The Portland daily press., 1872-10-19

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Tribune.
Wedding invitations in London are now
written on parchment by the prospective
BRIDES mother
A Western editor says Of a neighbor with
quivering eyelid, that he ''stutters in the left
eyew
This is the kind of weather that induces
one to turn his eyes inward and enquire how
he is to meet the bills for his winter clothes.
Earthquakes are travelling eastward and
receiving considerable attention. along the
route.
Chicago boys of roundabouts and tender
years are arrested for carrying concealed
weapons.
Anton Rubinstein, the great pianist, was at
one time so poor in Vienna that he had to
give music lessons at half form each.
DR.. Stillman, who testified to Mrs. Fairs
bel on Insanity. He said he had, and was
then told there was no such author.
A profane journalist is good enough to say
tnat somewhat illiterate man up town has
named his dog Michael Angelo ON the sappo-
sition that M. A. was one of the old mastifs
A defeated candidate in St. Paul avoided
the congratulations of his friends by sallying
out with dog and gun ''to chase the antelope
over the plain"
Delegations of Amherst students OCCASION
ally wander up find down the walks in front
of the seminary at South Hadley, admiring
the beauties of the building.
An indianapolis man undressed and went
to sleep in the garden the other night, and
somebody stole his clothes. The local papers
say that he was every much enthused,"
which seems sufficient excuse tor anything
"How / wish / could take a leaf out of your
bookr said a scapegrace one day to his pious
friend. Subsequent events proved that it was
his friends check book on which the young
scamp had fixed his mental eye.
Froude looks like George William Curtis.
Can he stand as much work-edit a weekly
and monthly magazine, lecture, reform the
Augean civil service and preside and be happy
at literary dinners to historians ''greater than
Macaulay"?
1t is said the long-intended tour of Mdlle.
Tietjens in America is at length definitely ar
ranged. The prima donna will leave Eng
land early in the autumn, after the musical
festivals, and will return to England at Eas-
ter, 1873.
Knoxville, KY, has several polite highway
robbers, who civilly demand of dark-alley pas
sengers money or brains," and some peo
pile are foolish enough to give them the more
necessary article of the two, quite forgetting
how many people go through the world with
out brains.
Looking over numerous Exchanges it is
noticeable that all of them are not always,
week in and week out, equally well printed,
but occasionally suffer little in their work.
From some complaints we have been led to
| suppose that this remarkable phenomenon oc
Cured only to one paper in the country
Boston Transcript.
The servant of Prussian officer one day
met crony, who inquired how he got along
with his fiery master. "Oh, excellently," an
swered the servant; 1--WE live on very friendly
terms-every morning we beat each others
coats; he takes his off to be beaten, and
keep mine on" He o
The Independence Beige says that Sig
nor Mario, the tenor, recently sold the Villa
Salviati, near Florence, for 100000 francs.
The price covers the adjoining land and the
objects of art within the mansion. The pur-
chaser was Baron Hagermann, rich Dane,
who owns the Almaforte Palace, on the
ng' Ano.
From the Danbury News.
The depraved are shaking dice over the
bloody chasm for poultry.
You would think the Tribune was an ''or-
gam if you could see its ''stops."
Ola vindictive Stony Hill mule it is said:
ellis foot is against every man."
A Weston man succeeded in carrying his
gold to the grave, by holding it in his teeth.
The Oldest inhabitant says the sadness Of
this season is above the average.
Augustus thinks excepting ah dwam shoI
in Dahnbury just now must be wisky Dusf
ness"
A Weston mans grief at the death OF hi
father was in great measure ameliorated o;
the intelligence that he had drawn four dol
lar breast pin in Gift Distribution.
A matter of fact Danburian being asked
he saw Rubinstein when in New York, va
cantly responded: Why, no; was he lookin
for me?
A runaway team and man with five daf
n las in his button hole and a double-barrt
!. chew of tobacco in his mouth were the al
n fractions on Bank Street, New Milford, yes
j terday noon.
Z. A Bethel man discovered that stranger L
/, rescued from watery grave was not Ion
lost brother, but party he owed three do
lars and a half for turnips. The Bethel ma
!, retired in disgust.
A Mill Plain man came into Danbury tn
morning with load of potatoes, for which
desired to obtain so cents bushel, but W
not able to get 35 cents. There ewas not q
eye in the load.
A Young man now staying in Danbu
wants to get position as captain in ba
ball club He has been blown up in a stea
saw mill, married twice, and has lived
u Bridgeport.
A North Main street Wan who has bea
tiful daughter with an obnoxious suitor,
i, up in the night recently and kicked him Q
BE of doors. When his anger lulled he perm
IT. ted his daughter to explain that he haa 100
OF ed the wrong man. he says now 'li"'
ed was walking in his sleep.
ith
. A candy-making party last night set a p
{ of hot molasses into the yard to cool, and
going for it several hours later were a.to
ished to observe an upright cat in the mid
oft. The question is not so much how I
l,,fh hour 10 to ha FRI