The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-15
ORTGINAL AND sELECTED.


SS The Nashville Press and -yyn,s,. COWS ;
The man who advocates gradual en,anc;not;on
is about to apply for patent for the Gradual
explosion of gun-cotton'
SIhe Rich" said Jew, aeat yenison be-
cause it ish deer; eat mutton because Il ISL
sheep"
bB Don't live in hope with -von,. -,r,,,s- FIJI
ded; Fortune smiles on thosa v,ho ,oI, mn
their sleeves and put their shoulders II the
wheel.
EBD French chemist asserts that If tea be
ground like coffee, before hot water is nut upon
1t, Will yield double the amount of ,exbilera-
ting qualities Another writer saws ,,,o4 s;f a
piece of lump sugar the size Of 4 walnut 4 mt
into the teapot you viii make the tea ;nf,,se in
one-half the Time. ne
BB-' Nature hangs labels upon the dissolute,
20 testify her disgust at the example
B9 swimmer having made a hat Of five
hundred francs with Count s. tbat ba would
swim in the Seine for ten ,ninntas holding a
book all the while in both hands and reading
aloud, gained his wager on the 18th Of .Iuly. a
considerable crowd of boats being collected in
the river, filled with persons anxious to see the
feat.
B3 1.-The Wizard of the NORTH uas in Ans
'raiia some years ago, and while there bought
lot OF land in wild, unsettled region, and
paid for it at the rate Of a pound per acre.
Since then "Gipp's Land" where it was situa-
ted, has proved to be one of the richest mining
districts, and Mr.. Anderson is told by his
agent in Melbourne that his land is now worth
$4,000.
va A colored man in Eufala S. c.. under
TOOK to burn outa hornets nest he found in
cotton warehouse. He succeeded not only in
burning the nest but the building also.
BB- A laborer in a paper mill found in the
rags thirty thousand dollars in notes of the
Hagerstown Bank, and on returning them to
that institution, he was rewarded with one
hundred and fifty dollars.
The London Lancet advocates the Gus
tom Of writing medical prescriptions in Eng
fish, which it says has long been the practice OF
many eminent physicians.
EY- Hon. CIV. Culver of Franklin. Pa. has
recently given 100000 to Allegheny College,
Meadville, Pa.
w. Mr.. Seeley of Ooldwater, Michigan, has
caused the wealthy men in Detroit to be great
y NAoeS NSeONs liz AObuIlc income 1fOul pc
troleum Of $25O,OOo, which is much larger than
any in the city.
DBThe Richmond Whig advocates encour-
agement to Northern emigration to Virginia a.
Ia Hon. Paul Dillingham;, candidate for
| Governor of Vermont, was only few years
since, the Democratic candidate for that
| office,
| EB A writer in the Evening Post suggests
that in this land of liberty and progress and
philanthropy, we want one more society-a So
| ciety for the Reformation of Railways Such a
society would find plenty of work to do.
THE Charleston correspondent OF the
Boston Adcertiser says that planter was lately
overheard scolding a negro for laziness. "You
lazy Niger" said he, 81 am losing whole
days labor by you p "Massa," retorted the
negro, show many days labor have Host by
you ?" The planter considered the subject ex-
hausted Is Hie ~
BB THE army worm is eating up the cotton
crop in Texas.
FITTINGS are getting round to a natural
state on the Mississippi river. In one days
dispatches we have reports of one steamboat
explosion, of the blowing up Of another,
and of the robbery of the passengers in a
third
BB-In view of watering place designations,
| Mrs. Grundy calls for Red Sea to destroy
Faro and all his hosts ~ -
| Va There is general misapprehension COZ
| corning the number of pardons granted to the
late rebels. The newspapers print applications
for pardons, and they call them pardons gran
ted. During the last month, there were but
| fifty granted.
| BB- 1t is said that the Theme dives, even i,
made from tea, can be manufactured as cheaply
as the analine colors, and quite as brilliant.
B- A chemist of this country has patented
a new ink from the waste product of petro-
leum refneries. The invention consists in
taking the residuum, deodorized. and carbon
izing it with the waste acid, thereby making a
sort ofwax for the foundation of the ink, which
requires but little resin or lamp-black. The
ink is said to feed well, does not fill the type
and leaves fine color without staining the
paper. The price, as estimated by the cost Of
ingredients used, should be about half that Of
linseed oil inks.
| GB- Mr.. M. j. Soford, geologist, has repor-
ted favorably on new lead vein in Kentucky
1t crosses the Kentucky river mile below
the town of Yeating, and is well-worked
one. As
1.-The cholora is spreading extensively in
Italy. An official report issued at Ancona
July 9th, states that from noon on the 18th to
noon on the 26th, five deaths occurred. 1t is
observed, however, that the malady has not the
violent character which it has presented in
Egypt
GB Linoleum, or artificial india-rubber, i,
the subject Of new patent taken out in Eng
land It is made from linseed oil, converted by
some chemical action into jelly, quite like
rubber. and is said to be impervious to acids
and water.
va The steamers are racing ON Detroit
River. One recently made 20 miles in 66 Is
minutes, for $1,000.
BB Miss Emma Richards, residing tempo
rarily in Reading, Pa, while in company will
some of her friends, on last Thursday after
noon, ate fourteen plates of ice cream, com
planned of feelinglunwen on Friday morning
and died on Friday afternoon. -asl Ii
EB- The anniversary of the battle of Ben
nington win be celebrated at Bennington OF
Wednesday and Thursday, under the auspices
of the Vermont Historical Society. An ad
dress will be delivered by Rev. E. H. Chaplin
on Wednesday of this week, and there will b.
a civil and military procession.