The Portland daily press., 1868-09-22
Varieties.

Miss Susan q. Anthony is usually rather
hard on the Republicans, but she gave the
Democratic party neat hit the other day.
She was soliciting subscriptions to her paper,
the Revolution, when some one called out,
(which party gives you the most subscribers?"
"The Republicans, of course" she promptly re-
piled; "you know the rank and file of the Do
mocracy do not read"
"A correspondent desires to call the atten-
tion of mothers and nurses to the too preva-
lent practice of drawing little children around
the street backward. 1t has been. known TO
produce insanity. If you value the health
and comfort of little ones, get them carriage
in which they can ride naturally and enjoy it,
Recently woman in Edinburgh, Scot
land, who had accumulated large amount Of
money by keeping brotbel, was reformed,
and at her death willed it all to a church, for
the foundation of an institution for the eleva-
tion of fallen women. But the church refus-
ed to handle the money which had been the
wages of sin. One is surprised to learn that
any body of men could be found so stupidity
narrow. Did these people suppose that any
money could be found which had not, at some
time, been the wages of sin? Aud if the
be sanctifed than by such use this testatrix
indicated?
Professor Nelaton, the celebrated French
surgeon, is reported to have resigned his pro-
fessorship of clinical surgery, because he can
not operate without the help of glasses, and
these he thinks an operator should never be
obliged to use.
The cause of the recent earthquake in
South America has been discovered. 1t is one
of the results of "eight years of Radical SUI
premacy in Congress"
"A funny Republican in Burlington, YER
mont. closes letter by saying: Business 10
at a standstill here. We are all busy burying
Democrats. Shall finish in November"
"A new feature or Chicago amuseme nts IL
the Tanner Promenade CoGeerts
Brewers in England are experimenting on
strychnne to see how far it is safe to use it in
manufacturing bitter ale. The statement is
made on the authority of London paper.
A slight mistake in their calcu ations might
produce awkward results
The Romish party in the church of Eng
land have established a nunnery at Feltham.
The Feltham NUS are entirely inclosed; they
never go out; they only see visitors at graf.
ing in the convent parlor, and then their faces
are covered. They observe the strict Benedic-
tine rule, and recite the ancient Benedictine
office
1t has just been discovered in Rondout,
New York, that one OF the hotels has for
twelve years been stealing its gas from the gas
company. The proprietor long ago erected
works as if to manufacture his own gas, and
then ran pipe under ground and tapped the
main pipe which supplied customers OF the
| company.
| The italian journals state that King Vic.
tor Emmanuel lately had = narrow escape
while shooting in the mountains of Yaldieri.
When in pursuit of chamois, and at the mo-
ment he was surmounting rock, portion Of
tho latter gave way, and his Majesty would
have infalhbly fallen over a precipice il
peasant had not lent him assistance.
The dead body OF newly-born chtd was
found lately in pew in the Sheffield Parish
Church The body was not in the pew on sat
urday, and there Is no doubt that 1t was paced
there by one of three young women who sat
in the pew on Sunday morning 1t was sewn
up in bag