The Portland daily press., 1868-01-11
: Varieties.

"A case is coming before the Correze ASST
zes which exceeds in horror any Satatic de-
vice as yet hit upon to get rid of a newborn
infant. A woman, Marie Braiaiex, and mother,
Marianne Feintrtrne, are accused of having
put newborn living infant into a soup pot,
with cabbages and -four. Having boiled the
child, they gave it to their pigs to devonr.
The second of January was the day on
which the king of Prussia was to confer upon
Count Bismarck the additional title of"Duke
Sadowa," in recognition of his. services in
bringing on the war of1s6j aud it's victories
1t seems little odd to give such title to one
was far from the field on which that battle was
fought, yet there is after all strict propriety
in it. 1t was really Bismarck, not the Crown
Prince or his generals, who won the victory Of
Sadowa. 7...t, r---f -..........-.. ..t. ...-.-
The New Orleans Picayune discusses the
whole subject of soutl ern destitution and re-
lief in tone of independence such as we have
observed in no other southern newspaper. 1t
declares unhesitatingly that the southern peo-
pie 'need the discipline they are receiving
and it is their salvation to receive it so soon
and Thoroughly" They "need to be thrown
entirely on their own resources" This is pre-
cisely their greatest need. They mnst learn
to feel that they have nobody but themselves
to depend upon aud abandon 70 rever the an
cient theory OF their society," that sins le class
and a seperate race is to labor while others re-
} ceive products. Their troubles will be
well nigh over when they have got this idea
fairly into their heads, and are ready to begin
again as their fathers began when the country
was ,riginally settled and its soil was first
wrought upon for the production of wealth. n
"A Mr.. Hadden has submitted to the Brit
ish authorities singular plan for laying q
railway for the transportation of English
troops in Abyssinia, the novelty in the road
being the sleepers which he proposes to cou-
struct of fattened cylinders of sheet iron.
closed at one end, and which, when once plac-
ed in position, are to- be well rammed inside
with sand or earth, and then closed also at the
other end. Little or no ballast is required.
and the rails are secured to the sleepers by
! clip-pieces, one rivetted on and the other
made to turn like door-button. 1fs11 sdI O.
/ Theodore Rousseau, the most original and
expressive of contemporary French landscape
painters, died at Barbizon on the morning of
the 22d of December, 1867. He was recogniz-
ed as the first living landscape painter in
France, even by the men of State and society.
In 1855 he received the first medal of gold at
the Universal Exhibition; and last summer he
was one of the French painters who received
the first medal of honor at the Universal Ex-
hibition OF 1867. He was born at Paris the
18th of April, 1872. No modern artist has done
so much to redeem contemporary French art
from the charge of being cold, corrupt and ar
tifcial 5 fi 9 H @
: I'm the year 1872, when throughout Great
Britain only six stage coaches were constantly
going, pamphlet was written by one John
Cresset of the Charter House, for their sup
preston, and among the many grave reasons
given against their continuance is the follow
ing: "These coaches make gentlemen come to
London upon every small occasion, which
otherwise they would not do but upon urgent
necessity; nay the convenience of the passage
makes their wives come up, who, rather than
come such long journeys on horseback, would
stay at home. Here, when they have come to O.
town, they must presently be in the mode, get
fine clothes, go to the plays and treats, and by
these means get such a habit of idleness and
and love of pleasure, that they are uneasy ev-
er AFTER" 1880 DTS n1i ss.rsH1J %
| AT place of public amusement in Troy,
the other night, the leading comedian checked
the uSuai huSn VI tno auulence TO the doors
during the closing act of the play, by stepping
forward to the footlights and addressing to
them these pithy remarks: "Those unmanner-
ly persons in the audience who are rushing for
the sidewalk at the foot of the stairs, so as to
be in time to stare at ladies, can leave. When
they get out, the piece will closet" This sally
is reported to have been effectual, for the spec
tators did not stir till the curtain fell
An interesting papyrus, la ely added to
the British Museum collection, contains a
| fragment of treatise on geometry applied to
surveying, illustrated by figures. M. Lenor-
mant, who has been studying this relic, reports
to the French Academy that it includes de-
| scription of the modes of estimating the areas
of a square, paralelogram OF various kinds
of triangles, ard OF the computation of the
area of an irregular figure by means of trian-
giles, and OF the volume of pyramid. He re-
fers it to the period of the XIIth dynasty,
which would be contemporaneous with the
reign of solomon.
"A corporate body having charge of the
construction of building near Oxford, Eng
land, decided on the choice of an architect by
putting the names of all that craft resident IN
the neighborhood in hat, and giving the pre-
ference to the one first drawn out. A new ap-
plication of the principle "first come first
] served"