The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-25
VARIETIES.
,nooert Browning keeps boarding house
On Fore Street, in this city.

ono0 anu spare hours will be panied
10 learn on the authority Of the London Athe-
n@um, thatithe author, DIR. John Brown. ais
in the worst condition OF health in which bis
friends could fear to see him."
y Count Montalembert is recovering from his
recent severe illness
An actor in Mobile has bequeathed his
head to the theatre for 1" Yoric k'sskull
"A correspondent writes that he was
emily invited to one o'clock lunch at the
Fifth avenue residence of a New York broker
lie was ushered into a magnificent apartment
ana seated at q gorgeous liable, decked in all
'ne paraphernalia of good dinner. The bill
u iare consisted of six courses, four sorts of
mine' and variety of pastry etc. He rose at
"pn past hve, and yet this was only lunch.
"A subscriber writes from Berwick that "a
isuy reader of the Press on reading an account
" 'ae iate outrage at New Orleans. suggests
the following eeS'
PhAfER FOR ANDREW JOHNSON
Hsalms 1O9, Z, 8. when he shall be indoaa Ia,
ham be condemned; Let his days be few. and
let another take his Office"
We would commend to the notice of tbe
warriors of the Cleveland Convention tba
following amiable paragraph from the Mobile
Times:
S.s' me PRESIDENT is appointing to Office in the
Nortn All the one-armed and one-legged SOL
ders he can find. We wish there were moro
of them. ---. "eie uiore
"A New York paper says: zone of the en-
rious results of the European War and its con-
'ihgeht rum OF many private fortunes, is the
sudden appearance of old family diamonds in
the market There has lately been received in
1iiis city magnificent collection of stones of
0le nrst water, which will command high pri-
oes. Among them is a pair of solitaires, valu-
ed at four thousand dollars in gold, which were
| set as eardrops century ago."
AN inventor in London claims 10 have dis
covered method of making Illuminating gas
for actually less than nothing. He extracts il
rom vegetable substances, which, up to the
present, have been treated as utterly useless,
and which, better still, after producing the gas,
become matter of cash-convertible value; so
that the more of new gas one manufactures
and consumes, the greater advantage it will be
to him pecuniarily.
"A lady in Lafayette, Ind, recently, in pre-
pairing her Sunday dinner, put some beans in
a pot to bake. In hurry to get to church she
inadvertently put her hymn book in the not.
and wrapped a piece of pork in her pocket
handkerchief and took it to church with her
Her modification was intenee upon discover.
ing her mistake during service; so was her
husbands at the singularly pious composition
Of his repast.
The Tribune, referring to the fact that For
rest, the hero of the Fort Pillow massacre, Gal
loway, editor of the pestilent rebel sheet, The
AUdiaaache, and Col. Chambers notorious i'm
the West, have sent greeting to the johnson
soldiers at Cleveland, says it will hardly be be-
leved, though it is true that the Convention
thanked these bitter rebels "for their magnani-
nifty and kindness" No Andersonville prison
ers are known to have been at Cleveland.
| The London Times says: "The census of
1861 revealed the remarkable fact that in the
| whole southwest of ireland there were but two
| jews. One of these ancient people abode in
Munster, and the other in Connaught, so that
they sufficed between them for population of
nearly three millions" The truth is Ireland il
too poor to afford any attractions to a race SO
fond Of money as the Jews.
When Gen. Dix was Secretary of the Treas
ury in 1861, he sent to w. Hemphill Jones. at
New Orleans. the celebrated despatch: "If any
one attempts to haul down that flag. shoot
himP The Worcester Spy says that the credit
for this plucky order belongs TO Judge Holt
who dictated it, and at whose solicitation Gen.
Dix sent it.
"A tale-bearin ng clerk in the Interior De-
partment lately came to grief in this wise.
Having inveigled some of his fellow clerks in
to political discussion, and elected from them
some very radical expressions of opinion, he
forthwith carried the same with the names of
the clerks, to the Secretary Mr. Browning hav-
ing heard him out said, "Sir you NAV consider
your desk vacant from the first of the month"
We find the argument of the Presidents
recent speeches succintly stated as follows:
Il The rebel States never were ont of the
Union, and by no possibility could go they go
| out.
| III. The rebel States can only be brought
back into the Union by means Of "my policy"
| Ill There never were any rebel States"
| Philadelphia writer to Harper's Draw
| err" ioa @
/ We have in our store son of Erin who is
| sometimes very green. He was preparing to
close the store one rainy night, and, taking off
ms coat, was about to go outside, when asked
nlm why he went out in his shirt-sleeves in all
tne ram. sure, says he, don't want a dry
coat to go home imp"
Pa said little Charming to his paternal
ancestor, holding up Sunday-school picture
replied the father, sis Jacob wrestling with the
angel" "And which licked, pa?" innocently
continued the young hopeful
Under the conditions of the new monetary
treaty just concluded between France, Bel
GUM, Italy and Switzerland, the money in each
| of these countries is henceforth to be legal
tender in all the others. The French coinage
has been accepted as the standard. BY this ar
rangement commercial intercourse win be
| greatly facilitated and the general course of
trade simplifed, while one of the greatest an
noyances experienced by travellers will be re-
moved.
| The new clubhouse now in process OF
| erection by the American Jockey Club, in
| New York, will be, when completed, one of the
| most elegant buildings in that city. 1t is being
| erected on the northeast corner of Madison
| Square, and is in the Renaissance style, five
| stories in height, with a French roof 1t is to
have an ornamental portico with marble col
umns and steps, a spacious entrance hall,
dining rooms, reading and billiard rooms, pri-
vate chambers and baths, all of the most sump-
tuous description, and adjoining the club
house and connected with it, a conservatory,
| two stories in height and twenty five feet
| front.
| The irrepressible "Country ParsOn" has
nearly ready new book, entitled Sunday
| Afternoons at the Parish Church Of Univer
| sity city,
| DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is mentioned
| in Russian paper-the st. Petersburg Vedo-
naoste-as Oliver Wendell Coins.
/ During recent performance of "The Black
Crook" at Niblo's, an unmannerly fellow took
standing place directly in front of Hon.
Horace Greeley. The mild philosopher, as the
story goes, patted the intruder on the shoulder
with his white hat, and gently said: "lf any
thing entertaining occurs on the stage, wiz
you please describe it to me? for you see my
dear sir, that at PRESENT. must totally uePefnur