The Portland daily press., 1867-02-08
VARIETIES.

"A Jenkins speaks of WHO is lust
emerging into womanhood in white, trimmed
with blue" .t
"A Boston paper says; "A remarkable dis
covery is reported in Italy, by which two per-
sons may converse by telegraph, recognizing
even the sounds of each others voice. There
was something like it years ago, between New
York and Boston, but it was given up on ac-
count of the New York operators breath SMELL
ing too strong of bad gin"
The Count de Montalembert is far from
well, in spite of the friendly offices which the
paragraphists are continually performing for
him. AFTER eight months treatment" he says
in letter in the Monde "the docotrs abandon
me to nature, without giving me any definite
hope as to the term of my illness. However,
they say shall be cured sooner or later, and
that shall be better in the spring, without
promising me complete recovery bv that
time' NJ.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley is giving a
course of lectures at the Royal Institution,
"On the Ancien Regime as it existed on the
continent before the French Revolution"
The Mrs. Marsh who is now writing nov
els in Eng land is not the Mrs Marsh who
twenty years ago, or thereabouts, published the
novel of Emilia Wyndham," and other stories
which were popular in their time. The latter
lady has published card to that effect In the
English papers, stating that she is now Mrs.
Marsh Caldwell, and that she has published
nothing since 1876.
ID AT Ticheville, in France, recently, ffty-two
sheep out of flock of one hundred and twenty
nine, were poisoned by eatingswhite clover
AT christmas there were to be seen in tho
open air, at Bonchurch, ut the back of the Isle
of Wight, broad beans in full bloom, and green
peas in flower and pod; also great many
Strawberries in flower and fruiting, large new
potatoes, and heliotrope in bloom.
"A Madrid letter in the Independence Beige
remarks that "the public education in Spain 10
very backward as may be imagined from the
fact that out of ~ 157 municipal councillors, no
less than 12,479 are unable to read or write.
Among the number are included 422 mayors
and 93S deputy mayors"
In regard to overstocking the market with
cotton goods, an English paper says:-"The
truth is, that machinery has been so improved,
and its increase in the country so great, that,
with an adequate supply of cotton to work on,
it could soon furnish fabrics for another planet
as large as our own
1t is proposed to organize service Of
steam gondolas on the canals of Venice The
lovers of the picturesque think this q desecra-
ton, and the gondoliers are equally indignant
from less disinterested motives.
Moscow was lighted with gas for the first
time on the 18th of January.
Punch styles the primates o 1 Canterbury
York and Dublin the Three Graces
d -Reinecke, at Leipsic, has just completed
a FIVE act opera-King Manfred.
Philadelphia is about to build S1,OOO,OOO
worth of new sehool-houses.
"A Pithole paper is publishing a serial nov.
el entitled the Haunted Derrick,
The railway from Florence TO Rome il
now completed, and the two capitals are
brought within twelve hours journey OF each
other. .a- NM.
Mr. Jones, aged seventy years recently
married young girl in Schoharie county, N.
y, went to Albany on his wedding tour, fell
down stairs at his hotel, made his will, and left
her to go forth rich widow who came in as
a welded attendant of an infrm old man.
But, girls, such accidents do not always hap
pen under these circumstances.
"A noble lord asked clergyman once, at
the bottom of his table, "Why the goose If
there was one, was always placed next the
parson?" "Realy," said he, Il can see no
reason for it; but your question is SO odd that
7 shall never see goose, for the future, with
ont thinking Of your lordship.
A bill is before the legislature of Missouri,
with fair prospect of passing, making tho
keeping of a gambling-house or house of
prostitution punishable in all cases by impris-
onment, and not fine, the term of confne-
nent to be not less than three months or
more than twelve.
The greatest anchor in the world has been
for the Great Eastern at Wolver-
hampton. Its weight is eight tons, exclusive
,f the stock length of the shank, 20 feet 6
inches; length Of wood stock, 10 feet 6 inches;
Tread Of arms, feet inches,