The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-22
Varieties.

boht iuu W do NSHuibAcu Ou buS SIOuuQ
oi insanity, has recovered her reason and is at
home.
The report is that Commodore Vanderbilt
has paid the venerable editor of the Tribune
The sl4,VOO his son borrowed sf him, but the
report needs confirmation.
"A marriage in low life is announced 10
take place between Commodore Nutt" and
Miss Minnie Warren. Together thew ara
worth a quarter OF million dollars, and still
tho commodore could not be said to be heavy
capitalist.
1t Is claimed that California has this year
produced thirty four million gallons of wine
"A drama on the death OF Maximilian has
been written by a Mr. Whitworth for produc.
ton at the Haymarket Theatre, Melbourne, in
which Madame Celeste sustans the character
OF Carlotta. ..
Much scandal has been oceasioned in
commune near Paris, by two young fellows en-
tering the confessional OF u church. One Ot
them played the part of priest aud the other
pretended to confess. By-and-by lady close
ly veiled approached, the young man on his
knees hurried away, and she took his place.
1t proved to he the lady to whom he was en-
gagged, and hearing some disagreeable disclos-
lures he rushed from the box In a rage and re-
pudiated her. The sham priest is now under
trial for causing scandal in a church, and
outraging the practice OF religion.
"A Mount Pleasant (Iowa) boy met an un.
fortunate COW the other day on tho street, and
the frozen snow suggesting the idea, concluded
he would have a slide. He seized hold OF the
cows tail, aud she not understanding this nn-
usual proceeding, started rapidly of. The ur-
chins thinking this plan Of navigation good
one, joined in the sport. and soon long line,
boys hands and scat tails forming the coupling
irons, were having jolly time Of il at the ex-
pense OF the poor COW.
The Con.regatonalist INDUCES in this
"reminiscences anent the scarce numbers and
scant theology Of the students at the Unitarian
seminary at Cambridge. In the "more former"
days of the theological seminary in connection
with Harvard college, when Theodore Parksrs
theories were exciting great interest in the
community. and young men especially were
feeling strongly their influence, it was the GUS
tom in the Harvard law school, when holding
moot court, to send over to the seminary and
procure some of the theoloeu ues to sit upon the
jury Judge Story was preparing to open
court, thus one day, and dispatched messen-
ger TO secure the usual attendance. That mes
senser, having i'll success, returned after
while with the report: "May il please your
honor, can't find men enough in the theolog
ical seminary who believe in God to piece
out this jury, and wait further Instruction.
The judge is reported to have INDUCED in an
answering roar which did better in moot
nnrff fhat In, A,,k ,rt,f fok.
made it very certain that it wasn't a mute
court.
Henry Kingsley is announced as the edi-
tor of a new edition of Robinson Crusoe, aud
has written an introduction TO it. -..-s ID
-Upwarl OF 200 wild turkeys have been kill
ed this season in the immediate vicinity Of
Manassas station. .....
Fears are entertained Of the destruction Of
Niagara Falls. A peculiar motion of the rap
Ids about half mile above, in the channel
where the greatest body OF water flows, has
given rise to the belief that a breach has been
made by the current through the soft slate
strata underlying the limestone that forms the
present ledge of the falls. Recently the appear
ance of the rapids at the point indicated, has
undergone a marked change, and so exactly in
confirmation of this theory that those watch
ing it do not doubt the speedy doom of the
famous Horse Shoe cataract. 1t is prophesied
that the falls win be entirely broken down at
an early day. and the present grand appear
ance of the river at that point be converted in
to simple "shute" or rapid. =, .,,,. Il
Madame de - having said, in her In
tense style. 81 should like to be married in
English, in language 10 which vows are so
faithfully kept" some one asked Frere, "W What
language, wonder, was she married in?'
Broken English, suppose" answered Frere.
AT Rochdsle, England, the chosen home
of cooperation, a theatre big enough to hold
2200 people has just been opened. The money
for building it, (e6 ,OO0) was raised by Rl
shares, mostly taken up by working men. u
The Bombay pap ers state that Mr.. Dwar-
kadas Vasssnie, respectable Bhattia mer-
chant, has contributed 10000 rupees towards
the establishment of a Hindoo girls school,
which has already been opened under the
name Of "The Jivrai Balu Hindoo Girls
School,"
An intelligent man, of respectable appear
ance, gave himself in charge at a Boston police
station, the other night, saying he was becom-
luSIDC, anu WdubCu W uC OaAou Ioi. ouOIl-
ly after being locked up, he became so violent
that fears were entertained for his life, and he
was removed to the nearest insane hospital.
An exchange declares that one W. ID.
Moore has dug up $4,000 in gold on his farm
in Bloomingdale, Iowa. To which another ex-
change replies that probably he found the gold
neatly hidden in potato skins.
"A new Selavonic Congress has been sum-
moned to meet at st. Petersburg, ON the 18th
of January. This time it is to be an assembly
Of doctors and natural philosophers, the pro-
gramme to include every nation aud creed.
"A communication from Naples states that
the coral merchants OF Tore del Greco, who
when the eruption of Mount vesuyius COM
meDced, had removed the greater portion OF
their merchandise, have now begun to bring it
back, all danger being considered at an enl.
M Panger Guertier, the great Rouen man
ufscturer, is about to bring forward the pres
ent stasnstion in trade before the Corps Legis-
latif, and will, il is said, make an onslaught
against the treaty of commerce with England
which he considers ruinous 10 French COM
merce.
Russia seems to be afraid Off new rising in
Poland, this time openly aided by Austria and
France, tor the Governor General of Poland
has just issued an order forbidaing the wearing
of revolutionary emblematical signs, such as
rings small crosses of certain forn," Sc.
Good luck to the rebels II they should rise.
A paper called Les AntiRes, published at
Martinique, having received two warnings,
announced to its subscribers that il would
henceforward give up controversial politics.
aud, instead OF leading articles, would print
elegant extracts from the French poets. It's
next number contained La Fontaine's fable Of
the "Wolf and the Lamb" whereupon the
governor of Martinique, accepting the fable as
personal insult to himself, suspended the un-
lucky journal for a month.
AN English paper says: "Mrs Murray,
the Devonshire witch, has been sentenced to
three months imprisonment with hard labor
for having obtained from Thomas kendle R4
los. for certain charms which, she asserted,
would cure his wife, who Is paralyzed, but
which failed to do so. Mrs. Rendle is now
under treatment by another local witch NAM
ed Gribble, who has undertaken to cure her or
to refund all payments. 1t is hard to see why
a woman should be sentenced to imprison-
ment with hard labor for undertaking to do
by charms what quack doctors, mesmerizers
and spirit-rappers undertake every day to do
with equal want of success-with perfect
impunity."