The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-13
" arieties.

The sums paid for cable messages by the
English Press for year amount to a total of
$1,000, against $4,000 paid by the American
Press. The London papers only give the
brefest telegraphic items, and never publish
the long cable dispatches on public affIirs
ihaj are common with the leading journals of
New York.
Things not often seen,-a fruit tree that
keeps away pilferers by its own bark A
saucepan that will boil over with rage when
the cook is insulted. A clock that is SO con-
ceted as not to run down its own works. The
coat of poor mans stomach Ito see if it is
out at the elbows)
Among the Assyrian tablets at the British
Museum have been discovered records of
earthquakes. These are not supposed to have
been recorded for any scientific purposes, but
as annals of omen and augury, each earth
quake recited being accompanied by an emu
meration of the events supposed to have oc-
CURED in consequence.
Hon. thaniel Holmes of st. Louis has
announced his determination. "for private rea-
sons" not to be candidnte for reelection as
Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri
This is supposed to mean his acceptance of a
professorship in the Harvard Law School.
Holmes is the man who has written book to
prove that Bacon wrote Shakspeare's plays.
-Planchette has come at last to have a vo-
cabulary of its own. We have the verb "to
planchette" aud the adjective "planchettian.
The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes: "Mr. Goldwin Smith
was to have sailed for America in August, but
finds himself unable to get away before Oe-
tober. His friends have done their best to
keep him in England, by offers of a seat in
Parliament and by all kinds of urgency; but
he has never been shaken in his purpose. As
l have before written, his visit is likely to ex-
tend over two or three years. He has chosen
Providence. r. L, as his residence during the
earlier portion of his work, as affording great
facilities for inquiring into early colonial his
tory, together with a climate rather less trying
than that of Boston or Cambridge"
The following singular announcement ap-
pears in the London Church News: "a Re-
treat of the Companions of the Love OF Jesus,
to be held at st. Saviour's, Osuaburgh street,
London, will commence on July 13, at 5 P. NJ,
and will close early ON the morning of July II.
Ladies attending the Retreat should be pro-
avoided on account Of the disturbance Of the
rustling The books used for prayers will be
the Day Hours of the Church of England
The Retreat will be under the direction of DR..
Pusev."
George Alfred Townsend thinks that
General Frank Blair could only be nomi-
mated by the Democrats on the "Let me kiss
him for his father" theory.
"A journalistic admirer of Horatio Sey-
mour photographs him as follows THE
head is well shaped, and set gracefully back
on pair of firm shoulders, and the lower part
of the face, below the eyes, is almost perfect
oval. The eyes are of a brilliant brown color
and shine like diamonds beneath a firmly
balanced head, which is bald-the baldnets
extending as far as the back part of the skull.
The mouth is pleasant and when Seymour
smiles at you the feeling produced is genial
one"
The Paris Temps publishes in its chronique
the following paragraph: IN. Victor Louis Ja-
cot, by profession a prophet, living at No.2,
Claren ion Pllce, Brighton, informs US tn It he
feels himself compelled to announce to US that
the Divine Saviour is on the eve of fulfilling
his promise of reappearing. and that the first
resurrection, as described in the 24th chapter
of Matthew, will take place in few months.
The Tennis remarks tina" this indeed will be
n mighty event, but M. Jacots prophetic in
sn;rat;ons enable him likewise to reveal to US
that Austria and France are about to come TO
blows, that Turkey will disappear from the
map, and that Emperor Napoleon III will
seize measures of gold and silver and other
good things in Egypt whence his influence
will extend over the globe. For the truth oil
these revelations he letters to chap. x'. OF Dan
iel, 40, A. AZ We rses, and for his address to NO.
2, Clarendon Place, Brighton"
-Some~Ameri6aus were at Montreal 1u-
I " 1st, Dominion Day. They saw the Eng
lish French and American flags nylng' ana
but little enthusiasm in celebrating 'ne ha,ai
dav of Canada. As they walked through the
citv one okthem suggested that it would be
we'll 10 give three days grace aud run the lst
into The the 4th of July and join anniver-
| saries.