The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-29
Varieties.


"A correspondent of the London Times
tells good story of negro priest who visited
Rome during the recent festival, obtained an
audience, and, kneeling before the Pope, at
tempted to express his emotions in Latin. He
made an awful mess of it, but the benignant
pontif gave him his blessing, adding, to him
self: "Figlio nsio come sci brutto"-sMy son
what fright you are" 1t was fortunate that
the reverend gentleman did not understand
Italian. l..
& The comic paper of Vienna has published
a cartoon, in which Napoleon is seen lying in
a troubled sleep. BY his bedside stands the
ghost of Macmillan, in the act of reciting
some reproachful verses, which are printed un-
der the cut. That strikes us as very ghastly
mirth.
"A hnd-hearted old widower ef three
months wished to marry young lady OF TWEEN
ty-four. Being member of the church and
wishing to appear benevolent even in such a
transaction, he advised with deacon, telling
him he was going to marry from a sense of du-
ty-that having property he felt like giving
some one home. The deacon thought the
young lady in question had good home al
ready, and if that was his object simply, he
had better marry Aunt L., who was old, poor,
and infirin, with family of children on her
hands Tho widower left without being able
to see the matter in that light. .
"A new variety of the blackberry has been
producedby New Jersey horticulturist, and
called the "Wilsons Early" The editor Of the
Philadelphia Ledger has seen single stalk
fifteen inches long, holding full quart of
large berries.
Reports from the cotton-growing States
continue to represent that the crop has been
seriously injured by June rains. ED
"A negro lately gave his idea of faith in
Gods promises in the following words: "Dar
is brick wall, and the Lord he stand dere,
and say to me-'Now want you to go troo
dat 1 amt gwine to say, Lord, 1 can't 1
got n uffin to do about it, but to butt agin it,
and it's de Lords business to pat me troo."
"A religious newspaper remarks: at is
said that the drawing up of the Declaration of
Independence would have been committed to
Benjamin Franklin if il had not been feared
that che would put joke into it,"
Since the partial opening Of the Suez
Canal an arrangement has been made between
the Sudbahn,- the Nordbahn, and the Russian
Railroad authorities for n direct communica-
ton between st. Petersburg and Trieste. A
ton of Indian or Levantine goods, win be con-
veyed, according to this arrangement, from
Trieste to st. Petersburg for 100 francs. Fifty
thousand hundred weight of oil has already
been transmitted in accordance with this
arrangement, which would otherwise have
been sent by sea- The Suez Canal Company
has also establis he'd an agency at Vienna for
the transit trade.
The Cleveland Herald condemns Senator
Upton for his obstinate opposition to Mr..
Greeley's nomination to the Austrian mission.
1t says that "the diplomatic qualities SO brill
iantly exhibited at Niagara would have shown
with added lustre at Vienna, but for Tipton's
mulshness.," --+-.e ,'ft
New Bedford has done good thing; she
has, by means of a number of her philan-
thropie citizens, established free reading
room for the fishermen and pilots. who form
an important part of her population.
The Boston Transcript says: 'sThe moths
have succeeded in shutting up one of our
most fashionable churches for the season. II
seems that these troublesome little creatures
have been multiplying in the new and elegant
on Boylston street CDR. Gan
nett's) until it has become necessary to close
the house and strip it of all its upholstery in
order to save 1t from utter ruin, to say nothing
of the clothing of the attendants"
About. half the Table Rock at Niagara
Falls has been blown of. Ablast of two hum
dred pounds OF powder moved the whole mass
of rock, but the most projecting point break
oa al in, ha
was very grand. The remaining portions will
be removed soon. ~-''.--
Lord Lyons, the late Minister from Eng
land to this country, is a descendant Of John
Winthrop, the first governor Of New England.
A correspondent of the Washington Chroni-
Gle, who has lately visited his Lordship in Par
is, says: "The ancestors of Lord Lyons came
from the Island of Antigua, and, as far back
as the year 1890, Henry Lyons, of Antigua,
and sometime of Philadelphia, married Sarah,
daughter of Samuel Winthrop, who was
grandson of that excellent man, John Win
throp, first Governor of New England. In the
second volume of Robert c. winthrop's Life
and Letters of John Winthrop there is men
tion of tho, father of Mrs Henry Lyons. it
seems that he settled planter in Antigua;
and, was deputy Governor of that island in
1868. His lineal descendant, youngest sister
Of the present Lord Lyons, was born in 1921; :
married the late land ,fourteenth) Duke of
Norfolk in 1899; and, by his death, in 1860, be-
came dowager duchess. The present Duke "
Of Norfolk, now only twenty years old, Pre-
mier Duke and Earl of England and heredit-
ary Earl Marshal is Lord Lyons's nephew
and Governor Winthrops descendant. SO Gu
riously run, the lines of family connection
We have always understood that when Lord
Lyons visited Bostonhe expressed his gratifi-
cation at being Winthrop's descendant. The
Lyons family, it should be mentioned, settled
in Ireland as early as the year 1927
The Troy Times makes, by request, the
statement that the regular trial OF the case OF
9. M. Merrill will take place in Plattsburgh/
early next month.
-.Trho visitors at Long Branch are honizing
o.a..r Grant. Att reception the other eve
,,;,o, ,suA Judge u. was to give the concluding
.I.F, IN honor of the distinguished guest AMI
.t,;s vas the way he did it, Gentlemen, the
health of the Lieutendnt-General of the United
states" The sentiment was received with ap-
plause, mingled with half-suppressed tittering.
w nen Jn6 JuuH6 Hdu ICnhhucu MS oCas shS
General remarked to him, sotto UOce, II regret,
Judge, that General Sherman is not here to
respond to your toast in his honor"
-lnfoymation from New Orleans concerning.
the late arrival of coolies shows them to be the
first instaiment of several thousand soon to
arrive in charge of a commissioner of the Chi
nase government. The commissioner is to re-
main till be sees that the contracts made are
carried out. The contracts are with num-
DER Of planters in Louisiana, Texas and Ala
bama. One stipulation of the contract is
that dead "eelestials" shall be returned to Cni
ma. ,.- ..,. 49,
The New York Citizen learns that Ben.
Wood got hit with red hot poker abont ten
days ago-a "draw poker" in tact-to the I''. 1une
offorty-fye thousand dollars, the winner Deins
a nrominept and respected member Of the up
or bonse Of the Common Council. The inter
I sst;ng information is added that "a hand Oh 'ne
aces against three queens" warmed 'ne p0A'''