The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-05-01
Current TODics.

The Rochester Democrat and ChrSnicls has
department headed ''current TOPICS" from
which many of the brightest "scissorings" to
be found in the miscellaneous columns of
newspapers originate. Upon this department.,
we, in common with other journalistic sin
ners, have had occasion to draw, 'appropri-
ate, the wise do call it," and may have oe-
casion to draw again. To clear our con-
science we credit the following excerpts to the
Democrat and take the occasion to confiden-
TALLY inform our readers that when they see
some particularly bright paragraph in the &C.
lected items on our first page the chances are
about even that it is from the Rochester pa-
| per:
Initiation having burst, the country collapse
| its hands and grows.
The professional pedestrians precede the
cholera by some weeks this season. Weston
is already prominent, and John Smith of Mil
waukee is about to walk twenty-foar miles IN
los hours.
The crusaders are talking of raid upon
tobacco, chewers, another upon coffee drink
ers and still another upon tea-imbibers. But
why not strike at the root of all these evils,
brethren and sisters? Why not petition for
general breakup in the share of premature
millennium, and new dealP
Salt Lake has its '.rirg," too. We haven't
inquired into its details; but very likely
brigham Young is trying to get up another
corner on wives.
A western paper complains that its articles
are stolen. Let it make this motto conspicu-
Gus at the head of its column-"Render un-
to scissors the things that are scissor's''
Buffers bewail over Grants coup de
| main
| Eye gods, 1t doth amaze me,
man Of such a feeble temper should
50 get the start of toe majestic world,
ana bear the palm alone"
why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like &C iossus; aid we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
10 hnd ourselves dishonorable giayes."
Julius Cesar.
my conscience hath thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale
And every tale condemns me for a villain"
-Richard Ill.,.
communication mentioning B. r. Butler
as the managing man OF the administration
has been laid aside until it has really ceased
to be Interesting.
We Judge from the tone of the entire press
OF this section that if Cesar were necessary
10 tne country, Grant would be exactly the
man tor the role.
NaAo. Oiuuuy ucCiuculy ODJectS 10 crem4-
ton, for If there is anything she does like IT'S
a nice, respectable funeral.
Congressman Mckee is in Washington. NJ.
tending to his business, and Dom Piatt has
gone to Alaska in search OF him
western granger remarks with much
tranquility that the pigeons in western Mich
i9an are beginning to spawn.
''Cremation or inhumation p" irquires a
western editor Don't care q cent Die and
We'll settle the question afterward.
The absence of Riel is getting painful: but
after all it isn't as much so as his presence
would be.
1t was scssors-grinder that Waltz killed.
Well, we have no doubt Waltz did his duty
The country was overrun with the scissors
grinders, and the on-the Hudson paper 10
which we alluded the other day continues To
have sharper scissors and less honesty and
lead'pencil than any other paper on our ex-
change-list.
An English cremationist makes the promo
stion that gas-works be utilized for the dis.
position of the remaihs of the dead.
1t wouldn't do. The gas companies would
charge nine dollars q foo., aud no half price
for children; so that the funeral would be
more expensive than it is now.
1t seems from our telegraph report tba,
Judge Davis got something of moiety, after
all. Simeon Hermon gave him $1,000
though no more, we suppose, than the reeu,
lar moiety dues of Hermon.