The Portland daily press., 1868-07-23
" Varieties.

One of the distinguished victims of the
recent heated term is the artist Emanuel
Leutze, who died in Washington on Saturday,
of congestion. He was born in Wurtemburg,
but came to this country early in life and set
tied in Philadelphia. He studied art in the
Dusseldorf school, also at Munich, Venice and
Rome. Among his best known paintings are
Westward Hol" "w ashington at Monmouth"
"News from Lexington" Washington Cross.
ing the Delaware" Sergeant Jasper" and
columbus in Chains" In 1859 Mr.. LeLtze
returned to the United States, after at absence
of eighteen years, and took up his residence at
Washington. He received an engagement
from Congress to execute paintings in fresco
upon the panels of both Congressional cham
bers and throughout the Capitol generally.
Mr.. Leutze married an American lady in Ger
many. She is now abroad. Part Of his family
resided with him in Washington.
SAKE. the poet, is now talked of for the
Austrian mission.
Miss Carrie Richardson (colored), nor
NAL student of Fisk University, who was
teaching a school at Bell Buckle, on the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad, was warned
W COApduy VI Au-1AIuX Oh laSb OdtuIudy
night that she must leave the place, on penal
ty OF being taken to the woods, stripped and
whipped. She dismissed her school and fed
to Nashville.
An old offender was lately introduced to q
new county justice as John Simmons, alias
jones' alias Smith. "Pll try the two women
first" said the Justice; "6ring in Alice Jones'"
Rev. DIR. Cumming, the English expound-
er of the prophets, and who figured out the
end of the world in 1867, has discovered that
the recent war in Abyssinia is foretold in the
scriptures.
Somebody accuses Swinburne of stealing
his lines
81 dare not always touch her, lest the kiss
Leave my lips charred"-
from the old poets monkey, which
married the baboon's sister,
Smacked his lips and then he kissed her
Kissed SO hard he raised blister;
She set up yell"
Miss Anne Brewster, writing in Lippin-
colts Magazine for August, gives this eriti-
cism upon Booths Hamlet:-"Mr. Booth has
studied the play thoroughly; he has taken this
complex, and therefore most human, of all in
tellectual creations, and with Saladin scime-
tar of genius cloven it to the contraction
worked from the heart outward. The Ian
guage is a secondary consid GRAFTON; indeed,
this great actor appears Indifferent to the cor
rect rhythm and precise utterance of each pas
sionate passage, and speaks them as halfut-
tered cries from the tortured heart and brain
of the wayward young man whose weakness
possesses more fascination than the strength
of others"
The Free Masons of Austria are seeking
permission to reopen their lodges, which have
been closed since 1874.
"A caution comes from Havana to lovers Of
pine apples. The Cuban docsors, who ought
to know, say the fruit is bad this year, and
cannot safely be eaten, either by invalids or
healthful persons.
"A hotel keeper in New York remarked re-
Gently: Il know that the South is being recon-
structed, for there has been more tobacco spit
ON nv carpets during the last three months
than there was during the whole war"
IT ;s asserted that the fine green leaves Of
tho rod raspberry, gathered in fair day, and
cured in an open room, are not inferior to the
shipped to China and back, that they will be
superior.
The people of Great Britain are in new
state of delight because the Queen now car
ries white parasol. Her grief, they infer, is
abating; her mourning is a shade less somore'
Business, they conclude, will revive with her
Majesty's spirits, and they regard the wni'e
parasol as sort OF flag of truce hung out IN
the struggle with content.
| One of the high mandarins accom- psnylng
NJ pr,,;nooma ;s said to be Manchu. The
L;n. os The Cannibal Islands outranks him
he is q man-chewer.