The Portland daily press., 1874-09-26
News and Other Items

A New Yorker recently swan the Hellespont
which is a mile wide
The proportionate yield of wheat in France
is nearly double that Of ordinary years.
A petition to the Legislature of Massachu-
sets for the erection of an Inebriate Asylum
in that state, is being circulated in Boston.
The Right Hon. w. E. Foster, NJ P Minis
ter of Education in the Gladstone Cabinet has
arrived in Quebec
1t must indeed be dry in Kansas, if it be true
as local paper says, that ''the suffering cat
fish lies stranded on the blistering bottom of
his late happy home, waving his tail in the
crisp breezes as signal of Distress
Elijah I. Laison, young Cinnamon, passed
examination for admission to the Sheffield Sci
entific School at Yale College, not only without
any other applicant
An Indiana farmer at Boston, Tuesday, ex-
hibited stock of corn fifteen feet high with
twelve ears of corn on it. He SAID he had s.
acres of it, yielding seventy-fve bushels to the
acre.
The money order department of the post
Office is one of the most useful, and the extent
to which it is employed is shown by the fact
that last year nearly $75 $1,000 of orders were
issued.
The boundary dispute between Switzerland
and Italy, which was referred to George P.
Marsh, the q. S, Minister at Rome, for arbi-
tration, has been decided by him in favor Of
Italy, which thereby acquires 1860 acres of ter.
ritnry.
The English ladies who were hunted for
throughout France, on charge of completely
in the escape of Bazaine, were two boarding
school misses from Cannes, who went out in
boat and got up Irritation with Col. Villette
the aid-de-camp.
The cables for the East River Bridge at
Brooklyn will contain more than 5000 wires,
and will sustain thousand tons weight. They
will rest on cast iron saddles placed on the TOP
of the piers, and which will weigh $4,000 lbs.
each.
A Millbury, Mass. organist, writes to the
Worcester Spy, that he declined to take po-
stion in Norwich church because he woald
not play in a church where Christ was preached
as mere man. The Norwich Bulletin calmly
ly walks over all this self-denial by saying that
there is no such church in Norwich
The Staten Island retreat, which was pro.
vided for the poor children in New York til IS
summer, has just closed for the season. One
thousand three hundred poor children have
each spent week at the place. The entire
cost has been about $500, or fifty cents day
for each child.
There are said to be sixteen vessels awaiting
cargoes of wheat in the Columbia river, Oregon,
and an unusually large number of ships are
now en- route to that port for wheat ALSO The
number is said to be seventy, which doubtless.
comprises portion of the wheat fleet which
left San Francisco unable to get cargoes. The
number of vessels loading on the Columbia
last year is given at fifty-four.
A German ieweler, named Consalk, of Nor
witch, Conn.,, has invented a clock, of which
the whole discernible mechanism is trauspar-
ent dial plate and pair of black walnut hands
The latter turn loosely on pivot, and if whirl-
Gu III ulHerenT directions Will Immediately re-
adjust themselves to the exact time. Indeed.
they may be taken off altogether for hours, aud
upon restoration point the true hour and min.
ute, as before.