The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-22

A -"Old Abe," the Wisconsin eagle, is going
to the Paris exhibition.
They are boring for petroleum in Italy
Why don't they try the Isles Of Greece? Z 4
Il Heavy frosts have destroyed the sorghum
crops in some parts of Minnesota.
Captain Mayne Reid has novel in press
called "The Bandolero," to be published with
illustrations.
AN American and an English sailor were
! lately before London magistrate for profanity
the American for cursing her Majesty, and the
Englishman for using blasphemous language.
The American was fined IS for cursing q mon.
arch to whom he owed no allegiance, while the
Britisher was fined 81 for reviling his Creator.
Mrs. Ritehie, Gen. Wadsworth's daughter
is said to be engaged to the Duke of Rutland
Mrs. Ritchie is very pretty and accomplished
young widow. The Duke is not young, but
rich.
An invention has been tested in Quebec
which is intended as protection to the fire.
man, on his entrance into a burning room, 1t
is merely perforated brass ball, attached to
the brass nozzle OF the hose, and acts as power
erful watering pot, and fountain combined,
| smothering the flames all around the holders
| person. The inyentoris Mr.. Pye of that city.
| The Nation declares that the expenditure
of two dollars and half would probably have
saved the Evening Star and the lives of her
passengers; the assertion being based on the
theory that the sheave in which the ruddeI
chain worked was cheap one, not guarded
| with iron, and that therefore the chain slipped
out and the vessel became unmanageable.
! Damon and Pythias might well acknowl-
edge themselves out-done in the following
!. case related by the N Y. Evening Post:
4 This morning two men named James Krau2
and John Smith, were arrested near the Full
ton Ferry Brooklyn, for fighting. Both wore
taken to the Police court and fined $40 each
Krauz paid his own fine, and as Smith was
about to be taken to Jail he paid his fine also
in order to get an opportunity to finish whip
ming him, which he did lie was then rearrest-
ed, but as Smith would not prefer charge o
assault and battery he was discharged.
"A young woman in Paris having honorabl!
passed two examinations in mixed sciences
has been authorized by the Minister of Public
Instruction to go through course of medicine
at Algiers, as her medical attendance might b
of great service to the Arab population, am
through her the boon of medical science nigh
penetrate the tent and harem of the Arab
where no male doctor would ever be admitted
-Artemus Ward says: "Some kind persol
has sent me Chawcer's Poems. Mr.. G. ha
talent, but he couldn't .spel. No man has
right to be a lit'rary man onless he knows hoy
to spell. 1t is apity that Chawcer, who ha
geneyus, was SO unedicated. He's the wus
speller know of"
-Fitz Hugh Ludlow wrote the story in Hal
per's Monthly, "a Result of the Lambeth Cas-
ual," which attracted such general attentio
as an unusually good specimen of magazin
fiction. y il NM NK4s
, "A constable in Ohio lately testified in coul
as follows: 81 know nothing of her but what
: hear the neighbors say; and, in my opinion
! what one woman says ofanother is not worth
of belief" Wretch!