The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-21
Varieties.

Count Won Bismarck has bought the villa
at Cannes, recently the residence of Lord
Brougham.
Miss Reignolds, who has closed a success
full engagement in London, is this week play
ing "Richelieu at Sixteen" in Liverpool.
Horses sell at about two ard a half dollars
each in Hawaii.
The English basket carriages, with ponges
tops, are much in vogue at the seaside.
-Ristori has an engagement to play in Bra
zil next season.
-EUery Saturday, for July 25, has q very
rich table of contents. Unfortunately, hewev-
er, our knowledge of the contents is limited to
the table, the paper itself coming TO us print
ed only on one side of the sheet, leaving every
alternate page blank. We object to this style
Of printing for papers so well worth reading ss
Every Saturday.
Admiral Farragut is said to be a million
aire. He owns a number of pretty houses,
some unoccupied lots, and twenty acres now
in wheat, within the city limits Of Vallejo,
California. As that city Is to be the western
terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad, this
property is destined to become a mine Of
wealth, and within year has been trebled in
price.
The Upper House of the English Parlia-
ment has strongly awakened the popular dis
content by its course on the Irish Church
question. Shrewd observers Of the public
feeling unite in saying that a few more such
votes will be likely to bring the Upper House
itself into serious discussion. The London
Daily News says that the question "what will
the Lords do?" has given way to the old iuqui-
ry, "What shall be done with the Lords?"
1t is discovered that Reade and Boucicarlt
stole the whole complicated plot of @Foul
Play" from a French drama entitled lie
Portefeuille Rouge" written by Messrs. Four
nier and Meyer, and produced at the Theatre
Beaumarchais in 1852. This fact is announc-
ed in a letter to the Pail Mall Gazette, and
the writer, after giving q sketch OF the French
play, says he offers 1t as illustration of "the
| cruel way in which French authors are apt to
| anticipate and caricature the most original
ideas of our most original writer's" We are
curious to see how the pugnacious author of
Griffith Gaunt will meet this new species of
assault.
The Louisville Journal seriously speaks Of
Seymour's coy dallyings before accepting the
New York nomination as dictated simply by
the chastened prudence of Christian office
seeker" and gravely adds; "This is not sar-
casm-it is vindication." Very well. Wheth-
| er intended for "sarkassum" or not, "the chas-
tened prudence of Christian ofice-seeksr" 10
good. eeo
Ball and Powers, the American sculptors
in Rome, have selected sites for houses which
| they propose to erect the coming fall just out
side the Porta Roman.
/ There is no doubt that great deal of the
sickness visiting families proceeds from filthy
cellars, sinks, yards, outhouses, sites, Sc.
There are various easily applied remedies for
the evils arising from these accumulations.
One is to put one pint of the liquor of chloride
of zinc in one bucketful of water, and one
pound of chloride of hme in another bucket
full of water, add and sprinkle over decayed
vegetable matter. For this purpose nothing
surpasses it, indeed, it is perfect deodorizer.
Another is to take four pounds of sulphate Of
iion or copperas and dissolve II in bucketful
of water. This will, in most cases, prove
sure remedy in destroying all offensive odors.
The drought in the south Of France is so
extreme that working women are gratuitously
transported to the river Rhine by the railway
companies, in order to wash the family linen.
| Many farmers have noticed in their fields
large black beetle with most brilliant golden
dots placed in rows on his back. Don't kill
him. DIR. Fitch says: "Its eggs produce the
corn-grub killer 1t is most iHveterate foe of
the cut-worm, grasping the worm in its strong
jaws and, in spite of its violent writhing and
struggling, securely holding it. When it finds
these worms in plenty, it gorges and surfeits
itself upon them till it is so glutted and dis
tended to be scarcely able to stir, for it new
er knows how to let a cut-worm alone when It
meets him. 1t is continually hunting these
worms feeding on nothing else il it can obtain
them. Both it and the golden-dotted beetle
which produce it, therefore, should never be
harmed"
Gen. Grant visited Ripley. Ohio, a few
! DAYS ago, and the Bee OF that place says that
not once did he allude to the fact of bis neng
candidate for the Presidency, and whenever
the subject was mentioned he would invaria-
bly, so frame his remarks that no one unac-
quainted would have ever dreamed that he
was a candidate for that position. If the
! country had to depend on the general to tell
, them that he was the standard bearer Of the
, Republican pvrty, it would remain in utter ig-
r porance for long time.
, -Four turkeys were cooped up and fed with
meal, boiled potatoes and oats; four others oi
the same brood were treated in a similar man
5 ner in another pen, but with pint daily OF
finely pulverized chs rcoal added to the food
and an abundant supply of Jumps OF the coal
All eight were killed the same day, and those
fed with the charcoal were found to weigh
about pound and a half each more than 'ne
+ others, and to be of much better quality
n DIR. Nathan Allen has written ions Ar.'-
4, Gle in the Quarterly Journal Of Medicine IN
II which he asserts that the health ana physical
: : vigor of New England women is much injured
% by too much book learning and too little
s breadmaking and household work OF all kinds