The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-12

anybody could be happy with such names
got married; but St. Louis paper calls it
the ''clandestine wedding of two SOULS
There is newspaper out West which cele-
brated Washington's birthday by declaring
tits every issue to be daily illustration of
the Observation-Disclosures story"
Alas (quod she) behold each pleasant greene
VIII now renew his sommer's liuery:
The fragrant flowers which haue not been scene
The tender buddes, whom colde hath long kent In.
VIII spring and sproute, as they do now begin.
- -Gascoione
The north-wind is full of courage, and puts
the stamina of endurance into a man, and it
probably would into woman too if there
were series of resolutions passed to that eff
fect.-Wdrner
An Iowa speculator has stocked large
farm entirely with geese with view to ulti-
mate feather-beds, which he thinks will an
ser better than any other investment in that
climate.
Another exhibition of the development of
woman. One in Baltimore has provided her
self With two hundred pairs of stockings aud
an exchange is confident she intends to or
ganize hose company.
1t Is observed that the colored folks still
regard Charles Sumner as their Moses. We
incline to think, however, that their regard
for him is the regard of an affectionate people
for Moses in ruins
The London Publishers Circular poin IS
out the fact that 'many of the clergy, hav-
ing much leisure and some literary taste, are
very anxious to escape from theology alto
gether, and are exceedingly industrious in
writing for the periodicals"
Louise Muehlbach has just published a new
historical novel, under the title ''The Thirty
Years War" Louise Otto's new novel
bears the title ''Rome in Germany" and
Paul Heyse's forthcoming novel, "The Chill
dren Of the World.''
The reporters are rather more alert for a
dogfght than a pathological convention. 1t
must be that the good deeds of the world
! outnumber the bad in any given day; and
what good reflex action it would have on
society if they could be more fully reported
than the bad.-Warner.
Rural papers severely condemn the con-
duct of ''the hens that are standing around
barn-yard doors doing nothing while eggs are
selling al fifty cents dozen," and suggests
that, although purely a lay question, it is one
in which the clergy might well test the eff
cacy of prayer.
After the raging storme that breakes the ships
The sea again indes calme, and waves are stille;
After the cloudes past that did eclipse
The sunne his lighte, he shines on everie hilie;
When tired houndes and hunters doe give over
The chase, the hare sleepes soundle in her cover:
Soc after wares are done, then MEME doe fnde
How sweete is Peace, and life Of quiet minde-
More than nine hundred feeble churches
have been assisted from the Loan fund which
and which has now increased to nearly $780,
900 by the liberal subscriptions of large
number of laymen throughout the coun-
try.
The publication Of Tyndalrs lectures will
be somewhat later than was intended, since
it has been decided to print in an appendix
the brilliant addresses at the farewell dinner
in New York, and thus make it a complete
memorial Of the great scientists visit to thi $
country. The book may be expected early
in March. W it
The Baptist Year Book for 1873 gives the
statistics of the Baptist Chnrch as follows:
In the United States there are 1853 associa-
tions, 1920 churches, Il, ,S9S ordained min
listers and 1856, ,232 members. The Sunday
school statistics show 9,412 schools, 653, ,742
scholars. The aggregate contributions re-
ported are $4,926, ,427.04. There are 40 peri
odicals, of which are German, Welsh and
/ French. There are theological seminaries,
"a colleges and universities, and 81 academies
with over 500 instructors and 1900 students,
A mild and affectionate wife in Lancaster
overheard an acquaintance remark that her
up for him that night, and when ne came
home demanded to know if he had been
spending his time again with Loo. The un-
suspecting husband admitted that he had,
when, without giving him time to explain,
she went for him with fire shovel. The
husband does not exactly remember how the
interview ended, but he could never convince
his wife that loo was game of cards. and
always plays euchre now and gets home be.
fore ten O'Clock.
from the Danbusy News.l
The national pair O. docs-puh. docs and
Modocs: A frank course sustains one and and
abates the other. oA' "nu
Inc private receptions in Washington are
.pecomlng so cosmopolitan in their character
tnat those giving them are obliged to adorn
tnelr parlors with the well known motto:
beware Of pickpockets."