The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-19


Ex-Consul Butler writes to a friend that he
is living in London ''under his own name."
He is certainly borne down by fearful bur-
den.
Dummy engines are working admirably on
the Chicago horse railroads, but they like to
leave the track and follow their own inclina-
tions.
The Boston Globe complains that grossly
exaggerated accounts of the fire are published.
This all comes of allowing reporters to get be-
yond words of two syllables, says the New
York Commercial.
The Pottsville Miners Journal says that
''the stamp of Boston is on all the land"
And Boston was the very first to get up a
row with the mother country on the stamp
question.
The Cincinnati Commercial is stu consid-
ering the objections to Mr.. Greeley. The de-
light which some minds take in posthumous
notices is calculated to invest death with
fresh horrors,
1t is no matter what you say when you
talk to yourself, but when you talk to other
people, yoar business is to use words with
reference to the way in which those other
people are like to understand dthem.-Holmes.
A youth in Kansas City set fire to the
schoolhouse, recently, to spite his mother for
not allowing him to go to the circus. The
other small boys held a meeting and rendered
him vote of thanks.
Mrs. Sands is a bright little widow, who
lives near Oil City, Pa, and has made COM
Portable fortune in oil lands. She says she
would never have been able to do this if her
late unlamented Sands hadn't run out"
st Louis had him this time: Name, Hot
chin; occupation, physician; age, 140 cause
spectacles; constant voter from his youth up
ward.
The Boston Globe says: The clerks thrown
out Unemployment take cheerful view of the
situation. One was heard yesterday saying:
''Oh, there will be plenty OF work this winter
seraping bricks"
On retiring from business, wise old man
said to his son and successor: ''Now, my boy,
remember that common sense is the best
thing you can bring to bear on every affair of
life except love-making."
The New York Times heads an editorial
with the alarming question, Chow is great
fire in New York to be stopped?' which is
followed by an argument proving that with
its present facilities it isn't going to be stop
ped at all.
Happy, oh happy he who not affecting,
The endless tolls attending worldly cares.
With mind repos'd, all discontents rejecting,
In silent peace his way to heaven prepares!
DeemiDg his life a scene, the world a stage,
Whereon man acts his dreary pilgrimage.
From Wilbyes "Madrigales," 1909.
AT Liverpool the great sensation now is
woman who leaps through the air on the fly
ing trapeze, and hanging by her toes holds by
her teeth a man suspended in mid-air. We
don't see any basis for sensation here. 1t is
a common thing for women to keep men in
suspense.
9TH aspiring youth that fired tn Ephesian
dome, outlives in fame the pious fool that
raised it,; and so does the aspiring COW of
the worthy Mrs. O'Leary, but up to this date,
so far as heard from, nobody has put in a
claim as the originator of the Boston fire.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin usually
published half column of fun under the
head of "spice." On Saturday it had one
line of wit and sense enough for column.
Everything is hot enough this week without
spice"
The Viceroy of Egypt is going to make use
of the Pyramids by transforming them into
lighthouses, in order to guide travellers on
the Nile. If Napoleon the First were to
make the campaign of Egypt to-day, he
would say to his army: SOLDIERS, from the
heights of the Pyramids forty gas burners
look down upon your'
A Louisville man who had been acquaint-
| ed with his girl two nights attem pied to kiss
her at the gate. In his dying deposition he
told the doctors that just as he ''kissed lei
the earth slid out from under his feet and his
soul went out of his mouth, while his head
touched the stars" Later dispatches show
that what allied him was the old mans boot.
A malicious youth in White county hung a
set steel-trap over the strap with which his
papa sometimes saluted him. The worthy
man soon had occasion to go for the strap
and it required the united efforts of his wife
the cook, and his oldest daughter to release
his hand from the vengeful clasp of the trap
| 1t so far suggested the real author that the
! boy now looks as if a cupping machine hat
been applied to every available portion of hi
| tender frame.
One of the most touching instances o
gratitude is alleged to have occurred at Loci
Haven the other day. A little boy, the chile
of wealthy mother, tumbled into the river
He was rescued by workingman and re
stored to his parent. The woman gav'
the man three-cent postage stamp, and SAT-
she would be glad TO have him come up t.
her house and sit out in the entry and hea
her play the piano. He went away witt
tears in his eyes. He said he wasn't used t.
such overwhelming kindness.
Alfred Tennyson has performed a feat b.
which he will secure the admiration an
gratitude of a considerable section of the fai
sex. In describing a nose he has actual
brought the up-turned snub within the rang
of poeti:al expression. Hitherto this mas;
organ has not been more delcately describe
than as ''celestially Inclined" but now til
Laureate, il the last published of his ''Idyl
of the King" denotes it thus:
Lightly was her slender nose
Tip-tilted like the petal of flower"
"Tip-tilted' will henceforth take promlnen
place in our language, and will come aptly =
the aid of those who wish to describe a certa'l
nasal formation without offense to the wearer