The Portland daily press., 1868-10-14
Varietfes.

"A boy who left his grandmother's bouse
in Vermont about sixteen years ago, to return
to his mothers home in Chicopee, strayed TO
New Bedford on whaling voy age, went to
Australia, married a Scotch girl, became
wealthy, and with his wife and five children
is now on visit to his mother, who had not
heard from him for long time. He proposes
to stay in this country now
Carlyle has taken up with poor dull old
King George III. as his latest hero. and IL ia
feared that he is about to write the life of that
monarch.
"A Frencbman has invented a kind OF safe.
which, when fraudulently opened, will kindlo
brilliant Bengal light and assemble crowd.
The Boston Advertiser observes that those
enemies OF newspapers, the heads of govern
ment departments, are preparing the docu-
ments with which they annually attempt to
swamp the journals of the country.
Miss Braddon's new novel will be called
run to Earth" 1t is suggested thar the au-
thor is running it into the ground.
"A few weeks ago Queen Isabella wanted
| to send an army 10 protect Rome. Now the
| Pope sends a war vessel to bring the dethron-
ed Queen to Rome for safety.
Theodore Parkers works, translated into
the Swedish language, are to be found in all
the bookstores in Stockholm
"A sporting gentleman of Paris, having
lost his last shilling at play, went to the coun-
try, where his sister sent him three thousand
francs. He won all back again, and got a con-
siderable sum OF money in hand. He then
went to his hotel to his bootmaker and tailor.
paid them, and made arrangements to be fed,
clothed and shod for ten years. He was then
| ready to try his luck again.
"A local paper1n Arkansas SAYS that dirt is
so cheap there that persons buying farms have
| to look sharp or they will have an extra forty
acres or so smuggled into the deed.
Ladies in the New York street cars are
frequently insulted by the puppies who ride
up and down for the purpose of seeing and be-
lug seen. As general thing the ladies tame
| ly submit to the impertiuent gaze of the
| brutes, or change their seats when annoyed by
| them in any way. But the other day, very
nrettv and rather styli III looking lady, while
riding up in Fulton Ferry stage, attracted
the attention of pup inside, and he immedi-
| atey began to annoy her He failed 10 max
ing killing glances at her, and finally began to
J)uCu Her lOOt Wltn MS own. The lady stood
it as long as human nature could stand an in
suit, and then, with the rapiditS of thought,
slapped the fellow with all her might full in
the lace. In an instant the blood spurted all
over his immaculate shirt bosom, and oowed
and erest-fallen he got out or the stage.
An Arkansas editor has been presented
with new hat, whereupon he says:-"A
grateful humor commenced caroling through
our veins like young dog with an old shoe"
The Mississippi Index says that Septem-
Der will long be remembered in Columbus.
Members of nearly every household have been
stricken with disease-too many of them, alasi
have felt the icy presence of the reaper, Death.
Craped doors have become so familiar that
they hardly excite comment, and, in the house
of God, the minister takes an eloquent text
from the troubled faces of his hearers and from
benches that look mourRful for their absent
occupants.
Sir Moses Montefore says that neither in
in the Holy Land, nor in any other part of the
world. has sentence of death been pronounced
by a Jewish tribunal since the close Of the
| great Sanhedrim in Jerusalem.