The Portland daily press., 1872-11-21

warmed up, and then giving her all the iced
lemonade she could drink.
The kindest-hearted man lives in Oshkosh.
He forbids everybody to disturb hen who is
taking her comfort sitting on two porcelain
eggs. He expects to have gold trimmed tea
set Matched out.
Some young ladies of fiashy tendencies as
to dress are wearing belts of gilt metal.
Some one suggests that they wish to show
their fondness for music by wearing brass
bands round their waists.
A Kansas City (Mo.) girls brother had
the misfortune to shoot himself, and she seeks
consolation in ''benzine," and may be seen
any afternoon staggering from one saloon to
another. Of course she's beautiful and ac-
complished.
The Courier-Journal desires the good peo-
pie of that town to take warning by the fate OF
Chicago and Boston, and says that every good
citizen will now put barrel of gunpowder
uuOcI Ills Uu1luiuS diu OC PiSpoiSu iNi S,hNA
gencies.
A San Francisco preacher expresses the
unqualified belief that if Judas Iscariot had
lived in that city he would never have hanged
himself, but would have stood couple OF
trials, disbursed his thirty pieces of silver in
judicious manner, and been free man to-
day.
The New York Star says: "OEe of our
contemporaries kindly furnished a very
prettily written critique of Lucca's 'Cherubi-
no., as sung on Monday night. 1t was very
well done, the only difficulty being that
Lucca was sick al home, her pretty throat
being done up in red flannel, aud couldn't
sing note"
A ST Louis man has invented peculiar
sort ola trap for catching tape worms. 1t is
a windlass with steel trap attached, and if
you think you have ''got 'em" you set the
trap in your mouth when you retire for the
night. If you feel the trap spring, seize the
crank and wind up your worms. 1t is great
success.
.sSheriff Gip', we read at the close Of
long description of the execution OF George
Grant, at Westchester, Pa, 'did his duty
with excellent firmness and courtesy. There
was not a hitch anywhere in the sad perform
ance from first to last" And yet the man
was hanged.
The young man who thought he would
have some fun yesterday by kicking sleeping
dog off the sidewalk, near the junction OF
Congress and Neal streets, was looking
around town this morning for tailor who
could repair badly mangled pair of pants,
and also trying to get wholesale rates on
court-plaster for the next thirty days.
A Portland man spent three-quarters OF an
hour the other evening in trying to pick up
piece of moonshine from his doorstep, which
he fondly fancied to be newspaper. His
afflicted wife finally came out, brought him
to consciousness by the aid of a loose fence
picket, and steadied his tottering steps into
the house.
A lawyer, who was sometimes forgetful,
having been engaged to plead the cause OF an
offender, began by saying: II know tAe
prisoner at the bar, and he bears the charac-
ter of being most consummate and impu-
dent scoundrel" Here somebody whispered
to him that the prisoner was his client, when
he Immediately continued, ''but what great
| and good man ever lived that was not calum'
: mated by his contemporaries ?"
| A novel turkey hunt took place at Sherman
| Chautauqua county recently. A turkey was
[ tied to a stake, the hunters arranged in a cir
Gle around and at some distance from the
stake, blnd-folded and hidden to ''go." The
fellow who first got hold of the turkey, hat
him. The amount of tumbing, humping
against each other and sprawling upon thu
ground done by the hunters before one o
their number captured the turkey, afforde<
no end of amusement to the spectators,
The critics are searching their dictionaries
in vain for the word "spate." which occur
in the third line of Tennyson's last ArthuriaI
idyl "Gareth and Lynette," as follows:
'sThe last tall son of Lot and Bellicent
! And tallest, Gareth, in showerful spriug
| Stared at the spate.'
Although not to be found in Webster Of
Worcester, ''spate" is a good old Saxon wor
still in use in all the lowland dialects of Scot
land. 1t means the sudden flooding of
stream caused by heavy rain.
From the Hartford Post.
Letter from Northwestern Maine.
FRYEDURG, Me-, Nov. s, 1872.