The Portland daily press., 1867-05-07
Original and Selected.

70 f'laA-at
The secret Of a "haunted" house out West
has just been discovered. A child's whistle
was used in the fastening of rattling win
dow in an Ethe-way room, which made
strange noises on windy nights.
AT Winona, Mum, recently, man, while
kneeling down in Catholic church, was gar
roted and robbed by two ruffians.
Mr.. Gladstone, so say the papers, has been
addressing an open-air meeting in London on
the reform question, within sight of Wesmin-
ster Abbey-an innovation shocking enough
to make the old-school statesmen turn over in
their cofins.
New York spends $2OOO,OOO year for
eggs. The Fifth Avenue Hotel consumes
about barrel a day. One dealer in Philadel-
phia sends to New York about hundred bar
rels day.
Geo. Peabody proposes Robert c. Win
throp for next President. Perhaps he may get
him elected in England, but not on this side of
the Atlantic.
Harriet Martineau, Lady Goldsmith, and
over $500 others recently petitioned the Eng
Ish Parliament for the admission of their sex
to the franchise.
San Francisco is original. A bewildering
certificate by the health officer stated lucidly
that a certain child "died still born, one day
old"
- "A California lecture committee telegraphed
to Artemus Ward: "What will you take for 100
nights?" Ward telegraphed back: brandy
and water"
"A mot Of M. Theirs against the empire is
being repeated in the Paris salons "How is it
NJ. Theirs, that you did not insist more strong
ly in the Chamber on having interpretations
on the Luxembourg business? You should
have stood firm, and have got up agitation, so
as to produce greater impression on the pub
lie" "Ah! you know, we must not a noise in
tho room of a sick man."
The total amount of state tax to be raised
by the cities and towns in Massachusetts, this
year is $5.OOO,OOO, of which nearly one half is
assessed upon eight cities and towns within
five miles of Boston, as follows: Boston, 81 ,694
15O; Cambridge, $129,05O; Charlestown, $92 400;
Roabury, $11S,7OO; Chelsea, s4O,2 go; Brookline,
$Ji $50; Dorchester, $59,7OO; West Roxbury
$4S,95O. Total, 81, ,239, ,45O.
Somebody advertises for agents to retail
work entitled "Hymeneal instructor" A
contemporary adds, "The hest hymeneal in
structor we know Of is young widow. What
| she don't know there is no use learning"
An Alabama paper declares Brick Pom
eroy an idiot, and thinks his letters and
speeches injurious to the South. Besides, it
says, "he makes our oppressed people pay to
hear him tell how badly we are treated"
The King and Queen of Denmark propose
to amuse themselves in May with Silver
wedding" The Cesarewitch and his young
bride, the sometime Princess Dagmar, are GO
ing to Copenhagen to be present at the ce,e.
mony; likewise, the Princess Of Wales, if she
is well enough likewise, the King of Greece,
| if Greece is well enough.
| -Messrs Hurd & lIoughton will publish in
| few days volume whose title will secure it
the attention of all who are interested in the
| public affairs of the United States: Enquiry
| into the Origin aud Course of Political Par
| ties in the United States, by the late ex-Pres-
| dent Martin Van Buren,; edited by his Sons"
"A writer in the Petrolia, G. W., Sentinel
says the production of oil at that place now is
about A. 900 barrels per week, while the aggre-
gate capacity of all the refneries in the prov
ince is only $500 barrels per week. He pre-
diets that before dog-days the price of crude
|
are not taken to avert the evil.
B. F. Thorndike, formerly of this city, has
commenced the publication of a small paper
at Great Falls, N. H., called the Semi Weekly
advertiser. Though of modest dimensions it
makes a very neat appearance.
| Miss Marcarhtta Fox, the .fdncee-and, ac-
cording to her own declaration, the wife-of
DR. Kane, announces that she has been releas-
| ej nv a communication from her husband in
in the other world, from her promise to have
nothing moro to do with "spirit-rapings" and
has returned to Rochester to resume the exer-
cises of her susceptible as a medium.
| "A farmer wrote as follows to distinguish.
ed scientific agriculturist, to whom he felt un-
der obligations for introducing variety of
swine: Respected sir-I went yesterday to the
cattle show. found several pigs of your
species. There was a great variety of hogs, and
was astonished at not seeing you there
"A French engineer has drawn plan for
| fixed bridge from Calais to Dover-a marine
route Extensively remembered by all who have
made the trip. The bridge is to be supported
on piers protected by buffers thirty feet thick.
| An immense effort has been and is being
made to create the impression that the Irooe'-
Ter Is the only daily paper in Boston .ha' mas
supported prohibition and been true to the cause
of Temperance, and yet we think it would re-
mira n State Constable with search warrant
70 t;nd in its editorial columns any more or any
sounder temperance doctrine than is found in
either the Advertiser the Journal
Thomas Paine Avas probably the first man
who suggested the practibility of constructing
bridges of iron, and he conceived the idea from
contemplating the fabrication of a spiders web
when he was in the United States. In 1887
Paine presented to the Academy of Sciences
at Paris the model of bridge which he had
invented, and when he resided at Rotterdam,
in Yorkshire, bridge chiefly OF wrought iron
was constructed under his direction 10y the
Messrs. Walker.