The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-16
THE PRE- SS.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 1s, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

The double-headed pig is playing a brief en-.
gagement at Petersburg, Va.
ANXIOUS lnquirer-The Red Stockings are
baseball club, not hose company.
"A petersburg lawyer who undertook to
cane local, is having lot of shot picked
out of his legs.
The editor Of the New York Tribune is
working with great unanimity to secure the
election of Mr.. Greeley.-Chicago Post.
Queen Elizabeth always displayed her
worst temper in her best clothes. She was
dreadfully ruffled then.
A Georgia editor has had his pistol stolen.
He advertises to give the thief the contents
and no questions asked, If he will return it.
A western editor called Alexis the noble
Russ" The printer of course made it
"Kuss."
Jariey's waxworks are exhibiting with
great success in Boston in aid of various char
liable objects.
Men who complain of party rule" are al
most invariably men who have failed in their
attempts to rule party. .j
:. A society to compel beer saloon keepers to
use large glasses terrifies the liquor dealers of
Terre Haute.
Mr.. Emerson's Conversation" furnish a
great theme for conversations in literary cir
cles.
In Mansfield, Mass, on Sunday Charles
Morton shot himself, because young lady
rode out with rival lover.
The Louisville Courier-Journal considers
DIR. j. Emilio Howard an ass for spelling his
middle name in full, and supports B. Gratz
Brown.
Mr.. Beecher thinks that the Cincinnati
Convention was movement originated by
high moral idealists and captured by the wire
pulling politicians.
Mr.. Frederick Jones of Versailles, Missouri,
expects to go down to posterity on the back
of his four-year-old mule, which makes a
practice of killing and eating sheep.
Families in Edinburg desiring pets for the
children had rare opportunity afforded them
recently, at the sale of Wombwelps menag-
erie, when a superior article of wolf went for
$3.50, t.-..... .'.... ..'..,.. --.e..
Arsonists are said, by the Post, to be
troubling Pittsburg, but none of them have,
as yet, been public spirited enough to arson
ize the office of that pathological murderer.
A California obituary: ''The deceased was
a talented man of romantic nature. He
placed the butt of his gun in the fire while he
looked down the muzzle, and departed hence
spontaneously" L..
1t must be pleasant to move into a house
that has been occupied by side show, and
find a twelve foot anaconda lying around
loose in the cellar. A Detroit man knows
how it is, and he killed the snake.
The circus band devoured by lions, the
nurse of Washington, the girl with snake in
her throat, and the proofreader Who fall heir
to 5000, 900 ere very scarce for May. Proba-
bly, owing to the backward season.
The intelligent compositor has broken out
at Natick, where, added by the vigilant proof
reader, he entered into conspiracy against a
dead clergyman, and remarked: "Fraud after
fraud depart" -'.f...... ... ...
The New York Sun says ''The origin of
the word candidate is Candidus, white, refer
ing to the color of the toga which the old Ro-
mans used to prescribe for aspirants for Office.
Cdndtdotus is whrre-coated applicant for
popular suffrage-Dr. Greeley, for Instance. >,
His Imperial Highness Prince Higashi Fus-
himi No Nirya has been presented to the
Queen of England. In spite of the natural
difficulties of the name, the Chamberlain got
through its pronunciation, and the ceremony
was completed in single day.
New serials by Charles Reade and Wilkie
Collins are to be begun during the summer
by the Harpers. 1t is understood that Mr..
Reade guarantees the character of his novel
"a precaution on the part of the publishers
which was very desirable.
How doth the little crocodile, in Georgia's
placid streams, Ope wide his jaws and then
with guile awaken from his dreams the
sleeping XVIII, by the bite which sewers of
his head, and numbers him that very night,
among the sleeping dead.
Mrs. Fairs new trial, preliminary to her re-
lease, begin on the oath of June. She is
worth $4,000, and people have nearly for
gotten all about her killing-let's see, what
was his name she killed, or was 1t some 9TH
er lady who killed somebody, once
Answer to a correspondent, Orator
1t will not be absolutely necessary-though
the omission may be noticeable-to state that
lit is the proudest moment of your life,'
when you rise to make speech and have
nothing to say and great difficulty in ex
pressing it.
The Commonwealth says that on the very
day of his marriage a letter was received by
Postmaster Skinner at Amherst, charging
"Count'' Mitkiewiez with obtaining of gen.
tleman at Omaha the cash for a draft for e24O
on London bank, which draft turns out to
be forgery.
Corydon, the Fenian informer, is said by a
calm correspondent at Cincinnati to have
"disgraced his country, betrayed his asso-
ciates. and dragged from the armament OF
faith deep cloud of dishonor upon the Irish
name" Nemesis has, however, overtaken
him, as the correspondent adds that he is
''living at cheap clearinghouse"
Perhaps the most amusing brogue in the
worl | is the "Deutch." The following old
story loses none of its humor by being put
into Dutch dress:
A poor bleeding Israelte recently came
into police magistrates Office, in the city,
and unburdened himself thus: 81 want tr
kit me warrant for de man vot met ms
down yonder, ant he pilt me mansard hons
NIT mine eye. Ant l say, my coot man fo,
vot you do me dosep' and he saw. syou bat
kilt de Saviourp Ant l dells him. snaw.
nav, it ish not me, dat wash tone more as !