The Portland daily press., 1867-01-22
VARIETIES.

The Stewart divorce trial-the case in
which wife left her husband because he did
not write his own sermons-has commenced
in Chicago.
"A Mormon preacher in England has been
sentenced to one years Imprisonment for big.
amy. When shall we see the laws of the Uni
ted States enforced against these impudent
scoundrels?
DIR. Franklin's celebrated receipt for cheap
sieighing runs as follows: Sit in the hall in
your night-clothes, with both doors open, so
that you can get good draft; put your feet in
pail of ice water; drop the front-door kew
down yonr back; hold an icicle in one hand
and ring the tea-bell with the other. The
Doctor says you can't tell the differance with
your eyes shut between this and real sleigh
ing, and lisa great deal cheaper
"A Western radical, hunting for a room in
Washington, came across a nice specimen of
Southern shrew, who took occasion to air
her rebel proclivities, and Wound up with s
shrewish reply to profound remark on the
weather. "Yes, sir, the Yankees have even
Northernized the weather"
The interlocutors in the "Contributor,s
Club" of Northern Lights are understood to be
as follows: Mr.. Lingo is Mr. Gilmore: the
Pythoness, Mrs. Howe. Mr.. Croeus, Edward
) Rand, Jr; the Hasheesh Eater, Fitz Hugh
Ludlow; st. Leger, r. B. Kimball; Major
o. Hagerty, G. G. Halpine; "Silas Tucker" is
an Ideal parsonage, designed as a representa-
tive of Yankee character.
Mobile reporters take matters coolly, as the
following paragraph from Mobile paper will
showINNiSht before last Mr.. HARRINGTON
shot at Mr.. Woodson and killed Mr.. Farra-
gut. such accidents as this are not uncom.
mon." o~ .....I "4l or
MIR. Charles O'Connor of New York has
been invited to deliver the address before the
literary societies of General Lees college nert
commencement.
Among the objects to be shown at tho
Universal Exhibition, is the magnificent skele-
ton Of snake found in the Pardo mountains
1t comprises no fewer than 1o44 rings, perfectly
arranged in a spiral form.
The man who undertook to call thincs hv
their right names, Is now under treatment Of
the hospital for contusions received upon the
head. Served him right.
"A minister met parishioner who had
come into possession of handsome propertv
by the death of his brother, and inquired how
ne was getting along. "Ohp' said he. "I
am having dreadful time; what with getting
out letters of administration and attending
probate court, and settling claims, 1 some
times almost wish he hadn't died."
"A correspondent of the Glasgow Herald
transmits the following: "On Sunday morn
ing last had the pleasure of witnessing n
most interesting ceremony which desire TO
record for the benefit of your readers. While
walking near Falkirk, we observed two hoes
issuingfrom one of the hives, BEARING with
them the defunct body of comrade with
which they few for distance of twelve yard.
We followed them closely, and noted the core
with which they selected convenient hole %
the side Of the gravel walk-the tenderness
with whichthey committed the bodv head
downward, to the earth-and the solioltude
with winch they afterward pushed against it
two little stones, doubtless sin memorism,.
Their task being ended, they paused for about
a minute, perhaps to drop over the grave OF
their friend sympathizing tear, and then they
flew away to their hive'
lit is said that there are bricks in the Mosque
of st. Omar that retain as fully the scent of
the musk with which they were originally i'm
pregnated as on the day the mason set them IN
the wall,