The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-13
Varieties.

Cal AouaNe as wearing smile on MS face,
while dead Garibaldian by his side ''looked
damnation." s
The Messenger de Toulouse says: "During
the last few days a woman clothed in the garb
of the ancient pilgrims has attracted attention
here. She is young and handsome Spanish
lady, named Saturnina Lopez Alonzo Hav-
ing been attacked by cholera at Madrid, she
made vow that, should she recover, she
would make pilgrimage on foot to Rome an d
Jerusalem. She has performed her pious un
dertaking with astonishing courage. Setting
ont in March, she arrived at Rome on the 9th
of June, and witnessed there the .tstss of the
canonization, reached Jerusalem in due course,
where she visited all the holy places, and is
now returning home" ..
Father" Malane, q Roman Catholic cler-
gyman, has been forbidden, by the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland, to de-
liver a lecture which he had announced on
the Fright of Man to the Fatherland"
"A Boston paper thinks that the reason
why Goliah was astonished when David hit
him with stone was that such a thing had
never entered his head before. The same pa
per tells che story of a Sunday School pupil,
who, in the course of examination on the
Psalms, was asked, "What is the pestilence
that walketh in darkness?" "The reply was,
"Please, sir, bed bugs" 5E.tgr.sa
Another "tin mountain" has lately been
discovered in Madison county, Missouri, that
is said to be of great richness. This late dis
covery, in appearance somewhat resembles
Pilot mob, and it is said that from its base to
its summit rich tin ore can be found in untold
quantities. I5 .e-.r ....-. ..s. .-...
Joshua Hill is reported in a late speech to
have said that he thought it would be bless
ing to the people of Georgia if thunderbolt
from Heaven should strike off the stage of ac-
tion every politician in the State above fifty
years of age. The Columbus Sun is willing
"to see il tried on JOSH" -.tr
The state of the wounded patriots in Rome
is said to be sad indeed. Hospital gangrene
sweeps them off by scores. They are still left
in their battle rags. At night there is no at
tendance. The ladies' committee in Florence
had sent in clothing aud eiO, but funds are
low and access difficult.
Some one given to the consideration of
the correctness of small things. has come to
the conclsion that the expression ''Grin and
OO"l 10 hOb Ouiy HlfOlOuS, Uub luCOTEtCLs
He amends it to "Groan and hear it," recon-
mendation much easier to follow t
"A Hartford (Ct.) gentleman, on Saturday
evening, had an interview with Mr.. Dickens,
and offered him $1,000 to give one reading in
Hartford. Mr.. Dickens said he had resolved
to make no engagements in this country. but
to go wherever he thought best, and would not
engage to come to Hartford for 500 100, but
added, II shall come to Hartford" He is to
read there on the 18th OF February. Mr.. Dick
ems has declined, we understand, to make any
engagement to come to Portland, but he has
not declined to come without an engagement.
Livonia is making an earnest effort, BY an
address to the Gar through its Parliament, to
have the German language continued as the
official tongue in the Baltic provinces.
"A Subscriber wants to know how to
reckon interest at 7.3 per cent for months and
days. As 73O is twice 365, it is evident that
7.3O per cent. is just two cents day on a hu n
dred dollars. -star rraisasrs
"A singular discovery has just been made
at Chagny (Saone-et-Loire), by workmen en-
gagged in digging the foundations of a railway
shed. At depth OF about nine meters, in a
stratum of sandy clay and ferrugnons oxides,
remains of proboscidians elephants, rhinoce-
roses, &c were brought to light, comprising
several back teeth and a formidable tusk in
large fragments, which, on being put together,
constituted a length of seven feet. The depth
at which this was found was still six metres
higher than the level of the most considerable
inundations of the Dheune, and in an undis-
turbed stratum. So far, there is nothing alb
solutely extraordinary; but who would have
thought of finding underneath the bed con-
tanning these fossils of the tertiary period, an
aqueduot OF the most primitive kind and of
human workmanship? Yet such was the
case, the only instance of the kind on record.
1t is explained by NJ. Tremaux, who relates
the circumstance, by supposing that the ter
tiary fragments above alluded to have been
washed into the trench by violent inunda-
ton, and thus filed up the aqueduct.
"A lady-resident at one of the fashionable
uptown hotels in New York says that dinner
there, and a subsequent drawing-room parade,
differ only from menaQerie performance in
that at the former they first feed and then ex-
hibit, and at the latter they first exhibit an
then feed. .sH .r.F
"A Roman Catholic damsel in Connecticut
was beloved by Prote slant youth, and loved
in return, whereat her parents arranged for
her taking the vail. Having the bridal in
stead of the conventual veil in view she ran
off to Hartford the day before that arranged
for her farewell to the world, and is now sup
posed to be happy.
Denmark is scandalized by the publica-
ion of gossip about the notorious Countesst
Danner, the morganatic wife of King Freder-
ick VI. The particulars are as bad as a Chi
cago divorce case. 1t is sufficient to saw that
her birth was of the most illegitimate sort,
her life dissolute, and that she was never di-
vorced from her husband, tavern keeper at
Mulheim. ........
Pope Plus TX is described as very good
looking man, with wonderfully graceful man
ners, stout and corpulent, though of very
agreeable exterior, and clott ed as he is in
white, from the shoes to his capote, with gild-
ed crosses embroidered on the fore part of his
shoes, and his rich white hair falling upon his
shoulders, he impresses those who see him
first as having an uncommonly venerable ap-
pearance His white, transparent checks be-
come slightly colored by the effect of the air;
u j
spite of his acquiline nose and his rather
piercing eyes, meekness and benevolence are
the very characteristics of his features.
Miss Kate Fields, in a letter on the Dick
ems readings, written to the Springfield Re-
publican, gives the following hard hit at has
often been remarked that there is vast differ
ence between tweedledum and tweedledee;
consequently no one ought to be surprised
that Mr.. Beecher, who has never been inside
theatre, and who, therefore, has the best
reasons in the world for condemning this In
stitution, should allow Plymouth church to be
used by Mr.. Dickens for his readings. We all
know the marked distinction between the Bos-
ton museum and the Boston theatre: one is
lecture-room and the other is a DEVILS parior.
Mr.. Dickens's performance is not theatricai,-
of course not! He reads, he does not act, as
they do on the accursed stage! So Plymouth
church will welcome and applaud Mr.. Dickens
most deservedy, and will throw odium upon
the profession of Macready and Ristori most
undeservedly. Consistency thou art jewelr'
Another mot of the bright little Princess
Beatrice is reported by Lcndo letter writ
er. She is declared to have addressed her ma
in the following precocious a, humorous
fashion: ma, wouldn't it be good thing, to
save fighting with Theodore, for one Of us TO
marry him ,insteadof your finding out another
German prince? 1 am sure it woul1 be
good chang Germans are so common. 1
would rather you should bring me husband