The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-25
THE PR ESS.

IHE PR ESS.
SATURDAY MORNING., MAY 25, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
The present contributors to Punch still
keep up the delightful custom of dining to-
gsther every Wednesday. What larks! what
larks in the days that are gone with Doug
las Jerrold, Tom Hood, Gilbert Abbott,
Beckett, Mr.. Thackeray. and Mark Lemon
on the wing.
James Wick, Jr., the well-known Roches-
ter florist and editor, has just been getting
married. There is strong prospect that his
future pathway will be literally strewn with
flowers.
The London Spectator speaks of ''the
somewhat grotesque, though impressive dis
tlnctiveness" of Horace Greeley. Empress
i've distinctiveness' is good.
A man who was delivering public address
in Lawrence, Mass, the other evening, step
ped over the edge of the platform, and, strik
ing on his feet, calmly continued "come down
to the level of my audience"
The Nation says: "The moralists are hay
ing hard time in politics just now. If they
produce any effect, they are set down as can't
ing hypocrites; if they produce none, as
harmless visionaries. u
The Peoria Gazette says that the practice
OF boys standing in front of the Opera House
entrance at the close of an entertainment,
with their umbrellas raised and their trov-
sers rolled up, is very wrong. 1t is provoking
indeed for young lady, observing these in
dications of prevailing rain, to stop in the
lobby, fix her things, cover her head with
something, and muffie herself up generally.
and then step out under a starlit, cloudless
sky and hear the wicked boys giggle. It's
all very wrong
The Gar of Russia has quite passion for
autographs. a b
Jean Ingelow is said to be engaged on a
long poem, by far more pretentious than any
of her other works.
A cat at Meredith, N. H., is now bringing
up tenderly, with her family of three kittens,
young gray squirrel.
George Macdonald says: 81 know of man
so sensitive that he shuts his ears to his sis
ter's griefs, because it spoils his digestion to
think of them"
The enterprising individual who is organiz-
ing brass band of twenty women in Cincin-
natl says if they learn half as many airs as
they put on, the experiment cannot fail of
being success.
A Chicago congregation pricked up its ears
when the minister said, 81 have land to SELL"
but dropped off to sleep again when he added,
''the beautiful land on high"
| A vase, lately drawn by fisherman from
the Seine, covered with sand and shells so as
to hide its form, was sold to an antiquary.
On cleaning it he discovered vase of the
purest style, egg-shaped, and wonderfully
carved The metal of which it is composed
is unlike any known, but the antiquary says
it is 'bronze of Corinth," and Seneca says of
it that it sold for four times its weight in gold.
Six kinds of metal are employed in its COM
position-gold, silver, brass, lead, iron and
tin-but the exact quantities are unknown.
1t probably goes back to C@sar's epoch.
Nine hundred and forty ladies of Madrid
have publicly declared that they will hence
forth discard French fashions, and wear again
the national costume of Spain-mantillas,
high combs, short skirts, and open shoes with
out heels.
The reason assigned for so many ladies
learning to play the violin of late years is,
that the idea of having four strings to their
| bow is irresistible.
About 1000 journalists will attend the Bos-
ton Jubilee in dead-head capacity. A grand
chorus is suggested.
The Swedish government offers prize for
an essay on the best means of putting stop
to the rapidly-increasing emigration of the
rural population of that country.
"What ought the Baltimore Convention to
| do?" asks an exchange. We hardly know; !;
though we are inclined to think that, before
proceeding regularly to business, it ought to
adjourn. COurier-Journal.
Engagement bracelets are the latest novel
ty. They are placed on the ladies' arms as
soon as papa has given his consent, and then
locked on by small gold key.
In Switzerland, editors who advocate wo-
mans rights are prosecuted according to law,
and one narrowly escaped conviction recent
ly in the canton of Uri.
A perverse and stiff-necked son of DR.. Liv-
iugstone obstinately refuses to believe that
his father has been found by the New York
Herald.
A lady in Atlanta tied her husbands hands
and feet the other day, just for fun, and then
went through his pockets for certain billet
doux, and found it. His physicians tell him
that his face won't be badly SCARED, though
he may remain bald.
Notwithstanding the frank nature of the
subject, Greeley is not translatable into
French. The nearest approach in that Ian
guage is ''grele," which means ''hailed" "a
definition scarcely appropriate to the proba-
BILE reception of the pr ,tectionist candidates
name by the Democratic party. 1t also
means ''pitted'' las against civil law and free
elections, for instance), or "riddled' las by
Democratic majorities).
A Texan epicure has obtained a divorce
from his wife on account of her atrocious
cooking.
Lawyer G. (entering the Office of his friend
DR.. NJ, and speaking in hOarse whisper)-
Erred, Pve got such a cold this morning that
l can't speak the truth" DIR. M.-"WeD,
Pm glad it's nothing will interfere with YOU
business
THE COOK OF THE PERIOD.
The looks Of yer ma am, rather suits me-
The wages We offer'n do;
But thin can't inter yer survis
Without condishun two.
And now to begin, is the kitchen
Commodgeous, with plenty Of light,
And fit, ye know, for entertainin'
Such frinds rs Pm like to invite?
And mkt, are yous reg'lar at male times?