The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-06

MONDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
The fisheries of Canada employ 81, 900 per.
sons, and SIS, 900, 900 are invested in the bus
mess.
The pope has taken to croquet, having or
dered several boxes of the game from London.
They have difficulty in getting enough dry
goods clerks in st. John, N. B. Some OF
ours ought to emigrate
The highly respectable and quiet cat of Mr..
O'Meara of Kentucky was lately sacrificed to
the vindictiveness of fash of lightning,
which sought her out under the stove, while
four people in the room were unhurt.
Whitelaw Reid of the N. Y. Tribune lately
lectured against slang The Tribune next
morning spoke of contemporary as the
Btatherskite. Greeley's friskiness is ire
pressible.
Two Bennington girls went into the woods
for picnic on Saturday, taking with them
bunch of cigarettes with which they intended
to learn to smoke. A few puffs made them
dizzy, and dropping their lights the woods
were fired and with difficulty extinguished
man in Georgia recently received letter
enclosing thirty cents in fractional currency,
accompanied with the following words: 81
stole feed of corn from you during the
war;
Mr.. Ruskin, who is just now sitting apart
under his juniper tree at Commission, Eng,
says that letters intended for him must be
very short, very plainly written or they won't
be read; furthermore, that the writers of
these letters 'need never ask me to do any
thing, because won't do it. And in general
l cannot answer letters; but for any that
come to help me, the writers may be sure that
am grateful. 1 get great many from peo-
pie who know that must be good-natured
from my books. was good natured once
but beg to state, in the most positive terms,
that | am now old, tired and very lima
tured."
The scientists are perplexed over a human
skeleton discovered in Hungary at depth
which would prove that man must have ex-
isted long before the mammoth age"
The mild and peaceful oyster, digged from
the bowels of the harmless earth is a cause of
strife and discord between the two sister SOW
ereignties of Maryland and Virginia. If now
pungy from the former shore drops a rake,
an armed tug-boat from Virginia gobbles and
tows her in.
Thiers is making Paris politics lively with
dinners. He remembers the famous banquets
that overthrew Louis Philippe. There is no
parade about him. When he comes in from
Versailles he calls the first hack he comes to
and awaits no carriage or ceremony. The
evening reception after the dinners are open
to all. The doors of the Elysee are open to
every conner in dress-coat and white gloves
He has but to announce himself, give his
card and name to a prepared civil lackey, and
go straight to the presence of the smiling,
courteous president, in the central receiving sa-
loon, or not 60 to him at all.
Two Georgians fought duel. One was
armed with rifle, the other with an axe.
The coroner stated in explanation that rifle
has longer range, as general thing, than
an axe.
The Circassian slave trade is still thriving.
A lovely young hour lately brought 1OO,O 900
piasters at Trebizond.
Rats eat the boots set out to be blacked in
Indianapols hotels.
Kossuth's nephew says the old mans bank
account is healthy.
Chinese gamblers fruitless. The heathen
Chinee is peculiar and they no catchee John.
A Mississippi town-wen was lately explored
to see what gave the water its Saratoga taste.
Eighteen dead dogs were eliminated
Louisiana Journalists indulge in these hor-
rid words of each other: Elm two column
editorial, the sneaking cur who edits that ly-
ing, incendiary, blackguard, piratica loath-
some sheet, known Ito only few) as the At
takapas Register, howls over the imaginary
crimes of the good people .of Franklin in a
manner like unto the gibbering of an idiot, the
incoherent rawlings of a mad man, or the de-
moniacal bellowings of an imp of Satan, the
phosphorescent CLEAN of whose bloated car
cass furnishes him with the only light that
his rheumy eyes are likely to have this side
of the lurid flames of his predestined resi-
dence in perdition."
The Journal de Romy, in contradicting the
report as to the dinner given by the Pope to
the Prince and Princess of Wales, states that
almost the only guest ever seen at the table of