The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-30
VARIETIES.

In Cincinnati the boys SNOWFALL the peo-
BILE who go out sleigh-riding so fiercely as to
make it dangerous as well as disagreeable to
ride.
The Bohemian and German forests have
been nearly cleared of wolves by the move
ments of troops and the thunder of cannon.
Belgium is crowded with these agreeable ref.
ugees.
There is good sleighing all the way from
Boston to st. Louis.
"A lady of Georgia has written an heroic
epic on the obstruction of Columbia. soutb
Carolina
The harbor of Baltimore is completely
blockaded with ice.
several Southern papers have been run
ming parallel between George Washington
and JEFF. Davis. Here is the idea advanced bv
the Butte Record IN regard to it:
"George Wdshington-First in war f,rst 4,
peace, and first in the hearts of his country
men,"
"Je6. Dapis-First in rebellion. first in petti-
coats, and last in the Jail of his countrymen."
Every Saturday" for February Q. Is pub
lished, The short article upon Prof Lowell
from the Spectator, and the one upon aTbe
French Police. from Readings by starlinbt
are, to those who do not read the serial stories
those of the most interest in the present num-
Der.
The Mohammedans Of Syria interpret the
meteoric shower as a sign of the downfall of the
European Christian powers. For. saw they. all
the meteors fell from the east toward the west
and not one from the west toward the east;
therefore, the East lie. Turkey, is to conquer
the West, quod erat demonstrand,en.
Homer is said sometimes to nod. Punch
wants to know if he mods assent to all the
translations that are published of his works.
Bangor had concert for the benefit of tba
Cretans on Tuesday evening.
The evidence given in regard to one Of the
recent colliery explosions shows that the men
were in the habit of smoking in the pit, and thew
carried duplicate keys, by means of which they
could open the safety lamps.
The newest skating novelty in Chicoco ia
that OF Russian who skates on stills.
Miss Reignolds is now playing in Mobile.
Her engagement in Vicksburg was SO prosper
GUS that the manager has re-engaged her to an
pear there for two weeks after leaving Mobile
Her play of "Armadale" is highly praised.
"A steam traction engine has lust been
brought into use on the carriage-road between
Beirut and Damascus, and it promises TO
make a revolution in the trade hitherto car
ned On by the Imperial Ottoman COMPANY.
under French auspices. Not long since the
Company lost 80 horses in one snow storm.
near Khan ElMorad, on the nights of Leb-
anon. This traction engine will go through
IN less than two days to Damascus, drawing
several loaded wagons over the heavy grades
and around the sharp curves. Thus is West
ern enterprise driving the entering wedge in
to the inert mass of Oriental society.
The South Caroliaian says there is a
growing disposition among capitalists of the
North to loan money to the producers of cot
ton, for the purpose ofenabling them to carry
on tie labors of their plantations.
The English literary journals have a ru-
NOR that munifcent donor is about to found
an Anglo-saxon professorship at Cambridge
University.
"A society for the study of ballads aud
circulation OF books exists in Sunderland Eng
land. 1t consists of SIX earning thirty sbil-
iihgs week; two wood-carvers for ship-work.
rough kind of carving; one matchmaker;
one engine-fitter, who having lost finger,
paints photographs; and another wood-carver
who has also turned photograph painter.
These men buy all the old books of ballads and
cheap books that with their small means they
can obtain, and make point of reading them
all. They buy or borrow Carlyle's and Rus
kin's cheap books, have Sir Walter SCOTS
edition of Sir Tristran, j. Wilson, Hosg, By
ron, all the Cumberland Poets aud Selec-
tions SC.
A few years ago some Indians who saw
several women baptized by immersion in the
river at st. Joseph, Mo-, hole being cut in the
ice for that purpose, imagining that the cere-
mony, which they could not understand, was
to make them good, afterwards brought their
squaws, cut another hole in the ice near by,
and gave them ducking in spite of their re-
monstrances
Upon hotel sign in Richmond. the
following words appear in painted earnest:
Presidents Policy
Whiskey, Porter, Ale aud Cigars,