The Portland daily press., 1867-08-05
Varieties.

The Mobile Advertiser says that at no time
in the history of the South was the absence of
knowledge of the mechanic arts more severe
ly felt than within the last seven years. Peo-
pie are beginning, however, to have their "eyes
opened" to the dignity and Importance of la
Dor, and the great value of the mechanic to
the body polite. The ''greasy mechanic" must
yet have his day in the South.
The Journal Anausant, a funny French
paper, finds the best part of its matter in the
visitors of the Exhibition. Among the illus
trations by the clever earicaturist Cham, wasa
picture of the dromedary that may be seen
traversing the passages of the Exhibition. An
old lady from the provinces looks at the ami
NAL with solicitude, and exclaims, "Poor
beastl how he must have been beaten when
young, to have such a lump on his back"
Susan B. Anthony confesses privately that
there is no hope, not even in the remote future,
that woman suffrage will ever be permitted in
the State of New York.
"A waggish correspondent at the South
dates his letter as follows: @2d Dist Yankee
Pentarchy, formerly N. or
One of the. preachers employed by the
American Home Missionary Society writes
from Sank Centre, about one hundred and fif-
ty miles northwesterly from st. Paul, Mimi,
that "the tide of emigration is still westward,
aud that emgrants and claim-hunters pass our
door at the rate of about ono for every thirty
minutes" And this while the South is beg
ging for settlers, and Canada strives in vain to
keep them.
"A correspondent of the London Chemical
News offers suggestion relative to the extinc-
If
may prove useful. At recent terrible confa-
grafton at the oil distillery of Hackney Wick,
the effect Of the water poured upon the flames
was simply to extend the burning surface by
distributing the oil in every direction. This
writer proposes that in such cases in future
clay or lime should be thrown upon the flames.
1t is the only means of extinguishing oil fires,
as has been proved in several instances.
AT the camp meeting at Sing Sing, AVIAN
dering individual, whose business has been of
late to teach the freedmen, entertained crowd
of sweltering humanity for over an hour, in a
discourse of which the following is a good
sample: II tell you what it is, 1 know L am
rambling from my text. don't stick to one
thing long at time. l am like wagon
wheel that's little loose, and keeps going so,
and then so, but at the same time when it is
out of the track it may run over a snake. A
crooked stick will pull out more hay than a
straight one, and that is just what am good
for"
I'm Warsaw, at Polish banquet, a toast in
honor of Juarez was drank, with applause.
After the applause had subsided, Gen. Baron
Hanke, director of the Warsaw Theatre, and
administrator of several imperial places Of
amusement, said: 'It is well known that at the
outset of the Polish revolution, this Austrian
Archduke, in concert with the Emperor Ma
poleon, had cast his eyes on the crown of Po-
land; that the Duke de Gramont had labored
in that sense in Vienna, and that Polish dep
utation had already been formed to offer the
crown officially to Macmillan" The General
ended by asking what would have happened to
the Archduke, if, with the view OF conquer.
ing the crown of Poland, he had placed him
self at the head of the insurgents, and been
taken prisoner.
That was sad case of the Neapolitan no.
bleman, who fought fourteen duels to prove
that Dante was a greater poet than Ariosto,
and who, ON his death-bed, admitted to his
confessor that he had never read the works of
either.
place in France in order to finish his new vol
ume for the Press. The long poem on which
he is now engaged is new in subject, treatment
and form, and is said to be of great dramatic
interest. Ticknor 8 Fields are Browning's
American publishers for his new volume and
will, by arrangement with him, brins OUT tue
book simultaneously with the Enshsn eui'io"'
Owen Meredith's new volume OF poems is
to be entitled Chronicles ana onarao'eis.
The French EmpesJr, 10 is KNOWN usu
erected in the Avenue Daumesni ior'y-eis"'
,.s-s. ..;,,,.ns of dwellings for small iam-
- ,.hich may be seen in the Ex-
,...' ' reach house contains three stories
liars and each floor is composed of two
,an,s and a small kitchen. The buildings
themselves cost altogether 800 yOO0f, or some-
what over 6,OO0f. each.
California editors love to tell large stories
of California products. The San Francisco
Bulletin states that near Monterey there are
frogs weighing twenty FIVE pounds, and their
croaking can be heard six miles. The same
veracious authority AYERS that they are used IN
place of fog bells, and cost nothing to keep IN
repair.
AT a camp meeting now being held at
Martha's Vineyard, Mass, the attendants play
croouet with great enthusiasm between relig-
ions exercises. Well, croquet is an innocent
diversion. and inexpensive if the players don't
bet ....s... s...
A man advertised for wife, and requested
each candidate to inclose her carte de ots'te.-
A spirited young lady wrote to the advertiser
in the following terms: "sir, do not inciose
my Carte for, though there is some authority
for uniting a cart before a horse, know oil
none for putting one before an ass.
"A correspondent of New YORK paper
| writing about commencement at Yale, asks,
"Why win not some wealthy patron die' ana
beoueath a new carpet for the commencement
] stage"