The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-26
Varieties.


10 The recovery OF tie Empress Carlotta is
now considered hopeless. Her bodily health is
good, but her mental faculties are hopelessly
stunted. She is now like young child, and
has to be treated us such. tl .lt.
The brotherhood OF Locomotive Engi-
neers" have held a session at Cincinnati.
The Pan-Anglcan Council passed a resp
luton requesting all English chaplains upon
the continent OF Europe to pray for the Presi-
dent of the United States as well rs the Queen
Of England. .laa
y Some one exhumed, the other day, trom
the New York surrogate's office, Tom Pane's
will, and shows by extracts from it, that the
author of Common Sense" and the age Of
Reason" firmly believed in the existence and
omnipotence of God.
--"English ladies'" says Erasmus, "are di-
vinely pretty. and too good -natured. They
have an excellent custom among them, that
wherever you go the girls kiss you. They kiss
you when you come, they kiss you when you
go, they kiss you at intervening opportunitios,
and their lips are soft, warm and delicious"
Pretty well, that, for priestl ..
Few of us read our Bibles so curiously az
to have discovered that they contain no such
word as its from Genesis to Revelation.
Professor Whitney asserts that two famous
emperors, Tiberius OF Rome and Sigsmund Of
Germany, committed blunJers in their Latin
and were taken to task aud Corrected by hum
BILE grammarians, who informed their imperial
majesties that, however great and absolute
their power might be, it was not competent to
make an alteration in the Latin language
After an exciting public meeting soma
heated friend asked Josiah Quincy "What the
result was to be?" He replied calmly; 81 can
tell you, sir; Il result will be a large pam
phlet!"
The Saturday Review praises the Essay
republished from the Nation, and actually says
they would do credit to some tt says "some') }
OF the best English journalist
r-F Fho poiiUo rePorts si,ow that wife-murder
is greatly on the increase, and the cases are 50
frequent that each new one causes little OF no
comment. s a.. ...a .u
In Mrs. Hoge's "Boys in Blue" we find
this story: A benevolent and radical anti
slavery friend, a few weeks previous, had
taken likely young contraband to train as
waiter. The first step was to clothe him in a
trim suit of coarse blue cloth. The experiment
promised complete success, as Caesar, though
plantation hand, was learning rapidly. The
following morning he appeared to wait on t.
BILE, with one leg of his pantaloons apparently
torn from the hips down 20 the ankle. "Why
Caesar, what is the natter" said the lady.
"NIissus,' said he, solemnly, Il ripped it;
wanted to see II flop" -i-
The Baton Rouge (La) Comet states that
81 .oaka ha1 AZ. -,
countless myriads, moving in solid phalaDx
over or through every obstacle, traversing
alike green fields and dusty roads. Having
stripped the cotton plant, says the Comet, and
exhausted the resources which supplied it food
in those quarters, it may be seen 'webbed up"
and preying In myriads upon the leaves OF the
forest and garden.
Mrs. Elizabsth Heard, bookseller, printer,
and publisher of the West Briton newspaper
in England, died last month at her residence
in Truro. She had carried on business for
sixty years, and was widely known and highly
esteemed for Judgment, courtesy and ability.
Mrs. Heard was the widow of Mr.. John Heard
the founder of the business, and lost her hus-
band about forty -ave years ago. She was left
with youthful family entirely dependent on
her exertions.
"A letter written by lady in Jafia to her
brother in Chicago says Mr.. Adams, founder
Of the luekless Oriental Colony, Ia good man.
and the people who complain of him the worst
people in the world.
Admiral Farragut saw in Sweden an entire
battery of breeoh-loading iron cannon that had
been taken from a vessel sunk in the seven.
teenth century. A cannon OF the same breeoh-
loading sort was taken from the English Downs
In the sixteenth century.
M Mangin, editor of the Phare de 10
Loire, was recently cited to appear before the
procureur-imperial at Nantes, for ''inciting to
hatred and contempt of the government" by
the insertion of an article entitled NJ Liberts nj
ProsOerite. M. Mangin, in return, publishes
the following: ''Neither liberty nor prosperity,
we have said. Well, undeeeive us. We ask
for nothing better. Let the Judge prove to us
that we enjoy either the one or the other, and
We will listen to him with Difference"
Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes has gone
to Montreal, where he will remain till his new
romance, The Guardian Angel" is issued in
London. Our authors now take this method
of securing to their English publishers a sort
VI cOpyflkuL InolI MOihs, tue Law VI
land recognizing for the British publisher u
claim which rival houses abroad have not so
far cared to interfere with. Professor Holiness
London publishers, Messrs. Sampson Low 4
Co., offered very large sum for the "Guardian
Angel" provided they could be secured in the
way mentioned above. The novel will also be
issued in book form next month by TieknoE
& Fields.
Emile Carlen, the Swedish author has ad-
dressed pathetic appeal to the women OF
Sweden on behalf of the inhabitants oi Norr-
land, ON the Gulf of Bothna, thousands OF
whom ara near starvation. Last years bad
harvas, and a winter oi unusual inclemency
oa,,,aa .monest the people destitut on which
~ - harvest was expected 70 relieve, but
.,,,ro has been such failure of crops of all
Linds as has not been known since 1912 In
Inlea there is not a pound of msal to be
bought Bark bread and bread OF sallow
leaves, fungi, lichens and moss are eaten by
the destitute. The suffering of the dwellery
in remote inland villages is said 10 be beyond
belief
Gen. Rosecrsns aud Mr.. William Swinton,
author of the Twelve Decisive Battles" are
at loggetheads about the number ofmen in
BRACES army at the battle Of Stone River
The former puts the number at 10000 or S0OCO,
while the latter shows from the report of
Bragg corps, division, brigade and regimental
commanders that it could not have been more
than 5000. OF this number, thirty per cent
were hors da combat at the close of the strug-
gle. I.-.
The New York Mail wants to know why
some one doesn't get up "a magazine Tor Wo-
men that isn't all love-storysand siipper-p''-
tern"
The Paris Aoniteur devotes three columns
10 a comnarison of the Steinway and CHECKER
ino n;anos. and the conclusions are 80 equally
ho1anood that the result is what the boys call