The Portland daily press., 1868-03-21
Va1.ieties.

80 AOAASsS
The Canadians are moving in behalf of n
harbor on the north side OF Lake Erie Ths
Norfolk, Ont, RefoTrner is urging upon the
Government the Importance of action to SO.
cure better accommodation for shipping on
that shore. 1t represents that with the excep-
ton ofPort Maitland, ,at the mouth ofthe Grand
River, there is no harbor of refuge, properly
SO called on the north shore of Lake Erie
The urgent want of such harbor is proved
by thegreat number OF vessels annually wreck.
ed or stranded on the north Shore The proIs,-
tythus lost in the last fifteen years:is estimated
at nine million of dollars. The proposed
haroor would be almost as valuable to Amer
lean as to Canadian ship-owners.
We cut the following from the Providence
Journal, but it is perfectly well adapted 10
this latitude. 1--WE were compelled to return
an advertisement-and the money, more's tho
pity-the other day, because no one could
determine whether the advertiser wanted q
situation as wet nurse or q mission to tho
Court OF st. James. Those who puzzle their
brains over the manuscript that comes into a
printing office from hundred different souro.
es every day, have frequent occasion to won.
der whether the free school system was not
enacted in vain.''
An English nobleman, Lord Radstock, is
making sensation in Paris as a preacher. A
letter to an English paper says he delivered
sermon ON Ash Wednesday in LADY Har-
riet Cowper's magnificent drawing-Ioom in
the Avenue Friedland," and that the coDgre-
cation consisted of from seventy to eighty
persons. of whom nine out of ten were ladi ,s.
1t IL Pleasant for the fashionable world TO
know that "the ladies were in elegant morn
ing toilets" Lord Radstock "does not seek
any other publicity than such as may conduos
to bring as many sheep as possible to his iold;''
nevertheless he is just now one OF the sights
"a a ".rS ssA'~ "PF~--.- Ala .o-.. T..
sion as the Reverend Cream Cheese, who 90
sweetly soothed the mind of Mrs. Potiphar.
The Countess de Stolbsrg, Lady Supo-
rior of the Hospice of Belhanie, at Berlin
died of typhus fever, canght while visiting
the provinces suffering from famine and epi-
demic disease.
"A Frenchmau has bequeathed the French
Academy of Medicine $1,000 as prize to the
scientific man who invents method of dis
covering the certain signs OF death.
"A correspondent writes: Frequently We
find sick people whose stomachs reject all kind
of nourishmcnt until conditions follow that in
many instances terminate fatally. In twenty
instances in which / have heard the popular
sick-bed nourishments prescribed and rejected
by an invalid's enfeebled stomach, I have ne
yer known the simple saucer of parched corn
pudding or bowl of cruel refused. The corn
is roasted brown, precisely as we roast coffee,
ground as fine as meal in ccffee mill, and
made either into mush, cruel, or thin cakes,
baked lightly brown, and given either warm
or cold, clear, or with whatever dressing the
stomach will receive and retain. Parched
corn ana meal boiled in skimmed milk, and
fed frequently to children suffering from sum-
mer diarrh@a, will almost always cure, as It
willdysentery in adults, and, 1 belieye, the
cholera in its earliest stages.
Mr.. Darcy MCGEE, who was recently ex-
PEELED from the brotherhood OF ST. Patrick in
Montreal, on account of his attacks upon the
Fenians, has become Feconciled to his fellow
countrymen. On st. Patrick's day, union
party of Irish Protestauts and Catholics gave
Mr. MCGEE social dinner at which all differ
ences were forgotten.
On the banks OF the Tiber, near the port
Of Ripa Grande, the site of the former gener-
al emporium for the merchandise brought
from foreign countries by the Roman galleys,
extensive discoveries of marbles have lately
been made There, blocks and columns OF
stone, from the most distant parts of the EN-
pire, were stored up, until required by sculp-
tors for conversion into statues, groups, capi-
tails of pillars, Sc. Upto the 14th of Februa-
I..N. - I1&I.
marbles had been discovered.
"A ST. Petersburg actor sent back a pres
ent of diamond studs to an enamored lady
with the remark that he had wife. The wits
are in doubt whether the message was indica-
tive of great virtue or henpeckedness.
The mueh-abused Everett statue in Bos-
ton is to be turned round that it may face the
south.
In the seven years between 1861 and 1863
the Kingdom of Italy has borrowed 2,s95, ,00O.-
900 francs.
The reported death of young Louis of Ba-
varia, was mistake. It was his grandfather,
King Louis l., who died. HIS Majesty was 81
wears of age. Born at Strasburg on the 25th
of August, 1886, he succeeded his father, Max
imilian J., on the 18th of October, 1925. In
1913 King Louis /. abdicsted in favor Of his
son, Maximiam H., and it is his grandson.
King Louis H., who now reigns in Bavaria.
In Berlin, at the new House of Commons
of the North German Parliament, there has
recently been constructed a new ventilatins
apparatus, which, upon completion, was test
ed in a curious way. The three hundred
workmen who had been engaged on the build
ing were provided with cigars, and seng shue
up in the hall, were told to puff away. AT the
end Of three hours the thermometer had rlsen
only one degree; and the atmosphere 1t -
said was comparatively pure, notwitnstand-
;nc tho ,monnt Of tobacco that had been
smoked. ,u,-
Paris has a newspaper entl'iou heavens
Journal. Granting The title 10 DC correct Hn
;so,,od a long distance from home.
The contract just made for building the
n.,;sc Railroad eastward in California allows
ano hundred and eighty days for grading and
Icing track q distance over one hundred
miles. 1t is considered certain that by next
August three hundred and fifteen miles of the
California end of the road will be in working
order.
The Boston Traveller says; "a range OF
fashionable model houses is to be erected on
Washington Street, reaching rom "alIon
street to Wells place, on the vacant iana In
front of the round factory. There will 10
.,ore underneath each house, and each fosr
will be a separate @enemsat"