The Portland daily press., 1875-03-31
News and Other Items.

The United States pays twice as much in
pensions as any other nation in the world.
Mrs. Scott Sddons has sailed for Europe.
She takes her husband with her.
"DoubtfuP' Boston trotter, with 80 offi-
cial record. has been sold 10 New York for
$4,000.
The English runner Thormanby died last
mouth He won his owner S450,000, stakes
and bets together, in one race when very young.
New York alumnus of Dartmouth College
has paid the expen.es of having member Of
the university go to the metropolis and learn
new stroke from some professional oarsmen
there.
A spelling match has been arranged between
fifty students of Harvard college and the same
number of young ladies from the high schools
of Boston and vicinity, to take place on Satu--
day evening.
Two California young men, who were in love
with girls under age whose parents did not con-
sent to their marriage, recently evaded the law
BY going some niles to sea beyond the juris-
diction of the state laws, and having the knot
tied.
Kinglake, in the last volume of his "Crimea,"
says that the phrase "biting the dust" is more
killed, in the act of strenuous bodily exertiOn,
| will, by mere muscular action, appear to- bite
the dust.
The Emperor of Brazil is going TO ask his
| Parliament, at its approaching opening. to let
| him go to Europe, and, if his request is grant
| ed he will make tue United States a visit on
his way back, during the centennial.
| The announcement of meeting of Dan
| Rice's creditors at Pittsburgh last week failed
| to bring a single person. The cause, as al
legged, is that Rice owes $S5O0O, aud as his only
assets are suit Of clothes worth $50, nobody
cared to pay the $1.50 necessary as the fee for
wearing the creditor.
The Wisconsin State Journal says that An
| drew johnson is like the man who was tipped
| from load of hay on to a stump, hurting his
head SO he could not talk. Years after, when
| his skull was repaired and the brain relieved
| from the pressure, he finished the speech he
was uttering when he fell
A half dozen Harvard sophomores bet wine
supper that they could pass through a rough
ward of Cambridge on St Patrick's day wear
| ing orange ribbons in their button holes. They
started, and being pitched into ran at once,
| but in the direction they had wagered, and
| thus they got their wine but made little reputa-
ton by the feat.
John Ruskin goes cold, because he hates
smoke; lives out of town because he hates
noise; shuts himself out of society because he
despises women; will not go aboard steamers
| because the noise of their whistling is abomin.
| able; reads only his own works because other
peoples ideas worry him; and now refuses to
travel by rail because he met with au accident
some time ago. His last trip by carriage cost
| him $3.50, and he hates that mode Of convey
| ance.
Apropos of the death of the Compte de jar
nae, Ambassador of France at the Court of st,
James, it may be said that his father, Major
| General Louis William Viecount de Chabat, an
old English cavalry officer, is still alive, and a,
ninety five finds himself he Oldest officer on
the retired list He served with distinction N
Holland, in 1799 was with SIR John Moore in
Spain, aud with the Walcheron Expeditiou
fought ia the Peninsula until 1910, and wa.
subsequently on the staff in Canada He i,
spoken OF as hale aud hearty, and likely to out
last his century.