The Portland daily press., 1868-09-14
VarietieS.

"A man fond of antitheses saws rather than
cot in the valley he loves he would prefer a
French bedstead on the mountain he hates.
Napoleon is making so many French Sem
ators of small calibre that the French are be-
ginning to call the Senate the Second Hotel
des Invaldes"
Base ball clubs are rivalling each other in
inventing quaint and ludicrous titles Two of
these organizations in Rochester are known
respectively as the "Early Birds and the "Un-
fortunate Worms"
"A gentleman who owns one Of the most
magnificent estates in the suburbs of Cincn-
matt, on leaving the city for the seashore, gave
his gardener orders that twice each week all
the roses on his place should lie gathered and
sent to st. Lukes Hospital. So during the
summer the patients have all the time had
spread before them for their qualification,
some of the rarest of flowers.
The Ecclesiastical Court, convened for the
trial of the Rev. Mr.. Hubbard, of Rhode Is
land, for alleged violation Of the canons of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, is now in ses-
sion in Providence. The presentment of the
standing committee of the Diocese charges
"the Rev.J. p. Hubbard" with having request
ed and permitted zone Frederic Denison" to of =
fciate in his church, knowing "the said Deni-
son" to be person not ordained according to
the forms of the Episcopal Church.
The Paris Figaro Of August % was seized
1t publishes long letter from Mazzini to Gar
ibaldi, in which the old italian republican ex-
presses the conviction that Napoleon III is
determined to add the Rhensh provinces to
his crown, and that he considers general con-
1agration can only lead to events which will
be advantageous to democracy.
The extent to which shobbery can go in
England is shown by the fact that recently
poor carrier, overtaken by an accident, and
like to die after many hours of exposure, was
refused admission to an inn, because Lord
Mostyn was there, and actually did die in con-
sequence.
Count Bismarck has met with a serious
accident by the fall of his horse. r
The headless rooster is outdone. In the
vicinity of spoon river in Illinois, is a child
which was born and has lived five years with
out head. A few months before his birth
his mother saw a cannon ball take off her hus-
bands head. When her child was born, there
was not the semblance of a head about it. The
limbs are perfectly developed, the arms long,
and the shoulders, where the head and neck
should be, smoothly rounded off, and the face
is situated in the breast. 1t can roll its eyes
in all directions, and sings like nightingale.
The upper portion of its body is white as the
purest Caucasian; from the waist downward
it is blood red That's the story.
The mental derangement of the ex-Em-
press Charlotte of Mexico has reassumed an
acute form; she is now subject to ATTACKS
of furious mania and on the authority OF her
medical attendants the beginning of the end"
| ia now 90 near that kilograms are passing
| daily between Vienna and Laeken, her place
| of confinement.
The Burial Board of Carlisle, England,
has been bgoted enough to refuse daughter
the privilege of placing on the tombstone Of
her father the words "Not lost, but gone be-
fore" because he had been an actor and clerk
of race-course.
The old Methodist church building in
Hornellsville, n. Y, has been converted into
billiard saloon. "To what base uses do we
| come at lastl"
ON the 22d ult., upward of a dozen
Frencbmen, most of them journalists, were
summoned before De Comet, the Judge of In
structon They were told that letters to their
addresses, posted in Brussels, had been seized
in the post-office on the suspicion that they
contained prohibited printed matter. They
were desired to open the envelopes in the pres
ence of the Judge, and sure enough, the Ian
terne No. II, was found in every one of them.
They were asked whether they were suoscriD-
ers to the Lanterne, and what was the name oi
the sender in Brussels both of which quesuons
they declined to answer. The Judge tneh CON
fiscated the copies, and sent the owners away
Extraordinary activity is shown by the police
in searching for hidden Lanternes both in town
| and country.