The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-04

CnanuellefS Will Cdnuits III tueul aIc tHe
last pretty things for ear rings.
The Mayor of Philadelphia is actively enforc-
ing the Sunday liquor law.
1t is stated that in the South the rate of NOR
tality is greater among the colored people than
among the whites.
Nilsson is willing to do all she can for the
London nurses; she recently gave concert in
aid of their training school.
Chewing gum is SO cheap at Waterbury,
Conn, that female seminary is to be estab-
lished there.
Some of the Illinois farmers have already be-
gun to thresh their wheat. The quality is pro-
nounced superior.
What constitutes State? Delaware proudly
responds that she has sold seven million quarts
of strawberries during the past three weeks.
Walt Whitman, who holds third-class
clerkship in the Office of the SolicitorGeneral
of the Treasury Department, is reported to be
one of those marked for dismissal.
A Pittsburg reporter frankly owns that he
dare not give his opinion of the performances
of the young ladies of a graduating class, be-
cause he knows them ALL
Oregon comes proudly to the front with
girl who refused eight offers of marriage in
two days, and would have done even better
than that had there been time.
Imitation Modocs have put in their appear
ance at all the watering places, and the basket
factories in the neighborng towns are cores
pondingly busy.
My hand is not lemon nor my lips dear meat
as the young lady said to her escort when they
nor Lott ha door ba 9th piUbt w ~ did cha
speak thusly?
The church question is assuming the same
phase in Venezuela as in Italy, Germany and
Brazil and there is every appearance that Guz-
man Blanco will terminate his relations with
the Vatican.
The New England Annual Temperance Con-
vention will be held at Rocky Point Rhode
Islam on Wednesday, July 80. Distinguished
speakers will be present from Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maine
Twenty five husbands are in the New Haven
almshouse for failing to support their wives
They are obliged to work for their own board
and any surplus wages so for the support of
their families.
Mr.. John Smith, of York County, South Car
DINA, is said to have one hundred and twenty
negroes with himsstill, who were slaves before
the war; and who declare that they are satisfied
to live always with him.
On the fifty-eighth anniversary of the battle
of Waterloo, which occurred about fortnight
ago. there were still fifty-nine names on the
British army list of men who were commits
orable occasion, all still living
II . IL II.
the occasion of the presentation of the Amer
lean pilgrims, was made in Latin, beginning
with the words of humility, Ante pedes Soncti
tdtes Tue. Judge Thead's speech was deliv-
cred in the French language.
An aquatic biddy has made her appearance
on Vermont farm. She has chosen ducks
and geese for her associates, and has been seen
to plunge with them into water, swim across
the pond, come out and shake herself like any
old waterfowl In swimming she naturally
falls behind, in consequence of her feet not be-
ing well adapted for padding purposes.
According to the Boston Globe down ca st
clergyman recently lost two pairs f,r',s,vr.
wrapped up in a circus poster. He is careful to
explain, the Globe adds, that the poste. was
secondhand. The poster may or may not have
been acknowledgement that it was does
| that explain away the damning testimony of
sawdust and peanut shells found in one of the
rubbers?
| A clerk in the Patent Office, named Brain,
| was made insane by his dismissal. When the
paper containing the order was given him he
. repaired to the model room and secured a
broomstick to the end of which he attached a
| bayonet. Then, after divesting himself of his
| clothing, saving one undergarment, he rushed
| through the hall, dashing here and there and
| uttering ineoherent sentences. With some
| difficulty he was taken in charge and trans
| ferred to his friends.
| A New York judge deserves the especial
| thanks of women. To a boy brought before
him the other day for defending his mother
| from the brutality Of his father, he said !:
''Young man, | am proud to see that you love
your mother and am anxious to protect her,
| but your violence toward your father has been
of very vigorous character. Try and keep
| your hands off your father, but in any event
| protect your mother from injury. You may
| co.
| Seven women graduated at the University of
| Michigan at the recent commencement. The
| closing scene of the day is thus described by
the Chicago Post: "The class parted under the
naples with the usual farce of pipes and lem.
onade and class songs The only striking thing
about it was the peculiarly absurd look and en-
barrassment of the lady graduates, who han
died their pipes as if they were hand grenades
| and were liable to explode at any moment
Rather it was very like the ridiculously careful
| Wav a conf med bachelor takes a baby for the
first time. Strange to say, not one of the la
dies lit her pipe'
EsINOR TELEGRAMS.
| The reef in Naw York harhnr unon w hicl