The Portland daily press., 1868-04-20
aH.ietieS.

On Saturday of last week fine bunch of
the anemone was gathered from the woodland
of e. r. Nudge, in SwamDscott, Mass. Not
withstanding the four inches of snow with
which the late storm completely covered them,
they appeared quite fresh and fragrant.
"A French paper announces the death of
Colonel Jomard, the last survivor of NapoIe-
on's battle OF the Pyramids, at the age of SO
years.
We were quite right in asserting that the
first May flowers not necessarily the
sweetest. Nothing could be sweeter than the
cluster which certain fair and gentle hands
have laid upon our table, and which br:gbten
our dull sanctum with their bloom and fra
GRANGE. What charming flowers they are! So
delicate and mod ,st, yet so courageous, brav-
ing the cold east winds and the unmelted
SHOWS to bring their off.ring of beauty and
sweetness No wonder they are the best be-
loved of all New England's floral children.
Miss Abby Mills, the school teacher, who
disappeared unaccountably from Boston few
days ago, has been found among friends in
New York.
Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler's advice to young la
dies is not 10 clasp the hand which clasps a
whiskey glass, nor to lean upon the arm which
leans upon the bar.
"A quack doctor recently rode through the
streets of Golconda, ILL.,, blowing long tin
horn, while an associate followed playing on
the banjo and singing comic songs.
The Canadian papers are nearly barren of
news. They talk of nothing but Thomas
Darcy MCGEE.
college learning, says Beecher is very
much like snow, and the more a man has Of
it the less can the soil produce. IPs not till
practical life melts it that the ground yields
anything. Men get over it quicker in some
kinds of business than in others. The college
sticks longest ON ministers and schoolmasters;
next, to lawyers; not much to doctors; and
none at all to merchants and gentlemen.
AT public school exhibition in a Michi-
| gan village, one of the visitors made brief
address TO the pupils on the necessity of obey
| ing their teachers and growing up loyal and
useful citizens. To give emphasis to his re-
marks, he pointed to large national flg
| spread on one side Of the room, and inquired,
"Boys, what is that flag ior?" A little urchin,
| who understood "the situation" OF the house
better than the speaker, promptly answered,
"To cover up the dirt, SIR
A French translation OF the last novel Of
Toul genet has just appeared under the title
of "Fumee," and is very well spoken of.
Though a Russian story, like his Fathers and
Sons" the scenes are mostly laid at Baden,
and among the little colony OF his country
men residing there. We presume the book
will soon be translated into English, either
here or in England.
The Independent learns that the reports
of the illness of Rev. DIR. Store of San Fran
/ -,
great exaggerations of the truth,
With the May number Harper's Monthly
reaches the mature age of eighteen years.
Mr. Andrew Downs, proprietor of the al
ready SONS what famous Geological Gardens
at Halifax, Nova Scotia, has just arrived in
New York in charge of two living moose,
m lie and female, which he has procured from
their native forests, for the King of Italy. The
animals are less than two years old, and stand
about six feet high at the shoulder They can
browse at height of nine feet. They are as
gentle as lambs, and allow themselves to be
iondled freely.
Two physicians are attending a rheumat-
ic patient at Bloomington, Indiana, and the
local paper asserts that Dr. Mllers side Of the
man is getting along very well, but the other
side, in charge of DIR. Turner, has not been
heard from.
-Iu a certain family, not long since' a pair
of twins made their appearance and as
matter of course, were shown TO tneir h.''s
sister Of four years. Now. it so happened that
whenever a rather prolific cat OF the nouse-
LA hod Kittens, one OF them, of course the
nrattiest. nUat a was saved, and the balance were
s.o.rned s.o When the twins were shown the
ohi,d bv their happy father, little L. look
- - them long and earnestly, and at length
onttirg her little finger on the cheek OF one
81 them, looked up and said, with all the Sc
robustness possible, Papa, think we'll save
this one"
1t is understood at Washington that the
Arlington estate will be divided soon into
small farms and sold to the freedmen Gen
Lee is not known to have made the least enort
to recover the property which he forfeited Oy
his treason. The family mansion is III ruin-
ous condition, and the fine shade trees nA''
nearly disappeared ,-,...,od
THE Mobile Tribune prays to be delivefSbe y nb-
frou ashoe-peg civilization. No one VIII w
ieot to the editor going baretooted'