The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-06-05
VARIETIES.

nouncements of the season is that of O COM
plete and uniform edition of the works of Lord
Macaulay, in sixteen volumes, crown octave
to be published in the course of the summer
and fall by Messrs Hurd & Houghton. The
edition will follow the text and the arrange
ment adopted by Lady Trevelyan.
We learn from the Boston Aduertiser, with
some surprise, that divers prophets are debat-
ing in the Maine papers whether the end of the
world is to come in 1859 or 1873 t..S
"A Paris correspondent of the London
Times says that the words used by the French
Emperor at Auxerre, were deliberately written
down by him on his return and sent to the
Moniteur with orders for their immediate in
sertion. &
Among recent foreign literary announce
ments we observe those if newly discovered
volume of Voltairs's MSS. likely to soon get
into print; Of valuable MSS. Of. Joseph Bona
parte, and the much talked of Memoirs of Tai
leyrand-all on their way to press.
Charles A. Cook of Milton, Mass, entered
the army before he was twelve years old, pass
ing muster on account of his size, served one
year and was wounded four times, and is now
fourteen years old and draws an annual pension
of ninety-six dollars. s ,f ~
Little 'Mame" was discussing the great here
after with her mamma. when the following en-
,ss4 Mame-"Ma will you 60 to Heaven
when you dep Mamma. Yes, 1 hope SO,
child" Mame-"Well, mamma, I hope I'll go
too, or you'll be so lonesome Mamma-"Oh, I
hope your papa will go too" Mame-sOh, no,
papa can't 60; he can't leave the store" Mann
ma thought she had a good one on papa, as he
can't often "leave the store" to 20 to prayer
meeting, &c. FL z1 ~ E
The Council Bluffs Nonparsa says ave
just received dispatch from our local, wherein
he sends his compliments and vaguely inti-
mates that he has found his other half From
the fact that his dispatch was prepaid, we infer
that the girl had money! ssI
Mrs. r.. H. Stoddard, who is at her coun-i
try residence on the southern coast of Massa-
chnsetts, is said tofbe busy with new novel ~
(, The Round Table begs to suggest to its cor
respondents that verses on the seasons, the
affections, and on death are not in demand
with that journal.
"A singular discovery has been made at Rye,
Eng. While workmen were excavating for a
drain they came upon what has proved to be
the deck of vessel made Of English oak, and
Of larger construction than are built at that
portin the present day. This appears to con-
firm the trvdition that the town was at one
period nearly surrounded by the sea.
, According to the telegram, the attack on
Canada has had one Hibernianism already.
The ammunition wagons preceded the inva-
ding columnl From which the Boston Tran
script infers that the Feniaus intend to carry
everything before them.
Rev. e. B. Fairchild, President of Hills
dale College, in a lecture ON Rome, says that
VIM. w. Story, son of Judge Story. is destined
to be the first sculptor in Rome. An English
lord has offered him $4,000 for one of his
= In Australia the rats climb the orange
trees and cut hole in the best fruit and suck
out the juice, leaving the empty rinds.
"A telegraphic dispatch announces the COM
plete destruction by fire of the palace of Fuad
Pacha, at Constantinople.
Powers friends are endeavoring to have
his statue of America" (which has been
boxed up in New York for the last fifteen
years) brought to Washington, and set up in
the centre Of the rotunda of the Capitol. e
"A whimsical old bachelor sneeringly re-
marks that love. like the measles, is rather a
Juvenile complaint. "Who," he asks, +" ever
heard of widows dying from mixing
broken heart with a sixpence worth of ar
senic?"
1T is now commonly reported that Mr..
Charles A. Dana has left the Chicago Repuba
can and is succeeded by Mr.. J. P. Luce. Mr..
Dana's name has certainly been withdrawn
from the head of the paper ss's aar
Mr.. Algernon Charles Swinburne has in
press collection of his Miscellaneous Poems
The Rev. @. H. Spurgeon is about to have
his choice sayings served up under the head of
9Anecdotes and Stories" u, als6a bts :
Mr.. Sidney Howard Gay for several years
the managing editor of the Tribune, has re-
signed, and is to leave the paper. His successor
is Mr. John Russell Young, formerly Of the
Philadelphia Press. t4a - .li''@''
1t is stated that Nine. Goldschmidt sings
for the last time, at the great Rhine Festival,
andrefuses any kind of remuneration. Leopold
Auer, the young Hungarian violinist, and Mime.
Clara Sehumann, are engaged for this festival
with HerrG Goldschmilit as the conductor. Nine.
Parepa and Mr.. Henry Blagrove are amongst
the artists who viii appear, so that England, at
least, win be honorably represented. Boxes
and tickets are eagerly bought at premium.
fsa-T The Hon. Emily Eden, the author of sTbe
Semi-detached House, ETC., win soon publish
Sup the Country "a journal Of a Tour in the
Upper Provinces of India"
Tablets have been put up in the Charter
House in commemeration Of Thackeray and
leach. They are in blue transparent turquoise
enamel, of kind not before produced in Eng
land. That of the former is as follows: "Guliel-
mus M. Thackeray Carthusianit Carthusiano,
II. Mp. g, Natus 1911, Alumnus 1927, Obiit
1868"
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