The Portland daily press., 1867-08-21

/ ~ I-.it5urt IN IslIN dsL H7I FIAN u
Mr.. Anthony Trollope is about to start tho
New Metropolitan Magazine, of which he will
be the editor.
MIR. Elihu Burritt is about to publish in
London new work entitled "The Black Coun-
try and its Green Border Land"
The -Moniteur de z Armee contradicts tho
statement of recent date that the great build-
ing in the Champ de Mars will be allowed To
stand, and that another place will be selected
for the maneuvres of the army. 1t says this
spacious ground is indispensable for the exer-
else and man@uvres of the army, and it would
be impossible to find another like it at any con-
venient distance from our military establish
ments. Is ~ 17..air So dle Ef...fa4 ft
Further reports from the Ohio gold mines,
in Richland County, are very favorable. An
experienced and scientific gentleman just re-
turned from there, has great many fine spec
linens, and says the gulch mining there rivals
that in California. "a v44 ~ sa,
-"Archie LOWELL" Mrs. Edwards novel, Is 3
being dramatized for Lolita, the much adver-
ss--d little actress at Wallack's 8 New York. n,
"A corresp~-I---4-s4us-P Mono has the
pleasantest face in Europe. His Holiness gen.
orally drives out about five O'Clock p. M. dis
mounts after short distance, and walks q
mile OF so with his carriage after him. -
The wife and daughters of 7. w. Higgin-
son "astonish the natives at Watch Hill, r. T.,
by their wonderful swimming, diving and
floating. They can remain in "water fathoms
deep" by the half hour together.
"A Bridgeport newsboy was given ten
cent stamp by gentleman day or two ago, in b
consideration of his not swearing for week,
and more promised him at the end of that
time if he kept his promise. After receiving
the money the boy said: I understand that
must not swear, but how in hi are you going
to know whether do or not.'i in, 81 i9ui,l a.
"A lady in one of the White Mountain
IN. H. hotels, while walking in the woods re-
Gently, discovered that she had lost her bear
ings and was lost. With commendable pre-
sence of mind she at once sat down and re-
NAMED where she was till the next morning
when she was easily found by her friends, who
had begun to search. 3n's, = .
Some acute genius has published calcu-
lation by which it appears that If Adam had
been the man he ought to have been, and put
out at compound interest farthing or penny,
| or some triAing coin which he might easily
have saved from his daily expenditures, 1t
would long before this have amounted to sum
exceeding in value the worth of solid mass Of
refined gold equal in size to the earth on which
we live. Foolish Adami i-i "t" l-i
Masonic lodges have been closed in Austria
since 1894. An attempt to procure the reopen
ing of them in 1849 failed.s The Vienna masons
are said to be at present endeayouring to OBJ
To tint
lodge of that city. -lrt t..- s4r
The only place on this continent where the
famous Egyptian lotus grows naturally, is in q
pond in Middlesex County Mass. How it first
came there is a mystery to naturalists.
The Florence correspondents of the New
York Times says: Tie tramway over Mount
Gents, is so much advanced that in the coming
Autumn, passengers may pass over it. The
dust and much of the fatigue of the long
mountain way, will, by the improved means of
transit, be avoided, and the new road must re-
main in favor, at least until the tunnel under
the mountain is opened. 1t is expected that
passage from Susa to Modane, the two points
where the railway terminate, will be made in
four hours. 1t is now calculated that the
tunnel will be finished in 1870, or slmulta
neously with the opening of the Pacific Rail-
road, and will divide with that the applause of
the greatest engineering enterprise of the age.
If the tramway over the mountains is a success,
it can be easily applied, we are told, to the
other passes Of the Alps. aa
"A book recently published in England
contains this anecdote of the poet Burns, which
was related to the authors father by a personal
associate of the poet: Burns, at public en-
tertainment, was seated opposite young fop-
pisb nobleman, who, to evince his contempt
for one whom he regarded as literary upstart,
6liped some of his wine in the dire stion of the
poet. I'VE do much better in our country
said the bard, as he raised his glass, and threw
the entire contents in the iace of the aggressor.
"A gentleman who entered BARRIERS shop
to get shaved, was recommended by the opera
tor to raise moustache. " 1t is impossioie'
replied the gentleman. oh, no. lnsiseeu tne
tonsorial artist, oh, mol L am certain sir'
| you could raise moustache-a hgnt summer
moustache."
One of the old school who would indulge
| his little bumor, even at his own expense, on
receiving an envitation to pistols for two from
| n fire-eater answered it thus: Il can't fight,
| for 1 am a coward; and you knew was
coward, else you would mt have challenged me-.
| "A Protective Society for Engineers has
been formed in New York. 1t will endeavor
to secure the passage of a law by the Legisla-
ture to have all engineers examined more tho
roughly, and to license them according to tAeir
capacity, and thus prevent accidents caused BY
the incompetence of persons placed in charge
of engines.