The Portland daily press., 1867-01-31
VARIETIES,

-.' ANU oAonohSo VI compliments between
the Chicago and st. Louis journals still con-
ueslively. Lately Chicago paper said
st. Louis is collection of houses on tho
west bank of the Mississippi" Whereupon tho
st. Louis Times retorts: 1T might have add
ed truthfully, with money enough in them to
buy up the whole of Chicago, and still leave a
respectable balance in bank. 1t a collection
mostly owned by the occupants or residents
and not doubly thatched with mortgages by
eastern creditors" ..
One evening few weeks ago. as little
three year old Dick was looking from the win
dow, he spied the new moon Just setting, and
near it, in lambent beauty the star Venus
"Oh, mammal" he cried, come and look Here
is the moon with butterfly,
"A New York paper calls attention to the
fact that the only government in tho world
that recognized the rebel Confederacy was
that of the Sovereign of Rome. The only gov
ernment in the world that denies to-day the
right of worship to American Protestants
within its capital is that of the Sovereign of
Rome. -I.u.
The report of the Canadian Minister of
Customs recommends that American vessels be
refused the privilege of passing through the
Welland Canal for a few months. By doing
this, he says, "we will bring the Americans to
reason"
The Country Gentleman is informed. on
what it considers good authority, that nothing
is better for Withdrawing the frost without in
jury to frozen ears, cheeks and fingers, than
the immediate application of kerosene-rub-
bing it on gently for few times.
"A young man in Paris, who wanted to
drown his dog, took him in a boat and threw
him overheard. While pushing the animal
from the boat with his oar he fell overheard,
and would have drowned had not his dog held
him up till assistance came
Mrs. Jellifower who is from the rural
districts, went to see Ristori at the Opera
House, and thinks the ladies' aid gentlemen
that composed the audience very unmanperlv
"for' said she, they sot up and read pme now
els the whole evening"
The editor of the Norwich Bulletin not
only accepts telegram, photogram, ithogram'
and all the other grams changed from graph. but
he proposes, when the next menagerie comes
along, to turn the giraffe into gi.ram.
Berger, the billiard player, comes to this
country next spring
The municipality of Brussels have offered
the very handsome sum of sixteen pence day
as a recompence for services rendered by the
medical profession during tho last epidemic
cholera.
"A society entitled the "Newspapers Press
Defence Association" is in course of form
alton in England, its object being to assist
proprietors and editors of newspapers in
repulsing unjust attacks incurred by them in
the execution of their duties.
M. Ingres, one of the leading artists of
France, died recently in Paris after short liz
ness. He had retired, when the chimney
smoking induced him to attempt to remedy
the difficulty. While walking around in his
night clothes he caught cold which settled
| on his lungs, and he died stifed, not having
strength to expectorate. Among artists NJ.
Ingres was held in high repute. Only last
| year he was made a member of the French
Senate by way of an extraordinary homage to
the fine arts He was born September 18th,
1881.
| Two fishes came through the pump of the
rev artesian well at Novembay, Wis., few
| days ago The well is ore hundred and seven
| feet deep, tubed the whole distance, and close
ly filed at the teb with force-pump, SO that
the fishes can come from nowhere but at the
depth underground. They are abont two
inches long, nearly white, and do not resemble
any variety common in these waters. One of
them was injured coming through the pump
and died, the other is alive. There was no in-
dication OF having struck stream when the
well was finished, although the water came
in inexaustible quantities, accompanied by ex-
ceedingly fine sand.
Mr. Charles Reade, in q letter published in
the London Sun, confesses himself indebted to
the "Pivadiere,. case iu the GAUGES Celebres,"
for the main incidents in Griffith Gaunt."
-Artemus Ward is under the professional
care Of Dr. Mary Walker, in London. That
world saws he is A Ward in the hospital in
which she is a Walker.
why is a New York City election like the
game of Euchre? Because the party wins that
carries the Five Points.
Mechanics have worked six hundred years
on the spire of the Strasburg cathedral
They have actually found new theatre in
New York, an opera house nearly as large as
Niblo's, situated up on English avenue be-
tween Twenty third and Twenty fourth streets,
and which Mr. Pike of Cincinnati was quietly
building and Saying nothing to anybody"
Nineteen and half acres ofglass are to bs
used in the Paris Exposition building