The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-04
Varieties.

General Brsbin has lately administered
deserved rebuke to that impertinent class of
newspaper correspondents who are in the hab-
1t OF printing anything they can pick up COZ
cerning the private aff.irs of noted men. The
correspondent had asserted that Brisbin was
son-in-law of Ben Wade, whereupon the
General declares that he didn't know that
Wade had daughter until it was so stated
in the public prints, and adds: sit is nobody's
business whom L married; my wife suits me
exactly and so long as we keep out of the DO
lice and divorce courts am at a loss to know
what right newspaper men have to inquire in
to our family affairs"
AT the famous conference between Cen
erals Sherman and Johnston, in 1866, General
fitzpatrick was present, and a characteristic
anecdote is related of him, TO the effect that,
during conversation between the two off,
GERS, his old antagonist, Wade Hampton, re-
marked that the South had mustered into
her army the best and bravest in the land"
"Yes," replied Fitzpatrick, "yOu mustered but
zoe peopered them"
Queen Victoria, accompanied by some
members of the Royal Family, intends to vis-
it Germany in the autumn.
-Radicalism is spreading southwark. The
Memphis Bulletin is in favor of thorough
medical education for nurses, and thus advo-
Gates such training: "If woman is to be a
ministering angel when pain and anguish
wiring the brow, it is well to have the angel
scientifically educated, 1t is all very angelic
to take care of the sick, but it adds nothing to
the divinity of female charms to have mus
tard plaster laid on the forehead instead of a
wet towel, or to take dose of aqua Jfortis when
Nature demands cup OF water cruel. Let
us have the angels educated"
"A bill to prevent the over-crowding of
street-cars has been reported in the New York
Assembly. 1t requires that every street car in
New York and Brooklyn "shall, on or before
the first day of May next, have divisions afix-
ed to the seats, similar to those now in use or
ferryboats within said cities, such divisions to
be placed at least twenty inches apart" 1t
adds that on cars which have no such divi-
sions, passengers need not pay any fare.
The French are taking the lead in scien-
titic research. Missions have just been sent
to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland,
to make historical, chronological and philologi-
cal researches; to the site of Nicopolis, in AL
bania, to make antiquarian excavations; to
the Cape Verde Islands, for investigations in
natural history; and to Madagascar for geo.
graphical and anthropological studies. The
fruits of these will be embodied in the next
volume of the Archives des Missions Scieu-
tifques ct Litterares. Several volumes are
also in preparation as the result of recent sci
entific expeditions to Mexico and Central
America, chiefly with reference to their zoolo-
gy and archaeology.
Professor Goodwin Smith has sent to the
library of Brown University, richly bound
Photographic album, of large size, filed with
sapcrO views OF the Oxford Colleges Brown
made him Doctor of Laws when he was in
| this country.
The London Athenaum thus caustically
| criticizes pretentious book on a scientific
subject: "The best thing the author of this
book can do is to burn it., and tell us on a
piece OF paper, an inch square, what he meant
by it,"
"A physician in Germany announces case
where child was born with smallpox, the
mother herself not being affected at ali. She
had accidentally come into communication
with severe case of smallpox about six
weeks before the birth of the infant.
"A German astronomer thinks he has dis
| covered a belt of vegetation in the moon. The
| discovery will hardly affect the price of early
| peas ON this planet,
"A Boston paper says there is lady in
that city who boasts of the possession of a
| pair of eardrops made from silver brought
| from Mount "Vociferous" during the recent
disruption"
Slight of hand-Refusing an offer of mar
| riage.
-Wanted-A cover for bare suspicion; a
veil for the face of nature; buttons for the
breaches of privilege; binding for volume of
smoke; cement for broken engagements.
Efforts are being made to introduce the
tea plant into California. A box of tea seed
was recently received in San Francisco from
Japan. The Agricultural Society of that city
has ordered its cultivation.
--"Ma, did folks use to use silver pieces to
make change when they bought things7"
"Yes, dear; but it was before you were born"
The Naples journals record the death
there of man named Carlo Felice, at the
age of one hundred and five years; he had a
family of twenty sons, one of whom is at pres
ent eighty-three years old, A few months
back the deceased centennarian visited Mount
Vesuvius to witness the eruption.
AT Keith Station, Scotland, two soldiers
in charge OF deserter fell asleep while wait
ing for the train. The prisoner took a stroll,
and during his absence the soldiers awOke
and ran for their lives in different directions
in search of the supposed runaway. Subse-
quently the deserter returned to the station to
look for his escort, and had to run after themt
"A book is about to be issued called "Th.e
Corset and Crinoline." 1t will consist of
history of costume from the earliest to mod
ern times, and will be embellished with sixty
illustrations.
Lon Saturday, the Dist, the st Louis police
seized the forms of the Joker's Budget as
they came from the press room, the newly
printed sheets were taken from the counters
of the news vendors, and the editor was tax
en- down to the calaboose, and released on
$1,000 bail The Budget is flash paper.
A rats nest, containing an old leather
wallet and the mutilated remains of several
hank notes of large denomination, was fonnd
f in an old building in First Street, Brooklyn
Il. D., on Saturday. On inquiryiit was ascer-
tained that gentleman residing in an adjoin-
, inc house in 1852 missed wallet, containing
s25OO, with valuable papers, and it is very
probable that the rat whose nest was found as
above stated committed the larceny.
An English gentleman once fell from q
, horse and injured his thumb. The pain in
/ creasing he was obliged to send for surgeon
| One day the doctor was unable to visit his pa
} tent' and therefore sent his son instead
: "Have you visited the Englishman?" said the
father in the evening. "Yes," replied the
: young man, "and have drawn out thorn
} which found to be the chief cause of his ag
ony." "Foolp' exclaimed the father i trust
ed Won had more sense: now there is an snd
to the job" ,.,.;sb Consul in
! constantiponle, has been convicted Of defraud-
;nn ths underwriters at LlOyds, while in that
, o;ty H of sixty thousand dollars. He has been
santsnoed to two years of penal servitude,