The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-28
Varieties.

The combined circulation of all the prin-
cipal monthly magazines published IN Eng
land is not equal to the regular monthly edi-
ton of Harper's Magazine. The Cornhill,
Macmillan, Belgravia, edited by Miss Brad
don, London Society. Temple Bar, Black wood,
st. Paups edited by Anthony TrolIope, and
Tinsley's all taken together have an aggregate
circulation of 10000 copies. The regular cir
culation of Harper's Magazine exceeds that.
AT Omaha, on Sunday week, the ther-
mometer stood at 1O9 in the shaded
The other day an old soldier who had lost
an arm said: Il am waiting to see if the peo-
pie of this country are gong to elect Horatio
Seymour, and if they do 1 will swear lost my
arm in threshing machine, and not in de-
fence of my country"
The Saturday Review sharply says, "the
prospect for the immediate future is, that the
new Parliament win contain large body of
respectable, wealthy, obedient nobodes, who
thing to be there"
Never cut dogs ears or tail. Clipped
ears are often the cause of deafness and alb
cess, by allowing the sand and dirt to enter,
which is distressing to the animal. Depend
upon it the Creator never intended we should
take away what he provided for their reliet
and comfort
Ruth A. Brown, whose husband is in an
insane asylum and whose four-year-old boy is
dead, applied for lodgings and bread at a Bos-
ton station house Tuesday night, with two
year-old child. After being kindly treated
she gave mp a bottle of laudanum which she
said she had bought to destroy herself with.
She was sent to the almshouse.
The latest swindle is a Rochester inven-
tion. When hay is sold by the ton, man con-
ceals himself in the load and is weighed with
it. While the load is driven to the barn of the
purchaser, the man leaves his hiding place and
goes back to the hay-market to be sold ag lin.
The Union of that city says: "The trick was
not discovered until the other day, though it
ia now understood that it has been practiced
for years"
Louis Rickschen thus advertises his de-
linquent wife in Chicago paper: "My wife,
Barbara Rickschen nee Roelslern, has either
run away from me OF been stolen. 1 shall
smash the head of the person who brings her
back to me. AS do not pay my own debts, 1t
is not probable that shall pay hers"
-.JpnkiUS has met uEs ASCoChcN Ou Ms ShhN-
els in a light summer suit He wore. says
Jankins. "a heavy Leghorn hat and serene,
hannv look" Mr. Beecher always was a child
of nature.
The brigands recently made descent on
the railroad at Marcigliana, four miles from
Rome, and intercepted the train. Unfortu-
nately for their object, the passengers included
a party of Zouaves, who suddenly dashed out
upon them and put them to flight.
Walden Pond, in Concord, rendered IA
nous by Thoreau's two years sojourn in its
woods. is now a great picnic resort 1t is no
longer lonely and wild, but has all the belong
;uus Of a fashionable watering place.
M. Parton says he hopes the time is at
hand when an audience in a theatre, who
catch a manager cheating them out of
their fair allowance of fresh air, will not
sit and gasp, and inhale destruction till eleven
p. NJ. and then rush wildly to the street for
relief. They will stop the play; they will tear
nm the benches, if necessary; they will throw
things ON the stage, they will knock hole IN
the wall; they will have the means OF Drea'n-
ing. or perish in the struggle.
THE Foreign Associateship of the FIsn0n
Academy of Sciences, vacant by the aeAsA "
S;r David Brewster, has been hneu W ''e
o,a.,;on ot the eminent mathemaueiah' rro-
lessor Krummer of Berlin