The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-09
Varieties.

-Rumor has it that Mr.. Robert Lincoln.
son of the late President, is to marry daughter
OF Hon. James Harlan. Mr.. Lincoln it will be
remembered, is graduate of Harvard. Heis
said to inherit many of his honored fathers
best traits of character, and to be making good
headway in his profession as lawyer
An American .diplomatist in Europe writes
as follows to the Independent.-"I am be-
ginning to await my successor here little
impat iently. don't want to lose the coming
summer a' hO''0'-@ = '---- clad to have spent so
much time abroad. My Republican convIc-
tions have lost all the vagueness that they had
before knew what kings were. 1believed in
liberty, equality and fraternity ever since
could think. But only since came to Europe
have felt how wicked and hateful were the
crimes against the human soul committed
every day by priests and kings. A good pope
or good king is nearly as bad as the worst.
We cannot afford to compromise or condoae.
There is no salvation for this world outside Of
an intelligent, practical trust in the immediate
God and the sovereign people,"
French writer's, in describing a magnifi-
cent fete at Nice in honor OF Admiral Farra
gut, dwell with admiration on the fact that
neither the Admiral nor any of his officers,
heroes of so many brilliant victories, wore any
decorations or insignia of any peculiar dis
ainction on their breasts, while near them
stood French officers covered with medals
stars, and orders of every kind. We do not
wholly sympathize with their admiration. SO
far as these ribbons, stars and medals were the
badge and recognition of individual services
and achievements, they were things to be
Of nd haxya hafo hal
express the opinion that our government is
wrong in not similarly honoring the services
of brave men. .t#
"A French paper supposes that whale
may be only an antediluvian sardine, but
thinks it fortunate that men are deprived OF
this faculty of unlimited growth /" At the
present price of bread" it says, "a man eighty
feet high, would be the ruin of any family"
I'm Peru, the coast along the Pacific is de-
cribed as long, rainless desert, intersected at
intervals by narrow green valleys, irrigated by
the torrents fed from the melting SHOWS of the
Cordilleras, that rise but few leagues back
from the rocky shore. In the mountain region
lies the famous lake of Titicaca, seven hundred
miles long by two hundred broad, with no
visible outlet to the sea.
Among the matters of practical interest
now before Congress is a movement to reduce
| our small currency to something like order
and system, by calling in the small notes un-
der twenty-five cents, and the incongruous
set of low coins now in circulation, and the
substitution for the whole of them of uniform
coinage of one, three, five and ten cent token
coins Of the same material and relative weight
as the present five cent nickel coin.
The Charlaston Couriar xviSalv talIa fba
people of the South that the problem of regen-
Grafton and recuperation must be solved by
the labor of their own hands, and not through
reliance upon legislation. Whatever laws NAV
be passed, or whatever plan of reconstruction
may prevail, the heavy mark left upon their
section by the iron heel of war can be obliter-
ated only by industry and toll.
"A letter was dropped into the Post Office
in Chicago, recently, addressed to "Mr. Cold
facts, the Senator of Congress-"
Mrs. Kembe has been so annoyed by peo-
pie coming in late at her readings. that she
has given her agents orders to close the doors
at eight o'clock. Persons who have purchased
tickets can then go to the office and get their
money, II they choose, but, under no circum-
stances, can they come in. This is commeud-
able proceeding, and may help to cure some
people OF bad manners.
The Saturday Review, in reference 10
sensational literature, says that OF late years 1t
has declined not so much from being written
down as being written out. 1t no longer plea
sanity excites, but where it does not disgust,
Mr.. Robert Ball Hughes, who died at Dor
chester on the fifth inst, was an artist of uu-
questionable genius and a genial and exceed
ingly social gentleman. The "Dead Christ"
in the Catholic Church at South Boston,
which was burnt few years since, and the
bronze statue of Bowditch at Mount Auburn,
have been regarded as among his best WORKS;
but his"Uncle Toby" Little Nell,' and the
"Fisher Boy" have likewise received the COM
mendation their excellence of conception and
execution merted His "poker sketches" so
called, were unique and curious, and full of
strength and grace. Some of them were ad-
miraole as portraits.