The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-02

eyeu monster Is rampant.
The sensation in Columbus, Ohio, is the
discovery that the famous Adair Liquor Law
is imperfect, inasmuch as the enacting clause
OF the law reads: ''Be it enacted by the
State OF Ohio" instead of ''Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of the State of Ohio. .
as the Constitution prescribes. The ques-
ton as to whether the error makes the law
| invalid or not will be tested within a few
days.
The Webster place, in Marshfeld, Mass, is
advertised to be sold at auction for non-pay-
ment of taxes.
A citizen of Gosport, the other night, mis-
took his wife's yeast bottle for his favorite
''little brown Jug" and took ''long pull and
strong pulp therefrom. He is now regard
ed as rising man.
An Eastern exchange has this errdtun :
In our paragraph yesterday concerning
thirteen ministers who had been spanked in
infancy, for spanked read sprinkled.
The Boston Transcript criticises Mast 5
caricatures as in strange contrast with the
high tone of the editorials of Geo. w. Curtis
in Harper's Weekly. It is the duty of a Jour
nal to cater, within the limits of propriety,
to the various tastes of its readers, and it can
not be denied that Nast's admirable sketches
are as effective in their way as the polished
and elegant efforts of the accomplished editor
Commercial Advertiser.
Carlyle dislikes Disraeli He calls the willy
politician one who has the consciousness of
being charlatan.
London has a new literary and artistic club
the Thackeray. g
A sad tale comes from Iowa of man who,
after safely swallowing five-franc piece, a
closed pocket-knife and coffee spoon, killed
himself at last in vain effort to digest pipe.
Miss Amanda Way was licensed to preach
by the Methodist Church in Winchester In
diana, and delivered her first sermon in that
city few Sabbaths ago.
Eli Perkins, of the Commercial Advertiser,
is guilty of the following squibs:
Capital ofence-They are going to make it
a capital offence for one man to elope with
another mans wife in California 1t always
was capital offence here, if the mans wife
was pretty! @
Self-possession-Th editor of the Lou.
Cur. Journal owns jackass.
The Kentucky legislature, in order to check
the practice Of opium eating in that State,
has passed "a bill that on suitable affidavit,
any person who, through excessive use of
opium, arenic, hasheesh or any drug has
become incompetent to manage himself or his
estate, may be confined in an asylum and
placed under guardianship, as in the case of
drunkards or lunatics.
An enormous crocodile captured near Uny-
anyembe, Central Africa, last month, was
cut open, and the bones of man, wallet
containing pawn tickets, Geneva watch and
chain, together with several manuscript let
ters to the New York Herald found in its
stomach. There is now vacancy in the
Heralds foreign staff. None need apply who
object to Africa or the East river.
Miss Helen Ludlow, sister of the late Fitz
Hugh Ludlow, is the latest accession to fe-
male Journalism in New York.
An advertisement from the Allentown, Pa,
Chronicle reads: s'If the middle-aged party
who spoke to young lady at Centre SQUARE
will find something to his advantage meet his
eye. Address Pugilisticus, Box 10O1."
1t is undersi ,od that but for an unfortunate
habit of eating with his knife, which Mr..
Samuel Bowles acquired in early life, he
would have been given a foreign appointment
by General Grant. European aristocrats are
absurdly fastidious on the subject, though it
was tolerated in General Cass, who defends
it in his "reminiscences of his mission to
France. As it is hardly probable that Mr..
Adams, if he should be nominated and elect
ed, would be more lenient as regards the man
ner in which Mr.. Bowles conveys his food to
his mouth, the support the Springfield Re
publican gives the Massachusetts, candidate
is all the more generous. -
FRIGHTs AND FASHIONS,
Men laughed, when wearing Pig-tais was the rule,
Atone who wore no Pig tail as a fool u
she Ms that hair powder, patches, pain eschewed,
was Iunny TO the female multitude.
When womankind their waists made long or short
whose waist was Natures waist, she moved their
sport.
In days Of Crnolines extent immense,
Attired in skirts of just circumference,
Amid the modish throng If one appeared,
The others at her for q "dowdy" sneered.
Now Chignons are in vogue they deem her odd
Who fails to pile the fashionable wad
Aloft, like towers Of Cybele, and groan
Beneath a load of hair that's not her own.
The crowd, their ears with pendants who adorn,
lady without earrings hold in scorn;
Who fsh-bones through their nostrils thrust, so
those
The fair who wears no fish-bone in her nose
Punch.
The'latest popular method of testing the
"degree of humidity of any man who smells
like the city agency, is to ask him to pro-
nounce the name of the Portland Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
We slight the gifts that every season bears,
And let them fall unheeded from our grasp;
In our great eagerness to reach and clasp
The promised treasure Of the coming year; M
Or else we mourn some great good passed away,
And In the shadow of our grief shut in,
Refuse the lesser good we yet might win,
The offered peace and gladness Of to-day.
So through the chambers of our life we pass,
And leave them one by one, and never stay,
Not knowing how much pleasantness there was
In each, until the closing of the door
Has sounded through the house, and died away.
And In our hearts we sigh Forever more
CHAPTER 124 of the Revised Statutes of