The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-08
DIR. WATTS ON THE cINcISNATI NOMINEE.
How 10Th the busy Horace G..
Improve each shining hour;
And 10. for office every day
In every party's power.
How skiifully he builds his sells,
How neat he spreads the soap,
And when pig-iron win not avail
Takes free trade as his hope.
-Rosfon TrnreIes.

Careful inquiries into the employments Of
three hundred and thirty delegates, elected by
seventeen States to the National Republican
Convention at Philadelphia, show that the
only federal officers among them are the
following: One Collector of Customs, one
Collector of Internal Revenue, two United
States Marshals, three Postmasters, one
Treasury Agent, one Pension Agent, one
District Attorney, and three Deputy Mar
shals-thirteen in all. Of these, six are from
the State of Kentucky, which sends also
sixteen delegates who are not office-holders,
and three from Pennsylvania which sends also
fifty delegates who are not office-holders.
Nicholas Dodd" is the latest hero of dialec-
tical doggerel. Henry Ames Blood created him
out of the dust of Faber. He was an aero
naut, who is represented as having jumped
out of balloon 5000 feet up in the air to
save the poet. That was, indeed, heroic
courage, though displayed in an unworthy
cause If he had thrown the poet out, he
would have put humanity in his debt.
John S. C. Abbot, used to say short pray
er for guidance Alright ere he wrote chapter
Of his ''Life of Napoleon" which is a striking
argument against the efficacy of prayer.
An absent-nnnded physician of Oswego,
New York, has discounted Hahneman by
prescribing draught for a patient, Zone tea
spoonful to be taken every three years."
A West street man, attracted by the Obser-
vations of a cat on the roof of his piazza. Sat
urday night, stepped quietly out there in the
darkness and an under-shirt and levelled
vicious kick at the animal, but missing the
aim, lost his equilibrium and passed into the
yard, striking the earth with familiarity of
an own rother.-Danb,uy Ne,os.
The Norwich Bulletin tells of an enraged
wife who proceeded to take down the young
lady's back hair, and remove snndry articles
ofjewelry and wearing apparel from her per-
son, without the .formality of an introduc-
tion.'
Eli Perkins, writing from the inside of
''that crowd'' says: 'Grant has only three
principles in view-to have peace, content
ment, and pay the National debt, while we
have eight principles-five loaves, two fishes,
and place in the Custom House."
Forster's Dickens is said to be known in
ster, as illustrated by the Career of Charles
Dickens"
The senior Bennett, of the New York Her.
aid, is seventy-fve years old, but is still able
to draw his $225, 700 income with as little fa-
| tigue as most men of his age can cut four
cords of wood and walk forty-five miles to the
polls in day.
| Charles-Mary of Sorrows-John-Isidore
Joseph Francis Quirinus - Antony
Michael-Gabriel-R are nearly all of
Don Carlos's given names. eH
| During one of his most severe illnesses,
Nazzini was staying in his fayorite lodging
in Fulham Road, and was waited upon by the
woman who kept the lodgings. She, like all
who waited upon him, had become warmly
attached to him, but her awkward cooking
was ill-ftted to his sick state. Unwilling to
pain her by letting her know this, he used to
hide away the dinner that she might not see
that it had not been eaten.
A PRIVATE letter from the vicinity of Houl-
ton, states that the farmers in that section of
Aroostook, well at work in putting the soil in
readiness for the crops the first day of May
Instead of being unusually late, the snow went
off gradually and having kept the frost out OF
the ground, it was ready for the springs work
in a few days