The Portland daily press., 1868-04-02
Varieties.
AGRICOLA.

The famine in Tunis and Algiers is terri
bIe In the latter country human beings are
killed and eaten. An Arab woman recently
killed her daughter, twelve years of age, and
gave the flesh to her other children and par
took of it herself. The authorities at once pro-
ceeded to the spot, and on entering the hut
found the mother occupied in sailing the flesh,
cut up into pieces, exactly as is done with
pork.
The European papers say that frightful
misfortune has just befallen Carlotta Patti, in
the course of her tour in the South her hus-
band, M. Scola, has gone madi The The u
mann concerts at Marseilles have in conse-
quence been temporarily suspended.
Some four hundred of the inhabitants of
the Red River Settlement region, within the
British North American territories, have met
and formed a government of their own, mas
much as they were too far away to enjoy any
at the hands of the British authorities They
have elected President, adopted laws, defn-
ed their boundaries, and put in motion all the
machinery of government And they have
done all this without leave or license from the
"home" authorities. 1t becomes question of
some interest whether they will be "let alone"
-"The Menken" has had another triumph
She has won Swinburne, the poet of the pas
sions, and been photographed at London Gin
conjunction" with him. 1t makes even the
big and busy town talk, and helps to let the
outside world know what sort of fellow
Swinburne is.
-Bertie: Papa, when grow up, may be
what like?" Papa: "Yes, my boy, you may
choose your own profession" "Bertie: "Then
I'll be sweep, for I shall never have to wash
my face"
"A new style of bonnet may soon be ex-
pected to be in vogue. The manufacture of
them has already commenced. They are made
from MANILA pulp, moulded on block, then
spread with dissolved shells, and covered with
woolen flock or clothier's waste, and pressed
till it has velvet appearance. The expense
does not exceed ten cents each.
The wife of of Mr. Sidney Andrews, the
well-known "Dixon" OF the Boston Advertis-
er, died in Washington last week of malig-
nant typhoid fever.
"A curious case was lately decided in Ohio.
A man offered to vote at an election, but the
judges refused his ballot on the ground that
he was nonresident. The mans wife is an
inmate of lunatic asylum, and the intelli-
gent judge decided that that was where his
residence must be. He brought suit and re-
covered damages, however.
Two very gallant sons of Erin, being Just
discharged from service, were rejoicing over
the event with "wee taste of the cratur,"
when one, who felt all the glory of his noble
race, suddenly raised his pot above his head,
and said, "Arrah, Mike, here's to the gallant
\ ~. EoII a,aAt ha fraf 20
leave it." "Tut, tut, man., said Mike, ye
don't name that. You mane, and he raised
his glass high, and looked lovingly at it, here's
to the gallant 24Oth, equal to nonel"
"A Columbus (Ohio) despatch thus tells
how Western village Dogberry vented his
spite upon Miss Olive Logan: "The sensation
of the day was the arrest, this morning, of
Miss Olive Logan, by the City Marshal, under
a warrant issued by Mayor Bull, for not hav-
ing procured city license to lecture here. A
city ordinance provides that this is necessary,
but as it has not been enforced upon any of
the many lecturers who have been here this
winter, it is considered very strange that ms
Honor saw ft to enforce it in this case, and
some are so unkind as to say that his unusuSi
zeal was caused by the forgetfulness OF MISS
Logans agent to furnish free tickets 10 n'iilseh
and family. Miss Logan pleaded her own case
and after paying the license lei' '"o 0''S' "oA
MANY friends are indignant
The manufacture of cotton has begun in
1r,oh BRIGHAM Young has a cotton factory
- Salt Lake City, called the Deseret Mills.
a New York paper says the once popular
melody known as "Dandy JIM was originally
an Italian air, doing service in high mass in
Italian churches. How that may be we can
not say but it is true that the lively air, Life
let us cherish" to which dancing feet have so
often tripped, is a part of Mozarts Tweihn
Mass.
A break occurred early last month IN tne
Persian Gulf cable between Mussenaom anu
Gwadum. speedy repair was expected