The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-02

BuenOs Ayres lady was recently preserv-
ed from assassination by the trifing eircum-
stance that there was so much superfuous
flesh around her heart that an unusually
large stiletto was unable to penetrate it.
The Young Mems Christian association of
st. Paul have undertaken to supply the rail-
way stations in that city with good reading
matter for the benefit of waiting passengers.
The London Times notices the existence in
England of sect of sun-worshippers. At the
hour of dawn, on every 21st day of June,
about three dozen persons gather at Stone
henge and perform mysterious rites in honor
| of the "God of day." 20 ..5g .sr-au
A man in Richmond has worn the same
pnir Of linen pantaloons forty-nine summers,
and he announces that during that time they
have been IN fashion seven times.
The Jesuits of Berlin have long been an
noyed by the pointed attacks of the German
comic paper Kladderadatsche, and have re-
solved to try the efficacy of opposing ridcule
with ridicule To that end steps have been
taken to establish comic paper under the
auspices of the order.
The editor of an Iowa paper who went
westward on big dead-head excursion re-
Gently, writes home that he got 5000 miles
above the level of the sea near Cheyenne;
from which another Iowo editor infers tnat
the Pullman cocktails must have been awfully
elevatirg. -.-.-4... ..sH
The mechanics in the shops of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad company are
now paid by the hour, while the engineers
and other train men are paid according to
| the number of miles they run. The plan is
said to be successful and satisfactory to all
! parties. .. ...
| An editor in Victoria, Australia, says:
'"The people in this region have become so
virtuous and wel[bshayed, that it is impossi-
BILE for us to make an inseresting daily paper.
We hear that shipload of convicts is on the
way to our virtuous port, and we look for
greater activity in our local department as
soon as its passengers get fairly ashore"
| Here is an odd letter found in the pocket of
a young girl who committed suicide BY drown
ing near Swinbon, England, the other day:
"My Dear Mother: / have been and
| drowned myself because would not stand to
be put upon for nothing At all through Illness
Please to meet me in paradise.
! LOUISA LoNG.' "
That "please to meet mo in paradise" is
nearly as polite as the epitaph placed upon
his wife's tombstone by man named Kemp.
| She once was mine, ..a
| But now, o Lord, ...
| her to thee resign, .. ID" .1
And remain, your obedent, humble servant,
-aH f .f'I ROBERT KEMP.
A deer ran into a bayou to escape party
of Georgia hunters, when he and the two
hounds that followed him had desperate
fight with two altgators, who finally gobbled
up the whole lot and slid away from the CORY
waters, with the best meal they had captured
FOR many day. a7HW EI
A Detroit girl, arrested for theft, has been
acquitted, because she never heard tell of the
Bible nor the Ten Commandments, though no
other city would consider that virtue suf-
ficient to balance her crime.
A Kansas City widow rejected a suitor the
OTHER day. The forlorn lover revenged HIM
self by getting the widows little son dead
drunk.
The great Richard Wagner Festival, at Bal
rsuth, has been postponed till 1874. Finan-
cial difficulties are the cause
/
The Emperor William is the highest Free
mason in Germany. Next comes his son, the
crown-prince.
The last descendant of the celebrated Spi-
noza lives at present in Berlin, in humble cir
cumstances. sf.Ft '- B f.i
The robbery of coach of the Csloahdo
stage company near Denver last week, was
managed in business-like manner. Two
armed men stopped the coach and demanded
the treasure box of Wells, Fargo & Co.,
which fortunately contained only about $1,000
in gold dust. As there was no key and no
means of breaking the box open the robbers
said they would leave the box by the road
side where it could be found next day, and
departed, without offering to molest the four
passen gers, who had no means whatever of
defending themselves. 8 e
Edward Gibbons, a st. Louis fireman, was
struck on the Fourth of July, on the head
with some hard substance, and afterward felt
stingiug sensation, and noticed blood ooz-
ing from the wound. He dressed it, but paid
no further attention to it, supposing he had
been struck by a pebble. Two weeks after,
he felt severe pain in his head, and called
upon doctor relative to it. An examination
of the spot showed some hard substance be-
meath the skin, and on cutting the wound
open a smallsized fattened bullet was ex-
tracted above the right temple, to the great
surprise of Gibbons. Probably the bullet had
spent its force before striking the man.
The notorious Alderman Bill McMullen of
Philadelphia was shot in bar room few
nights since, and the New York Herald soon
printed beautiful obituary of the bar-room
chief The obituary is in the easy, flowing
style of the Herald, extols Bills good points,
and deplores his bad ones; is a very good
piecs for little boys to read no desire to reach
the eminence attained by the late lamented
(?) etc. 1t is correct as to punctuation and
grammar and is in many respects model
obituary, but there is one little fact which the
Herald seems to have overlooked. Bill Nc
Mullen isn't dead yet, and will have the pleas
ure Of reading this first-class notice himself.
THE LUXURIOUS CLOWN.
l thought had the mind mankind to school,
Among the wise hoped to shine star;
Whereas it is my lot to play the fool,
And holloa, "How dye do?" and "Here we arel'
; Ayl "How dye do?" That Is net much to say,
Regarded with superficial view,
For every fool knows how he does to-day;
But hsw dye do tomorrow? Tell me, you.
And "Here we are!" Yes, here Indeed we are;
But we were not here once. Where were we then .