The Portland daily press., 1868-12-24
arietieS,

The editor of the Transcript has not slept
for six nights. How could he, forsooth, while
laboring with the production of anything 80
atrocious as the following ?-"The Chief JUS
tice of Maine leads off in the movement for fe-
male suffrage. With the head of the legal
profession on their side the ladies can boast
not only of good chance of getting a finger
in the political pie, but also of an Appgeton-
oUer."
"A statue to Charles XII. is to be erected
in Stockholm on the one hundred and fftieth
anniversary of his death.
1T is stated that John Bright is the first
English Quaker who ever attained to the dig
nifty of seat in the cabinet.
Who wear corsets? The New York Sun,
few days since, limited that perhaps some of
the Brummels of that city used this means of
improving their figure, and forthwith the sus-
picion is confirmed by any number of tailors,
hosiers and ladies' Three thousand males in
New York ''lace," they estimate Moreover,
some one writes from Boston, saying that
"many young men in that city wear corsets to
preserve their waists from becoming too large"
This is the authority of a dentist, who has had
occasion to request these exquisites to unlace
before administering nitrous oxide. 1t has
been supposed that corsets, pads, &c., were
purely feminine vanities, but it seems the
sterner sex are not above such devices. And
the druggists do say that the trade in hair
dyes is almost wholly sustained by the whis-
kered half of creation.
"A reyivalist encounterng an African, ask
ed him: "My good man, have you found the
Lord?." To which Sambo replied, with good
wit and good philosophy, "Golly, massa, am de
Lord lost?"
Miss Margaret G. Cary who recently died
in Boston, was one OF the twelve persons who
formed the first Swedenborgian society in
New England in 1918, and was its oldest mem
Der at the time of her decease.
Nearly quarter of million of salmon
eggs arrived on the 11th in Charlestown, Mass,
from the Miramichi salmon-breeding works in
New Brunswick. They were packed in bas-
kets of wet moss, well surrounded with straw,
and travelled 120 miles on sleds, $40 by rail and
2SO miles by water, but they were so well pro-
tected by the straw from the cold and from the
iarring incident to travelling that they arrived
in good condition as far as examined. They
were also found sufficiently advanced to hatch
at their present tate of development, early in
January.
Two nice young men in Philadelphia got
into trouble about a beautiful young brunette.
They both wanted her, and concluded to die
for her. Friends were consulted and murder
GUS letters were exchanged, and the result was
duel with pistols. Three OF four shots were
exchanged, but both youths were so nervous
that neither of them received the fatal shot,
not even a scratch. Finally the matter was
adjusted, and the pair hastened to the pres
ence OF the lady, who, having been informed
of the facts, very sensibly gave them both to
understand that she preferred for liege lord
better and wiser man than either of them
one who wouldn't fight duels.
Fortunate is he, says the New Bedford
Mercury, who can, at this season of the year.
at the approach of the holidays, gratiiy his
taste and his disposi ion to be generous, un-
fettered BY the chains of impeeunlosity.
Who saws iarming is not profitable? A
citizen of woodstock, VT, bought farm last
vear for less than 81 800, and raised this year
. 600 bushels of potatoes-about / 600 bushels
of which were merchantable at so cents per
bushel. He also secured Fifty tons of hay, and
wintered seventy-eight sheep which turned
what he reserved for his own use sold 500
worth of lambs, and kept fifteen for the flock.
The new fabric plant of the South, Ramie,
has flre as long and as strong as fax, it is
as white and as fine as cotton, and as glossy as
silk, while it needs less cultivation thau either.
and bears three crops year. 1t is hot injured
by ins, cts, aud it sells for double the price of
cotton.
The owner Of a model farm near West
Chester, Pa, killed out the Canada thistle by
digging down with hoe and cutting off the
roots several inches below the surface. After
being set back in this way two or three times,
the root loses all enterprise and dies.
Monday was the anniversary OF the seoes'
sion of South Carolina.
-Photographing ou enamellSd leather mas
been successfully accomplished IN fhilauei-
pha.
Helen Western, it is srid, died in poverty
and her effects were pledged to pay the under
taker.
Father Hawley the Hartford city mission
arv. gives notice that he will help no liquor
drinkers,