The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-26

AeSSoAdAOooC
Her true ploprietie she thus discovers,
Loves her contemners and contemns her lovers
-Broarne
A Baltimore blasphemer was fined $50, the
other day. PROBABLY every State in the
Union has laws against swearing, but it is
believed there have been numerous instances
in which the Ienalty has not followed the
offence.
1t is not improbable that Colonel Blanket
Duncan will make Texas bis future home.
The rumor creates considerable enthusiasm
in Kentucky, but Texas is yet to be heard
from.
The report that Sam Cox had donated his
back pay to his parents, because they are
orphans, is confirmed. This is much nobler
than appropriatiug it to purchase croquet
sets for DR.. Livingstone's African relatives.
Thou mayst as well expect to grow strong
er by always eating, as wiser by always read
| ing. Too much Overcharges nature and
turns more into disease than nourishment.
1t is thought and digestion which makes
books serviceable, and gives health and vigor
to the mind.-Faller
| The passengers on recently-arrived steam
er were relieved on learning that a. certain
live invoice consigned to Mr.. Barnum was
only small anaconda They thought, all
the way out, that it was a great boa
According to the London Newspaper Press
Directory for 1873 all England has only
eighty-six daily newspapers; Scotland,
| twelve; Ireland, twenty-four, and Wales, two.
Yet this is large increase over 1S63-ten
years ago-when the United Kingdom issued
only seventy-two daily journals, against one
hundred and twenty-six ten years later.
A fond father IN Burlington growled like
dog with sore head because physician
charged $40 for removing a kernel of corn
from his sons ear, where it had lodged. He
said coffin only cost 81. and the corn would
have sprouted soon and might have been
pulled up by the roots.
IfHerbert Spencer's view be correct, the
"Tasmanian devip' is entitled to conspicu-
Gus niche in our Social Pantheon, because of
its unconquerable "cussedness." Perhaps
the principle Of this apotheosis may explain
the enthusiasm with which their constituents
turn out to receive the home-returning Mo-
biiers.
Philadelphia, not satisfied with the mortu-
ary possibilities of the ordinary ''non-explo-
sive," has invented combination burning
fluid, and now the local columns of the news
papers are quite lively. The present average
is one old lady per day, but it is thought this
rate will be materially increased when the
frisky stuff becomes better known to the pub
lie.
An Ohio schoolmaster having had occasion
to administer to one of his pupils the gentle
chastisement which forms an essential fea-
ture of Western education, the father of the
culprit paid vengeful visit to the academy
during recess, and-directing his son to lock
the door on the outside--"went for'' the ped
agogue with chair, which he used in any
thing but chary manner. The only thins
the poor teacher had to defend himself with
was pen-knife with blade not more than
eight inches long; but with this insignificant
weapon and the consciousness of rectitude he
was enabled to go on with his afternoon class
es as soon as the pieces of his assailant had
been swept up and taken to the hospital in a
wheelbarrow.
"How doth the little busy bee?" inquiries
DIR. Watts. It doth very much indeed at Los
Angeles, where there exists at this moment
the largest hive in the world. 1t is in a fis-
sure of rock, the opening of which is sew
enteen feet wide. and the depth of which is
100 feet. Innumerable swarms of bees have
made this cavern their home, and have accu-
mulated enormous quantities OF honey; it is
calculated that there must be many thousands
of tons of it. The inhabitants Of the coun-
try have more than once tried, although the |
approach to the fissure is difficult, to drive |
away the bees and take possession of their |
treasure, but they have always been repulsed |
with loss. We cannot but think that the |
tame surrender of so magnificent prize as |
the wax and honey contained in hive 100 |
feet deep, shows a lamentable want of enter |
prise in the population of Los Angeles, and |
are disposed to suggest that they should call
in foreign aid.