The Portland daily press., 1872-08-03

ragged school, who had been in the hands of
the acrobats, could not make satisfactory prog
ress in his studies unless he was allowed to 90
into corner now and then, and stand ON his
head three or four minutes.
little girl of eight or ten Summers, being
asked what dust was, replied that sit was
mud with the juice squeezed out"
The New York Sun quotes extracts from
DIR. Livingstone's letters, especially the par
asraph about the African women, and comes
to the conclusion that eff the great man
whom the children of this latter day have
been brought up to regard as one of this
worlds truest heroes could pen such words
as these, it is but charity to believe him
mad"
surgeon says, in recently published
work-and who can contradict him ?-that
'the thalami optici are the essential ganglia
of the senstry tracts, as the corpora starlata
are of the motor"
AT late funeral, the undertaken arranged
for the husband and mother-in-law to ride in
the same carriage. 'sMust p said the broken
hearted man, ''must ride with that awful
woman?" ''Well if must, must" said
the stricken man, "but to ride with her, de-
stroys all my pleasure ON this OCCASION"
Wedding cake ever so many thousand years
old is common thing, you know, but a we'd
dino ehaaSa fb baf ic a. 20
Mrs. Marvin Of Westport, Ct, has the rem
nants of one forty-six years of age. Her
generosity is displayed in allowing her visitors
to taste mite, when they call on her we'd
ding anniversary.
A seasonable theatrical program began with
''cool as cucumber" after which came s'The
Sea of Ice," and concluded with 'sNothing
to Wear" During the evening the orchestra
introduced fresh airs.
A Georgia negro jumped from an express
train to recover his hat. The hat is all right.
A woman in Columbia, Pa, noted for her
'Jawing' propensities, dislocated her jaw
bone, recently, while making a violent attack
upon her husband. She could neither speak
nor shut her mouth, but remained with
tongue hanging out and eyes nearly starting
from their sockets till the arrival of the sur
geon, who came, the husband thought, sooner
than was necessary. .-
Madame Arabella Goddard has so far iden-
titled herself with Republican institutions
and the spirit of our forefathers as to place
her son in the dry-goods house of Jordan,
Marsh & Co., Boston, to learn that method
of accumulating property.
1t is reported that a man was killed some
where in the country few days since, "while
crossing the rails" 1t only shows what an
excellent thing is kindness. If that man had
shown consideration for the feelings of dumb
things, and conciliated, instead of crossing,
those rails, he might be alive to read this para
graph. Even the best steel rails are not in
variably of the best of tempers: take our ad-
vice and never crooss them.
A Georgia editor says that twenty-four
heathen Chinese walked into his sanctum the
other day and through the medium of an in
terpreter, paid for twenty-four subscriptions
to his paper. The editor wondered what
they wanted of an English paper, and he was
informed that they took it for the pictures
in it, the PAPER having Costar's rat cut, ca
tarrh cut, guano trade mark and an UNI re-
la picture.
little girl Of five summers was the happy
recipient of velvet cloak, of which she was
very proud. One day, soon after, she was
discussing her dresses, their beauty, style,
etc., when her mother, by way of nipping her
vanity in the bud, said, my dear, do you not
know there are more important things to talk
about than dresses?" Quickly she replied,
''Oh, yes, mamma; velvet cloaks.''
The San Francisco papers are happy be-
cause Josie Mansfield has bought a house in
that city.
The praise of Charles Summer to-day by
men who have reviled him for twenty years
illustrates his words, that conversions are
always welcome" But the question arises,
who has been converted?
A Western paper describes the manner of
love-making practiced among some of its
readers, in the following paragraph: ''The
young people who were seen feeding each
other dove fashion, over gate post, the
other evening, had better be little more
cautious in futtre" ..-..---
The Cleveland Leader makes distressing
ly funny story out of family affair in that
city. The wife purchased one of the Greeley
fans, and took it home, where she happened
to leave it on her husbands pillow, when she
dropped to sleep. The poor fellow came
home from his cups and saw by the side OF
his wife ''the features of bald-headed, gray
haired man, whose flushed face besokened
guilt and poor liquor" Angered to despe-
ration, he pulled out his revolver and fired
two shots through the thing, when his wife
woke up in terror; and he, seeing his ridicu-
lous situation, endeavored to make her believe
that he understood it at the first. But there
was sewing circle the next day.
Outfits prepared for children who are taken
to the seaside or mountains for the summer
months, combine sensible and fanciful gar
ments this season. Grenadines, foulards and
the silken fabrics, so easily torn, and that are
ruined forever when once soiled, are LETT at
home, while washing suits, substantial linens,
cambrics and piques are provided in abun-
dance.
Kodama Ia real prince) and the other Jap
anese students at Williams College are MAX
ing remarkable progress. They are thorough
students. During the recent intolerably hot
weather their chamber windows at night were
always Illuminated far into the small hours,
and the poor fellows could be seen tirelessly
at work with brain and book, the fan mean
while piled with utmost vigor.
This is the way Theodore Tilton clippers
about Susan B. Anthony: ''She alighted,
dove like, in the midst of the Cincinnati
convention, and found no resting place for
her pretty feet in that surging flood. She
came down upon Baltimore, like an eagle de-
scending from her mountain eyrie to snatch
a kid from the flock, but was scared away
with not so much as one little eve lamb to
flesh her beak upon. At Philadelphia, how
ever, it was otherwise; there she and her sis