The Portland daily press., 1876-01-20
News and Other Items.

A Missouri murderer has been sentenced to
SO years in the penitentary.
Mrs. Moulton is to sue Mr.. Beecher for libel
in accusing her of perjury at the Plymouth
church meeting Friday night.
The French war steamer Segnelay, which
has just sailed from Toulon for the South
Seas, is armed with torpedoes instead of guns
Senator Oglesby of Illinois secured a jar of
water from the Jordan when he was in Pales-
tine twenty years ago. He used it last week at
the baptism of his son.
Among the articles to be brought from Eu-
rope for the Centennial by the store.ship Sup
ply are specimen of antique Moorish archi-
lecture, to be used by the Moorish government
in its department of the exhibition, .and the
naval monument sculptured by Simmons.
So thorou ghly consistent is the editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, that when last week a
man came to the office desiring the insertion of
seized club and drove him odt, though the
customer offered to pay for it in gyeenbacks-
~ Y. World. 90 n.t
An ingenious thief at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has been detected in the act of catching his
neighbors' chickens by batting a fishhook with
corn, attaching it to strong line, and pulling
through fence the fowls which swallowed the
bait .r-" F5 lFt f.ra= t.7-l..
The meanest man in the world resides at
present in Northern Ohio He went on to
Cincinnati to attend his brother funeral, and
then coolly sent in bill to the executors for
$4z5O, itemized as travelling expenses, hotel
bills, and $3.50 per day Cor 'time' consumed in
attendance Irt sa4 ug- rag l rle-t t-4..
G. H. Hazelton of Greensboro, Vermont has
little girl four years old, who, when about
three months old, fell off the bed, striking on
the back of her head, hurting her severely.
Very soon after this her head began to grow
rapidly, and in three months had increased 8
inches in circumference All efforts to arrest
thu growth prove futile. The head now meas
ures 26A inches one way, and 24a the other.
The expansion of tie head seems to be all
above the eyes. - r'--- .
The cooking school recently started in Boston
has been successful. 1t is under the manage
ment of company of ladies, who hire the
rooms and see that the cook teacher is compe-
tent, The lessons Of. two hours each are given
to classes of two, three or four, or to single
pupil, at the preference of the learner. The
pupils do the cooking themselves under the d.
rection of the teachers, and may, if they wish,
eat what they cook. Many of the classes are
composed of middle-aged ladies. who are excel
lent housekeepers. but go to cooking school to
learn to make delicacies or ornamental dishes,
in which the teacher excels.
While unloading ship at Marseilles, which
had just arrived from Batavia, three immense
boa constructors were awakened from their
lethargy and advanced toward the terrified
men, who had only just time to hoist them
selves on deck and close the matches. Two
pigeons were poisoned with strychnine and
dropped into the hold. They were deyoured at
once, but only two of the serpents died. The
tbird reptile has not been seen again, and it
is with the greatest trouble that the captain
can get men to assist him in unloading the
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