The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-09
vARIE ETIEs.

-Braxton Bragg is in New Orleans, for the
first time since the "late unpleasantness"
The King of Prussia is the only monarch
In Europe that knows his Bis.
The Oldest living actor, according to the
Boston Post is "Superhuous Lags, the veteran
on the stage"
The distance to be traversed by the Rus
Sian American and the New East India Tele-
graph lines may be estimated from the follow
ing figures: From San Francisco to New
Westminster the line is 800 miles; from New
Westminster to Frazer and Simpson Rivers,
soO miles; from there to Behring's Straits,
100 miles; from thence to the Amoor, $500
miles; from Anoor to Kyachta, $500, miles;
to Pekin, 500 miles; Elen-sing 20 miles;
Shanghai, 600 miles; Hong Kong, $50 miles
giving total distance from San Francisco to
China and New York OF 25,OOO milesl Most of
the material for the construction of the line is
already on the ground, and plentiful supplies
OF timber are procurable on the route
The celebrated preacher, Pere Hyacinthe,
is at present giving a course of lectures at
Notre Dame, in Paris. He is described as a
tine looking man, of about forty years of age,
handsome features, an acquilins nose, some
what full and sensual lips, and well square
chin. He presents an imposing appearancei
the pulpit, attired in the costume OF his orde
"a dress OF coarse brown woolen and hood an
capote of white, naked feet and sandals.
closely shaven head, with the exception OF the
short fringe of hair, which just stops short at
the temples.
- hot n .
OF the national debt would be to let Congress-
steal it.
The ire-bells in Montreal gave notice of
the new year by striking 1867.
Philadelphia used 1854 ,a65 gallons of
water last year.
"A crusty bachelor objects to chamber
maids because they use more hair oil than any
six men.
The soft note of the pistol" is heard ey-
er and anon in Texas
"A Dacotah fellow says ''the Indians and
half-breeds out here, can't tell one greenback
from another, SO all our ones are tens"
The Boston Bulletin says, "There ia a
oashful bachelor who dares not meet ladies'
IN the streets. He says they wear so many
ougies ON their dresses that he fears oyertures
from them.
J.G. B. JR-By MILES o'RErLY
Och, Jim avicl you've done the ,hrick,
Our chord OF manhood strikin:
An now you stand before the land
Our young and laurel I'd Viking
An itsn't becaise you won the race
An bate all them other hollow
But staunch and thrue to your hardy crew
You DIDN'T say ''go'' but "follow l'
No men would you ask to face a task y
That You lodged from your wealthy station,
An tns was inc part that has touched the heart,
N. Y. Citizen.
The New Orleans Commercial praises Thad
Stevens, and says it iSpossible the South has
been as much mistaken in him as in johnson,
and that I'VE may find him better friend
than some who bid higher for our influence"
"A story is told of a soldier who, about one
hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen In ST.
IBERIA. The last expression he made was. "It
is ex-" He then froze as stiff as marble In
the summer of 1860 some French phvsicions
found him, after having lain frozen for one
hundred and fifty years. They gradually
thawed him, and upon animation being re.
stored he concluded his sentence with "ceed.
ingly cold"
The amenities of politics in Nevada are
rather peculiar. On Thanksgiving day Mr..
winters, late Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, got boozy and announced his ability and
Willingness to whip any Black Republican,
whereupon he was soundly thrashed by State
Comptro Her Nightingale.
-"The state of Count Bismark's health"
says the Union, whatever may be said to the
contrary, occasions serious uneasiness. Our
own information states that four medical men
of the first eminenee met in consultation at
Berlin three days back Wereth malady not
of n grave character, such an appeal to tho
greatest medical celebrities of Berlin and vi.
emma would certainly not have been made.n
"A man named Londerback, of Cincinnati;
having announced that his wife had left his
bed and board, ETC., and warned all persons
against trusting her on his account, that spiri-
ed female replies through the newspapers that
she had kept him in bed and board ever since
they were married, that he couldn't get HIM
self trusted, let alone anybody else ON his ac-
count, and that he didn't even buy his own
shirts, but wore her old undergarments slight
ly modified. So be wasn't such shiftlss So
fellow after all,