The Portland daily press., 1867-10-22
Varieties.

tian Association. Its object is to provide
cheap aud pleasant home for poor girls.
"A real live sea COW has been captured in
the St Louis river, Florida, and brought TO Sa-
vannah by the steamer Dictator. So few in
number have been the captures of this won
derful creature, that the fact of its existence
in Florida has been doubted.
"A New Orleans exchange of the 10th OF
October says: The New Orleans United States
military band, which will be remembered as
discoursing excellent music in Lafayette and
Coliseum squares before the advent OF the
present epidemic, was composed of twenty-sx
musicians. OF this number twenty-four have
had the yellow fever, and nine have died.
Lady Duff Gordon writes to the London
Times, in answer to "the number of people
who have asked me to find them lodgings at
Luxor CD that hotel will be opened this
winter at ancient Thebes. "Shnoodah, a re-
spectacle Coptic Christian" is the Egyptian
who thinks he can keep hotel, and he has
built for the purpose a handsome house in Eu-
ropean switchboard and lodging cheap, includ-
ing wine, European fuaniture and the best of
attendance, all in approved style Doubtless
there will soon be cake and candy stand ON
the summit of the Great Pyramid, and the
wayfarer will be solicited to have a shine" in
the shadow of the Sphynx itself.
The London Court Journal has the fol-
lowing paragraph: "Almost every time that
the Queen has gone on a long railway journey
lately she has run the risk of being killed.
What must be the chances of the public?"
The Albany Argus published a recent ca-
Bile despatch thus:
Garibaldi had named his son Menotti.
General IssimO, of the revolutionary forces,
is engaged in the movement on Rome.
The Argus adds that General Issimo is a great
military chief
-Vicksburg is again alarmed at the prospect
Of becoming an inland city. The canal dug by
our troops across the peninsula, opposite the
city, threatens, in time, to become the channel
OF the river. The canal failed originally be-
cause the main current struck below its head,
but the rapid caving Of the bank during the
past two years renders ii probable that Vicks-
burg will be left high and dry before the year
1870. The Herald, OF that city, fears that the
next food will complete the diversion of the
channel, and calls on the citizens to prevent
the disaster by proper engineering operations.
Says the Commercial Advertiser: "a cor
the fair sex) has sent in the following atrocity:
If my fathers head were divided into two
equal parts, what time of day would each por-
ton represent? Hali-past eight (half pas
tete).'"
"A crazy Irishman, who boarded in the rear
of the Union School, Norwalk, was secured
few days ago after some difficulty. The crazy
man had locked up a child in the house, and
threatened to kin it. The lunatic resisted ar
rest with an iron bar, and it became necessary
to fire to intimidate him before he could be Sc
cured.
"A courageous boy at st. Joseph, Missouri,
killed thirty four rattlesnaxes in one morning.
"A number of railway reformers met at the
Cooper Institute last week to advocate the lay
ing of double tracks for freight trains, on
which any person may run his own car.
The English harvest is reported by the ag-
ricultural editor of the London Times to have
produced wheat crop under the average,
barley crop ten per cent. over the average, oats
fifteen per cent. over of beans an average crop,
and of peas below the average.
There is rumor current that The London
Daily News, an able paper, which has never
met with the success it deserved, is TO be re-
penny daily papers. Certain novel features
will be introdu ed into it. The antecedents OF
The Daily News are enough to make il a lit
erary curiosity. Under the successive editor
ship of Charles Dickens, John Forster, w. II.
Wills, and other gentlemen of ability and ex-
perience, il has always retained on its staff no.
table talent; and, should it be published at one
penny, will make a formidable rival to The
Standard, The Star, and The Telegraph.
The experiment of steam passenger coach
es in the streets of Lyons, France, has been
unsuccessful. About sixty of the prominent
citizens of the place, accompanied by the en-
ciais of the neighborhood, took passage in TWO
story coaches The engine pulled well on ieVei
ground or on down grade and turned "rounu
corners very nicely. 1t refuseu to pun up "'i.'
bowever and the train ran away Win IT, n
,;t,,o ,,,o.o sc;epee and the thing may DC made
to work.
Iortv wears ago a chancery suit involving
A., u;o,,t of dover was commenced in Albany,
~ n has lust been decided. All the original
.,,,;es TO the suit are dead, and the entire VAL
ne of the property in dispute has been swal-
lowed up by costs.
begging has been reduced to science In
Cpt0usOuS' iho ihVCos uppiiO"eOH WV '''-N
little girl at the street corner, who earnestly
pleaded Tor "chaw o. terbaccer for her sick
and dying mother"
"A Nashville "girE. writes to a Nashville
paper that there are "no parks, no promenades,
nor eonyeniences for love-making' in all Nash
Vile
Joseph Gurnett, aged ten years, of Healds-
burg, Cal, recently committed suicide to
avoid thrashing threatened by his father, for
stealing He took strychnine, crept under the
schoolhouse, and died.
Charles Dickens has collected for the
Diamond Edition" of his works, published by
Tieknor s. Fields, number OF sketches ana
articles not hitherto printed in any edition oi
his works in Europe America
"A Mr.. Gameau, who possesses wohder,ui
mezzo-soprano voice, is shortly to appear at the
! Academy of Music in New YORK NiA'e '"e1'
zo-soprani are new to this country