The Portland daily press., 1872-05-17

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY II, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
When last heard from, the intelligent Com
positor was at Poughkeepsie N. Y, where he
put down Hon. William Parsons as about to
lecture on "Wicked Angels" The Aggriev-
ed Proof-reader said that no man could have
made "Michael Angelo" out of that.
The spirit and independence of our youth
is anever-failing theme of admiration with
us. They no longer allow such trifing OBJ
stacles as parents to stand in the way of their
designs. A promising youth in Alabama
lately proposed to go hunsing, but his mother
objected. Thereupon he coolly raised his
gun and shot the rash, intruding female, and
proceeded to hunt at his own free will. There
is more chivalry growing up in Alabama.
A negro doctor of Detroit announces he
will not attend white people.
A photographer in Pennsylvania succeeded
in taking somebody's horse and buggy and
nearly three hundred dollars. He has started
for the West. t-
The sweet girl Iprospective] graduates Of
Vassar had their golden hair set on end by
discovering horrible meteor Of a deep Bis
marck tinge, the other night, through the
university telescope. The local press next
day chronicled the discovery under the head
-"Fire-A Chimney in Blaze"
After all, out Of his annual income of "a
100000, Senator Barras, the richest planter
in Cuba, only manages to get his board and
clothing. ... t.rI..ts.a t
1t is now proposed that those ladies' who
wish to wear a real hair mattress on their
heads surmounted by several stories OF hat
with parterre::of flowers to crown the whole,
shall insert in their headdress for the theatre
an opera glass to rest on the top Of the head,
ranging fore and aft, so that gentlemen sit
ting behind them can see through it to the
stage. ara. .aH irsisf .aaE4H
A German writer, complaining of the diff
culties in the pronunciation of the English
language, cites the word Boz, which he says
is pronounced Dickens. 5-ro-s. aaf 51
This is good time to plant eats The cat
should be prepared with bootjack or reyol-
yer and planted under the plum tree. If you
have not got plum tree, plant anywhere.
Plant all you can and plant deep. F
The latest patent is for question pepper,
which may be used with impunity by the
most timid young man, without bringing
blush to his cheek. The formula is: "Say
I'M. or n, as the case may be), isn't 1t about
time to talk over matters and thingsp"
The clerical profession is piously venerated
by the country press. The Portage Wis.,
Register has the following editorial inquiry:
''Will Rev. G. s. Price please call and get his
praise-meeting bills, pay his bill, and keep
away from this Office ?'' % M .- -
Gambetta, ,Ledru- Rolln, Victor Hugo, and
Louis Blanc, the leaders of the French repub-
licans, are all wealthy.
The Mormon sisters of Ephraim, Utah, lay
aside all the eggs their hens lay on Sunday,
and devote the proceeds to paying the fare of
Mormons desirous of emigrating from other
nations. This is literally egging them on.
Hoboken is said to have more oysters in
proportion to its population than any other
city in the country. The rule among the Ho-
bokenites is to eat oysters during every month
that has letter in il,
Before Paris became mistress of modes,
Milan prescribed the model for bonnets;
hence the name milliner for the. ..fabricator of
the crowning glory of well-dressed woman
hood. --r
Ben Wood, the distinguished Democratic
Reformer of New York, wants Greeley in
dorsed at Baltimore, He feels confident the
Democrats could run all the details of the gov
ernment machine if Horace were in the
White House. -rs#,-
Swindlers tried to seduce Western man
on railroad train into betting that he could
not open patent paddock which they carried
about. He took the bet, and opened the lock
with a sledge hammer.
The city editor of the Jacksonville journal,
in writing an obituary of ''highly respecta-
BILE citizen," says, ''He has gone to that un-
discovered burn" The sorrowing relations
of the highly respectable are now looking for
that city editor with a broad guage cowhide.
1t is seldom that man shoots himself In
splitting wood but Kentuekian accomplish
ed the feat successfully, recently, by hitting
pistol in his pocket with the axe-handle.
The New York Standard is glad to see the
American Medical Association exhibiting
sufficient common sense to recommend that
all bottles containing poison be not only label
led "poison," so as to convey the danger signal
to the brain through the eye, but that they
be roughened on one side, so that the touch
can read the caution; and, moreover, the
most efficient antidote should be plainly stated
on the label. By this arrangement, the
liability of swallowing death in the dark,
instead of relief, by mistake of bottles, will
be avoided; and if the poison should be taken,
IL Will uOI DC hCCCSodiy W pOSt away iOh
druggist before administering a remedy, or
jeopardizing life by reliance on q treacher-
Gus memory.
One of George Eliot's' sharp hits:
'There are answers which, in turning away
wrath, only send it to the other end of the
room; and to have discussion cooly waived
when you feel that justice is all on your own
side, is even more exasperating in marriage
than in philosophy"
A woman's heart is the only true plate for
mans likeness. An instant gives an i'm
preston that an age of sorrow and change
cannot efface.
Rev. DIR. Wilcox has just published in
England ''new style life of Christ" which
the Pail Mall Gazette says has "all the or
nate splendor of a special correspondents