The Portland daily press., 1872-05-08
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Cincinnati Convention:
| Gin Adams fall
We fzzled ALL" sir
A blind woman in Iowa has learned to
thread u cambria needle with her teeth and
tongue, and contemporary asks: SIS there
anything in the world that woman's tongue
| cannot door undo?''
/ Two young girls, residing in Marlboro, Yer
mont, one day last week were offered Sill apiece
| if they would saw and split cord of hard wood
| slabs. They accomplished the job in four hours
and half
The Cass County (Alich.) Republican thinks
that notwithstanding the general feeling of dis
cOuragement in regard to winter wheat there
about, the last two weeks have produced such a
changed appearance in it as to promise boun-
tiful crop.
The ST. Paul (Minn.) Press says that not
withstanding the fact that the stream of immi-
grafton has commenced pouring into the State
at an earlier date than was ever before known,
the demand for skilled labor is not more than
half supplied, and many are complaining of
their inability to secure help when it is most
urgently needed.
1t will cost 81, $751; OH torun the State of Ohio
this year.
"A Sonth Carolina negro draws the pillow,
while his wife holds it and drives. With
long switch she speeds the plowman smartly
Admirers of John Brown are anxious 20 erect
monumental his memory at Harper's Ferry
or Charlestown.
The Washington Patriot complains bitterly of
the repeated absences of large numbers of DEM
ocratic members of Congress, both in the Sen
ate and the House of Representatives.
The receipts from the tax on tobacco in Rich
mond during the past four months of this year,
show fallngoff of 1921, 473 compared with
last year, the total being only $685.
Detroit man has just painted his house
black, his doors bright red, and the window
sash sky-blue. The picket fence is to be red,
white and blue, and then he expects to have
place that will attract attention.
"When get you in st. Louis, I'll kill you,"
said Texan desperate to cattle drover at
Abilene ''Why not kill me here?'' because
they'd hang me here; but in st. Louis they'd
think was insane, and let me co.
A philosophical Kentuckian who was the en-
WED possessor of one shirt, while lying in bed
awaiting its return from the line where it was
Tapping in solitary grandeur, was startled by
an exclamation from the better half of his
bosom, to the effect that the calf has eaten it,
To this he replied, with an equinimity worthy
of a better cause: "Them who has must loser'
Judge-"I fine Tim Leary IS for assault and
battery on Pat Moloy." Pat Moloy-"But,
your Honor want more damages. He black
ed me eye, and If had been invited to tea
party couldn't have gone" Judge-"The
Court knows nothing about consequential dam
ages. You must carry your own case to &C.
neva." Adjourned.
Miss Ida Greeley, whose father is somewhat
known as the author of book on farming, was
educated in a convent. .srf~r 4.
Emily Woodruff of Pittsburg began twenty
seven suits for SANDER, made complaints in
thirteen other cases, and very naturally brought
up in a lunatic asylum.
The speed of comet is often eight times
greater than that of a Geographic message;
that is, we are told SO by scientific people who
are entirely sup in this sort of thing.
Mr.. Morton's amendment to the Post Office
appropriation bill, to abolish the franking priv
ilege, was tabled in the Senate, 80 to 90 Mr.
Hamin voted to abolish and Mr. Morrill, did
not vote. 80
Some of the H. G. men declare that white
hats will be in fashion until Nov. 5th 1t may
be so; but after that date there will be band
of Grape about them. q
The Speaker of the House has decided that
''the absurdity of motion was no parliament
tary objection to it, There are any amount
of presidents to sustain the ruling.
We are told by Jenkins that on SATURDAY. Mr..
Greeley returned to his farm and gave vent to
his pent-up joy by slaughtering half acre lot
of birch trees, handling his axe the while, we
are graciously informed, with the scientific
vigor of a Maine lumberman and taking the
wind out of rash reporter from a Democratic
paper, who had logged him up from the city,"
The Rhode Island General Assembly have
voted O'Neil, the man who has just been re-
leased from the penitentiary after eight years
unjust imprisonment, $500. Twenty-Five dol
lars year for false imprisonment and hard
labor is cheap enough.
There are at present upward of twenty mills
in this country exclusively operated in the man
ufacture of oil from cotton seed, and over one
hundred and fifty thousand tons of seed are
used annually. The oil-cake is sent largely to
England where it is used as food for CATTLE
The oil goes mostly to Bordeaux, Barcelona,
and other olive growing sections of Europe,
from whence, after "doctoring," it comes back
as 'pure olive OIL" .