The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-20

The Newfoundland seal fishery has been
very successful during the past season. The
number of seals landed at st. Johns has been
near to 100000.
Two admirers of the Ayrshire description
of cattle in Milton, Vermont, have challenged
an advocate of the Durhams in Burlington to
test the milk-producing qualities of the re-
spective kinds during the month of June
the cows to be fed in the same pasture-for a
wager of $500 a side.
-Disgraceful proceedings took place recent
ly at Falmouth, England, where q young wo-
man was buried with extremely ritualistic GER
emony, headed by twelve-foot cross. Incense
was used i'm the church, the rector meantime
kneeling at the coffin. The service was inter-
rupted by groans from a large mob, mingled
with Kisses and laughter. A scufie followed,
in which the rector's surplice was torn.
-Four villages in Prussia have been united
by royal decree, and win hereafter bear the
name of Bismarkdorf
"A man in Cairo, H., has invented a
spring to be attached to the feet by means of
which person is relieved of the labor of walk
ing, to great extent. He claims his inven-
tion will enable man to walk ten miles per
hour with ease.
The Army and Navy Journal, which has
opened department of "Aquatics,' says
there arc upwards of one hundred flourishing
boat-clubs in the country, and it thinks the
forthcoming national boat race between Har-
ward and Oxford will increase the number. The
Journal proposes to make itself an authority
on all boating matters.
A traveller thus describes the first sensation
of camel ride: ''Take a music stool, and
having wound it up as high as it will go, put
it in cart without springs, get on top, and
next drive the cart transversely across.
plowed field, and you will then form some mo-
tion of the terror and uncertainty you would
experience the first time you mounted q
camel
Bismarck, it is reported, lately said, in re-
ply to some English criticism on his policy,
'If were an Abyssinian, or Hindoo, or even
an American, 1 might perhaps care what
England thinks. But being European do
not"
The Duke of Hamilton is about to sell all
his horses and retire from the turf. He has
Last prodigious sums Of money, besides the
better paru vf- his character, and as frightful
example stands second only to the Marquis OF
Hastings. The Jockey Club blackballed him.
This is an express way-bill received at
Cleveland: some child, alive, to Mrs. Sarah A,
Leonard, Cleveland, Ohio, from Mrs. W.
Bush, Williamsport Pa. Charges S. 70''
Tho Prince of Wales has been grandly
entertained at Constantinople. The "Arabian
Nights may be put aside In favor of Mr.. w.
III l. -
geous scenes Slaves, gweetmeats, sunshine
and silver; gold, guards, gems and gorgeous
ness were the familiar sights of the time.
Nothing that could delight the eye was abb
sent. Everything that could intoxicate the
the senses was there.
The editor of the st. Catherine (Canada)
Journal met with singular mishap last
week. He ascended tree to recapture a pet
racoon. when, by some unfortunate slip he lost
the hold of his hands and was caught by one
foot in the crotch of limb some twenty feet
from the ground. He was thus suspended,
head downwards for some ten minutes, before
the spectators were enabled to procure lad
der to effect his release.
Caleb Cushing is in his 10th year, yet to
Ill outward appearance not over 80. He was
graduated at Harvard in 1917, at the head of
mis- class, and has been close student all his
life. In 1888, thirty-one years ago, he was in
the House, and was regarded by his friends as
4 victim of consumption.
The Nation advises women orators to sit
down when they speak, and to dress well, not
wearing pantaloons.
Mr.. Stewards little bill for cable telegraph
ing, amounting to $4,000, remains unsettled
and the company are very urgent in their de-
mands upon the gov ernment for payment
ga female BIondin" walking tight rope
at Bolton, in England fell sixty feet, but the
all was broken partly by another rope, and
partly by the crowd which caught her, and
ound, with deep disgust, that she remained
live.
There is colored man in Mercer. Penn
ylvania, who Is said to possess the extraordi-
lary power of changing at will the position
If his heart to the right side or to the abdomen.
Rev. DR.. Summerbell of Cincinnati, pro-
bounds the conundrum Scan jew be savedf
ind devotes Sunday evenings to efforts to an
Iwer it.
"A Louisville milliner has sued the wife OF
\ prominent merchant for slander, in speaking
If her as ''that fancy Mrs. Smith, and claims
damages to the extent of $4,000.