The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-11-21
Varieties.

John c. SAKE lectured before the Young
Mems Literary Association at Morrissania
lately. His subject was "Poetry and Poets"
In his appreciation of American poets, he
placed Bryant first, Halleck second and Long
fellow third. r. -r..aat-f-l sf
M. Emile de Girardin, the able Partisan
editor, says sit were hazardous to divine the
situation, but more hazardous still to print
| what one thinks" tE.e1t q Id r1...-t
"A high authority says that it is the proper
thing for gentleman, ON marrying widow,
before the expiration of her mourning to put
on weeds for his lamented predecessor.
Punch gives domestic scene called sThe
Tables Turned" in which little girl and her
mamma are in the drawing room, nurse just
entering. Nurse-Did you ripg, ma'am?
Naughty Little Girl-No; Irang. Take NAM
ma away, please. She's very cross and disa-
greeable. ,-...-~-
"A newspaper editor was complaining that
he could not get credit from his exchanges for
paragraphs. sympathizing reporter ruefully
remarked that the difficulty of obtaining
credit was not confined to newspapers, but
extended to newspaper men.
1t appears to be admitted that Mr. Seward
offered to Garibaldi the highest rank then
known in our army, if he would accept COM
mission under the United States Government
at an early period of the late war. Garibaldi
declined because the war was then alleged to
be waged to restore the nion, and not to abol-
ish slavery. "a ..
The revolver cannon, lately constructed at
Llege, has been tried. 1t has eight chambers,
two OF which are discharged at each stoppage
in the rotation. 1t win fire 100 shots minute,
and with carriage and ammunition weighs
about 600 pounds o
| "A lady having accidentally broken a
smelling bottle, her husband, who was very
petulant, said to her: II declare, my dear, eve
rything that belongs to you is more or less
broken" "True," replied the lady, "for ever.
you are little cracked"
Every Saturday calls attention to the fact
that there is a large emigration of Americans
to Germany, as well as a migration of Ger
mans to America. This is owing to the in
creased cost of living in this country. Per-
| sons OF fixed moderate incomes have discover
ed that living and education cost far less in
| Germany than in American cities, and they
are settling in many of the continental towns,
but especially in Stuttgart, where Americans
are said to greatly outnumber the English resi-
dents, and in fact have nearly driven them out.
The long skirts, says lie Follet, are still
made with very decided train, and SO gored
as to be nearly, if not quite, plain at the top.
The front is always quite plain, the back some-
times put in large gathers, though this style
is hardly SO suitable for velvets, moire, satins,
or poplins, as it is for thinner summer materi-
ais Some of the short skirts touch the
ground, others are little way from it; but no
one with the least pretension to good style
wears them so as to show the top of the boot
When the Emperor of Austria was in
France, the people made little practical sug-
geston to their own Sovereign by shouting
Long live Francis Josephr' "Long live the
founder of liberal institutionsl" Liberty as
it is in Austriap Napoleon has not yet re-
| piled.
AN Irishwoman in Lowell, last week, hav-
ing heard that gas was cheaper to burn than
kerosene, took her can to the gas Office, and,
reaching it up to the clerk, said, 81 hear yez
has gas to sell; I'll take pint" .0
-"How," said Mr.. A to friend who wished
to convey matter of importance to lady
without communicating directly with her,
show can you be certain of her reading the
letter, seeing you have directed it to her hus-
band?" "That 1 have managed without the
possibility of failure" was the answer; "she
win open it to a certainty, for L have put the
word private in the corner"
Pages picture OF Admiral Farragut, rem
resenting him lashed tOl the rigging of the
flagship Hartford and directing the move
ments of the Union fleet under the fire of the
forts in the harbor of Mobile, has been pur-
chased for the Emperor of Russia, at $40 900.
-Beeeher's Norwood, dramatized and put
on the stage with the accessories of the clog
dance, ballet-girls, and many other things un-
| dreamed of in the Beecher philosophy. gets
sharply criticised on all sides. The Boston
| Posts New York correspondent, after saving
that it is one of the dullest things imaginable
in this line, says "that such as 1t is It will
probably have good run, but il they could
manage to introduce about fifty stuffed calves
into it, its running-capacity would be improy-
ed" IN
The students of Rutgers IN J) college
had heavy pitched battle, Friday night SEN
iors and sophomores on one side, and juniors,
freshmen and "townies' on the other, 1t be-
| gan in an attempt of the former to capture
and burn the freshmen's canes, and ended in
their sound thrashing.
The oldest Odd Fellow in America, Rev.
Thomas Wolstonholme, died at Columbus
Miss, on the second instant. He had belonged
to the order fifty years
-Thurlow Weed, referring to some scornful
comments in an English paperon the late pub
lie appearance of Mrs. Lincoln, says: "We de-
sire only to forget that the widow of our hon
ored and lamented President should have
brought discredit upon the name. Let the in
cident and the subject of it be no more spoken
Of Throughout our own country the question
Is perfectly well understood. In the mean
time it is pleasant to know that Mr.. Lincoln
has transmitted his own name to q son who is
every way worthy of it. Robert Lincoln, real
izing that the high position of his father, while
it reflects honor imposes duties, has entered
upon the battle Of life as his father did, at
the foot of the hill, determined to owe his rise
to whatever Of eminence he may attain, to his
own industry, capacity and virtues
Judge Turner, of Nevada. in addressing
meeting had occasion to say that ''if the bold
hearted landless men CT San Francisco would
work together, and exercise the right of petit
tion and discussion each of them would ere
long, have little home for his children" In
agine Judge Turner's CONSERVATION on read
ing in the Bulletin the next evening, that he
said: IF the bald-headed landlords of San
Francisco would work together>they would
all of them, ere long, have little more lana
for their childrenl'
The Western papers announce, WIN e'i-
dent gusto, that the pork-kiling season mas
opened, and under the mostausplSious creum-
| stances.
Mr. Daniels, billiard champion of Massa-
cbusetts. has issued challenge to the cham
MONS of any State, past or present, to play him
n game of 1900 points for $3.50 side.
Gen. Mcclellan has decided to remain in
Europe for some months longer, and cannot,
therefore, be expected at home this fall or win
ter. The family of Gen Marcy returned to
New York last week by the Scotia, baVing ieit
Gen. Mcclellan and family in London; the
latter were expecting to go to the continen'ln
a few days.
Rev N. NJ. Williams, of South Danyers,s
preparing commentary on the gospel the
first volume Of which viii appear in few
months. While it will commend itself to
scholars for its accuracy, it will meet the pop
ular want of the Baptist denomination when
the author represents
General Hooker is still in Paris and suher-
ing from his paralytic stroke.