The Portland daily press., 1868-02-27
Varieties.

The little pocket Republic of Ecuador has
elected new President lawyer who has q
medical title-Dr Espinosa He received in
the different provinces fifteen hundred votes
which was majority, as there are only twenty
eight hundred voters in the whole state, al
though universal suffrage is enjoyed.
-Ofa happy old couple, Daniel and Susan
Lake, of Bridgewater, Vermont who are SAID
never to have quarrelled during their half
century of welded life, it is now told that he
was originally engaged to another girl ard
she to another man, and they exchanged low
ers by mutual consent, Daniel and Susan COM
ing together.
The officers and men OF the Twenty-third
Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers have
gold mounted cane which they intend to pre-
sent to General Burbridge, of Kentucky. The
cane is made from the Pemberton oak, as it is
called, under which General Grant received
the surrender of Pemberton at Vicksburg.
1t is said that all the Memphis papers but
the Post are in q bad way, and the Avalanche
will have to suspend. The Post is the only
loyal paper in the city, and the Avalanche is
the most disloyal. The latter paper made un-
relenting war on the intruding Yankee, and
used every effort to route out the Post, but it
was too firmly planted.
The st. Paul Pioneer says that January
was the coolest month in Minnesota for forty
eight years. The mean temperature was four
degrees forty-two minutes. The lowest tenn
perature was thirty degrees. The first period
of severe weather, from the 9th to the 9th in
elusive, was marked by the continual exhibi-
of hon I,aI;
dog. -....l
Dame Quickly is thus characterized by
Henry Giles in his new work, Human Lite in
Shakespeare" "Dame Quickly is a woman
whom we cannot help but like; for, in spite of
ber suspicious reputation, there is in her a
homely goodness. She fills an ample space
in the Shakesperean comedy, as she did in her
armed chair-and she fills it with admirable
fitness: she has not, indeed, humor of her own,
but she becomes prOdigally suggestive of hu-
NOR in the fat knight and his companions.
She is thoroughly English, too-a nationality
of her class-such hostess as may not even
now be quite extinct in the land of Bull"
Dumas has begun the publication in Paris,
of new journal named D'Artagan. 1t is a
tri-weekly paper, appearing every Tuesday,
The name is taken from one of the characters
in the ''Trois Mousquetaires;" and in the
froDtispece D'Artagnan is represented riding
towards Paris on his yellow horse. In an in
troductory article NJ. Dumas says that, like.
old Entellus. he has put on his cestus, and will
do battle pro aris ct foeis. He adds in post
script, that though there should not be sim
gle subscriber or a single number sold in the
street, it will so on for at least year.
AN Ottawa dispatch says the Official Gaz-
cite of the oath contains the permanent ap-
pointment of Sir N. j. Belleau and General
Doyle as Lieutenant Governors of Quebec
and Nova Scotia.
According to writer in the March Har-
per, the washings of the silk-works that used
to spoil the Rhone now make fifty thousand
tons of soap year.
AT a recent court ball In Paris, General
Dix was attracted by the gorgeous uniform of
a Belgian officer, and had a long conversation
with the wearer. Napoleon laughed at the
spectacle, for the officers uniform covered
only secret police spy.
i'm the Nova Scotia Legislature the debate
on resolutions to repeal Confederation was
concluded on Monday. An address to the
Queen, embodying the resolutions, was sent
to the Lieutenant Governor, asking him to
submit the same to the Queen. The House
was expected to adjourn yesterday. 1t is re-
ported that Mr. Howe has accepted lucrative
position on a London paper and will not re-
turn to Nova Scotia.
"A bore meeting Douglas Jerrod, said,
..WelI, what's going on to-day?" al am" ex-
4
"A horse was frightened to death in Omaha
recently by passing locomotive on the Union
Pacific Railroad. 1t was a fine and apparent
ly healthy animal. The intense fear which it
experienced was so great that it fell dead
without struggle.
The first session of the Quebec Parlia-
ment since confederation, was prorogued on
Monday
Professor Faraday's widow has declined
pension from the English government.
"A leading writer says that ii is no matter
of wonder with him that brain workers, IN all
the years since tea was introduced, nave re-
csrded it with the greatest favor mas
mower TO subdue irritabilty, refresh the spirits
and renew the energies, such as no otner
agent possesses
,;,od lately by seeing dogs running about the
.,noats with tri-colored ribbons tied to their
tails. o,,. -,
mer's width OF six hundred feet, has been
contracted by sand-bars to width of two
hundred feet, rendering it impossible for ves-
sells to enter with a strong northeast Wlnd' IL
is to be dredged out forthwith.
The Danville (Vt.) Register says 1t is the
opiuion of intelligent farmers that the supply
Of food for man and beast, in that immediate
section of the country, is smaller than it was
- .pv time during the exhausting war through
which the people have but lately passed,