The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-21


vice among other to voters:
If anybody tells you the country needs more
money" ask him at once how much ne owes
II he answers correctly you will discover that
he is stuck with high-priced and unproduc-
tive real estate, and wants more money" in
order to ''stick' somebody else with it.
When you are asked to subscribe to the "dol-
lar of our fathers" tell the speaker promptly
that you want a dollar worth hundred cents.
Whatever may be the truth about the great
silver question one thing is certain-nobody
wants an IS cent dollar, and that is the reason
why Secretary Sherman finds it so impossible
to get the new silver dollars into circulation.
THE Democratic papers are saying that
the Temperance Picnic to come off here next
week is in the Republican interest because
it occurs on the same day as Secretary Sher-
mans speech. The Leader says SOlon
Chase will be present at the Picnic and
make an address. Why don't the Demo-
ocratic papers denounce the affair as in the
interest of the Greenbackers? But it must
be confessed that anything that aids tenn
perance is in the interest of the Republi-
cans
CORRESPONDENT of the State Democrat
who.jeers at Daniel F. Davis, accuses him
of fighting ''for hard money in the war of
the Rebellion. We are glad to see this cor
respondent admitting that the cause of the
Union and the cause of hard money are one,
but regret that he should couple the admis-
sion with sneer at brave soldier.
THE Democratic and Greenback papers
are industriously circulating the lie that
Agnes jerks has position in the Treasury
Department. Some of them know it false
hood, while the less intelligent ones probab-
ly believe it.
II. NJ. HEATH, one of the ablest young
men in the State, and the Republican candi-
date in Kennebec for County Attorney, chi al
lenges his Greenback competitor, "Capt."
R. W. Black, to public discussion in the
principal towns of the County.
THE National Tribune still declines to
tell the truth about the State expenditures.
1t declines to. say anything. Silence is con-
fession-confession that it has misrepresent-
ed the facts in the case
THE Leader is jocose. 1t says "there is
rumor that the Hon. j. G.. Blaine will chal-
lenge Mr.. Elliot King to a joint discussion
in Raymond"
In the Gardiner Republican club there are
seventy men who were Greenbackers last
year, the Bangor Wing learns.
Cap and Bells.
Utica Observer The eloping young lady of
the period is the lily of the valet.
New Haven Register: Listening to the
"voices of nature" we note that green corn is
little husky.
Bangor Commercials: The report that Aleck
Stephens is coming to Old Orchard has caused
brisk trade in microscopes.
Cincinnati Saturday Night: The New York
Herald discharged an editor the other day
who failed to commence an editorial Gas the
Herald predicted
This from the London World, anent tie
knighting of Henry Bessemer:
Time was when men with doughty sword
~ Their tS knighthood won and held it;
10 earn the spurs now is the word
Net to WELD steel, but weld it,
The thoughtful and tender-hearted editor OF
the New Orleans Picaynne addressing the
mothers and fathers of the country, remarks
when the time arrives for baby to commence
eating bread, you should break il to him gent
ly.
Puck: Zone hundred and sixty-seven dogs
go to the pound" was the eading OF an arti-
Gle in the paper the other morning. "Sakes
alive" exclaimed Mrs. de Flukey, when she
read this, ''no wonder dogs can swim, if they're
as light as that!'
Two painters meeting: "What have you got
in the exhibition this year," ooh! still-life,
a pie, some oysters and lobster" "Why didn't
you paint Limburger cheese, as you did last
year?' "Well, L did commence one, but /
couldn't make my model keep its pose.'
Danbury News: 1t was a new girl who was
a stranger in town. The young lady of the
house was much put out by her wanting to go
to church Sunday morning when she wanted
her aid in dressing. 'T don't see what you
are so anxious to go to church every Sunday
for" she petulantly observed last Sabbath;
you can't know any fellow in Danbury."
Burlington Hawkeye: A Rhode Island Sun
day-school superintendent last Sabbath in a
touching missionary address, told the children
that away out West, far, far in Illinois and
Iowa and Nebraska, there were people who
had never been to clambake. And when the
went around after that the
nickles rained into it until it weighed a ton.
New Haven Register: "This, dear children
Is the shoe of Chinese lady; see how little it
is; what very narrow sole it has, 'I'll bet
it amt as narrow as Deacon-'s. Father says
his soul will fall through crack in the floor
some day and get lost' was the shrill COM
ment OF boy given to sharp listening The
put the Chinese shoe in his
pocket. and requested the school to sing, "Pull
for the Shore"
Boston Commercial Bulletin: Prominent
Arrivals at Summer Hotels-The man with
heavy tread who is called at a. m. The
adhesive fly, who comes without calling at the
same hour. The small boy who is learning to
whistle "Pinafore" in the halls. The young
lady who thinks otis quite too awfully jolly,
don't you know?" The young gentleman who
thinks it's "daammed baaw." Old gentle
man in the next room who snores. Young man
overhead who practices the song-and-dance
business at 1130 p. m.
New Haven Register The young man who,
under the pressure of the least real or fancied
adversity takes to drink, Is a grown-up baby;
but he is nursing the wrong bottle The younp