The Portland daily press., 1871-10-07

1t is doabtful whether Punch in its best
days was ever so etiec i've as a reformer of
abuses as the cartoons of Thomas Mast In
darpers Weekly now are.
PoPu ar credulity received new illustration
at Listowell, Ireland, where many children
we're withdrawn from the national schools IN
consequence of IA silly rdnOr that theV we're,
by order of the Government, TO be branded
V. r.
In Russia people who are picked up on the
highway in slate OF intoxcatIou. are cn-
demned, whatever may be their social station,
to sweep the streets Tor one day. 1t is not
rare in st. Petersburg to see well dressed ln-
dividuaIs thus employed.
Theodore Tilton says Mrs. Woodruff "can
climb tree like an athlete" This man knows
entirely TOO much.
A shrewd Southern editor offered his paper
one year for the largest watermelon. He re-
seived over 100 OF the best melons imasina-
bic.
The young monarch of Spain Is astonishing
the world by his success In the science Of
kin9craft. London paper saws no prince
ever assembled throne under more dscour-
aging circumstances. No ruler certainly ever
contrived in so short space OF time to win
the esteem and love of unwilling subjects
Even the Republicans are vanquisned by the
chlyalrcus bearing and noble qualities OF the
young king. Tue example is a wholesome one
tor monarchs.
A thiet was arrested In the town of Braid
wood, Illinois, the other day, AMI. for want OF
prison, was locked up in an empty freight
car standing on the Chicago and Alton Rail-
road track That night a freight train came
along. attached the prison car, and whirled 1t
away. Next morning the Braidwood people
found that their prisoner had not only escap-
ed, but had taken his Jail along with him.
General Changarnier suffers from gout
Atthe battle before Metz it so affected his
hands that he could scarcely hold the reins,
and his horse kept turning round aud round,
without restraint. At last Chanx xarnier,
discouraged, called out to some one who was
near" Turn my horse round prefer to be
killed facing the enemy"
A cheese weighing ton and a half is on
exhibition in Buffalo. 1t Is quite round,
although more than $1,000 pints OF milk were
used to make it, and is of SO irm Conscience
that it doe MT require any outer caseiu'
An improvement upon the sprig of feath.
ers inserted in the band of "Alpiuen hats
has been devised by some inventive halter
whose genius has led him to afix enameIled
hugs to the bat instead. fhe objection to
this is that hat so embellished NAV inps RI
beetle-browed expression to the wearer of
it.
Some recent novelist having gifted his
Tor her) heroine with Swapping eyeds," that
charming popularity is beginning to make its
way among the bellies OF sociely, some OF
whom have already learned to wink with
clatter approaching that Of castanels. Young
ladies who excel in this accomplishment are
called Swapping turtles."
A farmers vi ifp in speaking of the smart
ness. aptness. and intelligence of her sor'
lad OF Six years old, to lady aeq IalntsnSs'
said .Hr can read huenty iu any part OF ne
Bible repeat the whole caeehs =, and wetS
onions as well as his father" Yes ,ar1sS n%. r
| added the young hopeful. "and ses into the
we1I ,rSTa and dist stole old aickey's simlet'