The Portland daily press., 1875-10-20
News and Other Items.

Japanese, Cherokee Indian and clergyman
fifty years of age.
The English naval force in Chinese waters
amounts to 81 ships with 112 guns and about
1000 officers and men.
Some of the London newspapers have been
calculating how much English capital has been
invested in the Erie Railway. 1t is fixed at
the sum of $1OOOOOOOO.
The American Baptist Year Book for the
present year has list of the ordained Baptist
ministers throughout the country, and reports
160 by the name of Smith.
At Duluth, the other day, floating island
set sail from its anchorage and, impslled by
strong wind and current, moved straight to and
through the canal out into Lake Superior.
The BARRIERS and bar-keepers complain es-
pecially of the stripgency of the times. Peo-
pie shave themselves and take less interest
than usual in 15-cent drinks.
David Robbins of Nova Scotia, deserves men,
ton as the kind-hearted murderer, who, having
shot his wife, smashed her skull TO fragments
with malst because lie ''eould not bear to see
her suffer so.'
lunatic in Philadelphia has postal card
with over 400 words written upon it, and he
in all. 1t is to be sent to the Centennial Exhi-
bition.
movement on the part of some of the
Methodist ministers of Boston, is in progress
to petition the President for the pardon of the
Jefferson Borden mutineers now under sem
tence of DEATH
The German Admiralty are said to contem-
plate cana! right through Holstein. deep
enough to allow the heaviest iron-clads to pass
from the Baltic to the German Ocean, without
touching Belt or Sound. The expense will be
enormous.
pastoral letter from Bishop Bourget was
read in all the Montreal churches Sunday
again warning the people not to interfere with
the burial of Guibord's remains. The letter
says that the ground will be cursed from the
moment of the burial.
A leader of the ton in Paris has Just intro
duced an Eastern fashion, which in all proba-
bility will soon be initiated in this country.
She is having all her chairs, sofas and even her
carriages stuffed with automatic herbs, which
fill the air with an agreeable, but not too pow
erful perfume.
Brindsi, Italy, whence the Prince Of Wales
set sail on Friday for India, is an historic sea-
port As Brundusium in Roman days, it mark
ed the terminus of the famous Appian Way,
and was the point from which sailed the great
fleets of triremes which the Caesars fitted out
for Eastern conquest
A little girl who had just finished Miss AL.
colts new story, "Eight Cousins" and was of
course full of delight chaaced to read the crit
icism on the work published in the New York
Nation. She could scarcely believe her eyes.
When she put the paper down her criticism was
simple but severe: 'I don't want to know the
man who wrote that"
Said wife to her husband :-"How is it you
can't come home nights in some sort of season?'
The gentle retort was, ''You got me in the way
of it. Before we were married you used to
throw your arms about my neck at 8 o'clock,
and say, Don't go, darling, it is early yet,' but
now if 1 happen to stay out till it is terrible
affair."
shameful piece of vandalism was perpe-
trated in the national capitol last week, right
under the nose of the large force of policemen
paid to guard that structure, some miscreant
badly mutilatng Theodore Kaufman's paint
ing of abraham Lincoln's FIRST Earnings"
on exhibition thete by cutting section out Of
it. The painting was valued at $1,000.
NJ. Leverrier has thrown damper upon the
costly astronomical expeditions to observe the
transit of Venus by asserting in a recent dis
cussion at the French Academy that such OBJ
servations are utterly valueless for the deter
mination of the suns paralax, optical disturb
ances occasioned by the atmosphere of Venus
making it impossible to fix the exact time of
contact.
The Countess d'Eu, the eldest daughter of
son. Don Pedro having no sons, the Countess
d'Eu is therefore heiress-apparent to the throne.
But she having been childless heretofore, the
next in the line of succession was the eldest
son of the late Princess Leopoldina, Duchess
of Sake, the second daughter of the Emperor.
This lad is now cut off from prospective kingly
honors by the happy event just announced.
"Did you ever break yoke Of four-year-old
steers?" asked Rock county Iowa) farmer of
a young Janesvile chap who wanted to marry
his daughter "No, 1 never did" was the meek
reply; 'but have rode mule in circus, and
had good deal of other experience in the
world" "No other experience" said the grang-
er, could qualify you, young man, for trying to
handle that GIRL" and the sad youth departed.
A singular case is reported from Brooklyn.
A woman was badly frightened by a cat some
months previous to the birth of her child. That
child proved 10 be girl, and is now eighteen
years of age and married. During her girl
hood she gave no evidence of being affected by
her mothers fright, excepting indeed, pro-
pensity to chase mice and occasionally to sit
on the backyard fence and yowl little on
moonlight nights; but, strange to relate since
the birth of her own baby, she always lifts it
out of its crib by the back of is neck with her
teeth.