The Portland daily press., 1867-09-13
Varieties.

b 9 a13ru Varieties.
How pitiable and affecting adrama Is con-
tanned in the following laconic narrative, copied
from Paris paper: "Adele D., aged twenty
six, was found dead yesterday in her lodging
in the Rue Esquirol. Near her lay the lifeless
body of her little boy, aged two years. Aban-
doned by him who had made her a mother,
and plunged in profound misery, she had re-
course to suicide by charcoal Near the child
lay a paper on which the following words
we're written: Poor little friend, come with
me out of this world; / will not leave you here
to DO unhappy as your mother has becn.'"
Charles Lamb tells this characteristic story
of Hazlitt: II took him to see very pretty
girl, where there we're two young girls; they
neither laughed nor sneered, nor giggled, nor
whispered, but they were young girls; and he
sat and frowned backer and blacker indig-
nant that there should be such things as youth
and beauty, till he tore me away from supper
in perfect misery, and owned he could not bear
young girls, they drove him mad" ar1
The Boston Traveller contradicts the re-
port that Dion Bourcicault and Charles Reade
are writing two horse story for the Atlantic
Monthly. We are happy to see it. Reade,
alone, was too much for the Atlantic's readers
1t is said that some people are reminded by
the rumored call of General Mcclellan to the
Cabinet, of a little story, where passenger,
dsmoraized by impending shipreck, tied
fifty-six FOUNDER to his waist for o hfe-preser-
ver. - taf rfTli-lh a --
"A peddler Of tooth powder has been ar
rested in Boston, and it would be well if the
police of this city were to be as watchful Of the
interest ofthe rising generation. The habit of
this man has been to take boy who has dirty
teeth, and by rubbing the teeth with piece of
cotton which had previously been prepared
with acid, to show them what his powder
would do. The powder is worthless, and the
teeth are cleaned with acid, which spois the
enamel. - eta r.....i and
Louis Desire Veron, whose death was an
nounced by a cable dispatch on Tuesday, was
one ofthe most celebrated publicists in France.
He was born at Paris on April 5, 1913, and be-
gan public life as a physician. He wrote one
book on medical subjects, and by successful
speculation in some patent medicine acquired
large fortune, bat soon renounced the medl-
cal profession to devote himself to journalism.
From 1881 to 1885 he was Director OF the Opera,
when he was again very successful In 1883
he was candidate for the French Legislature,
but was beaten. He then connected himself
with the Constitutional, of which he became,
in 1874, the sole proprietor His paper was the
organ of NJ Thiers. After the revolution of
1S4s the Constitutional was CONSPICUOUS for
its violent opposition to the radical and social
istic policy advocated by NJ Ledru Rollin.
Later it was an ardent supporter of Louis Ma
poleon, and to this policy NJ Veron adhered,
even after Theirs had joined the Opposition.
M. Verou was elected as a candidate of the Go
vernment to the Corps Legislatif in 1857 and
1857. Ofthe books published by NJ. Veron the
best known is volume of personal reminis-
cences published in 1855, under the title OF
Memoirs dun Bourgeois de Paris, which, on
its first appearance, produced quite a sensa-
ton. r -. -.4..s, ,
ll 1.-The Montana Post, of August "a, says that
DR.. James Dunleyy, while exploring the head
waters of the Yellowstone, discovered salt
water lake, covering about forty acres. The
waser is always in boiling temperature;
meat thrown in was boiled in less than forty
minutes. The water contains a large per CEN
tage of tincal, the crude material from which
borax is manufactured. -
George Francis Train is out again on horse
railroads for Europe. He has addressed cir
cular to every corporation in England, Ireland
and Scotland and every one of the fifty-two
parishes in London, as the promoter, introdu-
Ger and the patentee of street railways in
Great Britain; and announces that be is ready
with men and means to lay them down any
where. II -H la nraI I.e lflH 90 ~
A writer in the Hartford Post thinks Walt
Whitman good man whatever he may be
as poet. He is described as "a large, Wild
looking, brawny man, bearded like pard,
and his face rosy with health; yet he is full OF
the most tender sympathies, and ever ready to
risk his life for others. He went to Washing
ton in 1861, hirel little hall bedroom, pre-
pared his own meals, and became regular
nurse of sick and wounded soldiers in the hos
pital, giving them his love, his time, and all
the money he received from the sale OF Ledpes
of Grass. For years he made himself their
constant servant, giving them all he could
snare of everything, and they became wonder
tnlIv attached to him, listening for his step and
looking for his fresh and kindly face as mo-
theirs. Walt Whitman is a splendid man,
whatever he may be as poet; and no one who
has ever known him can ridicule him" "ra
-Itis announced that New Haven minis
ter of twenty-five years standing has been
Obliged to leave his pulpit and goto work as
cornenter to get means to support his family.
Possibly he has Just found his true vocation.
If ia as much as a mans life is worth to
travel any distance on the high roads leading
from Memphis to the interior. They are iniest-
ed with gangs OF robbers, horse thieves ana
murderers, white and black; and almost every
Memphis journal we read has an account Oh
some atrocious deed perpetrated on the mgr"
way. =, N,ooara Falls.
The staircase of Table Rock, NiasarA ans
some 1SO feet in height, where Vlsltots iony
,,,assod down to reach the sheet OF "aeei' "iU
-, - ,o,olv been closed to the puDhe use,
-. ~" ..,,,o time ON Wednesday night chopped
'.' ,,,, some unknown person. The whole
a.,ircase has fallen into the river. tas1l
A gentleman was bathing at the seaside,
and swimming right gallantly, when New
fouudland dog sprang into the water and in
sisted on saving him. The gentleman declined
but was eventually obliged to give way ior iear
of being drowned, and was quietiy pui'eu
on shore by the hair of his head. %
I, The 'hotel clerk nuisance Is growing un-
bearable. and the New York Evening Ha1es'e
breaches a special sermon upon IL. ~ says
eve have travelled from one end OF thus
I'D 90 the other-and back again-m all di-
rect;ons. time after time, and we cannot recall
half a dozen hotels in which the clerks appear
w;llinc to regard the traveller as their equal IN
any respect" la .e tla
A natural curiosity in Martin county, lno'
is thus described: at stands alone in the dense
forest, gigantic stone jug about nifty feet in
height, about five feet in diameter, at the pase'
eight feet midship, and two feet at the .op'
upon which rests a broad, fiat rock, about ten
by fifteen feet, covered with bushes and wiz
ivy; and some three feet from the centre s.anas mus
sm.II troe The rock is great curiosity ana
.;ow Of II should never be lost by the traveller