The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-12
Varieties.

Louis Napoleon is about publishing an at
las of France in three sheets; France as she
territorially was in 1885, as she was in 1882,
after the Constitution of Belgium; as she 10
since 1860, with Nice and Savoy annexed.
"A well-known lawyer in Boston had
horse that always stopped and refused to cross
the milldam bridge leading out of the city.
No whipping, no urging, would induce him to
cross without stopping. So he advertised him
ITO be sold, for no other reason than that the
owner wants to get out of town."
"A new dramatic adaptation of "Monte
Cristo" was lately produced at the Adelphi
Theatre in London; and the scenes and speech
es were SO long that the performance, which
begun at o'clock, was not concluded until
past one. As the actors came on, they were
received with all sorts of ironical remarks
"Good evening, sir; what are you sent on to
do?" "Shall you stay long, sir?" take your
time-there is no hurry" The curtain finally
fell at is on Sunday morning
Miss Piney w. Forsythe has succeeded
her father in publishing and conducting the
Liberty (Miss.) Advocate. For twelve years
she has been the actual, and her father, whose
health is feeble, only the nominal manager Of
the business.
-"Make way, gentlemen" cried a fussy Of
fice-holder to some people the other night at Q
political meeting, make way, we are the rep
resentatves of the peoplep' Make way your
self" replied sturdy member of the throng
1--WE are the people themselves"
The English Court Circular recently con-
tanned the announcement that a troupe Of me-
gro minstrels had been summoned" to Bal
moral.
The eruption of Vesuvius has apparently
subsidized for the present.
The Prince and Princess of Wales propose
to make a tour in the east and in Egypt, as
cending the Nile to the second cataract. Sir
Samuel Baker will accompany them up and
down the Nile.
M. Emile de Girardin still continues to
warn the Spaniards against anything but re-
public. In his last letter he says: "Whither
will these grand phrases lead Spain? Turn
ing her away from Republic they will lead
her to a Restoration-1868 will be new edi-
tion of 1854. Despite all his force of will, Prim
will be as impotent to found constitutional
monarchy in Spain as have successively been
EsparterO, Narvaez, ODonnell, not to mem
ton Olozaga-because for the founding of o
constitutional monarchy there must be con-
stitutional monarch, and that is Just what
Spain has not got"
"A CHASTITY scientific discovery is reported
from Turin, where Professor Casturani. the
celebrated oculist, has found way of killing
animals by forcing air into their eyes few
seconds, and almost without causing them
pain. Within the space of few minutes four
rabbits, three dogs and a goat were killed in
this manner. The most remarkable fact 10
that the operation leaves absolutely no out
ward trace.
"A letter from Vienna speaks OF certain
Fraulein Won Beust niece of Chancellor yon
Beust and daughter of the director oil mines
in Austria, alike noted for her beauty. her wit.
and her ardent hatred of Prussia. Saxon and
Austrian officers of rank and fortune have
long wooed the lady in vain, but now, strange
to TELL the "happy misfortune" of falling des.
peratey in love with Prussian officer of ple-
beian origin has fallen up IN her. After much
demurring at such combination of draw
backs, father and uncle have consented to the
union.
"A New York paper says "the detestabfe
custom of using the scenery and drop-curiains
of theatres as mediums for advertising all sorts
of patent medicines, paper collars, patent
squirts, crockery, dry goods, boots ond shoes :,
harness, horse powders and hair oil, is carried
trifie too far in that city.
George Eliot speaks, in one of her novels,
of that highly respectable type of the upper
class British society "who get their science
done for them by Faraday and their religion
by the dignifed clergy"
AT fashionable soiree dansante, to come
off next month, it is ordered that gentlemen's
trowsers shall be worn mot lower than the
knee"
The Revolution says "such has been the
crushing effect of public sentiment, that wo-
men feel almost like apologizing for being on
the earth at all"
New York is to have street letter-boxes
that will admit newspapers and parcels, that
cannot be stol' from, and that will indicate
on a dial the hour of the next collection.
"A clergyman was fined five shillings before
a London police court for being found drunk
in gutter. He pleaded that it didn't happen
very often, and that he was not on duty" at
the time.
Somebody has amused himself collecting
the notices of eminent men, These are the
notices of some literary mems coats-of-arms
or seals: Victor Hugo: Fare et rJa'Te. La
MARITIME: Spira, spera Dumas, Sr.; Tout Iesss,
toni nnsse to,,t easse. Balzac: Rdison m'obtige.
Frodor;o souHe: S'agiter sans avdncer. z.
co,,,,os,re; Nj espoir nj crdinte. De Monta-
Lambert: Sans peur et sans esperdnce. Alph.
Karr: Je ne Grains que ceur que jainle. Niche
let: Des ailes. Sainte Beuve Truth.
Montreal papers are agitating for good
roads as the first and indispensable condition
in opening up the waste lands of the Domin-
ion. Without these, even free grants are Of
little use There is very little use in getting
men settled on backwood farms IL good out
let is not afforded them to bring their produce
to market.
A tenor with a most marvellous voice is
said to have been discovered somewhere in tho
Tvrol. He is young shepherd, sixteen years
of age. named Chalseche. An italian gentle
man, who alighted on this trouUaiRs, has taken
on himself the charge Of the new singers mu-
scal education.
-Fortune-telling must be very profitable,
business in st. Petersburg, as there are one
thousand women engaged in it, an average OF
one "prophetess" to every five hundred per-
sons. ....
DIR. Davy says that the average se~Pe.S'
ture of women is between 81 and W i'S de-
grees, and that of man is between W anu 70
degrees. This is probably the reason way
man In n love affair, have to do most OF the
oorrt;no "a women are naturally colder than
men.