The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-02

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Comotb u. ii, IL ,tiN tne Cd feldes. as men saith
Ouiotn In @ III. inns new corn fro year 10 .oa
anu out OF old boOkes, in good fa,tSs ~ year;
N'0'" al 'nis new science that men iere.
-ChGasey.
pfccipitaie Detroiter is mise: able at d;s-
covering that his wife inherited half million
just after he had procured divorce from her
Mankind are not formed to live vitbo,,
| ceremony and form; the inward spiritual
| grace is very apt to be lost without the exter
nal, visible sign.-Bdcon.
The cheerful crash of the exploding oil
lamp was heard in Columbus the other day.
A haggard widower is finding balm in his
wife's ins urance policy.
Omaha complains that the zeal Of its street
commissioner lis unaagging and not to be
curbed, in consequence of which its side
walks are are in dreadful state.
Miss Faithful thinks that many American
girls who profess to be highly educated are
merely dipped into weak solution Of ac
| complshments." Was voyage across the
Atlantic required to discover such girIss
1t is blessed attainment when we can 50
associate the truths of Gods word with nat
ural objects, that one is, in manner, reading
MS Bible in flowers, in forests, in sunlight
and at twilight, always, everywhere, and In
everything.-Stdr Papers.
Mr.. Gungle. butcher, of Princeton, Wis.
hung his rifle f:om the ceiling, muzzle down.
ward. the other day, extended himself on the
bed beneath and in range ofthe weapon, and
then worried the thing Off with stick The
| bullet went through him beautifully.
Bismarck is reported dying, again. He
must have gotten so much accustomed to a
morbund condition in the last few years as
not to mind it much. We dare say it does
not at all affect bis health.
Dubuque, Iowa, thinks it has made a ten
strike in town clock which can be heard six
miles of. People who live in its immediate
vicinity are cnquiring the rent OF houses be-
yond radius of seven miles.
Eull angei-like thir birds sang their hours
Within their curtains green, within their bowers.
Enamelfd was the field with all colours;
e,IP une Pearlit drops shook as In silver showers,
Depart fra Phosbus did Aurora gret;
Her chrystal tears saw hing on the flowers
which he for love, all drank up with his heat.
-Dun5Gr, l5th Csntur
A cruel carrier-pigeon "amateur" cob
demned one of his pets to convey to his coun-
try seat the following laeonic passage: 'Send
basket OF early green peas by express train;
pack the bearer Of this in with them, as he is
plump bird and intend to ca. him with
themr'
When Miss Faithful delivered her lecture in
Cincinnati, gentleman in the audience was
about to speak to a fashionable girl by his
side in praise of the plainness of the fair lec;-
urer dress. but the words were taken out of
his mouth in this wise: sob, yes, am OF
course sorry she is not dressed in more style,
but then you know she is really very good''
There are those who maintain that the
hesh Of animals is not affected az human
food even by the worst diseases. Not long
since test banquet was given in Paris, n
Decroire invited several of his friends and a
small company of scientific men to dine upon
the flesh of horses that had died from the
glanders; of cows. the victims of the rindcr
pest, and Ct an ass just killed from HYDRO
phobia- The company are yet to be heard
from.
1t is related of a Cambridge don, q mathe-
mat:cian of frepute for solid attainments, tia.
sojourning in London during vacation, he
had engaged one day to dine with a friend
whose address was given to him-in q certain
square. The professor did not appear, and
the next afternoon his friend called at his
lodgings to ask what had happened to keep
him away. ''Why," said the mathemati-
clan, Il did come; but there was some mis-
take. You told me you lived in square,
and found myself in parallelograrn; so
went away again.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the English pre-
mier, is an estimable churchwoman, bat sad
ly lacks the social tact necessary to a person
in her position. Distrait at all times, she is
the cause of greater etiquette than any one
in London. Mrs. Grundy is fond of telling
how, on one occasion, in order to refresh her
husbands memory, Mrs. Gladstone wrote on
a card which she placed in the frame of a
conspicuous mirror, "Don't forget to invite
those horrid Smiths" and how the '.horrid
Smiths" as well as Mr.. Gladstone, had the
exquisite delight of reading the endearing
epithet of the frank hostess
The Georgetown Times Is making a great
fuss, says the Paris Kentuckian, over fellow
who sucked seventy-two eggs, one aftor
another, and drank glass OF brandy aud
chewed up the glass, as it that was any great
feat. Now, if an egg had swallowed seventy
two fellows, one Immediately after the other,
and taken drink of glass and ehewed bran
dy, or if seventy-two eggs had chcwed the
fellows and swallowed the brandy, one i'm
mediately after the other, and drank the glass,
or if the glass had chewed seventy-two fel-
lows and sucked an egg, or if fseyenty.two eggs
had swallowed the glass and drank the fellow,
then feat worth recording would have been
performed. Georgetown Times be hanged!
Farming without Barn-Yard Manure.
Cannot farming upon gravelly loan up,
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