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Portland Daily Press: March 31,1882 P<) RTLAND DAILY PRESS. MARCH 31, 1882. 8 CENTS, ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862-TOL. 19. PORTLAND, FRIDAY^ MORNING, IBH8a«ig8ttl_PBICE Some Scotch Superstitions. suggested nothing but objects of horror. lu THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, MISCELLANEOUS THE PRESS. this situation be revolved in his mind the ques- _MISCELLANEOUS____ _MEDICAL. tion proposed, and whatever was impressed up- P&kiiahod every day (Sundays excepted,) by toe on him his excited for and by imagination passed Reminiscences of the Druids, Elves the of the disembodied who PORTLAND PITSLISHING CO., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 81. Inspiration spirits Fairies, Goblin Knights and Spirit War- haunt the desolate recess. Ac 07 Kicuaksk Pobtlawb. Second which lias become characteria- St., riors. the Power of Divina- sight, The appeal of the Jewish exiles from Rus- Concerning tia of Scotch superstition, but which under the a Year. To mail suhsenb WILDE Twucb: Dollar. OSCAR Dm and Out Eight lari name Grand tion. of most have had the same Sale, sia for divination, is believed to be the first instance an Seven Dollars a Year, if paid in advance. Closing. Murj existence in other countries the medie- centuries of asked of during jatx. 30th. pecuniary help being Scottish val times, was called by Dr. Johnson, "an im- PRESS coMinEiirciM ioaday, The Catholic World discusses "Some THE MAINE STATE Gentiles in behalf of Jews. pression either by the mind the eye or A York many of which are familiar to npon at a New DEKKA $10 and $15, former $50. Superstitions," the eye the mind, which dis- U published every Tdcbjbday Morning $9.60 prominent SHAWLS, price, upon by things a Americans, and a few of which are transcribed tant and future are seen as were ypar, If paid In advance at $2.00 year. Artist a CLOAKS, $5.00, former price, $28.00. SEEK John Jay Knox’s second term of five is they pres- photographed as follows: ent." The appearances thus presented inch of the as of the will ex. spectral Hayes of Advertising: One space, Mr. Oscar FRENCH and ENGLISH CRETONNES, .35c former years comptroller currency almost invariably foretold misfortune, end the a short time ago Celtio most descend from the *Bftb *t column, constitutes “square.” but it is that he wil 1 superstitions faculty was to those who first week; 76 cents per .62 and .75. pire April 25, expected of the Dm ids, as understood painful supposed they $1.50 per square, daily .50, avoid sickness. suppressed religion it. There are or Wilde, the Aesthetic apostle, prices, health and to customs possessed many physical expla- week after; three insertions less, $1.06; oontinn- to 3.25. have a third term given him, although there by the people. They have clung old after first 60 cents. DRESS 1S-12 to former 35 nations of the phenomenon. and the persons tag every Rther day week, in which GOODS, 1.25, prices Instead of tired and because they were national, and to old beliefs three insertions or 75 many positions feeling are several for the place. thus endowed usually the them- Ttalf square, less, cents; PIANO fonxier $6.00. applicants because these generally tended to the glorifica- acquired gift o»e week, $1.00; 50 cents per week after. COVERS, $3.25, price, worn instead of aches selves while under the pressure of are as out, tion of their own clan or family. The Druid melancholy Special Notices, one-third additional, very characteristic, .70 1.00. Congress has reached that in its It is called in Scotch Gaelic PLAIN SILKS, worth and wouldn’t point the old Gaels was a magician. The Taithilarauyh— under head of “Amusements” and “Aucnow of the pains, you among from Taish, an unreal and shadowy three inser- being explanatory worth .25 business where the feel it Druids were priests, prophets, philosophers, appear- Saabs,” $2.00 per square per week; LOT DRESS GOODS, .131-2 rather feel fresh and ? correspondents ance—and those possessed of it are called Ta- tions or less. $1.60. strong teachers and a word, the only learn- doctrines of this new dis- their duty to speculate on adjournment. judges—in which may be translated, Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State LOT CLOAKINGS, less than half price. ed class. Their was mono- ishatrin, aptly says “ religion originally Sir Walter visionaries. Press (which has a large circulation in every part of the Current speculations are covering June, with but it is that they gradually Scott, for first inser- ciple. Among many DRESS BUTTONS. theistic, supposed ef the State), for $1.00 per square You can continue as what had subs feeling a mild on A Congress is fell into idolatry, adoring gods tion, and 60 cents per square for each uent which were half option July. long compositions VELVETEENS and CORDUROYS, price. no- been at first but symbolical representations of Working Together. Insertion. miserable and for not a • good necessarily large blessing. God. Their chief was the [Maine Farmer.] Address all communications to were CHILDREN’S WOOL HOSE, the only divinity PUBLISHING 00. emblematic, some, and no one but to Balder in the Norse a PORTLAND thing, your- of Charities sun, equivalent mythol- The recent labor disturbances in neighbor- C ASSIMERES at low The New York State Board and to the Baal of Eastern and the Apollo with the dim and shadowy very prices. self can find fault, but if you ogy, ing State, which have resulted in throwing live DRESS BRAID, 4 cts. per returned to Europe last year forty-five pau- of Western heathendom, as Hecateus, a Greek rns and BLACK WORSTED piece, are tired of that kind Matthew Holbeche Blon- thousand laboring men and women out of em- ENTERTAINMENTS of sunflowers oflife, to this to rid of historian, quoted by makes. pers shipped country get on Remains of and the wheels of ma- one of the best can it if an, in his treatise “Sepulchral ployment, stopping busy on the and used cannot fail to interest all you you before if K' walls, in not trash, but tlrst class We have made prices which purchas- change them, whose probable cost death, Great Britain,” seems to imply. Like the This goods. anu chinery, havereoewedly called attention to tha closed out before March as we need the room for New Spring Goods, in thick ers The entire lot must he 1st, choose. had remained a burden on the State in prophets of Baal, they worshiped Gilbert’s Programme. as acce sories in the interi- it under value. The Public are invited to call and examine they disastrous and unnecessary antagonisms be- we have puc prices upon very greatly cordially groves; their festivals were distinguished by New York wonld have been of these poorhouses, the use of fires and—some dispute thie—human tween capital and labor. The interests Thursday Evening. ors, and when exterior J. Id. DYER & CO^ 511 COIGRESS ST. How? By getting one $140,250._ sacrifices. As the Druids were judges, these are identical. They should never clash, but 1. Waltz. 0.Walt* were used, Jan30eodtf supposed victims may have been simply crimi- Polka compositions bottle of Brown’ Iron Bit- work together in harmony like the machinery 2.. ... .Galop. 7 to nals condemned to death. Senator Garland wants appropriate regularly of remains ti....Newport. 8 Galop then the artist was and it The four festivals of the Celts were the eve of a perfect watch Capital inopera- 9 .Waliz equally ters, taking regularly In a for the of 4.Wal'z. $15,000,000 lump rebuilding 1st of Midsummer eve St. John tive uud like the talent buried "German.' the May, (since unremuuerative, 6.. .... Tbe “German.” 10 .The in their to directions. happy arrangement according the levees. The money would the the eve of the 1st of November dtf Mississippi Baptist’s), iu the earth, unless developed by the sturdy ia»r GAS ENGINE. (since and the eve of the 10th of 80__ SILENT an Hallowe’en), The of the NEW OTTO be used to ar. to do impos- blows of the artizan and mechanic. Labor proof negatives employ army March. The Hallow Fires of St. John’s were Mansfield, Ohio, Nov. 26, x88z. Mr. Wilde the sible work, the Cincinnati Commercial in Scotland till a late and halts, languishes, and dies unless capital ccmes gave greatest Without Steam Gentlemen t—I have suffered with kept up very period, Working Boiler, and a work that would be mischiev- probably in many remote places are so at the forward and furnishes the "sinews of war.” CONCERT as pain in my side and back, and great thinks, satisfaction, does the time. On the eve of the 1st of Novem- soreness on breast, with shoot- as was done. present The man with skilled brain and fally —BY the:- Ashes or Attendance. my ous in proportion it in were extin- develop- of ing pains all through my body, at- ber all the fires the kingdom Aesthetic and other poses a it Fall Power Im- ed rolls his shirt sleeves and comes tttarted lnstanly by natch, glees tended with great weakness, depres- guished, and every master of a family was re- mascle, up mediately. When Stopped, all Expense Ceases. Mrs. Garfield is to leave Cleve- Hearn the sion of spirits, and loss of appe- preparing ligiously bound to take a portion of the conse- to the man who handles the keys to the money First Parish Choir, popular photo- or Ko no fires nor cinders, no no pumps, no engineer tite. I have taken several different and the late from the cairn or with which (Coal,explosions, gauges, land and will take her children crated fire altar, vaults, and says: “You have the money and I while Recommended by insurance companies.
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