The Portland daily press., 1867-09-30
Varieties.


The Middlesex Mechanics Association
opened its third exhibition at Lowell, Tue day
Sept. 10th. The exhibition will continue two
or three weeks longer.
| AS evidence of the extraordinary growth
of vegetation in Florida it is mentioned that
single tomato plant, spreading like the banyan
tree, has entirely covered bed eighteen feet
square 1t had produced about six bushels of
fruit up to the latter part of August and was
still producing, a bushel or more being on it
sometimes at once.
The New Orleans Crescent of the 21st says:
at may now be safely assumed that no impor-
tant cotton-growing locality in the South has
escaped the visitation of the army worm. The
only mitigating feature of this fac is that the
general ravage was delayed until at least
goodly portion OF the cotton bolls had either
opened for picking or attained sufficient
growth to set the worm at defiance"
California boasts of a clng-stone peach
that measures within a quarter of an inch OF
a foot in circumference.
-Precocious' girl that, who took as the
theme of her graduating essay at fashionable
seminary, "The Education Of our Boys"
DIR. Schramm New York politician who
is on a visit to his old home in Prussia, told
the people in speech that Americans regard
Bismarck as the greatest man in the world,
and that if he were an American he would
certainly be elected President in 1868.
The success of the Mont Gents summit
railway has caused the question to be agitated
in Nice of applying the same system to the
passage of the Col di Tenda.
An exchange has discovered that, viewed
epgrammatically, the kingdom Don Quixote
gave to Sancho wa1 merely a transposition OF
the Empire of Napoleon III. The first was
absolutely absurd; the other is absurdly abso-
| lutte.
The French Government has just ordered
| 100000 wastbelts, each having attached to it
small medicine box. The latter will contain
whatever is necessary to give, in rough way.
a first dressing to a wound, or to stop dysen-
| terry. The cost will be less than two francs
| each.
The Dutch peasants who suffered much
by the rinderpest, have been inspired by their
misfortunes to cultivata geese and all other
sorts of poultry Large numbers of these now
occupy the fields where cattle used to Craze,
and both birds and eggs are destined for the
London market.
1t is said that Senator Patterson remark
ed, on reading the press dispatches about his
fracas with Gen. Kyle that its publication
was breach of confidence, as the fight was
marked "Private," and like other matters OF
the johnson policy, was strictly confidential.
1t is said that the Fenian money which
Mr.. Devlin, the opponent of Darcy MCGEE,
was charged with receiving from New York,
and which was such a good card for the cleo
| ton, proves to have been q schoolgirls remit
| tance.
| During a storm recently at Sauze, France,
the wife of the bellringer and her son had as
| cended to the church tower to toll the bells, in
| accordance with belief very general among
the peasantry that by so doing the effects OF
the lightning may be neutralized. They had
Scarcely commenced when the building was
struck by the electric fluid, and the woman
killed ON the spot. The son escaped uninjur-
| ed.
"A lady in going from Collinsville to Hart
ford CT, recently, put her head out of the
window to see the country, when the wind
sent her latest purchase at the milliner's flying.
She bound up her head with handkerchief
and stopped at the next station, whence her
obedient husband walked back distance OF
four miles and found the love of bonnet
hanging on blackberry vine. Some Of its ar
tifcial flowers, bugles, &C., were gone, but
bugs, crickets, and spiders formed unique
and pleasing substitute.
i "A new magazine is to be started in Balti-
more next month, under the title of Southern
Society" The prospectus is very promising.
| Whether the performance will bear it out re-
mains to be SEEM 1t does not mention whetl,-
er the society" represented is TO be that of the
| South before or since reconstruction.
The Chicago Tribune is opposed to prohit-
tory liquor laws. This is the way it talk
"The argument which holds farmer or COM
mission merchant guilty of moral crime 70:
selling grain or hops to the distiller or brewer,
because the latter may make an article out Of
it which some other man may get drunk on, is
not complete unless we hold Divine Providence 8
primarily responsible for creating such a SUI
perabundance of articles capable of producing ?
| alcohol"
"A new paper mill has been built in Minnc-
| apolis, Minnesota.
The latest Rio Janeiro advices are that
Mitre lies idle again before the Paraguaya n
breastworks at Humaita. 1t is well matched
| game between the toughness of the Paraguay
ans and the obstinacy of the Allies. Three
| years ago, Brazil, with the Argentine Repub-
| lie at her side, threw herself upon petty Para
| quay, nothing doubling that she would by
mere ponderosity grind the adversary to pow
der. Now she would gladly have the war tax
en- off her hands, preserving only pride and
prestige, and sacrificing all she has spent OF
blood and treasure.
The Los Angeles (Cal) Republican says
the carrier of that paper will hereafter mako
collections on the first Saturday of eacn
month, except when it comes on Sunday!
-Hawthorne's "Marble Faun" has been
published by London firm, under the title Of
Transformation" Does anything in "Ameri-
can piracy" excel that?
| "A despatch announces that the island re-
Gently reported to have been discovered in the
| Pacific Ocean, the existence of which was sub
sequently denied, is a bonafide fact and that
the schooner Milton Badger has just returned
from there, having left her captain and eigh-
teen men on the island. When the Badger
left. the steamers of the China line lay at an
ehor four miles off the island in about eight
fathoms of water The island, which is desig-
.I | nateu as DTOUho lSithd, wiz pN u1SN ee' . NNfNN
for these steamers.
In the northern part of Vermont, in qui-
ct burying ground, upon tombstone may %
found the following inscription:
| .'Here lies the remains OF - "iie'
| Who mourned away her natural me-
| She mourned herself TO death tor hst lnah,,
| While he was in the service OF uncle Sah'
Some noble-hearted and fearless women OF
New Orleans have formed society for nursing
| and bnnrvinc the sick and dead during the
prevalence of the fever The association is
aptly known as the "Ssters of Ruth
The leaves of the potato vine are being
successfully used in Havana as a substitute Tor
tobacco. Real Havanas with potato filing and
cabbage leaf wrappers will soon be plenty in
| this market
| A new book, soon to be issued by Carieton
| & Co., under the title of Richmond during
the War" will reveal many facts connected
with the sLost Cause" in the Confederate Cap
ital which have hitherto been carefully con-
cealed.
Eronce will teach Yankees new way of
oarertisiug. 1t is proposed to erect along the
pa,levards number of lay figures, upon
which clothers OF all kinds can display the'r