The Portland daily press., 1870-08-24
Go ssiD and GIesuiups,

The United States has 10000 Post Of
fees.
An Illinois spirtualist hazards the pre-
dction that President Grant is to ia IL by the
hand of an assassin on the Fourth of July,
1876.
Nilsson will be accompanied in her
American tour by Henri Vieuxtem ps, who is
generally considered tie greatest violinst in
the world.
The Jewish Messenger calls upon the
Israetes to go back to their former simplic-
ty in the conduct of funerals. Its strong pro-
test against funeral pomp viii apply to many
Christian communities.
There is a moral taught by the following
conversation which needs to be learned by
many fathers. Said afittle four-year-old:
"Mother, father won't be in heaven with us,
will hes" "Why, my child?' Because he
can't leave the store"
-''You don't work enough to earn your
salary" said the head of department in the
New York Custom House to one of his clerks.
"Work" exclaimed the young man, 81 work.
ed to get here; surely you cont expect me to
work any longer"
Several of the leading medical men in
Paris, prominent among whom is the famous
DIR. Neaton, are aeitating for the establish
ment of medical college exclusively for wo-
men, and have asked the Empress to take the
scheme under her especial patronage.
A petition is circulating in Boston for the
pardon of O'Baldwin, the Irish Giant, who
has served nina montbc of , ,,,,o ,,oo.s, .a..
tence in Jail, for prize fighting with wormald,
at Lynn.
Madame de Stael said: "If / were mis-
tress OF fifty languages, would think in the
deep German, converse in the gay French,
write in the copious English, sing in the ma
jeslic Spanish, deliver in the noble Greek, and
make love in the soft italian.
The annual expenses of the federal army
| of Germany, on apeace footing, are 6S,S56,
674 thalers, or something over S50,OO0OOO.
Prussia has $500 miles of railroad, max
ing an average of two miles to each 10000
of the population, or four miles to each
100 square miles of territory. The average
cost of construction was SS3,7O0 a mile. The
comparative cheapness of their construction
comes from the fact that care is taken to
avoil the preliminary expenses of organiza-
ton.
The peanut crop Of Virginia this year is
estimated at 100000 buspes, while Tennessee
raises 100000 bushels, and Georgia and the
Caroinas from 10000 to 175 900.
1t is estimated that America, when her
| productive power is fully developed, will be
| able to feed four times as many persons as
| there are now on the face of the earth.
-Vigo county, Ind, With population of
10000, has an average of 20 applications for
divorce, weef.
| AT the recent great fire at Constantine
| pie, more than 1000 houses were destroyed,
and property TO the amount of S40O00C00
was sacrificed. More than 1000 persons were
killed.
| "A rapid writer viii pen about 2 800 words
in an hour. a rapid speaker will utter 12,-
| 600 words in the same time The London
Times newly invented steam press will urint
10000 600 words in minute, or 6OOOOO,OOO
| an hour.
The Boston and Maine Railroad trans
ported 3,230,000 passengers over their road
the past year, showing an increase of 40 per
cent. in four years.
| Americans are said to be the greatest
wearers of kid gloves of any nation in the
world.
| Women are allowed by q recent royal de-
cree, to practice medicine in England, after
undergoing the usual examinations, and a
a special course of instruction is to be opened
for them in London.
Two new women's journals have been
started in Holland.
Upward OF twenty young women are
studying theology in the United States, with
the view of becoming preachers.