The Portland daily press., 1868-08-18
Varieties.

There is story told of Thaddeus Stevens
which illustrates at once the humor and the
indomitable spirit of the man. 1t is we'll
known that for some time he used to be car
ried to his place in the House in the arms of
his attendants, yet he continued to attend to
business. On one occasion while he was be-
ing thus carried by his servants, who are both
young men hardly yet in the prime of life, Mr..
Stevens turned to them and said dryly but
hesitatingly, showing by his feeble manner
and tone his exhausted condition: "Boys, L
wonder how III get to the House when you
two die." . ....
"A correspondent of the American Journal
of Horticulture says that that pest of the flow
er garden, the rose slug, may be effectually
checked and routed by the use of white pow
dered hellebore, which may be procured
cheaply of most druggists. Apply to the foli-
age infested, while the dew is on, with COM
mon dredging-box; remembering to cleanse
the box well before using for other purposes, as
the hellebore is poisonous. rr.n trr
The Nova Scotia Journal of Agriculture
says that from all parts of the Province the ac-
counts of the hay crop are doleful with the
exception Of Cumberland county, where, it is
said, the crop IL very good. sr r.
France has spent so much money on the
Dunderberg, which it calls the Rochambeau,
that it has succeeded in spelling her for ram
and in reducing her speed to six knots an hour.
1t is stated in London that Schneider, the
original DucheSse, and Duprez. the original
Fritz, have received offers of $4,000 each to
play short season in America. ,.
"A young girl in New York named Kate
Connor, fifteen years of age, who was arrested
on suspicion of stealing a watch, died in the
station house on Wednesday night-it is pre-
sumed from shame and grief. .a
-Tupper's lines .ra
"Shall popery and its vermin
"a -rF (As bad old times have seen)
..v Again invest the ermine
OF England and her Queen?"
are supposed to indicate that Victoria's furs
need immediate attention.
"A six-in-hand, with two tigers on the back
seat, is called "high-toned establishment" at
Saratoga. ..
"A woman has been arrested in London as
avagrant for exciting the public sympathy by
begging with a straw baby.
Among the gifts to newly-married pair
at town in New Jersey, the other evening,
was broom sent in by lady accompanied
with the following sentiment:
"This trifiing gift accept from me
Its use would commend;
In sunshine use the brurby part
In storms the other end"
The camp meeting at Sing Sing, New
York, closed on Thursday with a great love
feast and final grand march around the
ground at midnight. During the services a
subscription, amounting to $500, was taken up
to defray the legal expenses necessary to OBJ
tain the release of young girl who is said to
be confined in Catholic institution because of
her conversion to Methodism.
"A correspondent writes: ITO see Niagara,
you buy eleven silk dresses for your wife, and
six shirts for yourself. You then get all the
ready money you have, borrow all your friends
have, and make arrangements for unlimited
credit at two or three good, solvent banks.
You then take six trunks, some more money,
a nurse, colored servant, some more money.
and then, after getting some more money. and
extending your credit at one or two more
strong banks, you set out. 1t is better, il pos
sible, Just before you leave, to mortgage your
homestead and get some more money"
"A Gel man paper, not content with calling
Harriet Hosmer and Charlotte Cushman two
blonde misses" designates the former as a
painter, and the latter as having "served in
the United States army as Major Cushman"
"A preacher, not long since, discoursing to
the boys in the New Hampshire State Reform
School upon the fact that the good were re-
spected while the bad were stunned, attempt
ed to Illustrate by saying, "Now, boys, when L
walk on the street 1 speak to some and not to
others; what now makes the difference?" sup
posing, of course, they would say, Because
some are good and some bad" but he was
much astonished to hear one little fellow sing
out, Because some are rich and some are
po)r."
-Swinburne is abont to shed the lustre of
his countenance upon the people OF this con-
tinent, and will make a special point Of pay
ing visit to Walt Whitman. He is said to be
prey to mortal melancholy, and his physi-
clan has ordered him TO travel. Some Whit
man will do him good.