The Portland daily press., 1872-06-20
THE PR ESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1872.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.


News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
Massachusetts, is turning its unfinished
Hoosac tunnel to account by making up ex.
cursion parties to go and look into the bic
hole. A band of music and all the materials
for nice dancing party are taken along, and
the people are said to conclude that it is moi
so much of bore after all.
The only prisoner in the Jail at South Bend,
Ind, is indignant at the circumstance. He
says he wasn't condemned to solitary confine.
meut.
A Connecticut paper says: 'At present
two thirds of the population ofPeduenoc pass
Sunday fishing for muskrats with shot guns.
This is the way the other third know when
Sunday comes"
The secret of a surprising marriage in San
Francisco: 1t appears that everything was
arranged for her wedding with her cousin the
linen and plate were all bought and marked
with their monogram, and when he broke of
the match, her mother determined that this
expense should not be wasted, looked around
ior some one with the same initials, and that
is how the affair was arranged.
The fashionable ladies in Paris are getting
tired of scented pugs-possibly since the duty
on them has been doubled,-and now take to
kind of small white rat for pet. One on
each shoulder during carriage drive, is the
correct thing
Walt Whitman is to be the poet of the
Dartmouth College commencement.
The st. Adams w.t. Messenger thinks
sky-blue is a pretty color for ceilings, but not
SO tasty for country milk at eight cents a
quart.
discretion is the better part of valor. Tom
and Arthur have been rude to their mamma.
Mamma has complained to papa, who is
heard coming up stairs. Arthur-'T say,
Tom, here comes papa; shall pretend to be
asleep" II shan't; l shall get up and put
something on"
In Michigan they call bigamy Utahlizing
the female sex for matrimonial uses.
Several bird-merchants in Paris, unable to
demonstrate to their parrots the impropriety
of now shouting 'Vive PEmpereurp' have
sent consignment of the rebels to Brazil.
presbyterian billiards. is the Chicago
name for croquet.
Bridal fans containing the different terms
OF endearment used by the husband during
his courtship are all the rage in fashionable
circles now. When the happy man gets cross
or forgets his promises, a threat to lose hel
fan usually brings him down to his work
again.
Bazaine appears to have tolerably comfort
able prison home at Versailles, chateau
with well kept grounds and rural scenery
about it.
A sudden and dangerous emergency some
times brings out peculiar traits of human ma
ture into strong relief Out in Michigan q
few days ago a man and his wife and two
men not blessed or burdened with wives
went out in leaky boat which sunk in tn,
river. The husband and one unmarried man
struck out vigorously for the shore. while tn,
other stopped and saved the woman at tn,
risk of his own life. Probably the married
man knew what he was about but we pity
him since his wife was rescued.
Vesuvian lava is in such demand for jewel
ry that another eruption is desired to supply
the market.
0. W. Holmes says that crying widow:
marry first. There is nothing like wet wea
ther for transplanting.
Mr.. Greeley is said to have shown his de.
votion to the temperance cause by dammine
Chappaqua brook which was addicted tc
''early purl."
The word love, in the Indian language i.
mlendamourtchwager'' How nicely il
would sound, whispered softly in lady's ear
81 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES you"
I Boarding-school miss: go Charlie ex
pect to graduate at next commencement
Graduate! what will you graduate in p
'Why, in white tulle.'
One of the ''voices of the night''-S'cat!
A yonng man who called on his sweethear
rather late one evening, was edited wher
Bridget came down stairs to say that Mis-,
Blanche had taken off her hair and could no
appear.
Hint for the police-Fewer people woul(
be pistolled first and rifed afterwards if tn,
city ordinance were better enforced.-N. Y
World.
Miss Lizzie Barrigan is the champion swim
mer of Charlestown, Mass. She can swim
faster and further, dive deeper and come ou
dryer than any one else in the place; and, al
together, she is ''duck of a woman" thougl
some envious detractors allude to her as
''little goose"
An exchange tells of a marine disaste
where three seamen "bit the dust"
Georgia papers accuse westerners of mix
ing pulverized glass in their corn, to kill hor
ses and mules, in order to sell the South
fresh supply next fall.
Letter from the Northwest.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June IA, 1872.
To the Editor of the Press:
WESTERN CITY.
Since my last letter to your paper was pub
lished, this city now in nearly all respect
the first in the State-has taken on increase,
proportions, having absorbed the old city o
st. Anthony, which lies on the east side o
the Mississippi, and contains population o
from six to seven thousand. Minneapolis
now covers both sides of the river, embracin,
the whole water power of tho ssEaIls ,, IN,