The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-15
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Twenty to twenty-five cents are the last
quotations of butter in St. Adams. Aquartor
buys the very best. l1a
-Solon Robinson, in the agricultural col
umns of the Tribune, says. "Clover Is to farm
ing what faith is to religion. One may 20
through the whole list of manures and good
works, but must come to clover and faith at
last" ir12 ila. .-1g-.- L---------.=s
proportion OF the seeus OF Medicano AnssTicdnQ,
a uguminous plant, can withstand q
continuous boiling four hours without
losing their vitality. Many seeds thus
treated were broken open, their out
er integument not being able to resist the
swelling of the contents; but those seeds which
resisted the high temperature retained their
power OF termination and sprang up in the
course OF ten or twelve days after they were
sown. .rs.b ...f ID s'....-.....-..
Tho Royal Geographical Society in Eng
land has added two thousand maps and charts
to its Collection during the last year. Among
them is Chinese map of China in sixty-four
sheets. 80
"A London letter in an account ofalate lit
erary fund dinner, says: "Mr. Trollope was
present and spoke. He is SIM ularly bald and
dry when on his legs. though, like Thackeray,
he is said to have hankering after the
parliamentary life. The chief point which
remember in his speech was o humorous de-
fence Of bis plan of carrying on characters
from one story to another This practice saves
a novelist great deal of trouble, and for one
who writes SO much as Mr.. Trollope does must
be very economical" -. "
Men are like wagops-they rattle most
when there's nothing in them.
We learn from the Portsmouth Chronicle
that the Lowell Base Bah Club Of Boston are
10 visit the Rockinehams of Portsmouth next
Monday, June II, and friendly game between
the first mines of each club will be played at
the Plains. s er.sf
"A contemporary has discovered that Con-
gress in section 15 Of the new Bankrupt law,
inadvertently, perhaps, but yet with strong
evidence of design, makes everything pleas
ant for creditors. Thus, in reference to the
duties of assgnees it says: "And the as
signee shall keep a regular account of all
money received by him as assignee, to aohich
every creditor shall, at reasonable times have
free resort" Now as ,chich must logically refer
to the last Immediately preceding antecedent,
and cannot refer to assignee, as Congress didn't
probably intend that the assignee should be an
animal it must be the money to which it refers,
and so Congress has introduced license, well
known at Washington, allowing parties to help
themselves. llua aa
-"Artemus Ward"-Charles f. Browne
sent for Catholic priest during his last sick
;vad tl,a rit Of fbat hn or1
died in its faith, says the Springfield Republi-
can. 5f atss ....
The Princess Mary of England, wife Of
Prince Christian of Teck and daughter of IL .
Duke of Cambridge, has been safely delivered
of daughter She is cousin of Queen Vic
toria, and about the same age-bordering on
the fifties. E -........,
Who is the Greek minister at Washingtonp
His name is variously eported-Kangable,
Ragambi, Rangsbee. How does he spell his
name "when he's to hum?
"A correspondent travelling through the
so,,t,,orn States says that one of thousand
f,rr,s in which hatred of the Yankees is engen.
1ored in the growing youth of the South is
the head line adopted in some Southern schools
for children's copy books, Beware of the Yam
keesp With such sentimen mt inculcated upon
the youthful mind, in form, too, that can make
it most enduring, we can easily imagine with
what feelings the growing generation in the
South will regard the Yankees, whom they are
TAUGHT to regard az regnes and cheats.
The Luxemburgers, for whose city France
and Prussia wanted to fight, have a very pop
ular amusement in their cat races Everybody
who has an animal of the feline pursuasion
takes it in a bag two miles from the city gates,
where at given signal the bags are all empt'
led, and the cats start for home frightened
nearly TO death. The cat that reaches the city
first wins the race.
An unusually large number OF lceoerss
| have been lately seen in the North Atiantic'
| One vessel had to sail nearly 2Oo miles IN
| southerly direction along perfect continent OF
| Zoo ,,I,;lo o,bers have met enormous icebergs
,,,,o,, fnrther south than they are commonly
.o,,,d AZ this season OF the year.
+, ia reported that NJ. Nelaton, the sur
roon who attends the Prince Imperial, is to
he made a senator of France.
A new paper, entirely devoted to adver-
tisements of help, and situations wanted, and
houses to let. is to be started shortly.
We find the following rather complicated
item in the Portsmouth Chronicle: :-Ihe
| pittsfeld Gazette-which new paper, by me
way. is only half paper; but like this Wees,y y
ChfonicIe' Is going to be enlarged to double
the % present size-that awhen sufficient en-
Confinement is offered" this when we get
time TO make the arrangements-wel the
p;ttsf;eld Gazette says. About 500 has bee n
.,,hsnrhed toward the new fence around the
Cnmmon'-the Common in Pittsfield, 1t meaps
of course and not anywhere else'