The Portland daily press., 1871-10-20
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st. Louis, taking them in, has provided for
twenty Thousand of the houseless people of |
chicago. So goes on the noble work.
The Hon. Ignatus DoDnelly, of Minnesota,
will mount the rostrum this winter with lee
ture on Congressi NAL life in Washington.
A fortunate and fashionable New York papa,
with family of three daughters and a son, is
soon to have them all married on the same day
and at the same place. Cupid must have TAX
en- that family by the job.
revolution has been attempted in the AZ
rican republic of Liberia. Up to the last ad-
vices only one man had been killed, but every
man was ready for business. The difficulty
appears to be that the President was elected
two years ago for four years, but since then
the Congress limited the presidential term to
two years, and Mr. Boyce refuses to resign.
InSan Francisco one Rupert Mcneil is sueing
another man to recover $4,000 for documents
dating back one hundred and fifty years before
Christ, and said to have been feloniously alb
straeted from the plaintiffs house. The fact
of the felony is not denied, but the defendant
considers the value OF the manuscripts as
greatly exaggerated.
The Southern negroes show sIrong dispo-
| sition to form secret societies, and delight 70
give them Scriptural Names such as Coed Sa-
maritans, Sons of Jacob and Fishermen of
| Galilee. A receut account of the stormipg of
| Jail at Danyllle, Virginia. remarks that the
uIruly mob was composed entirely of Good
| Samaritans."
| Doctor" said a wealthy patient to his ply
stefan, Il want you to be thorough. Strike at
the root of the diseasep' "Well, will,'' said
the doctor, as he lifted his cane and brought it
down hard enough to break into pieces bottle
and glasses which stood upon the sideboard.
| 1t was his last professional visit to that house.
Very intellectual women :are SELDOM beau
tiful. The formation of their features aud par
ticularty the forehead, is more or less mascu-
line. Miss Landon was rather pretty and fem
mime in the face, but Miss Sedgwick, Miss Par.
doe, Miss Leslie, and the celebrated Anna Ma.
ria and Jane Porter, the contrary. One of the
Misses Porter had forehead as high as that Of
an intellectual man.
"Oh! 1 see you are afraid of me- said Rev.
Sydney Smith one day to young lady who
sat beside him at dinner. .You crumble your
bread, and that is an undeniable proof of shy
ness. 1 do it whom sit by the Bishop of Lou.
don, and with both hands when I sit by the
Archbishop
George Eliot's new novel is entitled "Middle
| march,"
witty clergyman, accosted by an old &C
quaintance by the name of Cobb, replied: e
don't know you, SIR" "My name is Cobb, re
Joined the man, who was about half seas over
"Ah, sir" said the munster, "you have ST
much corn on you that I cannot see the cob.
The youth who " fired the Ephesian dome
did it to immortalize himself. The boy will
milking pail, who fired Chicago, has not ye
appeared TO attach his fame to the memory O
an event in comparison with which the de
struction of the temple of Diana was a mer
bagatelle.
The New York Herald says that "good din
ners and short speeches are the rule in Gen
| Grants excursions.
The Sugar River Railroad has got within
three and a halt miles OF Newport, N. H.. and
| will be opened next month.