The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-04-29

A citizen of Frankfort, KY, felt himself un-
der the necessity to postpone his wedding be-
cause his tailor cut his pants too short.
B. Davis Washburn, of Massachusetts,, has
given Harvard College bust of G. Sinius
Maecenas, found at Herculaneum in 1922.
A Cincinnati hotel-keeper dresses all his
walters in full naval uniform, probably to re-
mind them that they must be constantly on
the watch for boarders.
The Census Marshals in Wisconsin are
mostly one-armed or one-legged soldiers, and a
Wisconsin soldier, who lost an arm during the
war and "knows how to sympathize with
Them" has sent an artificial arm to be pre-
sented to one of the one-armed appointees in
Dodge county.
A traveller who visited New Bedford, recent
~, desiring glass of wine at dinner, asked
the waiter whether they had any "dry Sillery."
"No," was the prompt response, "but we have
got some cold cabbage"
At recent meeting in New York Mr..
Beecher told an incident that occurred in a
class in his mission school. A banner was Of
fered to the class that behaved the best. One
Sunday youngster made disturbance,
when the rest took him out and punched him
until he promised to reform. That class got
the banner.
On the 23d ult. there was great fire at He
lena, Montana. A large brewery was in dan
ger, and its proprietors adopted a novel expe-
dent for protection against the flames. TAX
ing number of kegs of beer upon the balco-
ny OF their building, they knocked out the
buDgs, and allowed the beer, which had
good "head," to gush forth in full stream upon
the heated walls. The effect was more tnan
answered the expectations ot the experiment.
ers. and materially assisted in suoduins the
conflagration.
Iadv had been cautioning her son, a bright,
affpctionate little boy, in the matter OF taking
not belp being anxious and troubled about
YOU when you are ill. All! Freddy, you have
little idea of the feelings of q mother" "No,
mother" replied the dear little fellow,
with genuine earnestness, "but mdy knoto
something of the feelings of tathere'
A gentleman was coming from locality
where party of Indians had pitched their
tents. As it happened, he was very dark OF
complexion, and wore his hair long, after the
fashion of students. A group OF children
were playing by the roadside. As he passed,
one forward little miss dropped her dirt-pie,
and looking at him keeny, inquired "Whtch
camp do you belong to MisterF'
A singular case of the reuniting of loving
hearts was afforded the other day by mar
riage at Galesburg, Illinois, the parties to
which were Samuel r. Crosley, of New York,
aged eighty three, and Mrs. Amanda Hurd. of
Galesburg, aged eighty-one. They were en-
gagged at the age OF eigeteen and sixteen re-
spectively, but broke their troth, and since
then have each followed two companions to
the grave.
The owner Of a number of government
bonds, residing at Brattleboro, Vermont IN
forms Gen. Spinner, United States Iredsa1 sd stoye
that for some time past he found an p,I recentlv
convenient safe for his bonds Ss oa' was used
without his knowledge, the ,Se S.oI bonJs were
and to his astonisrnhmeHTrr rhs treasurer s has noti,
eulneu es 's; ~ sarward with the greatest care
tho eo haIeJ gr bonds, and if they can be identi
ad sde the Government will either pay their vaiue
eri er ;ssme snH registered bonds in their place.