The Portland daily press., 1867-09-12
Varieties.

/ Gsasshoppers ar0 rathor plenty in Iowa. 1t
is asserted that few nights ago, on the Chi
oago and Northern railroad, so thick were the
grasshoppers on the rails of the track that the
train was one hour and ten minutes in running
the ten miled The driving wheels of the en-
gine became perfectly clogged with the mashed
mass of grasshoppers, SO much so as to almost
entirely retard their revolution.
The new fashion, called the deaths head
robe p does not succeed 1t is a black ground
worked over with white skulls in silver thread
and the bottom is looped with big dropping
tears. Cheerful!
The total receipts Of wheat this year end
ing August 81, at Milwaukee, are nearly twelve
millions of bushels. The receipts for the COM
Ing year of this seasons crops are estimated at
over twenty millions.
DIR. Gun ming, who has been cyphering
the near end of the world for the past twenty
years, has discovered q slight mistake in his
figures, which, however only postpones the
catastrophy one million years. Thanks for
even that respite.
An exquisite at Saratoga, had dia-
mond pin of great magnifying power, and see
ing man with a large diamond come in, he
went up to him. "That's nice diamoDdF'
"Yesp "a first rate stonel" Yes" 'Now,I
spose that stone might be worth fifteen hun
dred dollars; butsthen I'm no epicure."
The Indians Of Sierra county, California,
are employing themselves in gathering crick-
cts, from the Long Valley, to be dried and used
for food during the winter months. There is
no accounting for taste.
During the months of July and August
fifty six persons were drowned in New York
harbor.
-Ticknor and Fields will publish, on the
29thinst., The Life of Josiah Quincy, by his son,
Edmund Quincy. A diamond edition Of Whit
tiers poetical works will appear this week.
Tioknor and Fields have also nearly ready,
Wdpeyley and Guy Mdnsrsng-. "o- .,ai.;----f
s;s4..,s e q novels. This edition will be completed
In twenty -"'~---'---aAs= and issued at the rate
of two volumes month.
"A young man named Regan died in All
bany, recently, from. having mole or wart on
his face cut by razor while being shaved. The
| wart was on the left cheek, and, while the
| whole right side was paralyzed, the left leg and
arm became rigid, and the face turned over the
| left shoulder. ia4t
| There are five patents in this country tor
| egg Matching by machines. The first one known
| was invented during the French revolution IN
| which Robespierre figured.
| The only daughter of Mr.. Spotted Tail,
| the celebrated Indian chief, is named Lizzie
| Euphemia Pocahontas. She is finishing her
| education" at Omaha. She is learning to sing
| in italian and play the piano.
The New York Evening Gazette says the
| author of the dodge Club Papers" now be-
| ing published in Harper's, is Professor De MILL
| of Dalhouse College, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He is son of the late N. s. De Mill, of ST. John,
N. b. ...r
l -One of our exchanges has the depravity to
assert that Messrs. Appleton are riding to
wealth and fame on MuhIbacM
-Sheridan's attempt to get his ideas into
| Johnson's head, reminds q contemporary of
that other Sheridan, who very properly re-
buked his son for attempting to open oysters
with razor. IH
The yellow fever, banished IRON New Or
leans under military rule, seems to be in pro-
cess of reconstruction under the municipal
authorities" ..t
On Sunday. the 1st of September, great
aerial stceplechase was to take place in Paris
| the ballons to start from the Esplanade of
| the Invalides. The race was arranged by the
administration of that monster balloon, 'The
| Giant" 1t was open to balloons of all nations,
those who chose to compete were to be supplied
with gas gratis, and would receive all the ne
cessary facilities and assistance for the ascent.
1t is now confidently expected that Mr..
Dickens will eat his next Christmas dinner in
America. ......I 4a. 4ru4.l
An old gentleman, in Arkansas, recently
l or;akr, 10 uritl kxw@
sons, and the eldest of the latter was asked by
the clerk if he could write. mo, sir" chimed in
the old man, II am happy to say that my sons
cannot read or write. When / was a boy my
parents sent me to school, and after had got
little start in the world, 1 endorsed note for
a man and it cost me all my property. 1 then
made up my mind that no child of mine should
lean to write"
Mr.. Charles w. Felt, of Salem, Mass, has
invented machine for justiying type, or
making the lines of equal length, and with
equal space between the words. This machine
is very small and not very complicated. The
first machine does its work well, and gives
promise that, if united with one of the new
type setting machines, it will achieve a decidea
triumph. .nt.rs
The curiosity of Paris is just no" eA0''9U
by mysterious individual who appears naSN
| In n circns where wrestling ana iea'S Vi
stranotb are exhibited, takes on \ cloaA, anu
a;so,o... an athletic person clad In SIX tghts
,,aot velvet drawers, and who has over
So -, xith apparent ease, the most dis
'.n'.;.bsd professional wrestlers of the Paris
ring.
-By next summer we shall have a ne At
l,ntc cable stretching from Brest across to the
island of st. Pierre, or Miquelon, and by New
Brunswick, along the coast into New York. 1t
is to be hoped that new line and company
will result in tho exercise Of more discretion
and Judgment in furnishing news ANY bu'
siness establishment which supplied los custo-
mers with sny commodity so indinerently as
.,o ,,r.s.nt msnagemsnt furnishes news,
III ,o ~ peces in a month. Next year we
-. 20 hear more about the men and less about
tho horses of Europe.
Some Of the Italian residents in New York
are going TO introduce there the style of rider
lass racing horses common in their own coun-
try. One of tho racing parks near New York
will be prepared for the sport, and trial had
} before long.
"A young man from Vermont who has been
out yachting gives the best description Of sea
sickness vet: "The first hour was afraid
+ should die; and the second 1 was afraid
! shouldn't"