The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-12-30
Varieties.

walking along the street, when, as he passed a
shabby-iooking woman, he heard baby call
Papa" from beneath the woman's shawl. and
then, for the first time noticing the woman,
saw her awkward attempt to stop the child's
crying, To his surprise he found the child to
| be his own, which the woman had stolen from
the nurse, who had left it in its carriage for a
few minutes ii ,a'
/ The late George w. Kendall, of the New
Orleans Picayune, in his last letter to one of
his old associates, says: "Do you know, Bull
lit, that in all my life never went to school
ten months" adding, "the Iittle I ever
learned was from running against people who
had enjoyed more advantages" A.L'
When Richard Pierce, printer, of Boston,
worked off upon his hand press on the 25th of
September, 1890, the first newspaper ever pub
lished in America, the General Court took the
sheet into custody, held solemn debate over
the daring disturber of the public quiet, and
voted that it contained reflections of a very
high nature" and its publication was contrary
to law. 1t was not allowed to appear again.
| "A lady killed a large gray eagle with a
stick. near Amherst, Wis.,, the other day. The
bird was in the act of attacking a flock of
geese. The courageous lady cooked his goose
for him.
Allied Tennyson will publish in the At
lantic Monthly, this year, several new poems.
The first one will appear in the February
number of the magazine. The title of it is
"The Victim" sdl .sfss1 vee.,ra W..
-"Elenors, wilt thou take this man to be
thy welded husband?" asked the officiating
clergyman. "Yeth thir, thould like to, if You
liana
courtesy.
There is match factory in Detroit, which
occupies three and a half acres of ground, and
is capable Of turning out about 1000 10000
matches every year. Enough to set all crea :
ton on fire. od m art
The following rule by which counterfeit
greenbacks or National Bank Notes may be de-
tected, has lately been discovered, and upon
thorough trial, has proved infallible II will
be of interest to many of our readers 1t is
this: Divide the last two figures Of the num-
Der of the bill ty four, and if one remain, the
letter on the genuine will be A; if two remain,
it will be b; if three, @; should there be no re-
mainder, the letter will be d. For example, a
note is registered 2461 divide sixty-one by four
and you have one remaining According to the
rule the letter on the note will be A. In case
the rnle fails, be certain that the bill is coun-
terfeit. 5di b. liDla 1H
William Cullen Bryant is writing three
poems for the New York Ledger, for which
Mr.. Bonner pays him three thousand dollars.
This is the largest amount ever paid to
poet. t1 1Fai .efa adl rl
One of the actors in the theatre at wurz-
burg, Bavaria, has been arrested on charge
of lese majestic, for having, while on the stage,
made certain illusions to the breaking off of
the Kings marriage. t4-
Christmas carols were sung in the streets
of Portsmouth, N H., from midnight to tho
morning of the 25th.
1t is said that in preparing the series of
text hooks for the Virginia University, care
was taken to omit any version of facts that
may mortify those that peruse them"
Mr. Carter, baker, died recently at Ports
mouth, N. H., at the age of 02. Among lis eff
fects was found the first cracker he made
when an apprentice, in 1890. Although now
more than three quarters of century old and
somewhat worm-eaten, it is yet in good state
of preservation.
MANY private and public buildings in
Cleveland, Ohio, were injured by the recent
snow storm. This was owing to their having
flat, gravelled roofs, which could not support
the weight of snow a.a..
-Fitz Greene HaIleck about a month be-
fore he died prepared his poems with a final
revision to be issued in one volume by Messrs.
Ticknor and Fields. The notes are said to be
full of interesting material. 1t is understood
that the volume will be prefaced with some in
troductory matter, biographical and critical,
from the pen of the poet friend, w illiam
Cullen Bryant. 4....
Five young fellows in Berlin, Prussia,
tried to go eight days and nights without
sleep. Three of them died in the attempt, and
the others, who survive, get no sympathy in
the illness with which they are paying the
penalty of their foolhardiness. 4 .-
"A Swiss journal states that young wo-
man named Anna Arnold, sister of an inn
keeper at Willisau Uucernl has just carried
off the first prize at rife-shooting competi-
ton of that town, having made a white with
every shot. ID aa
-"You will smile to hear, says letter
from Rome, "that french corporal has pro-
nounced againsS the intervention at Rome,
and in consequence, has been publicly dis
graced."
-2ne genealogy Of the Tudor family, re-
nj arkS witty trencnman, Is very remarkable.
One OF the family, when Noah was in his ark,
solicited permission to enter. but as the ark
was full his request was refused Take my
genealogy at any rate" cried the man, who
tn ew It into the ark, and then slid from the
plank on which he was floating and died hap
py.
The Nation having been at some pains to
show the absurdity of calling Thaddeus Stew
ems the great commonerr in a country which
is as free rom Commons as it is from Lords,
the Commercial Advertiser suggests that, as a
title suited to the man and acceptable in this
emergency the term Great Uncommoner" be
employed adding: "It is certainly character
istic, and being by implication phenomenal.
justifes the hope that the first occasion for its
use may be the last" .7u..
Nine words recently constituted public
prayer in Boston.
Raleigh had skating and Wilmington en-
oyed sleighing, last week
The health of Seba Smith Major Jack
Downine) is rapidly improving through the
use of electricity.