The Portland daily press., 1878-08-08

/ power. The name of Kearney, the Com
munist, was greeted with enthusiastic cheers.
Cap and Bells.
To the victors belong one sixteenth Of the
spoils I'll take the other ffteen.-Beacons-
field Chicago Tribune.
Diplomacy is business which can only be
prosecuted conscientiouslv when 1t Is done ur-
scrupulously. French Mdrim.
Similia sinash5as curantur: Sulphur comes
from Vesuyius, therefore it is good for erup-
tions.
Yang map, don't be afrade to bio yare own
horn, but don't do it in front Nv the proceshun;
60 behind and do it.
"Take back the heart that thou gavest,'' as
the gambler said to his pal, who had passed
him under the table the wrong card to fill the
| fush.-Puck
Mosquitoes are bred upon the waters. We
ardently wish they would not return until af.
ter many days, and thus fulfill the Scriptural
promise.
The man who kan. talk with yu 10 minnitts
on an ordinary bzzness subiekt without ex-
pressin a crate anxiety about the welfare ov
yure soul, wants the klussest kind ov watching
Lsdy giving an apple 10 little boy): "Giye
| this apple to the one of Us three here whom
| you think the handsomest' The boy looked
for moment as all three ladies, took the apple,
and-ate it.
| A boy with patch on his knee can't be
hired to go on an errand to the next house, but
he will follow band wagon all over town and
never realize that he isn't dressed in broad
cloth.-Detron Free Press.
81 admit" said one dramatist of another,
SHAT he has wit, but it is heavy w.t."
"Heavy wit? What difference is there be-
tween heavy. wit and any other kind Of wit?''
| "Precsely the difference that there Is between
smell and perfume."-N. Y. World.
The young man had ben giving his views
about everything to everybody for an unen-
durable half hour, when the old man said, with
nice courtesy, Il beg your pardon, sir, bat II
you begin teaching at eighteen, when do you
intend to begin learning anythiog?'
A nature Phryne was making herself con-
spicuous at the opera by talking loudly to the
! two young men who accompanied her. "What
bad example that woman is giving her sons"
said jp STAGE whisper spectator in an al,
source.-Pdris paper ~anca -. AaAs
A little boy ran away from home, aud while
enjoying himself in forbidden fields thunder
storm came up and it began to hail His
guilty conscience needed no accuser. Running
home be burst into the presence of his aston
ished mamma, exclaimiog breathlessly: "Ms,
ma, Gods frowing stones at meY'
Mrs. Lucy Hooper says that when she saw
ex-Empress Eugenie she had "her head loaded
with false yellow hair" Perhaps Eugenie
'didn't know it was loaded.-Norristo,on Her.
aid. Why, how ABSURD. She carries the hair
trigger, aud how could it 20 off at night If it
were not loaded? What thoughtlessnsss.-
Philadelphia Bulletin.
If Frenchman attends his wife funeral, he
always walks. A certain newly made widower,
who had seemed inconsolable, went through
the usual form. Afterwards some friends
called, expecting to find him plunged still in
the deepest grief To their surprise he was
quite lively. "Vrainaent, he said, ''cette petite
promenade ma fat du bien."-London World.
81 never knew whether to consider as Joke
or a fact the story OF the child who, being
aaked whether he had been baptized, said
"Yes, but it didn't taker I can now easily be-
lieve it the latter, having actually heard lit
tie boy seriously ask the following question:
Mother, what does being baptized keep you
from taking g?"-Inder
The Norristown Herald says: "James Cor
don Bennett arrived home few days ago and
was Immediately surrounded by dozen news
paper interviewers. At first be refused to be
interviewed, but finally consented to say some-
thing about the May Bennett duel. Removing
his hat he showed where bullet had struck
him in the occiput, passed through the brain
and came out Of his forehead just above the
left eye. The reporter was permitted to insert
bis lead pencil six inctes In the cavity left by
the bullet Mr.. B. then unbuttoned his shirt
band and displayed where he was shot in the
neck--an ugly scar; and tearing open his shirt
front exposed another gaping wound. A bullet
had entered his left breast, tore through his
heart and come out under his left shoulder
blade. Mr. Bennett took his small rattan cane
poked 1t into the aperture and drew it out on
the other side. These are all the wounds he
received. His escape is looked upon as mira
Gle. Mr.. May, according to Mr.. Bennetts
statement, also escaped with slight injuries.
His right leg was carried away, the top of his
head shot off and his carotid artery perforated.
That was all. Aad yet it must have hurt
him.