The Portland daily press., 1872-05-31

A Darwinian has applied to the bishops to
be appointed as member of the committee
forrevising the translation of the Scriptures.
he sent in the following version of couple
of verses from the Psalms, as specimen Of
his powers: "My protoplasm was not hidden
from thee when, far back in the Silurian
epoch, I foated on the sea frilled and floun-
ced Medusa. Yea, in ages still more remote,
before differentiation had begun, thine eyes
did see my sarcode, and in thy thought my
limbs took form before they were evolved"
Thomas Carlyle, the great English author,
has come out in favor of prohibitory liquor
law for Great Britain. ad
At recent eat show at the Crystal Palace
DR.. Hogg was one of the judges, and it is ex-
pected that DIR. Cat will act in similar ca
pacity during the coming porcine exhibition.
Among the "drunk and disorderly" in a
New Orleans station-house last week appear
ed the name of Horace Greeley. Is this a
deep-laid scheme to conciliate the Southern
vote?
A very interesting case of the successful
TRANSMISSION of blood from one person to anoth-
er is described by Professor Judgeson, of Ber-
lin, in a recent number of a medical journal
published in that city. His patient was a
man twenty-eight years of age, who had been
poisoned by phosphorus, having taken So
luton of the ignition mass of eight bundles
of matches on the 9th of December. On the
having been excited by champagne, trans
fusion of $50 cubic centimetres of blood, which
had just been taken from three persons in
good health, was effected, into vein of the
arm, 500 cubic centimetres of the patients
own blood being at the same time taken from
an artery. An Improvement in his condition
at once set in, and he was able to leave his
bed early in March. - g.,
The four-legged duck has made its way to
the front; this year it is in Florida.
A fashion reporter describes some of the
toilets at recent party at Cheyenne: The
belle of the evening was Miss W. She
dressed faultlessly in a linsey-woolsey of the
palest shade of cafe au lait cut en- train and
trimed with Chicago relics. Miss H-wore
polonaise made of blue jeans, postilioned
in the back, cut uis-a-uis with de trop bias,
and gored in the most sanguinary manner"
A short time back the question was asked,
Why do men marry?' The following re-
ply was not less singular than true: "Some
young men marry for dimples, some ears,
some noses; the contest, however, generally
lies between the eyes and the hair The
mouth, too, is occasionally married, the chin
not so often"
Fanny Fern writes, with reference to the
expensive toys now in vogue: "The doll OF
my bib-days was a crooked-necked squash,
with towel for dress and numerous pro-
geny of little cucumbers for babies and / was
just as happy as, and great deal better con-
tented than, the little girl of to-day with q
hundred-dollar Paris doll"
The Louisville Courier-Journal has st al
patience with d.. Livingstone, and, in allu-
sion to an expedition now searching for him
in the wilds of Africa, it calculates: ''For oul
part, we can't see the use of spending somucf
time and money to find Q. man who can't bt
hired to stay found, and who is never happy
EXCEPT when he is lost.
1t is not possession but acquisition which
gives men pleasure and sense of power; they
observe sooner small happiness, new t.
them, than great happiness which is DID,
Tdine. Hy
| There is female patient in the Stockton
| (Cal.) asylum, whose insanity was caused by
tight lacing. A brute of an editor in giving
this. saws: GAN women who lace tightly art
insane-the only difference is that this one
was found out. The others will be in goot
time"
very touching little story is told in tn,
Hartford Times by gentleman who knows
the facts. A charming young lady of Hart
ford, whose generous heart was equal to thu
task of loving any number of handsome
young men, succeeded in bewitching ten o
the most promising of the entire lot, and wa
engaged to all of 'em at the same time
She knew not which to take, and at last, de
termined to settle the question, held a coun
Gil with a sister of one of the Young men
She would fain have all ten, but the law fol
bade. Finally she chose the brother of he
young friend; but, alas for her hopes, tn
sister told the story. Nine of the victim
living in Hartford held a council, and agree
to abandon the field, and to telegraph TO Tn
tenth, who lived in New Haven. This wa