The Portland daily press., 1864-12-28
ORIGINAL IND SELECTED.

L ~ 4ORcAo s0Jul4 DGdf IL mlQQ Lu8L what they
| quaf from the goblet appears afterwards in the
| mug.
Why are pimples on mans face or nose
like the engravings Of a newspaper? Because
they are illustrations of Punch.
80 The man who makes business of raising
pork for market may be said TO live by his
pen. M
q If you want to kindle the fame of leve in
lady,s breast, you must spark her till she is
eager for q match. m fs4
.RWhy does the new moon remind one of a
giddy grit Because she's too Young to show
Coleman, the dramatist. was asked if he
knew Theodore Hook. sYes," replied the dram
atist, Hook and Eye are old associates
ETA conscript being told that it was sweet to
die for his country tried to excuse himself on the
ground that sweet things made him sick.
H-If the. soldiers are well fed on turkeys,
will they not be better able to ''gobble up the
enemy 70
RThe Ladies' Sanitary Fair in Bangor prov
ed to be perfect success The net receipts were
about $4,000.
HThe Boston Post says they have unrolled
young manin New York three thousand years
old 1t sfrom Egypt. ~ {
ETA colossal bronze bust of William Gull
len Bryant is to be placed in the Central Park,
New York.
HA beautiful little girl in Concord, N. H.,
died fewdsys since from dose of morphine,
taken by mistake.
9 The question of removing the State Capt.
tai of Illinois from Springfield, is under news
paper discussion.
There has been an explosion of saltpetre
in London, which blew down heavy walls and
lifted the roofs from buildings.
% The stamp duty upon the will of Hudson
Quincy, a wealthy English Quaker, is el5,-
5O0
R-The rebellion has been compared to a shell.
Weshould think Sherman had efectually broken
through, and got on the inside.
sEGen. Mcclellan will sail for Europe in
February, it is said, taking his family with
him. E
81 Vice-Admiral Farrsgut, it is said, will
have command of the entire navy, with head
quarters at Washington.
e Beauty generally inspires love of man,
and bravery that of woman--but cleanliness
preserves it in both, says DR.. Hebbard. -
Post. rs
EVA schoolmaster asked one of his scholars
in winter time. what was the Latin for cold.
ooh. SIR replied the lad, 81 can't tell this mo-
msnt, but have it at my fingers ends.''
HThe tone of the Richmond papers has
never been SO responding as at present They
evidently feel that the slast ditch is being ap-
preached. 2&F 81 sa g& 8's
R"Mr. Jenkins said tradesman at Sid
ney to recent arrival there; .swill it suit you
to settle that old account of yours - stNo sir;
you are mistaken in the man, said Jenkins, ''I
am not one Of the old Settlers
R Halifax papers chronicle the receipt at that
place of lump of gold weighing 1893 ounces,
from the Waverly mines, the product, it is said,
of one weeks operations of German company
at Waverly.
THon. W. W. Brookings has been elected
Speaker of the Dakotah House of Representa-
tives. Mr.. B. is a native of Woolwich, in this
state, q graduate Of Bowdoin, and went west
eight or ten years SINCE
RThe Saco Democrat says the farm Of the
late Hon. Horatio Southgate in Scarborough,
containing about $50 acres Of land, has been
sold to Ezra Carter, Jr., and Seth Seaman, for
Sis, 900 cash. r.r
81 The Washington Chronicle says the New
York Nsacs, edited and published by Benjamin
Wood, is not excelled in fidelity to the cause of
treason and rebellion by any newspaper pub
lished in the SO called Confederacy. w .1
81 George Brown, editor of the Toronto
Globe and leader of the opposition party in the
Canadian parliament, is in England seeing about
the proposed confederation of the North Ameri-
can British provinces. d
RA swindler has been operating in ALLIE
ghany City, Pa, by representing himself as
messenger for Adams express company, de-
and charging high rates on them.
RH Hon. Edward Everett has been named in
connection with the French mission. The chief
objection to such an appointment is said to be
the fact that New England has already her full
proportion Of such favers. 4
RJ. j." appeuds to his long communica-
ton. ''if you publish, which you probably will
not, you will have to write it over.'' When we
get time to re-write, and have nothing else to
do, we will publish can't promise to do SO at
any earlier date.
HThe latest rebel symptom that we have mo-
ticed is the anxiety of a morning paper for the
English cotton captured at Savannah. The
editor wonders what can be done with it. He is
evifently AFRAID -xsls5Ai-,. k,s,,.a. -rrrars
will suffer the loss of property.
EVA hay press has been used for the pressing
OF pine shsvings for kindling. They make very
neat packages, and can be sawed into blocks like
timber. About hundred bushels of shavings
can be put in the space of an ordinary hogs
head, and when once pressed the spring is all
taken from them.
RGen Sherman, in his interview with Ad-
miral Dahlgren, on board his flag ship Harvest
Moon, had on an old lieutenant's coat without
straps, and pair of pants slit up the leg. He
had enjoyed no opportunity of arranging his
toilet for week previous to going on board the
flagship.
EThe Boston Herald says the cotton cap
tured by Sherman at Savannah is enough to pay
the whole expense Of the campaign from At
lanta to Savannah, or the whole cost of the war
fora week. 1t is also nearly as much American
cotton as has been thrown on the market for
twelve months before, and it cannot fail to have
an effect upon the price of cotton fabrics.
ESays the Washington Chronicle, Winder,
the incarnate fend, whose fell atrocities at Rich
mond gave him an inapproachable notoriety of
infamy, eCiipsed himself by his brutal heartless-
ness in South Carolina, and when the terrible
mortality Of our men was brought to his notice,
is reported having said, s'they do not die half
fast enough"
EWhile Garrett Davis was running muck,
on Monday, at the Government, in behalf Of
some imprisoned Kentucky traitors, the conser-
vatism of Senatorial debate was shocked by q
woman shouting at him from the gallery, 'sYou
are q traitor.'' Her husband persuaded her
into the hall and begged her to be quiet 81
won't be quiet she answered ssThat Senator
is traitor; and if you men had the souls of
men, he and all other traitors would be flung out
of this Congress- That woman was respect
fully listened to and not arrested.