The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-24
XarietieS.

The Treasury Department has come into
the possession of correspondence OF the Ken
tucky Bourbon company which shows that ex-
Deputy Commissioner Wessmore was deeply
implicated in the gigantic frauds of that firm
Baltimore secessionists have information
from JEFF. Davis by gentleman just arrived
from Canada. He says that Davis expects to
leave for Richmond about the 18th or 18th of
next month. He is advised by his counsel TO
be on hand before the court opens, but they ex-
press doubt about his being really tried this
fall.
1t Is reported that an agricultural society,
somewhere in the State of New York, offers
larger premiums for butter and cheese than it
does for horse racing.
"A malignant type of typhoid fever is pre-
vailing in Hartford, Connecticut.
-Onr word "gas" comes from the German
"gheist," or ghost. It's discoverer considered
it the ghost of matter, probably.
AT Oberlin College a negro woman teach.
es English grammar.
Gen. Fremont's fortune ii said to be two
millions worse than nothing.
The editor of the Drawer, in Harper's
Magazine, makes the following computation:
Each copy of the magazine is read by say five
persons. Each number OF the Drawer will
average forty separate anecdotes or jokelets.
Each number, therefore, assuming that one
hearty laugh is produced by each "fnnniment," {"
gives precisely two hundred audible smiles per
number. Multiply this two hundred by our
one hundred thousand subscribers, and you
have the following astounding total:
Number of laughs per number, 200
Number of laughs per month, 10000, 900
Number OF laughs per volume, 120000,000
Number of laughs per year, 24OO00O0O
Number of laughs in II year,, 4,0S0,000OO0
Foreign journals take liberties with the
sesquipedalian name of the Norway baseball
cording to taste. ..-.
The Burning Star" in the constellation,
Corona, has attracted much attention from as
tronomers. The extraordinary changes in its
apparent size and condition leave but little
doubt that it is really world on fire.
Over the cage occupied by Barnum's lat
est humbug, the gorilla" is a notice warning
people not to go too near the cage on account
of the ferceness of its nature. .......
John Brougham calls the victims of pretty
waiter girls Sal-oonatics.
/ Letters from Algeria give deplorable ac-
counts of the want and suffering entaied upon
the Arabs, owing to the sadly-deficient har-
vest this year. Some correspondents state
that, notwithstanding the efforts of the Gov
ernment to relieve their sufferings, no fewer
than 10000 natives have suecumbed to the
wretchedness of their situation Some COM
plants are made as to the partiality with
which the succor, in various shapes, Is distrib-
uted, an undue proportion, it is alleged, being
meted out to the military, as compared witt
the civil territory.
Carl Benson writes to the New York Times
desiring to know know why printers never
win set up the word "Brobdingnag," as Dean
Swift wrote it-that is with an 'n" in the mid
die syllable. He says that an English maga-
zine writer has recently called attention to the
same matter on his side of the Atlantic. The
error Is almost universal. n..la.U
The right of possession to one hundred
churches worth in the aggregate 100000, is be-
ing contested before the courts by members of
the Methodist Church North and the Methodist
South, in East Tennessee. The former are
now in possession.
"A vigorous effort for an international copy
right law between this country and Great Brit
ain, and perhaps France and Germany, will be
made at the next session of Congress.
Hon. e. b. Washburne, of Illinois, is lee
turing on Effete Despotisms. .l
-Garibaldi has named his youngest son
John Brown. If he proves as able and valiant
as his brothers Menotti and Ricciotti he will
add new lustre to the name. .....
The population of Indianapolis has de-
clned 10000 since the close of the war. Whole
streets are for sale, and business is fiatter than
any possible pancake. All because the people
insulted Andrew johnson when he visited
them in 1866, according to a correspondent OF
the New York World.
Charles A. Dana has nearly completed ms
arrangements for publishing his new hepuoii-
can paper at old Tammany Hall, and the nrst
number will probably appear about the nrst
Th,r,ov Weed is a millionaire. That's
ons advantage H. g. has over T. w. The for
,,a,,s salary as editor of the Tribune, however,
is 81 800
Gen Oliver o. Howard is lecturing in New
York
AT Mason Village, N. H., few days since,
while some small children were at play, an inn
mense golden eagle swooped down and attack
ed one of the children with the evident dispo-
sition to carry it OFF. A woman ran from the
house with broom, when the eagle let go the
child and attacked her with ferocity. At this
moment a man cunning in the vicinity came
to the rescue and shot the eagle, breaking q
wing, and captured him. He is the largest bird
seen within the memory of the Oldest inhab-
itant. The bird was purchased by Mr. George
II, punford, Of New Orleans, who was visiting
at the village, and will be taken to that city.
"A Paris edition of Tennyson's works, in
five volumes, Is said to be selling at the rate OF
five thousand copies a month. As the treuch
hardly understand the laureate's poetry, tne
low price of the edition, ten francs, may nave
something to do with its large sale.
"A Texas editor being asked how he got
along with his paper, said be had written one
editorial and shot three men IN the previous
twelve months.