The Portland daily press., 1868-03-07
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VI" JUN. nc II attending ScnOOl IN CnlcagO.
where he occasionally gives evidence that he
possesses share of his fathers droll humor.
His teacher, the other day, with a severity not
altogether unheard Of, had inflicted the penalty
of f'marks" upon another boy for the misde-
meanor of blowing his nose. Pretty soon Tad's
hand signalled the tutors eye, whereupon:-
Tutor, loquitor Lincoln, what do you wish2"
Tsd-"Want to go out Sir" Tutor-"For
what purpose?" Tad-"Want to scratch my
head, Sir" He goes.
"A Baltemore merchant, whose son lost
$3.50 at faro bank in Cincinnati, has re-
covered a verdict in the Common Pleas Court
for the full amount, with interest, against the
proprietors of the gambling house.
AT private dinner in Boston, few DAYS
since, the table presented a most unique and
beautiful appearance. There was a solid mass
OF flowers from one end of the table to the
other, leaving just room enough for the plates
at the edges, the guests being served from side
tables.
Gail Hamilton's "Woman's Wrongs" 10
very popular, and has already passed through
more than one edition.
During recent performance of Romeo
and Juliet" at Marblehead (says an exchangel.
the fair Julets question in the soli'oquy be-
fore taking the sleeping draught, "What IL
this mixture does not work well?" was an
swered by an urchin iu the pit-"Then take a
dose of pills." The effect upon the audience
can be imagined.
The largest pendulum in existence Is that
which regulates the new clock at st. Georges
Church, New York. The pendulum in ques-
ton is thirty-five feet long, and vibrates in
three seconds. The "bob" weighs 800 pounds,
and is four feet long by seven inches in dia-
meter.
1T will be scarcely credited that, in 1865
1900 letters were posted in Great Britain
without any address, and these letters con-
tanned valuables in the form of checks, notes,
and money to the amount of e3,7O0. On one
occasion $4,000 in notes was sent, improperly
addressed, open at the ends, like a book packet
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, the artists prepar-
ing to remove to New York, where her water
color paintings are popular as their great
merits entitle them to be. She gave on Satur-
day the first of her four final artistic recep-
tions before leaving Boston. A correspondent
in that city writes:-"She has quite q large
lures OF Spanish, italian and Moorish life
rather unequal in merit, but all of them
marked by vigOr and originality of style and
treatment. Besides The Eleventh Hour
strong and bold and masterly picture-a GRIM
inal listening tor the footsteps of the execu-
TONERS while his wife holds up the cross with
agonized entreaty before him-she has on ex-
hibition a composition, about half finished,
which promises to rival il in vigor-'The Clip
sey Forge"
The Paris Charivari publishes a wood-cut
in which England, in the guise of an astrono-
mer, is represented looking through teles-
cope at the star Theodorus in the far distance,
and, in consequence never sees the well of
Fenianism open at her feet, and into which a
fall seems imminent.
When Mr.. Thackeray was in this country
he was much impressed by the absence of
that strong prejudice against Jews which Is
so universal in England. "You treat them so
well here" he remarked, in New York, shat II
you go on, you win assuredly take the hook
out of their noses"
What exclaimed an Irishman to a gem
tleman who was threatening to cbastise his
dog for barking necessarily, "What would va
bate the dumb animal for spanking out?"
One ofthe younger members ofthe French
legation at Washington, hard pushed for a
compliment to a fair lady whose face was
marred by an undeniable fat nose, remarked
Madame, you are an angel fallen from hea-
ven, but you fell on your nose"
OMAHA, Nebraska, which last year gave 200
naoaNnrafio ,o.n faI fnll Ranuh.
licau ticket by 500 majority. George Francis
Train doesn't control the city politically, it
seems.
1T March does not 'go out" this year like
the most innocent kind of lamb known to chill
dren's story-books and poetesses, it will prove
false to its own traditions.
The Savannah Republican reieices that
Mr. johnson has vices. 1t says that it does not
believe in "the heuncom!ortable sanctity oflegen-
Diary Washingtons."
The Vicksburg Republican is dead and the
material is advertised for scle. Rcouiescat in
tnferno,ungenerously adds the Natchez DEM
ocrGt.
The weirs built in the Susquehanna Riv-
er have resulted in the return OF shad to their
old resorts. About 10000 were caught last
anu NtNtu 10 HhAttiPNSSN NN~
year.
A correspondent of TIE Boston Transcript
writes as follows from Michigan; "Since left
New York, the one question that has preyed
upon my mind is this what mas become OF
the hens? have not seen an egg on any no.
10, tabl. or in any of those outrages on the
bpman stomach, which, with bitter irony,
are styled Railroad Refreshment Rooms It
is very doubtful if even Agassiz himself could
now find an egg west of the Allegbauies. The
hens are evidently all dead, and it is melaneho-
ly to think that, on the Darwinau theory, 20
useful an animal should have succumbed In
the western struggle for existence.
The managers of the new Chinese theatre
IN San Francisco are ia trouble. They set
apart certain portion of the dress circle for
the use of almond. eyed ladies exclusively,
yhereat the Celestial roughs, eigar-makers,
and washermen objected, and two or three
riots have ensued.