The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-02
Varieties.


-"Does father have a wry face?" asked
little boy of an elder brother mo Johnny;
he has an old Bourbon face" the observant
youth replied.
"A Scotch minister, giving Sandy certain
directions about Kirk matters, shifted once or
twice, and remarked, Saunders, / fear you
have been tasting this morning. "Deed,
sir replied Sandy, with the coolest effrontery,
set off with drell glance of his brown eyes,
Deed, sir, was just going to observe thocht
there was a smell o. speerits amang us this
morning"
"A town in Iowa has the pointed name of
Semicolonville.
Sir John Bowring has just received high
mark of favor from he King of Siam-the IT,
tie of Phraya Siamitre Maha Yesco
All the feminine convicts sent to the
French penal colony of Cayenne, have secur-
ed husbands there, including one who had
murdered her tirsC at home
1T is intimated that the new religious en-
terprise called the Advance, published in Chi
cago, is not meeting with much success in the
West The Independent is still preferred, and
if Mr.. Tilton will but "stand to his guns" he
will come out victorious.
DR.. Onno Klopp, the historian, whom the
ex-King of Hanover has hired for writing all
kinds of attacks upon Prussia, has published
another pamphlet, IN which he tries to fright
en- the lesser German sovereigns by advising
them to come 20 some definite understanding
with Prussia concerning their little thrones
during the lifetime of the present king, with
whom, he says grasping and Unsuitable as he
is in his ambition, they will certainly be able
to make better terms than with his successor,
the present Crown Prince Frederick William.
young Frederick William" says DIR. Klopp,
lis almost in every respect the reverse of his
old father. He has hardly much faith in the
divine right of kings; prides himself on his
liberalism, and would not hesitate moment
to dispossess every petty German prince of his
possessions, in case his ministers should tell
him that such were the wishes of the nation"
Strange things happen in Boston church.
es. Thus on Christmas day, paterfamilias
walked up one of the aisles thereof, and neg
lected to remove his hat until his pilgrimage
was half over. When he did take off his head
covering, all observers were duly edited by
the sight of dancing jack bestriding bald
pate. The puppet had been purchased for
home display-an exhibition forestalled by the
afterthought of going to church.
Some one writes from Fort Bend, Texas:
"Times are exceedingly dull here, and but lit
tie preparations making for another crop.
know of no one who intends planting cotton"
"A New York paper relates the narrow es-
| cane from death of lady on Broadway. Step
| ping from the curbstone just as heavy dray
| had passed round the corner of Fulton street,
her foot slipped and she fell with her face in
| paddle, directly under the hind wheel of the
] dray; but, with remarkable presence OF mind, +,
she crept aside, and the wheel, grazing her
head, passed over the trimmings of her hat.
Somebody has set afoat the absurd state
ment that "Agassiz has predicted thirty-six
snow storms this Winter" OF course, Agassiz
has done such thing. 1t is charlatans who
predict" natural phenomena. Men of scienc
are careful of their words, and never predic
unless they have a sure law to go by.
Arthur Helps has said this: Il hate prov
erbs; they are such bumptious things; they
are like boys of sixteen they all want taxing
down, not one peg, but many pegs
The statements rather recklesSly made in
REGARD TO Col Parker's social relations are en-
tirely erroneous and unjust, as the following
extract OF letter from the Rev. Ashur Wright,
long missionary among the senecas, dated
Dee %, 1867, will show: IL have been ac1uaint-
ed with Col. Parker from his boyhood, and the
singular persistency with which he had avoid
ed every implication of matrimony among ms
own people, has won my unqualified adm'ra-
ton. have never heard so much as the shght-
est ramor among the Indians that any indian
woman had claim upon him. His Indian
family is a pure Invention. We, at least
among the Indians, know nothing of any other
| paternity for it,"