, 1860-07-20
Nfiscellaneoiias Ttoiias.


markable scene in church as follows: In the
Methodist church at Portland, opposite Middle.
town. on the Sunday preceding the election, D
sermon was preached by Q student from the
Wesleyan University, at MiddletOwn. Portland
is the strongest Democratic town In Connecticut,
rolling up about 400 majority for Seymour.
Probably he, being q rank Abolitionist, thought
Il good field for political missionary operations,
for be worked his sermon into an argument in
favor Of Black Republicanism. Il was grossly
and intolerably partiEan. Mr.. K. Strong, Of
that town, an old Jeffersonian Democrat, stood
Il as long as he could and then arose In his place
in the church and spoke in loud voice to the
preacher: "Young man, you came here to
preach the Gospel-I came here to hear It (: and
unless you cease this preaching Of politics, ]
shall 60 up into that pulpit and take you out Of
it." The preacher stopped IL bis discourse.
One Of the congregation said to Mr.. Strong,
" Brother Strong, he is young man, Perhaps
you are little too hard on him." Mr.. Strong
replied, at is because he is young man that
desire to teach him better" The preaching was
then resumed, but no more politics was preached
during that sermon.
Alexander Won Humboldt and Bayard Taylor
were personally acquainted. The latter called on
the former several times, when Berlin came In
ulo WUya AAuAluoiub tooA Q0tto III tAlNCMgot lN
him, and thought him q wonderful man--accord-
ing to Taylor's own statements; but though he
may have deemed him wonderful, II was not In
briiliancy but in dullness, compared with bis op-
portunities, as will readily be seen by the iol.
lowing, from Humboldt's private letters, lately
published:
Humboldt satirically remarked to certain
American gentleman, Your countryman, Tay
lor, has Travelled further, and seen less, than any
man Of my acquaintance saias Afi5si lt.a,
AT vallecito, on Saturday last says the m
dependant, Mr.. Wagner, the butcher, killed
Mexican OK and found in its stomach, on dress,
ing il, two five dollar gold pieces-one bearing
date 1886, the other 1856. II may be retiiem-
bered by some Of our readers that similar oc-
currence happened to q San Andreas butcher
about year and a half ago. He got from the
stomach Of an OK some three or four pieces
Of coin valued at 81 a. The most plausible
supposition in both cases Is, that the cattle ate
up some lost buckskin purse for the salt Il con-
tanned, and thus got the money.
The vicissitudes Of business life in iCaliioF.
mir are striking enough. The gains Of Page,
Bacon & Co.'S branch bank In San Francisco, a
one time, from interest alone, were $4,000 q
month, besides the incidental profits on bilsofcx-
change and other operations. They failed through
speculationa IN Eastern rnilroads Palmer, Cook
& Co. failed for millions, paying little or nothing,
and so did Adams & Co. An these firms would
have accumulated vast fortunes, had they but
confined themselves 70 the legitimate busines1of
banking. s O
Il Is more weakness than virtue N strong
Christians when Q weak saint Is ALLEN, 20 agra
vate his fall to the utteTmost and to present his
sins in such dreadful dress as shall amaze him.
He who shall lay the same strength 70 the rub
bing Of an eafthea dish, as be docs 10 the rub.
bing Of . pewter platter, instead Of cleaning iti
will surely break Il % pieces. The application
Is easy.
MrA Jane Swisshelm details the grievances of
her married lie IN letter 70 the New York III
6une She says that her husband was 80 mean
that she had 10 wear one bonnet seven years II
this be true, Jane was right 10 leaving him. No
one but 3 brute would expect woman TO wear
. bonnet that length Of time. Good husbands
buy their wives ct least two bonnets per year.
A nilkmAh was dragged in Brooklyn Gew
weeks since, BY party of thieves, who g0l
him to dirk with them, alta low ssloon, and
then followed bis wagon and attempted 70 rob
him Of two hundred and Eve dollars which he
had in bis pocket But policeman interfered
and saved the money, though the villains esi
capedl at N Il ~ eldssm n
A Cincinnati paper says that xonan in that
city was recently sentenced 70 four months inn
prisonment for stealing . hamj and that her
husband; who had assisted IN eating the haui and
was present when the sentence was pro-
nounced on bis wife, bowed politely to the court
and expressed himself highly gratiiied At the rs-
suit Of the trial
An Albany (N. ~ paper says that yodhg
man, eighteen years Of age, who Is now con-
Aned 10 the Penitentiary, makes fofty-tiree
pairs Of btogAns every day with ease. A per-
son Alio saw him on the bench at work says
that he seemed TO blow the pegs into tho shoe
with his mouth, and never made miss while he
was looking at him. ~ IN .si M
A man living in Elkhart county, Ind, not
long ago had "dOmestie diliculties;" and go
ing to q large tree near bis house, he climbed
upon limb, 10 which be fastened one end Of
rope, and then tied the other end around his
neck, and jumped into the air, coming down 50
heavily as to break his neck
Arago, on his dying bed, intrusted his friend,
N. BaSai, with the task Of editing his works.
This arIluous task has been completed On the
last meetingof the Academy, N. Bsnal presented
the sixteenth aud last volume Of Aragos works
to the learned assembly.
II Is reported that court in Paris not long
since decided, in . case where the question Of
limo was an important one, that the FIRST stroke
Of clock Is the record Of the beginning Of the
hour, and that all the succeeding strokes run into
the hour.
In the county Wicklow, Ireland, woman
died, short time since, at the advanced ago Of
one hundred and forty years; and she Is said