The Portland daily press., 1868-02-18
Varieties.

-Beecher is leeturing upon "How to be
Happy" To be happy is to be-Beecher
Report says Senator Sprague of Rhode
Island is to build a very large cotton factory in
Wilmington, Del Report has also said that
the same gentleman is to build three large fac
tories in Augusta. N1sine, and he has actually
"inaugurated" brick-yard in the latter place.
Capital punishment was abolished ia
Rhode Island in January, 1852. Since then
murder and other crimes punishable with
death, have not increased in that State
canada is said to have war Of sexes in
prospect. 1t is reported that rival petitions
are in circulation in some parts OF the province
of Ontario, one signed by the ladies' chiefly.
against issuing any licenses to sell LIQUORS,
and the other from the young men that the re-
| striction as to the number of liquor dealers
may be removed.
On Saturday, in New York, man was
found dead in the street. who died of starya-
tion.
st. Valentine is dead--as a door nail.
Commodore Farran, who was in command
of The Pensacola Navy Yard when the re-
bellion commenced, and who resigned from
the United States navy and entered the rebel
service, has been pardoned by President
johnson. His pardon was urged by Senator
Doolittle. Gov. English, of Connecticut, and
may prominent citizens of Connecticut
The senior pI Ioprietor of the Portsmouth
Journal has been in the office Of that paper
just half century. He purchased the estab-
lishment in 1885, and there has been no change
since, except in the admission of his son 10
partnership in 1858.
fl,a Do.
ter cast OF Shakespeare, which is claimed TO
have been taken Immediately after his death.
If possession is nine points Of the law,
what is the tenth? Disappointment, and it's
as big as the other nine put together, and
much more common.
DIR. W ON one occasion received no fec
for marrying parsimonious pair, aud NEE ting
them about year after at a social gathering
took up their baby and exclaimed: Il believe
l have mortgage on this child" Baby's Ia
ther, rather than have an explanation before
the company, quietly handed over V
Reliable authority says that the report
that MIS-. Lincoln is insane is untrue. She has
been boarding at Chicago, until lately, with
the family of a wealthy citizen, and is now at
the Clifton House in that city. She dresses
very plainly, and devotes much time to the So
ciety of friends in humble circumstances.
Her only care seems to be in watching over
her boy "Tad.'
Mrs. n. z. Banks has written an article
for New York weekly entitled "Advice 20
Young Women
"A new plough invented by mechanic Of
San Francisco, is described as an adaptation
Of the screw propeller to the process of turn
ing up the earth. Instead of a share, six iron
blades are set in frame and geared together
after the style Of marine screw, and the mo-
ton OF the machine is also similar. The blades
dip into the ground as they revolve, and not
only turn and pulverize the earth, but also
serve TO aid in propcllinS the machine. steam
or horse power may be used in working this
plouch. which on trial has been found to work
admirably.
--Tbere is a class of "Periectionists" in
Oneida county, y. ", who believe that pbysi-
cal maladies can be cured by the simple exer.
ciss of the patients will. One OF them saws;
81 have known nausea and bowel difficulties
to be restrained by the will; and have re.
Gently put an end to some symptoms of ca
tarrh by resolutely refusing to indulge them"
The ST. Louis harbor is cleared of ice bya
strons steamer, 800 feet long, which will pIow
through evea the most solid ice
An old piece Of Gobeln tapestry repre-
senting Fenelon teaching the Dauphin was
lately sold in France for $4,000.
1t is to the daughter OF Senator Harlan
and not Harris, that Mr. Robert Lincoln is to
be married Robert is described as a good boy
honorable and industrious, and likely to mako
his mark in his profession and certain at ieast
to detract nothing from name so dear TO all
true Americans.
The editor of the ST. Adams Messenger has
received the following from despairing old
bachelor:
This is the Leap year come again,
As everybody knows;
This is the Leap year come again,
Why don't the girls propose?
Gov. Geary has granted full pardon to
William M-eser, editor of the Philadelphia
Sunday Mercury, convicted of libel on WIN.
b. Mann, District Attorney OF philadelphia
M. Nelaton, Garibaldi's famous surgeon,
has taken mans jaw off and put it on again.
The Chicago Post suggests another patient for
NJ. Nelaton to try his experiment upon. his
name is Train. Only, il he once succeeds in
getting that Jaw of, play heaven he may nsys
er succeed in getting it or again.