The Portland daily press., 1867-06-05
VARIETIES.

Mr.. Bullfinch, the author who died recent
ly in Boston, was a clerk in the Merchants
Bank, who like Charles Lamb, hated the work
by which he got q living, and gave his leisure
to literature. He was over seventy years old
when he died. For the last five OF six years he
had derived an annual income of about fifteen
hundred dollars from his copyrights. Hs was
never married. fui s.lil .fIi, 1uoK E. tfA
The Japanese are polite, and at the same
time inquisitiye. They salute one upon the
slightest pretext, by placing the hands upon
the knees, shutting half up like a well oiled
jack-knife, delivering the word "Ohio" in their
most seductive tones. They will mount your
porch and peer steadfastly through your parlor
windows until they are discovered, when In
stead of being abashed, they smile with singu-
lar sweetness and look again. H- a.e't
President johnson will be the third sue
cessiye President visiting Boston who was
elected yice-President. Massachusetts, voted
for John Tyler, Fillmore and Andrew johnson
Tor the second Office. il...sI @a' tai Z.
The Rev. Mr.. Abbott's glorifeation of Lou
is Napoleon has been translated into French,
to the great amazement and amusement of the
Parisisns. The Paris papers all say something
on the subject and one of them, the Steele, Is
cueiyil enough to suggest that its reverend su-
thor be straightway put in the American de-
nartmeat O. the Exposition, and labelled ''the
learned ass" So t''" '"o' ".''
John Stuart Min has presented his project
of extending the suffrage to women In the
shape of an amendment to the Reform bill M.
Mills speech in support Of the amendment was
very able, and commanded a strong support,
the vote standing Is to 196.
An unus ually large number Of nightin-
gales have assembled this spring in the vicinity
Of Naumburg, Germany. They settled about
the middle of April in groups of from twenty
to thirty in a wood, and remained there eight
days. During this time they held musical
tournament, two birds singing solo alternately,
and the performance being occasionally varied
by chorus in which all the birds participated.
1t is positively asserted by ornithologists who
were paesent at this singular concert that
there was not a single female bird among the
singers. Every now and then the birds moved
in body to another Sart OF the wood, as 10
| test its acoustic properties. t..-
Hood speaks of a bird building Its nest on
| the ledge over the door OF doctors offcs a.
an ATTEMPT to rear its young in the very Jaws
| Of DEATH ...I rt.
| 1T is said that since the Independent is no
I longer to be regarded as the orgSn of the Con-
| gregatioHalists, wealthy gentleman ~ B9s-
| ton, well known and philosophical has OFFER
| ed to furnish H. W. Beecher with all the CANT
tai he may need to start new Independent of
his own. The proposal is under consideration.
Thomas Carlyle, insisting upon wearing
curious, high-crowned hat, is greatly ANNOYED
by certain intolerant youth of Chelsea, and has
been compelled to take his constitutional"
after dark. Thereupon Mr. Ruskin has print
ed ludicrous essay upon English manners
and institutions, starting with Carlyle's anom-
alous "tile," and reaching the British consti-
ton by methods peculiarly Ruskinian.
The Nation deals severely but justly with
the newspaper which "after treating the re-
| bellion for four years as the blackest crime
ever committed, denied when 1t was all over
| that it was any crime at ALL" The Nation
| calls tb;s bvnocrisy: it seems more like sto-
ldity.
| Tho New Bedford Standard endeavors to
n.ao,ro the minds of the business men of that
r;,y for change from whaling to some other
n,ysnit in view of the probability that 8 n
1 Francisco VIII Decohhe inc heauquartcrs oi the
| oil interest since the acquisition Of Alaska.
| 1t is three years this month since Maximil-
ian and Carlotta entered the Mexican capital
as Emperor and Empress, with degree Of
pomp and circumstance never before in mod
ern times witnessed in Mexico. 1t has been
wretched three years for them both.
1T is said that there are more unemployed
workmen in the city OF New York at present
than there has been for many years past
There are 81 $40 Good Templars in regular
standing in the State of Maine.