The Portland daily press., 1874-10-20
News and Other Items.

News and Other Items.
London gossips are dealing in a lively way
with the fact that Disraeli lately had lilies and
forgetme nots in his buttonhole. They say
that marriage is the least possible consequence.
Gen. Schenck met with a handsome recep.
ton in Ireland. The people were anxious to
entertain somebody after Gladstone and ''Diz-
zy" declined to visit the country.
so much noise is made in the English papers
over the Marquis of Ripons conversion that his
double title is likely to be changed to the Mar
quis of Ripon and Snortin.
The first thing that greets the eye upon en-
tering the office of an American consul in Eu-
rope is the spttoon. They cannot all secure
picture OF the eagle, SO the spittoon is used as a
national emblem.
1t appears that the female Treasury clerks
dodge the rule requiring the resignation of
those who have contracted matrimouy, by con-
tinuing to sign the pay rolls under their mai
den Names
The Vassar girls are allowed to play football,
and the way some of them kick out is a tonic
of frequent discussion in the young mems mu-
tual improvement associations of Poughkeep-
sie
is that Nankeen?" asked the great Mencius
as he carelessly examined the robe that en-
folded the bosom of the fair Yau Sing '.No,"
replied the master, calmly that's Pekin."-
Bret Harte in NasPs Almanac for 1875
Mr. Geo. Bancroft, having concluded his
"History of the United States to the close of
the Revolutionary period, will now write the
history of the formation of the constitution in
series of additional volumes.
1t is denied that Yale has ever given but
three degrees of d. d, in over forty years. from
1868 to 1873 inclusive, the college, we are told,
conferred twelve doctorates of law and nine
doctorates Of divinity
The Milwaukee Sentinel fearlessly SAYS,
The more we hear about Bismarck, the more
we are inclined to believe that he is q very ro-
markable man."
Remarkable he certainly is, but after all
what does his remarkabeness amount to com
pared to that of Matt Carpenter?
I)r. Newman issues a bulletin, announcing
his intention to write a second Odyssey. He
has shaken the dust of the Garden of Eden
from his feet, and is at this moment rapidly
approaching the hither confines of Western
Europe.
Bancroft Davis receptions in Berlin are to
commence next month. His opportunity to
entertain on an extensive scale will be on
Thanksgiving day, when it is the custom
among our foreign ministers to eat, drink and
be merry, but not to go to church.
Mr.. Marsh, our minister to Italy, contem-
plates retiring at the end of the year. it is said,
in consequence of failing health. Mr.. Marsh
was appointed in Marcn, 1861, and has been
one of the best and most faithful representa-
tives America has ever had abroad.
The promotion of Milwaukee to be a Metro
politan See, with Mgr. Heuni as first Arch
bishop, has been extensively announced, but
the announcement is premature. The Free
mans Journal says this and other Metropolitan
creations are expected
DR.. Magee, the British Consul who got a
thrashng in Central America some little time
ago, is likely to become a millionaire. For
every lash he has or is to receive so many thou
sand dollars. As his punishment lasted
quarter of an hour it is calculated he received
considerable number of lashes
Said William H. Trescott South Carolina
Conservative, in recent speech, ''You must
convince the Government at Washington that
what you really want is not white mans
Government" but a just and honest Govern.
ment." More of that sort of thing will do a
world of good. But it must be accompanied by
just and honest acts.
Jersey City's scandal differs considerably
from Brooklyn's, in that they don't appear 10
have gone into the 'foul-feediug language
business quite SO extensively over there, One Of
means business" There's nothing gushing or
romantic about that, is thcre?-Comnercia
AdUertiser.
The monument to the author of ''The Star
Spangled Banner" at San Francisco, provided
for in the gift Of James Lick, is to placed on
the hill in the northeast corner of Golden Gate
Park, the top of which has been hitherto desig-
mated as "Pateau," but is hereafter to be
called "Mount Lick"
A second Austrian Exploring Expedition is
being prepared to start next summer. One
half of the expedition win seek to advance to
the north under Lieut. Payer, by way of East
Greenland, and the other half, under Count
Wilckes, will proceed via Siberia. The object
OF the expedition is to ascertain II the newly
discovered Franz Joseph Land is a continent
or an island.
DIR. Talmage is lenient to reporters and prin-
ters He says, Faults are often charged on
reporters and printers which belong really to
the speaker or writer. If people realize how
many inarticulate utterances comes from pull
pit, platform and forum, the reporter would be
excused for occasional mistakes. If people
knew how mach infamous chrography comes
to newspaper office there would be more len.
iency for the printer"
A well known shorthand reporter, Mr. Geo.
Smell, died at Brighton, England, on Sept Is.
He was considered the father of his profession,
and had followed it for upwards of fifty years.
He was employed by the government, often at
much risk to his life, to report the speeches
made by varions agtators at public meeting.
during the Irish rebellion of 1881, and he was
known at that time as "The Recording Angel
of the Marquis of Anglesey," soubr;ouet frst
applied to him by O'Connell, who ON more than
one occasion shielded him from the violence of
the mob.
Ex-Mayor Medill of Chicago, writing from
Switzerland to the Tribune of that city, says
that he has seen hundreds of English ladies
tramping over the mountains, Alpenstock in
hand, and evidently quite able to take care of
themselves. They care nothing about walk
fifteen or twenty miles a day up a steep ac-
tivity or along a narrow mule path skirting the
edge of precipice. "But" he says, "When-
ever meet a woman carried on a sedan chair
by four Switzers up mountain, to see gla-
cier, an avalanche, or a cascade, 1t is not nee
essary to look at her prodigious mass of back
hair to know that she is not English, but Amer
ican."