The Portland daily press., 1872-07-01

Ihe new steamer Mount Washington, on
lake Winnipiseogee, to run in connection with
the Boston and Maine railroad, will commence
her regular trips to-day.
Benson j. LOSING, the artist and author, re-
ceived the degree of LII D., Tuesday, from
Michigan University. a-t&
A dying Bridgewater man said good thing
to have round was ladder.
As safeguard against fire Chicago prohibits
fireworks on the Fourth
The Respondent look king man who suddenly
started on seeing new apples for sale, Saturday.
and cried, "Now, my children shall have
bread" was doctor.
ITO be hung in 30 days." is the startling an
nouncement with which a Hudson IN. W
merchant heads an advertisement of his stock
of wall paper.
Daniel Boone's sister Hannah is living In
Caldwell county, North Carolina She is s.
years old. ..f
The Japanese government has engaged Hen
ry NJ. Smith, graduate of the school of mines
OF Columbia College, New York, to open coal
mine and erect a blast furnace in Japan
A navy surgeon in memory of his wife, has
it is stated, endowed scholarship in the Phil
adelphia Medical College, called the Hannah
Matilda Dodd. f.s
The paIson who said that woman who was
kicked by cow she was milking on Sunday
vas righteously punished for Decorating the
Sabbath, was not raised on farm.
Now is the time to get the gentle tweedle D.
ID. hung on to the back end of your name. The
less you know and the more you are known,
the more likely you are to get it.-Chicago
Post
A small boy arose at a Sunday school concert
and began quite glibly: ga certain man went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell-and
felP'-here his memory began to fail him
''and-and fell by the roadside, and the thorns
sprang up and choked him.
1t is one thousand years since Alfred the
Great founded the University of Oxford The
present year is also the one thousandth ami
versary of the foundation of the Kingdom of
Norway
A New Haven man has had his daughter
put into the statiOn-house because she ran
away from the Sunday school to go off with her
lover.
Edward Egerton endeayored to find out the
age of a horse by counting his teeth. Those he
couldn't see to count he felt Of He told the
NNSsNA
hard world for a laboring man.
As public speaker, it is well-known that
Horace Greeleys attractions are rather person.
al than oratorical. SIS it best to go and hear
him?" asked a gentleman of his neghbor.
Eyes, go by all MEANS" was the response; sit
is worth quarter to see the man, and dollar
to hear him-but then Greeley ought to pay
you the dollar"
Bostonians do not patronize the inside of the
Coliseum to any great extent. With a truly
hospitable spirit they keep outside and give
strangers chance Overwhelmed by such no.
BILE magnanimity the visiting barbarians fire.
quently urge them, saying: "Now do go in.
There's plenty of room for all. 1t seems a pity
that we should come here and push you from
your stools" To which the invariable and
touching reply is: "Oh no, thank you. We
can hear just as well where we are"
Hard hits and to the point-quotatious from
Horace Greeley's editorial ON the Democratic
party-up to the time of the Cincinnati Con-
vention. The Baltimore Convention can read
them, swallow humble pie and believe in the
honesty of the candidate they propose to buy.
Seventy-one thousand dollars were taken at
the Coliseum on Tuesday last.
As many articles of every day use are
manufactured of paper, an exchange asks if
paper beefstcaE cannot be invented to take the
place of the leather ones common
The Indiana Greeleyites are already in
trouble. The nominee for Lieutenant Cover
nor on the Dolly Warden ticket has declined to
be candidate, and as he is very popular and
the wealthiest man in the State, the ticket is
much weakened by the detection.
Brown University graduated forty-four bach
elors of arts and four bachelors of philosophy at
its one hundred and fourth commencement on
Wednesday.
OF the six States east of the Hudson River,
Vermont is the nearest to raising its own bread,
producing 454, 900 bushels of wheat in 1862 or a
bushel and peck to each inhabitant
Down in Rhode Island, the handy fiat-iron-
the patent variety-takes the place of the usu-
ally ructious kerosene in furnishing explosive
items for the papers 1t is said to be much
pleasanter and more effective in smashing
heads and things than its more volatile rival
pair were married at Plainview, Mimi, in
an unusual way lately. The ceremony was
performed in a dancing hail. the floor of which
was filled for dancing except one set. Then
the happy couple followed by three newly
married couples, stepped forward and formed
the lacking set, the minister stepped into
the centre OF the circle and performed the cere-
mony, the music struck up and the dance went
forward as if nothing had happened.