The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-27
Clippings.

MIR. Colfax was 40 on Saturday.
The cannibal sect has a communion of
nearly 1000, souls.
Gen. Burnside will help unveil the SOL
diers' monument at Detroit, April 8.
The Chicago sufferers paid over $4,000,
last week, to hear Charlotte Cushman read.
There is scarcity of labor at Ottawa.
and lumber-men get $40 per month and
'found''
"A colored man received 80 lashes across
his back at Alexandria, Va, last week for
stealing pair of shoes.
The papers at Victoria, Australia, are
forbidden by law to take news from each 9TH
er within "a hours of its publication.
Savannah is luxuriating in asparagus and
green peas. The only vegetable our garden
ers are yet able to furnish us is horseradish.
Rev. Peter Cartwri ght, the well-known
Methodist minister and pioneer, has recover
ed, after all, and may live to preach a long
time yet.
The new management of the Union Pa
cific railroad has taken hold in earnest, re-
voklng all the passes issued by Tom Scott for
the first thing.
Sir Rounded Palmer's fee for preparing
the brief for the Geneva arbitration was 30
OOO gulneas, and for preparing the English
case 1000 guineas more.
Henry Hummell of Decatur, ILL.,, has
jar of Jelly which was made by Martha Wash
ington, the wife of George The Hummell
boys don't like jelly, or it would have evapo-
rated years ago.
"A cool Kentucky critic calmly observes of
Mrs. Moulton that "even as she sings she be-
comes TRANSPORTED before you, and her form
rises to rare and bewildering beauty that
scarcely Raphael himself were he alive again,
could adequately paint"
Father Taylor, the sailors minister. as
tonished divine who had refused to enter his
pulpit because Unitarian minister had been
in it, by falling on his knees on the pulpit
stairs and crying out, 80 Lord deliver us in
Boston from two things, bad rum and bigot-
ry; Thou knowest which is worst, for l
don'tr'
MIR. Lewis, the superintendent of the
Meriden Conn Britannia Works, has mott
lied all those men in their employ who sell liz
or that they must get out of the liquor bust
ness or out of their shop. This is a good
move in the couse of temperance, and well
worthy of imitation by other firms
The boy who hired himself to have his
teeth whitened every day for month by one
of those mountebanks who sell dentrifices on
the sidewalk is now comfortably situated
with an eminent dentist in the capacity of
1rlghtful example, without tooth in his
mead, and with hardly a socket left in which
to put one.
Many persons who wear reading glasses
are sorely annoyed at the difficulty of keeping
tnem IN their proper position on the nose.
10 all such it will be interesting to know that
rising young optican has devised a very in
genious expedient by which that end can he
accomplished. 1t consists simply in rubbing
the bridge of the nose with bees-wax
If teaspoonful of genuine ground coffee
be thrown into tumblerfnl of cold water. it
will float upon the surface of the water while
the substances usually used in aduterating
coffees will sink under the same circumstan-
ces. IT, when the suspected coffee is thrown
upon cold water, part sinks at once, the sam
PIE Is quite sure to be adulterated
GA young woman delegate in the recent
ONO Convention of women suffraoists
plumply said: ''For nv own mart 7 love mon
individually and collectively, better than wo-
men; and so, am sure, does every one of INV
sex, if they, like me, would utter their real
sentiments. am more anxious for mans o.
ovation and improvement than woman's. and
SO is every true woman"
The Pittsburg Gazzett says: eve are
no. sure, put still we think, that we we see
slsns when induce us to believe that the
New 0rk Tribune is now on the turn-tabla
end will before long be steaming merrily along
over the back track. If this be not the case
what does it mean by attackinga RoSton'
Clergyman who spoke disparagingly of Judas ?
1t says: GAS for Judas, what does the Rev
Fulton know about him, except that he
made great mistake, and that he most Bit
terly repented?''
"A few days since. as an outbound train
oh one hondout and Oswego IN. Y. railroa
ofPi at Shokan, the collector of the town
c TaSe W was on hand with posse of men and
cns AMI. 10 prevent the train from proceeding
any any t Inrther. The chain was passed around
Inc PACK e END OF the rear car, but before if
could be fastened to anything substantial e1le the
engineer OF the locomotive Was made aw sre
OF how matters stood, and he threw the tbrot
tie wide open and started the train fv with ttbo.
jump The effect on the collectors nosse
who had hold of the loose Indians who po' at,
tempted to capture a train on the Pacific
rood with lariat. 'N'