The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-12-13
PR ESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 1s. 1S7e-

VOoSiY anu
Whisper! Kellogg sinks them at 160 pounds
and still she grows stouter
A Colorado poetess calls Rubinstein the
shakespeare of harmony
Strange!-The heaviest speeches don't al
ways have the greatest weight.
Nine. Nilsson-Rouzeand has determined to
make another tour through the United
States.
A naughty boy at Cedar Rapids white
washed Roman candle and stuck it in his
mothers candle-stick.
Dubuque beggars wear placards OH their
breasts inscribed: ''Large bills cheerfully
changed for all dona tions over ten cents"
The gay season has begun in New York
and every one says that it is the dullest gay
season New York has seen for years. Hard
times" is the universal cry.
man advertises for competent person
to undertake the sale of new medicine, and
adds that sit will Prove highly lucrative to
the undertakerr'
The international idiot, Bates, received an
English flag, the other day, from the people
Of Manchester, Eng, and proposes to drag it
over this country.
Miss Rhoda Broughton, the author of
"Cometh Up as Flower" wrote that novel
when only 16 years old. She is said to be
wild, fascinating, and as pretty as red wag-
on.
Signor Arditi, who years ago occupied the
leaders, chair at the New York Academy of
Music, has been engaged to accompany Ade-
lima Patti, as conductor, during her tour next
year in the United States.
A Western paper has this delicate personal
item: ''Those who know nice old Mr.. Wilson,
OF this place, personally, will regret to hear
that he was assaulted in brutal manner last
week, but was not killed."
The report that Miss Ida Greeley's be-
trothed was the lost purser of the steamship
Missouri is unfounded. Miss Greeley had
not seen him for years, and was never en-
gagged to him.
There have been many definitions of gen.
tleman, but the prettiest is that given by a
young lady: ga gentleman" says she, ''is a
human being combining a woman's tender
ness with mans courage"
NJ. Thiers says that France needs repose
more than anything else just now. If he is
in error about the matter nobody will find it
out, as there is no kind of probability that
his prescription will be exrerimentally tested.
1t is related of Rubinstein that he once re-
turned a present made him by king, be-
cause the latter played cards during musi-
cal entertainment. 81 cannot accept your
Offering" said Rubinstein, ''since your maj
esty did not hear the music" The king sent
an apology.
A bright and original little boy at South
Bend, Indiana, thought that he would like to
wear his skate on his tongue the other day.
Now his skate wears about square inch OF
his skin, and he declines picked lines at re-
cess.
The prospectus of boarding school at
Pesth contains the following announcement
SIN mythology the pupils will be taught all
| that is necessary to enable them thoroughly
to understand modern operas bouffes." The
march of practical education is indeed pro-
| digious.
The population of the globe is usually esti-
mated at 1000, O,OO0, 900. A new and careful
estimate, based on the very latest returns,
has just been published at Gotha by two
competent German statisticians, who calcu
tants at 1,377 ,0OO, 900 of souls, which is prob
ably the nearest attainable approximation tt
\ the truth.
Precociously intelligent children are the
most common breakers of the moral law
4 Dobbs, who ate his Thanksgiving dinner
| down in Jersey, tells of an eight-year-old-' -'uI
there who arose betimes on the morning o
that prayerful day, in order to enjoy few
moments of uninterrupted happiness in the
pantry whore the mince pies were kept. Th'
sagacous boy had been reading in Sunda.
| school book all about how the early birt
catches the worm. Afterwards he ,obDingly
admitted that he ''caught it," but he didn'
refer to the worm.
WINTER DAYS.
The birds have flown;
| Their barren nests are left alone,
Clinging to leafless bush, or wind-tossed tree,
Msmentoes mute of spring times blue and green,
OF fragrant orchards blossoming between
Brown, sun-warmed walls,
or wide-swung doors and breezy halls
And flower-bed decked to line the drowsy bee
But now, alasl
| The bghting frost is on the grass
Torn the withered leaves from each loved tree;
The brooks are still, the woodlands dim and cold,
And harvest fields have yielded all their gold.
! o swift-wnged bird!
To that bright land where now is heard
~ ' - ' From ozark Blue
''The Fat Contributor says that the Gus
tom of parting the hair in the middle wa
first adopted by an angry father, who, from
show of weakness on the part of his son, S
treated the hair of that youth in order to dis
grace him in the eyes of his companions
The operation was complete success; 70