The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-28
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The impossible feat OF finishing Byron's
don Juan" has been attempted by poetaster
in England, who calls himself Valentine veritz.
1t will probably result in the authors finishing
himself. 9iu-of -eH hlH1Y -..r.lln1ll
M. le Chevalier de Chatelain, one of the
best ofthe recent translators of Shakespeare, is
about to publish French version of "The
Tempest" making the fourth tragedy of the
great poet which he has done zen GERS Fran
cdis." q. flr --- r....
The Natchez Miss Courier says:"A large
gin house passed Monroe, floating down the
Ouachita river, last week. A Colonel Morri-
son endeavored to check it, but its weight and
the strength of the current broke large cable
with which he was trying to hold it. I.-
The great Atlantic yacht race has given
an impetus to yachting all over the counry.
New pleasure crafts are building at Sandusky.
There are several yachts owned at Chicago and
Milwaukee,. $685. lta.aI l.1 -lI1o,1 H.
-Ex-President Jeremiah Day of Yale Col
lege ninety-four years old, is the Oldest of the
twenty five men in New Haven who are over
eighty.
-Crebillion tells us of Partisan woman
who never had experienced an affair of the
heart until she was seventy-four, and the fury
OF her passion then caused her to commit sui
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"A letter from Madrid says; "The young
and accomplished Christopher Columbus, de-
scendant of the great discoverer, has taken pos
session of his fathers estates and title of Duke
of Veraagua. Don Pedro Columbus, or as
they call him in Spain, Don Pedro Colon, the
father Of Christopher, died four days ago. He
was the most famous cattle-grower in Spaiu,
and took such especial care of his breed of
fighting bulls, that whenever the handbills an
nounced that Veraagua bulls were to be brought
to the bull-fsht circus, the receipts of
the circus manager were sure to be enor-
NOUS"
Charley says that the man who said the
other day that his mind was in "a comfortable
state," must have been absent-minded. 1t
won't do to call the State of Maine comfort
able, you know" says Charley buttoning up his
overcoat-"not with this weather"
| The rebel General Hood refuses to accept
the donation of a homestead from his ad-
mirers, and requests that the funds collected
may be turned over to the church.
The well-known French journalist, Al
fred Assolant, has written pamphlet on the
foreign policy of France, but is unable to find
any one in Paris who will venture to print
it. A
-Liszt has left his old residence in the
Monte-Mario, in Rome, and has Joined the
monks of Santo francesca Romano, whose
cloister is in the middle of the old Forum.
General Fleury has taken to Paris from
Italy a collection of all the caricatures and
| namphlata which hava appoarad aooinst the
Emperor Napoleon since 1859. 1t is said
that when he showed the collection to the EN-
peror, his Majesty observed,"Je n'orais pas
besoin de uoir tout ca"
"A Brussels letter to Tournay journal
contains the following paragraph: The Queen
of the Belgians has not hitherto possessed a
crown, and her Majesty's jeweler was lately
commissioned to make one. 1t is an incredit-
ibly elaborate work of art composed of forty
pearls, twenty being pear-shaped and of en-
ormous size, forty large brilliants and nearly
five thousand small ones, the whole set In
gold and wrought in open work. This crown
resembles acoronal of flames, simple in form,
but of unmatched elegance. 1t weighs less
than two hundred and fifty grammes (half q
pound)
AT Frankfort fortnight ago the "Mer-
chant of Venice" was played at one of the
theatres, and when, in the trial scene, the
Judge asked Shylock what he claimed from his
debtor and the latter replied, "A pound of
flesh," a man in the gallery cried out, "And
eight cigars" The Frankfort people applaud
ed this allusion to the Prussian bill of fare
during the war; the Prussians present lost
their temper; disturbance ensued, and the
police cleared the house.
An exchange would like to see the man
whose faith in the saying that the first day of
Christmas governs the weather during jan
uary, is not started by the evidence to the
contrary presented this month.
Not much differance between the very
rich and very poor after all. The former live
IN fear of starvation, and the latter in dread
of the gout
Only three out ofsix hundred students at
the Virginia University avow their attacks
ment to the Government,