The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-04
Varieties.

The graduating exercises at Phillips Acad-
emy took place Tuesday. Albert a. Thomson
of Searsport, Me-, delivered the salutatory.
and John H. Hiucks of Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, the valedictory. The class numbers about
thirty.
Rev. Mr.. Kalloch, well-known gentle
man who formerly resided in Boston whence
he removed to Kansas, is in Washington, lob
bying in the interest of the Usage land swim
die.
The Chinese Embassy, expected at Boston
between July 10 and Is, will be received by
the entire city military under arms; they will
at once be escorted to the Common, and par
raded down the malls between two lines of
school children, fifteen thousand in number;
and then rest on this until a hotel reception
in the evening. Poor Chinese!
The Pope has in his treasury a cameo
which tradition declares to bear portrait of
Jesus Christ, and that it was executed by COM
mand of Tiberias Caesar. A Roman sculptor
has executed a bust from it, so successfully
that the Pope has sent him gold medal and
letter of thanks.
"A little girl of eleven has been arrested at
Marseilles for poisoning her mother by soaking
lucifer matches in the milk for the table.
When asked why she did so, she replied: "If
mamma had not taken awav my dessert
would not have poisoned her"
Charlotte Cushman has arrived in New
York. She proposes to give public readings
for charitable purposes, but win dispose of
| her theatrical wardrobe and abandon the
stage.
The following bit of gossip is going the
rounds: One day last week a distinguished
foreign baron while travelling ineog through
Indiana, met beautiful and accomplished la
| dy, member of one of the first families of the
| South, and tle twain became so enamored Of
each other that on the following day they were
made one, in the presence of the father and
several friends of the bride.
-Rochefort relates in his Lanterne coffee
house conversation: Guest-"Waiter, hand
me La France" Waiter-"You shall have 1t,
sir, as soon as the gentleman yonder has read
it, will bring you La France as soon as il
| is free" Guest-"As soon as France is free?
Good heavens! then shall have to wait long
while T"
If each one of the sixty thousand strangers
who are called to New York by the Demo
| cratlc COnVeullOu JdkeS Ten urlnkS Qay I0r
four days-a moderate estimate-there will be
au end of all anticipations of deficit in the
revenue will if the whiskey tax can be col
lected.
Senator Grimes is at the fremont House,
Boston, under medical treatment for paralysis.
The new Opera Bouffe artists, engaged by
Mr.. Bateman for his second season, which Is
to be commenced at Nibos on the 10th of Ju-
ly, arrived at New York by the steamship
Pierre, from Havre. They are to make their
appearance in the Grand Duchess, prepara-
tions for the production of which have been
for some time in progress.
DIR. Theodore Cansius, of Aurora, ILL.,, is
publishing, in Vienna, historical novel en-
titled abraham Lincoln" 1t is to be trans
lated into English.
-Snobbleton to Harriet, in library recess
SOW quiet we are ere 'Arriet.". Harriet
+ 'Ye,; one might almost hear an h drop"
l The Boston Advertiser is to issue an even
ing edition, half the size of the morning paper.
| 1t will be under the editorial supervision OF
Mr.. E. w. Bacon of Chicago.