The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-13
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, MAY IS, 1879.
News, Gossip and EDITORIAL Notes.

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News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
Though Dickens liked dogs and children,
he had no ear for music. -tFIa-L
Christine Nilsson was at the bar of a New
Brunswick police court last week, charged
with drunkenness. d t1a -.
President Finney, of Oberlin College, has
started out on lecturing tour against Free
Masonry, and asserts that he will not stop
speaking until every Masonic lodge in the
country has disbanded. If the Free Masons
are really the benevolent people they pretend
to be, they will disband and save us from the
Finneyan infiction. Or, perhaps, they vii
assassinate him. s..
Harmless mirth is the best cordial against
the consumption of the spirits; whereupon
testing is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not
III quantity, quality or season.-Fhiler. ..
The report that Gounod, the composer. is
an inmate of a lunatic asylum near Paris is
denied on good authority. 1t was put in cir
culation by the Paris Patrie, journal not
noted for its accuracy. adf -11s .lg'
Kaiser Wilhelm is trying to set himself up
In Ems-the composing effect of the mineral
waters, you know.-7gpographical Joke.
.o A lady in this city who is engaged to a sew
en-footer calls it ''drawing a long beau"
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Answer to respondent-''Y Young Cler-
gymen'-It will be safer before uttering any
blasphemous words in the pulpit to preface
them with the phrase with reverence be it
said," as some of the older parishioners may
be of the over sensitive sort. H9s
The nomination of Mr.. Greeley is the hap
piest event of the year. 1t delights all his
friends, and it tickles all his enemies. The
Grant men chuckle over it as a capital Joke;
the hard-headed Democrats, who never re-
member to forget what they should forget to
remember, are convulsed by its ludicrous-
ness; the free-traders are merry at finding
their old opponent on a platform they helped
to make; the young and progressive Demo
Gratis are elated with hope, and the leaders of
the Administration are wreathed in smiles
Golden Age. l8
Mr.. Warner says the best thing he saw in
Brock, little Dutch town, was a traditional
Ducthman walking on the high bank of
canal, with soft hat, short pipe, and breeches
that came to the armpits above, and little
below the knees, and were broad enough
about the seat and thighs to carry his no
doubt numerous family. He made a fine fig
ure against the sky. 81
A Troy musical composer is called C. Nor
timer Whiskey. He was not the author of
Coming Through the Rye"
The Eastern Unitarians have raised fund
of $94, 900 for their brethren in Chicago, one
half of which goes to Robert Collyer's church
of the Unity. ,,... s5.si.i.ss
William Seibert is at large and has produc-
ed poem commencing: ~
"When struggling 'ganst the stormy waves
OF life's Hl-bearing sea, Hl
The fragrance of thy loving smile
VIII watt new strength to me-"
If the female alluded TO doesn't cease by
her perfumed snicker to Watt new strength to
this disreputable swimmer and let him drown,
she is no true friend to humanity. 10 =
Mr.. Alfred II. Love of Philadelphia is the
President Of the Universal Peace Union, and
well does he deserve the place. At the ami
versary OF the organization in New York, the
other day, he severely reproved halting
member who had an idea that If he were at
tackled by an assassin, he would be justified
in resisting, and said that the only proper
way would be to let the assassin do his dead
ly word without resistance. He said that if
he were a a'tacked in this way, he ''would de-
liver up his miserable life at once, and by the
beauty of his death instil into the breast of
the assassin pure and noble thoughts" Oh!
Mr.. Phillips says the cold water cure was
practised in the time of Augustus. If we
may believe the Hebrew annalist it dates
back 1000 years beyond the Christian Era,
when it was tried on a very extensive scale,
and with exterminating effect.
1t is dangerous to invite an author to read
his compositions just before dinner-time.
There is no knowing what may happen.
Murray, the great publisher, once asked Frere
to read some of his verses, and the two got so
excited over the composition and comments
that dinner was ready before either were
aware of the hour. Mr. Murray asked his
friend to dine, very unusual thing with him
whereupon Mr.. Frere excused himself on the
plea that he had been married that morning,
and had already overstayed the time when he
had promised his bride to be ready for their
journey. s...- .,. .-r
Victor Hugo says of the Paris gamin
'There are two things of which he is the
Tantalus, which he is always wishing for,
but never attains-the overthrow of the gov
ernent, and to get his trowsers mended.'
A touching incident is reported from Chat
tanooga. Au utter stranger called on a re-
spectacle farmer, last week, and asked him If
his house had not been robbed during the
war; The farmer replied that 1t had. 'I,o
said the stranger, "was one of marauding
party that did it. / took a little silver lock-
et." "That locket," said the farmer. burst
ing into tears, chad been worn by my dear,
dead child" Here it is," replied the stranger,
visibly affected; 81 am rich let me make res
titution; here are $40 for your little son." He
gave the farmer $50 bill and received $50 in
change. He then wrung the farmers hand
warmly and left. The farmer has since dried
his tears and loaded his shotgun. The $50
bill was bad.
Catgut is so called because it is manufac-
tured from the intestines of sheep.
An Illinois newspaper has suffered from
three libel suits to the amount of 35 cents.
Professor Young, of Dartmouth College, is