The Portland daily press., 1873-04-30
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neokuk tIowa) has organized limited LA
y temperance society, with pledge Inot
" axe more than five drinks dav.
ueorSe Eliots husband !, so;d e. ho .ho
usiiest man in England: and H.r. chr;s,;.n
Andersen is reputed to be tho hor,o,;n., - n
Europe. ''''e'' III all
A New York Psychologist is al WORK -,
I pamphlet in which he essays to prove a.,
hydrophobia is nothing but "enotiona, IN.
sanity" and should be respected as such
An English firm advertses for 'Letters OF
Keats the poet. The proof-reader was
amazed to find "Litters of Kittens" on his
proof The mistake was natural enough;
Keats was devoted to the news.
A Cleveland woman rose so far superior to
sex as to fracture burglars skull with a
boot,jack, but delayed giving an alarm till she
could put up her back hair and tie intruder
had escaped.
Col. George T. Isbell, Kansas editor, has
abandoned the rural press for the cheese
press This way of putting it is preferable to
saying the cheese-press is mitier than the
PEN.
Ladies who understand the art of dressing
know how much the success of toilet de-
penas upon the accessories. AS Sam Weller
pf tba rNsoy ,,;o g.Tt 4, Al
ing as does it,
''The Golden Age'' is the title of the new
novel by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark
Twain. Il consider it," says the latter, "one
OF the most astounding novels that ever was
written. Night after night sit up reading 1t
over an lover again and crying"
When the last ''little event. in Ports
mouth, N. H., household was announced by
the doctor and nurse, the happy father was
only restrained from suicide by the reflection
thai he would leave twenty-five helpless half
orphans.
Alleging the inability Of cultivated gentle
men like Charles Francis Adams to lead the
masses, the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
''We need brilliantly educated rufian-a
heroic, statesmanlike, hgh-minded and hon.
est blackguard-a blatherskite with courage
and real genius for public business"
In Paris recently there were no less than
thirteen suicides in one day-fve of them wo-
men, from unfortunate attachments. When
women love without return, they take to
laudanum; when men do, they take to liquor.
Death cures one-drunkenness the other,
which is the exact difference between the
sexes.
Mrs. Mary Walker, of Denmark, Ne, has
set her military namesake an example of wo-
mans usefulness by making 254 coats and
forty-eight pairs of trowsers (not for her own
wear,) doing a large amount of knitting,
working for five weeks at hay harvesting, all
within a year and without neglecting her
housekeeping.
The editor Of the Church Journal is mus
cular Christian. In (dis)cussing those ''ill
conditioned, troublesome, intermeddling,
uncultured, purse-proud nuisances who un-
dertake to make fools of their rectors and
lord it over parish he suggests that The
right thing to do with them is to suppress
them. "When a rector finds such AN one
let him first, We say, try to convert him. If
he cannot be converted, then trample on
him, heavily and steadily, and keep it up until
he is quiet. 1t will be healthy exercise for
the rector, and especially healthy for the
man trampled.'' In order that the discipline
just suggested may be doubly salutary, it is
suggested that the rector ntone, while he
tramples, the dainna.ory clauses of the
AthanasiaL creed.