The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-25

TO their health the Captains and other officers
ia Garrison are hereby Directed to use their ut
most Endeavors to Cause the Molasses that
may be issued to the Troops 10 be used in Brew
ing Beer az aforesad-it the Soldiers in Spght
of all precautions will Eat it and Bring them
selves into bad Habits of Body, they must own
it their own faults Jos FRYE
Colonel q Commanding Officer of the Garrison.
The Genedlogist has shown steady improve
ment from the start and deserves large aud
hearty support by all who are interested In
family history and the antiquities of the State.
The next and fourth number of the journal
completes tho first year of its publication, and
unless further encouragement be given there is
danger that it may suspend. An addition of
nifty names to the subscription list will hOwev-
er ensure its continuance, and it is to be hoped
that the effort will be made, for, as the editor
remarks, there is vast amount of material re-
lating to family history scattered through the
State, which If not soon gathered up will be
lost Address W. B. Lspham, Augusta Me.
BidckWoodS Magazine for March has been
issued by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., Al
Barclay street. New York. The following are
the contents, briefly told Secondary Education
in Scotland, shows bow the primary schools
have been extended and re-organized in Scot
land, and how desirable il is TO adopt some
measures for filling up the gap between them
and the Universities with Secondary schools.
Some Aspects of Friendship is rambling
article, giving quotations from Jeremy Taylor,
Lord Bacon, and others, and concluding that
Friendship is the touchstone of merit. A
man must have many good qualities, as we'll
as freedom from many uncouth ones
to be friend in the true sense of the word
and having them, friendship keeps them in ex-
ercise.
To "Maimey" (M'Aymez). stanzas to dam
sci of fifteen, who wishes to abbreviate herself
to "May." Elton College. An interesting
account of the foundation of this old institution,
by Henry VI, who planned, and watched over
the building, and the chief feature of whose
idea was, ''the college in distinction-the re-
ligious corporation of provost and fellows, for
whom he built his chapel, and to whom he Sc
cured various privileges of special indulgence
from Rome" Some Gentlemen in the City is
sketch of the rise of the Guldensterns, Conrad
Lloyd. Emanuel Bags aud others of the more
prominent London financiers Powers of the
Air. Some years ago, a friend described some
things that had occurred at a spiritual seance
at which he was present, and when asked what
he thought caused the demonstrations, an
swered: 81 don't know; think it was horns"
The writer of this article seems to have arrived
at the same conclusion. He certainly has a
firm belief in the devil. The Opening of Par
lament refers to the various bills that will &C.
cur the attention of the present session, all Of
which 'are likely to be passed without serious
opposition"
Number 1859 of the Lifting Age, bearing date
March 18th, is the last of the current volume
This and the preceding weekly number con
tain the following, among other valuable ar.
ticles; Modern English Prose, Fortnghtly Re-
view; Dutch Guiana, by w. Clifford Palgraye,
part III; The Pope and Magma Charter, by
Cardinal Manning, Contemporary Review;
George Eliot's Heroines, Spectator; Mazarin,
by the author of Mirabeau, ETC., Temple Bar,
Some Traits of Composer Macmillan; Caro-
line Herschel, Temple Bar; The Two Amperes
Edinburgh Review; Matthew Prior, Cornhill;
A Winter Mornings Ride, Macmillan; The
Drainage of the Zuyder-Zee, Nature; together
with the story of Bee or Beatrix, from Black
wood, and the continuation of The Dilemma:
the usual select poetry, miscellany, etc.