The Portland daily press., 1867-09-27
Varieties.

| -Inerc Is "a CuflOuS STORY from 1DuSlOn,
Texas, of an indignant individual who kicked
the cover off the coffin the other day as they
were on the way to the "dismal grave" 1t
seems that he was foolish enough to suppose
lac wasn't quite dead, and hence the catastrc-
| phe. After some dispute with the pail bearers
whether he was in his fright sense and mind"
he was brought back and put to bed with a
| fair chance of recovery.
| German has been made an optional study,
| in the place of astronomy and Latin. in the
first term of the senior year at Yale College.
BY this plan, and by the recent appointment
of French as a prescribed study in the sopho-
| more year, much more attention will be given
to modern languages hereafter than hereto
fore
"A man in Alton, Iowa, has escaped from
punishment for adultery because the highly
educated prosecuting attorney had written
''idOlatry," which is not known as a crime in
Iowa
An industrious person has discovered that
in Andrew Johnson's short speech at Antie-
TAM he used the pronoun "my" ten times and
81" five times, while in Mr.. Lincoln's address
at Gettysburg neither of'these words occurs.
Snow has fallen in the western part of
Massachusetts,
The city of Philadelphia is about to erect
another bridge over the Sch1ylkil River
The new bridge win cross the river at South
street.
The serial sketches entitled Eight Cas-
ties in Spain" which appeared in the August,
September and October numbers of Harper's
Magazine, are from the pen of Barry Gray"
Henry Ward Beecher says that more pub
Z
business of type-setting than probably from
any other occupation.
"A respondent editor remarks that if the
country grows much worse, he shall publish
the notices of births under the head of disas-
ters
"A Western paper tells the story of an en-
terprising genius, who bought an old watch for
$1.50, and jack-knife for IS cents; traded the
knife for an old gun, traded the watch and gun
for an old horse traded the old horse for five
sheep, one calf one pig one spring wagon
with two wheels and two dollars in money, be-
sides working the old horse five days on the
canal.
An exchange says it takes three editors to
run a paper in New Orleans. One to get kill
ed in duel, one to die with the yellow fever,
and one to write an obituary of the defunct
two.
Strange to say, there is still entertained
hope of the safety of Livingstone. 1t is but
slight, and rests chiefly on the contradiction
of the testimony that told of his being muir
dered by the Maftes The subject has been
brought forward by the British Association Of
Science, now holding its sttings in Dundee.
They have away out in Iowa very learn
ed and worthy missionary" known as "Fa-
ther T. who is more than suspected of be-
ing very fond of having his own way. He
once attempted to cross a wide, unsettled
prairie and was compelled to scamp OUT over
night In the morning he took the wrong
course, and travelled twenty miles due north,
while he wished to go east. Some one inquir-
ed how it happened, as it was a clear day, and
asked him if he couldn't see the sun why,
yes" replied Father T, Il saw the sun, but
couldn't bring myself to believe that way was
east"
The number of bouquets thrown to Ade-
line Patti at late performance OF "Somnam-
bula" at the Theatre Italian, Paris, was so
great that the carpenters and scene-shfters
were required to pick them up.
The widow of Ira Adridge, the negro ira
gedian went to Russia to obtain his body, but
could not afford to bring it away, because the
priests exacted a.. enormous fee for every par
ish it would have to pass through
Mortimer, in his Elements of Commerce"
1772). says: 1--WE remember to have seen
somewhere in the Low Countries a print of
bookseller digging in the tomb of an author,
and saying to himself as he works, I'M a de
plus" This story may be applied in more
than one direction at home
rIa Dan n
ing that, in this ingenious country, men who
have lost limb "are actually walking abroad
in patent leather boots, on artificial iegs 'n"'
are altogether above suspicion
The old saying that cat mas nine lVes
seems to apply to the once famous Pl"tIoai
craft. the Sumter. 1t is not long ago thatu
was announced that, having peen converted
into a eattle-boat, she had foundered in the
Germsn Ocean, and now it is stated that
obout a month ago she was burned somewhere
on the coast of Greece, after a fierce battle
with the Turks.
The Duke of Cleveland can ride twenty
three miles through his estate. The Duke OF
Deyonshire has ninety-six thousand aeres IN
one county. The Duke of Richmond owns
three hundred and forty acres. The Marquis
of Breadalbane can ride one hundred miles in
a straight line on his own land. Their grand
children will have to be content with fewer
acres and shorter rides.
John QuilP' says, g If wanted to make
n man utterly wretched, if 1 wanted to hurt
his feelings and break down his spirits, and
ruin his morals, 1 would get him to go a-fish-
ing about once a week. approve of abolish
ing penitentiaries and jals and making con-
victs fish for the benefit of the State
The title of Anthony Trolope's new story
in Saint Paul's Magazine will be "PhineaS
Finn, the Irish Member"