The Portland daily press., 1866-11-27
VARIETIES.

rho Boston Transcript thinks thatwhatev.
ef may BE- said of President Johnson's vaciIla-
''"ii, no candid person can deny that in two
particulars he is consistent He loses no op-
r. L'11'y 10 betray the peopl, who elected
num- and to pardon the countereaita,s of tbo
national currency
Is proposed to place an iron tubular
"-iu1 uhuer the Mississippi at ST. I,on;s "a
'o,"pie'e tle railway connection between hi
nois and Missouri. A'N
"A company has been organized IN NT;i.
waukee, Wis, with capital of S1oo ooo g., a.,
purpose OF starting cotton mill so,,o,ot
Massachusetts, capitalists are interested !, ~
enterprise. A monster wooden factory il A.,
contemplated there.
1t is a singular fact that rats will not toucb
anything containing castor oil, or even only
covered with it, .sa
In an Episcopal church in the North of
Scotland porter employed during the week
at the railway station does duty ON Sunday bv
blowing the bellows of the organ. The other
sunday he fell sound asleep during the servi-
ees and SO remained when the pealing Of the
organ was required. He was suddenly awalf-
ened BY another official, when, apparently
dreaming OF an approaching train, he started TO
hls feet and roared out with all the force and
shrlllness of stentorian lungs and h,bit
Change here for Elgin Lossiemontb aud
Burghead." The effect upon the conorepot;or
sitting in expectation of concord of sweet
sounds may be imagined. H
"A Milwaukee paper speaks of immense
peat beds in the neighborhood ofthat city. TIE
peat is pronounced of better quality than
that used in England for fuel. where coal ia
abundant. In cutting through a new street in
the upper part of the city, bed of rich peat
| was struck, some six feet in depth. Cakes of
| this We're cut out by some of the workmen who
had used peat in the old country, stacked up
and dried. Recently it has been used as fuel
and has been found to be excellent, giving out
so strong heat that it readily took the nlace
of wood
"A Paris correspondent writes, IN. Clenant
Duvenois, condemned to a months imprison
ment for his participation in the duel OF the ed-
tor of the Liberte with M. Sarcey, has gone to
do his time at Pelagie. He will employ his
forced leisure in terminating History eff the
French lntervel ton in Mexico" If all litera-
~ men thus sent to prison employ their time
IN this fashion, it is tobe feared that in the end
the government will deprive them of the mate
rials for writing. t
Lead in great abundance has been discov-
cred in the valley of the Great river, in Ken
tucky A mine will be opened at once. Sim
liar discoveries are reported in Owen and Shell
by counties.
"A new paper, intended to promote know
ledge. Of the science of political economy in
France, is to appear in Paris on the 25th of
November. 1t will be called LfAuenir, and be
edited by III. Boudhod, formerly editor of tho
Journal des 4ctaonndiYeS.
"A new system OF drill in the British army,
intended to accustom the troops to greater ra-
pidity OF movement, has just been ordered. By
degrees the men are to be trained to run at the
double" one thousand yards daily, carry
ing, on alternate days, arms and accoutre-
| ments.
All the monks of Palermo have been Or
dered to leave aside the monastic habit with
out delay. a HH