The Portland daily press., 1871-07-11


PAPER is now used for the lining of iee-coo-
elliott, the pen-map, began life as scissors
grinder.
Beet-root brandy is attracting attention in
England. a
st. Louis has forty-eight school houses, val
ued at 81, 100000.
One thousand emigrants month aas pour.
ing into Oregon.
Illinois has newspapers called Turkey Vino
and O,oPs Call.
The inventor of the metallic baggaee-check
made fortune of $25O,0OO.
An enterprising daily paper in Florida navs
SIPS month for its kilograms.
A postmaster by the name of Goodale. when
he is in hurry, signs himself Xxx.
"Ten churches are now being built in Chi
cago," To supply the demand for divorces?
Iowa stands at the foot of the list of wbis-
key manufacturing States, having but one dis
tilIery. =
There we've manufactured in the United
States last year over half million sewing ma
chimes.
A lady advertises in the London Times for
IAN accomplished poodle nurse. Wages el
per week."
The Cincinnati Commercial has about
column day OF betrothals, elopements, mar
riages, divorces and deaths.
Equality" says French writer, "means
desiresto be equal to your superiors, and supe-
rior to your equals"
Boston daily boils $4,000 Holsters. In con-
sideration of the weather, it might have been
100000 in that city alone.
What does grocer do with nearly sil his
things before he sells them? Gives them a
weigh. .
One California grape grower has yineyard
valued at S250,0O0. 1t yields annually from
S3O'oOO to S35,0OO worth of grapes.
An inventor has discovered q method of
manufacturing the fibre of the Canada thistle
INTO cordage, textile fabrics and paper.
An Omaha paper advises the people mot
to make such fuss about the shooting of
oae constable, as there are over forty candi-
dates for the position"
A lady in st. Marks Place advertises for
the return of large Maltese cat, called Bes-
sic. 1t is to be feared she will have to as
suage her grief with a sausage.
A Chicago policeman poisoned dog. His
master-the dog's-twisted his ear-the police
mans-and he now wears his eye-the man
dOes-in sling.
country editor who carries concealed
weapons is searching for the writer on health
mending that carpets should be taken up and
beaten every month.
A postmaster in the Northwest sends no.
tice to the publisher Of German paper that
copy addressed to one of his subscribers is
not taken out of the office. Under the print
ed direction "Reason," he gives: Subscriber
is expected to die. The boys does not want
itp
The editor of journal published in Ant
werp sent a reporter to Brussels for the
Kings speech, and with him couple of car
rier pigeons to take back the news speedily.
AT Brussels he geve the pigeons in charge to
waiter and called for breakfast. He was
kept waiting some time, but a very delicate
fricassee atoned for the delay. After break
fast he paid his bill and called for his carrier
pigeons. "Piseonsp exclaimed the waiter;
"why, you have eaten them."
"Two Memphis editors have been calling
each other lot of things, aud now Doth OF
them have their meals brought 10 tnem IN the
sanctum, for fear if they go ou. 10 iuncn they
may meet each other. When they are oblis-
ed TO go out for drink they are disguised so
that no one will know them" As gentlemen?
An English gentleman named Shears Is re-
ported by a London paper to have been "cut
in two by shell on the Champs Elysees in
Paris" The paper adds that "he is not yet
dead. Possibly but he cannot well be more
than half alive; and the story suggests
doubt whether there may not be some mis-
take as to the facts. Was Shears cut into by
shell, or a shell cat in two by Shears?
The Cairo Bulletin is paper that always
stands ready to make "proper corrections
| 1t says: "1o have made the Midnight Burr,
| all in Sundays Bulletin correct, 1t should
have read: For Cora Stacy Margaret Ann
Jones, daughter OF Guy and Susan Caroline
| Jones, of Tennessee. The villain who con-
summated her ruin was Harvey Revels,
carpenter on her uncless house, and not an
army officer The body, by mistake Of Coro-
| ner Cary, missed the noon train, and was TAX
| en- to Villa Ridge at Midnight by Lizzie Wal
bridge and Mr.. Galliher, who, seeing the
| desoIation of the deceased, volunteered his
| kind offices, and was inferred with respect
| the next day at IL o'clock"