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


DIR. Senator Duke Gwin is in Louisville,
and intends tc stay there. H
Miss Dix, the Florence Nightingale Of our
asylums and hospitals has just shipped to
Fortress Monroe the last load of granite for
the soldiers monument which is being erected
there. The monument is of beautiful design,
and will be completed early in the fall.
I Victor Hugo, the most brilliantly illogical
of living French writers, who leaps syllogisms
at bound, as hunter takes five-barred
gate, publishes his opinion that "a medal to
to Lincoln calls for o medal to John Brown"
A contemporary asks: "Why so? Surely not
because Lincoln sympathized with John
Browns raid, since he condemned it,"
"A museum of guns, and swords, and relics
of war, is forming at the U. s. Armory at
Springfield. a" '4 .-..
The London correspondent Of the Round
Table says: "The announcement, fear, cam
not be long delayed that the state Of the
Queens mind--of which something used to be
heard even during the Prince Consort's life
time--is such as to make it very improbable
that she can ever again take an active part in
public life." lsiE 500
The Boston boy who stole can OF milk
some days ago, was sent to the reformatory on
the 23d, for stealing little dog to drink it.
AS a lady stood for q moment at the cor
ner of Washington and Franklin streets, Bos-
ton, day or two ago, an unknown man, in
passing, struck her right in the face with his
hand, and hurried on. The surprise Of those
who witnessed it was such that he was gone
before they thought of seizing him.
A I,oa haax,
many years in the survey of the Irish coast,
was examined recentlv before the select COM
mittee on the fisheries or Ireland. He stated
that the quantity eef fish in the sea was SO vat
and unlimited, that all the artof man directed
to its capture would have no appreciable effect
in diminishing the quantity. Indeed added
the gallant officer, 'f you were to take every
fish you could catch sout of it, 1 don't think
there would be one less init.
Chicago is really getting in bad way. The
Republican Of that city says: "Things seem to
be rapidly approaching condition when no
man in Chicago will know whether he is mar
ried or not" hHh imt ','t d" i''l
The Queen of Spain is said to be writinga
work on the Happiness of Nations" !" on which
topic her subjects win probably be curious to
| know what are her Majesty's ideas.
| -'Little All Right" the leading feature OF
Maguire's Imperial Japanese Troupe, died in
| Chicago on the 18th inst. 1t will be remem-
bered he received serions injuries by terrible
fall of fifty feet, while performing at the New
York Academy of Music His death was occa-
stoned by that accident "i ""'' 5000
| "A church, a public hall, and schooi-room
attached, intended to be memorial of the alb
e A n :
services of the late President Lincoln, are now
erecting in London. lh tst ~
The Buffalo Courier says: aWorkmen are
busily engaged In preparing for an abutment
on the American side ofithe Niagara river for
the new Suspension Bridge. 1t is intended tor
foot passengers only, and will give one OF tne
grandest and most imposing views OF tne ralls
The bridge win be situated bne snort dis-
..r,oo e.or, tho International hotel on the Am
s;de and the Clifton House on the Ca
-, s;5a 4It will require span ofone thou
-, $780,, hundred and sixty feet. The width
.,, =. .sp feet, and the height above the wa
w. ,,,e hundred feet. The structure will be OF
.hou.ual wire cables, resting upon wooden
.ar,ors II will be abundantly strong and safe
sor the purpose for which il is intended.
An ordonnance of the Prussian govern
,rsnt orders that the lotteries of Hanover, os-
nohruck. and Maine, shall oe
sunpressed after the termination OF the second
drawing of those Of this year. The City o
frankfort loses by this step resources ame unit
iog to 2O0,OOOf. annually.
LaWhat's in a name% Z. L, Barnum an'
| Charles Dickens are two of the men who re
\ Gently broke out of Danbury jail