The Portland daily press., 1877-10-15
News and Other Items.

Ine GfeeKs are so courteous that they speak
OF woman with big feet, pug nose aud a
shrill voice as mistake of the angels.
The Montreal Witness says that physician
in that city is restoring the faculties of an
idiotic child by lifting depressed portions of its
skull.
Jennie June says that the real capitalist of
to-day is the servant girl, since she has eyery-
thing provided for her but clothing, and the
cost of all fabrics is less now than before the
war.
The funeral car upon which the remains of
M. Theirs rested was the same which bore the
body of the gambler Monaco The undertaken
knew no difference between these princes.
An intelligent critic comes to the conclusion
that red velvet vests must have gone out of
fashion many years ago, as none of the tramps
are wearing them now.
firm of undertakers in San Francisco
caters to the desire of its poor patrons by hir.
ing to them very costly coffin After the
funeral is over the body is secretly transferred
to cheap coffin and buried.
The late Archbishop Bayley bequeathed all
his property in New Jersey to Cardinal Nc
Closky, Bishop Laughlin and Bishop Corrigap,
and the remainder of his property to Bishops
Gibbons of Richmond, Va, Becker of VIII
mington, Del, and Kain of Wheeling, West
Virginia
The monument to the memory of Josie Lang.
maid, who was murdered by La Page at Penn
broke, N. H.. two years ago, has been nut nm
at the scene of the murder There is an in
scription upon it describing the manner of her
death.
Some of the friends of the Rev. Joseph Cook
have observed that in one Of his recent dis.
courses he laid peculiar stress upon the sen.
tence, "There is a distinction between family
wages and bachelor wages" He was married
about two months ago.
Miss Minnie E. Hodges, lady who has inst
resigned the position of cashier and money!
order clerk in the Des Moines Qowa) postofice.
handled and paid out during six years S4,OOO,-
OOO' and never made mistake of cent. At
times she had charge of the whole Office with
twenty-five or thirty clerks under her direction.
and there never was the slightest trouble.
A lady sent note to the newspaper to get a
recipe to cure the whooping cough in pair of
twins. By mistake a recipe for picklinp
onions was unconsciously inserted and her
name attached, and received this answer
through the ANSWERS to Correspondents'
Mrs. L. ID. B.-If not too young skin them
pretty closely. immerse in s,alding water,
sprinkle plentfully With salt, and immerse
them for week in strong brine.''
AT fashionable wedding breakfast in Lon
don recently, an orator of the most lueubrious
type who was beginning to weep copiously
took out as ne thought, his pocket handker-'
chief, and was greeted with shouts of unre-
strained laughter He had in his ha-d one Of
BIS Wits's silk stockings, which she had asked
him to match, and which he had forgotten to
do
1t having been discovered in New York that
many of the policemen were compelled. bv rea.
son of corDs, bunions and other pedal infrmi-
ties, to violate the order forbidding them 10 sit
down whilst on duty, the police department of
that city have appointed chiropodist, whose
duty hereafter will be TO look after the feet of
the police force
The late E L. Davenport, while struggling
to build up the drama in Philadelphia, not he
ing properly sustained in his efforts, ipeurrea
deots which he could not meet. Among his
creditors was Mr.. G. W. Child, who, saws the
Philadelphia Press, 'has, with his usual GEN.
erosty, cancelled number of bills for advar-
tising, amounting to a considerable sum. which
will thus greatly relieve Mr.. Davepport,s exscp.
tors in settling the estate.'
Inc results OF the harvest in California ara
turning out much better than was expected.
Inc grain crop has been good, although show
ing falling off from last year. A larger
amount of Oregon grain is at San Francisco for
shipment than usual on account of the unpre-
cedented low freights from that State. The
fruit crop shops an abundance of all kinds. A
large amount will be exported both in fresh
and in preserved state The crop of cranes Is
the largest ever known. 1t is estimated that
some ten or fifteen million gallons of wine will
be made, while large amount of the crop will
be sent to the East fresh and the balance cured
a raisins