The Portland daily press., 1867-02-14
VARIETIES.

Among the articles to be sent to Paris
from Newfoundland are fishing nets and gear;
models of fishing and sealing craft sealing
gear; fish and fish barrows and scales: Esqu-
maux curiosities and models; Newfoundland
biscuit
"A wealthy Londoner proposes to erect a
bronze statue of Shakespeare en- the Thames
embankment, fronting Temple Gardens
-Bierstadtis at Irvington, engaged in paint
ing his large picture OF a scene in the Yosemite
Valley for Mr.. LIE Grand Lockwood
There was keen appreciation of truth, as
well as some satire, in the suggestion ofThack
cray: "Let us thank God for imparting unto
us poor, weak mortals, the inestimable bless
ing Of vanity"
"A short time ago l employed a "son of
Erin" who was Just over" and who boosted
of his experience in all kinds of farm work
One day l directed Mike to take the cart and
oxen and remove a pile of rubbish. Happen
ing near the place where it was to be deposit
ed, as Mike drove up with his load, / discover
ed he was in state of great perplxeity, evi-
IDENTIFY ignorant of the process of dumping.
After studying some minutes, a bright idea
seemed to strike him. Seizing his whip and
EN- he roared out, throwing up his arms at the
same time, Rare up moo, ye bastesl rare up,
wull yez?" ..
The other evening, at private residence
in Twenty third street, New York, little fell
low stood near the hall door crying I'm cold;
WANT to come in; L can't open the door"
One of the young ladies of the house coming
up the stairs at the time, was moved with sym
pathy, and taking the supposed child in her
arms, kissed him tenderly Seeing, few mo-
ments after that he had a wrinkled face, she
asked him in astonishment, how old he was
I'm thirty -two-Im a dwarf; but l like to
have you kiss me, miss; it's as good as some
| thing to eat"
The following item appears in Dublin
newspaper: Died, JAN Tat Milford, Mayo
county, ireland, Peggy Walsh, aged 124 years,
servant in the family of Milford since 1857
Jan. 5, Mrs. Elizabeth McKin lev of Coleraine,
Antrim county, 1O7."
In the Kentucky House of Representatives
ON Friday last an address was received by the
Speaker, from Mrs. Blackwell of New York,
aud read by the Clerk, asking the Legislatures
| OF the Southern States to grant suffrage to
white women in the South, so as to give the
| Democratic party the advantage over the negro
votes, if Congress passes a general negro suf-
| frage law. BY this plan, Mrs. Blackwell thinks
the South can govern the country as in the
| days of jefferson.
| Sydney Smith said that in England it is
| regarded as impertinence for a man with less
than two thousand year to have any opin-
| ion of his own.
"A man at New Albany. Ind, who was
| sued for entering house when forbidden to
do so, set up in defense that he was pursued
| by mob of two women, three boys and four
dogs, and he made for the nearest place of re-
fuge He was acquitted.
John Nolon ofCohoes N York, committed
the ndiscretion ofputting lighted match in
to pocket where he had previously put loose
powder, and the consequences were anything
but pleasant to John.
"A Mobile paper invites the Yankees" to
come South and settle. As rejoinder an ex-
change urges the Southerners to come North
and settle-some of their unpaid debts,
The latest novelty, called the hot skate"
adapted for ladies, has a Silver chamber for
heating" and keeping the feet warm.
Now that those dangerous toys, "Pharoah's \
Serpents," have had their day, am equally per-
nicious plaything for the little ones has been
invented under the fit title of Devils Tears. -
and which, on being thrown into water. burns
and explodes, scattering red-hot fragments
| around.
| "A roll OF papyrus taken from the ruins of
Luxor in 1865 has been found to contain plead
ings at the Greek bar three centuries older
than the Christian era.
"A verdict, with $1,000 damages was obtain
ed in the New York Superior Court the other
day, by lad fourteen years of age, whom his
employers inconsiderately caused to be arrest
ed and imprisoned, they suspecting him OF hav-
ing abstracted 500 from package OF money
| with which he had been intrusted, but which
nroved To have been wrongly counted. The
;,aor, oharoad that no mans mere suspicion
couId furnish ground for an Imprisonment
,rha ,..mnerance men of Michigan have
e,,.,lv abandoned the idea of starting a new
| t.mnerance political party.
New Jersey makes legal holiday of Pres
;deut Lincoln's birthday.
Wind and water are the burden of the
weather reports from all quarters.
General Sherman attended Mr. Beecher's
church last Sunday.
The Potomac was frozen up again on Sun
day sufficiently to shut up navigation
The Rutland (vt.) gas works were destroy
| ell by fire on Sunday morning last. Loss
$500.
There are twenty y-fve stores to let in
Broadway, New York, between Park and
| Blocker streets.
| The population OF Texas at the beginning OF
the war was between 100000 and 100000, Itis
| now estimated at 100000,