The Portland daily press., 1867-10-12
Varieties.

What q blessing, pathetGaliy exclaims an
exchange, would be revolution in Italy that
should call back all itinerant organ grinders.
Farmers report the apple crop OF Massa .
chusetts better in quality and larger in quan 70
tity this year than for five years past. The
clnker worm has injured the trees less than
usual. ....
The process of uniiication between North
and South Germany continues. The Nsrth
German Parliament have resolved to insert ia
the address, in reply to the speech from the
| throne, a declaration that they eau consider
their great task complete only when the South
| ern States have entered into the North Ger
man Confederation. In the meantime, another
little State, the Duehy of Ratzeburg, has ap-
| piled to be Incorporated with the Kingdom o t
| Prussia. p. l.IIaI.rH# |.... ........
"A human donkey at Chicago was staring
at mans wifs, the other evening, with a
lorgnette, when the married man took the
printed card Taken" which lay on a reserved
seat near by, and held it up before his wife.
Donkey looked no more.
Letters from Texas report sad condition
of the public health. The yellow fever is not
only very malignant but has been spreading
largely into the interior, the only decrease be-
ing that resulting from want of material to
work upon. Business is all suspended, and
profound sentiment of terror has seized on the
people. .
--"Personals" in the newspapers is an old
subject for sport, but here is wanted" and
an answer worthy of being copied: Personal
Wanted, q hand to hold mine own as down
life vale glide; wanted, an arm TO lean upon,
forever by my side. Address Miss Emma M.
Hondlin, Chicago Post Office. Personal
have hand for Emma II -'tis hanging by
my side; but willingly with her will hitch, aud
down liie's vale will glide Address Tippoo
Saib, Chicago Post Office.
-One of the historic euriosities OF the Park
OF COmpiegne is about to disappear The eel
ebrated iron cradle where the first Napoleon
received his bride, Marie Louise, in 1910, in
tending thus to recall her home at SchOin-
brunn, is about To be destroyed with the ex-
ceptiOn OF one hundred and fifty yards of the
reserved park. As to that portion OF it which
has always been open to the public, it will be
Fept up in its present state. The cause Of this
demolition is to gain view of Mount Came
Ion. The iron of which this cradle was formed
weighs fifty thousand pounds.
\, The misery of buttons" is thus described
by an English writer: "Sartorial ingenuity has
not yet attained to the manufacture of mascu-
line garments unencumbered with the dire
nuisance of buttons. 1t is not too much to say
that mans whole comfort during the day is
dependent on the state Of his buttons. The
sudden detection of button, when the suffer-
er is beyond the reach of all remedial assist
ance, puts him to misery and perhaps to
shame"
General Prim is said to have arrived in
New York in the Pereire, aud il is also said
that his visit has some occult connection with
Mexico.
The last of the the band If gallant spirits
who reused La Vendee to q sense of patriotism
has Just died. The aged Cont ,sse de la Bouere,
widow of the General expired in her ninety
ninth year. Madame de la Bouere, with her
friend, the Marquise de la Rocheaquelein,
went through the whole of the long campaigns
of that disastrous epoch. She bivouacked for
one hundred nights in the gigantic pine woods
with which La Vendee at that period abound
ed and gave birth to her first child in field
overgrown by heather and bramble. Forty
10 CLenne GrsaTds acrGss she rode from Falas
not exist, to endeavor to obtain from Repub-
fcan court the reprieve of her husband, then
under sentence of death. The latter part OF
the life of this heroic lady was devoted to col
lecting documents on the war, and her re-
searches were so successful that all writers ON
the subject have invariably referred to Madame
de la Bouere's manuscripts to aid them in their
works. The countess died at the Chateau de
la Bouere, near Fallais, at the very spot where
she started ON her first campaign in company
with her husband
| -"Is it excusable in gentleman under any
circumstances, to step upon lady's dress?' is
the awful question seriously propounded by an
anxious exchange.
MIR. Seward has gone to Auburn ON mel
ancholy errand-to superintend the erection of
monuments over the remains OF deceased mem
bers of his family. 1t will be remembered
that he has lately lost his wife and his daugh-
ter.
Among novelties in gloves is the giant
Pompadour," of any shade of color, and or
namented up the back with leather bows in
two colors, the loop of the bow being of some
contrasting color to the other portions Thus
the glove, if white, pale drab gray, will be
sewn with blue or mauve loops to the bows; or
it will be brown, lilac, or dark gray, and be
sewn with black, and have loops to correspond.
Another glove is laced up the back with gold
cord, terminating in tassels the heads of which
are gold, and the fringe Of silk of the same
color as the glove. Iutf .i...
-CreosOte supplies three times as much heat
as coal, and is being experimental upon in
| England, for the generation of steam.
The largest turbine water-wheel Ser made
in America is being built for the Fairmount
water works of Philadelphia. Its diameter is
ten feet three inches; weight, including the
gearing, etc, about 100000 pounds.
The word Tariff comes from the old
Moorish fortress of Tarifa, on promontory at
the straits of Gibraltar. The Moors occupying
this fortress exacted duty on all merchandise
coming in or going out OF the Mediterranean
Sea.
"A young woman in Barton, Vermont, has
been weeping herself into a comfortable in
come She borrows mourning dresses in which
to attend the funeral of her mother, She OBJ
tanned q dress, a shawl, and cloak, and then
took the cars.
"A history of women's progression, entitled
From the Fig Leaf to the Crinoline," is being
written by Hartford litterateur.
The London Times of Sept 2Gth has an ar
tcle full of sympathy for Garibaldi. This is
certainly an astonishing change of tone in that
journal, and goes farther than any other cir
cumstance to make us believe there is pros
pect of success for the irrepressible Italian.
-"Malakoff" writes to the New York Times
as follows: "lf Mr., Alexander Dumas, who is
still threatening to make an American tour,
will undertake to give us a serious book oil
travels, we may expect something better 'nah
has yet been published ON that country, ior no
goes divested of the Englshmans prs1u''oeS,
| and with a disposition to see the eoou Us wen
| ,ha haa Moreoyer, he is republican, anu
| does not believe that any good can come out OF
49, ,,onarcby. SO the ground Will be al
-, r;ne for him, and if you will only let him
- and let him work he will give rs some
thing exceptionally good. IaIs
| Mrs. Carr, OF Newark, believing that the
blood of a black cat would cure her sick child,
wanted to sacrifice Mrs. O'Donahue's black
cat in order TO secure the desired remedy. Mrs.
O'Donahue declined TO part with her faVorte
tabby. which led to So angry dispute that the
aid of the law had to be called in to settle the
difficulty.
A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, says
that the ery of "hip hip" by which toasts are
bo,orad Il 10 ordinary non observant and non