The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-06
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age, saved an infant sister from drowning one
day last week. The two were playing togeth-
er on the steps in the rear of the house when
by some accident the younger, child aged
only twenty-five months fell into the cistern,
which had been left uncovered, but, with
great presence of mind, the elder sister seized
her as she was sinking and drew her out, the
mother not being aware at the time of what
had occurred. ...
Paris correspondents speak highly of a
new opera bou6s by M. Charles Lecoq, just
just brought out at the Athenee. 1t is called
Fzeur de The, and the plot is Chinese.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin calls
Walt Whitman "the great syntactical gym
mast of the age" -........r ... 5.....r
"A countryman, seeing in the financial ar
ticles published that six per cent. is paid for
carrying" specie, offers to come to the city
and "carry it for any reasonable distance for
not more'n two per cent"
Many of the prayer books in certain
"high" church up town, New York, have look
ing glasses inserted in the inside of the covers.
The Jerome Park races will begin on the
9th of June. ,--s ..-. ....... rz..
Thomas" said sponging friend of the
family to the footman, who had been lingering
about the room for half an hour to show him
to the door, Thomas, my good fellow, it's
getting late, isn't it? How soon will the din
ner come up, Thomas?' "The very moment
you be gone, sir" was the unequivocal reply.
Washington county, Illinois, has music
al prodigy-a violinist named Willie Rountree,
only eight years old, who fiddles finely.
u. ar1 Ia L.
on the publication of his memoirs excites a
good deal of feeling in some circles. 1t is said
that the resolve of Lord Broughan to publish
the documents in question, or even part Of
them-for they are extremely numeFous-has
frightened his friends for many years past
Each person who has seen them has said they
will inevitably cause mischief and consterna-
ton if put iuto print; and while their author
was in stronger bodily and mental health he
was persuaded to lay them by, bus lately he
has conceived a singular determination to pub
lsh them at any cost
-Celeden, the latest fashion in colors, 10 de-
scribed as mixture of pea-green and orange
something like the tint Of Kittens eye in
coal cellar. -'-.
"A well authenticated case Of human spon-
taneous combustion, which resulted in death,
is reported in Cleveland, Ohio. The name of
the man was Bremen, and he had long been a
hard drinker, It is asserted that he drank,
on wager, six large drinks Of whiskey sAd
pint of stock ale, at sitting. With blazing
face and starting eyes. he reeled towards gas
jet, in order to light his pipe, when the nox-
ious gases issuing from his mouth were in
stantly ablaze, and the poor wretch was soon
being consumed by an inward FIRE.
= Ladies are often anxious about keeping
furs free from moths during the summer
months. A writer who seems to know says
darkness is all that is needed. The little gray
moth, or miller" which deposits the eggs,
moves only in the light Enclose the articles
loosely in paper box, put this in pillow
case, or wrap around with cloth, and hang up
in dark closet. Camphor, spices or perfumes
are OF no use. Continual darkness is suff-
cient. And do not take out the furs in June
or July to give them an "airing," for even then
cometh the enemy, and it may be that in f1f-
teen minutes after exposure, has deposited an
hundred eggs. If you consider an airing in
dispensable, give the furs good switching
and put them quickly back.
M. Gounod is said to have composed
new opera,-as yet unnamed.
According to Paris evening paper, the
crown of thorns, a nail, and q piece-of the
true cross have recently been on exhibition at
the church of Notre Dame. f.aL
Baltimore has changed the name of Lin
coin street, and the vote was passed by the
city council on the anniversary of the assas-
sination. One of the journals of that city ex-
plains the act by saying that Baltimore is
not conscious of owing anything to that dis.
tinguished joker"
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, noticing that on the sec
ond day OF Mr.. Evarts's speech he had not
touched the specific charges against the Presi-
dent, says that "the constant attendants in the
galleries have not given up all hope that he
will yet, at least, incidentally allude to the
subject for which the Court was convened"
"A journal was started in Hanover Just af-
ter the battle of Sadowa, called La Situation.
1t never had over $50 subscribers. In one
year it sunk 100000, and then stopped. The
proprietors compensated every person en-
ployed on the paper with years extpa salary,
the edit,r-in-chief receiving $4,000.
The recognized and favorite way just now
of promoting purity is to keep incessantly
proclaiming that all women are impure and
Indecent.
The report is again current in Paris that
Mademoiselle Nilsson is about to marry Gus
tave Dore. .-.
"A niece of Douglas Jerrold-MHs Cope
1and-is the manager of the Theatre Royal
and Royal Amphitheatre, Liverpool.
There is no better fertilizer for strawber-
ries than wood ashes. All soils will not alike
be benefited by such an application; but it is
always safe to use ashes in connection with
other manures. IT ashes only ase used, there
are fewer weeds, as no seeds can be introduc-
ed by the manure.
The Chinese have wheelbarrow in COM
mon use which is an improvement on our bar
row. The wheel is in the middle. 1t is not
uncommon to see a sail set on this wagon,
and, if the wind is fair, they can make six
miles an hour easy.
The horrible story, copied from the West
ern papers, of the abduction of a child by
gray eagle, turns out to be true-with dlner-
ence. The kidnapping was done BY q steamer
named the Gray Eagle, that plies between Ne
okuk and Quincy, and this in the month OF
| April.
"A farm laborer at Neufchatel has been ar
rested for having, in fit of jealousy, dRewn-
od his sweetheart by throwing her down a
| well. ...o,,,ont cores b1o,n p.;,.,L T.
dia namely, that the Russians had been driy-
en- from Kuhelat and KandahE, by Mahomed
Khan. But how came the English TO allow.
the Russians to get into Kmdahar, which is
in Afghanistan, and therefore quite too near
India to permit of their being pleasant Neigh
bors there?
When Voltaire was told Chat frfsnd OF
his was studying to become phEsssan, he ex-
claimed: "Why will he be so mnd9 he will
hova 10 tbrust drugs of which he knows little.
;,,.o . hodv of which he knows less"