The Portland daily press., 1868-03-14
Varieties.


The thieves of Chicago have invented q
neat Ndodge." They extract bundles of cur
rency from shelves behind counter with a
walking cane covered with sticking stuff of
some sort which "limes" the notes from con-
yenient distance.
"A woman who asked in Broadway book
store for "Crabbe's Synonyms" was told by the
new clerk that they did not keep shell-fish.
"A Gentle paper at Salt Lake thinks the
Pacific Railroad will ruin polyeamy.
1t is asserted by persons connected with
the Post Office Department for many years,
that box delivery, ON the scale our people have
become accustomed to, occasions at least eighty
per cent. OF the errors in the delivery of city
letters.
During the recent debate in the Corps Le-
gislatif the speaker NJ. Berger, was interrupt
ed by one crying out, "rhis is shameful; 1t is
dastardy." NJ. Berryer, turning round ask
ed, "Who used the word dastardly?" NJ. Gra-
nier (1e Cassagnac), arising, at is l." Upon
this NJ Berryer with one of those gestures Of
sovereign contempt which he knows SO well
how TO employ, and in a tone of voice which
made his hearers quiver, calculated, "Oh, then,
it is nothing"
"A young girl in ohicago was so foolish as
to answer personal" advertisement, and
her father has just paid over $1,000 to get her
no;es back.
1t is said that Dickens recently sent $4,000
to his sister-in-law in Chicago.
"A snow slide of FIVE or six miles in ex-
tent recently occurred in California, by which
| six Cinnamon were killed and seven locomo-
| tive engines buried.
Albert d. Hager, of Proctoryille, the Ver-
mont State geologst, recently skinned and
| stuffed a large bald eagle, in whose crop he
found piece of halter chain "a 1-2 inches in
length.
| "A Western minister went to church few
| weeks ago and took his seat with the coDgre-
| CATION, refusing to preach because his salary
had not been paid.
-"Let no man deceive himself" says
Petrarch, "by thinging that contagious of the
soul are less than those of the body. They are
| yet greater; they sink deeper, and creep on
more unexpectedly"
MIR. James Parton, as we learn from
Boston paper, is engaged on series ofa1ticles
for the Atlantic Monthly, the great reli-
gious sects OF America. He IS writing it is
said, not as a partizan, but simply as a re-
reporter of things as he finds them. The first
of the series is entitled son our Roman Cathc-
lie Brethren" and will be full statement of
the power and influence of that greatly in
creasng body of Christians throughout the
United States. We believe Mr.. Parton intends
TO make very close study of the Jewish de-.
nomination in America, among others, and
bring to light many facts of novelty and in
terest.
General Longstreet says that "when q
man talks of a new war you may be sure that
he did hot fight in the last one."
The Boston Traveller says there are houses
| in Concord, n. H., clap-boarded seventy years
| ago, which are still as tight as q drum and
warmer than many modern dwellings. The
nails used were wrought, one by one, on the
anvil. The Newburybort Herald knows a
house near that city that was shingled eighty.
five years ago this summer, and though the
| northeast storms a5e beaten on it all the
time, and in many of those storms spray from
| the river has dashed upon it, still the shingles
are good and likely to last for fifty years to
| come. 1t is as tight to-day as though the
shingles had been put on within one month.
"A Frenchman, named John Wolf, living
in Canton, Vermont did a good stroke Of
| OuSlneSS last week. Ou EHluiuaJ nc StOio
watch from his employer. On Sunday he
married. was arrested on Monday, indicted on
Tuesday, tried on Wednesday, and sentenced
Z, 16 months in Clinton prison.
The New Bedford Mercury publishes q
rumor that decision has been reached in
the Howland will case-adverse to the plain
tiff Mrs. Greene.
The Paris Presse states that the Minister
of War is establishing in the Hotel des Inval-
ides two magazines to receive all the necessary
materials for an army of 100000 men entering
on campaign. The first already contains the
field-ovens, machines for making oiscuit''
boxes of bandages, surgical instruments, am
balances, etc. One of the largest refectoEs'in
the institution is transformed into avast depot
for artillery,