The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-21
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The Emperor Napoleon has recently been
much interested in proposition submitted by
M. Krantz to make Paris a commercial port
by rendering the river Seine navigable from
the ocean to Paris for steamboats, of very re-
spectacle size. The. plan is said to be very
ingenious one, and, with the estimates, has al
-a'sr haH" s"hrnitted to a commission of sci
entific and practical gentlemen. 1t IS propos-=
ed to raise the banks of the river where re-
quired.
The historian Froude, at Royal Acade-
my dinner oration, spoke of Victoria as Soon
descending" to publish book. The force of
snobbery can no further go.
When you see, says the Autocrat, q young
man and woman walking down the street,
eleaning against each other like pair of bad
Unmatched oxen, it is pretty good sign that
they are bent on consolidation.
Miss Isabel McCulloch is singing in opera
South, and is called the Southern Star.
"A duel grew out of love affair at Louis
vile, in which blank cartridges and red ink
figured so successfully that one lover is now
flying from justice, supposing himself mur-
derer, while the other is laughing with the
young woman over a most tragic epstle left
by the ardent duelist.
The London Times recently said in one of
its leading articles that a trip to America is
now a necessary part of a political education.
The Times is wiser than it was.
"A Frenchman has discovered method of
making mirrors without the use of mercury
or tin. Platiua, in powder, is used instead. A
few hours is sufficient to complete the work,
instead of weeks, required by the other pro-
cess.
1t is positively asserted in Paris that
Mdlles Patti is now the Marquise de Caux.
The civil marriage alone has been celebrated,
as the religious ceremony is not to take place
until the Diva shall have completed all her
engagements.
"A Paris letter says Rossini, the great COM
poser, is especially fond OF maccaroni aud as
paragus. Once person who wished to get
into his good graces, anticipated his visit by
the present of some fine green peas. He'was,
however, coldly received. Another, better in
formed, sent asparagus, and the master receiv-
ed him with open arms. Already has il been
decided by himself that nothing but aspara-
gus shall be planted over the tomb of Rossini.
"A leader Of music in a church where con-
gregational singing was practiced selected
tune with the wrong metre, to be sung to the
words, with hyssop purge my soul, o Lordl'
He tried it twice, when some old lady cried :
out, sinister you had better try some other
ydr6"
Misses Crane, Ketchum and Bowen, De-
signers and Engravers on Wood" !" have hung
out their business sign in Broadway, New
York. This is the first firm of the kind ever
established in that city, but it is not likely to
be the last.
"A Boston Democrat has recently gained
possession of pair of lasts upon which the
boots OF John Hancock were made for twenty
years preceding his death. Upon the bottom
OF each is his original signature. Those who
intend to walk in the footsteps of the illustri-
Gus Hancock, will now doubtless embrace the
opportunity of having their boots made upon
his last.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has been Sc
lected to unveil the bronze statue of her fa-
ther in st. Louis on the 9th inst.
That ingenious American who discovered
that Lord Bacon wrote Shakespeare's PLAYS is
now engaged on a treatise to prove that Homer
was the inventor of petroleum any rate,
he was known as the old man of Scio's "rocky
ile"
in the Carmelite Convent of Mataro, Ita-
ly, there died, short time ago, a nun, at the
advanced age of 81, who had taken the veil
seventy-twO years before.
"A list of books soon to be published IN
Canada shows that there is some literary ac-
| tivity in the new Dominion Among the
works announced are books OF history, poetry
fiction, military art, law, geology and politics.
| in England and France dried fern leaves
are used very extensively for packing fresh
fr.it cranes especially; they seeming to pos
soss 10 an UNUSUAL degree, the property of
aroservne vegetable and even animal sub
stances for a long time.
Montana is Overrun with titled colonsts
A gentleman, writing from there says he was
introduced to fifty colonies in q single day.
"A member of the Ohio legislature desires
to adjourn because it is warm enough to go
barefoot, which he does at home, but is forbid
den by the force of public opinion to do at the
| capital.
A young lady at Ole Bulls concert at Al
bany, the other evening, regarded the Jeweled
bow thoughtfuIly for several minutes and OBJ
served to A lady friend: ITO tell the truth,
should much prefer that bow to the one now
| have"