The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-21
THE PR ESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY s1, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

0"oS VVSSip anu LultOrldi NOtes.
Having learned that somebody is going to
build hotel in Rhode Island nnety-two feet
long and sixty feet wide, the Louisville Cour-
fer-Journdt expresses its surprise ''that the
authorities should permit anybody to put the
whole State under one roof in that way.''
They spell Horace's name 'sH. Gree Lee,
down South, and, his membership of the Lee
family thus established, insures the support
of the ex-rebs. y ..# ..-...-,....
The New York Herald says of the Greeley
ell farther and fare worse" That's what an
Irish priest once said to a member of Parlia-
ment, who was displeased with the appear
ance of picture of purgatOry.-St Louis
Democrat. 4aa IN ft
"Why, Emily, how do you do?' 81 am
very well, Julia. / celebrated my wooden
wedding last week" why, didn't know
you were married. How did you celebrate
it?" ''By marrying blockhead." .-
''We get nothing new about the CardiT gi-
ant" says the New York Tribune, except
occasional notes from correspondents who
still believe in him; and it may throw some
light upon the matter to state that Mr.. Ball,
the ingenious gentleman who discovered the
giant, is building an expensive and handsome
business block in Binghamton.' ..- h..
''There is no sort of sense" the st. Louis
Times insists, Sin the Democratic party COM
ing to lager-heads over the beer question"
Certainly not. Thin potations of that variety
could never get up head of steam for the
Democracy. Try whiskey.-Chicago Post.
Here are some Of the blessings of spring, as
recounted by the Belfast Journal, too often
overlooked by fretful people. Read, and re-
joice that the blessed season has returned.
If it was not for spring the frost would not
come out of the ground so that the farmer
could gather his post holes and dig his pars-
nips, and our houses would not settle back
after the frost had hove them, so the doors
could not be shut without using a jack screw.
If we did not have this season we could not
have our cold and rheumatism, &C., resulting
from wet feet and sudden changes in the
weather, and who had not rather be sick now
than wait until summer? . lL
Brain-work costs more food than hand
work. According to careful estimates and
analyses of the exertions, three hours of hard
study wear out the 0ody more than whole
day of severe physical labor. Another evil
dence of the cost of brainwork is obtained
from the fact that though the brain is only
one-fortieth the weight of the body it receives
about one fifth of all the blood sent by the
heart into the system. Brain-workers there
fore require more liberal supply of food,
and richer food, than manual laborers.
The Eternal City seems to be the wickedest
place in the world, if the following statistics
are to be believed: 1t is said that in Rome
there are 237 times as many chances of being
murdered as in England, and 1891 times
more than Prussia. In England, it is shown
that one murder occurs for 178,0OO inhabi-
tants in Holland, one for 163, 900; in Prussia
one for zoe, 900; in Austria, one for 81, 900; in
Spain, one for A, 113; and in Naples, one for
2,750; but at Rome there is one homicide for
every $50 of the inhabitants.
The Cincinnati Enquirer demands that that
terrible guillotine, the two-thirds rule, shall
be kept out of the Baltimore Convention.
The Enquirer says: 'Tn 1850 it beat Steph-
en- A Douglas who could have been elected if
nominated. In 1868 it defeated Mr.. Pendle-
ton xyl.< aobo Co. IL r.. Il
has always been an opprobrium upon the
Democratl, party, and is pointed to by their
opponents as violence that, while we call our
selves Democrats, we are not so, being un-
willing that majority of the people shall
rule. The two-thirds abomination should go
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