The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-22

gregation have been expelled from commun-
ion with the church on account of their con-
tumacious hard-heartedness in ''not loving
their pastor" .--
"Bil JONES'" said bullying urchin to
another lad, ''when catch you alone I'll
fog you" 81 amt often alone" was the
reply, +" have my legs and fists with me-"
A Chinaman in San Francisco, who has
givenshimself up as the murderer of San 10y,
happens to be named All Hung. Sand do
not deny, in regard to the same, what that
name might imply"
The first sovereign of Persia that has ever
visited the English shores is shortly expected
in England
A gentleman at Fremont, Ohio, had a re-
ception at his house the other evening, and
when the guests went away, it took him all
night to wash the tar and pick the feathers
off his person. 80
Paris correspondent writes :-''Wigs are
coming into the fashion IA committee of
ladies have come to that resolution. CHG
mons, they say, are so uncomfortable, and
often awkward to dress, that wigs will be
easier and in every way more convenient.
They can also be changed in color, according
to the color of the dress with which they are
to be worn; thus, one lady may appear rousse,
another blond, another brown and another
black MARY, Queen of Scots, fashion re-
vived-as history tells us that she had diff
ferent wig for every different dress.) / saw
a lady with fair curled wig, a la Marie An
toinette at the theatre last week-and, 10th
though I am to acknowledge it-(with my
abomination of false hair of any description)
Il am compelled to state that she looked
positively charming 1t is thovght that if
the movement takes, gentlemen may also
adopt wigs, la Louis XIV.
Cypreport, La, reports the birth of mu-
latto cyclops with one eye in the middle of
his forehead.
Watch cases are now made of India rubber
probably so that people may stretch time
little.
George Factor, Jr., of Coshocton, O., vari-
ed from the usual methods of committing sui
eide by sitting on the back of his horse till he
had tied the bride rain around the branch of
tree above him and to his own neck and
then started the horse. 1t was a success.
A Paris fashionable paper complains that
some of themost noble families of France send
their servants to the Paris market to sell the
fruit and vegetables grown in the grounds of
their country houses.
The Swiss Times, speaking of domestic
servant who was recently murdered by the
blow of bludgeon at Friburg, says that her
friends found her lying on the hearth rug
stone dead, with heavenly smile on her
countenance and fractured skull.''
A novel marriage was celebrated at Alex
andria on Friday last The party left Wash
ington by an afternoon boat, and met the
minister on the wharf The pilot of the
steamer acted as a witness, and the ceremo-
ny took place in the pilot house. 1t is not
stated whether the steamer ''blowed' about
the affair. I .4...4..l.
A letter from London says, "English habits
of life are all based on the assumption that
the climate is cold and ungenial; but it is
amazing that, after a succession of boiling
summers, they should still wear thick black
coats and chimney-pot hats in July and Au
gust.'' tfnt
The revelations made by two leading DEM
ocrats, at the Republican meeting in New Hav-
en- last evening, are eminently suggestive. 1t
is one thingt to sell out a party and quite
different affair to deliver the voters en- masse.
SIPPINGs OF PUNcH.-Notiee to Jesuits.-
Theatre Imperial, Germany-NO orders ad-
mitted. Bismarck, stage manager.
Motto for the Gun Club-"Yonder dove
shall be my mark" der Freischutz.
The Ruling Passion. Fashionable Patron
ess Ito Charity Girl who has been away for a
Holiday)-"Well, Betsey Jane, what did you
do when you went to see your friends ?'' |
Betsey Jane-"Please MN, wore PAN
ierp A iis.1 '0.17 |
Hit by High Cturchman. ACCORDING to
the Post Mr.. Beresford-Hope has described
certain style of preaching as rhetorical fire.
works." Among such fireworks the honora-
BILE gentleman of course does not forget may
be mentioned, as especially Objectionable,
Roman candles.
Sltrmber.-How sound and sweet is the |
sleep which follows a long days toll The
omnibus conductor, for example, when at last |
he retires to his well-earned rest, realizing |
the truth of the poet Thompson's time, may
be said to be-
Content and careless Of to-morrows fare"
a Terrible Inuenti0n. are so
inventive that we need hardly say we cite
this from transatlantic newspaper: |
Zone OF the cleverest inventions we have
seen is the Patent Cat Exterminator. 1t
may be described as large cast-iron cat,
with an elastic swelling tail, and sharp steel
claws and teeth. 1t goes by clock work, and,
when placed upon the house top, its yells and |
screams attract all the cats in the vicinity, |
when it quickly tears to pieces those that
come within its clutch''
AS set-of against the Alabama claims, !
we ought to claim some compensation for the
shatteri1g of our nerves by such dreadful |
news as this. Live cats are bad enough, but |
they are only flesh and blood, and OCCASION |
ally sleep. But to have cast-iron cats prowl- |
ing on the housetops, and caterwauling dis |
mally all the livelong night, prospect such
as this may make the bravest of us tremble.
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