The Portland daily press., 1868-07-03
ariet ties.

arlc tleS.
Vt is said that a subscription is now in cir
culatiOn among the freedmen of the South, to
purchase horse for General o. o. Howard,
each individual to pay one cent
1t is by raising the qualifications, the pay,
and the social position of teachers, that the in
terests of education are really and surely to be
advanced, and not by screwing down the
teacher to hard mechanical system, and jeal-
ously Withholding from him portion of his
inadequate remuneration on the slightest ap-
parent symptom of failure of duty
The Topeka (Kansas) Record has heard
lately of a curious freak of nature. Seven
pounds of rusty bacon, furnished to the In
dians, swelled to twelve hund, ed pounds by
the time the vouchers were made up for the
government to pay ior it.
Chinese porters in San Francisco carry
their burdens on the end of bamboo pole
balanced over the shouder-one man easily
carrying two packages OF the weight of bar
rel of flour each. But when there is only one
package, two men are required, one at each
end of the pole, with the weight hung in the
middle. An innoyator who showed them that
one man could more easily carry single
package ON his shoulder almost mobbed
the other day by his conservative brethren.
An ugly old bachelor suggests that births
should be published under the head of ''new
music"
The services at one of the Boston Ritual
tic churches on Sunday last were altogether
too Romish for one of the pious women present
to bear in silence, and she gave open expression
to her protest in language more forcible than
elegant.
The Public Orator" at Cambridge Uni
versity, who delivered a Latin grafton reeiting
the claims of Mr.. Lo1gfelow to the honorary
degree of LII. D., mentioned the authorship
of Enoch Arden as one of those claims At
least SO it appears by the report in the London
Telegraph. Either the Public Orator, or the
Daily Telegraph, was unaware of the circum-
stance that Mr.. Tennyson has heretofore been
About fifty per cent. of the newly appoint
ed cadets at West Point failed to pass the ex-
animation. Some of those deficient will be
accorded the privilege OF a second examina-
ton.
An exchange says it is remarkable fact
that while men who are getting good wages are
constantly striking, women who make shirts
and linen coats for twelve cents apiece never
strike at all.
The appraisement of the property of the
late President Buchanan shows his total
wealth to have been $33O,OOO, mostly in State
and city bonds-the real estate being valued at
$4,000. He held no United States securities
According to an act of Assembly five per cent
of Mr.. Buchanan's estate goes to the State of
Pennsylvania as collateral inheritance tax
1t is estimated that Mr. Buchanan, during the
last few years of his life, gave away from $780,
600 to 500 900 to his brother and his neice Mrs
Harriet L. johnson (nee Lane), portion of
that presented to Mrs johnson being in South
ern securities.
| The following paragraph from the New
York Post is replete with weighty suggestions:
The average monthly cost of each inmate at
the penitentiary on BlackwelPs Island is Sill
or 36 cents per day. The average cost of edu-
eating each pupil in or public schools for one
year was, in 1867, $40 21. 1t has been denied
that education dimiuishes crime, but it is fact
that only the smallest percentage of children
who have been in our public schools are after
wards arrested for crime.
"A fearful portent for the white MALE
| the women OF Chicago have formed a secret
society.
An English paper says: "a story is told
of certain advocate, whose client pressed
him to say how he thought his case vas likely
to go, and who assured him that, though lie
might do his best for him, it would from the
uncertain character of the Judge, be a mere
lottery how the decision might be. The client
expressed his rage and fear, when his counsel
said to comfort MIN: We'll, it will be toss up;
but l am bound to say of his honor that he
gives the toss fair"
Prof G. E. Stowe, with his son Captain
Fred. W. Stowe, sailed from New York this
week for Cadiz in Old Spain; mainly for the
| health of the young man, who has MT yet en-
tirely recovered from the severe wound he re-
ceived at the battle of Gettysburg
Mr.. w. Calhoun, conductor on the URion
Pacific Railroad, has had twelve arrow wounds
and been twice scalped, and lives
Prot. Lesting, of Gottingen, asserts that
there are nine primary colors, he adding brown
and lavender to the other primaries.
"A Scotch clergyman, at the recent Gener-
al Assembly, told some hard stories of the ig-
norance of divinity students One of the can
didates, in reply to a request to define Shy
pothesis," said it was "a machine for raising
water;" and another gave as a definition,
Something that happens to man after his
DEATH" The examiner said he was mistaken
that was "hypotheneuse."
The Prince Michael of Servia, who was
lately assassinated, was divorced from his wife
for the same reason that Napoleon repudiated
the Empress Josephine.
Thirty car loads of live stock come east
ward over the Kansas Pacific Railroad daily.
The Appropriation Claws-a pickpocket's
| fingers.
A young man sent his father in tho coun.
try his photograph, accompanied with re-
| quest for aid, as he was poor and required
money for the necessaries of life. The old
man looked over the photograph and then re-
| sponded, "You can't cheat me, you young dog.
| You can't be very poor to be living among
marble vases, and statues and flowers, and
nice furniture, such as your pickter shoiosl"
| A gentleman named Rose having daugh-
| ter, named her "Wild," as, in his opinion,
"Wild Rose" was pretty conceit for a name.
| But when she grew up and married a man
named Budd, the combination of her Christian
| and sir names, took the conceit out of the old
| man.
| California is producing strawberries weigh
ing five to the pound.
-Mazzini is in Italy, and has recovered
| Several of the European governments are
keeping strict watch upon his movements.
| "A gentleman in company with John
Bright, took up a newspaper the other day.
saying he wanted to see what the Ministry
were about" Bright, with smile, rephed
"Look among the ro6beries."
-Maggie Mitchell will enter the contest for
prizes at the Savannah boat-race on the ninth
| of next month,