The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-20
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The S0OO00 silk worms in the coonery at
Salt Lake City consume thirty bushels OF null
berry leaves per day.
The Ladies' Missionary Association Of
Hartford, Conn.,, have a mission in Mexico
which numbers eight churches and three hum
dred Mexican converts.
One of the miseries of life is, to be beaten in
an argument, and Immediately aiterward to
'hink OF some expression which would have
totally annihilated your opponent
The treasury department at Washington
uses envelopes of a peculiar oreening tint. 1t
seems that all refuse from the manufacture of
oreenbacks, and all mutilated bills and stamps
chat are returned, are used for the manufac-
ture OF this particular paper.
"A very desirable article for druggists,
house keepers and Others, has recently been
invested. 1t is an adjustable rubber lip for
bowls, basi IS and cups. 1t enables one to
pour liquid from dishes without spilIing, and
thereby wasting the contents aud soiling 9TH
er articles,such as table covers, carpets, cloths,
etc.
1t is an error to suppose that Kink Will
liam has Handkerchief with map OF Eu-
rope printed on it, so that he can pike his
nose into Alsace and Lorraine, without risk;
ne keeps it so that he can blow up French
town or two when he ieeIs like it.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquierer says:
There are employed as the Columbus Iron
Works Prn'san and Dane, who, in late
War between their respective countries, were
arrayed against each other in deadly combat.
The Dane was wounded in the mouth, his
teeth bein, knocked out by the Prussian.
They now work side by side.
The "city" of New Chicago, Ks. is only
fifteen weeks old, and has two hundred houses
and two newspapers.
of the 1900 employees in the treasury
building at Washington about HOO are vo-
men, several OF whom hold firstclass clerk
ships.
Recent investigations by the pension
office have disclosed the fact that there are
now on the pension rolls twelve widows of
Revolutionary soldiers, who are over one hum
dred years old. The oldest is Lydia BlevIns,
of Troy, Ohio, who is 100 and has son 81
years old.
AT the recent fair in San Francisco for
the benefit of the French sufferers, a young
lady worked the sentence "Vive Ia Franco
in the cehter of handkerchief, with her own
hair, and presented the handkerchief to the
fair, at which it was sold for $1,000.
A colored planter named Montgomery
of Hurricane Landing, Miss, has taken the
$500 prize for the best bale of long stapled
cotton delivered at New Orleans. He used to
be slave of Joe Davis, elder brother of JEFF
terson Davis.
An Arkansas genius conceived that mon =
kles would. on account oil their nimble fingers,
make splendid cotton pickers with little
training, and further calculated that one good
hand could manage about ten monkeys, and
the expense of cotton picking be reduced to
minimum. When the experiment was tried,
however, it was louud that instead OF one
good hand beil g able TO manage ten monkeys,
it required about ten good hands to one mon
key.
Fifteen guns of the United States frigate
Cumberland, sunk in Hampton Roads In
April. 1862, BY the Confederate iron-clad
Mefrlmac, have Deen raised ana taken to
Richmond, where they will be converted into
railroad IRON and car wheels. This is not ex-
actly turning the sword into the plowshare.
but the next thing to it.
During an examination, a medical stu
dent being asked the question, "When does
modification set ?' replied "Wheu YOU pop
the question and are answered "No."
An impecunous and ingenious New En-
gland widow contributed the last dollar she
bad in the World to Home for INDECENT Fe-
males, and then entered herself as an inmate
for life.
The new and heavy (both in texture and
price) gros grain silks are called Rainbow"
probably because the paying papas view them
through tears.
"A Dinehampton woman complains that
during the first year OF her married life her
husband called her my DEAR" the second
year Mrs. A." and the third year "old sorrsl
top" which was too much tor her to bear. 4
One OF the latest developments ofjounal.
ism is paper entirely edited and published
by the convicts in the New Jersey State
Prison.