The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-12
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line ChicagO papers state that satisfactory
progress is being made by the tunnel under
the Chicago river, and that next year will GER
tainly see the work completed Another tun-
mel is to be begun next year, and it is antici-
pated that in few years there win be six or
eight tunnels under the Chicago river and it's
branches. These streams run through the
heart of the city, and at present are crossed
by revolving draw-bridges. The street AMI
river trade are both enormous, and they con-
stantly interfere with each other.
"A little three year-old was in the habit Of
helping himself to crackers in the pantry
lifting the tin lid and plunging his hand into
the stone jar for them One day, after listen
ing to stories about rats, he went after a crack
er, and hearing some noise that he imagined
was made by rats, he rushed back to the par
lor, and with flushed face said, "Muzzer,
amt afraid of aoats, but Use SO tired couldn't
lift the Hd."
The high officials of the church of Eng
land are discussing the feasibility of bringing
back the Weseyans to the church. Some of
the favorers of this scheme even propose to
make bishops of some leading Wesleyans,
who, they assert, would DO no diseredit TO
lawn sleeves, Episcopal churches or house of
lords. On the other hand, the Wesleyans
show no disposition to accept such overtures.
They seem less willing than formerly to sup
port the establishment against dssenters, and
recently they demand that portion of the
colleges of the great universities of Oxford
and Cambridge shall be given up TO their con-
ttvi
"A planter near Savannah consigned his
cotton crop to merchant in that city, who
sold the goods, poeketed the money and then
failed, after which he wrote thus TO the confid-
ing countryman: Dear friend, l acknowledge
1 spent your money. l feel that my God has
forgiven the sin, and L trust that you viii, as
Pve taken the benefit of the bankrupt act.
Afectionately your friend"
"A party of fashionable New Workers will
visit the Catskills in July, chartering steam
er, a corps of Delmonico's walters and brass
band.
"A wag says "In Germany, when paper
says anything witty, they kill the editor; and
not one editor has been killed for two hun
dred years"
"A striking illustration of the efficacy of
capital punishment for the prevention of
crime may be found in some recent occurren-
ces in New Hampshire. On the 9th inst,
Mills, the Franconia murderer, was hanged at
Haverhill. He confessed his crime, and called
on the crowd to witness that he "died game"
On the 8th, not quite two days after, an al
most exactly similar crime was perpetrated at
Hampton Falls in the murder of a farmer
named Brown and his wife, both of them over
seventy years OF age, for a sum of money less
than S400! And on the evening of the same
day, in Whitefeld, but a short distance from
the scene of the last atrocious murder and
from the execution which preceded it, an at
tempt was made to murder and rob an ex-
press-messenger by shooting him in his wag-
on. What q very forcible illustration of the
safeguard to society afforded by the gallows!
Miss Copley died In London on the oath Of
April, at the age of 95. She was born in Bos-
ton, and was taken in infancy to England, by
her father, John Singleton Copley, the paint
er. The family was remarkable for the longev-
| ity of its members, Miss Copley's brother
| Lord Lyndhurst, dying at 81, and her sister,
Mrs. Gardiner Greene, at 80, and their mother
| at 90.
"A Philadelphian left 5000 in his will TO
''Emma Hecker, grand daughter of Sarah
Hecker," but it appears that Sarah Hecker
had two grand-daugbters bearing that name.
and they have gone to law to see which shall
have the legacy.
| Poor Carlotta" is getting better. She
lives at Brussels, and drives out daily, and re-
turns the salutations of the people.
"A young woman in Richmond, Va, who
rejected a lover three or four years ago, has
| just received a notice from the young man
administrator that all his property, amount
| III
| to her.
| "A Frenchman has invented a new print
ing press which prints 600 copies minute.
| "A wag wickedly affirms that there was
one genius and two hundred Heterogeneous at
| the Dickens dinner in New York.
Somebody speaks of "Mr. Theodore Tilton,
the journalist, who combines the juvenile as
pect of a student with the positive assertions
of Warwick the king-maker."
-Bayard Taylor, in a recent letter from
Florence, says: Il have been great! delighted
with my visit to the studios of the American
artists So much more is being accomplished
than ten years ago, and the most OF it is so ex-
ccllent that 1 feel sure our American era of
art has already dawned."
Little Frank was taught that every one
| WAS vi uuSe' ChO uaS HS was WdtCuihr
TIE dust in the street as the wind whirled it in
eddies. "What are you thinking of % asked
his mother. "Oh," said Frank, with serious
face, Il thought that the dust looked as though
there was going 10 be another little boy
Japanese scissors are in the shape oil our
sugar tongs-of steei-and sever articles iree-
ly as the blades approximate by pressure.
Their Iooking.olasses are highly FURNISHED
stool Tbov use very elastic transparent silk
nanar in their window frames instead OF glass,
and a more firm Opaque substance OF the sam o
..notobed on frames, as partitions inside their
uwA uweiS San Francisco Chinaman blew out the
,os-light in his bedchamber, and was rescued
nearly suffocated. His first words on recover
ing were, "Me no stealee gas!'
Mrs. Heayysides, getting into an omnibus
the other day, heard dsagreeable old bach
elor make the grumbling remark: "omnlDuSes
were not made for elephants" To thls sne re-
piled: "Sir, omnbuses are like Noahs ark in-
tended to carry all sorts of beasts
Brigham Young urged on ms people a' tho
lost animal conference the increase OF the cul-
80 or esb and the multiplication of chick
ons On home manufactures, the cultivation
- s;lk was recommended, and so was the
nlontine of mulberry trees. He wanted to see
tbe ladies come to another conference WIN
their straw hats and bonnets OF their own
| manufacture.