The Portland daily press., 1866-07-03
VARIETIES.

After the recent marriage OF the Princess
Mary of Cambridge to Prince Teck which took
place at Kew, England, June 18th, in presence
of the Queen and almost every member of the
Royal family, the happy pair took their depart
ure for Ashbridge Park, the seat of Earl
Brownlow. On leaving, the bride was nearly
covered with shower of white slippers thrown
after the carriage for luck.
"A new opera entitled "Astorga" has been
given at Stuttgart 1t is by Albert, and is high
ly spoken Of.
We have all heard of the travelling public,
the reading public, the lecture-going public,
the pleasure-seeking public, and variety of
other limited publics, but we believe the "eat-
ing public" to which the Kennebec Journal
recommends some pastry cook this week. has
never before been mentioned.
"A Kentucky phrenologist who died a few
weeks ago bequeathed his head to an old friend
and pupil, resident in Cincinnati. The legatee
carried his bequest home, and is now startled
by threat of legal proceedings unless he forth
with restores the gift to Kentucky soil.
"A Spectator recently attempted to hoax
the London Times. A telegram was received
at the office purporting to be from the Paris
correspondent of that paper, and announcing
the refusal of Italy to join the conference, the
excitement of the Italian people and disturban-
ces at Milan, the presence of Garibaldi on board
Admiral Persano's flagship, and the aatness of
the Paris Bourse-a budget Of most alarming
nature, which certainly must have deprecated
every species of security. The cheat was pre-
vented, although every precaution had been
taken to make it successful.
The following is an easy method of detec-
ting whether the red color of wine is artificial
or otherwise small piece of bread or sponge
which has been well washed is dipped into the
wine and then placed in water. If the color is
artificial the water will be at once colored 9TH
erwise the color will not be apparent for half an
hour I.s -.sheesit .fsr 7.t.e-
They do things rapidly in the far West. A
stage coach in Nevada was lately robbed of
$4,000 at A. M. a reward was offered at IA NJ;
the robbers were shot and the money recovered
at P. NJ. /; coroner's inquest was held at p. M;
and the thieves were buried before sunset.
"A strange story is told in Europe, that
many of our ''old Southern families have gone
to Wallachia the larger of the two Danubian
4 AiASi pdAleiCS. w . buOulO buiilh tudG uuSeL-
tied country bad country to settle in,-but we
wish that fifty thousand "old Southern fami-
lies" would go thither,-if there be so many of
these families
"A telegram to the Liverpool Post says: The
Prussian army, which is in position on the ST.
esian frontier, is throwing up defences on all
the roads which debouch from Bavaria.
The Oaol says Field-Marshal Benedek will
accept Mr.. w. H. Russell as the only newspa-
per correspondent at his headquarters.
An accident almost too horrible to con-
ceive has occurred at some ironworks near
Rotterdam, England, an old man named Tur-
ner having fallen into blast furnace used in
the manufacture of pig iron, while it was at
what is called "fuH heat"
The presidents message, and the manner
n which it has been received by Congress and
the Union party throughout the country, re-
minds somebody of the4ines
81 can't marry you my pretty maid.
Nobody axed you, sir, she said"
"A monument to the memory of Owen
Lovejoy, formerly member of Congress, has
Just been erected over his grave at Princeton
Ill.
Mime. Ristori is to give two performances
at the Lyrique, in Paris, during the present
month. This will be her last appearance in
Europe prior to her trip to America, as she has
abandoned the intention of playing in Eng
land. She and her troupe of forty-eight ar
lists sail from Brest ON the LIST OF September
The N. Y. correspondent of the Syracuse
Journal says the latest gossip in that city is
hat DR.. Craven's Prison Life of JEFF. Davis,
was not written by the surgeon, but was worked
up from his notes by "Private Miles O'Reilly,"
and it is uncertain how much of its interest is
due to the vivid imagination of the versatile
Private.
The Nashville Press and Times, abiding to
the vaunt of Robert Toombs, at Havana, that
he had trampled upon eighteen Union flags at
one time, thinks that though Toombs himself
has passed away from among us, the Toombs-
tone still remains"
The impending war in Germany has caused
the adjournment of the Coburg and the Hano- |
yer musical festivals.
Punch has this version of the old proverb,
" Early to bed and early to rise" &
If mans late in, and late out of bed;
He'll get thin, short Of tin, and thick in the
head.
The late Lewis Cass upon several occasions,
expressed his unqualified disapproval of the Fee
MAN invasion of Canada, and characterized it
as absurd, uAwise, and calculated to do more
mischief than good.
The Boston Advertiser, with commendable
prudence, advances the opinion, trusting it may
not prove unpopular, that in the humble judy
nlent of the Advertiser aforesaid, one may per-
haps venture to express the - in fact, belief,
that there is no immediate prospect of snow
storm in Boston.