The Portland daily press., 1872-05-14

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, ,7s.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, '72.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
A SCIENTIFIC REAsoN.-A friend of ours
VINO came upon scientific treatise ON the
velocity Of light, says he can now understand
how it is that his gas bill runs up so rapidly.
REV. Robert Reitzel, of the Reformed
Church of Baltimore, has been deposed inst
because he frequented beer saloons and play
ed sinful games-to-wit, auction pitch and
whisky poker-therein, for drinks.
The baseball player was last heard of at
Keokuk, Iowa, where he knocked out a home
run, girls eye, and this item at one fell
swoop.
The Princess Alexandra is becoming deaf
with alarming rapidity.
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.-Golden
hair has gone out; It's now worn plated.
A JOURNALIST, who is said to be bald, Of
fers reward of s10OOfor tale that will make
his hair stand on end.
Besides four daily newspapers, Elmira, New
York, has gas-well.
The Detroit Post begins an editorial article
thus: "Among the more receut use of the re
cuperatiye elements which nature contains as
opposeLto the specific remedies is that of
oxygen gas" Drunk again, says the Court
er-Jonrnal, in paroxysm of total abstinence
indignation.
The Indians captured wagon train on the
plains, last fall, and, among other plunder,
carried hand-organ to their village, where
its properties were quietly discovered, and be-
ing set to Yankee Doodle, morning and even
ing, the charm of that inspiring melody sooth-
ed the savage. One night when the sound of
the grinding was low, the stop that changes
the times was unwittingly shifted, and, to the
horrifed Indian, ground out that levitous air
Pop Goes the Weasel. The old chief sitting
in the door of his wigwam, listened a mo-
ment, and, supposlng the machine was spoil
ed, seized his tomahawk, and with fierce
yell, Drained the discoverer of the new tune
upon the spot. -
An infant daughter of Jenny June Croly
has been voted by acclamation an honorary
member of the Sorosis club.
Mr.. d. C. Davis, editor of the Osceola mo-
Democrat, got man to attempt his assassi-
nation the other night, just before his paper
went to press, so as to take in the rival paper.
The accomplice didn't aim badly enough and
''vaccinated' Mr.. Davis generally. He was
too much hurt to write up the affair, SO the
opposition paper got the item exclusively.
The papers out in the woods of Oregon
appear to be very plain spoken. The Eugene
Guard, Democratic organ of that frontier
region, reminds county candidates that it does
not propose to fiddle for them for nothing this
year. 1t says: ''This is simply matter Of
business. Let him who engages in the highly
fascinating terpsichorean amusement, remun-
crate the perormer upon the instrument with
four strings, played with a bow"
That funny Chicago Eoening Post reminds
Uncle Horace that the eyes of every merino
sheep in America are on him, and that every
pig of iron in our factories calls on him, in a
metallic squeak, to stand firm to his principles.
A Chicago reporter suggests that there will
be great demand for mutton in Boston dur.
ing the Jubilee. Think, says he, of twenty
thousand people singing in chorus, "An W,
like sheep"
| Greeley's white coat and Browns red heat
suggest to the st. Louis Democrat the
''Woodpecker Ticket as an appropriate
name for the Cincinnati nomination.
A great impression has been produced in
Paris by sentence of fifteen days imprison-
ment to which Prince Bibesco has been con-
demned, for having engaged in duel with
the Prince de Beaufremont. This is the
first time for many years in (which participa
tion in duel not attended with fatal results
has been so punished.
A recent writer, in speaking of the inno-
cent delights of childhood, thinks that the
city child who has not been to a circus has
| lived in vain.
The proprietors of one of the public houses
in the interior announce that they intend to
tempt the public with an irresistible dose of
summer beauty, rustic loveliness and oppor.
tunities for luxurious ease, such as will not
be offered by any other establishment.
The best scientific scholars of the country
say that never before in any year, has there
been such tremendous force of electricity in
the air as has been noticeable in the last eight
or nine months, and that the cerebral dis
eases now so prevalent are caused by the
highly electric atmosphere.
1t is illegal to take money on Sunday at the
door of place of amusement in Philadelphia,
wherefore, at the theatres, when they have
Sunday concerts, the stamps are handed in
through win dow.
1t is said that the addition of little dis
| solved sulphate of quinine to ink, paste, mu-
cilege, etc., will prevent the formation Of
mold, while it imparts no disagreeable odor.
Can man who, on going to bed blows out