The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-14
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his room at Birmingham, Pa, the other day,
with an emaciated dog watching the corpse.
Street robberies have become so frequent
in New York that bank runners now have
their wallets chained to their wrists.
Mrs. Lander's personaton of Marie An
tosnette, in which character she is now playing
in New York, is but moderate success
A story is told of a notorious lbertine who
began his will: Il leave my soul to Cod
when he was interrupted by friend with
What can God do with it?"
The fall of shelf in the Frankfort libra
ry brought to light certain manuscripts, yell
low and dirty, which turned out to be a series
OF letters exchanged between Voltaire aud
Piron. Their authenticity being duly certif-
ed, they were forwarded to the Royal Acade-
my of B, rlin.
The Charleston Courier says that MIR.
VIM. L. Brunson, who died in Sumter, last
week, bequeathed to his faithful servant
Washington upon his death, forty acres Of
land, mule, wagon, a COW, and calf, a fine
stock of hogs and one-half the crop grown up
on the farm the present year. Upon the COM
ing of freedom, Washington, who was much
attached to his master, adhered to his fortunes
remaining in his service to the last.
/
Spain. The government proposes to introduce
the decimal system in coinage.
-Rossni is said to be in a state of great
prostration, and his friends are much disquiet-
ed on his account
There are in Spain about 10000 communes,
each of which possesses thanks to the mu.
nifcence of the late Government) at les st two
busts of the ex- Queen Isabella Most of these
images have been broken; but it is estimated
that if the fragments of plaster were collected
and sent to her ex-Majesty, there would be
sufficient material to construct very pretty
chateau, and not by any means a chateau
d'Espagne in the usual sense of the phrase.
in the last sickness of old Tom Benton,
his physician, to p-olong his days, opened his
abdomen and took out his bowels while he
was conscious, and proceeded to clean them.
AT one place they found some grape skins;
they found bits of wood which he used to chew
abstractedly while writing or reading. "Look
on, gentlemen" said the old man feebly; 81
dare say you will find Congressional Globes
next"
| Farming is trade; and man has TO
learn it however much he may know; the
knowledge must be applied and made the
mans business. He cannot learn it in a day
but must expect to improve constantly. A
good understanding is very good basis to be-
gin with; it is rearing a superstructure on a
good foundation
"A French paper gives this bit of converse
tion: "Do you like Rossini?" Like him7
Why, he is my favorite composer" "Of course
you know his 'Barber?" ''No. always shave
| mysefp'
| The adherents of woman suffraoo a nd of.
fice-holaing held meeting at Washington
Wednesday evening. The chief speaker said
that the election of Grant and Collax was
good thing for their cause, and he expressed
great satisfaction at the appearance of things
in all parts of the North. The association re-
solved to push matters with Congress this
winter.
M. Henri Rochefort tells his story of the
reported duel between himself and Marfori In
this way: "An innocent plaisanterie inserted
in the last Lanterne gave rise to the supposi-
tion that Mr., Marfori, of Spain, seriously in
tended to send me provocatiol, and as dis
tance enlarges objects, even when not repeated, ),
, the rumor soon gained ground that had en-
) gagged in a duel with pistols with that milksop,
E from which 1 returned with broken collar
bone. My two collar-bones are intact and
, |
This is the truth. Besides If such a whim
should seize him, think 1 can do much for
him, by simply requesting my friend Brebaut
to serve him up Ia mditre dhotei."
The Southern Penitentiary of Indiana
has over four hundred convicts, whose labor
supports the institution, and the appropria-
tion by the State has not been used this year.
"A royal decree has been issued at Lisbon,
suppressing the Portuguese Council of Public
Instruction. This step is said to have been
taken from motives of economy.
; "A pleasant story is told of gentleman
who lost his wife and was inconsolable, A
few days after her death, he was invited to go
out on shooting expedition. "My grief is
2 too fresh" he replied, "she has only been dead
{ | eight days" "But we must all die" replied
a the friend. A short pause. "How early shall
| you start?" "Six o'clock in the morning. Will
, you go?" Eyes, 1 will join you, but will not
, | shoot"
"A young writer, who has recently visited
the philosopher, Alcott, at his home in Con-
cord, put to him this question: SIS not the Sc
cret of reading to read only the best books and
I read them well?" master the masters" was
t the sage's answer, "and let the second-rates
CO."
!, Two French ladies were looking for the
little daughter of one of them in a group OF
baby carriages. "Do you see him?" asked the
. friend of the mother. Him? 1 am looking
for her nurse" "Her nurse2" "Yes. All
children look alike. know the nurse and
. can find the child best in that way" "As for
myself, think all bonnes look alike" "How
do you find yours then?" "Oh, know the
! soldier who is her beau"
DIR. Peterman, of Gotha, who was instru-
2 mental in sending ont the recent German ex-
J ploring expedition to the Arctic seas, received
S a COMPLIMENTARY dinner at Bremen, few
: weets since. on which occasion be announced
o that the recently returned expedition was to
ho regarded but as preliminary attempt, a
3 nautical pioneering cruise, and reconnots-
sance to lay down basis of operations for
future expedition on a more extensive scale.
He exercised the firm conviction that between
East Greenland and Nova Zembla there was
always, somewhere or other, an opening
through which steam vessel could pass the
barrier of ice to the open sea beyond.
They have a neat way OF disposing OF old
worn-out horses and mules in Lima. They
lead them out on the pampas, stone them till
they drop down, and then leave them to die
The carcasses are attacked by dogs and eaten
even before relieved by actual death. Then
the turkey buzzards collect to pick the bones
Peru is the place for Mr.. Bergh to station q
missionary.
Three successive queens of Spain have
lived in open scandal. The grandmother OF
Isabella made her favorite prince, the moth-
er made hers a duke, and Isabellas, whose
name is legion, have been put into all sor's q
fat places. Isabellas mother Is one oi tue
richest persons in Europe, and she aeeamu-
lated her vast wealth by sharing In the pron's
! of the Cuban slave-trade The reigning
Popes of Rome have hOnored and rewarded
these women as if they were patterns of piety