The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-16
Varieties.

Mr.. Mackey, a recent lecturer on the Car
olina sand hillers, says they are so fond of eat
ing snuff, that, to scrape together an ounce or
so, one has even been known to wash himself.
1T is seriously announced that Brigham
Young thinks of marrying.
AT late sitting of the Swedish Parlia-
ment there was quite quarrel about the val
ue and stability of the American Constitu-
ton. Some conservative members having
sneered at il on account of exposing the ruler
OF the Republic to impeachment and deposi-
ton, Mr. Helgren, one of the extreme liber-
ais, jumped up, and cried, "Yes, so it does.
But your constitutions fost bad rulers forever
upon suffering nations, and even their sons
and their grandsons' The president called
him to order, and quite tumultuous scene en-
sued.
AT a collection lately made at a charity
fair, young lady offered the plate to a rich
man, who was noted tor his stingness 81
have nothing" was his curt answer. "Then
take something, sir" she replied; you knowI
am begging for the poor"
John Devereaux, of Waterbury, aged "a
years, died in the Connecticut State Prison
on Wednesday. He was pardoned by the
Legislature June 25, but the Governor forgot
to sign the papers He is reported to have
died of broken heart.
"A city journalist is New York has become
benefactor to his race by inventing a speech
extinguisher, which is described as follows: 1t
is large sheet-iron cone which fits into
grooved plate. The plate is fixed on the floor
and the cone fastened above by chain of suf-
ficient length to admit of its descending to
the groove. 1t is so arranged that at the end
of five minutes it falls and becomes almost air
tight. Every speaker is required to stand up
on the plate, and informed of the time he can
employ. If he exceeds five minutns the cone
falls and shuts the fellow under, so that he
can't extricate himself or be heard.
Miss Lydia Howard, child between four
or five years old, has been acting burlesque at
private residences in London, and is said to
possess extraordinary dramatic talents. She
is styled "The Baby Actress"
The number of cattle driven out of Texas
this season is estimated at half a million. A
Texan states that this large amount OF cattle
will hardly be missed from the prairies.
The Founding Hospital for illegitimate
babes, at Rome, has at present 900 children,
and 1000 nurses. 1t is said that every fourth
child born in Rome is a child of shame.
There is woman now living in Norwich,
Conn.,, 105 years old, who has good health and
is large, strong woman; reads most of her
time; has two daughters living with her go or
20 years old each, and both maiden ladies.
in this months Revue Populaire, of Par
is, DIR. Bader gives the following curious ex-
pertinent, made by DR.. Claude Bernard:-H
oxygenized blood be injected into the arteries
of the neck Immediately after decapitation,
warmth and sensibility return; the eye gets
animated and displays such strong perception
that hammer shaken before it will cause it
to wink and look sideways.
The New York Herald has an account.
given by a correspondent, Of a visit to the is
land of Juan Fernandez, which takes away all
the poetry from the narrative of Robinson
Crusoe. The attempts to colonize the island
have all proved abortive, and nineteen souls
now constitute the entire population, and
these exc out a miserable existence by fishing
and hunting, having no bread of any kind and
but few vegetables. The island is mountain
Gus, is covered with timber and produces few
varieties of fruit; but the waters abound in
fish of almost every kind.
"A short time ago white man in the vi
cinity of Warrensburg, Mo-, married a black
woman. The citizens heard of the fact, and
brought the man into town to suffer indigni-
ties. While he was being prosecuted, large
crowd around him hooting, yelling, &C., gen.
tleman present stepped out and asked him:
"Wbat are your politics, my friend?" 81 am
Democrat, have always been Democrat,
and always expect to be Democrat" The
hooting soon subsidized
"A Connecticut Democratic paper stated
that General F. P. Blair is graduate of Yale
College, and the New Haven Journal ex-
plains: General Blair graduated at Yale quite
nrematurely It'took him less than year to
ego through" college.
The Medical Society OF Pennsylvania pro-
proposes to investigate intemperance profess
s;on,llv. They declare that pledge taking
does not control peoples appetite, neither does
.,,r,ntuary legislation; and moral and legal
suasion having failed, they are going to try
what can be done medically. The Society ac-
cordingly appointed a committee to report on
the medical, civil and social aspects OF intoxi-
cation and the duty of physicians in the prem
ises. 1t has long been contended by those
| who have given the subject the closest conhs-
GRAFTON. that intemperance is disease, ana
shou,d he treated as such; and instead OF pun
ishing drunkards, by sending them W JAn'
thew should be sent to hospital.
1t is rumored that Senator oonhoss Z" w
he married to Miss Hildreth, a niece s"u "@iu
of Gen. Butler, as we'll as q oeau'nui anu nv
! complished young lady.