The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-05
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1873
Gossip and GIeanings.

A newly-arrested indianapolis criminal who
had "reporterphobla," placarded his cell door
with "Don't know anything"
We paint our lives in fresco. The so,, .nd
fusie plaster of the moment har,,ens nnSar d.
every stroke of the brush into eternal roclr
Stirling.
By the capture of Khiva, it is said, Russia
commands the Oxus. This looks ominious to
the canine Latin scholar. Will not the COM
mand Of the Oxus lead to that of the Bos-
phorus?
"What shall / give my boy to make him
honored and respected ?" writes an affection
ate father. Education and moral precepts
were once required to accomplish this pur-
pose, but diamond pin now covers the
ground.
Still another lawyer has brought suit against
Laura Fair for his little bill in defending her
in the Crittenden case. 1t would have been
much cheaper for her to have been hung on
the first verdict.
A two column "code of honor, being the
rules for the government of hostile meetings
between gentlemen" is being published in
many papers. Next will come the murderer's
Complete Handbook, or the Guide to Gore"
Mr.. Proctor, the English astronomer, who
is to lecture us, must be phenomenon of a
new type. An English critic calls him a
''perfect glutton for work without an idle
nerve in his whole frame," We have had
lecturers of many kiEds, but nothing exactly
of this Sort
There is no creature more fatal than your
pedant; safe as he esteems himself, the terri
blest issues spring from him. Human crimes
are many; but the crime of being deaf to
Gods voice, of being blind to all but parch-
ment and antiquarian rubbish, when the
Divine handwriting is abroad in the sky
certainly, there is no crime which the Supreme
Powers do more terribly avenge. Carlyle.
The treasury department has decreed that
persons sending for public documents must
hereafter forward stamps to prepay the posi-
age. But this won't have any effect on the
circulation of these standard works. The
American people viii have the patent Office
reports, whatever the price.
Alexander Saint Clair Abrams, of Atlanta,
Ga, feels ''neither veneration nor affection
for flag from the folds of which the blood
Of two hundred thousand Southern men is
dripping" We are sorry for Alexander
Saint Clair Abrams, and suppose that any
emotions Of which he is capable are wholly
absorbed in his contemplation of his name
Louisville has unwittitngly committed itseli
to grand temperance reform, by voting to
send its drunks home, instead of to the
lookup. Not even the most confirmed ine-
briates require second treatment. They
generally come out about the third day, q
little more bald, with scared look about tn,
eyes that tells of the Christening influences O
good Christian home.
Cincinnati, fearing that many species O
Western fauna will soon be totally extermin
ated, especially as regards the reptile order
proposes to establish geological garden will
a complete collection of snakes and things
We would suggest that the same end might b
attained with less trouble and expense by fit
ting up hall with empty cages and furnish
| ng each visitor with glass OF native whis
kew