The Portland daily press., 1867-08-15


use on Western railroads are furnishing so
much pleasure and comfort to travellers, that
we are astonished that they are not at once in
trodueed upon all the lines in the country. A
lady traveller from New York to Chicago writes
about them ''The travelling arrangements
East remind one of the Inquisition. Here (be-
tween Rochester and Chieago) we fare much
better. We have the largest, airiest, cleanest,
and most highly finished cars ever saw, with
nice little tables between every two seats. We
can have bur meals served up at the time or
dered in ayeragely good style.'s4ri 9o 40 n''.
1.-The September instalment of Holmes
"Guardian Angep Is uneommonly piquant and
interesting. The poet Hopkinsisin search ofa
publisher. % asa3i lcm a'i --'ii 'i'i
The honorary degree of LII d. is to be
conferred on Andrew johnson by the "South-
ern Military and Classikle Institoot."
The Boston Post has the following left
handed slap at the author of an autobiography
recently cd cdmmenced in one of the New York
weeklies: %An editor in this city is shortly to
make an attempt on his own autobiography
He will begin it with his great-grandmother
and end it with his little boy John, 1t will in
clude the secrets of how to get up jolly good
newspaper the best method of navigating in
storms, political, ct cetera,) how to do it and
not to appear to, the philosophy of making
black appear white, and many other matters of
interest known and unknown. 1t will contain
many anecdotss never hcard IN the ring or
eshsr Pvo~Sasnt eireles, aud when er0braeed
in one volume will make two arms-ful. Heads
of families searching for tale will find this a
good one to get hold of
r Il wantlto buy a sewing machine?" said an
old lady, entering a shop. "Do you wish a
machine with feiler?" inquired the clerk
"Sakes, no! don't want any of you fellers
about me-" "a laayoi si.aa 1aH h.'iia i'
'-Mdme Parepa Rosa has entirely recovered
from her late Sickness and she is in better voice
than ever HT3 yfh q"
Mrs Child's "Romance Of the Republic" Is
published in England under the title of Rosa
and Flora" o. .oaio7. ~ sHe e-aa11
"A writer in Fraser tells us that by canon
law, nether in the Romish nor the English
Church can man be admitted to orders If
blind of the left eye, though he may be blind
of the right, on the ground that the former sis
the more necessary of the two in the celebration
of mass"
Many readers remember the Little Cor
poral" story about the Great Napoleon. jean
Coluche, the sentinel who stopped the disguis-
ed Emperor on that occasion, with the remark,
Even if You were the Little Corporal himself
you could not pass" has just died at Gouaix
Seine ct Marine, at the age of eighty-eight.
He was pensioned by the present Napoleon
some years ago '- ti n At g.
William Thompson, the section hand on
the Pacific Railroad, who was scalped and left
for dead on the Plains, was brought to Omaha
on Thursday, and is doing well He was
wounded through the arms and side. The In
dams took his scalp about four inches in length
BY some strange oversight they left 1t lying by
Thompson's side. He brought IL Nth him, and
it aoiH be replaced by the doctors. reaH tf
"A laundering correspondent OF a New York
paper says that the den where General Put
nam shot the wolf is one of the summer attrac-
tions of the town of Woodstock. The old wolf
den used to be located in the southernly
part of the town of Pomfret, and it undoubted-
ly remains there unto this day.
The Pennsylvania papers are not disheart-
ened by the reverses which the petroleum in
terest has received, and predict for it an i'm
portance in the future only second to that of
coal. +
When Paris omnibus is full the word
"complet' is placed on the rear of the stage.
An American in Paris was anxious to see all
the sights, and concluded that he could in part
accomplish his purpose by going about in the
different omnibuses. He saw many interest
ing Spots but states that he was never able to
get TO "Complet." "That place must possess su-
perior attractions, though not spoken of in the
guide book, for every omnibus going there was
always full"
A son of wealthy banker In st. Louis,
Charles B., became enamored of the daugh-
ter of a shoemaker a poor, but pretty girl.
The father of the son looked with no kindly
feeling on the attachment, but had no idea that
anything serious would grow out oft. A few
days since he sent his hopeful to the bank to
get a $4,000 check cashed. The young sprig
did this, pocketed the money and, clipping with
the girl fed to Bellevile and was joined in the
bonds of matrimony by Justice of the Peace.
The worthy paternal missing first the money,
then the son, pursued the erring couple, and in
most practical and matter-offact-way settled
tue affair. "Give me back the money" said ne,
deducting the expenses you have aiready peen
to in getting this girl, and come BACK nome
| and attend to business and we'll no more
| about it," 1t is enough to say that the matri-
monial expenses only amounted to $50, which
tbe old man cheerfully bore.
| The cow of Christopher Young, who lives
| naar Florence, Mass, was MIXED dry for seve-
raj nights in succession recently, and although
| he kept watch he was unable to catch the
thief He at last discovered by setting trough
full OF milk as bait, that q snake was the
depredator. The reptile, together with SIX oi
its offspring, was at once despatched ana
measured over seven feet in length. IL was OIL
| grayish color and known as the mix snake
from its habit of milking COWS.
The young lady who was rsconiihenueu "
,.l,o axerc;.a tn improve her health, says thai
i ~, ....-;,, ann at an offer and run her own
| risk"
-rhe little Princess Beatrice of England IS
said to be decidedly bright. Not long ago she
is reported to have expressed a decided antipa
thy to the recurrence of German alliances, ano
proposed healthy change in the way Oh a Jap
anese match. But a still better story OF her
now going about The other day our Princess
Royai of Pruss ia wrote to her little sister ask
, ing what she would like as birthday present
The answer was pithy and to the point; "sen'
me Bismarck's head in chargerF