The Portland daily press., 1868-05-01
Varieties.

The New York Evening Post has discover
ed that story in Harper's Magazine Tor Feb
ruary entitled "Mary Nealy" appeared in
Putnam's Magazine fifteen years ago under
the title of "Mary Spears" 1t is by Mrs. E.
f. Ellet.
Mrs. Samantha Grer, the ferocious widow
of Chicago, who attempted to pound Miss
Comstock to death the other day. on account
of jealousy, was a-raigned Thursday, and held
in $4,000 bonds for trial. Miss Comstock ap-
peared in court, attended by Moss, the young
man to whom she is engaged to be married,
but she is quite weak from Ter injuries, and
unable to stand alone.
The editor of the Manchester IN. H.
Journal modestly requests all the school dis
trict clerks to send the amount of sugar made
in their vicinities to him. He didn't mean
that exactly, but it IS what he says.
"A Havre paper states that NJ. Lesseps has
informed the French Emperor that the Suez
Canal will be completed in October next The
canal is now used as means of communica-
ton and transport with the French force in
Cochin China.
"A professorship of concord is suggested at
Yale College, for the benefit of the New Ha-
ven medical cliques, who, according to the
journals of that city, entertain mutual hate
quite too cordial 70 be expunged"
The Rev. Mr.. Rooney, of Meriden, Conn,
preached sermon in the Roman Catholic
church of that city last week, in which, after
explaining and defending the doctrine Of
trans -substantiation, he called upon God to
send down fire and consume him, and then
"bury his ashes in the depths of he'll" if be did
not believe the doctrine he had just preached.
He challenged the advocates of any other
creed to say the same and undergo as stern .
test.
Father, why don't we ever see any faces
at the Window" asked a son of his parent al
they were passing an insane asylum. "Be-
cause their heads are all turned" was the re-
ply.
via, n. Y, the other evening, at sunset, with
the utmost vividness, and lasted about half an
hour. At one time eleven vessels were dis
tinctly visible; even a steam tug was seen
with steam issuing from the smoke stack.
Large bodies of ice, covering what appeared
to be several acres each, were seen openly
floating toward the source of the Niagara.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin of New York preached
his twentieth anniversary sermon on Sunday
last He will pass the summer in Europe.
An English paper has discovered the line
which divides a distinction from difference.
1t saws that "a little difference frequently
makes many enemes;" while Ga little distinc-
ton attracts hosts OF friends to the person on
whom it is conferred"
There are queer ways OF getting living
in London. A man was brought before Alder
man Hale, charged with "intruding" into the
sewers for the purpose of catching rats He
was caught coming up trap with bag con-
tanning thirty live rats. The Alderman refus
ed to punish the man, thinking that by Catch
ing the rats he was doing service to the
,own The man iesisted that he did great
An atrocious punster says he noticed by
tLe late English papers that Disraeli in maxi
ing his recent speech was indeed Dizzy really.
A woman in Galena, Ill., left her baby for
short time in charge of young girl, but the
youngster got fretful, and to please it, the girl
tied it in a sheet, let 1T out of window, three
stories from the ground, and when discovered,
was amusing it by raising it up and down in
the sheet, which she held with her hands in
side. The performance was discovered by
some Of the neighbors, who were not long IN
putting stop to it.
The Saturday Review has lately been
making itself offensive TO all decent people oy
series OF scandalous attacks on women' the
falsehood and unfairness of which are equaled
only by the pruriency of thought which they
hotrov A well-informed writer in Public
noio;o, Tins refers to the papers and their Or
on "Tbe papers in the Saturday Review are
s-;t+en by woman-a clever but unprinci-
va womap; one of the school from whom all
H. npmberless indecent novels proceed; one
wh, driven from the society of respectable
women, revenges herself, like the fox in the
old fable, by revilng what she cannot attain.
Why not treat the writings as you would the
writer? Take no notice. Pray for her IN pri-
vate that she may apply her talents De.'er'
and endeavor, by tears, penitence' anu iAS's'
to render herself fit for the society oi reSpeo-
table women, of whom she evidently Knows
but little" .,.sD.,.
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