The Portland daily press., 1867-07-19
Varieties.

Varieties. "H..-.
Some of the New York reporters are fun
ny dogs One in the Herald represents Rev
Mr.. Beecher as "contending," in sermon last
Sunday, that "a good name is better than great
riches"
"A Norwegian woman, dressed in home
spun, brief and limp, who, only seven weeks
from her native land, arrived at Milwaukee
one day last week, was seen two hours after
with bran new hoop skirt under her arm,
just entering car for Minnesota.
United States Consul Francis and several
other Americans residing at Victoria, Van
couver's Island, have sent a letter to Secreta-
ry Seward expressing their high satisfaction
at the purchase OF Russian America. They
arc confident that the territory viii be found
much more valuable, materially and CONNER
cially, than the common estimate of it, and
that its timber, coal and mineral, as well as its
fisheries, will be rich source of revenue.
The Galveston Bulletin ridiculcs Pre.i-
dent johnson for kissing Yankee babies on
his New England tour. If the babies outlive
it the Bulletin needn't complain.
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, whos5
young wife died in childbirth few months
ago, has determined to found hospital to her
memory. Direct action to this end has a.
ready been taken, and site for the projected
building has been purchased on the east side
of Southwark Bridge road. The establish
ment will be lying-in hospital.
The London Lancet records the death of
Sir Stephen Love Hammiok, Bert, at Ply
mouth, England, at the age Of ninety years.
He was the oldest member of the medical
profession in England, as we'll as of the bar
onetage
Among the toilet articles which the Sui
tan has brought with him into the countries OF
the infidels is an immense tank of Nile water.
His highness is forbidden TO bathe in any less
sacred water. The transportation of this tank
from Egypt to Paris must have cost somebody
a very pretty sum of money.
The students of the senior class of Prince
ton College decline to accept Leonard w. Je-
rome's gold medal to the "first gentleman" Of
that class, affirming that they are all gentle
mon, and that none of them wish 10 be adver-
tised. Sensible fellows.
The ritual excitement in England shows
little signs of abatement Some phases Of the
serious question are very ludicrous. For in
stance, member lately introduced in the
House of Commons bill to regulate the dress
of the clergy. 1t made the singular provision
that no clergyman should wear "any other
| garment, covering or ornament" except sur
plice and hood. The bill fortunately did not
pass.
"A German paper remarks that Count Bis
mareck is speculating in land. He has just
bought an estate in Pomerania for three
hundred thousand thalers, and the neighbor-
| ing proprietors say that he gets it very cheap
| ly. He paid cash.
The Hartford Courant says that james
Brooks and Fernando Wood continue to limp
far behind the age. By the time that the
twent' eth century dawns-if they should I'M
fortunately be spared so long-they viii at
last learn that they have been living in the
nineteenth. They talked against the war un
til it was almost ended; they fought emanci
patton until long after emancipation was an
accomplished fact; and they will, doubtless, be
found mouthing speeches against reconstruc-
ton when members of Congress from every
Southern State have been sitting in the halls
of the capitol for dozen years"
"A few days ago an exciting scene occurred
| at the Geological Gardens in Regents Park.
A eountrymon, while looking at the bears, ac-
cidentally dropped his hat into the pit, and !,
| to recover it, had the foolhardiness to descend
the pit. AS soon as he got to the bottom he
was seized by one of the bears, and immed-
ately two others came from their cave and also
saized him, and began dragging him towards
it. Some sticks were thrown by the excited
lookers-on, but one of the keepers went to the
mans assistance, and succeeded in setting
him free. .-
One Of the pleasantest incidents of the
French court stage occurred when the Emper-
or Napoleon jokingly Kissed the Empress Jo-
sephine, who was acting little operate part
| in the theatre in the palace Of st. Cloud. She
demurely stepped forward and remarked, that
any one of the audience who was dissatisfied
with the performance might retire, and haze
his money returned to him at the door. The
consequent laughter was uproarious.
The celebrated Bohemian linguist Scherzl,
who, though only twenty-three years old, is
said to speak thirty languages, has entered the
Russian civil service.
The Sacramento Bee is declaiming in gem
uine Peter-the-Hermit stvle against the ground
squirrels and gophers Of California. 1t asserts
that in the Alameda and Santa Clara valleys
the farmers have actually been driven by these
little pests from some of their best lands; that
after the grain has been reaped and shocked 1T
| is not at all unusual to see from two to three
hundred of them running about IN single
field; that their settlements, like those OF the
prairie-dog. extend for miles, each burrow
sbelterine from one to six inmates; and that it
would hardly be an exaggeratien to say that
they eat one-fourth of the annual wheat crop.
1t calls upon the State Agricultural Society to
offer at ouce liberal reward for the best and
cheapest method of determination.
1t is not on the whole remarkable that
Germans should find the English language
hard. A great Leipsic critic thinks it curious
that Boz should be pronounced Dickens
The New Orleans Times says Mr.. Seward
has addressed letter to Governor Flanders
of Louisiana, asking for an impression Of the
State seal and copies of the official sign manu-
ais of the Governor and Secretary of State, for
the use of the State Department at Washing
ton Gen. Sheridan's appointee is thus offic
ally recognized by the administration.
The New York Post having denied that
Cyrus W. Field suffered any indignity at the
hands of Mr.. Jones, the Times declares that
the account of the affair published in the Ga
Eette is entirely correct, except as to the tms
and place of the first difficulty.
--On Tuesday q large number of petitions
were presented in the New York Constitution
| al Convention, asking for female suffrage. The
list Of names on one of them was headed by
| Mrs. Horace Greeley Its announcement