The Portland daily press., 1870-08-10

hO PiiSO vi lCc III NEWARK ndu Deen du-
vanced to $50 per ton, and the sales the first
day after the rise fell off four-fifths
The European war has increased the cir
culation of the leading London dailies from
so to % per cent.
Musical instruments closely resembling
the modern flute have been lately discovered
in Pompeii.
Swords and Spears are the names of
couple of editors, who do up the war news for
Vicksburg paper.
Painted dogs are said to be the fashion in
Indianapolis.
1.-Two genteel white girls" advertise for
servants situations in Richmond paper
The young Prince of Asturias is now, the
oretically, King Alphonso XII. of Spain.
London is the hottest and Liverpool the
coolest city in England.
The guests at Queen vctoria's "state
breakfast" were hidden to come at s P. NJ.
"A fisherman of Bloomsbury, Pa, was
caught in thunder-shower the other day,
and struck by lightning. The fluid stripped
him stark naked, but didn't hurt him.
Professor Albrecht Won Giraffe, whose
death at Berlin was recently announced, bore
the reputation of being the greatest oculist
who ever lived.
"A New York lawyer tried to'secure the
release of his client, the other day, on the
ground that the indictment was detective, the
clerk having abbreviated petit larceny into "P.
L." but the judge said it was perfectly well
understood what these initials meant, and re-
fused to discharge the culprit.
Lexington, KY, is agitated over the re-
cent grant by its Democratic council of $500 a
year, out Of the public funds, to a Catholic
priest, for the support of his sectarian school.
The drought in Europe is creating an in
creased demand for American hay, and 29,s17
bales have been exported from New York
thus far this year, against 1s,343 during the
corresponding period of 1860.
-Colorphoba is not yet dead at Albany,
and some colored excursionists from Troy.
who stopped at the former city on wednes-
day, to receive an accession to their numbers.
were so brutally attacked by party of white
roughs, that the police had 20 Le called in to
quell the disturbance.
Some smart student at Oberlin built a
fire on hot day in the recitation room. for a
joke on the professor. He came in and heard
the class recite, and kept them in the room
two hours listening to a lecture on the "Tor.
rid Zone" He was one of your cool kind.
"A physician residing at Campbelltown,
Steuben county. Mass, having been duly as
sessed, as he supposed, as physician and
standing ready to cheeriully pay the tax
which should go to swell the national treas
ury and decrease the national debt, found that
he had been rated AID taxed as "butcher."
"A California paper says all who have at
tempted to swim in the waters of Lake Ia
hoe must have been startled at their strange
lack of buoyancy. Good swimmers launch
forth into the lake with the utmost conf
dence in their skill, and at once find them
selves foundering and only able to keep
themselves afloat by the most strenuous exer-
tions. The bodies of persons drowned are
never seen after they have once sunk. OF
the five white persons drowned in the lake.
not single body has ever been recovered or
ever seen. Pine logs float in the lake but
very short time, then sink never again to rise.
In places far down through the crystal fiuid
are to be seen resting upon the bottom great
quantities oi slabs, logs and lumber.
"A Frenchman in New York recently bor-
rowed s25 ola woman pawnbroker, leaving
his six year old daughter as security, but
when he went TO redeem the "pledge," the
woman refused to surrender the child, and it
was found necessary to serSe writ of habeas
corpus upon her.
The experiments with the Lyman or
multochange cannon case, which has been in
progress for some time at Reading, Pa, have
been satisfactorily concludad. The gun has
four powder pockets along the bottom of the
bore, intended to give the ball an increased
velocity. 1t Is claimed that it will carry the
projectile ten miles. A test was made with
q hundred pound ball.