The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-30
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The Hon. Joseph Howe delivered an ad-
dress at CORVALLIS, N. s., on Christmas night
and being asked by one of his audience if he
accepted the situation" replied: "Mapy
changes have been rung upon the words 'ac-
cepted the situation. When King David's
son lay sick unto DEATH David grievous-
iy wept and prayed to the Lord. The child
died; then David rose and accepted the situa-
ton IN this way we have been obliged to ac-
cept the situation; not because we like it
but because we cannot work miracles, and
earthly means have been exhausted. If the
gentleman means Have accepted the situa-
tionY l answer No. In August last Sir
John A. Mcdonald offered me a seat in the
Cabinet with e1 500 year. not only de-
clined, but informed him that no honorable
man on our side of politics could take
office until the Confederation scheme had been
revised am as free and independent of the
Dominion government, as 1 am of the local
government" Mr.. Howe's words have Great
ed rather marked sensation.
MIR. Bayard Taylor, in letter from Rome
to the Tribune, gossps pleasantly of Ameri-
can artists in the Eternal City, their position
and their work. He says: "To my thinking,
neither was Gibson, nor is Tenerani, the equal
of Story-nor is American sculpture, as rep
resented in Rome, below the level of that of
any other country. 1t is rather boder, freer,
richer in resources; and even its faults are
those of daring, not of timidty The num-
Der of American painters now in Rome can
not be less than forty, embracing all the va
rieties of the art, and all grades of artists.
from those fortunate ones whose reputation is
secured and whose work is commanded in ad-
vance, to the unknown and struggling stu
dents"
The champion eater is Joshua Plumb, of
Hudson, N. Y. At one sitting he disposed of
ten pieces OF apple pie, six corn cakes quar-
ter of pound of crackers, six cups of pea-
nuts, thirty picked CLANS four lemons. an
ounce of candy and two bowls of clam SOUP.
He then drank six tumblers of water. and
offered to eat a hundred raw oysters. No one
doubted his ability to accomplish the feat, but
no one was willing to pay for the oysters, and
so he went off grumblng that he wasn't half
full.
Body snatching" is causing an excite
ment in the West At Cleveland cemeteries
have been despoiled by the connivance of the
sections; and at St. Louis the bodies of pau
pers are sold by the authorities, without liz
cense of law. This was found out when wild
ow attempted to recover the body of her hus-
band, who had died unknown in that city,
bis grave could not be found, nor those of
ninety others.
Owls heads and skulls are the neatest
thing in Paris for earrings.
"A little boy in London, Ont, was fatally
| poisoned few days since by chewing the COW
ers of story book, which were deep green
| color, and contained, no doubt, a large quanti-
| ty of arsenic. Parents should take warning.
There is cave in Russia, not far from
Orenburg, which possesses the remarkable
character of being partly filled with ice in the
summer, and totally destitute of it in the win
ter. The hotter the air outside, says Sir Rod
erick Murchison, the colder il is inside Its
property depends on the arrangements of the
currents of air, and the principle that evapor-
alton produces cold. Many years ago Presi-
dent Hitchcock applied the same principle to
| the explanation of the frozen we'll of Brandon,
Vermont.
The Chicago Advance, in view of the tu-
multcous scenes at the recent army banquet
in that city, ventures TO suggest water to
drink and woman to help drink it, as feature
Of future programmes for army reunions" !"
The st. John, N. B., Globe reports the pas
sage of train from Shediac, having among
the freight ten tons of frozen smelt, en- route
| to the New York market. They came from
Richibucto.
The fbrous material found under the bark
at the base of kind of Chinese palm 1.-THE
Lataniel), after treatment in certain manner,
can be used for almost any of the purposes to
which hogs bristles or horse hair is now ap-
piled.
| Louis Napoleon recently said that the
Princess Metternich was created to prove that
| beauty is not necessary.
| jesse George and his sister Rebecca have
| given to the city OF Philadelphia a beautiful
lot of land, containing eighty-three acres, to be
added to the new park. An annuity of $4,000
is to be paid to Mr.. George during his life by
the city.
| The speeches of the late Mr.. Golden are
now being prepared for publication by the
Right Hon. John Bright, NJ. p, and Mr..
Thorold Rogers, and they will shortly be Civ
en- to the world under the auspices of the
| club which bears the name of the illustrious
free trader
| Mourning TOR royal personages is some-
times attended with inconvenience. When
the King of Siam died, all his subjects had
their heads shaved on penalty of a flogging,
and the BARRIERS had a fine time.
| The proprietors of the Paris AVenr Ma
tionat have expended nearly $500 900 in fines
imposed by the government for press offences.
| Of course. no paper could stand that sort of
drain forever. and L'AUenir has suspended.
-Dpbpaue Iowa, will soon have the best
and handsomest bridge of any which cross
the Mississippi river. 1t is composed entirely
I of wrought iron. The best stone that could
be procured has been used in the abutments
and piers, and no iron that was not capable
of sustaining a weight of sixty thousand
pounds to the square inch without straining
the fibre, has found place in this fabric.
1t is said that no man-of-war will winter
in Halifax harbor this year.
From an advertisement in an Ottawa pa
| per we learn the name Of the happy individu-
| al who is privileged to sell the new viceroy Of
| Canada his EPSON Salts and Castor Oil. His
| is the proud prerogative of physicking the
Uice royal family. Here is the advertisement:
The Subscriber having received the appoint
ment of Apothecary and Chemist to His Ex-
celency, Sir John Young, begs leave thus
| publicly to acknowledge the kindness, and ex-
| press his thanks. j. BROWN,
Licentiate Apothecary of Dublin.
| Smokers are styled social robbers, for in
terfering with the comfort of others.
The plural of Mussulman is Mussulmans
mot men, as it is not the English word man
A correspondent of a New York paper once
wrote: "The Turkish Sultan has just sent one
of his sons, a little Mussulboy of nine years,
| to be educated in Paris"
Small pox of malignant type is scourg-
ing Montreal. The number of fatal cases for
the fortnight ending Dec. 81, was 80.
A minor has been elected to the Massachu-
! setts House from the 7th Boston ward,