The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-20
News and Other Items.

The Empress of Germany patronizes female
dentists.
The President of Dartmouth College refuses
to permit Theodore Tilton to lecture before the
students who had engaged him.
Cider apples are so plentiful in some parts of
Connecticut that they are offered at 121 cents
per bushel
The editor of the Digby Courier, IN. S. } an
nounees there will be no paper this week. as he
is to visit his subscribers on a collecting tour.
With its issue of Monday morning the New
York Times completed the first quarter century
of its existence. The special number of Mon
day contains fac simile of the first ISSUE
Queen Ldgiwidgi Tancanismi, the last sur
viving native of Tasmania, is dead at the age
of 70. She was called Lalla-Rookh by the
white population. She had been married five
times and each time to a king.
A New York paper has this slanderous para
graph: "Orange county has musical associa-
ton that is over fifty years old. One or two
young ladies have belonged to it ever since it
was organized"
A st. Petersburg paper asserts that Russia
has at present nearly 100000 men under arms
apd 2670 field pieces, aud that the army can be
the reserves.
The Illinois Second Adventists are looked
upon as frauds. They predicted the end of the
world in October, and as soon as there was a
fall in the price of coal they commenced to put
in their winters stock of fuel.
A Chinese bedstead at the Centennial Exhi-
bition is covered with canopy which presents
panels of embroidered silk of great beauty. In
the night the light in the room would show
through the transparent background, and re-
lieve the representations of Chinese story pic
lures on the silk. The price of this bedstead is
only $4,000.
In the main building stood before the $4O,-
600 necklace, in company with an old mau and
his two daughters, and heard him say: "For-
ty thousand dollars for them strings of glass
beadsp' "They are diamonds, pa, not glass
beads" said his daughter. II don't care If they
are diamonds. Mary Ann; you can't make me
believe that diamonds no bigger than them, are
worth SAC, Centennial Letter.
A new occupation is said to have sprung up
in France. 1t consists simply in being ready
to drink wine when asked, and to look respect.
able. The followers of this vocation keep
within reach of candidates for the Assembly,
and hold themselves ready as occasion requires
to drink to the success of the Republic. The
object is to prevent the candidates from getting
too full in the process of breaking BOTTLE as
frequently as is required by the exigencies of
an active canvass.
The idiosyncracies of travelling Englishmen
have long been the cause of continental won
der, but there are two red-headed sons of AL
bion at Naufzen, near Berne, Switzerland, who
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English eccentricity They appear DESTROYS Of
emulating Dickens Tom fiddler, living out of
doors, subsisting on herbs and berries. AS they
have no money. which is especially inexcusa-
BILE in a travelling Englishman, the Swiss au-
thorities have locked them up as Migrants.
A st. Louis woman who had been addicted
to intoxicatiop, essayed to swallow glass of
laudanum the other day, but just as she was
raising the glass to her lips her half drunken
husband came in, and supposing it to be some
kind of liquor, snatched it from her hand and
drank it himself. She watched him while he
slept off the effects of the dose and as he didn'
die, she concluded to try something more effec-
ual. The same night. she took teaspoonfuI of
arsenic and the next day she was corpse.
Anecdotes of Henry A. Wise are now in or
der. 1t is said that when the City of Norfolk
was desolated by yellow-fever, 20 years ago,
aud the people in the neighboring country re.
fused all intercourse with the inhabitants, Mr..
Wise invited the citizens sick and we'll, to
seek the fresh air of his plantation He was
not protesting Christian, yet he showed no
fear of death, saying it was not only fearful,
but wonderful thing to stapd in the presence
of the living God. "My life has been devoted
to virtue and integrity, and L can say that 1
never tried to rob penniless man, and, what
is easier, never tried to rob rich one.''