The Portland daily press., 1867-12-04
Varieties.

"A correspondent of the London Morning
Herald has been investigating tho present
state of the Suez Canal. He thinks il likely
that the canal will be finished in two years
more, but is sure that il will not pay in half a
century, and doubts whether it will ever be
profitable. Paraphrasing a celebrated criti
cism on the charge at Balaklava, he says the
Suez Canal is grand, but it is not a safe in
vestment. ~ -
A "sugar Wedding is the latest Western
invention 1t occurs thirty days after mar
riage, or at the "sweet climax" Of the honey
The fence Of graveyard in Richmond,
Indiana, bears this inscription in large white
letters: Use Is Bitters if you would keep
out of here" .--.r.-...,l.... ....t ...-. y .l.
-Messrs. Charles Scribner & Co. will pub
lish, on December 9th, "The Queens of Amer
lean Society" by Mrs. L. f. Ellet. The work
contains sketches of nearly three hundred la
dies, who have been, or are now, recognized as
leaders in social circles in different sections of
our country. Innumerable anecdotes and in
eidents, with descriptions of changes in cos
tune and dress, give interest and historic val
ue to the work, which will be illustrated with
thirteen steel portraits of ladies', sketches of
whom are given in the volume. r7.lE I...
DIR. Letheby, a great London chemist, has
detected by the spectrum test" the presence
of blood in the stains of linen laid away for
seventeen years.
"A remarkable revelation on Prussian poli-
tics is contained in a work of the Austrian
War Office on last years campaign, just pub
lished. In the beginning of June, 1866, few
days before the outbreak of hostlities, Prussia
sent Baron Gablenz, Prussian nobleman.
and brother of the Austrian General Gsblenz
to the Kaiser, Offering him pecuniary com,
pensation for Holstein and the political su-
premacy over Southern Germany The pro-
posal was rejected. -s ......-.
"A Democratic paper in La Crosse, Wis
coDsin-the Democrat-courteously alludes TO
General Sherman as mushroom of civil
war, blood -watered, rank with the corruption
and wickedness engendered in the heIlish
crusade for the enslavememt and degradation
of white men, and the triumph of niggers.''
THE Boston Voice, which maintained a.
feeble existence as a daily paper for just two
weeks, and then died, has been revived as a
weekly semi-ltcrary paper, in the interests of
working men. 17a 3 erate r..- Ig
5 According to a paper read before the Es-
sex Institute, the Goldfish was favorite emblem
with the Massachusetts, fathers for their coin
aud their seals, sc The seal of the Plymouth
Land Company, Of 1861 has for It's central eff
gy Goldfish. The two-penny internal revenue
stamp of 1775, was Goldfish surrounded by the
legend, "Stqple Of the Massachusetts," The
Salem Gazette OF 1868 has in its heading a
shield supported by two Indians, and snr-
mounted by crest, which is nothing more or
less than Goldfish The paper currency issued
by the colony in the early period of the Revo-
lutionary war had this ancient superscription
and image. ,i...t 8 -.-.l ..- -....,.. ...
The N. Y. World says; "The fact that
there is a Young Mems Christian Association
in Denver, in the State of Colorado, is only
less strange than the fact that that BODY has
given to George Francis Train, seal rine. No
an honorary certificate that he is what masses
in Colorado for typical and exemplary Chris
tan Young Man" r-f
Victor Emmanuel's son, Prince Humbert
has sent 12,000f. to the subscription being rais.
ed for the necessitous and unemployed work
men of Milan E
-'Wife," said a broker, few days since udo
you think shall ever be worth fifty tbonsand
dollars?" ''Airt worth that to won o, soil
the confiding spouse. "Y-e-s," hesitatinoIy
replied the other half, ''but can put Won ont
at interest"
From the following paragraph, in the let
ter OF the London correspondent of the New
York Tribune. it will be seen that in Enoland
as here, there is an uprising of classical schoI
ars against the dominion of the classics i,
hberal education; "A book destined to MAKE
not little sensation is Essays ON a Liberal
Education, to be published next week by Mac
milan. 1t is one more combatant in the con-
test wasing between Classics and Science 7,
fact, it is more than one, for inside Macmillan,
elaret covers are nine writers, each contribnt-
ing an essay on special topic, and all writins,
their best against the dominion of elass;cs
in English education. The force of this do
monstration is that it comes from the yery cit
adel OF the classical kingdom. The nine ESSAYS
are written every one by men who are eminent
as classical scholars. Here are Henry seao-
wick and John Seeley, both senior classics AZ
Cambridge, and Seeley now Latin Professor
in University College, London. They were
the best classical scholars of their years. Here
is f. w. Farrar, one of the best classical scbol.
ars in England. Here is j Z. NJ. Wilson, Assist
ant Master at Rugby, the school with which
Arnold's name is forever associated. Eton is
represented by w. johnson, an Assistant Mas.
ter and Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge +"
--Messrs. Charles Scribner s. Co. bava II,
press Eighty Years of Republican Govern.
ment in the United States" by Louis T Jsn-
nings, for some time the special American cor
respondent Of the London Times. The book
Is said to be friendly in tone, and candid in its
discussions of the various subjects upop
which it touches.
MIR. James Greenwood author of 'sTbe
Lambeth Casual" and of numerous otbo,.
sketches, portraying with remarkable eranbio
power the condition Of the lower classes =,
England, is to contribute series of orie;nai
sketches to "Hours at Home" during the com.
ing year.
1t is absolutely ridiculous that the citv Of
London has never had fire-alarm and
police telegraph system. This convenience
and safeguard is. just being introduced into
that city. In some of these particulars both
London and Paris are years behind our small
er cities.
"A correspondent of the Yorkshire Pos,
says the Marquis of Butte, on coming of ace
will find waiting for him one of the finest pr,n-
critics in the United Kingdom. He succeed
ed, when only six months old, to the immense
rent roll of his father and his property has
been accommodating ever since. The young
marquis is rated in the matrimonial market
for next season at very little under hundred
and fifty thousand pounds year.
-story's hidoous Statue Of Everett, set up
in the Boston public garden few days ago,
Is so unsatisfactory that people are already in
ouiring how far the bronze would go towards
casting a respectable statue of the late Cicero
man neltor of New England, in whose atti-
tudes there was no awkwardness, and in
whose gestures no clumsiness. d..
Workshops have been erected at Wa,arl,,
Cove preparatory To the commencement ~ ~,
new Notifications on Ticl Point, near tbe Goil.
en- Gate, ut the entrance OF San Francisco bayp
The track of the Central Pacific railroad has
been laid from Cisco to the summit and
through the great tunnel, over 1000 feet above
the sea- The first passenger car passed through
the tunnel Saturday. "a miles of the track mas
been laid ON the east side OF the inouhtalns.
With Il fortnight of open weather w.s,g sns gap o.
six miles will be filled up, eonnluineSsonN ;H
will ha n,ada With the lower trlyk $50 mil,
east of Sacramento.
Tho steamship Golden City sailed from
(, - ~ n e;sco for Panama Saturday, with 81
Sss oon in treasure, OF which 81, ,l9i 600 IS for
Nav York