The Portland daily press., 1873-01-10
THE PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 10, 1873.

Carlyle has abandoned the pen.
Moses HI. Grinnell is in London.
Ole Bull is making a tour of Pennsylvania
Miss Anna Dickinson is back in New Y ork
Harriet Martineau is almost confirmed in
| valid.
| John B. Cough will not lecture again thi
season.
kubinstein's engagements extend to tn.
middle of May.
Augustin DAILY will shortly open the Broad.
way Theatre.
DR.. Peet, who did so much for the ds.t
mutes, died last week.
DIR. Mary J. Stafford is writing history Of
ornament and dress.
Miss Alcott, it is reported, receives $4,000
copyright on her works.
A critic thinks there is too much of Forster
in the new life of Dickens.
Hon. George Bancroft is visiting Florence.
Not woman but the city.
Madame Catacazy has purchased large
portion of Eugenie's wardrobe.
Display bills are to be abolished by New
York theatrical managers.
A Frenchman can't talk with his hands
tied.
Pauline Lucca has converted $4,000 into
United States registered bonds.
Emma Lazarus, dark-eyed Hebrew maid
en-, of New York. is the coming poetess.
General Sickles and family have rooms en-
gagged at Nice for February and March.
An autograph letter from Washington to
his step-son's preceptor sold in London for
$125.
Mr.. Bergh is urged to wrestle with the deal
ers who cruelty over-fatten cattle for the
butchers.
An old watchword is revived in the phrase
eff any one offer to commute Stokes SEN
tence, shoot him on the spot"
Ralph Waldo Emerson is the object OF
many attentions in Rome. He will soon start
for Egypt.
Stump is the very appropriate name of the
principal manufacturer of wooden legs in
London.
John Wise, the balloon man, is construct
ing large air vessel in which he proposes to
sail across the Atlantic.
The Sisters of Silence' is a Michigan as
sociation of women. Their bylaws are writ
ten in three colors of ink.
A Boston man felt badly enough at losing
some $50 worth of dry goods the other day;
but when the papers got it that he stole the
goods himself he was mad-to put it mildly.
Chicago ministers growl because their sup
porters bring in the bodies of small pox vic
tins to be preached over in the church. One
divine had two cases of this kind, last week
Ohio has law by which any husband who
opens his wite's letters can be made to pay
right smalt for it. 1t isn't good State for {
jealous man to live in.
The Washington Star doesn't want to bur
General Meyers feelings, but it insists tha
such weather was unknown before the estab
lishment of the Weather Bureau.
Ex-Governor Hoffman, Hon. S. S. Cox,
General Burnside. Hon. Hamilton Fish and
General Lloyd Aspinwall are among the dis
tinguished persons preparing for European
tour.
A Cincinnati paper having said that Gin
cinnati had but few fires, the Courier. .Journo
amiably rejoins that the fires reserved TO
Cincinnati use are in the other world, not il
this.
| "British Inquirer. Your belief that tn
untutored savage of our Western wilds is a
all responsible for the fact that we have ''bal
headed" eagles, is wholly destitute of foun
dation.
There is a woman in Medina county, O.
| who has not scolded, cried, threatened o
gone out visiting for the last nine years. TIL
headstone over her gives her name as Eliz
| Tabbs.
A Frenchman named D flour has devote
several Yeas to the study of finger nails. rh
principal result has been the discovery of th
fact that the nails on the little fingers gro,
more rapidly than the others, which fac
every individual knew before.
The English bad boy does not differ mate
rally from his American brother. He threy
stones at Gladstone and called him a ''guy
the other day. The great statesman thre,
aside his dignity and his hat and went fC
that boy, and caught him after run of thre
| squares.
A distinguished modern novel st describe
one of his heroes as pleasant fellow, VIII
watzes like an angel" The comparison OF
| ly goes to enforce Mr.. Beecher's testimony .
to the probable occupation of the Celesti
host, ard may work a change in many hear
whose present hopes of heaven are rath,
slim.
The other day gentleman walking alol
Market street, st. Louis, was accosted by
coal teamster to know if he did not want
load Of coal. "What do you ask for it
queried the gentleman. ''Thirty CENTS
piled the teamste:. "Well, Il take it," sa
the gentleman, ''if you will deliver it at n
residence" ''Of course / WILL" replied I'll
teamster; "where do YOU live? ?' In hal