The Press., 1889-02-07

1pOu the naDlG or 5cn0WlnS gum, aAsA AC" gently some one of the long bowed para srsphers has invented story of facial paralysis following the habit. The story goes that the victim cannot control Ter features, that when she smiles her fea- lures remain fixed in ghastiy laugh m til friends come to her aid, and with delft fingers arrange her countenance ill some other fix. The story will not frighten the girls. The general theory is that the muscles are strengthened, not weakened, by use, and the muscles of the face are no exception. Chewing gum Is not grace full action, and no extent of custom or fash- ion can make it SO; but it is good for the teeth and good for digestion, and evident ly has lots of other comfort-giv attri- butes, or 30 many would not follow 1t.
 Springfield Republican In order to save the trouble and circumlocution ir- volved in building the little road from the Connecticut state line to this city through a separate corporation, as provided for in the certificate of exigency secured from the railroad commissioners, the Connecti- cut Western people again petition the legislature for leave to extend their rail road to Springfield. As the road is com ing anyway, it would be both gracious and desirable for the solons to smooth the way as they are asked to do. It looks as if they would do so.
 Henry F. Prior, station agent and toll gatherer at Enfield, committed suicide Sunday because of domestic troubles. Af- ter he had finished his breakfast Sunday morning, he rose and went to his room, and the report of the fatal pistol was heard almost immediately. The ball passed through the brain into the wall of the house. Prior remained insensible and died early SundaSeyening. He leaves widow. a son and daughter. He has been in charge of the Enfield toll-bridge for about 10 years, was 45 years old, and member of the Masonic lodge at Warehouse Point.
 The New York Herald has started an edition in London, to be published seven days in the week. Its Paris edition has been running for year or so, with con- siderable success. London is the best field for the Herald, if it is to run an edi. tion ill Europe, but its proprietor proposes to continue both of them. The first issue in London on Saturday created sensa- tion, and large edition were printed, the presses being started second time to sup ply the demand.
 Mrs. James Brown Potter actually chews gum. She chews the genuine article however, large package of which is sent her every winter from Maine. She says she does not think it ungraceful, and she believes it is good for the digestion she knows it is good for the teeth, and, more over, she likes to chew it. Jay w. Cowdrey of Middletown, mind reader and faith cure scientist, while lee turing at West Haven, Thursday night spoke fippantiy ;n relation to death, and said that the fear of it was foreign to the minds of true scientists. Before finishing l his lecture, however, he had a shock oi apoplexy, and died Sunday night. The affair created somewhat of sensation. The Paris Figaro says that two profes have succeeded in identifying the genera tive microbe of diphtheria. The discov cry of a preventive of this disease by means of vaccine virus is expected to fol low.
 Judge Bell, of Mount Carmel, H. fur nishes the following maiden speech O. Abraham Lincoln, delivered near Spring field, Ill.,, nearly fifty years ago. MT Lincoln was not then lawyer, and had n' intention of becoming lawyer. He hat then made up his mind to learn the black smith trade. His genius was recognized and he was suddenly nominated for th' legislature. His first speech was as fol lows "Gentlemen and fellow-citizens- presume you all know who am. an humble Abraham Lincoln. have beel solicited by many friends to become can didate for the legislature. My politics ar short and sweet. I am in favor of a na tional bank am in favor of the internal improvement system and high protectlv tariff. These are my sentiments and DO litical principles. If elected, I shall b thankful; if not, it will be all the same."
 Washington Post James D. Boyd, tn coming man of North Carolina, said il the Ebbitt House last evening "I an against all mixed drinks. The only mike. drink I ever indulge in is rock and rye without the rock" Said northern Nev York congressman That remark is lik one I once heard Kanuck Frenchmal make up my way in the confusing way th Kanucks use the English language. { don't eat any kind of lake fish 'cept shad and shad never taste.
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