The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-16
Varieties.


"A bottle of wine nearly four hundred years
old, being of the vintage of 1472, was recently
given by Baron Brisse, well known French
gastronomist, to banquet at st. Remy,
France. 1t was given to the baron a pa
tient in the hospital at Strasburg. The com
pany to which the baron gave it delibersted
what to do with the precious gift, and finally
decided to deposit it in the local museum with
suitable inscription. f..,5. .e
One hundred miles OF the Intercolonial
Railway has been located. From Riviere du
Loup to Rimouski it runs very near the st.
Lawrence and the usually travelled highway.
-Quakers are so rare in Canada that To-
| ronto paper chronicles the arrival and depar-
ture of two, and notes the sensation their ap-
pearance created. .......
The Toronto Globe, one of the largest and
ablest of our Canadian exchanges, edited by
the Hon. George Brown, comes to US this
week in an entire new dress OF type, and with
some changes in its makeup which are evil
IDENTIFY for the advantage of its readers and
the convenience of its publishers. The Globe
has a very large circulation.
The popular singer, Mile. Nathan of the
Paris grand opera, died recently in child-bed.
She married, after long court-ship, Hippolyte
Lanel wealthy Hebrew, and they had liy-
ed very happily together for only year.
In Minnesota, a few days since, they had
"a furry of blow and snow" ESQ the papers de-
scribe it), which the older settlers call "sqaaw
winter" They hope to see it followed by In
dian summer"
Mr. Howells, the author OF those two de-
lghtful books, "Italan Journeys" and "Vene-
tian Life" has in press poem entitled "No
Love Lost"
Sake is now lecturing in the West, and
working on a translation of the Comedies OF
Aristophanes.
"A little boy, who, whenever he went to
play, was pestered by little girl, the child of
a neighbor Ia horrible little girl that squinted
and was altogether frightfuD, being asked
"why he was always so ugly to Susie Bates?"
and also informed ''the Lord made Susie Bates
as well as him., exclaimed, "Oh, Nurse
| Thompson, amt you ashamed TO talk in that
way about the good Lord"
Miss Adelaide Phillips returned to Amer
lea in the Scotia, on Tuesday.
Poisoned hosiery furnishes the material
| for the latest Sensation" in London. 1t is
said that the coloring matter in many of the
socks now sold in London contains poisonous
| element which produces irritating sores ON the
| feet. -
Charles XIV, King of Norway and Swe-
den, is just now visiting his Morse capital.
The beautiful ford is gay with flags and bunt-
ing and the rather ugly Greek building which
does duty as palace. and is generally left to
| the care of one sentinel, is alive with guests
| The Norwegians are, though the founders of
the proudest English nobility, the most demo-
| cratic people in Europe. They have abolish
ed mobiles in their own country, and they hire
king at so much year, who opens for them
the National Assembly, the Storthing, which
| is really their sovereign. King Charles, new
ertheless, always receives hearty welcome at
| his triennial visitations. He is probably the
handsomest sovereign in Europe, and is re-
markable for his bOnhomie as well as literary
talent. This last quality is shared by his wife,
member of the Dutch Royal Family, and a
frst-rate linguist
Mr.. Percy Walker, jeff Daviss Secretary
OF War at Montgomery, who was going to
| plant the rebel flag on the Capitol at Wash
ington before the end of May, 1861, is now up
on the stump doing immense things by calling
Gen. Grant "human donkey"
The rising star of the German opera is
handsome and sprightly Mile. Mallinger, OF
| Munich, who has aOhioved a very sudden ce-
lebrity by her charming performances il,
Richard Wagner's new opera, "The Meister-
sanger"
I'm all the riots and collisions between
blacks and whites in the Southern States
growing out of politics, two facts are conspic
uous: first the whites always seem to be thor
oughly prepared for fight, and second, non,
f but blacks are ever killed Do not these cir
cumstances show pretty clearly which side il
responsible for these collisions?
The librettO for Meyerbeer's "Africaine,
, supposed to have been originally written In
French, was, in fact, largely due to the pen
Madame Brsch-P -Pfeiffer, among whose papers
the original in German has been found He
$ work. altered and mutilated by the French
: translator, was retranslated into German.
. When George Washington was candi
= date for the Presidency he was charged witt
military imbecility, administrative incapacity
e | mental weakness, and personal immortality
There were thousands Of white men who be
lieved these charges in those days, just a
s there are thousands of white men who belleV
q similar charges against Ulysses Grant nova
) days. T..
. Miss Maria s. Rye proposes to leave Eng
q land this month for Canada, with anothe
d company of one hundred women. she write
o to one of the London papers; The good opin
ions my girls won from both passengers an
oe,cers in the ship which carried us out is tn
hest proof 1 can offer that they were, on tn
h whole, above the average of English work
: ingwomen; and have the pleasure OF know
C ing that nearly every girl who went out will
me in May to Canada is doing we'll"
: Many Democrats who have placed faitn IL
the predictions OF their party papers are sufier
IS inc neeunarily from results in Pennsylvania
= Ohio and Indiana.
e Coy. Bullock has appointed Thursday
e Nov. 26, as a day of Thanksgiving This is tn
: day selected by President johnson for the Ma
Of tional Thanksgiving.