The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-20
ORIGINAL AND sELEUfED.

BR-In the Texas State Convention Mr.
Throckmorten is elected president; he was a
strong opponent of secession. .,7e. li-,- .....,
EY Capt. Spoke, who has been enjoying the
glory of having discovered the long hidden
fountains of the mysterious Nile, is in danger
of losing his 1aurels. Mr.. Baker has been max
ing explorations, and the conclusions of the
two do not agree. The sum of the whole mat
ter seems to be that Capt Spoke discovered the
| great lake Victoria Nyanza, and a xivey issu-
ing from it. This river, it has been ascertained,
with several others equally large, fall into
another great lake, the Albert Nyanza. The
outlet of the last lake maybe the beginning of
the Nile, but it is not yet known to be SO.
EBThe human body falls asleep by degrees,
according to M. Cabi mis-, French Psychologist
The muscles of the legs and arms lose their
power before those which support the head, and
these last sooner than the muscles which support
the back; and he illustrates this, by the cases
of persons who sleep on horseback, or while
they are standing or walking. He conceives
that sense of light sleeps first, then the sense
of taste, next smell, and, lastly, that Of touch.
EF- In the passages from Hawthorne's Note
Book, published in the Atlantic Monthly, he
speaks of the Marshal Of Maine-"a corpulent
jolly fellow, famed for humor." The Marshal,
whom Hawthorne saw quarter of a century
since, survives thebrilliant author, and though
less corpulent, is quite as jolly. Albert Smith,
little less celebrated than the Albert of Mont
Blanc, is resident of Boston. II -.s,.... e,5 i
EvBy new processes of extracting the gold
from the quartz, the "dust," or "tailings," hith-
erto thrown away, is now made to pay forty
dollars per ton. The cleaners after the miners
will do better than the miners themselves in
many instances ,,s .l.--.,--.,.4 ..-.r..-......
| VA sensitive Dutchman committed sui
eide at New York, few days ago, because he
was SO mortified that his cousin had come to
this country and gone into business as q mule
driver. 'u b''sd 2.Ff tdliR 500 bsaas-
EB~ The oldest man in the country Is now
Jose Penns, native of Lower Canada. who is
living at Kansas City, Mo. He is 100 years old,
and hasn't grown old apparently in the last 80
years. 9.,s 7alI Ia. ......,..
EY-The best anthracite coal contains % per
cent of carbon. Favre and Silberman found
| that if all the heat ia utilized, one pound of
carbon in burning will generate sufficient heat
to raise the temperature of $3.50 pounds one de-
gree Of the eentigrade scale; and according to
Andrews, it will heat 1900 pounds one degree
| EY-Under the head of stationery, the State
of Connecticut paid last year $500 for liquor
dispensed to members in the ante-room of the
State House. An extraordinary consumption
Of ink -... .r.s ..-..-.-. .-..
w The house painters of New York have
resolved to strike for $3.50 and eight hours.
W Southern paper says that if two
thirds OF the editors whose stock In trade con-
sisted OF crucible of invective, case of pis-
tolls and a keg of whiskey had been drowned in
the latter ten years before the war, the country
I would have been saved the disgraceful scenes
of brawl that introduced a resort to arms