The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-01
News and Other Items.

Mr. Therold Rogers, late professor of politi
cal'economy in the University of Oxford, re-
Gently gave in Lendon an address, in which he
denied that the English Established Church
wasga guarantee for the maintenance of Pro-
testant doctrines. He declared that it was dis
tracted by intestine divisions, that while it had
been established for three centuries, the nation
had not been educated and that while counte-
nancng schools to be maintained by the state,
it intended not to educate in them, but to pros
elytize.
In England blacks and whites are buried to-
gether. A despatch announces that ''Sir Chas.
Lyell was buried on Saturday with Great
Pomp."
A two-year old lioness in a menagerie at
Cincinnati burst her bars a few days ago to
get at passing donkey. She succeeded in
seiziDg and terribly lacerating the poor beast,
but the latter finally turned upon the lioness
and forced her off. The Queen of the forest
had the range of the park for the rest of the
day, creating great excitement, but she was
finally shot and killed.
A Brooklyn young woman sends this valua-
BILE information to New York paper: GAN
girls are pleased to have their attractions recog-
nized in certain genteel way-the eyes linger-
ing for an instant only but prolonged stare
from man, no matter how handsome he may
be, excites nothing but feeling of annoyance
and disgust"
A prosperous merchant and an opponent of
woman suffrage recently stated ''that more
than twenty-five per cent, of the men who
gage in active business fail; while statistics
prove that women doing business for them
selves seldom fail, but are as rule successful.
This says the merchant, II attribute to their
prudence, foresight, and horror of debt"
Hermann, the prestidigitateur, was married
the other day by Mayor Wickham of New
York, and he indicated his thsnkfulness by ex-
tracting roll of bills from the Mayors pocket,
and then suddenly and mysteriously making
it disappear while throwing it at the inter-
prefer:
And now it is Memphis that comes to the
front with shining eyes and wet with pride.
She's got cross-eyed cat.
1t was asked of the Houston Telegraph,
"Who wrote that article?" and the reply was:
''The man who wrote that article early in life
was hard working blacksmith, later he was
deck hand on steamboat, then he was a cow
boy on the frontier, but Of late years he has
only became an editor to reduce his flesh by
starvation so as to become more of a success in
his peculiar line." The man who put the ques-
tion is supposed to remark, "Thank you, II
merely inquired out of curiosity, and I'm more
than satisfied
Mark Twain says: ''To the poor whites
along the Mississippi River, chills are a merci-
full provision of Providence, enabling them to
take exercise without exertion.'
The presentation of petition to the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, begging the revocation OF
the sentence of Punishment against Roger
Williams, passed in 1885, is one of those quiet
bits of humor which ELI Perkins hears of
occasionally and adapts.
Gladstone's pamphlet promises to net him
nearly $4,000 He has already realized ST.
500.
Cardinal McCloskey was classmate of Car
dinal Cullen of Dublin, at the Propaganda in
Rome. Both are known as Cardipal Arch
bishops.
Thirteen Episcopal bishops have been elected
since the last general convention, five mission
ary and ten diocesan. OF these seven have
been copsecrated, four have declined, and two
await confirmation. One missionary jurisdic-
ton (Chinal, and two dioceses (Iowa and Fond
du Lac) remain vacant.
Cardinal Manning, in accordance with a Csu-
al custom, will take his title from some church
| in Rome, and he has selected the church of st.
Gregory, after whom he will be called. If by
any possibility he sbonld be elevated to the
| papacy he would therefore become Pope Grego-
| ry XVII.
Al e ha Mo
| ican bandit, who threatened dire vengeance on
certain citizens Of California if the latter was
| hanged visited his mother, who resides In Hol-
| lister. Cal, few nights after the execution.
| While speaking of the hanging of Vasquez he
| cried like a child He went from his'mother's
| bouse 10 a RESTAURANT, and was recognized by
| tbe nroprietor and also visited two or three
| saloons where he was known. As soou as the
restaurant man aud others had sufficiently re-
covered from their fright they gave the alarm,
and crowd of the citizens were soon on the
track of the bandit, but nothing more was seen
of him
The Oldest Fourth of July orator in Massa-
chusetts is Mr.. Benjamin Hobart of Abingdon,
now ninety-four years of age, who delivered
the Grafton on Independence Day in that town
in the year 1905. The Oldest survivor of those
who have spoken on the Fourth OF July
before the city authorities of Boston, is Mr..
John G. Gray, now resident of Cambridge.
He delivered the GRAFTON in the year 1879. Mr..
GRAY is an uncle of Chief Justice Horace Gray
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,, and
was GRADUATED at Harvard College in 1911.
Edward Everett, Chancellor Dunkin and the
Rev. DIR. Samuel Gilman of South Carolina,
the Rev. DIR. Nathaniel l.. rockingham, Chief
Justice Lane of Ohio, and Professor John W.
Webster we're amonp his classmates