The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-12-31
Varieties.

challenge by Pat Kelly. Il will bet $500 that
within a circuit of thirty miles from Cairo
can kill more waterfowl than any other man
in the United States-not excluding the
States unreconstructed; or, win bet $4,000
that James Garland and can kill more wa
ter-fowl within ten days in the same scope of
country, than any other two men in the Unit
ted States"
Three young New Yorkers went to tn,
Adirondacks deer hunting, and returned each
with dear
The Columbus (Miss.) ndex says that the
negroes year ago had to be labored with, in
order to induce them to work. Now, 1T says,
"they are asking for Employment in numbers,
displaying unusual uneasiness in the matter.
They begin to open their leaden eyes to the
truths that these pinching times grew greatly
out of their own idleness and neglect of the
fields; they realize now more than ever that
their happiness and comfortable living depend
ON their steadiness and industry; and they
are determined to turn over a new leaf for the
next year." .ra tar -sr q
-Breech-loaders have now become an abso-
Lutte necessity of war. Recognizing this fact
the Czar has sanctioned the manufacture of
",
TIE gun ia tories, Government and private,
are busily employed in turning out supplies
OF the new arm. lt ta uafs sieI '.taH'f
The New Bedford (Mass.) Gazette says
specimens of rock have been removed from the
earth at Turner's Mills, Franklin county, some
twenty feet below the surface, on which are
distinctly to be seen the prints of q foot re-
sembling that of wolf, though larger than
that made by horse. Prints of small fishes
are also found, with the eyes, fins, scales, etc.,
all perfectly visible. Hoir ta -Tqsaas
"A carpenter named Fresnau, attired in his
working dress and wearing his apron, appear
ed before the Paris Tribunal of Correctional
Police, on charge of singing the Marseillaise
aloud on the Boulevaids, and crying out:
"Yive la Republique!" The accused said
that he had been drinking at the time, and
that stranger had giren him Jfve francs to go
about the streets raising seditious cries. The
man was condemned to one months 'mprison-
ment and 16 francs fiue. Three other young
workmen, NJ med Armignon, Grey, and Sou
man, were then charged with shouting aloud
in the Rue de Bretagne, Garlbaldi foreverl"
"Down with the Pope!" They were each sem
fenced to ten days Imprisonment.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
makes the ominous announcements that the
Siberian pestilence, the wo st form of the
cattle plague, which few years ago spread as
far as st. Petersburg, whence it was propagate
ed to Western countries, has broken out again
at Tobolsk. na-,u -r
In Florence, the recent speech of the
French Minister, Rouher, was considered a
of 81,
The government has given large orders for
needle rifles to the national manufacturers,
and to England and Liege. A military coun-
Gil was in session daily at the war ministry.
The fortified towns on the Alpine frontier are
being armed. Needle guns in great numbers
were being received from Prussia.
During the removal of articles from the
Paris Exhibition, in the italian section, q
workman called on one of his comrades to as
sist him in lifting an immense cheese, which
had stood against a wall, and they found that
the article was as light as drum. A family
of rats had installed themselves in it, and
nothing but mere shell remained. aat
Mrs. Partington says thatif she should be
cast away, she would prefer meeting with the
catastrophe in the Bay of Biscuits, for then
she should have something to live on.
Merlin" writes to the Boston Advertiser:
":Golden weddings, believe, are a Morse in
stitution. Our Saxon fathers had them not.
But if remember rightly, that quaint, home
like woman, Frederika Bremen, introduced
them. In her work, The Neighbors,' the
Dahls celebrated theirs; and Nine. Franceska
told the simple story. SO from that, golden
weddings came to America-am ] not right?
Miss Bremen, 1 think, gave us also the Christ
mas tree. What a rare matter. Caesar,
though doubling the area of Roman coaquests.
could not add word to the Latin language;
and yet woman of retiring character added
two social customs to the observance of a peo-
ple." tr
New Brunswick papers complain OF gross
in the mail arrangement be-
tween Ottawa and that Province
"A youngster came tome after having
glorious time in the puddle, his face all aglow,
and rubber boots full of water. The punish
ment of staying in the house for the remain
der of the day did not seem very hard at first;
but as his little heart warmed up with the
recoilections of the morning. when he had
waded deeper than any of his playmates dar-
ed, he could bear the recollection no longer,
and went to his mother, saying, Please moth
er, whip me, and let me go out again"
"A periodical called Rich and Poor has
been started in London. 1t proposes to show
that there is great deal OF trades unionism
among the rich as well rs the poor.
Moses of the Clarion says he had Christ
mas present of "a Walking Cain made of
three kinds of candy" Whether he means a
walking cane, or Abelsbrother, we are unable
to guess.
"A paper tells OF a visit to cave near Au-
gusta, Georgia. While the party were within
the gloomy interior, there was
noticed an old colored man standing on the
outside, who was asked: "Say, uncle, why
dou't you go into the cave?" 'Ah, my master,
said he, "de Lord knows I see trouble enough
ON the top of the earth. don't go in dat hole
a searching arter misery"
There are only three Irishmen in the Pom
tiflcal service. The New Bedford Mercury
saws: ''Never mind, the Pope can make bis
own Bulls" t....