The Portland daily press., 1867-08-26
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The Mirror thinks that operatic music in
church is bad enough, bnt opera caricat,sred is
too bad for human endurance. To hear the
voice of fashionable singer 'tremble and
quaver, and shake and plunge, and take its
dying falls, and all on simple hymn of old
Watts" is something which it appropriately
cbaracterizes as an outrage ON taste and devo-
tlonal feeling. .st.tia-, s It.uafs..s
"A doctor of medicine, the chief city physi-
clan of large city in Sweden, and highly es-
teemed has lately felt compelled to leave the
country with his wife and children, owing to
the narrowminded priest policy of the govern
mont, debarring his growing-up children from
the prospect of ever making respectable live
lihood in their native land. ..E-., .l au
Rufus Choate, in maintaining the worth
lessness of certain testimony offered upon the
other side, in case in which he was engaged,
once said: "It would be as difficult to find q
graiu of truth in that testimony as to find
drop Of icater spilled in The Desert of Sahara in
the times of the Crusadersi" a
The Spectator has the following picture of
the three-masted turret English iron-elad, the
Royal Sovereign: "She looks the image of
butter boat, with three pats of butter" Now,
designate the dish on which butter Is served at
meals. SO the American and English moni-
tors differ as butter boat differs from a
cheese box on q raft" sfit. arf
AT meeting of the New York gambling
'help keepers, on Wednesday last, it was de-
oided TO raise a fund for tho purpose of defend
ing the fraternity against the Anti g Gambllng
Association The secretary announced that
800 tax ON each hell would realize $500, and
$500 tax, $25 800. f- i.t# s3..
"A new penny paper, called the Daily
Press, made its appearance in Boston last week.
The little girl, Mary Mayo. who got lost in
the Blue Ridge Mountains, was found on Fri
day last the ninth day from the day she was
lost She was found about three miles from
her fathers house. She was perfectly well
when found, and stated that she had lived on
berries -.-.ef-..l- E. ..
The Saturday Review says of Carlyle's as
sault on common sense and common humani-
ty, that at is very much such a production as
a French noble on the point of emigratlng,
might have written after the fall Of the Bas-
tile" %
1T is understood that the Hon. Alexander
NJ. w. Bsll-the Silas wegg of New Jersey
has recently evinced great disincliuation to
drop into poetry In q friendly way"
"A statue of Napoleon l. was 20 be fnaugu-
rated ON the 9Th inst. at Monterau. 1t was to
stand on the very spot whore the Emperor
uttered the words "The bullet which Is to kill
me Is not yet cast" tn'
American enterprise is making rapid head
way in Japan. Among the latest proposals Of
Americans in that far off country Is to light up
both Jeddo and Yokohama with gas. There
are, besides, proposals for railways, teIegraphs'
and all sorts of improvements; and the 1apa-
nese seem to take to these new movements
with great relish. .s
Some of the comic papers have exceedingly
or,ns;no advertisements, In the way of pic
.,,-a. Ons represents "Old Father Time"
,rho he;ng determined to keep up with the
a,,. has thrown aside his scythe and hour-glass,
and bought moving machine and q Waltham
watch, both OF which are duly depicted in the
old fellows possession.
"A pie-baker in Boston, the other day, had
left his cart stocked with several baskets OF
pies, standing in the street. Another horse and
vehicle stood in the rear. Dobbin OF the latter
posing the good things in front, gradually
worked his way up, and poking his nose In the
basket, discovered and demolished in short
order two berry pies, licking the plates, and
then ~chawing" the paper which covered them,
smacked his chops after his curious meal with
evident satisfaction. Not so the pie-vcnder
when he emerged from his customers cellar,
and found himself minus two pies. A slap in
the face and q backing out were Dsbbin's
Measures are being set on foot to establish
in the Island of Madagascar permanent
mission Of the English Friends.
A farmer in Missouri, on being asked the
number Of his children, hesitated and referred
the question to his wife, and she replied "tsn;''
but when, in the course of conversation, the
farmer was asked as to the number Of hogs he
possessed, he replied promptly, "seventy-one."