The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-24
VARIETIES.

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John NJ. Langsson tcolored), of oberfn
Ohio, was recently admitted to praetice in
the Supreme Court of the United States TIC
iamented Rock was the only other negro ever
admitted
le George Saunders excited the disgust of
Hiram Powers by avowing, when he saw the
statue OF Calhoun in the sculptor's studio in
Florence, that he was one of that mans dis
ciples" t aH I--.-
Little Harry, some three or four years old,
who had been Taught to pray, one day said to
his mother" Mother, wish there was real
God" Why Harry! what do YOU mean9p
exclaimed the mother. Harry replied-"I
prayed TO God for snow, and it didn't come. and
l prayed to God for griddle-cakes in the morn
ing, and 1 can't get them. / want a real Cod
"A progressive surgeon thinks it is probable
the scientific world, and the rest of mankind
will hail with joy the news that a large militia
ry hospital has been established at Breslau. an
the Oder, in Silesia, by order of the Prussjan
Government, in which has been placed. and
made ready for immediate use, a circular saw.
worked by steam, to be used for the purpose of
amputating such limbs of the wounded soldiers
as the surgeonin charge shall deem best to have
removed. Imagine" says the writer, "the
rapidity by which such operations can be per-
formed by this simple process, and the accura-
cy with which they can be conducted"
-Dr. S. g. Howe, of Boston, is going back to
Greece. l.a.. e.-.
The Springfield Republican tells of a horse
which ran away in that city, Throwing the
driver out and cutting severe cash in one of
his hind legsp
DR. Hayes's book ON "The Open Polar Sea"
is nearly ready for publication.
Mr.. Ohenbach is about to print another
three act opera, Robinson Crusoe," at the Op-
era Comique.
Last week theatrical dog, accustomed to
perform in such canine pieces as the "Forest Of
Bondy," rescued boy who had fallen into the
docks at Dundee.
Tom Taylor's last piece, "a Sisters PEN
nance" is sspoken of as being very attractive
and interesting.
1t is stated that the act of Congress with
regard to the Transportation of spirits in
bonds" has no relation to the Davenport Broth
ers.
DIR. Harris warns the New York public
that the extensive virulence of scarletiaa Mt
this time shows that the conditions still obtain
which brings on epidemic cholera
EVERY Saturday" for this week has got
through the snow drifts and the contents
AREA Patriotic Parrots" "The Village on
the Cliff" continued; "An Evil Thursday"
"Silcote of Silcotes,' continued; '@The Ameri-
can Senator" "Down in Coal Mine n"BlacL
Sheep continued; "Foreign Notes" "New
Years Eve"
La Liberte relates the following GOOD
story OF genealogical men in general, and of
Ritterstein, the German, in particular. The
first Emperor was literally besieged by adopts
in this art who, to curry favor, sent him mag
nificent genealogical trees, in which the origin
OF his family was traced up to the NIGHT of
time. Ritterstein spent three years in prov
ing clearly, and without any awkward caps or
missing links, that the house of Bonaparte de-
scended from Blondcl, the troubadour, to
whom Richard Ceur de Lion owed his rescue.
Napoleon laughed heartily at this proof of
heraldic lore, and said: "Ahl if the plague
We're seated on the throne, genealogists would
make out that its ancestor was health.
The foreign journalsrecord the death of n
descendant of Columbus, grandec of Spain.
Duke of Veragua, Marquis of Jamaica. and
Admiral of the Indies. Those titles, granted
to Columbus with the vieeroyalty of veragua,
were ultimately, on the death of his last male
heir, grandson, continued to the son of his
granddaughter Isabella, who married into \
branch of the Braganzas. The Spaniards al
ways claim Columbus, though the Geneoese
was not so much Spaniard as Napoleon was
Frenchman, and the family was admitted
from the first to equality with the higher gran
dees 1t has survived the Spanish dominion
in America, and the Archduke who is now
flying from Mexico is the direct lineal repre-
sentative, after the Kaiser Francis Joseph, of
Ferdinand of Aragon, whose wife found Col
umbus his first ships
La Presse gives an anecdote which
! CONVEYS a pleasant impression of tho EN-
| peror M9ximian. An officer was taking n
| walking tour through the mountainous dis
trict CT Ischi, and, having lost his way, he
went into cottage to inquire the road. The
poor woman TO whom it belonged instantly
desired her little boy to accompany the young
man to the turn of the road, and sho,. him
which path to take. This service having been
faithfully performed the officer CAV e the child
money The boy refused, remarking that
military men never had money. "Ahr' said
the young officer, "how do you know that'
Because my brother is in the army, and new
er has any. My mother sold her last stack of
! corn this very day in order to send him some"
The young man, touched by the story,
returned to the cottage, and, leaving his
purse with the poor woman, promised to pro-
tect her son. The officer was the Archduke
| Macmillan.
| The following legend is related in Den
mark On the lands of Nyegard lie three large
b;rs. one of which is the abode of Troll. who
| is by trade blacksmith. If any one is pass
ing that hill by night. he will see tine fire issu-
ing from the top, and going in again, at tho
side. Should you wish to have any piece of
iron work executed in mastery msnner, you
have only to so to the hill, and saying aloud
what you want to have made, leave there the
iron and silver shilling. On revisiting the
hill the next morning you will find the shil-
ling gone, and the required piece of work lying
| there finished,