The Portland daily press., 1867-07-11
Varieties.

I'm Utah the gulls are making a vigorous
campaign against the grasshoppers. The Nor
mons say that they were once before saved
from famine in the same way.
-Thackeray speaks of place in Ireland
where the sense of elegance was so keen that
the serv ants brought up the Goals for the par
lor CRATE on clean plate.
A Unitarian clergyman in Massachusetts
says: SIT is doubtful whether, with our mod
ern tendency, God can send upon society
RECONCILIATION of curses than truly elo-
quent preacher, a ten thousand dollar organ,
and superb opera choir" -
"A French journal gives an amusing illus
tration Of the familiar truth that accounts diff
fer" By careful study of the Cretan despatch
es it has ascertained that the total loss of the
Turks during the present insurrection has been
one million five hundred thou sand men; of
the insurgents, forty men. A similar compu-
tation, founded upon the Turkish dispatches,
gives Cretan loss of three million men at the
lowest figures, against Turkish loss of five.
One does not often have to split wider differ
ence than that.
The st. Louis Democrat does not see why
"Maximilian's life was worth one jot more
AAC0ACos
soldier whom his ambition has sent to violent
DEATH" The Hartford Press is "unable to see
either that the United States are to be held
responsible for the death of Macmillan, or
that, If they are, the responsibility is to be
dreaded" e
Letters from Bagdad say that town has,
since the 18th Of March, been completely
surrounded by water, in consequence of an in
undation of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
The whole OF the country between Bagdad and
Bassorah is under water, and the crops have
been completely destroyed.
"A young woman, carrying what was ap-
parently an infant in her arms, was arrested
for begging on the Boulevard st. Michael The
baby was found to be a mere makeup, formed
of roll of paper and pasteboard covered with
clothes. z9-g if, asF
Prince salm-Salm, now prisoner with
the rest of Maximilian's officers, and whose
wife is bravely striving to save his life, was Col
onel of the Eighth New York Infantry during
the rebellion.
-Maximiiian was cousin to Queen victo-
ria, the Queen of Spain, and the Kings of Italy
and Sweden; brother-in-law OF the King of
Belgium, and a brother of the Emperor of
Austria. He was, in fact, connected by the
ties Of blood and kindred with all or nearly all
the crowned heads of Europe
In Richmond they have a new idea in pho
Biography, which is to take the head of lady
in the midst OF the petals of any kind of flower
"a rose, tulip or lily The profile appears al
most smothered in beautiful and highly-col-
ored flower, with long stem attached, and it
looks as natural as if it had grown there.
"A rich citizen of Berlin proposes, at an
expense Of ten or twelve thousand dollars, to
erect monument to Francis Drake, to whom
Europe is indebted for the introduction of the
potato; and he has petitioned the Common
Council of that city to grant him land in
suitable place for its construction. The first
potatoes seen in Europe were on the table of
the Great Elector of Brandenburg in Berlin,
in 1861. They had been brought over from
Virginia by Francis Drake himself. The po-
tato was first cultivated in Europe at the Char
ity Garden in Berlin.
1t appears that Spain wished to be repre-
sented at the Luxemburg conference, but was
refused on the ground that the application
was made after the deliberations had COM
menced. l..
"A letter from Rome says; An interesting
discovery has been made nere In digging on
the site of the Palatine, near the Palace of
the Cesars, the ancient grotto Of the Lupercal
has been found"
1T is said Theirs is preparing speech on
the French invasion of Mexico which will
equal, if not surpass, any of his past efforts.
he ia to review the history Of the expedition
and place the evils and losses chich it has occa-
sioned to Frcnce in their strongest light
Surveys have been commenced for the i'm
orsn,snt Of the Illinois River, and its exten-
.,on NV means of ship canal, SO as to admit
D .Ss massage of 200 ton steamers, direct from
Chicago to St. LOUIS
a California paper has good authority for
s.v;ng that General Rosecrans will not, on
onv consideration, accept the domination for
governor of that State by the Democrats, but
that if he could be induced to run for office at
all it would be on the Union ticket.
The Chair of Poetry at Oxford, lately va
Gated by Matthew Arnold, is to be filed by Sir
Francis Hastings Doyle, who was recently
elected as his successor by two hundred and
niuety-four votes, a majority of ninety-one
over Dean Alexander, and the third claimant
Dr. Kynaston.