The Portland daily press., 1867-11-06
Varieties.

the 'Hluule ages, DelnG occupied very much
with religious shows ard saints festivals
The Boston Post says with savage sadness:
Temperance is no special virtue where there
is nothing to imbibe,"
The skeleton in the theater = The dead
head
An eccentric man in Bath was asked to
aid foreign mission. He gave a quarter of u
dollar, but stopped the agent as he was depart
ing, and said, Here's dollar to pay the e&-
penses of getting the quarter to the heather.
The old Marine Hospital grounds, at Stat.
EN- Island. are to be sold at public auction on
the goth inst. The grounds comprise abou1
twenty-five acres, and have a water frontage OF
eight hundred and fifty feet.
"A book is announced in England, with tho
pregnant title: "rhe Trinity of Italy; or, tho
Pope, the Bourbon, and the Victor" 1t is
thought to be not improbable that Garibaldi
will succeed in converting the Victor above
named in the moment of victory to political
Unitariansm in the relation of Italy and
Rome.
To-day civilization boils its Holsters before
it eats them. Three hun dred years ago they
were cooked after the snbioined recipe: For
to make a Lopster. He schal be rostyd in his
scalys in a ovyn, other by the Feer~ under a
panne, and etyn wyth veneger.'
The English papers attribute to the Sec
retary of State for War the intention of remov-
ing at least part of the military stores in tha
Tower to a more convenient depot. A CORES
pondent of the Pail Mall Gazette hopes that
the Secretary will remain of the same mind
until the work is thoroughly done. The Tow
er has served as palace, a prison, a menagerie
a fort, an arsenal, and strong box for the roy
al jewels, and is now to do additional duty az
furniture warehouse.
Mr.. JosephyHowe recently said in q
speech at Yarmouth that the common schools
of Nova Scotia were training young men
who "would influence the destinies of all
British America"
The London Times, in an article on
Adelina Patti says that by America sending
her to Europe it has amply paid off its debts
to the Old World, which sent America so
many fine singers.
-Heury Ward Beccher's Norwood" has
appeared in full in book form in England,
thus anticipating its completion in the New
York Ledger.
"A family in Syracuse, New York, had for
several nights been awakened by n singular
sound in the room resembling the gentle rip
pling OF running water, at times scarcely aud
ible, then swe Hing full and clear, filing tho
room with the strange melody. On lighting
the gas the sonnd would cease, but exploring
the room in the da'k to determine its precise
locality, it would continually change position,
always evadiug the attempt to locate it. The
matter was quite mistery for several nights,
nm Ion pIxyf ba Viii
sound was audible in one part OF the room, %
mouse was seen to hastily run to his hole,
where he quietly finished his song without
molestation. The concert is given regularly
every night, continuing hour or two with
short intervals.
--cer'- ft~"HF-A- Wise does not relish the at
tempts of various literary people Urehee-sa 10
the world the story of his military exploits in
the Confederate service Mr.. "Black Dia-
mond" Pollard has made two efforts of this
kind-one in his 'Lost Cause" aud another
more recently in a book styled "Lee and his
Lieutenants." The publishers sent copy OF
the latter to Gen. Wise, asking that he would
write them his opinion of it-which he has
done, and has, moreover, published it. "If tho
author" he says, "by sending it meanta kind
ness. he don't know what insult and injury are;
ifa compliment, he blundered most awkward
ly; and, if to taunt me with his travesty of my
biography, he is simply insolent;" and he pro-
ce eds at considerable length, and with decided
emphasis to expt ess his opinion concerning
Mr. Pollard and his books
When the Pacific Railroad and the Suez
Canal are completed we can steam IL around
the world in ninety days.
The Premier of the present Italian Cabinet
has held the Presidency of the Committee of
Engineering in the Italian army ever since
Victor Emmanuel became King of Italy. He
has especially been engaged in periecting tho
Notifications in the neighbour ood of the Quad
rilateral where he displayed remarkable skill.
1t is not known that he has had any political
experience heretofore.
The Cathedral at Saint Gudule, at Brus-
sells, contains carved oak pulpit worthy OF
special mention. 1t represents the expulsion
of Adam and Eve from Paradise, and was
carved in 1854, by Henry Usbrugger, of Ant
werp, for the Jesuits of Louvain. After tho
suppression of that Order it was given in 1776,
by Maria Theresa, to the Cathedral. "A COM
pIete vegetation together with the birds and
animals of the garden, forms the stairway, and
in fact the whole pulpit. On the top stands
the Virgin, holding the infant Jesus in her
arms, who is endeavoring to thrust the cross
in the mouth of the serpent, thus carrying
out the Scriptural prophecy, "The seed of the
woman shall bruise the head of the serpent"
The figures are ali life size, and the entire cary
ing is done in such a manner as to astonish all
beholders.
The following appears in the London Pub
lishers' Circulars "The chief interest Of tbe
new edition of Mr.. Thaekeray's works will lie
i'm the last volumes of the series, which are an
nounced to contain the new and hitherto un-
reprinted writings OF the author. The latter
alone would form n considerable collection.
Some of them were not included in the au-
thor's own collections Of his mseellanies for
reasons which have now passed away or which
at least, would not have the same force in tho
case of an edition published by others. Many
of these are of tue highest interest," while to
most of Mr.. Thackeray's admirers they will bo
almost new. Mr.. Thackeray has been heard
TO say that he wrote from Paris-somewhero
about 1S3s-1S39 we should suppose-letter1
and sketches of much more elaborate kind
for an American journal, which was edited or
was the property of his friend Mr. N. l. WI
lis the American pOebd "''
NOT wa he,ieve included in his published mis-
oo,,,r;os ond must be curious. If some OF
oorlv and immature, is not their very
;r'aatnrity of some interest to his readers:
re these papers, and where are they
W." tonndq Does anybody know?
The hardened wretch who makes para
,ranbs for the Boston Post is answerable for
tbe state ment that the costumes in the Black
Crook are to be re-nude."
"A yonng man who committed suicide last
Sunday in indianapolis said his life had been,
ruiped by reading novels. The trouble prob
ohlv was that he read bad ones instead of good
Good novels are as essential as salt. Bad ones
are worse than stryehnine.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Du,lctin, speaking of the terrible carnage or
tbe Chinese Taeping rebellion, says: One dis
| tr;ct i described which yielded ninety thou
Sand chests of tea per annum before tho war.
and is now q desert waste. A belt Of land fouf
hundred miles loug by two hundred miles wid'
| is literally without an inhabitant.
| Our exchanges inform us OF the deatn OH
thu f,th of October, at Roche Bluff, Florida o'
typboid fever, of Cassimer B. zuiavsAy' ~, ,
tive Of Hungary, aged about twenty e,s'
wears He was of noble i'"'iS - -, !,
na,,bo,v Of Kossuth. When 'ho wa -.