The Portland daily press., 1868-04-08
Varieties.


Edward d. Mansfield is to write and r.
w. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati are to publish
new Life of General Grant, which ia To be
sold by subscription.
Count Bismarck, in recent letter to a
friend, expresses the fear that he has not been
sufficiently INSCRIPTIONS as a statesman, but
rather too timidi
Begging is carried into the domain of the
fine arts in Paris. A paper relates that one
man stands at street corner appealing to
passers by with the words: "Have pity on a
poor, unfortunate man who has had his tax
raised"
Chicago has a life insurance company that
pays policies as soon as the holder falls sick,
and he returns the moneyif he gets WELL
-Dearer than life-Fashionable funeral.
Small wooden pipes used for the Manhat-
tan Water Works Company before the intro
duction of Croton water have been discovered
by workmen excavating in the lower part of
Broadway. They were well preserved, and
were put down, it is said, sixty years ago.
"A Cincinnatian at the fremont House.
Chicago, expatiating on the "vine-clad hills"
etc., claimed that the Ohio was the Rhine of
the New World. "Yes," calculated old x,
'the pork Rhine"
Madame de Stael defined happiness to be
state of constant occupation upon some de-
sirable object, with continual sense of prog
ress towards its attainment.
The Saturday Review says that, consider
ing how many idiotic men there are in the
world with whom good women have to live, it
is blessing to the good women that they
should not be able to know an idiot when they
see one.
e"Wind and Whirlwind" is the title OF 3
new novel of American life to be published
this week by G.. p. Putnam & Son, New
York.
The death of Hon. Edward Thornton, Of
Three Rivers, p. E. l., is reported. He was
found dead within 400 yards of his OWE house.
Mr.. Thornton was Speaker of the House Of
Assembly from 1854 to 1853.
There are disturbances in various parts of
France, and they are attributed to the discon-
tent that has grown out of the adoption of the
new army bill. In Toulouse, Nantes, Greno-
BILE, and Bourd eaux there have been troubles,
and the strange cries of "Up with the Repub-
| Hcl' and "Down with the Empirep have been
| heard. At Toulouse the rioters were work
ingmen, and they sang the Marseiles Hymn,
| which is prohibited on account of its denun-
Citations of despots
The stationery-for-members leak-a nui-
sance incidental to nearly all parliaments-is
to be stopped at Ottawa. At least, so il Is
said. A stationery-o office is to be attached to
the Finance Department., and the supply 10
each member is to be limited to fifteen dollars
worth. Under the new rule, it is expected
that about $4,000 per annum will be saved.
| Mr.. James Teare, the founder of teetotal-
ism in England, died at Manchester on the
10th of March, aged Ga.
Mexican journalists exhibit q somewhat
eccentric taste in the selection of names for
their papers. "Anti Christ" "The Devils
own" and "The Devils TAIL" are specimens.
| The Golden Club offers prize of a gold
medal for the best essay "On the best way of
developing improved political and commercial
relations between Great Britain and The Uni
ted States of America essays to be sent in
by January 1, 1869.
"A patriotic Welshm an Is said to have
boasted to Edward the First-"That when the
Almighty summoned the dead to rise, on the
Judgment Day, he should be answered, from
those mountains, in Welsh"
If you want to make a sensation and be
regarded as senseless, enter a church, place
|
after everybody is seated and the exercises ara
well under way. You can add to your reputa-
tion by leaving hale an hour earlier than any
body else.
"A Yankee having told an Englshman
that he shot, on one particular occasion, 500
snipe bis interlocutor asked him why he didn't
make it thousand at once. "No," said he;
'it's not likely I'm going to tell lie for one
| kba l;obu datar
ined not to be outdone, began to tell a story Of
man, having swan from Liverpool to Bos-
ton. "Did you see him yourself ?" asked the
Yankee suddenly; "did you see him your
self?" "Why, yes, of course did; was COM
ing across, and our vessel passed him mile
out of Boston harbor." "Well, I'm glad ys
saw him, stranger, COS yer witness that I
did it. That was mel"
"A London letter-writer says:-"Mr. Dsra-
ellis bette noir is, and has been, since his ap-
pearance in Parliament, Mr.. John Stuart
Mill, whom, oddly enough, he satirized many
years ago, in his novel of the Young Duke.
Those who turn to tina. story will find, in Its
latter chapters, something about Young First
Principles clerk in the East India House,
who writes in the 'Screw-and-Lever Review,
and is ridiculed as the author of new and
} revolutionary system of political philosophy.
+. Young First Principles now sits in the House
t of Commons as member for Westminster. 1t
is no wonder that Mr.. Dsraeli should dislike
D and scorn Mr.. Mill; what has he to do with
. principles of any description"
A school has been established at Toulon
e for the study of torpedoes. All the studies
t will he followed on board the old frigate Louis
XIV. and the experiment will take place at
gveres All the five great naval ports, Brest,
: Cherbourg, L'0rient, Rochefort and Toulon
are now defended by gigantic sunken torpe-
does, which can be exploded in second by the
electric wires, applied after new Austrian
invention.
, - What we all want, is religion that
| not only bears on the sinfulness of sin, but on
: the rascality of lying and stealing-a religion
{ | that banishes all small measures from the
: connters. small baskets from the stalls, peb-
| ,,,es from cotton bags and sugar, rocks from
4 wool cbickory from Coffee alum from bread
# lard from butter, strychnine from wine, and
e water from milk cans. The religion tnat is to
y advance the world win not put all the big
Q strawberries and peaches ION the top and bad
l. ones at the bottom. 1t will not offer more
: baskets of foreign wines than the vineyards
y ever produced bottles.
" During the severe snow squali last sun.
y day morning, lady at church tnougn -.
= remarked "Isn't it fortunate thae 'nis ~.
il Easter Sunday, for ifit were, how many 'n'S'
N sonas Of nav bonnets would he spoiiso'.