The Portland daily press., 1867-10-21
VarictieS.

-One of our religious exchanges has this
amiable paragraph: Canada papers, secular
and religious join in lauling the neg kingdom,
and seem impatiently to wait for great results.
Canada is Canada still-cold, sparse, out-of-
the-way--a fragment Of great nation, left to
neglect and to be slighted by the world-the
place bigoteJ Englishmen first visit and most
detest." f.4es .. -.t..I ..r-.. ..... .
"A new boat club style their boat-house
Golgotha, the place of senls.
Sir Morton Peto has been made President
Of a Bible Union, in which capacity he is more
innocuous than as a protector of railways.
| The revelations made by Mr.. Greenwood,
| the amateur Casual" produced so good an
| effect in London that an attempt has been
made to better the condition OF The paupers.
| New casual wards" have been opened in Ma
rylebone, which are very great Improvement
upon the old places.
-Just-Like-a-Bea is the suggestive name
of one of The Indian chiefs recently in council
with the Indian Commissioners. He talked
very like white man. Said he, II win be the
white mans friend SO long as he gives me any
thing. That's why love the white man, be-
cause he gives me presents"
| -Ayoung wife, being asked what she should
do in case her husband shOuld fail, replied,
"Iive ON arms, to be sure. have two and he
has two, with hands at the end OF them" We
win risk that couple. ssbii..e SOB
I'm the case of the poisoning OF Mrs. Web
ster, in Brooklyn, the Coroner's Jury returned
a verdict that Matilda Webster came to her
death by an overdose of morphine administer
| o1i ior AZ
by Robert M. Kennedy. A minority Of the ju-
ry advised the passage of a law making it a
crime for druggist TO sell or prescribe poisons
without medical certificate. The prisoner
was committed to await the action of the
Grand Jury. l aa1 lssf I.a .a.l
MATURE, as mark of deformity, sometimes
places a hump ON human back, Fashion, in.
n blind attempt at ornament, puts a hump on
a female head. slra ai -rfr f....t. g.
Henry Ward Beecber defends noyel-writ-
ing on the ground that the parallels of the
Saviour were little noyeettes. -. -
During the late war, the child OF DIR. Mil
Ter, of Toronto, one day surprised its father by
telling him his minister was a SecessioDist.
"What makes you think SOP" said the Doctor.
81 know it, papa" said the boy, ''ffom his
prayers He always prays Say to the North
give up, to the South, keep not back" Id
We have the gratifying intelligence from
New Orleans that the yellow fever is de clining,
and the hest avi4lanca of the fact comes in tlia
shape OF request to stop making collections
of money in aid of the victims They say
they have enough to carry them through. IN
all the large Northern cities very large sums OF
money, and of other things needed quite as
much, have been promptly supplied, and very
many nurses have volunteered to 90 to take
| care OF the sick. Such things show very com
| clusvely that all good feeling between the
two sections has been by no means lost.
Blackburn, commonly. known as Yellow
fever Blackburn, passed through Memphis a
fewdays ago on his way to New Orleans The
Memphis Post says he had the impudenee to
| attend meeting of the Board of Health, and
made some remarks ON yellow fever. This
black hearted scoundrel ought to be we'll post
ed ON the subject. He has never relieved
himself of the charge of introducing pesti-
lence-infected clothing into the North during
the war, and Secretary Seward recently, in an
official letter, pronounced him a felon whom
not even the broad mantle of Andrew John
sons charity could cover, yet he travels through
the country at his ease. Uf..... ..-
The. soiled linen of the Grand Hotel, the
Hotel du Louvre, the Grand Cafe, and few Of
the other hotels and cafes in Paris, is washed.
at.the rate of forty thousand pieces day, at
the Blanchisserie de Courcelles, three miles or
80 from the st. Lazare terminus of the West
ern railway. The linen is boiled with soap
and soda, and then washed in hollow wheels,
rinsed, partly dried by the centrifugal ma
chimes, and for the rest in hot air ovens, which
carry of nearly three pounds of moisture per
pound of coal burned, and is finally ironed be-
| tween polished rollers, and then packed ready
for return to Paris. This establishment, the
most complete OF its kind TO be found, employs
three hundred workpeope. E. s...4
Publication was recently made that, among
number of articles forwarded to the Dead
letter Office from our armies in the South to-
ward the end of the war, was an oil painting
| representing two children feeding horse,
| and that the painting would be restored to the
owner upon satisfactory proof. On Wednes-
| day response to the notice was received from
| Columbia, s. @. Ii appears the portraits are
of two children now deceased; and it is said
its loss was more deeply felt than that OF all
their parents large property which was swept
away by the war. The painting will be at
once restored to them by Third Assistant
Postmaster Greely. -.t..-r. .......
| An Arkansas editor thinks there is no use
of making such fuss over Sheridan, even if
h. ;s-o aoo5 soId;ar and tbe autbor or "rhe
ne S % " IS So e.sIa1n $50
'0''ooi or, GO e.,' as wa,o,,oo 4, L.
4.-oa.;a,, So. Eno,;s,, ,,;s;to,, 5 -
i'o -, ~ 80, Ns
- .,;1,a,,as noro -, o,ips - Soa,
- .;,,'., ,.;t,, tonr;s,s rho !, ar.;oias IN the
'a,r.,,saars oon,r,a;, as Ia - and other
;noon~an;ano;as Tha onir - wbo sneaks
En,,,;sh :, < an;aarat1 i ,,s,neI and isaddress
o;ven 90 th,t Jewellers NAV know where to
| f,1 h;r,
,,,er states that the
| The Odessa Messenger s'a.os '"o
| town of sehastopol lately entertained General
~ ~, :. y :, dinner.