The Portland daily press., 1867-11-26
Varieties.

"A Boston punster (who Is liow at the point
OF DEATH cannot understand why Mr. Dickens
should have come to America by (the) Cuba,
or why, with desire to see the country, he
should have preferred the Parker House Bos-
ton, to the hospitality of the Fields, which was
offered to him. af.t
"A German girl, who came to this country
to marry her cousin and found him too poor to
marry her, committed suicide in New York
the other day by the extraordinary method of
cutting off the heads OF matches and eating
them. She refused to take an antidote.
1t costs more 10 run the Roman machine"
than it comes to. The Roman States owe
about $l00O0O,000, aud the revenue hardly
pays the interest ON the debt So that the
Pope would make money by abandoning his
dominion to the rule of Victor Emmanuel.
! The Ohio State journal says: ''The peo.
pie of Ohio may be divided into two classes
Those who have come from the East, and those
who are just going West"
"A steamer will leave Dubuque within a
few days for New Orleans, towing barges con-
tanning nearly one hundred thousand bushels
of wheat for New York and Liverpool. This
consignment is made to test the feasibility OF
uSiIS tut tHtlFe WabeF route luSledu Oi ny
railroad and the lakes, as heretofore.
AS two sisters, the Misses Lane, residing
at ss GaGlissa li Staatien tat on the CINCINNATI Haml-
from school along the track, one of them fell
into acattle-guard, iniuring herself so serious
ly that she could not get out unaided. Her
sister ran for assistance, and while she was
gone train thundered over the wounded girl.
The cow-catcher disarranged her dress, but
luckily inflicted no physical injury.
The English papers continue to talk of
the coming out OF the Queen this winter, and
Of the approaching gayeties which this will
inaugurste. 1t is now said too, that the PriD-
cess of Wales is so far restored to health and
strength as to give hope that she will be able
to take her appropriate place by the Queens
side, or in her stead, and contribute materially
to the enioyableness OF. the court entertain
ments.
THE most quiet place L know j" said Ze-
kiel, sis Woodville, in Mississippi; there's no
quarrel or rowdyism, nor fighting in the
streets. If a gentleman insults another, he's
quietly shot down, and that's the last of it,"
The excitement among the negroes of
Richmond on the subject OF being caught alive
for dissection continues. They now believe
that forty medical students from New York
are in Richmond for the purpose of procuring
material for dissection. Very few are seen ON
the streets after night and not more than fifty
attended circus the other night while here
tofore thousands have usually been present.
The panic has been started by designing scoun-
drels to accomplish wicked purposes.
"A young lady recently died in Elgin, ILL.,,
and at her funeral, when her relatives and
friends were taking last look at the beloved
face, a young man to whom she had been en-
gagged, and who had presented her with an en-
gagement ring short time before her death,
deliberately bent over the corpse, and in the
presence OF all in the church, removed the ring
from her finger and walked of with it.
"A New Orleans paper sensibly says of the
tournaments that have occurred lately in the
South, "Cotton picking is a more honorable
occupation than such tom-foolery under Mann
brino's helmet and in decorated flannel
shirt"
Guy Fawkes day, which during the last
few years has been but very indifferently OBJ
served in London, had some of its 'glories' re-
vived ON the 9Th inst The Pope was brought
once more into requisition and in many parts
of London his Holiness was seen represented
in every variety OF form and costume. At the
East End Of London an immense representa-
ton of the Pope was carried ON large poles,
GaribaIdi, with upliited sword, being about to
strike him down. Indeed, this seemed to be
the favorite idea in many quarters Of London,
and the religious part of the question connect
ed with the alleged attempt TO burn down the
Houses of Parliament was scarcely regarded
with any significance at all. In many dis
tricts the ritualists of the Church of England
shared with the Pope the honor of being rep
resented as guys"
Count Duchatel, who died the other day
in hissixty fifth year, was distinguished under
the Orleans dynasty, when be held ministerial
office, and tor MANY years was a member of
the Chamber of Deputies
There is true economy in plenty of light
Not a single crime has occurred in the parts of
Knoxyille, Tennessee, which are lighted by
cas-. since the introduction thereof
Little boys at Columbia, Ga, Sunday
school get circus tickets or being good
The late Countess of GainsJorough was a
member of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
and Malta. There are now but three ladies'
bearing English titles who have received this
istinction--namely, the Duchess of Hamilton
(nee Princess Mary of Baden), the Marehioness
of Londonderry, and Lady Petre. The Em-
press Eugene, the Empress Elizabeth Of Aus
tria, the Empress Charlotte, and the ex-Queen
of Naples are also members of this order. The
insignia consists of Maltese cross, either in
enamel or diamonds, worn on the lett sholder.
in bow of black ribbon, The insignia is con-
ferred by the chief of the Order, resilient at the
Palazzo di Malta, at Rome.
-Marechal Mcmahon; Duke of Magenta,
hasretired from the post of Goyernor-General
OF Algeria, and returns to France. The Trav-
eIler suggests that as he is the ablest soldier in
the French service, this change ON ms part
may mean something.
Mr.. Dickens has already'been dined by
Loncfollow. Holmes, Lowell, and several
others. The distinguished novelist has no
comnlaiut that there is not a friendly feeling
extended towards him,