The Portland daily press., 1867-11-07
" aI'ietieS.

Varieties.
"A practical joker in England saturated
the hair of sleeping companion with naptba,
and set it on fire. The laugh came in when
he was sent to Jail
bismarck is six feet in height, with broad
shoulders and chest, round horid face large
blue eyes, and loud voice. He is described
as the image ofa roleking prize fighter.
The fresh widow of somebody lately wrots
to the editor of the Opinion Natiobole in Par
| is that her lamented had assuaged her grief in
losing him by recanting and regretting the re-
l.ligious opinions he had imbibed from that pa
| per- and she renounced the three months SUBJ
| scription which the lamented died before en-
| joying. To her the editor answers: "We
hasten to send Mdme Bertholey with our
coincidence, the money which has been paid
for three months she willingly renounees-
We congratulate the clergy OF that pa rish on
the memorable victory which they have just
| obtained in suatchng from the claws of Satan
the soul of notary, for eight years a subscribe
| er to our journal"
"A singular accident occurred at Ports
mouth last week. AT the launch of the new
ship "Yo Semite,' the tide drove her against
a tenement house on shore, in which were sew
eral families. The house was utterly demo'-
ished, and one end dropped into the river ami
was swept away. Two young women were
riously injured, and one child is reported
missing.
"A new and valuable agent, whereby sur
gicaI oberations are painlessly performed,
without the risk which has hitherto attended
chloroform has just been discovered, and free
lxyp l;oha hxn nr "A
In the current number of the Medical Times il
is stated that in case perfect insensibility
was produced in four minutes; in the second
case in about six minutes; in both instanceI
where it was used the patient glided, so To
speak, into complete anesthesia without u
| struggle. This valuable remedy is the bichlor-
Idle of methylen which differs from chloro-
| form in the rapidity with which it produces
| perfect nsensbility. In one case in a warm
room the vaporization of the fluid was SO rapid
that frost was produced on the inhaler.
| "A charming wee creature, about eight.
years old, was ployfIlly taken by the nose tn,
other day by gentleman who held out bis
thumb to her between the fore and middle fin
gers of his hand has been done from tina
immemorial, with the question: "whose oss
lisrthisPsFo whicts arch apss-vvitty essi,.l
"A commemorative service to The memory
| of the late Gov. Andrew, was held at the Mu-
sic Hall, Boston, ON Sunday night. Appro-
pirate addresses were delivered A sad sig
| nificance attached to the occasion from tho
| fact that previous to his death it had been de-
cided to hold public meeting of conference
in the same Hall the same evening, at which
Gov. Andrew had promised to preside.
The Sister Patrocinio, whose death wa
! recently announced from Madrid, was merely
| nun in a convent at La Grania, and not tho
| well-known lady who is said to exercise sucI
| influence over Spanish politics. The mistake
| was shared by the Ministry, and was published
in the official journal.
| --Meersehaum is a kind of clay, composed
| of by ydrate of magnesia, combined with slick or
flint. IL is found in different parts of Europe;
| in Spain, and in the several countries at thi
head of the Mediterranean. When first taken
out of the earth it is soft, and makes lathec
like soap, and from this latter circumstance il
is often used for washing by those who live in
| places where il is obtained. The fine yellow
| and brown colors which are 50 much admired
| in the pipes and which can only be produced
| after long smoking, are caused from the fact
| that the meerschaum is kept for some time i'm
| mixture of wax and fatty matter A por-
| ton of these is absorbed, aud being subsequent-
| ly acted upon by the heat and tobacco fumes,
assumes various shades of color. To color
| pipe, fill it loosely at the start, and only half
full smoke slowly, the object being to keep
the pipe as cool as possible under the eircum-
| stances. Do no. allow it 60 cool too rapidly
after smoking. Never cover q pipe, because
| the oil that exudes frcm the meersehaum will
| be absorbed by the material of which the cover
| is composed, and the result will be blotches on
the pipe.
Mr.. Algernon Charles Swinburne who Of
late has turned his attention to prose, is think
ing of second drama, of which Mary, Queen
of Scots, is to be the heroine, and which, If
| written, will deal with Boswell as his earlier
tragedy dealt with Chastelard.
| What comment of history upon prophe-
| cy is contained, says the New York Times, in
| the re-entry OF France into Romei Less than
a twelvemonth ago Napoleon withdrew his
| last Zouave detachment from the Eternal City,
and so closed up seventeen years of French
protection for the Pope. Throughout France
the press predicted that an end had been put to
French Intervention in behalf of the Holy See.
"Papacy," cried one Journal ''is now a de-
|
| great current; and another declared, France
abandons forever the mundane power Of the
Pope" Forever? Before winter has come
round again French bayonets glsten in the
| great square fronting st. Peters and the
| French flag waves as OF yore on the battle
| ments of San Angelo Such is the satire that
history writes SO promptly upon prophecy.
= Edmund Abont is worth five hundred
- l,l,,
dollars), which in Paris is a fair fortune for an
author.
Lord Russell, in private letter, has ex-
pressed his satisfaction that the national
schools have been so extensively difiused in
Ireland. The noble Earl adds: 81 should be
much rejoiced if | could see prospect of es-
tablishing the same system in England,
= The Italian correspondent of the Times
| speaks warmly of the merits OF young
| American sculptor at Florence, whose name Is
| Connolly He has gained great reputauoh
| hv a., ;deal bnst ofaShakspeare's Cordelia, and
hos heen eoually successful with his likenesses
| in portrait busts and figures MIR. flanK Con
nelv here spoken of, is a son OF Rev. Pierce
Connolly, of Baltimore
| Fnn represents q six year old in knieker-
hackers seated in BARRIERS chair, and to nm
the bairdresser: "Well my little gentleman
and how would you like your hair CUT
Charle-"Oh, like papas please-with a little
| round hole at the top.
One Major Cooper, editor OF the ClarKS-
bnrg West yirginia) Conservative, lately re-
marked that there would be war within hiIy
| davs. and that he should have hand IN u.
Whereupon boy in blue" said there wouiu
| he war within fifty minutes, and knocked ths
beIlicose Cooper down. Bystanders interyened
to prevent further hostilities.
Mr. w T. Forten, of Philadelphia, ne
gro, is lecturing on "the duty devolving upon
colored men in this crisis" Mr.. Forten m"uo
| a speech at the convention of the fennSS
MIA State Equal Rights League, "nien
much annlandcd at the time and praised al
forwards by the newspapers