The Portland daily press., 1877-04-04
News and Other Items.

1t is said that Arkansas has more news
papers according to population than any other
State in the Union.
Both Professors Douglass and Reese, who
were implicated in the ENLIGHTENMENT of funds
while they had charge of the laboratory of
Michigan University, have been dismissed and
will be prosecuted in the courts.
On a recent occasion Prince Bismarck con-
temptuously referred to the protocol drawn up
by General Ignatetf as "Russias milk poultice
for the Sick Man." His own prescription
would have been "Blood and Iron."
A bill is pending in the Illinois Legislature
for the purchase of statues OF Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen A. Douglast worth $4,000 each,
to be placed in the state Capitol. If the
statues can be finished in season they are to be
exhibited at the French Exhibition 10 1873.
Wedding cake is now prepared for fashion
which is the monogram of the bride and
bridegroom in colors Each square piece is
put into satin covered box on which orange
blossoms are worked in floss silk.
1t now comes to light that the refusal of the
German Government to take part in the Paris
Exhibition OF 1878 is intended, not as sign of
hostility to France, but as a snub and chastise-
mens for the German artists and manufacturers
who made such discredtable show at Phila-
delphia.
The Odd Fellows throughout the entire
country are making arrangements to celebrate
in an appropriate and becoming manner the
ffth-eighth anniversary of the establishment
of Odd Fellowship in American. The total
membership is now estimated at five hundred
thousand active members, which shows that
link by link the chain of Odd Fellowship is
being Heightened throughout the United
States, Canada and Europe
The New Orleans Picayune notes the curious
fact that the two banks of the Mississippi
river have different climates. A frost on one
side rarely travels across the river; while the
right banks enjoys rain the left may be
suffering from drouth. In fact the thousand
yards of the Mississippi produces the same
climatic effect as thousand miles of ocean
a difference which has of late years shown
greatly in favor of the sugar crop on the west
side.
Along with other presents which the Roman
Catholics of Manitoba, province of British
America, will send to the Pope are a valuable
moose skin Of deep black color, superbly
lined and embroidered; a fine American wolf
skin of a very unusual color, beautifully orna-
mented; jewel case made of canoe birch and
trimmed with moose skin; pair of pure white
reindeer skin gloves, embroidered with silk; a
pair of silk embroidered reindeer slippers and
complete missionary's outfit in miniature.
President Guzman of Venezuela carried his
IofM s-sa Al L.
for the General in command of the artillery of
the Venezuelan army, who was engaged to
Mr.. Russelrs daughter Nellie. and commanded
him to break off the engagement or t, accept
the alternative of Punishment and loss of his
ARE ars of pay. The General accepted the
latter alternative, and is an exile from Vene.
zuela. He went to st. Thomas with Mrs.
Russell and her two eldest daughters, and was
there married. Mrs. Russell and her daughters
will remain at st. Thomas until May.