The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-03-30

AN addition to Mr.. Punch's collection of
Things that had better keen left unsaid is
TINS, attributed to the wife af an English
banker, visiting in Melbourne, who was
asked what she thought of the country Il
am qellghted with it; the people are GER
talnIy very refined, which is, no doubt, ex-
plained by the fact that the early settlers
nau the advantage of being sent hither by
the pest judges in EDglandv
Archdeacon Colley, while preaching In
London short time ago. was speaking
rather unkindly of the devil. Recollecting
himself in the midst of his feryor. and re-
calling the motto that the devil is not so
black as he is painted, he replied to the
fancled circumstances of those who would
ask him to give the devil his due. "Ah, my
friends" he exclaimed. IF we gave the devil
MS due, many OF us would be missing"
The New York Emigration Commissioners
have decided that all passengers arriving at
New York on vessels from foreign ports,
except those who come first class. shall pass
through Castle Garden, and that all alien
passengers OF every class shall be subject to
the examination Of the Castle Garden inspec-
tor. Undoubtedly this order will fret many
worthy people who patronize the second.
class staterooms of the Atlantic lines, and
who will not view with favor the prospect of
being landed at that useful but somewhat un-
savory Institution. The provision regarding
the examination of alien frst-class passen-
gers may also breed storm.
Woman as collegian is an important fac
tor. The Harvard Annex, the Columbia
"Co-ed" and the Sage girl are WELDING an
influence in college matters which is daily
growing more and more. At the Boston
university the students have recognized this
influence in the elections to the editorial
board of the college paper. Miss Bertha f.
Mansfield is now editor in-chief- and out of
three associate members two are ladies. 1t
is at this university also that the Key. the
quartely of the Kappa Gamma fraternity. is
published. At Cornell the freshmen class,
after banishing wine from the class supper
by vote of 175 to %, also invited the ladies
Of the class to be present.
A Renaissance of the doings of Lyceum
which flourished in Oldtown. near Bangor,
Me-, forty years ago, brings out an interest
ing incident in the career of one of the fore
most public men of today. All the doctors.
lawyers and ministers of the town belonged
to the Lyceum, and they were present in
force one evening to hear the question Of
capital punishment discussed. During the
evening boy who had been regular at
tendant at the meetings, of the Lyceum, re-
piled to Deacon Rigby upon the question.
The Deacon was for hanging and the boy
opposed him, The Deacon quoted from the
Mosaic law; Whose sheddeth mans blood,
by man his blood shall be She'd" and assum-
ing that this settled the matter, he harped
upon the point until his time had expired.
Then the boy said: ''Supposing we take the
law which the gentleman has quoted, and
which, in a philosophic sense, has been
abrogated as null and void since the birth of
our Saviour, and see what the logical deduc-
tion would come to. For example, one man
kills another, another man kills him, and so
on until we come to the last man on earth,
Who's going to kill him? He dare not sui
eide for that same law forbids it. Now,
last man?" The deacon couldn't tell, and
the boy got lots of applause. His name was
Melville W. Fuller, and he is now Chief
Justice of the United States. ED