The Portland daily press., 1867-09-07
Varieties.

-h---Railroad engineers are surveying for
branch to connect Denver and the mining dis
tricts at Colorado with the main stem at Obey
enne. iur = hg..@ 94GIHoa DnG tlilitG sat
"A business firm at Junction City, Kansas,
advertises itself at dealers in everything.p
How long, inquiries an exchange, will it be
before President johnson will be hanging ON
the very verge of the Government. sinas7
Rev. Chaplin gets $4,000 salary and Beecher
gets $12, 800. The extra $500 the World sup
poses to be for salvation which Chapin's flock,
being Unversalists, do not need.
The Peruvian government have made some
startling regulations about guano. To mention
one only of their new rules, all guano is to be
sold in the country at the current price, so
that European buyers will be entirely at the
mercy oftheir agents 20
Autumn travellers in Italy will have the
benefit of considerable railway reform which
has been effected. The directors of the Roman
railways have discovered that the low fares
adopted during the Jetes at Rome, and since
continued, pay better than the old rates, which
were exorbitant. The result of this expert
ment has led to a reduction of rates through
out the greater part of the peninsula.
"A French journal reports that Miss Hos
mer has recently sent from Italy to Boston
plan for monument to be raised to the MEM
ory ofAbraham Lincoln, which will cost $780,
600.
An editor. claiming the invention ofeyery-
thing, from potatoes to potheen, for the Green
Isle, claims the pianoforte, and he does it thus:
"The pianoforte of the present day is simply an
Irish harp, placed horizontally in long box,
and played by machinery"
MIR. woatherhead's meteorological record
at Springfield, Mass, shows that rain fell on
eleven days in August, the whole amount be-
ing 1905 inches, which is larger quantity
then has fallen in any one month since Au-
gust, 1856, when the fall was 11.72 inches. In
August, 1866, the fall was only ass inches
The whole amount Of rain and melted snow
which has fallen in the frat eight months of
this year is 1896 inches, which is the most for
the same months since 1850, the wettest year
for the last twenty, and year when the rainfall
Of those eight months reached the extraordi-
nary height Of 1912 inches. During the same
months in 1868, the amount was 25.s3 inches.
as much as falls sometimes in an entire year.
The South London Press says: ssome
months ago we announced that mite Of
Methodist preacher, only one inch taller than
Tom Thumb, was causing great sensation in
the country, and that be would soon appear in
London. We had q visit from this little man
the other day, when be was profase IN his
thanks for the notice taken Of him, and assured
Us he was going about doing goodl@ he Gre
ates, he says, "as much exeitement wherever he
goes as does Mr.. Spurgeon,' aud frequently
breaches to four thousand persons at a time.
He meditates raid upon the sinners and shan
Christians OF London, 90 that the lovers OF re-
ligous excitement have another treat in store
for them. Tue little preacher rejoIees in the
name of Noble n..ai''iaA la .eN
william Cullen Bryant and his daughter
were passengers in the Persia which arrived at
New York on Wednesday. Mr.. Bryant re-
turns in excellent health.
"A Mr.. Champny has invented an ingenious
form Of ireproof dress. The clothes are wool
len, but the wsist-belt is in connection with
the fire-engine, and being provided with stop
cock, the wearer can instantly saturate himself
with water. =. .f..-a .....,r.e
"A Western paper says, there Is something
astounding In the announcement that new
Greek play has made its appearance at Athens,
its subject Philip Of Macedon, and its author
one Antoniades," and asks, "Are We about to
have late crop OF Greek literature, modern
Uripides, and second Aristodes2Y II the
ghost of DIR. Anthon doesn't appear to that
Western editor, it win not be from lack Of pro-
vocation. .5tstai hHid stif 9tn.os1qqs ~
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, in de-
scribing an execution, says that qafter the
singing and praying, the hatchst Of Sam Her
ander, Esq, ,cqfted the soul Of the of,tortu,sats
man to toeternity'' 1ag Ha.YHItE-ifne ad4 10
Louis Napoleon has shown good taste in
re-christening the Dunderburg "Rochambeau, /"
alter the count who commanded the French
auxiliaries at Yorktown. .9no1
Mr.. Alexander Ria Rangabee, the Greek
Minister, has written book about "Greece
and its Resources which viii be published by
Putnam this month. N''
Among the curiosties of the old town of
Lexington, Mass, is the steeple of the old
church at Lexington which held the bell
which sounded the alarm which aroused the
people when the battle of Lexington was
fought When the old church was torn down,
Theodore Parker, who was born in q house
close by, bought the steeple, for he could not
| bear to see it destroyed, and moving it to the
| old homestead, it was transferred into barn
| tor hay Now the peaceful kline thrust their
noses through the windows of this sacred old
relic, and fill their mouths with cloverto tops and
the sweet hay of this year of peace, 1867, never
dreaming of the strange uses to which their
odd looking barn was once put.
People seem to get tired Of living In st.
Louis. There have been thirty suicides tnere
this summer, two of them since Iuesday'
There has iust been published in London,
nr;ce a guinea, o memorial bust Of Artemus
ward nv GeAowski, q Polish sculptor.
-Doleful accounts Of the ravsges of the
,ras.boppers come from Colorado, Utah, Da-
kota and New Mexico. eu .l
"A widow living in jefferson county, Wis
consin, recently hang herself because her
wheat crop only yielded twenty bushels per
acre, whereas she had expected twenty-five.
"A French officer says King Victor Eman-
uel's palace Is shabbily furnished.
The Boston Transcripts thinks that the
city wanderers who come shivering bone
from the mountain-tops and seaside, win adj
init that when "man made the town he ana
1 k-i~ht thing