The Portland daily press., 1872-06-11

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Delegates are authorized to ill vacancies only with
actual residents of the towns they claim to repre-
| sent. -
| The District Committee will be in session at the
reception Room Of Lancaster Hall at o o'clock the
morning of the Convention for the reception of Gre
| dentials.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
| Cut glass is again becoming very fashiona-
Bile, and chandeliers, used quarter of a CEN
tury ago, are now being reintroduced. At
some OF the recent dinner parties, glassware
entirely superseded china, the plates, vegeta-
BILE dishes, &C., being all of solid glass;
These were, of course, most brilliant and eff.
fective by gaslight.
What requires more philosophy than TAX
ing things as they come? Parting with things
as they 60.
An ounce of mother, says the Spanish
proverb, is worth a pound Of clergy.
You cannot wear anything this season that
will not be called stylish, provided it has ruff
fies enough to make you look like demoral-
lied rag baby, and is punched together suffi-
GENTLY to look as if you were wearing your
whole wardrobe at once. ..
School houses are the republican line of
Notifications
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
-lLady Mary Montague.
When a house burns down it burns up.
when you drink glassful you drink it empty,
and when you take car it takes you.
The modern woman when she has a nail to
drive doesn't wait for her husband to come
home. She seizes the nail as she would the
hair of recreant son, swings the hammer
over her head, and plunges downward. Then
she ties up her fingers as well as she can,
puts on her best bonnet, and goes right over
to her mothers for good cry, and her tea.
Mrs. Kerney of New York showed the
warmth OF her affection by thrusting a red
hot poker down her husbands throat
PS>AsJ u yoohS SCutiCulCn uiuCu
ously at a restaurant, and each one insisted
on paying the bill. To decide the matter it
was proposed to blindfold the waiter, and the
first ne caught should pay the bill. He has
not caught any of them yet.
Instead of flying kites, bringing lightning
from heaven, and making philosophical axi-
oms, Mr.. Benjamin Franklin of New Orleans
spends major portion of his time in stealing
ducks. .a r- r -
San Francisco has hotel which is under
the exclusive management of the fair sex.
The proprietor, walters, clerks, ''boots," and
other officials are all women, and the bar
tendress is said to make the best drink in the
State, and to take an occasional one herself
with great nonchalance.
The "Vagaries of Vassar'' is the name of
work by Miss Rushmore, which will recount
IN spirited style the adventures of the
"sweet girl graduates with their golden hair
who dawdled and studied in Vassar College.
Congressional Globes have been put to use
in Boston, where they are on sale, labeled
Excellent scrap books, price fifty cents"
And now we are convinced that nothing is
lost, nothing is made in vain.
writer says: SIT is not the drinking, but
getting sober, that is so terrible in drunk
ards life.'' Some people remove this little
obstacle to perfect bliss by never getting So
ber.
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the
laughing soil.-Herder.
Mr.. BERGH, and humanitarians every
where, will rejoice in the invention of the
"gyro-pigeon," which gives sportsmen all the
amusement of trap-shooting without the usu-
al attending evil of cruelty to the birds.
The invention is described as a steel fan, in
the form of a toy known as the aerial top,
which rises by the rotary motion given to it
by spring. 1t was lately exhibited and tes-
ted at the museum of firearms, Rye lane,
Peckham, England. The cost of the ''gyro,"
with all its fittings, sufficient for 800 shots is
in the first instance, e3. But, after the first
cost, the expense is trifing, eighteen pence
being the price of dozen fans, which are
sufficient for six dozen shots, assuming that
the person shooting has skill not only TO hit
his bird nearly every time, but to pour the
whole charge into it SO as to absolutely shat
ter the steel The "gyro' in its flight exhib-
its innumerable vagaries, going off with the
steady flight of pigeon, resting on the wing
like hawk, or darting swiftly forward in
straight line, like snipe, thus affording the
very best practice for the education of the
hand and eye of the shooter. We suspect,
however, that the invention will not be gen.
orally adopted. 'Sportsmen" are willing to
give their game fair play; but trap-shooters
are likely to insist that a mere exhibition of
skill is not the all of such amusement. and
that blood, however unfairly drawn. is neces-
sary to fair degree of sport. The inventor
OF the ''gyro" is named Bussey, and report
from him in due season will be of interest.
A "gyro shooting club" has already been
formed.
How to do Ii.
Under the above heading a writer, who
signs himself "Felix," shows in late num-
ber of the daily argus how the banking capi-
tai of Portland can and ought to be used to