The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-27
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-Du Chailu says that among the dogs of the
native tribesin Central Africa, hydrophobia is
absolutely unknown. Hence he infers that the
popular notion is erroneous that heat is the
cause of this disease. .'.r|. y
Three men are going to attempt the passage
of the Atlantic, from New York to Brest, on
one of Perry's monitor RATS, which is made OF
three alright cylinders, and draws only seven
inches of water. ,1-as fIU0al Hu- "a
Fourteen years ago, Mr.. Bonner Of the
New York Ledger was employed by Hiram
Fuller in the office of the New York Mirror
The former is now enjoying the rich fruits CT
energy and enterprise, and the latter is de-
funct secessionist in London jail. t.i.
The New Bedford Standard says paper is
being numerously signed by the Irish Catho
lies in that city. agreeing to hire no carriages
hereafter in attending funerals, except for the
immediate friends of the deceased, or in case of
actual necessity. Heretofore, it is said, poor
persons have spent their last cent for carriage
to attend funeral. -4 ID" .--4 Al
Destroying the weeds of widow by mar
rying her is described as pleasant husband
ry." li -- DO. -......5..- eel
A newspaper writer says: "Horaco Gree
ley is certainly too good for this world; and
yet, if some theology be true, he would make
mischief in the next; for he would clamor for
the release of the arch-fend himself, and insist
upon going his bail" . .a .l.i....
The exEmperor Solouque is living in ele-
CANT style at Curacao He is reported to have
a very large fortune in the Bank of England
SOlouqne is very unpopular with those of his
own color, and he does not associate with them.
His son-in-law bears the refreshing title of
Duke OF Lemonade"
" -Bayard Taylor, writing from Germany to
the Tribune, in A pril, uses the following Ian
guage: "An Am erican has good reason to be
weary of war, and the exctements which pre-
cede and follow war The grand and terrible
epidemic moves now against the course of the
sun. 1t leaves our tired but not exhausted
Republic to threaten the half of Europe with
even fercer fires Whether it bursts out this
year or the next the poison is III the air; ev-
erSwhefe there is hot, lurid, oppressive at
nosphere-the smothered, formless fear, the
expectancy, tho construction of respratiou
among the people, which foretell some certain
catastrophe" a.i- I.f..
Rosa Bonheur writes a letter to the
Moniteur des Arts of Paris, scornfully contra
dieting the story that she had gone mad.
"A druggists clerk in New York recently
in copying a prescription containing strych-
nine, earle ssiy wrote the character for drachm
instead of grain. The PATIENT lady, took the
prescription and died in few hours, having
swallowed two hundred and forty times the
quantity of strychnine ordered by the physi-
clan.
In New Durham, N. H., on the 18th a lit
Tie boy, only four and half years old, wander
ed from home barefoOted and bareheaded, and
oeciime lost in a forest of two thousand acres
IN extent. Search was kept up Intellectually
uufnfs the week, and on Sunday a sagacious
uog 10 und the little fellow alive in a cavity un-
uef Tie roots of a tree, having had nothing to
eau except leaves and berries for six days and
nshS- he had seen the searching party adj.
YANG toward him, and being almost delirious
iror munger and exhaustion, he imagined thew
would hurt him, and for protection he hid
himself under the tree. 1t is thought that he
will recover ....I
New York papers announce the pleasant
tidings that there will be an abundance of
Strawberries this season. They are already
selling at fifty cents per quart. In New Jer-
sey there is promise of the greatest crop ever
known