The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-03-27
News and Other Item,

The salt product of Michigan last year was
T. 11673O bushels,
A Wisconsin dairyman asks for information
about the cremation" business.
A Richmond dentist gives beautiful chrome
with every set of false teeth that he SELLS
Queen Vic. will be 30 next May, and has
rsgLed nearly 81 years.
Ice manufactured at one dollar per ton is
prediction of the Scientific American.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is considering
a diluted compulsory education bill.
The bill prohibiting the issue of free passes
to State, county or township officers in Kansas,
did not become law.
Professor Longfellow, who is now at Hamil-
ton, Ont, intends to spend the summer in Can
ada.
Hon. VIM. Orton, President of the Western
Telegraph Company, sails for Europe on Sat-
urday, under the advice of his physicians.
The Hartford Currant says: "All the bad
things that Butler has generated in Congress
successfully have been accomplished through
Democratic support"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean publishes a list of
fifty-eight Western papers, forty five of which
are for expanding the currency and thirteen for
contraction. 1Iu
Arthur Orion, the Tichborne man, weighs
$50 pounds. His friends must have found him
good deal heavier than that, however, for the
time they have had him on their hands.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, lately, the wind took an
undertaker's sign from its fastenings and laid
it down in front of a grog shop, where it inform
ed passers by that ''caskets and coffins were
furnished at the shortest notice" within.
There are noticeable accumulatons of grain
along the track of the Grand Trunk Railway,
the result Of wastage from passing trains
When the birds return to that region they will
enjoy it.
Alabama consumes over $23,O0000O worth of
whiskey and other liquors annually, and uses
about 100000 bushels of grain in the manu-
facture of various fermented and distilled liq-
uors.
1t is suggested, that in view of the increasing
length of skirts of gentlemen's frock coats,
some plan be devised to loop them gracefully at
the back and sides. There is no plausible rea-
son why man who wears corsets las hundreds
do), low-cut collar and French heels, should
not have his coat tails open and wear SASH
N. Y. Mall
There is farmer in Flushing, N. Y, who
the last thirty days, kicked in seventeen barn
doors, unroofed dozen chicken-coops and
trampled the life out Of four favorite pigs. He
calls it, says the Brooklyn argus, Ben. Butler
An old negress died in Knoxville recently
who when young woman, nursed the embryo
hero, Joe johnson, while the General was yet
in his swaddling clothes. She was always very
proud of this eventful portion of her life, and
frequently spoke of "Mars joe in terms of
high appreciation as "blessed good child and
no mistake
The Cincinnati Times comments on two great
evils of the present EXPERIMENTATION and cost
ly funerals-as follows: 'Think of it! Ninety
millions of dollars thrown away every year for
drinks! 1t is shameful for men to keep drink
ing. In this connection, also, we may mention
that it costs $780, OOO 900 year for funerals, land
that it's shameful to keep dying. Think of the
poor orphans that $500, 900, 600 would support.