The Portland daily press., 1867-11-28
Varieties.

1t is said that an increased taxation is one
of the things which will certainly be agtated
in the next British Parliament.
Addresses from all parts of Austria are
poured into the national assembly, in favor Of
abolishing the Roman Coneordat.
While President Lincolns child lay dead
at the White House a western office seeker
persistently sought an interview with him in
order to procure place about to be vacated by
resignation. The President reminded the ap-
plieant of his domestic calamity, saying that
the time for such business as his was unseas-
enable. "Well, said the fellow,--"how soon
does the funeral come of?"
AN old affidavit made by George Peabody
in 1914, has been hunted up at Newburyport,
In which the now princely millionaire swore
that he only possessed $500 worth of taxable
property. .f..
The Cleayeland Herald says that the road
by which Weston entered that city looks as
though an army had passed over it. "Buggies
minus wheel or a shaft, pieces of harness,
hats and caps are strewn along the road in
endless confusion. 1t is estimated that the
damage to buggies alone would amount to
$1,000"
Continent, does not walk on wager, but for
sight seeing and healthy exercise. He is
writing letters to the Utica Herald, en- route.
"A Masonic temple costing 100000 has
been dedicated at Shanghai. An American
engine was an important feature in the pro-
cession.
The Paris correspondents of the London pa
pers continue to allude to Napoleon's present
unpopularity with the Parisian masses. The
French newspapers are not allowed to notice
sundry things which illustrate this state of
public feeling. Work is slack and bread is
dear in Paris, and the work people think it is
the Emperor's fault.
[ BY official returns it appears that st. Louis
had over thousand deaths from choleraic dis
eases between the LIST of August and the 1st of
November. OF these four hundred and eighty
two were from Asiatic cholera, and all occur
red during five weeks, from the middle of Sep
tember till the latter part of October.
The poor law medical officer in the Isle
of Dogs" poor quarter of London, reports
that there are hundreds of poor people dying
quietly, by inches, in that quarter, for lack of
food, and yet refuse to apply to the Union"
for relief, so great is their horror of the Eng
lish poor-house system.
I Marshal Mil is said to have instructed
General de Failly, on his departure with the
French troops for Rome, to take the first OPP
portunity to try the Chassepot rifle ON living
bodies and in obedience to this command ofhis
superior, Failly is supposed to have put $500
Frenchmen into the battle of fMentone, and con-
tributed largely to the utter rout of the Gariba-
dams. A careful examination of the three hun
dred wagon loads of poor wounded Italians
who were carried from the field of slaughter
would no doubt furnish the Marshal and the
General with the most satisfactory information
respecting the effectiveness of the Chassepot
and of the particulars in which its wounds
differ from those made by other rifles.
Pauline Canissa, who i'll be remembered
by the musical people OF this city, has recently
made great success in opera at the Stadt
Theatre, Hamburg. The Hamburg papers en-
dorsa the opinions of the American press con-
cerning her, and add that she is an artist in
every sense of the word. She opened as Rosi-
ma in "The Barber of Seville" in which she
was excellent, her execution being fun of bril-
hancy and spirit. In the singing lesson she
introduced the "Venzen Waltz" and on an
encore the bolero from "Sicilian Vespers."
She was called before the curtain after each
act. The Hamburg press predicts for her a
cordial reception all over Germany.
Wilkes never lost his presence of mind,
but was always fuli of resources. When he
was apprehended by one of the Kings mes
sengers, the warrant included Churchill, the
poet who entered the room Just as Wilkes was
captured. "Thompson. my dear fellow"
cried Wilkes, as if oyerjoyed to see him, they
have seized me, and the warrant includes
Churchill. You not likely to see Church
i'll yourself, but if You meet any OF his friends,
beg them to warn him to get out of the way"
Churchill took the hint; and, after few OBJ
servations about Mrs. Thompson, he left the
room, and took care to be off pretty quickly
when he was clear OF the house.
Representations of Minorities," Phot-
graphs of children. s..r.
"A servant girl in charge of the building
in which is the Bank of Liverpool recently
found an iron instrument headed like spear.
1t occurred to her imaginative intellect that
it would serve as an excellent poker. In put
ting it to that use, however, the head of the
instrument, which was filed with detonating
powder "went off" which conduct was imme-
diately initiated by the girl.
There are two black men in Georgetown,
d. c., each worth $4,000. One is teamsster
and the other keeps a feed store
"A Chinese almanac is most extraordi-
nary publication. The days for ploughing,
building travelling, and marrying are laid
down in it with the greatest minuteness The
whole period of four seasons is divided into
twenty Jour solar terms, each possessing some
characteristic name, and corresponding to the
day ON which the sun enters the first or hf-
teenth degrees of one OF the twelve Signs OIL
the zodiac. As the Chinese is lunar caieh-
dar, the places of these solstices' equihoNoS'
Sc, which regulate the three great Iesti'aIs
of the wear, are changed every year ihereiS
-. ~ ..,,orcalation of the arrears of the
C,":-aa ,,oar of a54 days, which in period of
80, 80 or tbirty-three months amount to
a.sat month of thirty days. which is intro
dn,ed. every two or three years, in such a
1vav as to preserve the order of these twenty
four periods
The steamer "Ocean Belle was coming
down the Mississippi river, with deckload
of pig lead. As she was coming near a shall
10 " place, the pilot gave the signal for the
man forward to "throw the leadl" 1t happen
ed that the only man forward was a green
Irishman. "Why don't yog throw the lead?"
"Is it the lead you want to throw, your honor?
And faith, where viii be throwing it?'
Overheard, you scoundrelr' Pat took up a
pig of lead and threw it overheard; tine mate,
endeayoring to prevent him, lost his balance,
and fell into the river. The captain ran for
ward on the hurricane deck, and asked Pat
why he did not throw the lead and
sing out how much water there was?' "och
pom my soul, Captain, thorwed the Lead anu
the mate has gone down to see how mnch wa
ter there isY'
Anbonest Dutchman who does not take
the naners arrived at Richmond the other
day, from the Wilderness anu 80 note no.
pass twenty dollar oonieuer"'o ~"