The <strong>Barrington</strong> Review Entered at Barrliisjtou u Second-Claas Mattet Subscription lUOlptr yéâr In advance. Advertising Kate« made known on upplie»- ÜHK ' ~ I MILES T. LAMBV, Editor and Publisher. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 19Ä Professor Trigg* Again la Eruption. m. Professor Triggs baa broken out again.' This.distinguished personage. It will be remembered. Is the professor of literature In the University of Chicago who a few months ago declared that Mr. Rockefeller was a bigger man than old Shakespeare or words to that effect. This, however, was not regarded as a particularly serious break, as the professor was probably a candidate for a high«* salary In .the excellent institution of; which Mr. Rockefeller is the chief benefactor. But in his recent outgiving, in which be declared before a class of summer school students that the poetry of Longfellow and Holmes is trivial and unworthy of consideration, he has not the excuse of self interest. How can be hope to gain anything by robbing these dead and gone poets of the laurels which have been bestowed upon them by the world ? It is rather strange that it should have taken so many years to discover 'that neither ^Longfellow nor Holmei was worthy the name of poet and that only this Chicago professor should have made this discovery. According to this distinguished literary critic,. "The Psalm of Life" and "Excels!«-" are "stuff" and "drivel," and all tifst Longfellow wrote was "the outgrowth of the old New England Primer and the Bay State Song Book, which lattef is mere doggerel. From a further analysis we are informed that Longfellow could not be a great poet because of this environment tf Puritanism. "Pu- "fltanism is Inimical to art." But we are also informed that Lorigfeilow "was ¿00 cultured and refined to be truly American." It was certainly a stroke of genius to bring culture and, refinement and Puritan doggerel into such close conjunction. Great ls_ Professor Triggs as a literary authority! Let us hope that be may continue steadfast in the work of enlightenment to the end that the public understanding on these matters may become clear and sound. Chin» Affair Still Unsettled. Dispatches from European capitals and from Peking make it, evident that the powers are still a good way o9 from a thorough settlement In China. Great Britain withholds her signature to the agreement ostensibly because the international commission for revising the Chinese, tariff is unsatisfactory to her, and at, the, same time she is moving for an opening up of some of the subjects which the powers bad practically agreed to let alone for the very reason that no agreement was possible. It is quite evident that our government and Great Britain have no understanding with regard to this matter, as other powers hate assumed, since Mr. Rockhill is Ignorant of the nature of the British objections to the tariff commission. It is a year since Peking was relieved. The powers find that it was easier to relieve the embassies than it has been to agree as to what should be done with the country. If difficulties are to be made now, however. It la not at all strange to see them emanating from Great Britain. Her position with regard to territorial prospects is bad, whereas that of Russia is decidedly good. As the United States government has no territorial aspirations it is in a position to take the lead in getting out of China. France, which seems to be getting excited over the prolonged delay of Turkey in settling certain indemnity claims, has given Abdul Hamld a good •harp nudge. It la declared that M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs, has given formal notice to the Turkish embassador at Paris that the sublime porte must make Immediate and satisfactory reply to the French demand. Doubtless the authorities of the republic of France have noted the recent compliance with American demands for indemnity for damages inflicted upon the Interests jof certain of oar citizens in the Karput riots and therefore have decided to follow Undo flam's lead In the business of "collecting little bills." \ - Prince Henry of Orleans, who died the other day In rnseb Cocbln-Chlna. waa something mom than an ordinary "pretender." He bad shown himself a flaring and successful explorer both In Asia and In Africa, although, like most Gallic aspirants after the vanishing vision of royalty, 1M had his days of wildness and extravagance—a food many of them, taken altogether... After viewing some of tbe pletaica of tiie automobiles which an credited #ttb record txeakfcv speed one Is tarnvinced tbat tbe steam roller mast have great undeveloped possibilities. Vtor having, predicted continuous hot weather for New Tack Forecaster Moors seims to bar* got hlmaslf tel» bet water. Ceast tii* Times a Hone Rolls. To see a horse when out at pasture rolling on the ground and endeavoring to turn over on bis back Is a common sight, but how many people have noticed that in doing this horses observe an invariable rule? The rule Is that he always roils over either at the first or third attempt— never at the second—and more than three attempts are never made. In Other words, if tbe horse succeeds in rolling over at the first try, well and good—that satisfies him; but If the first attempt Is a failure, the second one always is. Then he either rolls quite over at the third or gives it jtp. He never makes a fourth. ! I f horses are rolling on sloping ground, they usually roll up bill. This Is more easy of explanation than the strange custom regulating the number of attempts. As to this no adequate reason has ever been offered. Will those ingenious people who tell us why a dog turns round before lying down, and why ducks walk behind each other In a string instead of abreast, explain why a horse never makes four attempts to roll over and never succeeds at the second? * .< «Ham« «0 Month" Livers. One of the paradoxes of waste is that the persons most addicted to It are not man and women of Independent means who can support themselves In spite of their extravagant expenditure, but tbe poorer classes. There Is hardly an ablebodied laborer who might not become financially Independent if be would but Carefully husband bis receipts and guard against the little leaks of needless expense. But unfortunately this is the one thing which tbe workingman finds It the hardest to do. There are a hundred laborers who are willing to work hard to every half dozen who are willing properly to husband their earnings. Instead of hoarding a small percentage of their receipts so as to pro- .vlde against sickness or want of employment they eat and drink up their earnings as they go, and thus in the ¿ret financial crash, when mills and factories "shut down" and capitalists lock up their cash instead of using it In great enterprises, they are ruined. Men who thus live "from hand to mouth," never ^keeping more than a day's march ab^ad of actual want, are little better off than slaves.—Success. Why (he Bey Was Sore. A certain officious head nurse in the accident ward of a local hospital received an unexpected "call down" recently. An unfortunate young man of the age of 10 had been practicing with a Cartridge pistol several sizes too large for him, and the result was unpleasant. The doctors and nurses had cleansed and dressed the wopnd, and he was resting easily. Then the nurse, who had not been present and who hated to miss a trick, walked over to tbe little boy's bed, around which tbe attendants were still standing, and asked him solicitously: "Are you sure that the bullet Un't sticking there still?" ^ "Sure." . I' "What makes Von think so?" "It was a blank cartridge." There was a< isbarp decline in that nurse's stock ofipride, and the laughter failed of unanimity by one dissenting voice.—New York Commercial Advertiser. •or* Lsishter, Less Snleldes. The physiological benefits of laughter cannot be overestimated. It shakes up the diaphragm, sets the pulses beating to a lively measure, stimulates the blood corpuscles, enlivens the brain and sometimes produces dislocation of the jaw when indulged in too heartily by a man with a large mouth. Used with discretion, laughter Is ss inspiring as a sea breeze, as refreshing as an August shower. Its moral effect la beyond computation. It has killed more ridiculous superstitions by Its rollicking roars of unbelief than any other agency. What can be more derisive than a laugh? The man who laughs never kills himself. This is the reason so few Irishmen commit suicide.—Literary Era. Qaccr Case of Kvalatlea, The general law of evolution is from the useful and practical into the ideal and beautiful. This seems to be reversed in the case of the lily and the banana. The banana is really a developed tropical lily from which the seeds have been eliminated and the fruit greatly expanded. This is very much as If an angel should evolve Into a fat, comfortable stockbroker.—Exchange. OstsHs. Ontario, with an area of 220,000 square miles, Is larger than all the following states of the Union: New York. 40,170 square miles; ; Massachusetts, &315; Connecticut 4,990; New Jersey, 7,815; Maine, 83,040; Pennsylvsnla, 45,- 215; Maryland, 12,210; Indiana, 36,350; Vermont, 8£65, making a total of 206,- 670 square miles. Haw Absst DlskwsiUs«t ! A writer, one prof casing to know, states that the progress of modern industrial sit has done away with much of the household drudgery to which #omen were formerly subjected and tbat the result has been In too many eases, for want of sufficient occupation for needed bodily ex^relae^ ills and disrssrs. The Tws Chaaspleas. It is said tbat tbe roar of a Hon can be beard farther than the sound made hy any other living creature. Next trf tbat comes tbe nota of s woman who baa found a asonse la her bvreau.— Boston Transcript The trank of tbe elephant baa no fewer than 4.000 mnscies at toast so said Caviar, the famous comparative anstandst The whale of the muscles of a man's bsfly added together only number 627. Hens, Ho« Adverb. When General Grant was In China, says a contributor to Short Stories« he journeyed by' water from Tien-tain to Peking. On«).morning there was no wind, and tip coolies, walking along the river battìi, pulled tbe houseboat. They made l|j|le progress, and finally the general c&tled his Chinese servant ànd said: | |J- . "Boy, why Jor these coolies no can walkee more fast ?" "Must talkel lowder," tbe boy replied. • . }• ;|g The generaUjlblnklng tbe boy's meaning was that Wt should speak in a tone tbe coolies coy slightly varied his response: "N^f'casion speak so high," be said. "Moil better talkee lowder." Our hero was just beginning to feel like Alice in Wonderland when a ray of light seeSMd to flash across tbe mind of the w, and be rushed to the end of the bffftt, seized Che captain's arm and, ragging him to General Grant, exclnicaed: "This ma u -belong (pidgin English for Ms'] lowdèr; just now can talkee be." General Gra|)§ saw tbe joke. On Chinese boats thè" captain is called "lowder!" ' :-|t' Palled.ttneoln's Hair. While Mr. ytlncoln was living In Springfield af|udge of the city, who was one of' tbi leading and most Influential citikm of the place, bad occasion to callppon him. Mr. Lincoln was not overparticular in .his matter of dress and wasplso careless in bis manners. The juwfe was ushered into the parlor, wherej|he .found Mr. Lincoln sprawled out Mross a couple of chairs, reclining at hp ease. The judge was asked to be»sewed and, without changng bis position in tbe least, Mr. Lincoin entered Into conversation with his visitor. , S ' While tbe men were talking Mrs. Lincoln enter«! the room. She was of course greasy embarrassed at Mr. Lincoln's offbahd manner of entertaining his caller, and, stepping up behind her husband, ipe grasped him by the hair and twitijbed his bead about at the same timdflooking at him reprovingly. .. ; J' • Mr. Lincoln apparently did not notice the rebuke. JEtfe simply looked up at bis Wife, then across to the judge and, without rising,Isaid: "Little Mary«' allow me to Introduce you to my friend, Judge So-and-so." It will be remembered that Mrs.' Lincoln's maiden pame was Mary Todd and that she very short in stature. —Leslie's MonfhAy. BcSf#4lsg at Clock. It is not, of jgourse, possible to seize bold of the bands of a clock and push them backward or forward a tenth or a twentieth part of a second, which Is. about the limit of error that is allowed at the Greenwich observatory, so another method iS deviged. Near the pen*dulum a magnet is fixed. If It is found tbat the pendttlbm is going either too fast or too slofti a current of electricity Is switched o|j| and the little magnet begins to pull |tt tbe metal as It swings to and fro. ICjbnly retards or accelerates the motmi by an infinitesimal fraction of a second each time, but it keeps the operation up and in a few thousand swings the tenth or the twentieth part of tSe almost invisible error ts corrected, thus making tbe clocks keep step" «! the proper iristant of time.—Londohi News. Tfclrteelì Rsiles la Colas. "I have nev# been abJe_to, comprehend," said i| veteran . numismatist, why so manff; Americans should believe that a vast amount of 111 luck centers around tbil humber 13. "The commonest of all our silver coins is the 25 pint piece. In tbe words 'quarter dollar' Are 13 lettera. Thirteen letters compose E Pluribus Unum. In the tall of the eAgie are 13 feathers and In the shield at$ 13 lines. There are 13 stars and 13 aiTowheads, while if yon will examine the blrd through a "microscope you wflLfind 13 feathers in his wing." ; pi , . Rctslif ret role The refining of petroleum is a process of flistillatioif || which it is separated into several ^marketable products. There are two methods of distillation, known techniggiy as "in vacuo" and cracking." In the first the petroleum ts distilled in a partial vacuum and In the* second wHh superheated steam. This process receives its name from the cracking, sound' of* the steam as It enters the undls&illed petroleum. """15 • tiara Hit. Lord Fitzfoodle, casting himself on his knees before Aramlnta, gave utterance to the: following: "Oh, that I could snatch alj&ine from some primeval forest! I would sharpen tbe end with my penfaljie, dip it hi the molten, crater of Vesuvius and write upon the asure wall of beaven In letters of living fire, 'Araminta, I love theef " Ts* IsrflesL A little Lewiston boy at Old Orchard who has long, «farly hair was told by a lady that he ought to have it "shingled." ' fW: : • "Shingled! I guess not," was his reply. "I aint gdthg to have nails drova la my bead!"—fcwiston Journal. Id* Dsskt Mabel-What do yon think af tbe Ihv. Dr. Idea that there wfB be few if any man in beeren? Jtfaod—Hani Would yow aaB that heaven T—Ohlçage Tribaaa. j A Communication. MR. EDITOR—Allow me to speak a few words'lia favor of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I suffered for three years wltlMhe bronchitis and could not sleep at nights. 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