The Portland daily press., 1868-09-23
Varieties.
The New York gamins roast kittens for

The New York ganains roast kittens for
fun.
Cardinal Andrea did not leave his proper
ty to the church, but IN his will was found this
exasperatiDg sentence: Il leave to the Holy
Father the cardinals, the preates, and my
other enemies, my sincere and complete par
dom
The other day a cry of "Stop thief " was
raised in the Champs Elysees. The young
men on velocipedes gav chase, captured the
pickpocket and handed him over to the police.
Mrs. Stanton has been to Vineland, N. j.,
and expresses herself much gratifed to find
bloomers there.
The rice birds have left their usual food
and attacked the caterpillar in the cotton
fields, becoming saviors instead of destroyers.
Clara Louise Kellogg has made four
years engagement with Max Strakosch, three
| years to be spent in Europe and one in this
country.
The jovial grimaces of the Democratic
newspapers over the Maine election remind
| the N. Y. Tribune of an ancient dame in the
| ancient days OF Rhode Island, who having re-
ceived twenty lashes at the whippng-post for
| scolding, turned with bland bow to the exc
| ly refreshed"
Weston, the pedestrian, gives his expert
ence in walking round a circle, thus After
six fair trials am convinced that walking up
on circular track is not only against my ma
ture, but unnatural to either man or horse.
Until my last trial 1 attributed my previous
| failures to every cause but the right one, and
| it was only by accident that learned that it
| was the continued walking round the circle
| that caused the dizziness in my head and the
nauseating feeling in the stomach, besides the
| feeling of intense drowsiness that could not
account for. 1 can only describe the feeling
as such as one feels when inhaling ether, with
the single exception of severe pain in the
| stomach"
Gen. o. o. Howard, who has Just return.
| ed from visit of inspection through the
| South, brings back an encouraging report OF
the condition of the freedmen there. The
Democratic politicians are beginning to treat
| newly-made voters with distinguished consid-
Grafton, and humbly solicit their support, but
| the freedmen know who have been their
emancipators and their friends.
The latest intelligence from John Allen is,
| that he was announced to lecture in Stamford,
l
delirium tremens, and did not appear. He has
abandoned the intention of making a lectur-
ing tour.
| The reason why Northern Republicans
| who 90 South are called carpet-baggers is to
distinguish them from the Democrats, who
| generally carry their clothes in red handker-
chief.
| A considerate minister not long since dis
| missed his congregation in view of a thunder
storm. He felt that his thunder would be bet
ter appreciated on pleasant summer Sundays.
Prof Agassiz and his party are now at
| Denver, Colorado. correspondent writes
that the great naturalist is "fairly sweltering
with enthusiasm" He finds abundant nate
rial to sustain his glacial theory. According
to the same correspondent "All Brazil was
nothing to what he had seen of natural beau
| ty and scientific revelation already in crossing
| the Plains"
| The Concord IN. H. Statesman says that
| the bequest of Countess Sarah Rumford to
found the Rolfe and Rumford Asylum for poor
and needy persons, chiefly female orphan chill
dren has accumulated until the present
amount is about forty thousand dollars. When
the bequest reaches sixty thousand dollars the
plan of the Countess will be carried into effect.
"A negro, after gazing at the Chinese long
and earnestly, exclaimed, ''If de white folks IL
dark as dat out dere, wonder what's dc color
OBJ de niggers?"
| "A steamer engaged in removing snags
from the bottom of the Mississippi river near
St Paul, Mich, last week, pulled up horse
and huogv. all harnessed. The horse was dead,
having backed off ferry boat some miles
above, a few hours before and been drowned