The Portland daily press., 1876-10-25
News and Other Items.

OPP cratic audiences in Dublin are "noisy, in-
dignant and judicious," according to a paper
of that city
A pretty reply of French mother: (which
of your children do you love most%' "Always
the one that is absent"
An Atlanta girl carried out the theory of
"squatter sovereignty" by sitting on her lovers
hat and keeping him three hours over time.
To get up handkerchief filtration, says the
Detroit Free Press: "Rule first. Get two
handkerchiefs and two fools. Want the other
five?
"Ten-cent socials" are to be introduced in
Rochester this winter, says the Democrat and
Chronicle. They will cost fifteen cents at the
best places in the city.
Mr.. Lunn is running for Congress in Kansas
The Norwich Bulletin says if there is any
thing in family name he ought to succeed.
His sister, Sally, is generally liked about here.
The Californian who has beard five feet
long is mere downy cove beside the Philadel-
phia German who has nine feet of beard as the
result of fifteen years abstinence from the
razor.
Mr.. William Black, the English novelist,
and the Rev. Henry M. Dexter, editor of the
Congregationalist, were among the outgoing
European passengers from New York on Sat-
urday, and Mrs. Jane G. Swlsshelm and Mrs.
Alexander 7. Stewart were among the incom-
ing
at meeting of the Woman's Board of Mis-
sions at Hartford, during the American Board
week, suggestion that special thank-offering
would be suitable in this cen-gorious year
mazda auph an inopr
ton lady that, on her return home, she sent
$500.
Butler has bad time trying to excuse his
failure to pay his subscription to Phillips Acad-
envy, Andover, Mass, on the ground that it
has not admitted colored students. Mr.. Ban
croft, its principal, publishes a card saying that
''long before the war of 1861 coored men were
occasionally members of the institution, were
regularly graduated, and sometimes with hon
ors."
Col. Bud Bates of Laurel county, KY, and
his wife, who are probably the tallest married
pair in the country, have just started on tour
through the South for the purpose of exhibit.
ing themselves. The Colonel is seven fe ct
eleven inches in height and weighs about five
hundred pounds. and Mrs. Bates is eight feet
and half an inch high and weighs four humid
red pounds.
Mount Ararat has been successfully ascend
ed by Mr.. Brice of Lincoln's Inn, London
This is believed to be either the third or fourth
ascent, the first having been made by Parrot in
1874, and the second by Abich in 1850, The
mountain is ,2l2 feet in hight, and the last
4ooo feet had to be climbed alone, the Corsack
escort refusing to 60 further The Armenians
of the neighborhood believe the mountain to he
inaccessible, and insist that Noah's ark still re-.
mains upon the summit.
Refractory mistresses will do we'll to read
the signs of the times and put their houses in
order. There is published in Berlin the Jour
nal of Cooks and Housema DIS, in which house
keepers who lock up their butter and sugar
and infict other indignities upon their SER
wants are held up to public obliquy by name.
A large number of the subscribers of the paper
nave bound themselves not to enter the service
OF any woman who has been advertised three
times within the year.
Inc funeral services of the late Francis P
BLAIR were solemnized last Saturday at Silver
Springs, Nd, where he died. Some wears apo
Mr. Blair had said that all the associates of his
young days having died, he wished that his
body might be borne to the grave by his grand
sons, and, in compliance with that wish. eioht
of the sons of Gen. f. P. Blair James blair
and Montgomery Blair acted as pail bearers
Montgomery Blair, Jr., bright-looking bow
about Ii years old, walking at the head of the
coffin.