The Portland daily press., 1867-10-10
Varieties.

Varieties.
The reason why the King of Prussia did
not so to Wiesbaden, as he had intended. was
| that the Princess of Wales had had a serious
| relapse.
The Vienna New Free Press of Sept. %
| says; according to intelligence received here
from Mexico Admiral Tegethoff S mission has
failed. The Mexican Government viii not
| give up the body of the late Emperor Maxi
milan before the settlement of pending ques-
tions, and particularly the recognition of the
Mexican Republic by the European Powers"
-Avonia Jones Brooke brought over with
her from England copies of Charles Reade's
dramatic adaptations of "Dora,' intending to
produce it in this country. The day before
her death the poor actress spok OF the success
she hoped to achieve in the new play.
"A Newfoundland dog in London, twenty
six years old, has been turning grey for two
years, and is now almost white.
The Times's Paris correspondent declares
that it is we'll known both out of France and
in it, that the impression made in Paris by the
Bismarck circular to the Prussan diplomatic
| agents is very unfavorabe. A majority Of the
| Paris papers look upen the document as high
| ly offensive. It's by no means certain, how
| ever, that any step will be taken to resent the
| supposed insult, as a denial has been given to
rumor that explanations had been exchanged
between the Courts OF Paris and Berlin in
reference to the recent circular of Count Bis
marck on the subject of the Imperial meeting
at Salzburg
"A Milwaukee paper, speaking Of the oper
ations Of pickpockets at the late State Fair at
| Madison says; "Many really ludicrous stories
are told of the way things were managed One
gentleman in crowd kept his hand firmly
clasped upon his pocket book Somebody ran
a needle into the hand, and the gentleman
quickly raised it to see what was the matter
In ten seconds he thought of his pocket book,
but it was gone, and 1915 in money"
During the removal of the dead from the
Ridge Avenue Grave Yard, at Harrisburg, Pa.
the other day, grave was opened containing
a coffin in a tolerably good condition. The COT
| fin, upon being opened was found 10 contain
but few bones of woman, and silk dress in
as perfect state of preservation as when bur
| led. Several persons examined the dress, and
| upon trying TO tear the silk, it was discovered
| to be as sound as any on the shelves of our
merchants In this instance we have the fact
fully demopstrated that silk dress goods aIe
| much more durable than the bones in the hu-
man frame.
| "A number of cheeses which formed part OF
the Dean Richmond's cargo when she was sunk,
| have been floating about in the Hudson to I
several days. Boatmen who have picked them
up have discovered that these cheeses are not
at all damaged by the water.
"A quartz crushing mill in Colorado, worth
sixty thousand dollars, was burnt down recent.
y The local papers speak of its loss as a seri
Gus calamity
The English champion swimmer has swan
a thousand yards in seventeen minutes; this
is said to be the fastest time On record
1t would really seem that the ancients did
surpass their descendants in the perfection o
their arts. A fire and burglar proof safe, which
has been subjected to a volcanic eruption, has
been discovered among the ruins of Pompeii,
its contents uniniursd. 1t very much resem-
bles modern safes
1T is rumored that the Emperor Napoleon
is about to resume his pet project of Congress
of the European Powers The object, it is
stated, is no longer that of arriving at a solu-
ton of pending questions, but of efectng q
complete disarmament We are inclined Ia
think, however, that the Emperor means to
| fight before he disarms
Philosophy is certainly advancing in Amer
lea. On Sunday church was opened and in
augurated in Hoboken, the professed creed OF
whose members is a disbelief not only in the
Scriptures but in God. Among other some
what startling remarks the officiating priest Tor
whatever he should be called) said that the lit
i 90 70 ha
| vah. He has undertaken something of a lob
| --of the tacei0e gentleman who acted as Re-
| cepton Committee when Charles Dickens Wis
tied New York in 1872 all but one are dead
At the dinner which was given to Mr. Dickens
at the City Hotel Washington Irving presided,
| and as he was the most modest and unaffected
| ly seh-dstrustful OF men, and quite as unused
| to facing a public audience as battery, the
task of making the opening speech was terri
bly, formidable, He went on successfully for
about two minutes, and then, his memory fail
| ing, came to pause. His face grew scarlet
ne became as embarrassed as a shy schoolboy
| In parlor, and, stammering, "Its of no use
never could do thing of this kind" !" he sat
down, amid the hearty applause and cordial
good feeling of everybody in the room. No
body greeted him more heartily than Dickens
himself. He was and is capital off-hand
speaker; and when he spoke, in the warmes;
and most graceful manner, of the delight nc
had for years taken in Irving's writings, and
cited a witness, who sat behind him, to prov,
that he never went to sleep without one o
lrving's books under his pillow, he reused the
heartiest enthusiasm of the whole company
This, says the narrator of the story, was but
twenty-five years ago, yet how many would be
the chairs made vacant by death, if that com
pany were to be called together to welcome
Dickens again! ....
The Italian Government had forty thou.
sand troops guarding the Roman frontier
against the incursiohs of the revolutionists al
the time Garibaldi attempted his invasion
These troops are SO posted as to make it almost
impossible for any aid 10 reach the insurrec
tionists ON the Papal territory. 1t seems. there.
fore, under these circumstances, as though IN,
Popes army ought to be able to suppress the
outbreaks at Viterbo and other points If he
is not able, it is certainly time for him to give
up his temporalities.
Letters from Athens, Greece, of Sept. !,
bring the painful intelligence that Major sid
ney Dekay, well known as brilliant young
Ofncer OF our late volunteer army, mas Dooh
brought into the military hospitai at Atnehs'
| from the island of Crete where he had been
danoerouslv wounded, being shot in the right
.;do and sboulder in a fight with the Turks in
5oaIo of the mountains of Roumelie Major
naITav was making reconnaissance with a
email party of insurgents, and being cut of
from their camp made his way to the coast
embarked with his party in an open boat with
but two oars, and after ten days of great suffer
ing, was picked up by Russian man of-war
and brought in.
The italian Journals speak of terrible
fire which recently broke ont in a forest near
Ajaceio From the sea it looked like a burn
ing mountain Many leagues of trees are
burned down Ships and troops have been
sent to the scene.
A certain old church in England is being
''restored" by fixing to the roof series of M
pier-machc bosses, the work of the vicar of the
parish
"A Pittsburgh paper tells how two thieves
met gentleman walking the streets late at
night with box under his arm, and under
took to show him hotel They relieved him
OF the box and ran of with it. The gentleman
was naturalist, and his box contained lour
| rattlesnakes Fancy the thieves emotions