The Portland daily press., 1873-04-07

| some square-tOed prediction for he tasbions
OF our youth.-Burke.
never turn round in the street to see what
another giil wears, because you will ALWAYS
find her doing the same thing.
II often falls, In course of common life.
That right, long time is overborne Of wrong
through avarice or power or guile or strife,
mat weakens her party strong;
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
Spencer.
I'm Paris we can purchase knife for
sou, box of matches for sou, and roll of
bread for sou, and we forget that the first
discoverer of fire, the first s0wer of corn,
the first blacksmith, were ranked as gods."-
about.
Sortar, who was recently at a whist party,
when he proposed to go home, was asked to
stay little longer. 'Well," he replied, ''per-
haps may as well; my wife is probably al
ready as mad as she can be-
We are panied to notice that papers taking
our items and approprating them as their
own seek to palliate the theft by publishing
SOiuLuu vi EciiklOuS mlSCelduy. IllS may
look well enough in the eyes of heaven, but
it doesn't satisfy us.-Danbury Ne1s.
A trunk exploded in a baggage car at In
dlanapolis few days ago, seriously injuring
the individual who was handling it roughly.
All papers that circulate among railway en-
ployes please copy.
Agassiz is described as follows: '.His fig
ure is portly. His voice is full and rich. His
smile is genialty ITSELF He smiles not with
his lips alone, but with his merry brown eyes,
with his whole kind, expressive, beaming
face" Can South Bend beat this?
A number of orthodox men of wealth have
determined to publish a magazine in New
York which shall be entirely unobjectionable
in its theological tone. They intend that 1t
shall be free from the heresies and dangerous
theories which, they allege, are to be found
in all the monthlies.
John Van Dahm of Fort Wayne (says the
Cleveland Leader) was playing with a pistol
in his house, the other day, when it went off
and made an eyelet hole in his hip. If he
was named Jones he might be called a Jones
fool; ii his name was Smith he might be
called Smith fool; but unhappily his Is
another name.
The temperance cause in Kentucky has
been somewhat set back by the announce
ulent that one of the few water-drinkers in
that State has just discovered at the bottom
of his well the body of neighbor who dsap
peared four years ago; and the majority of
the people have resolved to stick to whiskey
and let well alone.
Most little boys are fond of nuts; but few
would care to swallow one whole, especially
when it was made of iron and screwed on a
bit of rod an inch and a half long and quar-
ter of an inch thick, as did little boy six
years old last week in Leicester, Vt. The
doctor isn't certain whether mild (d)wrench
will suffice to unscrew it.
Then his wife's mother next he, hapless soughte
For comforte in his strange calamitie;
AT my Whites ende am i, and cleane distraughte
Nor anie stay is to my GRIEF said he
'For that my wife knows not my house to rule
Nor to q needle will she condescende,
Sooner than goe in motley like foole
My coate bringe, and pray you 1t to mende."
Soc she the garment mended on the spot,
Yet did he goe away, and praised her not.
''How beautiful!'' said the tallest of Amer
can poets, regarding with delight the mosaic
cherubs (Raphaeps) on lady's sleeve but
tons, Chow beautifulr' ''What az pity" re-
piled the lady, mischievously, that you
poets are not always as good as these beauti-
full cherubs you praise so heartilyv' '.Ahr'
answered s., Il really think we might
be, if we were physically constructed in the
same way,-all head and wingsr'
Hattie Clayton, whose suicide, at Mont
gomery, has been reported by telegraph, did
| not die, as stated, because she was unable to
find employment, but because, according to her
| posthumous confession she was ''too proud
to do housework." Poor girl! 1t was sensi.
| tiveness that carried her off. Her rights had
been trampled upon by the iron heel of pov-
| erty. She had soul above brooms. She
was proud. She was unappreciated. We
shall miss her. And all that sort of thing.
| Since the introduction of the postal cards.
Calino daily sends off packets of them to the
provinces. One of his friends, yesterday,
said to him, ''Why, my dear boy, if you 90 in
that way, you will certainly ruin yourself
Ruin myself? How so? Don't you know
that letter sent to the provinces costs five
sous, while postal card costs only three
sous?" "To be sure do" swell, then
don't you see that make two sous on every
postal card l send; so that the more I send
the more make.'
A jackal who had pursued deer all day
! with unhaggiDg industry was about to 81 lie
him when an earthquake, which was doing 4
| little civil engineering in that part of the
country, opened broad chasm between him
and his prey. "Now here" said he. sls q
distinct interference with the laws of nature.
But II we are to tolerate miracles there is an
end to all progress" So speaking he endea-
vored to cross the abyss at two Jumps. His
tate would serve the purpose of an impressive
warning 1t 1t might be clearly ascertaned
but the earth having immediat, IL pinched to-
ligator is baffled.-Fables of Zambri, the Par
| see.
One of the boldest of German materialists
came to this country, last fall, and nas no,
attracted the attention he anticipated. A ci
tation from one of his recent letters to the
Gartenlaube amusingly illustrates the vaporv
generalizations that, in some circles, nov
pass current fol science. Speaking of ar
evening party, at which he noticed that tn,
ladies in the round dances moved with ,
more gliding step than their sisters in Ger
many, he finds scientific explanat on of th,
fact in those laws ofrace which gave the In
dian his crafty, silent, football, as he stole OF
the slunbering village in order to murder tb,
innocent inhabitants.