The Portland daily press., 1867-10-30
oI'ietieS.

"A cataract is said to have been disco,..,1
IN Montana, which throws Niagara completely
into the shade, the whole e.,yOlume of the Vol
lowstone river plunging over precipice six
teen hundred feet high, with a roar which ia
appalling But the latest Western yarn is
about an underground forest discovered in
Fayette county, Iowa, during the sinking Of a
well. The trees were found standing upright
at depth of fifteen feet below the surface
They have Imaginative newspaper writers in
the Great West.
An illustrated paper devoted to caricatures
recently asked NJ. Frederick Lemaitre, the Gel
ebrated actor, for permission TO caricature
nm. He replied, make caricatures Of young
men. Time undertakes to carcature old
men"
"A church in the city of Mexico is advertis-
ed for sale. The owner says: THE premises
are suitable and well situated Tor a commercial
depot, or for a manuiactory"
"A Sister of ercy-Ann-astLesia.
Miss Baldwin is twenty-one years Of Ave.
pretty, and Professor Of Greek in Baker Uni
versity, Kansas. A radical friend of ours
thinks female suffrage sure to succeed in a
State like that
The horse which Col Thomas Benton rode
through the whole Of the Mexican war lately
died at New London, Conn., aged thirty-six
he was formerly owned by Joseph Bonaparte
and at his death by Sidney Miner.
"A manufacturer in Boston lately remark
ed that he had in his cr 10y thirty girls,
whom he did not pay as i...,h wages as their
board amounted to- He was asked how he
supposed they managed to live? "OhP said
he, "they are sharp enough for that" If the
devil don't geti such employers it win be be-
cause he is cheated out of what belongs to
him.
"A paper, circulating in the South, and
edited by an unreconstructed rebel, gives as
premiums to subscribers, pictures of jeff
Davis, Mrs JEFF. Davis, Gen r. f. Lee, j.
Wilkes Booth, Andrew johnson and Horace
Greedy
1t is said that there cannot be more than
forty thousand barrels Of pure whisky in
America, at this time, yet whisky" so called,
is being poured down in streams. The dealers
who own good article of whiskey hold on 10
it, as the demand greatly exceeds the supply.
Mea ntime American drinkers swallow all man
ner Of adulterated stuff-an poison, fast or
slow.
"A remarkable evidence of presence of mind
was recently given in France Monsiner j.
was talking with his mother-in-law at her
country chateau, when a streak of lightning al
most literally reduced her to ashes. The domes-
ties ran into the room, when, without moving
muscle, Monsour j. said "John, sweep
up my mother-in-law" ......t
AT a Conference of Metho dist ministers
Brother s., who was not noted for brillian-
cy of diction, related his experience speaking,
amoung other things, of his call to preach and
his reluctance to obey the Divine inspiration,
until it seemed to him that he must either
preach or suffer eternal punishment Elder
T, very pious man and eloquent preach
er. but somewhat given to iocularity said to
arother s., after meeting:" Yours INV dear
Brother, seems to me TO be a very hard case
very hard indeed; for It Is very certain that
you will never be able to preachl"
The Eco d'Itdlid, the organ Of the Italians
in New York, Indignantly protests against the
action of Victor Emmanuers government in
directing tho national nj the B;dding OF
the French Emperor, and adds 'sthat the only
hope remaining is that the Italian government,
in momentarily sacrificing the national aspira-
tons, had first obtained the promise of a
speedy settlement of the Roman question;
without that, we may have to encounter the
most serious difficulties"
-Fredrika Bremer's "Life and Letters. with
a Collection of Unpublished Sketches and Pc
ems" are announced by Hurd & HougbtoD.
The biography is written by Miss Bremer's sis
ter, and contains minute picture of Swedish
domestic life, as well as a conscientious account
of the development of Fredrika's character.
"A gentleman of the medical profession
proposes to establish somewhere within TWEEN
ty-five miles Of New York. home, or place of
rest and healing, sanatiye resort for all who
cannot procure the quiet of homes OF their
own in the babel of the great city. One can
readily imagine how lonely are the sick hours
of person living at a public hotel right in
the midst of the din and clatter, too with no
one to care for him personally, and with every
possible chance for his not getting well. We
wonder some such sanatorium has not been
started before. There would seem to be room
for one, in fact, near every largeNcommercial
city. 5trn it.rf "a, tte .aa
IT Observe, says Froude, the practical issue
of religious Eruption. Show me people
where trade is dishonest, and 1 will show you
a people where religion is a sham. sI
--"Of what religion are you, Mr. Rogers?'
said lady once. What religion, madam? 1
am OF the religion OF all sensible men," -And
what is that?" she asked, IAN sensible men,
madam, keep that to themselves" auA
Some twenty years ago certain Method
ist minister now deservedly ranking very
high in his denomination, having been for
years missionary to China, and at this pres
ent writing occupying prominent pulpit in
one of the cities of the Empire State-was
holding forth with Characteristic zeal in one
of our rural districts on the text, Thou fool"
Having in due form unfolded the lesson con-
tanned in these words, he at length concluded
his discourse in perfect tempest of exhorta-
ton, as follows: "And finally, impenitent
hearers, viii you live fools? will yOu die fools?
i'll you be forever damned fools?" n
An Irish bard has written this account Of
the Finding of Moses:
''In Egypt's land upon the banks of Nile,
King Pharaohs daughter went to bathe In style;
She lux her dip. then walked unto the land.
And to dry her royal pet, she along the strand.
A bulrush tripped her. whereupon she saw
A. smiling babby in a I'd o. straw.
She TUX it up, and said with accents mild,
Tare an ages. girls which O. yez owns the ehild"
An English lady is in Paris and has issued
invitations to twenty of her most intimate
friends. AS the mode of invitation is novel we
annex it, in order that it may find imitators
should it be appreciated in this country. On
one side there appears the following: "Mad-
anne - requests the honor of your company
at dinner on the -, at the restaurant-.
cabinet -, to celebrate the anniversary of
the birth of her son. t. l.p.s.v.p.," which
means, "Tournez la page sill vous plaft," and
on turning over the page accordingly, the eye
meets the names of those who have already re-
sponded to the invitation.
Madame Parepa- Rosa has left New York
for Boston; and with her farewell appearance,
the first half of the fall season Of Italian opera
in that city is concluded. A retrospective
glance shows that the Unsuitable public has de-
youred no less than twelve operas in festal
course of twenty nights, and within period
ot five consecutive weeks This is a case Of OPP
cratic consumption quite unexampled in New
York or any other city. ,-.a rs .sasl
-Ristori will begin her engagement in Bos-
ton on Monday, November 11th, playing there
only week, and giving five evening perform
ances and one matinee. Elizabeth ana MARIE
Antoinette will be the principal characters In
which she will appear. ersa o.. -
The MASSAGE of a secular marriage bill by
,ha Austrian Rechsrath, in the face of
strong opposition from the State church, is
Looked uoon as a striking evidence that that
...,, has entered upOn a new and hetter