The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-06
Varieties.

"A Boston lady ON entering street rail-
road Car short time ago. was very politely ac
costed by the occupant of a seat, who rose and
urged her to take place by his side. As there
were unoccupied seats in the car, the lady de-
clined the officious offer, and requested the
man to allow her to pass; but, at the same
moment extending her hand to him, she said:
"But first give me my waletr The thief,
taken completely by surprise, put the wallet
into the extended hand, and skunk out of the
Car with all convt nient dispatch.
"A jealous husband in Cleveland soothed
his resentment by chopping his wife's piano
to pieces. .. .E
Two Springfield girls did tine leap year
business up in style by escorting couple of
| gentlemen to the skating park, offering them
every attention, and finally stealing their
skates. rg I9l.pl4
Benjamin Disraeli, the new British Pre-
mier, is not, as paragraph going the rounds
of the press says he is, an lsraelite in faith.
His father, Isaac Disraeli (the celebrated au-
thor of The Curiosities of Literature and sew
erIl other works., embraced Christianity
some years before Beniamin's- births aRd-the-
Premier himself declared, during crOss-ex-
animation in court about four years ago, 81 am
what I have always been, Christian"
"A duel between two men in Vincennes,
Ind, was prevented the other dayby their get
ting so intoxicated together before the fight
that they could not stand up to shoot.
An earthquake at La Union, Salvador, on
the 18th ult., occasioned great terror and
alarm among the people. Nearly all of the
buildings were more or less shattered. cor
respondent writes: SIN less than an hour ten
shocks were felt, and since that time there
have been no fewer than one hundred and
fifty shocks, and God only knows where they
will stop. For the last two nights nearly
every one has slept in the plaza, and will pro-
badly continue to do so for some time Women
and children are rushing from place to place
panic stricken, and the entire population have
met on the plaza for prayers"
How much blood makes a colored man?
| is becoming a question of considerable interest
i'll Iowa. AT an election in Meigs township,
Joseph Yatess vote was refused, though his
mother was white woman, and his father
had a preponderance of white blood in him.
Yates sued the trustees, or inspectors of the
the town, and recovered 500. There arc
several similar suits pending.
"A troop of servant girls stopped the team
of water-carrier in Montreal, the other day,
and pluudered him of the precious fluid
"A Virginian recently called at the Office OF
| the Petersburg Express and inquired the ad-
dress of Gen. Winfield Scott.
The people of Minneapolis MINI, are very
much concerned less the falls of st. Anthony
should recede up stream. Should this happen
the water-power upon which the prosperity of
the city depends would be destroyed, and
| Minneapolis would soon degenerate to a mere
| village. .I. .-.
Mrs Sarah Randall, widow, who died in
Windsor, England, on the 9TH of February aged
seventy-seven, had been for forty years in the
Royal household, attached to the service of
George I'LL, George w., and William ~, and
after that last monarch's death she was ward
robe woman to the Dowager Queen Adelaide.
Somebody wants to sail across the Atlantic
in a twenty-five foot boat. 1t lis suggested that
he pay for the craft before he starts.
Queen Victoria is reported to be an indie
fatigable knitter; and, therefore, all the Eng
lsh ladies are learning to make their hus-
bands stockings and their own.
Brick Pomeroy's advertisement for Con-
federate flag, to hang in his sanctum, does not
meet with universal favor among his Southern
friends The Petersburg Index snubs him in
the following fashion: "We doubt the pro-
priety of sending flag to a man who did not
go to it. We havn't much respect for this
after-the-battle fervor."
"A Cavinistc old lady, on being asked
about the Universalists, observed, Yes, they
expect that everybody win be saved; but we
look for better things.
AT Edinburgh, in Scotland, recently, a
A.
additional representation to Scotland in the
British House of Commons. 1t was claimed
that on every basis of calculation Scotland
should have twenty-five more members than
she has, and that fifteen more ought to be in
sisted upon.
Parties are now in San Francisco endeay-
oring to get up an expedition to go down to the
Peruvian coast and raise. an entire frigate load
of gold and silver bars, doubloons, ETC., sunk
there one hundred years ago,
Hartford has new fire alarm. Some oil
the VIII es were broken the ether day n can o 10
the ground, when an ingenious urchin dlscoV-
cred that, by placing two ends tosetner' 'no
bells could be made to ring. he tr ed IL several
times, with a result very distraeuns 10 'ne nte
department. .-..,...s.,
During Sam Houston's ineum9ency OF the
Cubernatorial chair of Texas it wos proposed
i, tho senate of that turbulent State to abjl-
;st Tho State Geological Commission, of which
a very capable German professor was chief.
On being asked his opinion, Houston said he
was opposed to abolshing the Commission, as
the professor was a very useful man-very;
"Gor," added the Governor, she has already dis
covered Si1 distinct strata Of dirt on Dick Scaf-
ly's neck, toih rarious aniDadlculeP' DICK was
a Member of Congress.
The great Nicaragua railway between Tue
two oceans is again talked OF, the legislature oi
that State having recently had the SUBJECT un-
der discussion.