The Portland daily press., 1867-10-02
Vurieties.

/ ~ Nho ucTOtC iuAac pY young
Prlncess salm-salm to save the life Of Maxi
milan. Artists and jewellers are alresdy in
el.ed to send drawings of various objets Dart
"so,e so Tor such an occasion.
Macbeth" has been acted by the boys of
winchester College Lady M vas nl.vad bv
boy named Derng, and n Teacher in The COL
Iege-a clergyman-was the cril+x 1,,,.na
An English engineer has n schor,o 49,,
the Mersey Dock Board for CARVING r.i1rav
tunnel under the Mersey, from New Rr;ehtoD
to Bootle.
! 1t is said to be = good thing TO know how
to keep.a hotel George Francis Train fiuds
| it a better thing to know how TO rent one. He
has just let his in Omaha for s10,5O0 year.
| "A bue-coat boy in the school at Warning
ton, England, being asked by his teacher in
what way Queen Elizabeth showed her wis
| dom, answered: "Tho people wanted her to
| get married, and she refused, because she
wanted all the power to herself" Smart boy.
The New York Post makes the following
announcement: "Among the recent arrivals
at the hotels are Mr.. Smith, of New Jersey, at
the Astor; Mr.. Brown, .of Massachusetts,, at
the Brevoort; Captain Jones, of England, at
the Everett; and = Robinson, Esq, at tho
Fifth Avenue. Other names, equally distin-
gulshed, may be found in the personal columns
of some of our contemporaries; we have not
the room to spare"
The Minnesota Historical Society made
| grand excursion to Lake Minnetonks, on Tues
| day last, to investigate what were supposed to
| be Indian mounds, from five hundred to one
thousand years old. Several human bones
were found and discussed, which afterward
proved to be the broken limbs of trees. A
supposed skull elected great attention from its
remarkable chronological development. but it
was found to be a mud-turtle's she'll Several
mounds have been prepared in that vicinity,
and supplied with bones and pieces of broken
crockery for the future investigation Of this.
Society.
There's only two ways of getting along
with the restaurant servants" says Bluster,
"either scold em well or fee 'em well. One
takes nerve the other takes money. I've got
more nerve than money, so scold EN-"
Ralph Keeler, the young Californian who
made the tour of Europe for s181 in 'green-
backs" is to be one Of the popular lecturers
this coming winter. His subject is "Views
| Barefooted." He Travelled farther ON less
money than any living American.
Goodwin Smith has made book out of
his three lectures on Pym, Pitt, and Cromwell.
Robert Buchanan is writing life of Au-
dubon from materials furnished by the natu-
rast's widow.
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens has had the pleas
ure il such it can be called, of reading his
obituaries in the Washington papers. One of
them closed thus: Differing with Mr.. Stevens
most radically, yet we entertained for him sin
cere respect. Our personal and social relations
were always OF the most pleasant and agreea-
BILE character. May he reat IN PEACE.s
The Charleston Is. C.) Mercury says that
there has not been . case of yellow fever in
that city this year. On the contrary the city
has been remarkably healthy.
In one of Madame Muhlbsch's nevels the
beroine's arms are said to be "round snd beau
tiful as those of the Venus of Milo" The .
Venus of Milo has no arms.
| The New York Evening Gsxette thinks
ministers do not have to work any hsrder than
men in the other professions; in fsct clergy
mans life is an easy one compared with that
of an editor, lawyer or doctor. What are
two sermons a week to the incesssnt labor
which lawyer undergoes in preparing and
| presenting his cases, or to the constant and
wearisome labors Of the editor Of sdaily paper3
Who will compare . few pastoral cslls-psrtly
of pleasure and partly Of duty-wilh the day
and night visits Of scsivs rhysicisB. Cler-
gymen are conscientious enough bat they are
yielding to the petting Of the ladies'; they have
become effeminate and childish under feminine
coddling.
"A writer in the Tribune draws lively
contrast between the intellectual peculisrities
of the Scotch and English. He says: "In
England, religion and philosophy are feelingi
| Scotland avarvthinU ia 10
angel descended in London, he would be asked
to speak few gracious words of celestial
| goodwill. In Edinburgh, he would be called
] upon to mend some broken evidence, or recon-
cile some Troublesome contradiction. All the
Scotchman's native reserve disappears once he
| gets into argument. None are braver on this
| ground The whole race might be descended
from Aristotle. A Scotchman's blood seems
made up Of serum and syllo-isms. II you
prick him there trickles out an areument." q.
| "A small picture, but wsrth some three or
four thousand dollals, was stolen few weeks
ago from the UaEj Gallery, in Flossnes, by
| tearing it away from it's place 1t had only
| been gone ten minutes when the theft was Els
covered. A copy Of the picture was photo
| graphed Immediately, and the photo. saph
| placed in the hands Of the police. Two days
| afterwards the picture was discovered exposed
at one of those small shops for the sale Of such
| objects which abound in Florence. The dealer
averred that he had bought ID for two francs of
man who said that he had given fifty con-
times for it. ezr
| "A daughter Of Gen. Humphrey MARSHALL
of Kentucky, is writing books war novel,
"A Philistine at our elbow gives this deAni-
ton of metaphy sizes: "When two msn are talk
ing, and the listener doesn't know what the
talker is talking about, aud the tslker DOESN'T
know what he is talking about himseig,s
that's mstsphysicsi" SeT
-Charivari has q picture of the European
equilibrium-a lame and tottsrns inv-id on
crutches-appesling to the Zousve jacob FORA
cure, Beneath is the inscription, "It will take
more than one Zousve to set that fellow prop
erly on his legs again, won't it@" Uo
The other day the rare instance of = burial
| thirty years after death occurred sS Berlin.
The dead who fingered SO long sbove groand is
Rachel Lovin, the celebrated beauty, suthor
and wit, he wife OF the late Herr von Warm
hagen, well known a. . Prussian dielonatist
and writer Of contemorsry history. Haviaga
mortal fear of being buried alive, TIE lady or
dered in her testsment that the upper part Of
the coffin should be made with . sls,s window,
the coffin constantly watched for month after
death, and deposited in special hsll for Pc
rio1 of thirty years All Of which was duly
carried out.
The last Of the hundred columns in the
portcoes Of the capitol extension ct Washing
ton has been set in its place. The hrst column
was raised on the day of Linceln's frst cleo
ton. Every stone will be in its place in tho
building by the middle Of next month.
In Florence, as well as in London, they arc
talking about the reported" purchase of tho
Bay of Samans by the United States, and con-
graduating this country on the bargain.
The New York World and the Tribuno,-
which, however else they may differ agree in
cordially hating Mr.. Seward-have severely
scolded the State Department. for it, alleged
attempt to arrange this purchase. But the
London Times declares that "the station will
prove of incalculable importance to the United
! States in naval sense" and speaks OF the
| valuable coal mines," of ''thc bay, which is
| among the finest harbors in the world" Of the
VIRTUALLY inexhsustiblc supply of fuel for
steam purposes" so handily situated that 'syes-'