The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-29

Original and Selected.

Colistabulary in good faith. They now go |
without their horns, morn, noon and night, |
looking as demure as kittens, scarcely ever |
delgning to increase tissues by an occasional
caper within the enclosure.
The st. Johnsbury, VT, Caledonian has
procured from the shipping clerk OF the Messrs
Fairbanks, State manufacturers at that place,
the business for the past ten days, which shows
1923 boxes of scales sent from that station, the
total weight of which feots up over two hum
bred and twenty-one tons. They are now melt
ting over thirteen tons of iron per day, in the
manufacture of scales The machinery is be-
ing put into their new foundry, and they will
occupy it soon. For size, convenience, and ca
pacity for the business, this foundry is not ex-
celled in this country.
"A radical paper has just been started at
Little Rock, Arkansas. called the Evening Re-
publican. Jim.
Brooklyn has increased in population from
1922 in 1880 to over 10000 at present. This
ratio of increase is greater than in New York.
New York pays $10000,000 year for its
liquor and 100000 for its police.
Frederick Douglass youngest son has late
ly been appointed clerk in the freedmen's
bureau.
A cargo of wheat sent from San Francisco
to New York paid profit of $4,000.
Two hundred Chicago people proposed to
club together. hire steamer, and visit Paris
in body.
in a eulogistic notice Of the late George
Evans, the st. Paul Press tells the following
story ofhis successor, which is too good to lose:
"James W. Bradbury, Democrat, was elect
ed to take his place. Mr.. Bradbury had the
hardihood, a few days after his election, to ask
an old farmer from back town how he thought
he (Mr. B J would fill Mr.. Evans place. The
farmer replied, just about as a rats tail would
fill boot Leg and SO he did"
-"Would were mani" exclaimed strong
minded woman in her husbands hearing
"Would you were~ was his only comment.
"A scientific expedition is fitting out for
Russian America. San Francisco will be the
starting point. The sauans will probably be in
motion by the middle Of next month.
1t Is asserted that homeopathic physician
in France cures rheumatism by placing bee
on the spot where the pain is severest, and ex-
citing it until it stings.
"A scriptural student, who has just heard
of the Russian treaty, says Uncle Sam il like
the prodigal son, because he Is wasting his sub
stance in a far country.
The announcement made by the Pal AaA
Gazette of newly discovered passage Of Guilt
ver's travels, hitherto suppressed, is now ad-
mitted to be a hoax. Several papers ON this
side the Atlantic were sold by the story.
The Allegemeine Zeitung says that mer-
chant of Trieste, who has been for some time
in Egypt, and made the Euez Canal the object
of his particular study, reports that at least ten
years must elapse before the Arrt large ship
can cross from the Red Sea into the Meditera-
mean. reg go
Among the conveniences at the Paris Ex-
hibition will be model creche (crib) in which
the children under three years of age of all
women employed in the building will be tend
ed and fed gratis. The creche will open ON the
LIST of April, and babies DESTROYS of right Of
admission are requested to write down their
names, or make their marks, at their earliest
convenience, in order that sufficient accommo-
dation may be provided.
1t is complimentary to Yankee ingenuity
that commissioner has been sent from Switz-
erland to examine the railroad which enables
us to make the ascent of Mount Washington
with a view of scaling the Alps ON the same
plan.
Some of the lemons grown in Florida weigh
over pound each and are u inches in cixcum-
ference a@ %
1t is said that . large dry goods house in
New York did business last year amounting
to eighty millions and figured up net profits,
returning to the Government iust-thirteen
dollars.
+ "A Cleveland merchant lately received
package labeled Il box Tom. Cats" 1t took
him some time to perceive the fact that the in
scription meant a box of tomato catsup.
AT Erie, Pa, the gas is so bad that the boy
who puts the lights out in the streets carries
lantern about to find the posts. e.teG ;,
"A shipyard at Baltimore is managed en-
tirely by colored men, employing 225 work
men, IS being white. 1t was purchased about
Is months ago, and the first year did work to
the amount of $4,000 at profit of rs per cent.
The international conference of anti-slav-
cry delegates to be held in Paris during the
progress of the great Exhibition has been post
poned from the third week in June, the time
originally designated, to the last week in Au-
gust. g i....sse a7.,s.4t.I ta
Our correspondent "B.." at Kennebunk,
must excuse the delay in publishing his COM
munications. The Railroad pressure will be
taken off our columns on Tuesday, and then,
if not before, they shall have place. lsa
"A New York paper one day last week pub
ished obituary notices of three eminent per.
sons, one of whom is now living and the other
two of whom have been dead for about five
years past. .ts rsi. . Cd
On Monday evening last, during thunder
shower, Hon. Charles r. Train, standing in
front of the depot in Brookline, Mass, was
stunned and thrown down by an electric
shock. .-...,t.lr ~ .-A.i II ..a.s t,.ds
The question of Luxemburg 10 the little
chip on the shoulder of France? Win Prussia
venture to knock it of. .s-4 a-t, l.
-Ajournal in st. Petersburg, Russia, an
nounces that the cholera seems inclined to re-
peat its visit of last year. Many cases have
appeared in the hospitals.
There have been two hundred and twenty
five performances of Black Crook in New
York.
The late Bishop Timon, head of the Ro-
man Church for Western New York, used to
speak of the Protestants as "our separated
brethren"
Two New York clergyman, a few Sundays
ago, preached the same sermon, word for word,
and some of the papers of that city insinuate
that both of the sermons were purchased
The N. Y Tribune estimates the majority
for the republican ticket for the constitutional
convention in the state at 10000, giving large
republican majority ofdelegates in the oonyen-
ton. e..a mo-, ..-
"A Chicago bill sticker offers the city 80
900 for the use of 100 feet of the railing around
the court house square.
"A Nevada paper wishes bachelors to be
taxed heavily enough to drive them either to
or suicide. ,.-...
HORSE thieves steal horses from Tennessee
to sell in Mississippi, and return with stolen
horses from Mississippi to sell in Tennessee.
The London Times declares that it is "the
intention of the Queens Government to with
draw at no distant time all British troops
from the American Continent"
The passenger station recently contracted
for by the Boston and Maine Railroad, at Exc |
ter N H., will be built of brick, 100 by 50 feet,
to be surrounded on all four sides by veran- |
da. The interior will be o model of conven- |
fence, containing, among other apartments, an |
immense halfway" eating-saloon, designed |
for the accommodation of the Portland and |
Eastern travel generally.
The frstnumber of Mr.. Hunnicutt's Daily