The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-19

while for the latter every day is an opening
day.
According to the Spanish proverbs, four
persons are wanted to make good saiad-a
spendthrift for oil, miser for vinegar, a
counsellor for salt, and madman to stir all
up.
The Young Mems Christian Association of
Chicago propose to supply all of the trains
going out OF that city with Bibles. 1t would
De tar more reasonable and encouraging to
supply all the trains going in.-Commers sial
Adoertiser. .--.--
A worthy citizen, not altogether posted in
the etiquette proper to such occasions, lately
hung his door-bell with white six ribbons, to
indicate that his daughters wedding was 60
ing on inside.
A Southern publisher complains because
some ofhis subscribers understood the print
ed words "received payment" on the dun
ming bills he sent them, as an intimalion that
he forgave them their debts.
IL chS SaSC VI lsCetuC dedislot tuC
Advertiser it is announced that the govern
ing body Of the Society of Licensed Victuallers
have come to unanimous determination to
move for new trial.
A Danbury family which is sustained by
charity almost perished from hunger on Ffi-
day night. The little girl who daily makes
the rounds in quest of food was prevented
from going out that morning, by losing one
of her earrings.
The Chicago Post prints this: The boy
who forged his mothers name to a shingle
with piece of chalk, and bought five cents
worth of candy with the bogus order, now
languishes and slumbers on all tours at night.
The mother got possession of the shingle.
1t is the belief in st. Louis that all ques-
tions ofiternational law have been referred
at Washington to Caleb Gushing, for three
centuries past. He also drafted the Declara-
ton of Independence, and got his clerk,
| Thomas Jeffers. n, to engross sit.-Comnaercial
| Advertiser.
Ex-President Hopkins, of Williams, is not
deeply interested in college boating schemes,
but expresses lis preference for skull race,
the effect of which shall be to develop the
cereErum and the cerabellum, rather than the
biceps.
The Saturday Review takes the Nation to
task, with severe and scorching irony, for
speaking of commencement addresses
and gravely supposes that s'the Nation means
beginningsr' Nothing could be finer than
this.
eLa Parisienne" is new hustle. 1t is
| very light, and is formed of steel springs
| encased in thin material. Over these are
three founces made Of thin goods which will
starch well, and these can readily be removed
for washing. 1t does not extend over the
| hips, but is very bouffant in the back.
A society statistician calculates that if all
the yards of silk in ruined 'last seasons
dresses" we're sewed together they would
form band as long as the Pacific railroad
This is most important for the world tc
know; we don't know why, but that's what
the statisti:ian says.
| The Owle, birdie Of worthie gravity
| Upon a boughe perplexed by day did site
And merrie little fowles about him flew
| Mock ng and pecking him, to show their witte:
But when the nighte came and each birdie of day
Would taine returne her to her quiet neste
The Owle did spreade his wings and file abroade,
Al oJ-o a, -. .1lak i, -
A Democratic paper says Gen. Grant is
anxious for a war, so his sons military ad-
vancement will be more rapid. In case he
succeeds in bringing one about, Sheridan and
Sherman will be at once assassinated, and
| young Grant at once made General Of the
Army. We must keep lynx eye on our lib
| critics. s, -
The average Vermont widow, after burying
her husband takes satisfaction from the
thought that she knows where he sleeps
nights. The extent to which this is capable
of softening the keen agony of separation,
can only be appreciated by those whose mar
ried life is not blessed by such perfect knowl-
edge.
w. J. Hennesey, the we'll known American
artist, is receiving warm recognition from
London critics. He has made rapid progress
within the last two years, and sold his Royal
Academy picture before it was exhibited.
Furthermore. the painting ian American au-
tumn scene) gave so much satisfaction Is to
secure the sale of this years exhibition pic
ture, which, of course, at that time was
slumberiEg in the artists brain.
Edmund Yates has discovered wonderful
likeness between the face and figure of Gen.
eral Sheridan and those of Napoleon the
Great. As, excepting Eastlake's, which was
very latttering, the only portrait of Napoleon
that had anything like Photographic accuracy
was suppressed for that reason, it is very diff
ficult to ascertain exactly how the First Con.
sui really looked, and there is hence deli.
cious intangibility in these alleged resem.
| blances.
| 1t is said that a woman got divorce from
her husband in Kentucky because he went to
meeting of the Good Templars, leaving her
at home to take care of the baby. And this
shows the evil of too much temperance.
Had not a great principle intervened the
baby might have been brought up on the bot
| tie, so permitting the mother to attend the
meeting of the Good Templars; and the
husband might have gone quietly about that
other business which has nothing to do with
the lodge. ,--, ...-.-
A Syracuse gentleman and his wife left
home, few days ago, for an extended South
ern tour, intending to visit Florida. They
got as far as New York, and in visiting one