The Portland daily press., 1868-05-22
Varieties.

The trustees of church in Brooklyn who
have just finished a new and elegant church,
deem it quite too good TO be used for funeral
services. They recently refused to open the
building for the obesequies of a minister of
their own denomination.
The Chicago Dous las Monument Associ-
alton has exhausted its funds. Fifty thousand
dollars is wanted
"A member of a certain theological semina-
ry was so sensitive as to any suspicion of pla-
giarism that he never allowed himself to make
the slightest quotation without giving his au-
| thority. On one occasion he commenced
| grace at breakfast thus: "Lord, we thank Thee
| that we have been awakened from the sleep
which a 'oriter in the Edinburgh Reuieao has
called the image of DEATH"
Over sixty specimens of surgical instru-
ments have been found at Pompeii, two of
which have been patented in France as new
inventions
"A gloomy minded gentleman, a few even
ings since, pretended to be astonished at the
small number of suicides; then, after pause,
he accounted for it in this melancholy but
| profound way: "The fact is, that by the time
we have discovered the emptiness of life, liv-
suicide, there is an excellent French saying:
81 do not understand suicide. Life is too
short for one to have time for impatence with
| it,"
The late Colonel Hazard, the Connecticut
powder man, leaves an estate of about 50 OOO,-
600.
| Miss Souslotf young woman who recent
ly obtained doctors diploma at Zurich for
surgery and midwifery has just passed an ex-
animation at st. Petersburg with the inten-
tion of practicing in Russia. According to
the law, in order to have the right of so doing,
| a doctor who has taken his degree at any for
| egn university is compelled to submit to an
examination before the Medical Board at the
Ministere de l'Interieur. 1t was before this
council that Miss Sousloff was examined Uiga
ooce in physiology, therapeutics, midwifery
and surgery, besides writing satisfactory es-
say ON the subject of Emphatic glands.
The French papers report a new inven-
tion; artificial babies, for promoting the COM
fort and tranquility of travellers who dislike
company. These infants, when wound up, ut
| ter such dreadful cries that chance passengers
| avoid the carriage which contains one. They
| are advertised thus: "Ihe best kind, with
voices very shrill and mechant, ranging over
five octaves at will, $40. OF the second class,
| uttering screams not so loud, but lamentable
and insupportable, So. Third class, ordinary
intermittent cries, as if from alarm, can be
carried in the pocket, $3.50 These infants are
warranted for year, and in elegance and nat.
ural appearance leave nothing to be desired"
| An old lady recently lamenting the cold
and backward spring, remarked she had some
hope yet, as she saw by her paper "that seed
time and harvest would never fall" She was
reminded that the sentiment was not original
in her newspaper, but was copied from anoth-
| er Journal.
| -"Fatber, dom like the bishop" "Why,
my chiId?" Because he sprinked water all
| over my new dress, and said, Fanny, despise
thee"
The London Lancet says that the question
| of choosing a woman to fill chair in the OBJ
stetric section Of the Academy of Medicine of
Paris is being considered, and that the chief
midwife of the Materna@ Hospital will prob
ably be so elected. Madame Alliot, the pres
ent incumbent of this office, is a woman of
profound knowledge and vast experience, a
worthy successor of Boivin and La Chapelle,
and an honored co-worker with the most en-
| lightened obstetricians of Paris.
That rascal Buonaparte has most extra
ordinary facility for recovering from serious
attacks of illness.
| "A waggsh individual has been seen IN the
streets of this city with an umbrella bearing
this frank legend in bold white letters; "sto-
len from ] G.. Googins, Skowhegan." This
Storm is working a disastrous revolution in
tho morals of our citizens.
The grass crop in Pennsylvania will, it is
said be larger than it has been for ten years
Have we any Noah among us? Yesterday
was the ninth day of the storm. Only thirty
one days more wanted to make up the scrip
| tural number
Queen Victoria, in authorizing her Prime
Minister to hold the threat of dissolution t1
terrorem over the House of Commons, mas as
sumed prerogative that has not been inVoK-
ed before for nearly forty years IL IS uanger-
ous ground that the little woman Is treading
unon. Goldwin Smith has already assured
the world that the English respect for mon
orchv has nearly died out. So long as the
oueeu attends to her legitimate duties she
will continue to exist ON sufferance.