The Portland daily press., 1872-11-21

The Boston Post thinks we ought to have fire |
guards.
Chicago iobbers are putting fires alarms in |
their buildings.
Grace Greenwood has purchased summer
residence in Colorado.
There will be $4,000 copies in the first edition
of Seward travels.
Copies of Woodruff & Claf1ins weekly, lat
est edition, bring so cents piece in Hartford
The boys in Davenport Ia, break $1,000 worth
of window glass monthly.
A new library building is wanted at Wash
ington.
Little Jene Reese, of Columbus, O., just out
of her teens has been sentenced to three years.
imprisonment in the penitentiary for forgery
young lady, with the arstocratc name of
Radcliffe, recently took thd prize at Georgia
cooking match.
Memphis dog accidentally killed his mas
ter by pushing heavy substance down upon
him, and then died of grief and remorse.
King Francis H., of Naples, and Queen Isa-
bella, of Spain, will represent the retired Bour-
bon element in the south of France this winter.
| -Four priests have left Japan to study the va
rious religions of Europe, They have work
| not of time, but of eternity before them.
The English papers predict much distress in
Great Britain this winter, and even stricken
Poston may be morally called upon to render
assistance.
Ohio owns the amount of 100000 900 worth
| of live stock.
Nearly 81, 200, 900 are invested in herds in Col
orado.
The annual product of hay is not far from %,
100000 tons.
Several Boston men who were in Chicago at
the time of the fire, and who happened to be
out of money! accepted light alleviations of
their woe, and started for home. Judge their
surprise ON reaching the Hub to find themselves
under social ban for accepting ''outside re.
lief''
Minnesota raises sun-fowers for fuel.
Gail Hamilton will spend the winter with
Speaker Blaines family at Washington.
Commodore Vanderbilt's Mountain Boy has
died of the horse disease.
The married ladies of Hannibal, Mo-, have
organized a "Come Home Husband Club
The first winter that soup was gratuitously
given to the poor in Boston an indolent family
moved to that city from Saeo, to live upon the
wasteful benevolence.
Miss Alexander, California actress, who
was for ten years member of Brigham
Young's family, will be the next to tell on the
lecture platform what she knows about Nor
monism,
Mr.. Legge was recently bailed out of the
Danville, KY, jail, and has resumed his old oc
cupation of stealing horses. The authorities
say when they give Legge bail again he'll
know it.
The Chicago Times puts the solemn conun-
drum: "How can we escape fre?' The New
York Commercial Adyertiser answers The Cos
pei offers you every encouragement, but per-
haps your ''best hold is to get out of Chicago
The Titusyille Pres says Stanley will make
sensation when he lectures in this country
dressed in his suit of clothes made by Uiii
tailor, consisting Of Irvine string wound
around his great toe and a straw hat cut low
in the corsage.
Beecher says: I think myself great deal
of praying is like person drumming on a tel.
egraph instrument without the least idea OF
what he is doing; but even at that there is
som ebody at the other end who knows that
somebody is trying to do something.
A youthful stranger at Omaha fell in love at
first SIGHT with photograph exhibited as a
specimen in an outside showcase, about six
weeks ago, went up stairs and inquired the
name of the fair original, procured an introduce
ton to her, called upon and courted her, and
now, come Christmas, will marry her.
Snow fell in Halifax, N. S., last Sunday.
Oil boring has proved a failure in Nova Sco-
tia.
Rev. II. Martyr Hart, one of the most csle.
brated scientific lecturers in England,is visiting
Montreal.
The work of changing the gauge on western
sections of the Grand Trunk in Ontario was
completed last week.
A wife asked her husband for new dress
He replied: 'Times are hard my dear, so hard
l can hardly keep my nose above water, u
whereupon she retorted: You can kAAf>- ye.,.
nose above water easy enough if you've mind
to, but the trouble is you keep it too much
above brandy"