The Portland daily press., 1873-03-29

lnuluerenee 1S no more;
The future brightens on our sight,
For on the past hath fallen light
gn That tempts us to adore. asu
q 5Ha sgro ra Ho'astsor"'
& Mrs. Woolson's ''Woman in American So
ciety'' has met with very cordial reception,
the first edition being exhausted in less than
a week after publication. .1,sF . gsi
Atlanta claims to be the Chicago of the
South. We should as soon think of compar-
ing teaspoonful of Mrs. Winslow's soothing
syrup to gallon of Cincinnati whskey.-
Com. Adr. -9
The corner stone recently laid for new
American Church in Rome by Rev. Mr.. Ne
vim, is really as well as figuratively an Ameri-
can corner stone, having been sent from DIR.
Nevin's former parish in Bethlehem, Penn.
Duluth was electrified by the intelligence
that immense stratas of solid metal had been
found near its limits. They proved to be
piles of railroad iron and the Zenith City sub
sided.
A silly fool of lover at Des Moines draws
blood from bis arm, and uses it in the place
of ink TO write to his girl. Ten to one that
he don't pound her with the stove-handle IN
less than a year after ma .riage.
So According to our correspondent in Georgia,
the snakes there are much more afraid of the
shamrock than of the real s'rocks'' which
people were in the habit of throwing at them.
Which affords a pat explanation of the trick
whereby st. Patrick sent the reptiles to grass.
We must admit without being cast down.
that the earthly pilgrimage is a journey after
the unattainable, in which there is neither
halting or repose. Yet, as we proceed, we
useful arts which constitutes humanity's pat
rimony.-About.
4 A section ofplastering about the size of a
bedquilt fell on the heass of a group of Ten
nessee senators who occupied seats together
in Nashville theatre, the other night The
frightened legislators thought an investiga-
tion was at hand.
A AGerman Psychologist has discovered that
tobacco smoking by boys ''interferes with the
molecular changes coincident with develop
ment of tissues, and makes the blood corpus
cles oval and irregular at the edge.' Any
parent can thus ascertain if his boy smokes
by merely taking out handful of his blood
corpuscles and observing their edges.
Professor Seeley, the author of ''Ecce Ho-
mo, "is now engaged in preparing new edi-
tion of his 'Livy." There does not seem to
be any indication Of an intention to publish,
at least at present, continuation of the
work commenced in "Ecce Homo, though 1t
is doubtless in hand, waiting the time of ac-
tion. urittsls
The Pulaski Citizen learns of q young man
of that town who made an engagement to
call upon certain Giles county young lady,
who had fire and light in the parlor, dressed
herself and waited all the appointed evening
in vain. Next day the old lady sent round
to that young man neat bill of 81 for that
fire and light.
A musical critic in New Orleans has passed
an evening evening at the opera, and thus
writes: "There are strains in the opera that
bud out timorously, and others again that
blossom into perfect bouquets of ravishing
sound-some evanescent and delicate as the
odor of frail wild flowers, and others inter-
preting ones being with passionate and
lasting perfume"
A lady who was urging some friends to
stay to dinner felt disguised when her eight
year-old boy came in and said: 'sMrs. Jones
says she can't spare no bread, and Mrs.
Brown amt to home, SO / did not get no
butter" The friends thought thev had bet
ter dine elsewhere, and the lady thought so,
too; but she taught that boy that the way Of
the transgressor was hard before evening.
A lady was ascending from the cabin of an
ocean steamer as the latter as entering the
harbor of New York, when her husband
from whom she had been absent six months
and who had bearded the vessel with the
custom-house officers, suddenly appeared he
fore her. "Where on earth did you come
from % she exclaimed, amazed. He pointed
above. 81 dropped from the skies, my dear"
"Oh, indeed" said she; "then you have been
in heaven while was away" -.. i.
This from the London Echo will be in
dorsed as truthful by most American house
keepers; "There is no way in which ladies',
otherwise good and honorable, behave so
thoroughly Ill and do so much mischief as by
their violation of the principles of veracity
and justice in their dealing regarding the
transfer of servants. To conceal any fact
which distinctly initiates against their hon.
esty, morality, or sobriety is to be guilty of a
most serious deception"