The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-15
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY Is, '72.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

news, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
A real impetuous laugh dissipates many
Illusions, sweeps the twilight out of our imag-
nations, and brings honest daylight. No
dry, hacking laugh. 1t should be spontane-
Gus. We have seen men fall to laughing.
who had not heard the cause of mirth, but
only had caught the contagion of other mems
laughing. 1t is hard not to laugh with men
who are in earnest about it. sa.raa.f
James Parton, who has taken more lives
than any other bandit in America, is already
at work upon the unhappy Greeley. ]. r.
Osgood g. Co., the Boston publishers. are ac-
cessories before the fact. '.-..
The prominent Democrat" influential
Republican," gentleman who had an inter
view with the President this morning." and
administration Senator have succeeded to
the mantle of the Intelligent contraband"
Railroad trains are delayed in getting to
Memphis by the presence on the rails of huge
armies of caterpillars. h
lady in Georgia wears skirt woven from
hares' hair by herself She executed her
work very rabbitly. r.a
Aclergyman, having made several attempts
/ to reform a profigate, as at length repulsed
with, ''It is all in vain, doctor; you cannot
get me to change my religion" 81 do not
want that" replied the good man, 'I wish
religion to change you.'
Husband No. of an Indiana lady has sued
out legal injunction to prevent madame
from erecting monument to the memory
of No. 1.
In alluding to Mr.. Hillard's mention of the
curious fact that Shakespeare has no lawyer
among the many characters in his plays, the
New York Mail says, "The reason of this
probably is that even the great dramatist was
unequal to the task of drawing so complicat-
ed and unPoetic a character. But he fire.
quently pays his respects to the fraternity in
rather uncomplimentary allusions.''
The women of japan are indignant at the
attempts of the missionaries wives, to intro
duce chignons amog them, and have COM
planned to the mikado about the barbarous
things. .' rtf Il a,- b.---r.
A satisfactory refutation of the charge of
vandalism brought against the Germans by
the French is to be found in the condition of
Versailles. The beautiful palace of st. Cloud
was ruined by French artillery, but that of
Versailles, for months occupied by the Prus-
slams, the lower hall used for an ambulance,
has suffered not the slightest injury. The
statues of warriors who fought against Ger
many still do sentinel duty at the entrance,
intact, while within not picture has been
scratched, nor the smallest article of uertu re-
moved. When Napoleon 1. invaded Germa-
ny, he despoiled it of all its art treasures, and
when the Germans reel aimed them in 1915,
the French raised the cry of robbery
A Louisville preacher, on Sunday last, sue
ceeded in piling Ossian upon Peleus, warm as
the day was. '
All boys should chop down trees, and
drink spring water out of tin cups, and eat
chicken-pot pie, and swear, and apprentice
themselves to a country printer for $40 ayear,
and start Tribunes, and wear white hats, and
sign bailbonds, and when they grow up they
may become Cincinnati candidates for the
Vice Presidency. .a.r..lT .tIe
The New York Observer makes the follow
ing suggestion, which is very good indeed for
religious raper: 'Now that DIR. Living
stone is said be found, could not some ar
rangement be made to keep the doctor from
getting lost again? He has powerful talent
for losing himself" .i .y.re.f-...
An Iowa widow has earned $4,000 from
life insurance companies on an investment of
two husbands, and hopes to make steady
income from the same line of business.
The British merchant marine is crippled
for the want of able seamen, and there is talk
among ship owners about establishing a ma
val seamenary to supply the deficiency.
Darwin's 'Descent of Man. has been
SA~aASA@sSu hieo nooSiau idASudSc, W SuON
the people that by scratching deep enough
they may discover something even beyond
the Tartar -H>'hA trt fHI
The Graphic says of Kate Field: ssBut
few can doubt the clearness of her insight
the acuteness of her criticism, and the beauty
OF the language in which she clothes her
ideas. The humorous and the pathetic sides
of Dickens are treated with equal appreci-
alton, and in rendering her illustrations of
character, Miss Field displays genuine dra-
matte power. The lady can also claim,
among personal advantages, those of soft
but sufficiently strong voice, clear delivery,
with all the grace of culture and remarkable
freedom from conventional affectation."
The Buffalo Courier is out frantically for
Greeley. ''Frank Blair goes for him. it says:
Hendricks goes for him. Children cry for
him. As for Ourselves, give us liberty or give
us deathr' li1aH tal t..at 9aufea-t
A Pulaski bride for several days recently
was the subject of constant attacks from an
unseen foe. Whenever she was in the vicinity
Cf a window or near the door, stones flung
by invisible hands would come crashing
through the glass, or the door would open
and rock fly in. She was wounded severely
by these mysterious missives in various parts
of her body, and finally each attack would
throw her into convulsions. Her prosecutor
is supposed to be a Young man of that citv