The Portland daily press., 1870-05-14


dred aud twenty-one years Old, and has never
missed publication day.
The LOtosr Is the name Of a new social
club in New York, composed OF journalists,
actors, authors, singers, artists, etc.
Mr.. Dasent, sub-edit0r Of the London Tlmes.
has resigned. The man that was ~afeared"
is still lett on The paper.
The local reporter Of the Montgomery (Ala.1
Mail gets " $40 for writing up city Affairs
And -it' Is a lady at that,
The Philadelphia Eseniag Star SAYS that
since the Mcfarland trial Mr.. Greeley has
lost his enthusiasm as GTahamite.
Rev. 4. L. Hale's society In Boston, has
voted to make bis salary seven thousand dol
lars per annum.
There are now fourteen daily papers In
Philadelphia and two more are announced as
shortly to appear.
As sample of the sarcasm OF history, II Is
mentioned that the old headquarters OF Phila-
delphia Democracy has become the rendez-
vous of 18th Amendment voters.
Mr.. L. S. IIurlbut, a resident of Chicago
bought dock property in Duluth, Mimi. In
1851, for which he paid $500. He can now
sell the land for $4,000.
AT recent wedding in New York among
the brides presents were two pieces of linen.
four family Bibles, eight ice pitchers, twenty
two berry spoons. two silk umbrellas, and a
piece of towelling.
A Manchester man recently founl in his
steel trap the whole of rats hind LEG, left
there by some heroic rodent that enawed off
the offending member rather than be taken
prisoner.
A Tilted swain spitefully says: 'Eve did not
know as much as her daughters of the pres
emf d1V Had tEnv haan iy, har y,1aoo
OF being deceived, they would have deceived
the devil"
An old soaker replied to a temperance lee
turer by the following poser: "If water rots
the soles Of your boots, what effect must it
have on the coat OF your stomach?'
An English farm laborer was recently we'd
ded, and his wife dropped dead in few min
utes after. He was single, married and wild
owed in an hour.
One hundred newspapers have started and
failed in Chicago, and $9,000,000 haze been
sunk in journalistic failures in New York. So
says an exchange.
Miss. Clara Louise Kellogg is TO spend the
summer at New Hartford, where she owns a
lot on winch she contemplates erecting a
summer residence. The rumor that she is To
be married to Hartford gentleman is denied.
The Idaho penitentiary prisoners occcunv
1900
atmosphere inside the walls is of a far higher
tone than that of the rest of the Territory"
John II. Cobb, eldest son of the late How
ell Cobb, owns and manages fourteen thous-
and acres of rich land, in one body, about
fourteen miles from Americus, Georgia.
An old lady in New Jersey, having read an
account OF the bursting of grindstone in a
manufacturing establishment, became terribly
alarmed lest Srindstone which was in her
cellar should burst and blow the house up.
Il remember" says the celebrated Wesley,
''hearing my father say to my mother, How
could you have the patience to tell that block
head the same thing twenty times over?'
Why said she, If l had told him but nine
teen times l should have lost all my labor ~
The heathen emblem of the snake holding
his tail in his mouth has always been explain
ed to mean eternity. Fun thinks the emblem
typical OF life, rather, as indicating continual
effort to make both ends meet.
Frank Shepard of Montague. r.. l.. son of
the late DIR. Shepard, left that town IL wears
ago, and was never heard OF by his friends till
one evening, last week, when he quietly
dropped in.' His fathers will was made
without reference TO him, as he was supposed
TO be dead.
Robert Morris, jr., son Of prominent color
ed member of the Suffolk Mass bar, a few
days since passed q successful examination
and entered at Middle Temple, London. re-
naming at Stonyhurst College, near Black
burne-a Jesuit college. He is educated for
priest.
The French Empress has never danced
since the death of her sister, the Duchess of
Alba, but she appears i'm the ballroom on a
dais prepared for her, where she remains, sur
rounded by her ladies. At one court ball sea-
sIfQ n whita cafiv,
with gold, the blond flounces looped up with
amethyst, dadem of amethyst on her head,
and her necklace and bracelets of the same
stones. Nothing more lovely or more charm
| ing had ever been seen-so say some who saw
| the costume.
Edward l.. Burlingame, son of the late
Minister Burlingame, is about to visit San
Francisco. to look after the vast estate pur-
chased there by his father about four wears
since, said by Californians to be worth about
eight hundred thousand dollars.
The Philadelphia Press says: "For the
first time within living memory, there is not
gambling house publicly open i'm Pbilade,.
phia: The blaze of light through half drawn
blinds and halt open doors no longer at mid
night lures our youth ftom home, or tempts
the stranger.
AT a recent church meeting in New Ala
bany, Indiana, one of the participants, on
rising to relate his experience, exhibited con-
siderable embarrassment, and began his re-
marks by saying: IL fee-I-feel-I feel"
and then broke down completely. The COM
| pany at first thought the brother was going to
| sing "Shoo-Fly."
Two fashionable young ladies of Hartford,
| Conn, have been lad up Tor repairs, from
| wearing bieli-heeled shoes, and the doctor
! thinks that he has got a job that will last him
a wear, to straghten out their little toes. One
| of the young ladies was to have been married
soon, but the ceremony will have to be per-
formed sitting down.
There are a lot Of facetious chaps in the
Senate of the New Dominion, of whose leyitv
the st. GATHERINGS Times complains, illustrat
ing it by recent debate, which it reports
thus: "Sir George f. Cartier called the honor
able member (Mr. Ferguson) to order in
English. MIR. Ferguson asked him TO repeat.
Sir George 4. Cartier did so in French. Hon.
j. Sandfeld Macdonald replied in Gaelic,
evidently denouncing the Ministry, amid
great laughter. Sir George +. Cartier defend
ed the Government in Latin and Greek.
IGreat applause Mr.. Abbott protested
against the debates being carried on in Choc
taw. Laughter Sir John A. Macdonald said
it was all Greek TO him. [Laughter.I Mr
Levisconte spoke in Spanish"
In little speech to some of his ne;cbbors
last Friday, Mr. Seward said very prettily: Il
come back, alter long and wearying absence,
to this my ancient home, not unlike one OF
our native mariners, who, having for forty
years Dunetted the winds and waves of many
climes and seas, finds rest at last upon the
sunny shore where his early life was passed,
content and thankful to God that no ship in-
trusted to his care has wrecked, no crew LOST,
no owners ruined. A thousand thanks tnen,
my friends, for this generous welcome. May
our Heavenly Father grant us to i've ahee-
tonately while we are Pep'ttesa ts y ,e tose,n,
tbe svmnathy with other men and other ma
tions which, while they bring cheerfulness to