The Portland daily press., 1867-06-13
tn ES.

Tiffany & Co. of New York, bought the
larger part Of the famous Prince .Esterhazy
diamonds lately sold in Europe.
The Bat and Ball is the name of a hi
monthly paper printed at Har ford, Conn.,, In
the interest of base ball men.
The number of gold medals to be awarded
by the Exhibition Committee in Paris has been
increased from one hundred to one thousand.
of silver medals from one thousand to three
thousand, and OF bronze medals from three
thousand to five thousand.
The New York Evening Post anxiously In
quires, what shall we do with our dead?" Il
is more dific ult to find homes for the dead of
that city than for its living, and the Post says:
"The increasing cost of land in the vicinity of
the city suggests the thought, that ere long 1t
will cost more to cover people with dirt when
they are dead, than to cover them with decent
clothes while they are living"
-Garibaldi is suffering severely from rheum-
atism. He will complete his sixtieth year on
the 4th of July.
Lord Monck, the newly appointed viceroy
of the Dominion of Canada, has bee governor
general of Canada since 1852, and has given
general satisfaction. He has been member of
the British parliament, and has given mu III at
tention to agriculture, having carried of sew
eral prizes for the superiority of his cattle as
the agricultural exhibition in Paris in 1852
The Rutland tVt) Herald mentions fine
sun picture taken upon piece of marble from
one of the quarries of the Rutland Marble
Company in that town. The picture will be
taken to the Paris Exposition, where It win
not only speak for itself as a masterpiece of
workmanship, but for the marble company of
which its plate is a product.
"A hard-working, eminently pious woman
once said: Il don't want to go to heaven
as soon as I die, but would rather sleep
in the grave thousand years or so, to get
rested"
"A teacher in a public school gave SEN
tence to be written and properly punotuated.
A boy gave the following as the result of his
effort: The quality of mercy says, "sbake-
speare is not strained" He was badly strained
that time.
--B. P. Shillabsr MRS. Psrtingson) tells
story that on one occasion he lectured In How
ard Hall, Providence, and was warned before
commencing that the hall had bad acoustic
qualities and that he would need to raise his
voice and speak very distinctly, or he could not
he heard. Accordingly he opened his discourse
bv belching forth the words Ladies' and Gen
tlemen" in a stentorian tone. when the
echo came back" says shillaber, "it nearly
knocked me down." He Immediately lowered
his voice and went on in his own fashion.
Mr. j. G. Benefits yacht Henrietta, the
winner in the race to Cowes, returned to New
York on Saturday from England, under COM
mand of Capt. Roath. She left Cowes May
6, and the Lizards on the sth, and reports hav-
ing encountered strong westerly winds during
the entire passage, and lost her jib boom. She
has been thirty -one days on the trip from the
Lizard Lights, lying of the coast of Cornwall,
and twenty-three miles E. s. E from Lands
End.
The French women will not give up Crln-
oline, and this is the conclusive argument OF
one of them: "My sister is lean, and nearly as
tall as a cocoanut tree; !, ON tho contrary am
little too well provided with emoonpoint.
But thanks TO the orinoine, wbicn adds 10 the
o,o ana somewhat diminishes the other, We
-. t,o,h of us for women remarkably we'll
proportioneo' ,,.,
stsamboat, on recent trip, found some bags
of beans among the freight, and helped them
selves to bountiful supply for soup. The
beans were castor oil beans, consigned to
druggist, and caused decided commotion
among the unscrupulous appropriatoEs'
The Registrar of the parish OF MucRairn
Argyleshire, Scotland, in giving his report for
quarter SAYS: "The deficiency In births
arises from no cause can assign; in marriages
from the poverty of the inhabitants, and in
deaths. from the healthy state Of the parish"