The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-09-28
Val.ietieS.

"A Scotch paper says that recently at
Lochearnhead, Mr.. Plumb, an American gem
teman, and three companions, caught 800
trout in about ten hours more than one every
three minutes to each rod, and total of 225
fish to each of the four anglers.
Tho New Bedford Standard says the bark
Black Eagle arrived at that port on Tuesday,
bringing news from Mr.. Hail. the Arctic ex-
plorer, who was at Repulse Bay, where he has
remained for about two years. A year ago
last winter he made a journey to Pella Bay,
about one hundred and eighty miles north.
Next spring, in company with six white men,
who have joined him from the whaling feet,
he intends to proceed TO King Williams Land,
and will return home, if possible, in 1868.
"A letter from Palermo says: "To the hor-
rors of cholera have been superadded in Sicily
the horrors of famine A drought, which has
now lasted nearly two years, has parcbed up
vegetation and deprived the floeks and herds
of the food necessary for their sustenanee.
The cities and towns are deserted by the
wealthier inhabitants, tine shops are closed, the
markets scantily supplied.
Mr.. Joseph Park, Of Westchester county,
N. Y, has a dairy farm of over seven hundred
acres upon which are daily MIXED one hun
dred and fifty cows.
"A Vermont paper holds up as sad warm
ing to disobedient boys the case of a youngster
who was sent out by his aunt the other day to
pick berries, but who ran off to see base ball
match, and had four of his precious toes cut
off by the cars.
An English weekly newspaper has a col
umn of advertisements from persons desiring
exchanges. 1t is patronized by ladies only.
Some OF the exchanges proposed are very Gu
rious One offers music and novels for a scent
bottle and ostrich feathers. Another wants
birds eggs for foreign postage stamps. A
third offers Longfellow's poems for yellow
parasol, and still another wants a volume of
Swinburne's poems for copy of Euclid!
lie Moaiteur Uniyersel, OF September 10,
gives list of subscribers to the proposed ex-
pedition to the North Pole, to be commanded
by Nj. Gustave Lambert, at the head of which
appears the name of the Emperor for fifty
thousand francs. The contributions of the re-
naming subscribers vary from ore franc to
one thousand, and the aggregate shows, includ-
ing the Emperor's subscription, 55,576 franns~
or little more than $11 900. ,xa5or reckons
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IL Goldsmitl" among the well-known
EnSllsh ulenus Or "A ssseTica.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Paul's success at the
| Strand Theatre, London, is so great that
standing room only" is the order Of the night
| by nine O'Clock.
The New York correspondent of a country
paper says that Edwin Forrest has been con-
| verted to Spiritualism and talks in his room
all nightw the shades of his dead friends.
An American has invented a novel sort of
programme for the French theatres. The pa
per of the playbill is represented by a light,
agreeable crust of pastry, and the ink is choco-
late paste. The advantage of the invention is,
that when the spectator has mastered the con-
tents of his bill he eats it.
During the war lady passing from cot to
cot through the wards of a hospital, was shock
ed to hear fellow laughing at her. She
stopped to reprove the wretched fellow. "Why,
look here, ma'am," says he, you've given me
tract on the sin Of dancing when I've both legs
shot off"
-"Jeffersonan Democracy, illustrated and
applied" is the description which Parton, in
the last Atlantic Monthly, gives of the "Social
States" of Herbert Spencer.
The whaling in Hudson's Bay the past
season was a total failure, only one whale hav-
ing been taken up to Aug. 23d, the fish not
making their appearance, while at Cumber-
land Inlet the whales were plenty enough, but
the bad weather prevented their capture.
That was an earnest prayer offered by
young deacon, who, fresh from game of base
bali, stepped into the weekly prayer meeting.
He was called upon to pray, and in winding
up his invocation, said: 80, Lord, as we start
for q home run TO glory, don't let us by the
devil be caught out on the fly"
Too much publicity was the rock on which
Garibaldi's last enterprise seems to have split.
How could he hope that the Italian Govern
ment bound by sacred treaties, would counte-
nance so open violation of them as his expe-
dition involved? He should, as the New York
Commercial Advertiser well says, have "pre-
pared his plans silently, and made tiger
spring at Rome" By means of his adherents
he could probably gain possession of the city
in a short time, and then plenty of friends
would help to keep him there. Bismarck
would desire nothing better than to intercept
any French troops that might be sent to restore
the Pope
The female of the common house-spider
has the pleasant domestic habit of killing and
eating her husband. At the last meeting of
the Boston Society of Natural History, DR..
Wyman stated that he had recently witnessed
an instance of this propensity. Two dead
males, wound up in thread, were found beneath
the web, while the female was sucking the
juices of a third which she had just captured;
on the following day she was discovered regal
ing herself on a fourth victim, and subsequent
ly fifth and sixth were found in the same
web.
On being chosen President of the British
Association, the Duke of Buccleuch made a
speech in which, alluding to the phrase, "the
bold Buccleuch," he said that of all the deeds
attempted by men of his race, perhaps the
boldest was his taking the chair on that occa-
sion.
The Directors of the Boston & Worcester
and Western Railroads had a conference on
Tuesday of several hours duration, in regard
to arranging preliminaries for the consolda-
ton OF the two corporations. 1t appears that
such wide differences exist between the officers
of the two roads in regard to the value of the
property of each, that commissioners Will IL
nally be appointed TO appraise 1t in accordance
with the legislative act concerning the union
of the lines.
The latest accounts from the great tailors'
strike in London show that, on the fifth inst,
out of the $500 men who had struck, about
half had obtained work in other shops. Some
had deserted the Union, others had gone into
the country, and "about 200 had eHligrdted TO
america"
Frances Anne Kemble arrived in Boston
in the Java, on Tuesday. She tirst appeared
in that city with her father in 1882, being then
twenty-one years of age.
Egypt is to have postage stamps, and of
four kinds. The first denomination will con-
tain an engraving of the pyramids; the second
will be adorned with picture of the needle of
Cleopatra; the third will contain the column
of Pompey, and the fourth win contain an en-
craving of the sphinx.
Venice seems to be waking up. The citi-
zens are interested in the question OF building
a railroad through the Tyro, and discuss the
merits of different routes with apparent
warmth. They also seem pleased at the estab-
hshment of a line of steamers between Venice
and Alexandria, and the reports of the work
men who went to Paris have caused health
full stir in the manufactures.