The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-05
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'0'0" ieee seven incneS tail, weighing three
hundred and seventy pounds, passed through
Island Pond on the cars for Canada a few dsys
ago.
The citizens of Madrid have publicly burn
ed the concordat before the palace of the Pa.
pal Nunco at that place.
An irreverent Frenchman writes that
Queen Victoria is "a little dumpy, red-faced
old lady, having in her eye dull sort of CLEAN,
which makes one involuntariy think Of lu-
natic asylum"
The portraits of Napoleon and Eugene
have been publicly destroyed in the streets of
Madrid.
"A man in Scotland who had been ordered
leeches for an injury, took them boiled with
his Cruel.
Among the curiosites of the recent State
fair in Vermont was an enormous gray Clydes-
dale stallion, lately purchased in Canada He
weighed nearly two thousand three hundred
pounds, and his fore shoes weighed seven
pounds each.
Two San Francisco youths had an election
wager One bet his goatee against the others
moustache that Seymour would carry Califor-
mia. The loser gives up his lost hair to the
winner, but the wager does not compel the lat
ter to wear it.
Not long ago a woman was accidentally
locked up in the vault of village church in
Sweden and remained there undiscovered for
eleven days. Great care was afterwards taken
of her and she has recovered
The story is told that at the ceremony Of
breaking ground for railroad in the South
west, clergyman, who was called upon to
open the proceedings with prayer, pulled from
his pocket manuscript which he read. This
greatly amused a colored brother, who, lean
ing oa his shovel, remarked with a grin: "Gol-
ly! dats de fust time dis darkey ever knew de
Lord written to on the subieck of a railroaip'
In Milford, Mass, on Saturday last-it be-
| ing Hallow eve-two young Irish girls were
trying some of the spells peculiar to that occa-
sion, aud late at night, went, "under the
moon" into the garden of Jerry O'Donnell, q
shoemaker, to obtain a cabbage, which mast be
| got in that particular way. They got small
cabbage and were about to leave, when ODon-
nell, who it seems had been annoyed by such
| tricks in former years, fired upon them. The
| girls fled in terror, when O'Donnell pursued
and fired a second shot in the darkness, whch b
struck one of them named Kelley in the back
| of the head and came through the eye in front
She fell, and in fifteen minutes was dead The
| excitement among the citizens of Milford was
| intense when the facts became known A hui
| man life for cabbage taken in sport seemed
to fill every one with Indignation, and it was q
chance whether ODonnell would not have
met with summary punishment had he not
been arrested:
The Mother Goose story of Jack and Jill
-
venerable myth. In the Icelandic mythology
we read that Jack and Jill were two children
whom the moon kidnapped and carried up to
heaven. They had been drawing water in a
bucket, which they were carrying by means of
pole placed across their shoulders; and in
this attitude they have stood to the present
day in the moon. Even now this explanation
| of the moon-spots is to be heard from the
mouths of Swedish peasants. They fall as the
moon wanes, and their water-pail symbolzes
the supposed connection of the moon with
| rain-storms. Other forms of the myth occur
in Sanskrt.
How does horse regard a man?-As the
source of all his whoas
Intellectual Creature-"No, it's utterly
| impossible for fellah to stand this disgusting
weather. feel as if all my bwans were going
|
to the dogs"
Lady-"Dear, dear! Poor dogsl"
| Mr.. James Parton writes to the New York
World with regard to the disputed orthogra-
ply of the name of the Maid of Orleans, that
the true spelling is Jeanne Dare, without any
aristocratic apostrophe Henri Martin, in his
History of France, always spells the name
Dare. She was born peasant and could not
/ A.
common in her province, and descendants of
the family live there-all spelled Dare.
Swearing on the Bible was first introduced
into judicial proceedings by the Saxous, about
A. d. 600.
"A Polish jew, of wilma, who was so un.
| fortunate as to have his house burned down.
was fined twenty-five roubles by the Russian
magistrate for crying fire in the Polish Ian
guage.
The hundredth anniversary of the birth
day of Scbleiermacher will be celebrated with
great solemnity in Berlin ON the 25th of this
| month
| The Italians are jublant over the success,
so far, of the Spanish revolution. They are
more confident than ever that the temporal
power of the Papacy is a lost cause. The Jour
nails of the Opposition attack with fresh vigor
the Imperial system in France, and have more
faith than perhaps is justified by circumstan-
ces, that it is approaching it's fall.
| The Spanish revolution, or some other
cause, is producing increased disaffection in
the Papal army. The number of deserters is
every day growing larger.
| The California Academy of Natural Sci
ences have concluded that the late obscuration
of the sun was not caused by fire in the woods.
The phenomenon is attributed to the existence
of saline or silcious matter floating in the at
mosphere. The dryness of the air had proba-
bly, absorbed the moisture from the fog, leav-
ing the saline particles suspended, as particles
of ice frequently are, by which the suns rays
| were acted upon. This condition OF dry io8"
is common to northern Europe, where similar
| appearances are ooSer'eu'
A Captain bIoncrieff, OF the British army.
hos invented a new method of mounting and
,rorxing guns in land defences which NAV
revolutionize the present system of fortifica-
ton. Rifle pits have long been recognized as
| the most effective defenees for riflemen and
their superiority for that purpose over parapets
has been demonstrated. Could cannon be ele
waited and depressed as easily as a rifle is ras-
ed and lowered, artillery pits would soon SUI
persede elaborate eorthworks or granite forts.
| Captain Moncrieff's invention enables three
men to load the largest sszed gun in use in the
British service, raise it above the slight parapet
of rifle pit, and depress it, after firing, below
the reach of any except vertical fire. In
other words, he has made artillery pits prac-
ticable.
The Nebraska State House at Lincoln Is
rooted in.
Prairie fires are again beginndg to disturb
the equanimity of Westerners.
Victoria does not wish her darling sou AL
fred to risk himself on the throne of Spain.
The Archbishop of valladolid, spain' do
not recognize tine revolutionary junta. So
much the worse for the archbishop.
Michigan has paid one-eighth OF Its state
ao,,4 ,,;.,,;,, = vaar. and now owes less than