The Portland daily press., 1870-08-18

The trade in flannel is reviving.
Pressed for the time-Egyptian mummies
Philadelphia has female undertakers.
Deer are tame and plenty in Wisconsin.
The grasshoppers are eating everything in
Utah, except poygamy.
A deacon at Cavendish, VT, was recently
fined $40 for selling cider to an habitual
drunkard
Lord Lyttleton is writing new novel for
Blackwood, and gets $4,000 for it.
Saratoga hotels receive 25O new guests da-
ly.
Columbus, Ca, counts 1850; lost since
1860, $500.
About $4,000 Iowa cows have gone into
the cheese factory business.
-Deleware promises to send 1,35O,0OO bas-
kets of peaches to market this season.
The southern papers promise cotton
crop of not less than 100000 bales.
The fund for the children of Captain
Williams, of the Oneida, now amounts to
$500.
Nebraska City was founded in 1854, and
now has population of 900.
The grain shipments from Nebraska City
last year equalled 100000 bushels.
They are catching six-foot alligators off
the wharves at Wilmington. Bathing is un-
popular there.
An observer says "chldren are not 50
well behaved since the mothers have taken to
wearing high buttoned boots"
In TIE head lines to Columbus despatch
the Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday reads;
democrats in Council Safe Blown Open"
The Scott Foundry, at Reading, Penn,
has recently completed riHed cannon, so
constructed as to throw UNDERGROUND ball
ten miles.
-Newarkers are happy. They have attain
ed to Sunday horse-cars, and remote lager
beer gardens.
The subscriptions for the reliefof the suf-
erers by the East Boston fire have now reach
ed $500.
The Bostonians profess to be dissatisfied be-
cause they to have more than an hon
est share of the musquito crop.
The returns from the Boston public baths
show that there was nearly half million
bathers in July.
The towns along the line of the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad are becoming the most ex-
tensive markets for the shipment of Texas
cattle.
Two "young ladies" in Randall county,
Ind, recently waylaid and soundly thrashed
young man-as they accidently discovered
was engaged to be married to both of them.
The "girl of the PERIOD" in Arkansas, is
described as thirteen years old, shoeless, bon
netless, stockingless, and the sheriff after her
for stealing horse.
Another man has turned up who is nine
ty years of age who never rode on the cars
and never chewed tobacco. This time he be-
longs to Gambia, N. H.
-Chillicothe, o., allows no beer shop, bar
Der shop, livery stable, drug store, or any 9TH
er establishment of the kind 10 be kept open
on Sunday.
An Alabama gentleman keeps cool during
the hot weather by lowering himself into
dry well, where, with lamp, cigars, and
newspapers, and soft chair, he manages to
keep comparatively comfortable.
Two mechanics in Georgetown, KY, car
riase makers, have built with their own hands,
working only after shop hours, a gothic stone
church, which would have cost complete
$4,000. They have been at work on it for
five years.
If any one can be interested in winter
fashions this weather, they will like to know
that seal-skin jackets will be more fashionable
than velvet, and viii be trimmed with feath-
ers or furs.
Have boys ceased to be boys that kites
are so few; and girls ceased to be girls that
the battledore has disappeared? BY no means;
it is only because the pastimes OF past-'imes
have been changed for novelties.
-"What will you have for suppera" asked
n New London hotel keeper Of family party
from Hartford, who had gone to that famous
seaside resort to get "shore food" "Fish, of
course" was the reply. They got boiled salt
mackerel!
"A chamber, twenty feet long and eight
feet wide, was opened, some short time since,
at the FL Dorado South Mine of California,
which has already produced seventy-five tons
of ore, sixty tons of which will work at 500
per ton, and the remainder at 500.
"A pair of precocious little damsels at
Troy, N. Y, were overheard the other night
on the sidewalk, exchanging notes on the
Franco Prussiaa war. al know" said No. i,
that France will beat, because the little Prince
10 with him." $50 away with you" chimed
in No. 1, 81 know mighty sight better. The
Dutch will whip; for my pa is Frenchman
and my ma is Dutchman. They fight every
night, and ma always licks."