The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-27
News and other Items.

property of John Paul Jones, VINO is now lts
editor and publisher, and "Nasby'' is only
contributor to it's columns.
The Arcadian is authorized to contradict the
report that Theodore Tilton has been retained
by the Hanging Committee of the National |
Academy of Design.
The New York city post Office is selling over |
$1,000 worth of newspaper stamps alone, day, |
The postmaster says this is a sure barometer |
of revival in business.
William Mason and George L. Croker of
Taunton, and Oliver Ames of North Easton,
Mass, have bought the Taunton Car Works for
$16 900. The original cost of the works was
$4,000.
A colored congregation in Dayton have de-
cided to forgive their clergyman for betting on
three card monte and losing 800 of festival
money. One of the deacons remarked: "We
is all human, and the game is very exciting"
The French Academy of Sciences has just
elected the emperor of Brazil corresponding
member by 43 votes out of 81. The emperor
was informed of the fact by telegraph and re-
turned thanks by the same means.
The house occupied by George Bancroft in
Washington, where he is completing his his
tory, has had for its tenants James X. Pauld-
ing, Washington Irving John P. Kennedy,
William Writ. Peter Force and Jared Sparks.
Mr.. Henry G. Jarrett proposes that twelve
four-oared crews shall be selected from among
the pupils of twelve different schools and that
they shall take part in a regatta. He offers the
winning crew free excursion to London and
back.
Strawberries are for sale now in the New
York market. A wedding breakfast the
other day there were quart of luscious ones on
the table and two ripe fresh peaches. The ber-
ries cost $13-and the peaches $40 apiece.
Belle Seymour of Memphis, worked in male
attire with gang of laborers for three months
without being, found out. The discovery was
eventually made, according to guess of the
St. Louis Globe, because she sat down on the
floor to put her shoes and stockings on.
SIT is rumored that the Brown boys used a
| little artifce in their recent spelling contest
| with the girls of the Normal School in Provi-
| dence. The words were to be selected from the
| daily papers of a certain date. The students
| therefore secretly procured the publication OF
| an article containing numerous unfamiliar
| scientific terms. Fair play boys, is jewel"
Mr.. John G. Chapman of New Haven, who
philanthropically provides postage stamps for
all unpaid letters from the office in that city,
| has lust received from New York gentleman
| who was the recipient of Ole of his favors,
| lave cigar stand of extra large size, the cigar
| receptacle filled with fragrant Havanas and
/ the match safe with postage stamps. The
| stand was adorned with the figure of a fox
| head upon pile of books in the same lava
material.
| A delegation of twenty five compostors of
the Chicago Tribune recently waited on Mr..
Joseph Medill, the editor-in-chief, to obtain his
advice on the subject of an expedition to the
Black Hills, which was meditated by them.
Some personal "reminiscences of his experiences
| as California miner, related by Mr. Medill,
we're sufficient to deter them from the project
ed undertaking.
| Plus TX, says Rome correspondent, is one
| of the readiest, one of the most fluent speakers
of the day. Give him text, and, with greater
| promptitude than the mprovisasoria can string
verses together, he can pour forth on the mo-
ment flood of eloquence. He is born preach
er, and, had his mission been to follow in the
| steps of Paul rather than those of Peter, he
would rank among the first pulpit orators Of
the day.
Mr.. Moody, the American revivalist, who is
now making so many converts in London, was
a colonel in the Union army. 1t is told of him
that on one occasion, when he was leading on
his regiment he exclaimed, "Give 'em h-ll,
| boysp' During his subsequent career as re-
| vivalist, one of his old comrades related the
Incident and this brought out a card from
Moody, who declared that he never used pro
fame language, and that what he really said
was '"Give em Hail Columbia, boysp
1t is related that Gen. Andrew jackson main
tanned, with some profanity, that there could
be difference of opinion concerning the archi-
lecture of certain words. and true to his theory
he occasionally spelled excellent" with one J.
and once demanded Indignantly of captious
critic eff e-x-t-r-e-a-m don't spell extreme,
what in thunder does it spell?" He. too, it
| was who averred 'that the man who can't spell
word more ways than one must be fool"
An Englishman distinguishes the floors of a
house from tale of fiction by calling them 'sto-
! reys'-which would undoubtedly be condemn
ed on the Bostonian patform-and Americans
commodity misspell ths word which he writes
'kerbstone"; pedagogues are divided in opin-
as to whether ''befal,' "rascal," traveller, -
&c.; should have one '1'' or two; and numerous
similar instances might be -adduced. Then
again there are modes of spelling which alto
gether etymologcally indefensible, are almost
sanctioned by general usage, as where writers
and proof readers persist in using the Greek
'zeta'' in the last syllable of Latin words like
"civilize,' or, if they be taught its improperly
in such connection (Which, by the way, our
British con-or contemporaries write ''connex-
ion), supplant it by an indiscriminate $50 in
Greek derivatives like "sympathize." Where
the Hellenistc scribe wishes to retain the
"kappd'' the modern proof reader defes ety.
mology and orthoey by substituting &c" in
.sceptio" and its congeners, and each cites his
favorte dictionary in support OF his views of
the question. s'Spellng matches may be of
service in populariziug the respective sequence
of letters in 'detach'' and dispatch" seize"
and 'siege,' "receive" and ''releve," and may
even induce the provincial journalist or peda
gogue not to spell the penultimate Of prevent,
| with an ''a''; but in the absence of any fixed
criterion, photography of considerable part of
the English vocabulary is like that of Mr.
1 Ha1Ia n, fact