The Portland daily press., 1868-06-25
Varieties.

The Evening Mail offers years subscrip-
tion to any one who will send it a list of 100
words formed from the letters in the word
strange, using no letter twice.
The Prince of Wa less speeches are excel
lent, rejecting great credit on Mr. Herbert
Fisher, the man who writes them.
Some learned French physicians are
writing essays "on the nature Of Jobs Illness"
They are found to differ widely upon the ex-
ternal appearance of the patient man. The
New York Journal of Medicine says it would
appear that the only thing wanting at this in
teresting discussion was the exhibition of
photograph of the distinguished sufferer, which
would have materially added. to the value of
the diagnosis expressed by the different mem
bers of the Societe Insperiale de Medicine de
Lyonsl
"A frightful accident occurred in London
derry, New Hampshire, on Saturday. A boy
named Charles Augustus Hamlet, hitched o
yoke of cattle to a heavy harrow, which stood
up against the fence, when the team started
and he was caught beneath, the harrow falling
upon him. He was dragged in this way for
four rods, and sustained q compound cominut-
ed fracture of the leg, the knee joint being dis
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through the flesh. The limb was amputated
and hopes are entertained of his recovery,
| Mrs. Lincoln and her son Tad" arrived In
| Springfield, Illinois, on Saturday. Tad, in be-
half of Mrs. Lincoln, presented a cane to Mr.
Jesse K. Dubois. The historical interest at
tached to this gift makes it of value to the re-
cipient. The cane is of California orange
stick, finished with great beauty, and is sur
mounted by a broad gold plate, on which is
| inscribed:
From BrodericE to Conness.
From COnness TO President Lincolll
From Mrs Lincoln to Jesse X. Dubois.
The New York papers are writing up the
projected National Academy as if they really
| expected that in a few years it would outrival
that OF France. No one can help wishing the
enterprise success.
| The American Association for the ad-
vancement of science meets this year at Chi
cago on the 9TH of Auguot The Association
was started in 1S4S and has held sixteen meet
| ings in different parts of the country.
| On Thursday night last an old lady, who
had got upon the train for Chicago at Free
port, Ill, was observed suddenly to throw up
her arms, exclaiming, II am a wicked witch
and am going 70 diel" She died soon after
with convulsions. In her pocket was found
a bottle labled poison
| Coming from an EnglishmaD, the following
in a recent book is very rich: "In the United
| States the temperature changes so suddenly
| that you may be scorched at one end of long
street and frozen before you reach the other"
| 1t is related Of an Engshman living near
Florence, where at last accounts the thermom-
eter marked ninety-ive degrees, that he has
devised an ingenious method of keeping cool.
His study is walled and foored with zinc, and
is in fact a large tank, filled breast high with
water. A few articles of furniture, such as a
writing table, chair or two, and well stored
book case raised upon cast iron supports, and
kept fast to their moorings by means OF screws,
| complete the arrangements. In this retreat or
aquarun, the owner passes the hot hours of
the day, receiving his friends and writing his
letters, with the occasional variety of dip be-
meath the surface.
| The New Haven Palladium says: "A CEN
sus of the children of Meriden is being taken
The children of each street are drawn together
| on the principal corner by means of hand
organ and monkey.
| The Chinese ambassadors at Washington
| carry two Watches one with minute hand
| and the other with an hour hand
The attention of Jewish parents is called
by the Hebrew Messenger, published in New
York, to the fact that Christians are trying to
proselyte Jewish children by establishing for
them free school. 1t urges that messengers
be appointed by the rabbits to note all chill
dren who attend, to warn their parents, and if
necessary to expel them from the synagogue.