The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-09

With Tanner ballots armed brave boys
March! to the polls in blue.
Hurra! for the boys in blue, Hurra! sc,
Think of the CORY field, brave boys,
OF three hundred thousand slain;
Methinks hear them, pleading, say:
Have we died for you in vain?
Hurra for the boys in blue, &c.
Then raise your standard higher, boys,
And swear by their lowly graves,
You'll never disgrace your arms boys,
Nor the blood of the fallen braves.
Hurra for the boys in blue &c.
Gossip and Gleanings
An honored soldier says the desertions
from the Republican party at the present
time, are like the caving in of army officers
and public men in favor of the Confederacy
in the early part of the Rebellion-they in
dicated that the fight would be hard one
and nerved loyal people up to their full duty.
Proper-Minded Beadle to Forward Young
Man-"Come, young gent, you're not wanted
in here. There's wedding coming off,
Forward Young Man to Proper-minded Bea-
IL
don't let me in, for Pm the bridegroom"
Collapse of P. NJ. B.
Judging from reports of people who have
gone down to Saybrook, Conn, that is just
the place for those to go who want active ex-
ercise. The mosquitoes outnumber the sum-
mer visitors, hundred to one, and each
hundred is constantly paying importunate at
tentiOns to each one. One man, of statistical
turn of mind, reports that in drive of a
quarter of mile, he positively and by actual
count killed $40 of the little pests.
The poisonous iced cream, which is so fire.
quently mentioned in the papers, is made OF
corn-starch, French clay and poisonous color
ing matter. The pleasing intoxication of in
dulging in this enticing dish is thus described:
First dyspepsia, then scrofulous eruptions,
eruptions accompanied by loosening of the
teeth and dropping out of the hair. After
this, a deadly lassitude seizes upon the frame
of the unfortunate victim, and insanity or
hopeless idiocy ends the sufferers career.
Paris correspondent relates story which
may be taken as an illustration of sublime
impudence. He states that gentleman
walking with a little boy on the banks of the
river, the child slipped over the bank into the
river, and would certainly have been drowned
but for the courage of man who was fishing,
who jumped in and saved the boy. The
father thanked him cordially, but asked him
if he would add to the obligation, as he was
already wet through, by swimming for the
the boys cap.
The convicts in the Michigan State Prison
are to be subjected to course of lectures,
unless some competent tribunal shall protect
them by deciding the proposed scheme to be
"cruel and unusual punishment and hence
prohibited by the constitution.
The blue-tinted writing paper is again fash
ionable.
The Spectator declares that ''nobody loves
his dentist''
Speaking of the sloth Sydney Smith says,
"He moves suspended, rests suspended,
sleeps suspended, and, in fact, passes his life
in suspense, like young clergyman distantly
related to a bishop.'
Good time, now, to get out a complete po-
litical letter writer, pocket size.
A Cincinnati wife left her husbands board
but took the bed with her. He is puzzled to
know how to word a legal notice of warning
to prospective creditors.
Prince Bismarck travels in luxurious
deadhead railway car, so constructed that it
can be made to run over any line of rails,
and which has the right to circulate freely
over any railroad in Germany. 1t may be
attached to any train, or drawn to any sta
ton that the prince may indicate, and carry
as many passengers as he may choose to ac-
company him. 1t was present from the
railroads of the empire.
Mr.. John Mullens of Hancock county,
Tennessee, was not Only struck by lightning,
the other day. but buried by it, being literally
driven into the soft earth of the field in
which he was at work. The local paper
which tells the story says that the shock was
severe and the man knocked senseless, but
aside from tearing his clothing, and shoes to
fragments, he received no great injury.
Thackeray speaks of ''the delightful leaf
Of Havana" and declares that cigars beget
quiet conversation, good humOr and medita-
ton.
A Baltimore paper, in ''speciaP' on cen1-
teries, announces that an undertaken has ga
spacious and elegant vault decorated with
art and taste" Creditable to the reporter
and consoling to the residents of the vault.
An Ohio paper puts the credulity of its
readers to the test by telling them of hog
that was imprisoned under haystack for
nine months without food or water, and yet
came out alive and squealing.
The Tribune says: "Senator Easement is
the authority for the statement that Greeley
will carry Lake county, O." Anybody can
see through such authority as that.
There is more truth than poetry in the
following line from an advertisement: 'sBabies
after having taken one bottle of my soothing
syrup will never cry any more"
A man out West turned States evidence,
and swore that he was member of a gang
of thieves. By-and-by they found the roll of
actual members, and accused the man of
swearing falsely. 81 was member" said
the man, 'T'-happy thought was an
honorary member"
Nasby at Home.
The HOME OF NAsBY-How He LIVES
AND WoRKs-A Pen AND INK PORTRAIT
OF THE PARsON.
Correspondence of the New York Times
The city of Toledo is celebrated in current
history as being the residence of Petroleum
V. Nasty, Postmaster of the Confederate
Cross Roads, whose modest residence bears
on its door-plate the less widely known name
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