The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
The London Saturday Reuiew has made
the astonishing discovery that Horace Gree
ley was "elected at Cincinnati by the votes of
the Protestant members of the body" For
lucid expositions of American politics COM
mend us to an English newspaper.
Edwin Forests agent lost $1,000 of his
masters money the other day, and he says
that Mr.. Forrest never played so well in his
life as directly after he learned the melan-
choly fact The performance was private
and involuntary, and the agent supported
| Mr.. Forrest as well as he could; but he
wouldn't do it again for century's salary.
| He is not ambitious for theatrical hor ors
what he wants is comfort, to say nothing of
his bones.
In the window of shop in an obscure part
of London is this announcement: sGoods re-
moved, messages taken, carpets beaten, and
poetry composed on any subject"
A medical authority in London affirms that
eight men to three women are afflicted with
enlargement of the heart, and the reason is,
that the men have more work and more anx-
lety to undergo. 1t has been supposed here
tofore that women have nearly a monopoly of
the heart difficulty, but the London authori-
| ty gives statistics to show that the estimate is
| correct.
A drunken Providence paper speaks of two
| ve-"hic"- -ular accidents-i in that city.
| We are told now that "Chignons fall en-
cascade down the back and ripple under
waves of lace, which tumble in chaotic con-
fusion from the top of the new, fat-crowned
hats" That is so much sweeter than a
waterfall. - ...
An English paper says: ''For Express En-
gine is getting BETTER" as given in our paper
yesterday, read Empress Eugenie.'"
A prisoner arraigned before Recorder in
New Orleans was told: 81 really don't know
whether l had better fine you 81 or $40;
what's your idea about ?' Prisoner: 'sYour
Honor, all have to plead is that you will not
set down dught in malce''
A very ''fshy" story comes from Califor-
mia to the effect that an artesan well at Camp
ton, $50 feet deep, elects live fish resembling
speckled trout, from half an inch to two
inches long. The same phenomenon ap-
| pears at an artesian well on rancho near by,
seeming to indicate the existence of sub
terranean lake.
Olive Logan is at her home in New York,
having recently concluded a successful lecture
tour through the South, and she will gush
and warble no more until next winter. I'm
til day or so ago the dear girl had not seen
her home since the hour of her marriage,
| some months since, when she rushed from
the altar to the service of her country, taking
neither time nor thought for the honeymoon.
The College COurant ''admires pluck.Y A
singular taste for undergraduates. Very few
candidates for degree ever admire pluck at
| all
When one is always striving to please self,
10.
But let an effort be made to please others,
and what variety of avenues are opened.
The washerwomen of bennington, Eng
land, or 'ladies of the wash-tub," as they
are pleased to call themselves, have held an
open-air meeting and resolved not to work
for less than shilling and half per day,
| board and beer included
An Iowa man refused to see his wife die,
because he was afraid she would pledge him
not to remarry.
Moses and Aaron Wilcox were born the
same day, married sisters, were partners in
business at Twinsburg, o., died on the same
day, and are buried in one grave; which may
be called singular concatenation of coinci-
dent circumstances.
1t has been found that in nearly every civil
lied country the tree that bears most fruit for
market is the axle-tree.
Don't chase your hat through the streets
when it blows off. 1t is undignified. Stand
still, ane somebody else will run and get it for
you.
A Wisconsin girl was so anxious to know
who was making the music under her window
the other night, that she fell out of the win
dow, and so scared her serenader that he fed
and left her to her fate.
The Boston Jubilee is to be conducted on
strictly temperance principles, no wines nor
liquors being allowed with the single exc D
tion oflager beer, which is to be given to for
eign musicians exclusively. Native trumpet
ers arm naturally indignant at being deprived
of their horns.
The trade in oysters in the United States
affords employment during all the year, in the
taking OF seedlings, transplanting, growing,
catching, shipping, and wholesale and retail
departments, to more than 10000 men, wo-
men and children.
A boarding house in Hartford was lately
the scene of a little tea-table performance,
which was attended with results of disagree
able nature. A discussion arose between
three of the boarders, and was broken off by
the flight of tea-cup, which struck one of
the conversationaists, and threw him back
| =. L;c oI,o;r On for that his laro Aax,, M, onJ