The Portland daily press., 1869-02-16

They have good way in Hartford Comm
to take care of the truants. 1t is a sure fire
every time. Two policemen attend a school,
one in the forenoon md ono in tae afternoon,
for the sake of obtaining tho names of the alb
sentses. They then report to tneir parents, so
as to find out who are playing truant The
law provides that all children playing tr.ant
shall be arrested, and this is the initiatory STEP
toward putting the law into operation,
One of the latest novelties in French jour
nalism is to make considerable use of the New
Testament Alexander Dumas so thoroughly
appreciated the love of novelty which charac-
terizes his eountrymen, that in one of his nov
els he incorporated large part of one of the
Gospels with great effect. To many of his
readers it was the newest part of the book.
-Moosa, the enterprising African who orig
mated the story of DIR. Livingstone's death,
has been in prison eight months for his lying.
That fellow is an unappreciated genius. In
this country the man who could originate, so
big a sensation would be promoted to the
command of some newspapers Washington
bureau.
"A man being asked, as he lay summing
himself in the grass, what was the height Of
his ambition, replied: "To marry rich widow
with bad cough"
"A lady who assisted" at q recent public
demonstration in San Francisco, where there
was some little discrepancy between the sup
ply and demand, when it came tc the eating
part of the ceremony, says she enjoyed herself
beautifully. "Eat, did you say? Why, bless
you, got square mealp she exclaimed in
dignantion. "What did the meal consist of?''
asked bystander. "Why it was soda
crackerl Isn't that about the square thing for
dinner?"
There is real live Yankee at the head of
a commercial house in Shanghai, China He
ships twice as much tea as any firm in the
country, and in addition to his business keeps
a hospitable mansion for the entertainment of
distinguished visitors with free livery stable
attaehed,) attends two churches, leads the
chsir at one, is the treasurer of a missionary
society, member of the Philharmonic Society,
engineer of a FIRE company, member of q re-
gatta club, teacher in a Sunday School, assist
ant editor of a newspaper, member of the Ash
attic Society, debater at the Debating Society,
and always has time after dinner to relate
some interesting "reminiscences of Shanghai
life.
The whole of Haydn's Creation was sung
in Salem on Friday evening.
One of the new English monitors is to
manufacture its own gas for lighting.
-"No moving in May" is considered neces-
sary addition to advertisements for boarders in
New York city.
Fog g-Signals-Coughs and colds.
"A single artesian well supplies all the wa
ter used at Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin.
"A frank young man in Cincinnati adver-
tises for situation, saying that "Work is not
so much OF an object as good wages"
"A venerable New Hampshire lady recent
ly showed dolor-ous face when, on bringing
to the city for transition 10 currency silver
dollar carefully kept for thirty five years, she
was informed that it was q counterfeit.
"A model literary criticism of the slashing
order is that of the Pail Mall Gazette upon
Captain Clayton's "Sunny South; an Autumn
in Spain and Majorca." Here it is:
Not worth the trouble of cutting the leaves:
An utterly uncalled-for account of rapid
railway journey right through from Havre 10
Valencia, with snatch at the Balearic Isles
and dash heme by Barcelona and PerplgnaI
The mere idle scribbling of chatterlng 1MiateI M
Ter on beaten road, dong toWns to5 aL;ng ont
walls allowed for refreshment, ana ek,hs O 0us
his original matter by hashed guiaeoooA. OS-
casionslly vulgar, often fippant, generally
silly always stupid.
"A man in France has valuable dog
which beine assaied by wolf, was so injured
that one of its legs had to be amputated. The
,,oster so valued his canine friend that the
experiment of a wooden leg-which is not al
together new-was tried, and the dog is still
alive and active.
"A wildcat was lately killed in Wheeling,
Minnesota, which measured three feet eight
inches from tip to tip. A dozen of these ami
mails have been killed in the towns of Forest
and Bridgewater, In the same state during the
past year.
Prince Frederick William Victor Albert
(like the good Vicar of Wakefield we love to
give the whole nancy the eldest son of the
Prince Royal of Prussia, and grandson Oh
Queen Victoria, is ten years old, and has Oeen
breyeted by his grandfather (king Wllia"i
second lieutenant in the Prussian army, anu
received on the same day the cross Oh tne
Black Eagle, the highest order Oh inc mon
archy IN vegetahlas will ho
..;faa 80 learn that a Michigan cuitivator
- ,,o,ato that comes to maturity fifteen
.,,;nr,es earlier than the famous Early Rose
potato! ,a = s,;,;o
ac verses to brakes memory, beginning with,
Screen be the turf above thee" When these
were first printed, some of the journals in
copying them, substituted "sod" for "turf," and
others 'grass." 81 think" said Halleck, "they
will get it yet, Screen be the peat above ihee'
"A "velocipede reception and hop Is 'ne
latest sensation in New York. 80.
The American Social Science Assoo'""0u
has invited John Stuart Mill to visit tnls coun-
try, but has not yet received an answer