The Portland daily press., 1869-07-19

An opera house, with a seating capacity
OF 1000 is nearly completed, at Akron, Ohio.
AT recent temperance celebration, little
lad appeared in tho procession bearing flag
on which was inscribed the following: "AlPs
right when daddy's SOBER"
White Pine papers chronicle good Joke
on the grasshoppers," which have come in
millions to that barren spot leaving the wheat
field Of California to ripen gloriously.
"A soda fountain has been put up in a
Georgia town, and the local paper gives a col
umn description of the structure.
"A Colorado miner, while prospecting came
upon o cinnamon bear and a couple of cubs
who sought to make meal of him, but he
jumped down precipice some thirty feet, and
the bears not having the courage to make the
leap, he escaped.
About seven weeks ago gentleman Of De-
troit, Mich, woke up to find his right hand
and wrist swollen TO twice their natural size
and although surgeons and physicians were
imme diately called in they failed to discover
the cause. The patient has suffered no pain,
but the hand is useless. Medical men declare
themselves bafied.
Here & what NJ. L. Limonin writes to the
Paris Reveil about Anna Dickinson: "This
young lady is passably good-looking and has
considerable fiuency in speaking; but, as a
general thing her arguments are illogical in
the extreme and hardly worth listening to. 1
grew decidedly Adgetty after hearing her for
fifteen minutes"
We have only to live seven years longer 10
reach the year 1876, the one hundredth ami
versary Of the Declaration Of Independence.
That win be the greatest day which the West
ern World will have ever seen, No doubt
many an orator already has his grafton for
that decennial anniversary now on the anvil,
and that he will hammer away at-it until sun
rise of that great day.
Recently Jeptha Smith, a young man of
eighteen, living near Bassville, Barry county,
Mo-, slipped and fell over bluff at Carlisle's
mill. he first fell a distance of forty-fve feet,
alighting on his feet. Here he rebounded and
fell another thirty feet bringing up ON his
shoulders; and then, by series OF falls of ten
or twelve feet at time, brought up against
tree, making distance of some hundred feet
in ALL Singularly he sustained no serious in
1uries, and was about usual in a few days.
AT Burr Oak, Michigan, last week, a
young woman, aged about twenty-three years,
who had been married about five years, delib-
erately walked off with her husbands youngest
brother. All was done with the full knowl-
edge of tne injured husband. His wife packed
up her bed and clothing in his presence which
were placed in a wagon, together with hersen
and child, by her paramour, when they Were
driven about mile to the residence OF the nus
bands father, the husband and another broth
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| er, following ON foot. Here the whole matter,
| contemplated for over year, was freely and
| deliberatelv talked over, the woman declaring
| that she never loved her husband as well as
| she did his youngest brother. The young man
them cooly helped his brothers wife and child
INTO the wagon. and getting in himself left for
parts unknown.
Getting ready for whato
Why, great many things
A tour to the Lake,
Or trip to the Springs.
Getting ready for work.
And ready for play;
Getting ready for something
Each day.
| co,t;pg ready for joy,
For excitement and mirth-
Getting ready to grasp
All the sunshine of earth;
Getting ready for pleasure
Again and again,
But never getting ready
| For painl
Getting ready to drive
| Sharp bargains in trade;
| Getting ready for wealth
BY plans ably laid;
Getting ready to win
Bv the means that we use,
But never getting ready
To losei
Getting ready for home
For husband or wife
Getting ready for children
/ For honor and lite;
Getting ready for fame,
with its vanishing breath,
But hardly getting ready
| For Deathl