The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-18

Abby Sage Richardson has returned to
Chicago, and is teaching elocution and carry
ing on circulating library.
Birds are singing round my window
Tunes the sweetest ever heard,
And hang my cage there daily
But never catch bird
So with thoughts my brain is peopled,
And they sing there all day longy
But they will not fold their pinions
In the little cage Of song.
HINTS FOR HYPoCHoNDRIACs. = Quinine
should not be eaten after hearty meal of In
dia rubber; the spermaceti contained in the
former will unite with the oxalic acid of the
latter, and wagon grease will be evolved with
disastrous results. Before taking bath the
entire body should be carefully washed. Then
lay on coating of tar aid get into the water
1t can't touch you anywhere. 1t is not SO
fashionable as it was to chop cord of wood
before breakfast; none but very old men, who
cling to the traditions of youth like lean
leach to stuffed frog, ever dc it, and they
commonly perish at it. Getting out of bed in
perspiration is always to be avoided-always
lie in bed as long as you can find any excuse
for it. Nothing is more injurious than the or
binary method OF going up stairs; it causes
the alkai in the blood to settle in the corns,
producing Arianism and strangulaton. The
proper way is to lie on your stomach and 60 up
feet first Never sleep with your eyes shut; It
is degenerate habit. Bathing, as intimated
above, is conducted on wrong principle. 1t is
probable that that the custom might be advan-
tageously abolished altogether. Bath houses
and bathing rooms in dwellings are thing of
recent growth. Our grandfathers seldom or
never bathed; and it is conceded that they
lived to be several hundred years old Pota-
toes should always be eaten with the skins on,
skins contain bi-carbonate of mucilage, which
is just what the liver requires. When the GUS
tom of giving the skins to the poor originated,
science was almost wholly unknown
Like the 'Great American DESERT" the
great Australian desert retires into oblivion
at the approach of explorers. The telegraph
party now hanging wire between the north
and south coasts of the continent are already
jotting down upon, the map such observa-
tions as "lake, opposite shores not visible"
splendid flats, plenty of grass and water"
''dense forests, ''grassy country" etc.
A doctor .~~s Called iu see . patient whose
native land was ireland, and whose native
drink was wh.slsey. Water was prescribed as
the only cure. Tat said it was out of the ques-
tion, he could never drink it. Milk was then
The doctor was soon summoned again. Near
the bed on which the sick man lay was a table,
and on the table a large bowl and in the bowl
was milk, bnt favored strong with whiskey
what have you here?" said the doctor
milk, doctor; just what you ordered 'sBut
there is whiskey in it, 1 smell it." 'well,
DOCTOR" sighed the patient, "there may be
whiskey in it, but milk's my object" .
The Chicagoans are in great delight over
the length as well as the height of their great
fire, triumphantly pointing to the bursting
out of flames from the ruins of a malt house
while workmen were removing the debris.
Six months, through rain and snow, is long
time for fire to last and the suspicion natural
y arises that this may be newer and small
they will permit us to call them so-are en-
deavoring to impose upon deluded world as
a part of the old confagration.
The Mrs. Mason mixed up in the sale of
arms investigation is the wife of Virginia
Mason, nephew of j. Y. Mason, who has
been great traveller, and during the war was
a confederate spy. Since the war she has
made herself notorious as lobbyist. Gen.
Jordan, the Cuban agent, stopped at her
house while in Washington, and it was
thought then that she obtained information
about government arms that she afterward
attempted to utilize by dealing with the
French agents. She is described as a grace
full, fascinating person, with dark, expressive
eyes, and she talks ''like book"
The people of Leavenworth celebrate the
completion of the bridge over the Missouri
river at that point on the 18th. 1t is an i'm
portant element in the railroad connections
and business growth of all that section.
Senator Wilson got through the Senate, on
Monday, without opposition, bill which has
been urged for year or more by the Ladies
Union Relief Association of New York, and
allowing honorably discharged soldiers to be
buried in the National cemeteries.
Columbia County, Ark, is excited. A DR..
Roberts has there 'picked up'-such is the
phraseused by The Washington (Ark.) Tele-
graph-has "picked up" we repeat, just as if
such stones were plentiful in the vicinage, ga
genuine diamond, large as partridge egg,
and weighing 40 carats." 1t is valued by the
admiring and astonished beholders at $780,
600! ''Hurrah," cries The Telegraph, ''for
the diamond fields of Arkansas Africa has
no such diamonds as thatp. Probably not.
American visitors to the Hagne, mention
with satisfaction, the honors accorded, the
late Minister to England, Mr.. Motley, who is
hardly second to the King in the good graces
of the Nethlanders. Mr.. Motley is engaged
upon new historical work, but upon what
nation, epoch, or era, is not stated, though it
is probably the conclusion of the absorbing
story of the ''Dutch R.public'' promised in
the last volume of the narrative already pub
lished.
The Grand jury of Philadelphia have found
true bill of Indictment against Charles A.
Dana of the New YorkSun for libel on William
II. Kemble, ex-State Treasurer of Pennsylva-
MIA, in an article published in the Sun relative
to the Evans fraud We trust that the Iblack-
guard will be soundly mulcted N damages
He is a disgrace to American Journalism anu
wanton slanderer of men.
A bill to provide for the counting OF the
| vote for President and Vice-President, by the
two house. of Congress, in joint session was
introduced by Mr.. Willard on Monday. To
nrevent any trouble from arising by reasons
Of objections to the validity of the vote of any
State. if such objections are raised, it is pro-
vided that the two Houses shall separate and
tbe objections be discussed and voted upon
by each House separately; it is further pro-
yided that TO appeal shall be made from the
decision of the presiding officer of the Joint
Convention of the two Houses.
The lady who was asking at the picture
shops last week for something in the pre-
Adamite style is now confined at home by
severe attack Of diagnosis.
| A lady widowed by the Chicago connagra-