The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-18
THE PR ESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY IS, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
The voice of the strawberry is heard in oul
land, and that benevolent berry will soon be
actively engaged in getting off spoons o.
various materials into mouths of differ ent
sizes, for the benefit of churches, sewing
circles and Sunday schools.
Griswold, the Fat Contributor, has written
a new lecture entitled, "Why do 1 lecture ?''
Ah, why, indeed? ... s...
Scarcity of children at the Shaker settle
ment at Baileyville, New York, induced two
she bears out of the woods, last week, to COM
promise on 35 sheep.
| Among the eminent European musicians
that will visit the United States next fall, will
be Appolinar Kensky, the greatest Polish
viOlinist. ... ......... .-
atlantic Monthly for April, p. 4Os-speaking
of the death of Dabney Carr, Jefferson's
brother-in-law, says: mindful of the ro-
mantle agreement Of their youth, that which
ever died first should bury the other under
the giant cak on Monticello, beneath which
they had read" etc. This very extraordinary
contract involved the burying of the living
by the dead.
Victor Hugo is less generally known as an
artist than as writer of prose and poetry.
Nevertheless, his drawings are worthy of
note. They are, like his writings, startling
in conception, picturing strange, weird scenes.
A collection of fifty of his best sketches is
shortly to be issued in the form Of an album.
A young man in Hartford, KY, appeared
in new pair of pantaloons few days after a
fire. Somebody asked him if he hadn't been
to fire, and so wounded his sensitive spirit
that he tried to commit suicide. The drug
gist Of whom he endeavored to buy his NOR
phine, gave him a harmless emetic instead,
and he is now walking about as lively as ever.
"Greeley butter is offered to the public by
Kansas city grocer, who takes that delicate
way of intimating that it is not very strong
Once when John Kemble played Hamlet in
Lue country, tnc Rcnticndu VINO enacteu
Guildenstern was, or imagined himself to be,a
capital musician. Hamlet asks him twill you
play upon this pipe?' ''My lord, cannot"
81 pray you." "Believe me, cannot" 81
do beseech YOU" "Well, if your lordship in
sists on it, l shall do as well as can;'' and,
to the confusion of Hamlet, and the great
amusement of the audience, he played "God
save the King"
Out of the beautiful comes the useful-out
of the ancient marvel came the model good
1t is now proposed to convert the Egyptian
pyramids into weather signals. We have on
ly to wait now for the rushing of the locomo-
tive through the valley of the Euphrates and
then we shall have depot called ''The Gar
den of Eden"
The Inauguration of Wards statue of
Shakespeare in the Central Park is fixed for
the twenty-third instant. The exercises will
be imposing. Theo. Thomas orchestra of
one hundred pieces, and probably the Lieder-
the tribute. VIM. G. Bryant will be the ora
tor of the day, and Mr.. Edwin Booth, will
probably give recitation from one of the
great authors plays.
To grow rich, money fairly, spend
less than your earn, and hold on the differ
ence. The first takes muscle, the second
selfcontrol, the third brains.
Don't bite apples with any teeth but nat
ural ones. An Indiana woman tried to use an
artificial set for that purpose, the other day,
and had to faint to get out of the affair grace
fully.
An Illinois farmer, who employs one hun
dred and seventy-five men, requires them all
to be unmarried, sober and Industrious"
He would better not come to Massachusetts,.
How the "eighty thousand superfuous''
would attack him for keeping one hundred
and seventy-fve possibilities out of the mark
etl ~ ..-s .,..r ~. ....s4 -..
Mierovitch is the latest tenor discovered.
He was a Russian street mendicant when
Pauline Lucca picked him up few months
ago. 'sI - 4-a -a8 -.'
''Is the spirit of Israel Putnam dead? ?" is
the way in which Shawneetown, ILL.,, paper
calls upon the residents to rise and slaughter
the wolf which has displayed abnormal activ-
ity in competing with them in the raising of
mutton. .a.4
1t is reported that the ex-Prince Imperial
of France will visit the United States next
summer. He is now sixteen years of age, and
is said to speak five languages fuently.
Why is it that so many of our liveliest
dances have been sent us from unhappy Po-
land ?-Press.
Because that country has had so many rev.
olutions on foot.-Betast Journal
Here is millinery item for the ladies. The
bonnets of the present season are patterned
exactly after those of 1880, and have two ad-
vantages combined. The hat placed upon
the top Of the head, and having the strings
tied behind, becomes round hat; the same
little millinery device, placed little further
at the back of the head, and having the
strings tied under the chin, becomes the styl-
ish bonnet.
A little Boston boy saved his pennies for
whole year. The object was, some might
suppose, to be good little Boston boy and
send the little hoard to the poor heather?
We grieve to say that it was not; and herein
is the inevitable moral: The little Boston boy
bought a revolver with his money, and direct
ly shot his hand off,
The English Anti Tobacco Society, want
ing evidences of the evil effects of the weed,
took into their service Professor Newman.
He had never used the stuff in any form; and
the arrangement was that he should take a
good smoke, get sick, and then describe his
horrible sensations in a course OF lectures.
The Professor got his pipe and smoked about