The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-12-24
Varieties.


The most dilgent research for years has
failed to discover the origin of the oft-repeat-
ed quotation, Consistency, thou art jewel"
1t is said that a tradesman in an Ohio city
appends to his advertisement: ministers of
the Gospel supplied with goods at cost, if they
agree to mention the fact to their congrega-
tions." H-etss.T .H... .sf.
"A dry goods house in New York advertise
ed, two or three days ago, for an entry clerk,
and at six o'clock on Tuesday night more than
six hundred applications had been received.
The distractions placed at the mouth of
the Savannah river during the war have been
partially removed, but enough remain to form
a serious obstacle to navigation, and the peo-
pie OF Savannah are anxious to have the Gov
ernment authorities complete the opening of
their harbor. asia .za n.ta.e #r. -
The Cherokee Nation is reported to be in
a condition of prosperity. The newly-elected
Chief recommends the establishment of a
newspaper there in the English and Cherokee
languages. The Southern branch of the tribe,
who separated from it at the beginning of the
rebellion, are said to be returning. Cattle are
not very abundant, but th,s want is about the
only thing marrilg Cherokee prosperity. ,o.
20 "A Western paper tells good story: "The-
odore Tilton had just entered hotel in a
Western town. and was going upstairs very
travel-stained to change his toilet preparatory
to lecturing, when he encountered on the sec
ond floor an over-dressed and vulgar woman.
Are you the porter?' questioned the woman,
laying her hand upon Theodore's arm. NO,
madam va fha .i.,t A.
chambermaid?' rsr ..ss.. -...........
"A meeting has been held in Leeds, Eng
land, of medical gentlemen and others oppos-
ed to the provisions of what they call the
"new tyrannical vaccination act" The prin-
cipal speaker was Mr.. Gibbs, of London, hon
orarY secretary to the Anli-yaccination
League. This gentleman denied that vaccina-
tion was of any use at all, nay, asserted that
it was the direct cause of inducing disease.
"A large meeting of Flench Democrats has
been held in London to protest against Napo-
Icons policy in Italy. NJ. Louis Blanc was
unable to be present. owing to illness. The
English democrat, Mr.. Bradlaugh, however,
was there, and stated that he only took part
in the proceedings because humanity was of
no country, and because the Roman expedi-
tion has been an outrage upon humanity
which all men ought to repel. A lecture was
delivered by Citizen Felix Pzat, and a mo-
ton denouncrng rreucn ruvcryvnsrv1. -rr s..~-
last Italian crisis as a massacre disgra -eful to
humanity, received the approval of the Demo-
Gratis. l- ..... ..--a ..... -. a.. ..
Golden weddings have been celebrated in
unusual numbers during this year and the
last. The reason for the increase, a contempo-
rary states, is the fact that the peace of 1915,
like that of 1865, was followed by an increase
of marriages which the war had delayed dur
ing the preceding years. We may therefore,
expect to see an unusual number Of golden
weddings in the year 1915, if we survive until
that advanced period.
"A miniature Mammoth Cave is announced
in New York, as the latest novelty in the spec
tacular era of public amusements. Grottoes,
cascades, crystal chapels, star-roefed chambers,
gloomy winding passages, Druidical affairs,
shining columns, and all the fairy phantasma-
goria of subterranean splcndor, are grouped
with wonderful fidelity. sr. .I... 5..,
The following comes from Springfield,
Massachusetts,. A lady, young, attractive and
just married, left her home in that city and
went into the country accompanied by her
husband. Soon after her debut as Mrs H
she attended sewing society. After the usual
subjects of conversation had received attention
the lunar eclipse was alluded to. "Mrs. H,
did you sit up to see it, eh?" mo, did not
was the reply; "Mr. H sat up. In SPRING
field, where 1 came from, they are such a bore
zoe haze them so ofteRf' H a ns loflf
1t is believed that an earthquake "reeled
unheededly away" the other night in New
York. A gentleman of that city writes to tho
Evening Post that at time coinciding with
the occurrence of the shock felt in Canada, he
was awakened from dream that the earth
was shaking under him; and he thinks this
was no accidental coincidence but an actual
experience. He desires to know if New York
ers have had an earthquake unawares.
Miss Susan B. Anthony Is in Washington,
soliciting subscriptions for her new paper, the
Revelation, which is to be the special organ of
female suffrage in the United States. She has
been visiting mosto the members of Congress,
and has been quite successful. bono. H.rs
The British army is very costly. In India
it amounts to two hundred and fifty thousand
men, at an annual cost of eighty-five million
dollars. Elsewhere in the British Empire it
is one hundred and twenty thousand men, at
an annual cost OF seventy-five million dollars.
The navy costs annually fifty million dollars.
The total expenditure for army and navy
amounts to two hundred and ten million dol
lars annually, or twice the French expenditure
for the same purpose. rH.H ..I.rn.r
Professor Blaehie, the fine old Scotch en-
enthusiast, still wars against the English pro-
annexation of Greek. He said the other day.
he desired it might be recorded on his tomb
that he maintained the true pronunciation of
tho classic languages. His broad accent being
borne in mind, it is suggested that the profess
or would hardly ask so much for his English.
"A teacher in one of the Southern States
was sitting at the window of her room watch
ing two negroes loading goods into cart.
One Of them was disposed to shirk; the other
stopped, and looking sharply at the lazy one
said: "Sam, do you expect to go to heaven?"
"Yesn HThen take hold and lift!"
The Treasury Building at Washington, it
is said, when completed, will have cost nearly
five million dollars, and will be the finest ex-
ecutive edifice IN the world. The greater DOR
tion of it is built of Maine granite, and it is
proposed to rebuild the remainder with the
same material, as the porous sandstone Of
which it's constructed is disintegrating rapid
ly.
This story is from Harper's Drawers" "In
the old town of b, in the Pine-tree State.
lived one of those unfortunate lords of crea-
ton who had, in not very long life, put on
mourning for three departed wives. But time
assuages heart-wounds as well as those of the
flesh. In due time fourth was inaucurated
mistress of his heart and house. He was n
very prudent man. and suffered nothinr to be
wasted. When the new mistress was putting
things to rights, while cleaning up the attic
she came across long piece OF board, and was
about launching it out of the window, when
little Sadie iuterposed and said; oh, don't
mamma! that is the board papa lays out his
aoives on, and he ,oants to Sdve IL! Nevertheless
out 1t toent"
Archbishop McClosky administered the
sacrament of confirmation, on the Sth to over
900 children belonging to the schools attached
to ST. Stephens Church, New York.