The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-29
Varieties.

home late at night with a rent in prominent
part of his neither apparel. Handing the gar
ment TO Mrs. NJ, who was making preparations
to retire, ne requested that the repairing pro-
cess be commenced immediately in order that
he might wear the garment on the morrow.
To this Mrs. Muggins, sulky and sleepy, de-
murred, ssying that it was bed-time, and too
late for such performances. "My DEAR" said
Muggins, with mild dignity, "let me assure you
1t is neuer too late to mend" Operations on
the pants commenced Immediately.
Rev. Robert Colyer, of Chicago, in an ad-
dress delivered in Brooklyn, a short time
since, said the following: "The marriage rela-
tion is tine most sacred next TO od and heaven
1t is generally supposed that n husband IS a
volume, and the wife the supplement; but the
truth is, man Il the first volume, and the wits
the second, with the supplement added. Al
most the first thing G od did after making man
was to make the other half of hm-the woman
The husband and wife ought to live together
like two dewdrops in the cup OF q flower.
1t is a curious fact that Napoleon III has
preserved all the furniture used by him during
his exile, and that the cabinet du trdrdd of the
Emperor at the Tuileries is small room with
single window, containing shabby book
case, without glass doors, on the shelves If
which may be seen the o'd books which Prince
Napoleon carried abo1t with him wherever he
went .A
-Parisan papers are enterprising in the
collection of news. One of them lately
stated that five or six American ron-elads
were given to the Gar in part payment for
Walriissia, and that these, manned by Russian
crews, are now in the Mediterrant an, and les-
tined for the Pireus
-Agassizs Museum of comparative Zoology
| at Cambridge, is huge building, and makes a
'"ise display OF specimens. But there is twice
DO 'n ~ material packed away in cases and
| bottled up in alcOndt, =,
| in the building. The result of his trip to Bra
zil will make a magnificent collection, when it
| has room to be shown.
| -Sonth, the astronomer, who just died in
| London in his eightieih year, had written sew
eral astronomical works. He was a co-worker
/ with Herschel. ra shsD1
The peace" Convention of Indians out
| West was rufled the other day by charac.
| terstic little incident. The Kaws, during the
deliberations, stole some horses from the a IRA
pahoes, who pursued the thieves, overlook
and scalped them, and brought back the
horses. When expostulated with on the mat
ter, the Arrapahoe chief said Tor might have
said) that he had sufficient Kaws for his sum-
mary proceeding. .arlsal
Mark Twain in letter from Constantine
pie, explodes the humbug Of the oriental bath
and its Injuries, which he calls "malignant
swindle," and he concludes thus: "fhe books
| OF travel have shamefully deceived me all
these years, but they can never do it mole.
| The narghii, the dervishes, the aromatic coffee,
the Turkish bath-these are the things have
| accepted and believed in with simple, unques
| tioning faith from boyhood; and behold, they
| are the poorest, sickest, wretchedest humbugs
| the world can produce. Wonders, forsooth
| What is Turkish coffee to the coffee at home ?
| What is narghili to meerschaum? What
| is Turkish bath in COnstantinople to a Rus
| sian one in New York? What are the dancing
| dervishes to the negro minstrels? New York
has fifty wonders where Constantinosle has
| onep' 4aH ..l.. ..E
"A few weeks ago the body of an American
sea captain was washed ashore near the town
of Myross, in the western part of the county oi
Cork. 1t was duly buried in the churchyard.
Subsequently the friends of the drowned man
1
take it to his home in this country. They met
an unexpected opposition. The. peasants OF
| that region have a traditional notion that the
exhumation of n body which has been for some
time buried will cause extraordinary mortality
in the parish for the twelve months following
Accordingly they thronged TO the churchyarj
and drove the strangers away. The palisl
priest tried to reason away their fears, but hi
produced no effect. The churchyard is now
guarded by sentinels day and night.
"A foreign journal says that sadnwa is beins
disforested 1t will be remembered that th
wood was the key to the battle of K@nigratz
on the holding of which for long while hung
vintory or. defeat. 1t is now being stripped Ct
its timber by Austrian wood-cutters, and the
writer believes that this is done to destroy al
traces of a locality that must forever remind
them of a great national humihatloh. Ihe
trurls ot the trees. as they fall before the axe,
are eound tbickly studded with bullets, and
..oros a, oaD,ins are on the ground industri-
o,s,v extracting them from their hgneous
lotlgment.
Times says; 81 spoke the other day of the
probable fall in the price of living. But while
living is going down, ehignons are going up
! The abuse of false hair for the last two years
has produced rise of fifty per cent. IN the
| price. The French capillary artists now sell
annually 100000 pounds of hair, and when
braided, curled and eork-screwed, bring in a
revenue of more than $i5,OOO,OOO. Where all
this hair comes from is a secret which, for the
TRANQUILITY of families had better not be faith
omedH' ll . .,,
Tomahawk," is announced to appear shortly il
London. 1t is said that members of the "Sav
age" Club will be its chief contributors.
Our National motto T. Pl,Tibus Unun'-
was that attached To a magazine published II
the old country in 1850, and also of anotne
magazine published in London for n"n"'e'
and forty years commencing about l'Zo.
The Memphis Bulletin cans Mr' p'N,.- 1'o",s-
of the Tennessee legislature "the ran IennI' =
see-nroducist." They deal IN haio n"'ns' II
''"' fsSnson is the name of the man OF g'an
,u.0,,ect at Pittsburg, who fastened hristies "
,ho tail of a rat and sold the reconstructe'
animal for a squirrel.