The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-16

must have labOrlOuS position. Sixty Sn1tS
were filed against the city in one day recently.
The Board-of Trustees of Delaware College
have thrown open the doors of that Institution
to young women. M IL II
An Idaho woman was ordered by physician
to take three ounces of brandy day, and know
ing that sixteen drachms make an ounce, has
patiently been taking forty eight drinks day
ever since LlFF ~ Es4ssf1
Sixty dollars per dozen seems round price
for peaches. That is what they paid for them
at an English swell dinner lately.
A girl in Illinois found life burden because
she had warts on her hands,, so she drowned
herself. There was something appropriate in
her seeking watery grave.
A new English brochure, 1.-The Fresh Dispute
at Dame Europa's School" shows how the
American Boy tried to take in the English Boy,
and how the English Boy proved to much for
him.
Mr. Chandler Martin of Newcastle has been
appointed keeper of Whales Back lighthouse.
The Mormon authorities of Salt Lake City
have got even with the "Gentiles'' for their
abuse of polygamy, by establishing fine of $40
for the use of profane language.
nice way to get ones boots cleaned, during
these dusty times, says Chicago paper, is to
struggle into crowded omnibus and wipe them
upon the passengers. A good many gentlemen
are at present avoiding boot-blacks and ten
cent expenditures by adopting this agreeable
practice. ......-. -, ......-.s
The pews of Methodist church on the boun-
Diary line between Pennsylvania and Ohio stand
in the former State and the pulpit in the latter.
Pennsylvania couples, in consequence, have to
be married in the vestibule. 4f kf
Emma G. Hoyes has been voted pair of
gold bracelets as the most popular young wo-
man of Salmon Falls, N. II.
The French government has paid 14,70O,OO
francs for the compensation of Germans expell
ed from France during the war.
Humanitarianism has cropped out in new
form in Boston. Among the latest institutions
of that city of jubilees is a mending aud repair
ing society composed of women, who undertake
to sew ON buttons, darn stockings and perform
other kindly services for unprovided bachel-
ers.
| The removal of the fence around Union Park
has been an improvement in one sense for
whilst formerly few people used to blush at
the sights occasionally seen there, now every
one goes through without paling.-N T.
World.
A Pennsylvania hotel man has gone largely
into the echo business, up in the Lehigh VAL
ley. He engage a boy to secrete himself be-
hind clump of trees and to repeat the words
of the visitors who came to hear the echo. One
day there was no reply-the echo struck for
higher wages; so the wonder-seekers smashed
his bottles for him, and treated the boy to root
beer as testimonial of regard.
English hair workers have novel method of
obtaining their supplies. A peddler goes about
among the rural districts, and, being alone with
pretty woman, induces her to smell peculiar
pomade which he offers for sale at low price,
The Whit at the nostrum causes nsensibility,
and while in this condition she is despoled of
her hair, and left to recover consciousness while
the thief is making good his escape from the
neighborhood. A
A late decision in the Chicago courts gives a
verdict in favor of a lawyer who lost his library
by fire after his policy of insurance had expir-
ed. No notice had been given by the Company
of the expiration and the Court decided that
such notice was imperative. A good thing
for the insurance companies to make note of
next time.
A Western editor gently alludes to his rival
as "tank of mendacity."
The forest fires in California have destroyed
thousands of acres of woodland and brought
desolation to many ranches 49,.
A Chicago man offers large number of lots
and houses for sale, and agrees to wait for his
pay until Grant is elected President te.f
st. Paul, Minnesota, complains of a scarcity
of builders. They have all been drawn off to
Chicago. b tf8Att W&E gEL
A colored woman in Mobile sues the city for
$4,000 on account of the death of her husband,
who was killed in recent riot =
The number of deaths in New York last week
was 1856, which is 513 less than the week pre-
vious. The greater part of the mortality is
made up of children under five years of age.
A young man in Franklin, Ohio, calculates
that during period of five years he has walked
IL, 253 miles in visiting his sweetheart
From Lebanon, Russell county, Va, is re-
ported curious explosion and upheaval of
rocks, and the inhabitants believe the eruption
to be volcanic ff % II i.4- I'll II
A wild man. in Muscatine, Iowa, who
frightened some laborers new railroad
away from their work, was taken out of bed
and drowned few nights ago, and the work ON
the road is resumed.
According to the Montreal Witness, the small
pox is fcarfully ON the increase in that city,
while its citizens and rulers, like Eastern ia
talists, fold their arms and do nothing.
Preeocity in crime has developed in boys of
seven. A Wisconsin boy of that tender age,
who had quarrel with playmate, beguiled
him into some bushes and shot him with pis-
toll which he had taken from his fathers office
The wounded child was found an hour later,
and died the same day. g<Jfi1 iifi