The Portland daily press., 1872-04-30
THE ESS
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 80, ,7s
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
A writer in the Saturday Reuiey recon-
mends adeliberate cultivation of lazness.
There are many hopeful candidates to be
found in this locality. *
Robert Collyer has made himself amena-
BILE to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals by his advice in fine autograph
album of distinguished people, to be found at
the Homeopathic fair. He says, Throw
physic to the dogs" Poor dogs!
Aperture for note paper, said to that be used
by the Queen of England, is made of powdered
starch, one half ounce; ottar of roses, ten
drops. Put this in bags and keep in the
desk with paper.
A New York society reporter has coined
the word ''naturalesque." The defense will
endeavor to prove incipient homicidal biblio-
mania.
Nothing so infuriates an editor-we speak
from experiences, to have a great loose
jointed galootstride noisly into his sanctum,
PICK up newspaper, rustic it for moment,
and then slam 1t down, creating an atmos-
pheric conclusion which scatters two hum
dred and seventy of his small clippings the
gleanings from seven. hundred and forty ex-
changesGinto the spittoon and waste basket
The editor who can keep his brows from cor
rugating, and repress the convulsiye contrae-
tlon of his biceps, at such time, is a spirit
less milksop, whom it were base fattery to
call asheep.-IndianipoH journal. d 'l.H
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Special correspondents were recently sent
by the London daily papers into Warwick, to
report on the struggle between master and
laborer. One of these, speaking of masters,
has done the following burst of s'eloquence to
order::" GAN their energies are being concen-
trated on stamping out this strange new por-
tent in the agricultural sky" A man who
stamps out portent" in the sky, must nee
essarily stand upon his head, whether that sky
be "agriculturap' or otherwise. a .t.r
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that John
Hays CLANS Breitmann' is rather a good
work. 1t is, but not half SO good as Wendell
Phillips Nasty letters. ..,..... ... 3. a
Mast has been elected an honorary menu
Der of the Pesth Academy of Fine Arts
Schurz, Greeley, Upton and the Tammany
victims probably regard the name of the
Academy very suitable, if it has many men,
bers like Mast. ga....s ...-
Bed bugs are called Norfolk Howards in
England, because gentleman named Buge
has petitioned Parliament to change his name
to Norfolk Howard.
The Chicago Erening Post, a notably
bright and sprightly paper, serves up one Of
the Cincinnati candidates thus:
| Charles Francis Adams is chiefly illustri-
Gus, as the Irishman said, "for that part of
him which is underground is, his an
cestors. He is can anomalous being" as
he puts it; so anomalous that, though he %
sixty-flve years old, no citizen of this country
knows which party he belongs to or belonged
to during the war, and if he were put on the
witness-stand he could not tell what his po-
litical principles have been during the forty
most eventful years in our history He is a
man of wide information, scholar, dream
er, writer; more meditative than practical
more fastidious than earnest; a historian rath-
er than thinker; dilettant rather than a
ieduer. he loves 10 dr1ft. be takes his
opinions secondhand, and holds them feebly.
By his timidity and inactivity as Minister to
England he mortally offended the Fenians,
who will be likely to remember it if the frenzy
of to-day shall make him candidate.
The Theo. Thomas troupe, while passing
Mount Vernon last week, advertised them
selves gratuitiously by singing mournful mel
| ody to the memory of the F.sof his C.
Mrs. Temperance Jewett, an aunt of the
late George Peabody, celebrated the anniver-
sary OF her one hundredth birthday at the
home of her daughter in New Hampshire, on
the 4th inst. The daughter is seventy-ive
years old.
An ancient and exciting epic is thus paro-
died to fit the times: ....r..
Ping Wing, the fireman's SON, -
Was the very worst boy in all Canton;
He stole his mothers picked MICE
And he threw the cat In the boiling rice
And he ate her up, and then says he,
me wonder where the NEW cat be!''