The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-30
Varieties.

"A few days ago man got out of the cars
at Peoria, ILL.,, with a large bag in his hand
which he carried very carefully. After walk
ing up the street short distance he put his
bag down, united it and lifted out a good sized
boy He had brought hun suvvrrl -, ..s,sfs 40
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'.MsX meeting OF garcons de cafe was held at
Paris few days ago to discuss the great pour
boire question. 1t was convened by waiter
who had soul above his business, who thought
the acceptance of pourboires "derogatory to the
dignity of the profession" but majority de-
cided on continuing to pocket the affront.
Lord Milton, the traveller, was married
not long since, and Lady Millions wedding
ring was altogether the work Of the noble
bridegroom, being fashioned by his own hands
from nugget dug by him in British Columbia
during his visit to the gold fields, after his
Northwest Passage by Land" the marvellous
incidents of which he and DR.. Cheedle have
so well related. 81. ... ...
A thoroughly loyal gentleman at the South
recently had new carriage, the lining OF
which was gray. He made call on secesh
relative. The lady went to the door TO look at
the vehicle, and, noticing the lining, said, Il
like that color" "Yes," quietly remarked her
kinsman, the owner, "it's a subdued color"
The Oneida Circular writes: "The average
Yankee is silent and inventive; he paints his
house white, and finds way to get on in the
world The average southern man is garulous
and not given to discovery; if he is Mary
lander, he paints his block house with coat Of
whtewash, but he is never wholly prosperous.
And why all this difference? We answer:
The Yankee whittles: the southerner doesn't.
an. d. Dreyse," the Erfurth Gazette states,
"has invented a new rifle which throws gre
nades or explosive bullets, and which Is shortly
to be tried at Spandau. 1t is breech-loader,
on the system of the needle gun, and sends the
missiles to a great distance and with extraor-
binary effect. Its indirect fire against fixed
covered targets is affirmed to produce most
surprising results. The grenade, when filed
and ready for use, is perfectly safe in the pocket
and so delicate in its construction that, once it
leaves the muzzle of the rifle, it will burst in
passing through even sheet of paper. On ex-
ploding, the fragments produce most disastrous
effects, scattering over space of five feet by
three. The rifle is light and easily handled"
The Boston Transcript speaking appar-
emily by card, announces that Charles Dickens
will probably read in fremont Temple the first
two weeks in December. He will also read on
two evenings the last of the month.
"A children's playhouse is soon to be erected
in Central Park, New York. ... at
-"views Barefooted, or the Tour of Europe
for $1S1 in Greenbacks, is the title ofa lecture
recently given in San Francisco. ir
-"Deevil, indeed?" said a primitive Scotch
schoolmistress to one of her pupils, as she
heard little girl designate his Satanic Majes-
ty "devil."s "Deevil, indeedl set him up wi
such fine names Ca him dell, lassie; its good
enough for him" .......5 .....-..,I
The venerable and venerated DIR. James
jackson died in Boston on Tuesday, nearly
four score and ten years Of age. He was born
in Nswburyport, and graduated at Harvard
College in 1896. He outiived all his classmates.
"A Miss Kingling,a a German woman, who
recently died in Warren county, Ohio, left an
estate of $4,000 to $4,000 for building and
supporting an orphan asylum. A local paper
gives this explanation: In her youth, in Ger
many, she had lover, to whom she was ten
derby attached; but friends interfering, they
were not allowed to marry. and pledged them
selves to each other never to marry. Years
after, her lover died unmarried, leaving large
sum of money to found an orphan asylum at
Frankfort, Germany. Subsequently Miss
Kingling was entitled to an estate in Ger
many, and thereupon devoted large portion
Of it to swell the fund bequeathed by her low
er; and now her death reveals the fact that
she has devoted the bulk of her property 10
found similar institution at the home OF her
adoption. .l......-v,
The oldest remnant of mortality extant is
t,,a sta,aton or one of the earlier Pharaohs in
cased in its original burial robes, ana wonder
fully perfect, considering its age, which was
danosited about eighteen or twenty months
400 in the British Museum, and is Justly con-
s;Jered the most valuable of its archaeological
treasures. The lid of the coffin which con-
tanned the royal mummy was inscribed with
the name of its occupant, Pharaoh Mykeri-
mus, who succeeded the heir of the builder OF
the great pyramid about two centuries before
Christ. Only think of it; the monarch whose
crumbling bones and leathery integuments
are now exoitino the wonder of numerous
eazers in London reigned in Egypt before
Abraham was born, and only about two CEN
tur;es or so after Misraim, the grandson of old
father Moan anu buo htsS VI tnc Il IuardOuS ulu
been gathered TO his fathers.
"A Boston paper records an act of youthful
heroism. One of three little boys, neither of
them more than ter years old, who were play
ing on Mount Washington avenue bridge, ac-
cidently fell over. The other two Immediately
jumped to his rescue, and succeeded in keeping
him up until they reached boat, when they
rowed him ashore and took him to his home.
Escobedo denies the authenticity of the fa-
nous letter in which he was represented as
saving that the Yankees would soon be beg
ging for their own heads.