The Portland daily press., 1868-08-17
Varieties.

Mr.. Parke Goodwin, of the New York Eve
ming Post, is travelling in England and writing
letters to his paper. He was bathing in the
Avon at latest advces. ...-
"A nervous individual writes to ask "weth-
er strychine, what the police gives to dogs,
won't pizen the human being after sassingers
has been frde."
An old lady on Long Island, who lost all
her hair short time since, now reioces, in
her seventieth year, in a second crop, long,
black, curly and luxuriant
The fashiouables at Long Branch have
paid off the debt on Methodist church there
by way of amusement
Miss Braddon, the distinguished novelist,
| who is now doing the "Idiot of the Noun
tain" for the Sunday Mercury, is expected
soon in New York. Her arrival will be made
the occasion of festive gathering of the Lit
erary Sisters at Delmonico's. ..
"A Paris paper prints despatch from Ire
land that arms had been seized from an Amer
ican who lately landed at Queenstown, and it
gravely adds: "Other seizures of the same
kind having recently taken place, the authori-
ties have given orders to shoot all travellers
coming from American
Our Lewiston corresponds Mt, commenting
on the enormous quantity of coal used in the
manufacture of gas for that city, puts this
question: "Why can't the heat, now wasted in
the manufacture of so much coal into gas, be
utilized by distribution through non-radiating
tubes to points where it is needed?" Why,
indeed? Here is work for the economists.
"A thief released from Jail at Des Moines,
Iowa celebrated" by running off with the
jailor's daughter.
DIR. Lemuel Dickinson, of Colchester,
Conn, whose death was recently announced,
attributed his sickness to breathing the poi
soned air of disseCting room in which the To-
cal physicians were jointly interested. He
SAID he felt the air penetrate to his lungs, and
the peculiar sensation afterward experienced
in breathing he never could remove.
In a Western town, the other day, a COM
pany Of Scotch Highlanders who had been on
an excursion, were passing up the street in
their "kilts" and "tartans," but sans culottes,
when Dutchman who had observed them in
tently tor a few seconds, suddenly exclaimed:
"Mein Gott, all de tobacco signs ish proke
loosep -ff
MI. Harris, in "Walks and Talks" saws
the moving machine is not appreciated as a
means OF destroying weeds, as it should be-
He thinks where barley or wheat stubble is
infested with weeds, the best thing is to run
the moving machine over it and shave weeds
and stubble close to the ground. On wheat
stubble full of thstles this plan worked well
with him.
Says the Talmud: 'If you speak in the
night, speak softly; if you speak in the day.
time look around you before you speak"
Mr. Thurlow Weed writes from London
that the effect of the recent drouth upon the
parks in that city can scarcely be credited by
those who have not seen them; in many of
them there is not even pretence of pasturage
in a wooded quarter of Hyde Park, where
we were driving, the withered and iauen
leaves covered the ground as they do with us
in November"
-Tbe dablia, it is stated, possesses some mar
| cotic property which seems to paralyze bees
when they enter the flower for the purpose of
collecting the honey or the pollen. In the fall,
when the dahlias are in full blossom, numbers
of bees may be found in them in state OF
stupefaction, which ends in death if they are
not removed from the fatal influence of these
| flowers.
| A murderer can be hired at Portici, near
| Naples, for two cents.
The fire in the Canadian woods is realy
Getting to be serious matter. 1t is spreading
fearfullv and there seems to be no prospect OF
;rs s,onning until IL has burned and destroyed
the whole of the noble forests
The uotoriety attained by the story OF the
wickedest man in New York has induced a re
val publisher to print an account OF the WICK
edest woman in New York.