The Portland daily press., 1867-08-12
Varieties.

General Prim denies the statement that he
suggested the Mexican Expedition to the
French Emperor 1900, ...t -
The daughter Of M. Jules Favre has just
been married to the private secretary of Maxi
milan, youth rejoicing in the poetical name
of Ruy Gomez de Saanedra. 8 ,..ryniI F-
The Paris correspondent Of the World
writes that the Empress Eugenie was the first
who suggested the name of Macmillan as
Emperor, and that she was led to do so from
certain tblooming memories" of past pleasant
association with him when he visited the
French Court soon after her marriage.
"A Wisconsin writer has made most sin
gular pathological discovery. He has found
out new and startling disease. Hear him:
"a new disease" says he, "has attacked pork
in Rock county. Three hogs of Mr. McCue, in
Janesviile, were struck by lightning on satur-
day night" This is about equal to the back
woodsman, who, on being told that certain
lady had piauo-forte, asked whether it was
anything like the fever and ague.
A youth was lately leaving his aunt's
house after visit when, finding it was begin
ming to rain he caught up an umbrella that
was snugly placed in corner, and was pro-
ceeding to open it, when the old lady, who for
the first time observed his movements sprang
toward him, exclaiming, mo, no, that you
never shall. I've had that umbrella twenty
three years, and it has never been wetyet; and
I'm sure it shan't be wetted now!" .
1t is said that since hearing of his brothers
judicial murder" the Emperor of Austria has
declared that he never will sign another DEATH
warrant. Pity His Majesty had not come to
that decision sooner-say Just after the surrcn-
der of Villages. r ID d. i.sg- .ellsa...i .
The Worcester (Mass.) Spy says that ev-
erything from pin to a steam-engine is man,
ufactured in that city. gsm sa ll
There is htrore in Paris for a new style
OF watch at the present moment. 1t is large,
made of ebony, and ornamented at the back
with the initials of the owner in silver, or else
with fanciful arabesques. The dial plate, which
| is small, is surrounded by thick circle Of eb-
| ony, the fingers and hours being in silver.
| This watch hangs from an ebony chatelaine,
the rings of which are orr amented with silver,
and joined together by bars of silver, according
to the pattern of the chatelaine.
makes the following valedictory in plaintive
good faith: with this number closes our
connection with the Unionist. Our expenses
per week are about $15, whereas our average
income does not exceed "a or 50 per week. 1t
would take a rich man to publish paper at
this rate"
"A short time ago, a whale was stranded on
the Norfolk Coast, England, and purchased as
a speculation by sharp practitioner, who ad-
vertised for information how to preserve it. A
| Sunderland wag replied to the advertisement,
| rendering the desired information on receipt of
half crowns worth of postage stamps, which
arrived. and the following recipe was duly for
warded; Put the whale carefully into glass
bottle; cover it over with spirits of wine tstrong
| whisky may do;) then cork and seal up" The
postage stamps were handed over to chari-
| table institution.
The Empress of Morocco is native of
| Chaley, near Dole (Switzerland), where she
was born on the 20th November, 1920, in poor
thatched cottage.-Her name was Virginia
Lanternier. She went with her parents to Al
geria, and the whole family were taken prison.
ers by the Moloccans. Her father was killed,
and her mother died a short time afterward.
The captors, dazzled by the great beauty of
| Virginia, spared her, and by the concurrence
of romantic circumstances the Emperors son
| fell in love with her and made her his wife.
This Empress has since sought out and brought
her three sisters TO the Moroccan Court, to
which they are now attached.
James Guthrie, when Secretary of the Trea-
| sury, one day sent letter to friend in Balti-
more. The next morning its recipient appear
ed in the Department and handed back the
missive. "Mr. Guthrie" said he, :" I can't
make out one word of your letter but the sig
nature, so have brought it for you to trans
late" The Secretary knitted his brows, and
puzzled over it for some minutes. At last he
gave it up. "Hang me if I can read it eitherl
| I have forgotten its exact contents, but l know
what wanted to see you about, Sit down
and I'll tell you" hal n taa
| The law that the gravitation of masses Is
"inversely as the square of the distance" which
has hitherto been regarded as first established
| by Newton, has been claimed by M. Chssles
for Pascal M. Chases states that he has Two
autograph letters in his possession wnicn es-
tablish PascaPs claim beyond all doubt. one
of tho ,etters on which M. Chasles bases the
Il
o,.;,, mo. written to Robert Boyle. The matter
will ba decided, on the production OF the les-
tars 20 tbe French Academy. Pascal died in
,eeo srd the date Of Newton's discovery Is set
down at 1865.
| Madame De Boissy's "Recollections Of
Lord Byron" are to be published during the
autumn. These Memoirs by the Italian Con-
tessa have always been expected and II the
| lady has told the truth about her famous Eng
| lish lover, her tale will be very strange one
The Commercial Advertiser says MISS
Muloch, who is now Mrs. Georgiana M Craik,
has written n novel entitled Leslie IgrreH.
| We presume it will be republished here"
How Miss Dinah Muloch could become meta
mornbosed into Mrs. Georgiana Craik is a
mvstery which our contemporary does not ex-
plain.
The London Spectator is very severe on its
countrymen in the following: "Scotchmen are
supposed to be thrifty, and Frenchmen are a"
fond parsimonious. Germans want twopence-
worth for every penny, and Italians would do
without" their skins If their skins cost them
sixpence year, but for an act OF downrigns
dirty meanness, Of thrift which Is almost inert
commend us to open-handed, generous Jonn
Bunr'