The Portland daily press., 1866-05-21
VARIETIES.

All goes smoothly with the new Atlantic
cable. 1t is now coiling at the rate of two
miles an hour in the tanks of the Great East
ern. The Amethyst hulk is moored alongside
the great ship off Sheerness, while the Iris is
laden III her turn at Greenwich, and will sup
ply the Amethysts place as soon as the latter
Is emptied. Thus, manufacture and stowage 90
ON concurrently, and at the moment one pars
OF the wire is receiving its elementary coating
OF Chatterton's compound, or being spun at
birmingham, other portions are laid down in
the great ship ready for the final paying out.
The Chronicle says: The celebrated AL
Dert Pike, of Arkansas, poet, ex.rebel, SC. &C..
mas been In Washington for some time. He il
SAID to be among the most amiable of the re-
constructed advocates of Andrew johnson.
The Star tells good story of man in this
city who occasionally plays "Old Sledge." One
night recently he had been playing pretty late
and went to the - House to sleep. The
night watchman had to put him clear up to
the top OF the house and our friend got little
out Of patience as he faced the stairs. Hating
moment at the top of the last fight he said.
Look here, young man, II you sho,c higAer than
this you are out P'
French papers give the intelligence Of the
death at Cannes, on the sd ult., of Lord Glen
elg,better known as Charles Grant and formerly
an eminent English statesman. He had reached
the great age of ST.
= Boston's musical favorite. Mrs. Van
Zandt, is having fiattering success abroad
The London Orchestra says that signorina Van
sini, the American priino donna. continues her
career of unqualified success at t,Copenharep
Her appearance is always greeted with crowd
ed audiences, who applaud her efforts TO the
very echo. She sang at the court before their
majesties and over three hundred Of the no
oiiity and met a most cordial reception. On
her benefit night the opera house was crowded
TO overflowing, and among other de,nonstra-
lions, she was literally covered with bodue,s,
one Of which was thrown BY the King him
self"
"A monument in honor Of Columbus has
been erected at Salamanca, Spain. II Is plae-
ed on lofty elevation near the grounds of the
University, in the place where the doctor. a
the institution received and listened 10 h:s thso-
ries concerning the new route TO the Ind;es
The monument is large pedestal, resting ON a
broad base and arch, and above beautiful
eagle and globe. The height Of the whole IA
one hundred and six metres Ii is constructed
entirely of granite of dark and regular color
Herr Hamburg, a Berlin bookseller IN,
been sent to prison for month for uublish;na
translation into German Of ~Pauyre France !"
aiibel upon Napoleon.
-oharies 4. Stille has been elected by. the
trustees OF the University of PENNSYLVANIA Pro-
'essor OF Bellies Lettres, rice Professor Coppee,
resigned ONF'''~'
"A Memphis paper saws "A business firm
ih our city detected thief quite adroitiy few
Gays ago. They had missed money from the
uii Tor some days, amounting to $3.50, but could
not detect the guilty party. The cashier few
nights since, emptied into the drawer a cup
filled with nitrate of silver. The thief went to
the till TO make his evenings capital, and in
abstractng the money covered his hands with
the nitrate, which he was unable to get off
An examination of his paws in the morning
proved the .frur pa,cs or thief's, and the guilty.
party was arrested"
Another mammoth has been discovered in
the frozen soil of arctic Siberia, in the neirb-
borhood of the Bay of Tax, the eastern arm of
the Gulf of Obi The animal was found but
partially exposed, having its skin and hair COM
plete. A naturalist has been sent by the Rus
sian Imperial Academy of Sciences to make an
examination of it. Great results are antici
pated from the examination, which win doubt
less bring to light the character of the .imal
and the contents of its stomach.
An essay on the new volcanic island in the
Grecian Archipelago is given in French sci
entific journal, from which it appears that the
group of islands of which this is one, has been
subject to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
since the beginning of the Christian era. The
latest serions eruption took place about one
hundred and fifty years ago, and did considera-
BILE damage. The present one was predicted
years ago by Won Buch and other geOlogists.
The fellow who sat down on pin got up on
the spur of the moment