The Portland daily press., 1872-08-14


Humanitarianism has cropped out in
new form in Boston. Among the latest in
stitutions of that city of jubilees is a mend
ing and repairing society, composed of wo-
men, who undertake to sew on buttons, darn
stockings and perform other kindly services
for unprovided bachelors.
The highest refinement of cruelty has been
reached by Cincinnati butcher, who tied up
his daughter by the hands so that her toes
just touched the ground, and then smeared
her feet with molasses to attract flies.
Those much heralded young women in
New York, who sighed for saddle that was
not side saddle, did not appear in public on
Saturday, as announced. 1t is to be pre-
sumed their mas got home from the country
in season to admonish them.
The other day little boy who had cut his
finger ran to his mother and cried: ''Tie it
up, Ma; tie it up, quick, for the juice is all
running outv' The same urchin, one of the
late excessively hot days appealed to his
mother for help, saying: ''Ma, do fix me up,
for am leaking all over"
The insanity of ex-King George of Han
over, who thought he was dead, was almost
as absurd as that of some of our fossil politi-
clans who think they are alive.
DR.. Houard proposes to tell the tale of his
sufferings to the American people. Over
fura sslaof,1ra 1ou Oh Ia,
solicited the privilege of introducing him.
We shouldn't be at all surprised if the fact
that the tyrant's heel has been upon his ma
tive American neck were the means of put
ting some ten, fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars in this same Doctors pocket.
Small dogs had better not ''foor' much
with elephants. At Westport, Mass, we are
told, as the menagerie was going through the
streets, fierce canine made an assault on
the elephant. An eyewitness" says that in
about one minute the dog was "spread over
several yards of ground to about the thick
ness of sheet iron.''
A gentleman advertised for wife and re-
ceived answers from eight hundred and nine
ty-seven husbands, saying he could have
theirs. This is given as an illustration of the
value of advertising.
1t is said that green tarlatan dress con-
tains arsenic enough to kill man, and yet
men do not seem to be afraid to go near green
tarlatan dresses.
Scientific men are asking, "Are the Andes
disappearing?" As bearing on this question,
the Rochester Express remarks that one of
the smaller Andes, formerly very prominent,
has almost entirely gone out of sight, namely,
| Andy johnson, of Tennessee.
A little girl remarked to her mamma on
| going to bed, 81 am not afraid of the dark, !"
"No, of course you are not" replied her
mamma. 81 was little afraid once when 1
went to the pantry to get tart" "What
were you afraid of ?" asked the mamma. 81
was afraid / could not find the tarts."
They have a very effective way of settling
difficulties in Kentucky, but one which is so
liable to be misdirected and misused that it
can hardly be encouraged. A Mr.. Harper
had some difficulty with one Lisk, and settled
it by shooting him. This made trouble with
some friend of Lisk, and he induced Harper
to take glass of whiskey with large dose
of strychnine therein, and the drink settled
that difficulty. Perhaps the worst thing.
after all, about this way of adjusting misdn-
deistandings is that it doesn't put them
entirely at rest. There are apt to be surviv-
ing friends who will meddle and keep the
thing up.