The Portland daily press., 1875-12-28

Mr. Plimsoll has secured Immortality already
whether he ever has a monument or not A
short, yellow band, painted amidships, about
six inches below that which has always been
regarded as the ships water line, which is being
put upon British vessels by order of the board
of admiralty, is called by the sailors "Plim-
SOILS mark" 1t will make considerable dif-
ference in the amount of cargo which it will be
lawful for the ship to carry.
A young woman of Albany, Ca, slightly an
t:cpated leap year tine other day by writing to
young man in an adjoining town that she had
heard him highly spoken of, and if he saw fit
to pay her visit and could stan d satisfactory
examination, she would reward him with heart
aad hand. He accepted the proposition and
started at once to see the fair one, was inspect
ed and received, and the couple were married
the next day.
Cardinal Manning has been lecturing on ma
tional greatness. in the course of his address
he said that he believed that in no country in
the world was the administration of justice
more unimpeachable than in England; in in
ternational justice, also, the nation held fore
most place. The Cardinal expressed his firm
conviction that one way to prevent b!nodshed
was to be powerfully armed.
An aged negro of Columbus, Ga, swears
he is 1872 gears old. He says he was born in
Africa, and when a child, out in the woods eat
ing bananas, Gen. Washington came over in a
sailing vessel and captured him. He was
Washington's body servant for number of
years. till finally the general got vexed and sold
him to a man in Columbus. OF course he has
applied for front seat at Philadelphia.
Two little girls, with very pretty dresses and
lady-lke manners, entered Madison avenue
car yesterday, and, after seating themselves,
one said to the other, in very earnest voice:
sDolly dear, do you know what am going to
give you for Chrstmas?" ''Oh, don't tell me"
said Dolly. slet it be surprise" 20, must
tell you, so that we can arrange it all. You
know my mamma has a beautiful seal-skin
sacque that papa gave her last winter. Well,
am going to get that and take IL over to your
house, and give it 10 you. Then you must give
it to me, aad I'll take it back 10 mamma's room.
Then, when those horrid Ritchie girls begin to
tell about all their presents and things, we can
say that we each got a perfectly lovely seal skin
sacque that cost ever so much. o, won't they
be jealous though!'-Ne,o York Tribune.
Just 113 and Ill years are the respective ages
of a man and wife named Fruits, who live in
Montgomery county, Ind. They have been
married for s. years The old man stands up
as straight as ramrod, and does quite good
deal of work every day. BE has always been
moderate liver, and uses no tobacco, which is
an argument against tobacco users. But his
wife has been a steady smoker for sixty years,
which is an argument in favor of tobacco. The
old lady IS afflicted with cancer, which made
its appearance upon heI forehead forty years
ago, and which she is now doctoring with coal
oil. At obe time in her life she weighed 225
pounds, but gradually shrunk away till now she
tips the beam at 125.
Grasshoppers are good for something, 1t
seems. A recent report on the fisheries, issued
from the office Of the French minister of ma.
rine, says that the French saIdine fishery de-
pends very much on the large supplies of Gods
roe, which is used as a bait for the fish, and
which is imported from Sweden and Norway
and from North America for the purpose. The
demand for this bait has been so extensive as
almost to have exceeded the supply, and prices
have consequently risen to very high figure
DR.. Morvan of Douarnenez, Finisterre, has dis
covered substitute for this bait in the locust
or grasshopper which, when prepared in GER
tain manner, either by boiling or baking, and
being afterwar9 made into paste, forms an
excellent lure for the sardine.