The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-12
News aud Other Items

The sworn circulation of the Lordon Daily
Telegraph averages 2OO,317 daily and it publish
es bu one edition.
The Cleveland, (O.) Leader advances the
theory that the Ashtabula bridge was tampered
with by thieves, and says some of the passen-
gers were robbed.
For the first time in the history of journal
ism at the capital the press is represented by q
colored man. He furnishes news to a Phila-
delpha newspaper and to one printed in Lex
ington, Ky.
On panel in a church wall in Valparaiso,
Chill, is painting representing the Emperor
of Germany and Prince Bismarck squirming
in the flames of lelI, while the devil is poking
the Imperial Chancellor in the back with a red
hot fork.
Among the candidates for the position of
State Librarian of Indiana is Mrs. Colonel s.
s. Bass of Fort Wayne, a lady of excellent
character and fine qualifications Her husband
was the colonel of the Both Indiana, who was
killed in the service
Mr.. John Albert Bright, son of the doughty
English reformer of that name, made his first
appearance as political orator at Rochdale,
lately, in strong anti-Turkish speech. The
young man appears to be "chip of the old
block" and brilliant future is predicted for
him.
A Frenchman, tired of life, filled his bath
tub with boiling water, put in wine, whiskey,
sliced vegetables and condiments, announced
to his friends he was going to cook himself "a
! Americaile', and tumbled IN. When taken
out he was pronounced we'll done and the sea
soning perfect.
They say that Longfellow once received
business-like note, asking him to compose an
acrostic on the words my sweet girl'
"Write," said the applicant, ''as if it were some
beautiful girl with whom you were in love-
just as if it were yourself" At the foot of the
letter were the words, "Send bil.'
The Algerians who RECALLED centennial visi-
tors, last summer, with coffee, chlbouk and
Moorish music, have pitched their tent in
New York. But the public ignores them. aud
the proprietor says he is losing all the money
he made at the Centennial, besides dam
freeze"
Paris wine merchant broke through his
cellar floor into another, in which were long
rows of casks full Of choicest wine, the former
possession of Louis XIV; and lucky mason
while demolishing wall, recently, came up
on vase full of Spanish doubloons, worth
$4,000
During the Centennial exhibition tn ere were
sold at the Bible pavilion, upon the exhibition
ground, 1884 Bibles, S4S9 New Testaments and
13 332 portions of the Bible In addition to
these sales. $4,000 copies were distributed of q
little book containing Scripture verse IN 164
languages.
Three children at Marpigen, in Prussian
Rhineland, have confessed setting on foot,
last summer, story of having seen the Holy
Virgin in wood near the village, and thus
attracted many pilgrims to the sacred spot.
The three juveniles have been placed in a re-
formatory.
The latest swindle attempted ON San Fran
cisco capitalists since the Arizona diamond af-
fair is that of Oregon ''slver mud" taken from
Mud springs, Wasco county. This mud assay
ed heavily in silver, but the scientific gentle
men speedily detected that the mud obtaiued
its riches from the pulp of a quartz-mll run
ming on silver ore-or in other words, it was
salted.
News has just reached England of some an
tiquarian discoveries near Madras Fossil
men, immense urns, in which the aborigines
were increuated before the time of the Brah-
mlns, curious. pottery ware and various kinds
of implements are said to have been exhumed.
Severals of the vases or urns are more than
five feet in height and possess exquisite deco
ration