The Portland daily press., 1877-11-17
Nervs and Other Items.

The most sensitive woman known lives at
Shell Rock, Ia. The slightest odor of tobacco,
ether benziue or kerosene will throw her into
commissions She came near dying the other
day on going into room which man with
piece of tobacco in his mouth had entered some
time before, although the room had been thor
oughly aired afterward
Martin Ii. Boyee, the anti-capital punish
ment apostle, is in bad odor in Iowa. He is
charged with collecting dozens of subscriptions
to his book on capital punishment, and forget
ting to furnish the books, and also with general
dead-beating.
The griddle for baking 'griddIe-cakes' alone,
in the new Stewart hotel for working women at
New York, is an iron structure, set off by it.
SELF and in size seven feet wide by thirteen feet
long.
Much Installation has been caused in Ben
nington, Vermont, where Moody and Sankey
have agents at work, by the public reading of
the names of business men and others for whom
prayers are requested without consultation with
them.
Interesting statistics are given by the Lexing-
ton tKy.) Gazette, thus: "Three old, long and
lean drinkers of this city just joined the Muir
ply movement just one month ago, and were
weighed day or two ago. One, the longest
and leanest, had gained exactly ten pounds,
the others eight and half pounds each. The
first figured up his account with the temperance
cause about thus: Cash saved SIS; flesh gained
($5 per pound) $50; in feeling $500; to his fam
lily $4,000; total $l0,625.
The latest weapon adopte by the opponents
nf Ehinaca IS ho hat Lon
rosy is a common disease among the coolies
and has been in some cases communicated to
white people. An unnamed San Francisco
doctor is said to have three cases under his care
-one hat of white woman, another that of a
man who claims to have caught the disease
from smoking Chinese cigars and sailor man,
ed Allen, who says he went on a spree eighteen
months ago among the dens of Chinatown.
Prof. Cunning has been lecturing in the West
on the glacial epoch. He says that in million
years the glaciers will be at work again in New
England, but that, after 100000 years of pos
session by the ice, she will come out again as
good as new.
New York city has ''penny restaurant
where small cup of coffee, bread and butter
pork and beans, slice Of corn beef, musb oai
meet and boiled rice may be obtained at a cost
= of one cent for each item. 1t is newspaper
mans enterprise, was started on the 9th inst.
and is proving success
lawyer at Pesth has left a legacy of 0,00t
forms as fund out of the accumulated inter
est on which dowry is to be paid to any mem
Der of the ballet at the theatre who contracts
legitimate marriage.
Evan the Ouakata ara heconinU tincfura
with the wordliness of these degenerate times
They were building meeting house at Iowa
Falls, Ia, and wanted money therefor, but the
young folks would not give cent unless 6
steeple was put upon the edifce. So the elders
granted the point, and now Iowa Falls boasts
probably the only Quaker meeting house with
steeple in the world.
An unusual feature at swell wedding il
New York Wednesday was signing by the
guests of their names 10 the marriage contract
which was of vellum or parchment, beautifully
engrossed.
The Pope was photographed recently, Three
attempts were necessary, and he wrote under
the portrait, "My last picture"
Mrs. Morton is Frustrated by her watchful.
ness over her husband, and her friends think
she will not long survive the Senator, although
she is preparing to leave for New Haven, to re.
main there there till her youngest son completes
his college course
Girard College is to be thrown kopen to chill.
dron fIom New York who can comply with the
terms OF TIE bequest Although clergymen
are excluded from the college, the Bible is
taught, habits of prayer are formed, and SER
vices conducted by laymen are regularly held in
chapel recently constructed for worship or
Sunday.
A lad of fourteen years died recently al
Charlottetown, P. E. l., from the effects Of ex-
cessive smoking. He had for some time smok-
ed so much as to make him delirous. Medical
testimony went to show that death resulted