The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-02
The Wide World.

A family of seven persons at Wilmington.
O., ate last year. 1 ,165 pies
The Mount Sterling Sunday Loafer and VIM
chester Smooth Coon are two esteemed con.
temporsries in Kentucky.
Judges in Hancock county, KY, according to
the Plain Dealer, squat under the Goddess of
Justice and shake their CORY locks
AT Dunmow Margaret Chapman has been
sent to Jail week for picking a penay's worth
OF wheat ears from cleaning field. The ruth
less prosecutor, Mr.. Joseph Unwlu, holds that
any cleaners but the wives of his laborers are
Boaz.
Erler, OF Leipsic has taken out a patent for
making up furs without sewing. For this pur-
pose he spreads out the furs on table of hard
wood, and applying solution of Iudia rubber
and bsnzine with stiff brush, passes the ma.
terial between rolers This permits the union
OF narrow strips of skin into uniform sheet,
in which no line of junction is appreciable on
the outside. A saving of thirty per cent. is
claimed for this process.
"Peacs in Constantinople, peace in st. Pc
tersburg, peace in Bsrlin and Paris, in WASH
ington and London, peace where the Crescent
wanes and the Lion and the Cross wave peace
where'er our starry banner gleams,' peace 10
the Bedouin's tent and the E:qu maux hut,
peace along the busy marts and the great noisy
quays, peace where'er man breathes or thinks
or feels, peace in all our hearts aud all our
homes,' such is the platform put forth in his
salutatorS by Georgia eitor: Bat wait till
reptile contemporary alludes to his ears or his
shears.
London Figaro easily shows that pretended
American, writing to the London World about
hotels, is no American, because, while trying to
assume the Yankee style of expression, he
shows lack of familiarity with peculiarly
American phrases. For instance: "American's
say Railroad not railway they say "a hotel,
not AN hotel;' andirons, not fire dogs;' that's
So not that is so;' 'uaggsge, not luggage
'parquet,' or reserved Seats not 'stals; right
away not right off the reel;' ,shirt.bosom,'
net 'shirt'front;' on hand, or 'on deck, not 'to
The FORE and many other things besides"
Figaro might have added that this World
writer awkwardly overdid in his attempt at
Americanizng his language, and aside from
this English use Of words aud phrases, wrote
as no American was ever known to writs.
Early in October the Cincinnati College of
Music will be opened for the reception of stu
dents. The recently issued prospectus men
tions the following departments of instruction:
l. Inc Voice, including SOLO singing and cho.
rus classes;2 2, The Orchestra, with special in
struction upon each instrument, and concerted
playing in trio, guar tette, and full orchestra; g.
Theory, embracing harmony, counterpoint in
strumentation, and composition; 4. Piano-Forte
Playing; 5. The Organ; 6. History oil Music
and Lectures upon Musical Sabjects 7. Score
playing and Conducting; s. Lsuguages-Ital-
ian, German and Ffench 8. Eocuton; 10.
Coucert-room Department, Dramatic Express
sion, These departments of instruction will be
notified, or others added as circumstances re-
quire As part of their musical education
students will have free admission to the re-
hearsals Of the symphony and chamber con.
certs, given under the direction of the college,
The German Socialists have distributed many
thousands of copies of their Popular Calen-
dar." Among the dates it contains are the
following: January 9 QS73)-Napoleou Ill.
incarnation of abi3ctuess in power" "Janua-
ry 2lQ793)-Louis XVI. guillotiued for high
treason; pitifully weak.minded hypocrite,
nevertheless regarded as a saint January
2S (Sl4)-Charlemagne, ,prototyp pc of the crowned
brigaud, destroyed the last vestiges of German
liberty" "Febtuary s Q725)-Peter L., sur
named the Great By fatteiers of princes. A
brute, and also Emperor Of Russia" "Aptil
QS7l)-Gostave Fiourens, Gsueral of the
Commune, massacred by the Knaves of the
Hangmsn of Versailles" MAY 2S QS7l)-
The incorruptibls Dslsscluze killed on the bar-
ricades.''