The Portland daily press., 1884-05-28
Nuts and Raisins.

Inc FRANKLIN school in Boston recently gave
sewing exhibition.
Mr.. Carl Schurz is to deliver fifty lectures in
New England next winter.
There is to be an exhibition of children's
toys in London.
form Of religious workers, calling themselves
The Heavenly recruits"
Playing marbles in the streets OF Angel g
Camp, CAL, is INDUCED ia by men Of from 81
to 65 years of age.
Dion Boucicault estimates that the United
States contains 2,552 theatres, worth Sill, 000.-
600.
Several Wagnerian selections have been ar
ranged for the banjo for a lady in Philadel-
Phia.
good livelihood may still be earned in
Japan by public story-tellers. In Toxic alone
800 ply their trade.
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) has
written, in plantation negro dialect, the poem
for the Decoration Day exercises at Atlanta,
Ga.
George Alfred Townsend Gath writes
book every year, and an occasional play or DO
em, besides his newspaper work, and, it is said
earns an income Of $4,000.
On his return to New Orleans Mr.. George
w. Gable has been hailed as STANDING only
second to Dickens as an author who has gone
before the public and made q great success
foauIuk from MS own WORKS.
Julian Arnold asserts that his father, Edwin
Arnold, wrote the most of 1.-THE Light of
Asia" on the cuff of his shirt while riding to
and from his office in the cars. In the evening
he copied the lines.
The Villa Nevada, at Cannes, in which
Prince Leopold died, is being negotiated for by
the Queen, who intends to consecrate it to the
church as convent and chapel in memory OF
the Prince.
Mr.. James Berry Bensel, whose name is al.
ready familiar through its association with
poetry, has written novel to be published
the ensuing season. 1t is entitled "King
Cophetna's Wife,"
"Papa, what is the TARIFF" asked a con.
gressman's little boy. Gazing compassionate
shaking his head, the father replied: "My son,
cannot tell lie; do not know.
At the coming health exhibition in London
there are already entered, under electric lights,
~ exhibitions of the arc and incandescent sys-
tem-35O lamps Of the larger and 5000 of the
smaller kind: An electrically lighted clock is
to De placed in the upper part of the grounds.
In a letter to an English friend, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, speaking Of new book he pro-
poses soon to publish, says: 81 am trying to
do some kind OF justice to Ralph Waldo EN-
erson in brief manner, taking short time to
read and much longer to write"
A clergyman was devoutly reading the Holy
scriptures W MS congregation Wl0n ne came
to certain words in the lower right hand COR
ner to which he desired to give great empha-
sis. So he read with loud voice: 81 ann
turned over two leaves and continued, "an
ass, the foal OF an ass'-then, seeing his mis-
take. found the right place and added, shat
am"
"My first introduction said Mr.. Matthew
Arnold to friend while in this country, "to
the poetry of William Cullen Bryant was in
this way. One day. was boy then-Hart-
ley Coleridge rushed into my room with an
open book, and, pointing to poem, sat down
and read 1t to me. When be had finished he
remarked, "That is the finest poem In modArn
English 1t was Mr.. Bryant's Ode to Water
Fowl"
M. Cornu, the French astronomer, has OBJ
served the very rare phenomenon of a white
rainbow, or cercle d'duod, and communicated
his observations to the French Academy Of
Sciences. The phenomenon was seen on the
morning of November 28th last year, at
Courtensy Loiret), France about 9.4l a. M,
Paris time The sun, (which was very pale,
rose in the midst of level bands of clouds A
thick boar frost covered tie ground, and
light fog thinly yelled the sky, which was clear
of clouds towards the zenith. Opposite the
sun great white arc or rainbow was figured
on the fog, and had no trace Of irisation like
an ordinary rainbow or halo. Its appearance
recalled to M. Cornu the smoke crowns made
with phosphoretted hydrogen gas. The az.
parent altitude of the summit of the bow was
70 Dig. 70 min., the apparent span Sc dg., and
the height of the sun at the time was II Dig.
30 min.
ALPHA BETTY DOLLY SPEAKING.
was the owner of number of b b b;
That were infected by curious c c G.
Which could not be remeoied with Q e.
Except by giving them fresh Swiss egg;
The < Of which time he tries
Would be to swell their little iii;
So that they were noticed Nv the / g.
And swallowed at once in every XXX
This was leaving the b to D q fate;
SO he thought he would with them M great
10 So issland, or n of the earth If he please
For his life's support he o o to the b B,
ne must do this-there is xqqq,
He had no p p-but RS profuse
He had an of gold and of bib
He wished to exchange for coffees and TT t,
Sof could trade and himself m uuu
He could make the trip of www
Ayyy thought struck him-he took a notion
And with his b he crossed an ocean,
Where there are no j j to swallow his bib,
And he buys all the coffees and t t he c c.
-tDetroit Free Press.