hogs "devour wild
ows' houses, and, for pretense,
make long prayers" and all this
kind of thing, and if you under
take to cut them off from getting
more than belongs to them, they
will set up.a torriblo injured voice.
They would just as soon rob q
preacher of his share, as they would
a private, and, when told of their
faults they only go around to an
other place seeking to crafty their
hog-lilSe proclivities. You know
some of these fellows in lifes' great
pen, Don't youp Cross. Cur.


WOODLAND, 0.
Year: 1873

The hopelessness ofone's ac-
complishing anything without
pluck is illustrated by an old
East Indian fable. A mouse
that dwelt near the abode of a
great magician, was kept in
such a constant distress by it's
fear of a cat, that the magician,
taking pity on it, turned it into
a cat itself. Immediately, it
began to suffer from fear of a
dog, so the magician turned it
into a dog. Then it began to
suffer from fear of a tiger, and
the magician turned it into a
tiger. Then it began to suffer
from it's fear Of huntsmen, and
I.tbe magician, in disgust, said.
'"Be a mouse again. AS you
have only the heart of a mouse,
it is impossible to help you by
giving you the body Of a noble
animal" And the poor crea-
ture again became mouse.


1t is the same with a mouse
hearted man. He may be
clothed with the powers, and
placed in the position of brave
men, but he will always act like
a mouse; and public opinion is
usually the great magician that
finally says to such a person
"Go back to your obscurity
again. You have only the
heart of mouse; and it is use.
less to try to make a lion Of
you"