The Portland daily press., 1867-11-23
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"A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
writing from Florence, October -, says that
most Americans have absented themselves
from the city, owing to fears of the epidemic
He, however, found Hiram Powers hard at
| work in giving his finishing touches to the
last of the Tribes" Ii represents an Indian
girl looking back toward the scenes of child
hood as she departs forever. The sculptor is
likewise at work upon model of his dead
friend, Edward Everett. 1t is to be given as =
present to some society or association at home
Mr.. James Greenwood Is announced as a
contributor to London Society for the ensueing
year. He will discourse Of the "Opium Eaters
of London" and other odds and ends of town
| life. e. Miss Amelia b. Edwards and Florence
Marryatt MRS. Ross Church) are also set
down for stories in the same periodical.
1T having been stated that "Wild Bill"
| the Union scout whom Hdrpers Magazine re-
| Gently immortahzed, had been placed in Jail
at Ellsworth Kansas, James B. Comstock of
that place has written a letter to the Missouri
Democrat to correct the statement. He says,
that "Wild BilP' is highly esteemed in that
town, and at the late election was the radical
candidate for Sheriff of Ellsworth county, and
though defeated with the rest the ticket, By
small majority received the full vote of his
party The man O'Connor, who was arrested
is very different sort of person, and bears no
relation either in name or character to "Wild
Bill" at eat taa'a w iac ..li }egs
The twenty second volume Of the Scores
pondence of Napoleon l." has just appeared,
nd to f1h 0f. f~.ka
| and students of history. 1t contains more
than seven hundred documents of all kinds,
| covering the last nine months of the year 1871,
a brief interval of peace which was soon fol
| lowed by the invasion of Russia, and the car
mage attendant thereon. esa ....s...,sd1
An island in the Ohio River has been
purchased by an enterprising stock breeder.
| who intends to go largely into the raising OF
cats for their fur. Is The cat is very prolific,
only less so than the rabbit, and great profits
are anticipated. Whether the scheme will be
favorably regarded BY settlers dwelling in the
| vicinity of the island may be douptsd
A clergyman in Springfield, Mass, who is
| given to figurative expressions, said in SER
mon, on-Sunday last, that the columbiad of
pure heart should be loaded with the project
lie ofprayer. He did not go on to say that the
| columbiad should then be fred at the AL
/ mighty, though that was the inevitable con-
4 ,ias;or ,liln fHiuEw 1Uu -hF eA trf4 81 p
-lOld love letters should be burned as un-
4 piytingiy as high caste Hfndoo widows used e,
be in the palmy period of Brahminical OBJ
servance.a They sting like dead wasps, some
times. e1sp2 20 % Atl ia4 sli 9r9
ANNA Dickinson was applied to recently
by committee from the West, for political
lecture, and offered them Breakers Ahead /"
she received the answer, "That will do; gin Q
us Break his Head" ad 5laatr
Charley, the other day, on seeing number
offunerals, expressed wish chat he might die
before heaven was full 800 k Tse
Mankind never fail to appreciate him who
has at once the power and the disposition to
serve them, In whatever sphere of usefulness
or honor he may elect. just in proportion to
his power and willingness to serve win he be
used. 1t matters not whether he. makes bad
poetry or bad bargains, society has no use for
such, and the unfortunate author of either is
left in merited obscurity. es na
The following epitaph conveys rather an
equivocal complimentAto the deceased's lord
and master: Maria Brown, wife Of Timothy
Brown, aged eighty years. She lived with her
husband fifty yesrs, and died in the eopfding
hope of better life, ala.o3 Aj' slii-4
The Nautilus does not sail, as was suppcs-
ed in former years. The investigations of nat
| uralists of the present day have dispslled the
beautiful dream. Aristotle first fancifully de-
scribed 1t as the "Paper Nautilus, in fne
weather floating upon the surface of the ocean.
with his sails spread out to the breeze" In
the motion, the animal really sits unattached
| to his shell within the long tentacula stretch
| ing from the projected head, while the short
| funnel beneath it forcibly spirits forth the
water the recoil from which sends him back
ward Yet the old writers have said the Naut-
illus may have frs suggested to man the idea
OF sailing upon the water.
Men are, generally speaking, only struck
with the unsuitability of work for women
where it may lead to profit and honor, and
with the unsuitability of work for themselves
when there is nothing much worth having to
be got by It. tt,. .,l.tssg.-.s r.g
Punch gives the following as a specimen
OF the delicate hint: Sporting character (per-
suasively): "Could yer kindly assist poor
man with copper? I'm that knocked up, L
can hardly hold this ere dawg off yer legs"
| Prof. Loomis suggests very uncomfort-
L
itself. He thinks it not impossible that suffici-
| ent steam might be generated in the burning
centre of the. world to blow the whole globe to
pieces. i,.. ,.li,i.sst L a... t1ras- a.f
The Temperance Alliance of Massachusetts
has declared itself unalterably opposed to a
| license law. ,,...,.g ~.
The Lexington tKy.) Statesman says the
vote of Kentucky in the next Republican Ma
tional Convention win be cast for General
Grant.
The gardeners employed in the gardens at
Paris, In arranging the flower beds after the
removal of the wooden huts erected for the
Emperor's fete found forty-four portmonnaies.
| As Is known, the omnibus station is on the
Quai, and the probability is that the pickpock-
cts, having exercised their dexte rity, disembar-
rassed themselves of these material proofs, ar
ter emptying them of their contents. In the
| whole forty-four only two five franc pieces In
| gold were found.
| A lady in Wisconsin recently plunged in
| m a mill. pond to save two boys from drown
inc She was wholly unable to swim, but her
cr;noline Aoated her, and, clinging to
that the boys were kept above water, and the
| whole party drifted safely to the shore
Probably most choolboys,wouldagree with
tine OerhaD WIZ Aicino, VINO SAID. " HOW for-
tunate the Romans were that they had not to
learn Latin grammar, because IL they had
done so, they never would have had time to
conquer the world Hasop slas1.I.
! Fl A charming anecdots is related of the Ena-
! peror of Austria. During his last visit to the
Paris Exhibition, he was surrounded by a
dense crowd, among whom he perceived liz.
| tie girl struggling in the arms Of her mother,
and crying out ''Je Ueaz Uoir g Emperri"l He
| immediately made his way to the child. KISS
ing her ON both cheeks, he took her in his
arms and carried her to astall of bonbons where
he selected the handsomest dragoes he could
find, and then brought her back to her mother.
Iileaye you to guess says the narrator, the on
thusiasm Of the crowd on witnessing this SIM
pie act Of kindness Of heart.
s. IA gold half crown of the reign OF henry
VIII. has been found, 1t Is very rare 're1Sl
i -. "a half crowns. -r9 io
VIZ" -' esa1 -1,is. 81 ft l7afa.