The Portland daily press., 1875-06-29
those selected failed to spell the word "compo-

those selected failed to spell the word "compe-
titive correctly.
A philosopher asserts that the reason why
ladies' teeth decay sooner than gentlemeu's is
because of the friction of the tongue and the
sweetness of the lips.
During his recent short stay in Indianapolis,
Postmaster General Jewell succeeded in reduc-
ing the running expenses of the post Office in
that city $500, chiefly in the discharge of su-
perluous clerks.
The Richmond Wing says let Gov. Allen of
Ohio be reelected, 'and the financial plank of
the platform on which he has been placed will
inevitably be incorporated into the national
platform by the Democratic convention next
year."
Mr.. Tennyson, or his publisher, receives the
handsome sum of $4,000 or $4,000 annually
from composers who make a business of set
ting the Laureate's poems to music. The
charge for permission to set poem has been
fixed at $685. and the applications average two
or three day.
The Vassar college girls are such obdurate
candy eaters that the chief steward puts it on
the table at meal times, in the hope that they
will eat less of it between meals which he CON
siders very hurtful. One young lady pupil late
ly received package of candy from New York
which cost $40.
Experiments are being made in France with
new style of locomotive engine. 1t has no
wheels, but legs, and walks, runs or gallops.
There are three legs in front and three behind.
The three m owing cylinders, instead of turning
wheels raise the feet. This invention is espec-
tally adapted for carrying great weights up an
incline.
Intelligence has been received of the death
tsea by yellow fever, of Lieut.. Matthew Boil
les, Jr., son of the we'll known banker. Lieut..
Bolles was attached to the United States steam
ship Lancaster, which had been on three
years cruise on the South Atlantic. Lieut..
Bodies was twenty-eight years old and unmar-
ried.
Says the Danbury News: We shan't pub
lsh any more senseless paragraphs about Su
san B. Anthony after this. Her ssterly devo-
ton and womanly nursing saved her brother,
COL Anthony, from a premature grave at the
hands of an assassin. We respectfully take off
our hat to her, and hail her with all her oddi-
ties as an honor to American womanhood.
The ancient city of C@tobriga, in Portugal,
submerged by the sea with all its inhabitants in
the fifth century of our era, is to be disentomb-
ed. The sea has within some years receded,
and left the buildings covered with sand, but
free from its irruptions. The city was first
Ph@nieian, then Carthagnian, then Roman
and excavation is expected to reveal remains
contemporary with Dido.
The New York demi-monde have neglected
the races and other sports to great extent
this season, and mistresses and wives have
therefore had no opportunity of comparing
toilettes. The days of Josephine Mansfield
have dwindled, peaked, pined until now the
ladies of certain class either don't care to
make show or think it is becoming too COM
mon. The Idark eyed CLEOPATRA Of the yellow
wheels, smothered in tulle, was almost the sole
representative of her tribe the other day.
Tilton has quarrelled with Moulton, with his
counsel and with nearly everybody who has
been associated with him or has tried to aid
him. The New York correspondent of the
Herald, who makes this statement, thinks that
Sir Marmaduke will sink out of sight very
shortly; and farther, that "the grand eloquence
and mastery rhetorical logic Of Beecber, all
powerful as it was, never could revive this
CORPSE
A horse intended for the Bennington express
office was lately shipped from Troy, and very
foolishly placed in box car with several car
boys of oil of yitriol. The horse got frisky and
soon smashed one of the carboys, which was
easily within reach. The fiery stuff got into
the horses legs, and as it burned the suffering
of the poor animal was intense. More kicking
was in all probability INDUCED in until the
frantic horse was completely saturated with
the vitriol. When the car was opened the legs
OF the horse were found all swollen and nearly
raw. The animal was brought up to a stable,
where he was attended by a veterinary surgeon,
who says he can save him. but it is probable he
will be well nigh ruined.