The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-28
Varieties.

"A cure of one Of the Paris churches has
denounced from the altar all persons who 20
to see M. Emile Anglers new play, "Paul
Forestier," and has declared them ipso 1acto
excommunicated. This is rather awkward.
for the Emperor and the Empress have been
to see this very play, and loudly applauded 1t.
Herr Karl Formes has abandoned bass and
gone upon the stage at Wurtzburg as an ac-
tor.
The proprietor of the Virginia paper call.
cd the Tobacco Plant has made an extraordi-
nary pun by changing its name to the Quid
Nunc.
The phrase "the Rupert of debate" ap-
piled to Lord Derby, originated with Lord
Lytton, who didn't by any means intend
compliment by it.
"A letter from Rome in the London News
says that Mr.. George Peabody and Hon Rob
ert G. Winthrop were recently presented to
the Pope. His Holiness was fully aware of
the character Of his visitors, whom he REQUEST
ed to be seated in his presence, an unusual
mark of distinction. A delicate token of Pho
Nono's appreciation of Mr.. Peabody's univer-
sal benevolence was afforded by the Latin
quotations from Holy Writ. showing the bless
ed quality of charity, W which he wrote with his
own hand under some Photographic likenesses
of himself, which he presented to the party %
souvenirs of the visit.
Jennie June" says, '"The new mask veil,
the latest novelty in this line in Paris, has
made its appearance in New York. 1t is en-
broidered thckly, except in the spaces left
for the mouth and eyes, and Is edged with silk
fringe. AT present they are five dollars each =,
but they will be lower by and bye. 1t need
hardly be said that they are only fit to be worn
bp very fast women"
The Red-River Nor'Wester of February
70 contains the following strange paragraph:
we are informed that the people of tho
Portage, having become disgusted with the
present rule of the Hon. Hudson Bay Compa-
ny, have formed themselves into new Repub-
lie, to be known hereafter by the name of New
Caledonia. President Thomas Spence and
his Private Secretary, Mr.. Frederick Bird, sof
the new Republic, were here last week, con-
ferring with Governor Mactavish, on impor-
tant business, the nature of which is not yet
made public"
The Western communities are waking up
to the Importance of establishing factories.
i
fore him, does not pay his subjects SO we'll IS
| was supposed
Real estate in Milwaukee is higher thsn il
has been at any time since 1857. Its price Is
said to be regulated by that of wheat; when
the latter ranges high for two or three success
sive years, real estate invariably goes up.
The best time made on an Indiana divorce
trial was at Terre Haute-decree granted in
one minute from the commencement of the
case.
The Oxford University Eight, who decln-
ed a challenge from Harvard, were recently
beaten in scrub race by scratch" eight, So
lected from the various colleges,
Two reasons were given by fashionable
man of Paris why he would not dine at the
house Of Madame Blank: first, they give
meagre fare; second, they gossip about every
body" II am tired" said he, "of eating my
contemporaries with dry bread"
A critic says Brignoli's new symphony il
"a sound Of the sea-" 1t was sounding Of
the that made Brignols fortune in the frs,
place.
The st. John IN. b. Morning News SAYS
| Sheriff Harding captured three fine carriboo
in the vicinity of Magaguadavic last week.
| Chicago wholesale merchants propose tc
abandon the drummer" system.
Mr.. Richard Grart White, in his paper on
"Words and their Uses" in the current mum
Der Of the Galaxy, takes up the cudgels in de.
fence of the common use of the word some in
the sense OF about, which many critics have
lately condemned as improper. 1t has been
the fashion to attack its use in such phrases as
some nve or six hundred" or "some five
miles on the road" but Mr.. White shows thai
1t is thus used by Thackeray, Prior, Bacon
Raleigh, and Shakespeare.
Six hundred elephants marched IN tn'
procession Of the recent grand duroar ~
} Lucknow.
There is some talk of bringing to England
, "Cleopatra's Needle" the prostrate ooelisk a
Alexandria, Egypt which Ali Paeha gave Il
: George w. about forty years ago. 1t woult
5 cost 10000 to transport it, and John Bul
do,bts II the relic is worth the money.
: An English gentleman lately called a
! one of the Paris post-ofices to inquire how
much it would cost to send himself home Il
England by mail. He was weighed, and afte
/, q little calculation the clerk informed hin
t that it would cost S,6iS francs. The sum wa
/, counted out, but the police were called enc
Milford was led back to his hotel and pronounc
J, ed insane.
? NJ wm. Shore, an Englshman of wealth
;. saia 20 have been afianced at one time I
T F,orence Nightingale, did at Fox Lake, Wis
o consin, last Sunday.