The Portland daily press., 1875-10-01
News and Other Items.

Rev. DIR. Geo. Porteous was drowned at Sea
Cliff, Thursday, by the upsetting of a boat.
Champagne is now made from gooseberries,
eoal oil and rhubarb juice, and sweetened and
fortified with potato spirit.
A Kansas Judge has decided that man and
wife can 60 to any place of amusement on
ticket that says "admit one," as by law they
are considered ''one.''
Norristown Herald: This cool spell has set
the tramps to medtating. One of them writes
to Norristown policeman, asking whether
there has been any Improvements made in our
lookup during the summer.
Parson Brownlow advises the young men of
Tennessee to 60 work, ard consequently many
of them who formerly spent but fifteen min
utes day before their lookng-glass, now spend
at least three-quarters of an hour.
When a Missouri engineer ditched his train,
he family asked: "Did it kill any one who
parted bis hairin the middle?" They answered
that three such were lying dead. "Then die
happyp' he sighed, and was soon no more.
When Eugene departed fromlF ontainebleau
and Pierrefonds, in her hasty flight after Sedan
she left quantity of jewels and works of art,
her personal property, which the French gov.
she sues for their recovery.
United States Treasurer New has sent fe-
male relative at Indianapolis clinker, which
is all that is left of nearly $2,0o0,0OO. 1t is
about the size of ones first, and was formed by
the chemicals in greenbacks which have been
burned.
A Melbourne, Australia, widower advertised
for a wife. and after corresponding for tim
with young lady, met her by appointment to
make arrangements for marriage, when the
two made the startling discovery that they
were father and daughter! Both had used fc.
titious names.
Mount Holyoke Seminary is principally de.
voted to the furnishing of wives for foreign
mission aries. 1t has already furnished 115 of
these wives, and the cry is still to the effect
that they come. Foreign missionaries will
please step forward. Who comes next under
the Holyoke?
Twenty-three candidates passed the exam
nations and were admitted to the several de-
partments of Tufts College at the beginning of
the term. The philosophical course, special
course prepared for those who enter for the de-
merly occupied two years, has been extended
W y AOuT YEARS CouEscs
The Japanese, writes Mr.. Loomis, are a
newspaper reading people. About $5,0OO,osO
copies were taken last year. These newspapers
are actively discussing the doctrines of Chris
tanity. They are generally opposed to it; but
by this very discussion the attention of the PEG.
pie will be drawn more fully to the subject and
the truth made manifest.
Say what you will, the life editorial is not all
thorns. Here and there a rose springs up diff
fusing the odor through the sanctum, and,
though many dark and angry clou floats
athwart the sky. it IS not railways without
its silver lining. How forcibly this is illus
trated by the experience of an editor at Somer-
vile, Tenn, who has recently been presented
with lizard with two charlottesville C0ur-
ierJournol.
A new swinde is being played in the central
part of the state of New York. A we'll dressed
man stops at farm house and engages accom-.
modations for drove of sheep and a man
who drives them. The sheep and drivers are
to come along the next day. The pretended
agent stops over night, has the best fare the
house affords, and slips off the next morning
without paying his bill. The sheep and drivers
never appear, of course.