The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-18
THE PR ESS.
TUESDAY MORNING., JUNE IS, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
Romeo was a selfmade elephant. He
came to this country without dollar in his
trunk, took Greeley's advice, went West, and
died last Friday worth $4,000.
Gustave Dore's new painting, ''Christ
Leaving the Temple" is to be exhibited in
London. 1t is of immense size, and contains
about four hundred figures, and has consum-
ed about four years of the artists labor.
Mr.. Carlyle received the other day, from
the German Empress, the formal expression
of the thanks of the Emperor, for the ''Life
of Frederick the Great"
Vice-President Colfax has been elected
member of the Turkish Academy of Science
The conservatives in America are strongly
opposed to female suffrage; those of England
are more or less favorable to it, on the sup
position that large majority of the ladies
would vote to sustain Church, State, and Con-
stitution. The feminine nature, according to
Mr.. Disrael, is very conservative, since con-
servatism is sort of political sentimentalism.
When Rachel (the great French TRACE
die1ne) saw her stout sister dressed for the
part of a shepherdess, her comment was,
Sarah, dear, you look like shepherdess who
has just dined on her flock"
monthly magazine for English readers,
made up of selections from American periodi-
Gals, is projected by the publishers of the
(London) Anglo-American Times. 1t would
fill the place in England that Littelrs Living
Age and the Eclectic do here, and the project
would seem to us to deserve similar success.
An Alabama paper notes cheering indica-
ton of the progress of culture in the follow
ing words: A party of sensible Greenville
gentlemen have signed pledge not to use
tobacco in any shape or manner during
church service.
Prince Bismarck said recently that the
present generation in Alsace and Lorraine
would have to die out before the people in
those provinces would become thoroughly de-
voted to Germany.
All the fragments of the Vendome column
have been recovered except small portion
near the top and middle part of the shaft. 1t
has now been ascertained that, in spite of the
surveillance of the Commune, some foreign
ers in the surrounding hotels (Americans, it
10 co;d - 81 Ia
four large pieces; in addition to which it has
now become known that Swiss, staying al
the Hotel Chatham, became the proprietor Of
fifth piece, Weighing three pounds, six
ouuces, of which he has just made present
to an old friend of his
Alfred Henry Forester, better known as
"Alfred Crowquill," has just died in London
He was one of the early contributors to
Punch, and was writer of no ordinary tai
ent. He has written many delightful stories
for children, and during the past few years
has gained considerable fame by his etchings
and caricatures.
Even Frenchwomen are disagreeable to
one another sometimes. The other day, two
dearest friends" were in conversation; ''My
dear" said the eldest, edo you known that
your husband told me last night that my
cheeks were all roses ?" ''Yes, love, know
he did. He spoke of it afterwards, and SAID
it was pity they were yellow roses.n
correspondent of an English paper re
commends the laying of old iron about rose
bushes. He finds that the iron-rust acts as
tonic to the rose. l..f a-f.-.
In Rhenisi Prussia the story is told some
what in the following way: 'Nine tailor:
were working together in warm, comforta
BILE room the season was mid-winter, and al
without was sleet, snow, and bitter cold. A
poor hungry, ill-clad tramp knocked at the
workshop door, and solicited aims, saying he
had walked many mile and was faint from
lack of warmth and food The kindly tailors
not only shared their meal with him, but sent
him away with few groschen in his pocket
and he exclaimed gratefully, You have made
a man of mev" If nine tailors ''make 8
man" in this sense, so much the more to theil
credit. 9l3aaa0 M
Senator Wilson's temperance principles are
outraged by the sign in front of Broadway
bar-room: '.Try our Natick Cobblers."
The Prussian government has prohibited
the sale of woman's-rights publications issued
in the United States.