The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-14
VARIETIES.

Edmund About says 'there are two things
in this world which man does not often find
away from home: the first is good soup; the
second is disinterested love-"
"A French agency for international mar
riages adds to its advertisement "Bonheelr
gdrante un dn"-Happiness guaranteed for one
year. ., r.,..r.
Polite gentleman-"Good morning, sir.
How do you feel yourself to-day?" Deaf gem
t!eman-"Very stormy and disagreeable." Po-
lite gentleman Slightly astonished but deter
mined to recover lost ground )-'Indeedl How
is your good wife, sir?" Deaf gentleman
"Very windy and clustering indeed"
The New Orleans Pieayune, IN referring
to Governor Wells, says: "He has contrived to
realize the popularity whereof the old Dutch
governor of New York boasted, that when he
went into Office everybody was in his favor,
and when he went out everybody was in favor
of that too"
The Royal Geographical Society of Eng
land has awarded the Victoria gold medal for
Arctic discovery to DIR. 1. I. Hayes, author of
The Open Polar Sea-"
"A correspondent of the st. Louis Demo
crat, who has just returned from Alabama.
says: 1t was refreshing, as passed along, to
witness the many thousands of acres OF corn
well TILED, where the feecy staple, King Cot
ton,' bore undsputed sway previous to the re-
bellion. Although backward, as crops eyery-
where are this season, still, the corn crop of
the South will be ample to supply that desti-
tute country for a year to come, should the
balance of the season prove at all favorable
The productive prairics of Mississippi AMI Ala
bama all under cultivation-ene-balf in
corn and one-half in cotton-and what is still
more gratifying, the freedmen are as general
thing, working remarkably we'll"
The local of the Cleveland Herald in re-
cent issue says: Yesterday, old Erie, SEEM
ingly conscious of her mighty power, lashed
the docks and piers with twice ten thousand
foaming pillows" And then, as if surprised at
his own brilliancy, with charming indepen-
dence of syntactical restraints, adds: "Ain't
that beautiful? Read it again."
BY reference to the advertisement OF the
Central Pacific Company in another column
1t will be seen that their Financial Agents OF.
fer Tor sale the First Mortgage Bonds of the
Road, of even date and tenor with the Govern.
ment bonds. This is one of the best and safest
Investments now offered to capital
"A man in Loisuvllle, whose wife and
daughter died of cholera last summer sues the
city Tor sanitary neglect as the cause of their
death, claiming SS5,OOO damages.
"A newspaper correspondent at the Expo-
sition recently took lunch at one ofthe Fr,Ieh
butfets Some jugged hare attracted his atten-
ton. !and having been supplied by the
waiter, he was proceeding to crafty his
appetite, when he was started by the gentle
men near him who begged the favor of one
word "A thousand said he blandly "My
dear slr," said the stranger, that hare once
meaced. The shrieks tor the "sarsong" were
immediate and urgent.
Mr.. Beecher, in appealing to his congrcca-
ton for aid tor the Southern sufferers, referred
to his sister, Mrs. Stowe, who has just return
ed from the South, and said 81 have heard
from her lips tales OF suffering among the edu-
Gated and cultivated that would melt your
hearts could relate them as she told them to
me-" ii s i.e o..
The Hudson river has become so full of
carp, or "gold fish," that fishermen take them
by the wagon load They originally came
from private fish pond, near Washinston's
headquarters, at Newburg, which communicate
ed with the river by an outlet, through which
the fish made their way TO the main stream.
An English paper gives us information that
will interest all lovers of the Jane Eyre novel
A short line of railway running from the Mid
land line OF Keighley, near Leeds, 10 Oxen
hope, in the valley of the North, was opened
for traffic week or two ago. The chief in
terest in the event to the public lies in the
circumstance that the line affords access othe
little moorland village of Haworth, which has
attained worldwide fame as the home of the
Bronte family. Hitherto the only approach
t. Haworth has been by a steep and difficult
highway road from Keighley, which is graphi-
cally described in the opening chapter of Mrs
Gaskelrs Lite of Charlotte Bronte." The new
rail, however, has ono of its stations in the vii
lage, the terminus of the line being about a
mile and half beyond, at q little place on the
edge of the Yorkshire moors, called Oxenhope.
The World says the Jaffa colonists left
home because Maine wasn't sufficiently "down
East" for them.
In the town ofBelper, in Derbyshre, Eng
land. on the Goth ultimo, three gorillas escaped
from lnenagerie, frightened the people ofthe
town, and then took walk on the road. The
chase which ensued was an exciting one, and
the terror OF the people extreme, but the run
aways were ultimately secured without INJURY
to any one.
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that the
Champs de Mars was appropriately chosen for
On ovbibition destined to bristle with cannon
and other warlike appliances and the Satur
dov Review declares that the most valuable
lesson to be learned from great exhibitions is
that let people prate as they will of the arts of
tofS iS aff all
sive art and that year by year cannon grow
bigger shells more murderous and small arms
more effective.
John Williams, son of the Rev. Eleazar
Williams (the Dauphin or lost Prince,) Is cap
tain of steamboat on Lake Winnebago.
A foreign journal says of the young Napo-
leon that "there is no hope ofhis recovery. The
poor child is a victim to serofula of the most
determined character, and part of the bone has
already been removed and replaced by plates OF
gold in a recent operation. 1t is stated posi-
lively as the opinion of NJ Nelaton that he can
not survive a second operation, and ihat MS
living to succeed to the throne is utterly I'M
nrobablen The Pail Mall Gazette surmises
that tbe account is intended to please the Roy
o,;st ,or.,, and that the Prince Imperial may
mt be in n state desperate
The late well known oaniei ooonneh
once met a conceited literary friend and e~-
oiaimed. 81 saw capital thing in your last
namphlet" Did you?" eagerly replied his
delirhted listener; what was it?" "A pound
of butter"
Matthew Arnold is about TO publish the
admirable series OF papers contributed by MIN
to the Cornhin Magazine last year, on Ihe
Study of Celtic Literature"
The London Times closes an articie On
Maximilian's fall with these words: Ahe
MEXICAN Empire is at an end, and nothing re-
mains tut for the successful chief to reorgan-
ize the government, or to let the country grad
ually sink under the power OF the United
States"