The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-22
VARIETIES.

l.S..43 -.l VARIETIES. -5t-nl-
-Artemas Ward has left England for the
Island of Jersey. By the advice of his physi-
clan he has suddenly discontinued his lectures
as the only possible chance of saving his life; /;
he has made hosts of friends in London who
manifest the greatest anxiety for his recovery
d The British Medical Journal states that
the cattle plague has reappeared in the very
same cowshed in Islington in which it first
manifested itself on the former outbreak, and it
is unfortunately spreading with increased We.
hemence through Holland. afa.I. a..tr.f
The philesophic scholar and statesman.
john Stuart Mill M. p. was installed as Lord
Rector of st. Andrews University, in Scot
land, on the 3Oth ult. He delivered an Inaue.
ural replete with eloquenoe and beauty. The
report of it filled a whole page of the London
morning papers. ta.a...a r.I a
The Crown jewe Is of France are to be ex-
hibited in the Champ de Mars during the Ex-
hibition, in the pavilion in the center of the re-
served Park This pavilion will be constructed
in such way as to sink into the ground at
night % a"iHHf
In the Grisons fall of red snow. TO the
depth of three inches, has Just taken place.
The fall lasted about two hours, and was sue
ceeded by white to double that depth. The
phenomenon is not uncommon, and is due to
the presence of a microscopic mushroom, the
prot0coceus nirdlis.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: Bears flesh
is at this moment selling in the Paris meat
markets at the rate of five francs the kilo-
gramme, or one shilling and ten pence per
pound. The consumption of horse flesh is in
creasing rapidly among the poorer classes in
the different quarters OF Paris. There are now
open no less than fifteen butchers shops-four
, of which are in different meat markets-for
the exclusive sale of the new 'viande,' and
there are four restaurants where horse flesh is
the distinguishing feature of the carte. AT par
ticular places in the provinces horse meat has
become staple article of trade
According to the Manchester Examiner an,
odd illustration of the habits of mediayal
priests in England occurs in a treatise now be.
ing edited for the Early English Text Society.
Mirk's Duties ofa Parish Priest" The wri-
ter Is instructing the priest how to baptize a
child, and suddenly puts in: "But if you are
TOO drunk to say the words OF baptism in their
proper order, what should you 90? Don't say
them by any means Wait till another time.'
Sir Roger @. ID. Tichborne, the long lost
baronet whose authenticity was disputed by the
sceptical Pail Mall Gazette, has had an inter-
view with his mother who recognized him in
stantly, by "a strawberry mark on his left ARM"
or otherwise. n-.
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott is in such infirm
health that all literary labor has been interdict
ed by her physician.
"A shilling edition OF Lord Lytton's works is
announced in London
The London Athen9um has this nara,
graph: students of Chaucer and Shakespeare
must be on the lookout for Mr.. Alexander j.
Ellis paper on the pronunciation of En5lish in
the times Of those poets. 1t was a real treat to
hear the hero of phonetics read the passages
he did, and as he did, and assure his hearers
that he had authority for the sound he gave to
nearly every word. 1t required some attention
to convince us that we were hearing English,
the French pronunciation in many words be-
ing SO marked; but any one who heard, and
who will read, the steps of Mr.. Rllis' investiga-
ton into all our old writers on the subject
SALISBURY, Palsgrave, Gill, &c.-wiII, we think
come to the conclusion that Mr.. Ellis is right
The final c of Chaucers lines he always sonnd-
ed; and that, we believe, is the practice of DR.
Guest and Prof Child, though hitherto IL has
been strongly protested against by other early
English scholars
The Gloucester herring feet is all in, ex-
eept one, which has been given up as lost. The
feet numbered forty-fve, which is larger than
ever sent out before.
-Washingtons birthday has been made a
legal holiday in New York State, and it viii be
generally observed in the city by suspension
of public business. 80 il.
There was .sTopsey" in the police court
in Detroit, last Friday, in the shape of color
ed girl who was called to take the witness
stand. She surveyed the witness box few
moments, and after mounting the highest por-
ton of it that she could find, directed tie court
to "go ahead wild de sale" evidently supposing
that she was to be sold. l..t
baltimore is to have Sunday street cars
A bill has passed the legislature to that effect
which allows the running of the cars until the
people vote that it shall not be done.
The full recovery of the unfortunate Arch
duchess Carlotta is now looked upon as proba-
BILE. She has lately addressed, from Miramar,
a letter to Miss Bauvais, her former governess,
now residing in Versailles, which does not
show any symptom of mental alteration.
BY direction of the mayor of New York,
the Governors Room" was opened Tor the re-
ception of the remains of DIR, Bache on their
passage through the city to Philadelphia for
interment, and the flags upon the CITY Hall
aud other public buildings were placed at half
mast during the day.
The Georgia papers are delighted to learn
that negroes who short time since migrated
West are coming back again.
Eight hundred bills were passed by the Il
hnois legislature on the 14th instant SO says
the correspondent of the ST. Louis Republi-
can.
-On the passage of the Tennessee suffrage
act, Gov. Brownlow sent the following char
acteristic despatch to John w. Forney;
"NAsHvILLE, Feb. 1s.-To Hon. j. W. FOrney:
| The negro suffrage bill has passed the Senate
| ayes IA noes7. 1t is now the law of the State
! NV regards to Andrew Pharaoh.
"W. G.. BRowNIow,
"Governor Of Tennessee"