The Portland daily press., 1868-06-04
PLANNING MILL AND MACHINE SHOP.
Varieties.

Shooting stars are continually passing
through space. Professor Loomis says S,O0O,-
600 shoot through the earth's atmosphere every
twenty-four hours. Most of them are very
small-4S0 to the ouncei
-Hamlin Clark of Tyringham Mass, discov-
cred under the seat of his buggy, when he
reached Lee on Sunday morning week,
rnotherly old hen quietly setting on twenty
two eggs.
Upwards of sixty steamships, ships and
square-rigged vessels have been wrecked in
and about San Francisco harbor during the
past twenty years.
Miss Reignolds was to make her first ap-
pearance in London at the Princess's Theatre,
May 13, in the comedy of the wonder" Her
many friends in Portland will be glad to
hear of her success before an English audi
| ence.
Shakespeare must have had vision of the
modern bonnet when, in the flaming of the
Shrew," he wrote the following:
Petruchio-Why, this was moulded on a por
A velvet dish ;-fiei fiei-
A knack. toy, trick; baby's cap;
Why tits cookie or walnut SHE'LL;
Kdtharina-"Tll have no bigger; this doth fit
the time:
And gentlewomeA wear such caps as these.
| Mr.. Garrison was among the speakers in
the Temperance Convention lately held in
Boston. He said he had been teetotaler for
forty years, but had taken no prominent part
in the reform, years ago, because he didn't
| wish to damage it with his support. The
| &I,o, he IN
famous; but now the cause is under ban, and, /,
said Mr.. Garrison, with pardonable pride, "I
believe am no longer infamous"-a fact that
the most enthusiastic plaudits confined.
| -Bergerac, small town on the Dordogue
in France, has been the scene of the greatest
miracle of the present century. A profane
farmer in that vicinity sent for the cure to give
extreme unction to dying invalid Placing
| in his pocket vial of the holy oil, his rever-
enee made haste to the spot. He found the
sick one in the stable; and ID, it was pigl
"May God punish you'll" was the priests curse.
The maediction was fulfilled The profane
farmer disappeared, and at last accounts had
not been found; but, in place of the one pig,
there are two, and the second is averred to be
the missing mocker under metamorphosisl
The sick pig recovered and will make excel
lent pork but nobody will buy the other, and
the widow hesitates to kill him.
The annual commencement of the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at
Kents Hill occurs on the 10th and 11th OF this
month. The address is to be delivered by the
Rev. G. G. Everett OF Bangor, the poem oy
the Rev. Geo. Lansing Taylor, OF Brooklyn
NY.
Sir Samuel Baker, in his new work on the
"Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," relates a
charming example of simplicity in theolog-
;cal discussion. Meat is scarce in the
Nrbian provinces, and the Arab hunters eat
sucb animals as they find; even the flesh OF
the wild boar is used, though in direct opposi-
tion to the rules of the Koran. Sir Samuel
once asked them what their Faky (priest)
would say if he knew of their transgression'
"Ohp' they replied, "we have asked his per-
mission, as often we are hard pressed Tor
food in the iungles, and he says, If you have
the Koran in your hand and no pig, you are ior-
hidden to eat pork; but if you have the p'9 IN
your hand and no Koran you had better eat
what God has given YOU Truiy.a Juolcious
priestl GO,
-.,be King of Portugal has decorated Sir
Jobn Bowring with the insignia of knight OF
the "Order of Christ"