The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-15
THE PR ESS,
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE Is, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
One General E. M. Lee has lecture pre-
pared on 'Four Years in the Saddle with
Sheridan and Fitzpatrick" 1t seems to us
that that saddle must have been very much
crowded, and we do not see how they stood it
so long.
The PHILADELPHIANs have had 'Iarge
and enthusiastic meeting in behalf of Red
Cloud and the other big Indians. Where, in
the name of all that's mysterious, did the
enthusiasm come in, and what was it for?
In the State library, at Albany, are the
very papers that were found in the boot of
Major Andre, and which led to his conviction
as spy.
In White County, Illinois, the reign of law
is enforced by sheriff named Hale Storms.
In their zeal to exclude sectarianism from
the public schools of San Francisco, the
trainers Of bill which has passed the Legis-
lature have enacted that ''reIgion shall nei-
ther be taught nor practiced'' therein.
Mount Vesuvius, it is is said, has been so
much distorted by the internal convulsions
from which it has lately suffered, that it
would hardly be recognized by its most init
mate friends. Its familiar outlines have been
changed, and new gorges, precipices and pro-
tuberances appear all over its surface.
IF we had score of Charles A. Danas in
this cito, writes the Philadelphia correspond
ent of the Reading Times and Despatch,
"taxes would be lower, gas would be less per
thousand" &c. We don't know about the
taxes, but the other proposition is correct be-
yond question.
John limbs, the English author, has been
pensioned. He was the author of 'HThings
Not Generally Known" John bears strik-
ing resemblance to his book in that respect.
Wolf scalps in Illinois bring SIS apiece, and
some of the farmers are selling out of sheep
and stocking up in wolves.
The Danbury Neacs says that Ole Bull was
deferred from visiting that place on account
of the cattle disease in adjoining towns.
Those who know Disraeli well say that at
heart he is a radical, and in love with Ameri-
ca. 1t is significant that the most beautiful
and ideal woman in ''Lothair'' is an Ameri-
can. He enjoys the society of the bright and
cultivated American ladies he meets in the
aristocratic circles of London society, and
of an Englishman.
The New London police force has resigned
in body. His name was Smith.
There was an exciting kangaroo hunt in
the Central Park, New York, few days ago.
The large kangaroo escaped from the box in
which it was being conveyed to be placed in a
cage on the lawn. After a lively chase he
was captured, but not until he had fallen and
badly injured himself.
Livingstone's safety is once more 'beyond
doubt;'' but where is Livingstone?
"A COnnecIlcuI paper tellS the story OF a
new boy in one of the Sunday Schools. The
precocious youth was asked who made the
beautiful hills about them and remarked that
he did not know, as his parents only moved
in town the day before.
A gentleman registered at hotel in Louis
vile, recently, as John Blank, Hamburg, and
was gratifed in seeing his name in type,
among the hotel registry, as "John Blank,
humbug."
Professor Flute, music teacher of Scotch
descent, in Indiana, is anxious to learn from
the Genealogical Registry whether he can
claim relationship to the Earl of Fife.
The hotel keepers of Rochester, New York,
makes this distinction in color. They can
distinguish colors, but when men of color
distinguish themselves they overlook distinc-
tions of color.
A wise man gives this advice, which is al
ways timely: ''Pay your little outstanding
earthly bills, and don't romance about the
falling dues of heaven
A Chinese poem, written upwards of 1000
years ago, is said to prove that America was
known to the Cinnamon of that day.