The Portland daily press., 1869-06-03

lon the 1st of June the new Gable tariff
rate went into operation.
Z -Pfau has fallen again, and again failed to
break his neck. -. ,..-.
In London they have hospital devoted
exclusively to the accommodation of sick chill
dren. .i-'-.-'-. =. .r
The first large wave OF Japanese immigra-
ton is rolling in upon our Pacific coast.
One of the most important reforms an
nouncedIby the Turkish government is the es-
tablishmsnt of civil code. ,,t..,s 81.
The the theatre in Calcutta is temporary
building of iron, which can at pleasure be
pulled down and packed away for future use
The New York Excise Board have reduc-
ed the license rates one-halfto to the great Joy Of
liquor dealers and sellers.
The most furious quarrels take place be-
tween those who have most in common-blood,
language, literature or industry.
The free churches of Boston are largely
supported by persons attending churches
where the pew system prevails.
-"Josh Billings remarks that he notices
that the men who are always telling what they
would have done if they had been there, never
get there.
Julius Browne has heard Spurgeon. BE
thinks Beecher can give him FIVE points in the
game, and then beat him at preaching.
IAN elephant, foot and one-half higher
than the highest elephant ever seen in this
country, is on its way to the United States.
The Rev. DR.. Fowler, OF Chicago, calls the
theatre "ths guillotine of the SOUL" he prob
ably means that it cuts off the head and leaves
the legs. H4a7 lsa t
Associations are forming in North Ger
many to enable the families of the poorly paid
teachers to emigrate to this country.
Good luck is simply doing the right thing
In tho right way at the right time. These con-
ditions met, and the matter is all right.
Don't expect to be considered wise and
good simply by wearing long face and SOL
emn countenance. 1t is trick that half the
humbugs and hypocrites in the world regular
ly practice, s a -!1 eas @ 81
The Board of Trade of Liverpool have vot-
ed to extend public welcome to Mr.. Motley,
our new English Minister
Americans abroad who have met Mrs. Lin
coin, widow OF the President, declare that she
is much more sensible and becoming than she
was at home The atmosphere must have
worked the cure. Let Mrs. DIR. Walker be
sent abroad at once. .sim $50
The editor of the louisville Democrat, in
his valedictory, says: A'The worst sin Ihaye on
my conscience is helping to make great men
out of very small material."ll . SIS
The pertinent reply of a colored lad to a
white boy, who asked him what he had such
short nose for, was: 81 spect 50 1t won't poke
itself into other peoples business.
There is only one little difficulty now in
the way of the union of the Old and New
Schools. They cannot determine which is to
be the school of the future-whether the New
School is Joined to the Old, or the Old to the
New.
The fair young Summet win soon be doing
what writer OF prose poetry once said she
did, viz: lie painting and athirst in the bosom
of the dale. But the poet was evidently think
ing of the country, where Summer shows a
side of her character very different from that
which we see in the city.
The New York Highland regiment has dis
earded the kilt. Sensible. Bare legs are po-
etical, no doubt; but when displayed by stout,
brawny men, on dusty streets, cannot all COM
pete with the attractions presented by pretty
ballet-girls, amid the glare and gas-ligbt Of the
STAGE 4g E-t .A-v fne re
Few people on this side the water know
that Finland has University superior to most
of those in Germany, and far ahead of any
thing in America.
The New York Times gives a long list Of
profitable purchasers of churches in that city
by real estate dealers, and says: with these
precedents, we are safe in advising any one
who-wants to get rich to buy church"
Admiral Porter is desirous that the young
officers of our navy should engage in aquatic
sports, not only because they will thus find ex-
eellent amusement and healthful exercise, but
because it win give them some knowledge of
the boats, the tactics and the muscle of the
foreigners whom they may engage in friendly
contest, and whom they may some day have to
fight. l.N.o
Hungary seems to be good country for
newspapers. 1t has nine dailes, of upward OF
ten thousand copies circulation each, and the
editors of the Hungarian papers are by far
more literally paid than the journalists in the
German Provinces Of Austria,
Eleven hundred families in England keep
more than ten servants each.