The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-01
Varieties.

Varieties.
1t is reported that moose are very plenti-
full this winter IN the woods of Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick
"A CORE pondent of the New Orleans Pic
ayune describes the shiftlessness and poverty
of the Texans. He says: "A friend who has
spent four months travelling in Texas returns
to Houston overwhelmed with delight with
the country, but involved in one grand disgust
with the people. He has not seen a rosebush
or av getable garden in all his wanderings.
Once only has he been asked to partake Of po-
tatoes and once of beets. He has found men
ofwealth and culture living in log pens, with
dirt chimney in which they have burrowed
for years. Scarce peach tree did he see
growing, and such desolation as he describes
is beyond all account Distressing"
The Quebec News of the 10th says yes
terday several hundred people paraded st.
Rochs, having in their midst sleigh on which
was placed frozen porker. The animal was
gorgeousy decked with chaplets of evergreens
around his neck, and to its tail was tied q
piece of Grape. A recent number Of lie Jour-
nalde Quebec was displayed in front of the un-
clean animals carriage, whilst the occupant
seemed, whether dead or not to look complac-
emily on all the arrangements" The French
for pig is cochon which is pronounced like
Cauchon, the name of the defeated candidate
for mayor, who is editor of the above named
journal.
-Curran, after debate which gave rise to
high words, put his hand to his heart and de-
al tb,fh ha lha fr,, at,,r, of
own heart. Upon which Sir Boyle Roche con-
graduated his honorable friend on the snug
little sinecure he had discovered for himself
Mr.. S. Baring-Gould has recently pub
lished second series OF his entertaining ecu
rious Myths OF the Middle Ages" which con-
tains papers concerning st. George, the pat
ron saint of England; st. Ursula and the Elev-
en- Thousand Virgins; Melusina; Bishop Hat
to; the San Greal; the Pied Piper of Hamelin,
and kindred poetic stories of the mediaval
times. We suppose it will be reprinted in
this country by Messrs. Roberts Brothers,
who republished the first series of "Curious
Myths"
An English army officer writes from
Abyssinia to his friends at home that cam
paigning in the dominicns of Theodore is not
so pleasant. The Thermometer gets up to 100
deg. regularly; sleepers in the tents, reused by
kissing noises, find snakes under their beds;
and when the men put on their boots they find
scorpions in occupation. Presently we shall
hear of camp fevers and epidemics, and then
there will be growl over a deficient commits
sariat and want of hospital stores, and then
deaths and perhaps new appearance of Flor
encs Nightingale short, Crimean experi-
ence over again, with the exception that the
soldiery will be roasted instead of freezing.
In the Court of Queens Bench, in Lon
don, December 7th, London commercial trav-
eller obtained verdict of e1 $50 aga inst the
Midland Railway Company, as compensation
for injuries received in a collision while travel
ing between Peterborough and Derby.
Fred. Douglass was invited to lecture in
Merideu, one of the most Republican towns
in Connecticut, and was obliged 10 stop at the
leading hotel in that place over Sunday. The
landlord, however, informed him that his
boarders would not allow a negro to sit at the
public table, and so he was served with meals
in his room. Mr.. Douglass was indignant, but
compliable. That town evidently ought to be
brought under the operation of the Civil
Rights Act.
The Worcester Spy says: "New Bedford
and Fair Haven are separated by a river,
which is crossed by bridge and ferry, but
the mails between the towns go forty miles
round" An undeniable case of "Circumlocu-
ton Office"
One day little girl, about i've years old,
heard a preacher of certain denomination
praying most Justify till the roofrang with the
strength of his supplications. Turning TO her
mother, and beckoning the maternal ear to
speaking distance, she whispered: Mother,
don't you think that If he lived nearer to God
he wouldn't have to talk so loud?'
snThe will of the late William Powell Ma
son, of Boston, has been admitted to probate.
He leaves property valued at about $2,OO0,O 900.
Messrs. Charles H nry Parker, Wm. P. Ma
Se-5---a Eualter C. Cabot, were appointed ex-
ecutors of the will, in which were che follow
ing bequests: $4,000 to the Massachusetts,
General Hospital as a permanent fund, the
annual interest thereof to be expended in the
maintenance of free beds; and $4,000 to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a
permanent fund, the interest OF which is to be
devoted to the support Of professorship in
the institution, to be hereafter designated by
the son of the deceased and Prof Wm. B.
Rogers.
Rev. DR.. Bellows says marriages between
Jews and Christians are becoming common;
Jewish women like Christian husbands, and
Christian husbands like Jewish dowries, and
Jewish beauty and brightness
I'm his life of Gen. Grant, the first volume
| otiwhich is published, Colonel Badeau says:
Born on the 9th of April, 1922, at Point
Pleasant, in Ohio, Hiram Ulysses Grant enter
ed the Military Academy at West Point in
his seventeenth year, where he received,
through the error OF ths Congressman who
nominated him, the name of Ulysses s. Grant.
The young cadet in vain tried to get his bap-
tismal initials restored, but the ominous "U.
s." could no. be shaken off, as if there were an
irreversible destiny about even so small mat
ter as this"
1t is said the late Marshal Pelissier once
reviewed regiment of cavalry, when the fol-
lowing conversation took place between him
and captain: well, Captain, how many
men have you in your squadron?" zone hun
dred and twenty, Marshal" "How many
horses have you?" "a hundred and ten"
"And all devoted to the Emperor, hope"
A young Parisian who gives good dinners
and writes wretched verses, recently consult
ed NJ. Nestor Roqueplan upou his poems, say
ing, 'IllustrioLs critic, do give me frankly
your opinion. Was wrong to write these
poems?" NJ Roqueplan read them and then
gravely answered, THAT depends upon cir
cumstances; did you really write them to save
| your life?"
I'll give that girl a piece of my mind"
exclaimed young fellow. 81 would not" re-
! piled his uncle, you've none TO spare"
The love OF a cross woman, it is said, is
stronger than the love of any other female in
dividual Like vinegar, the affections of a
high-strung woman never spoil.
The Star is responsible for the following:
'Two little Sabbath school boys got very heat
ed yesterday over vexed question in their
lesson, and startled the teacher, whose back
was turned for moment, with Il tel ye it's
Mary Magazine and not Magdalene," and
thrustng his hands deep and desperately into
his trowsers pocket, he sung out, Now, whatll
yer bet?'"
Miss Sackett, whose marriage with Col.
Parker of Gen, Grants staff is reported, Is
the daughter of Amodio, the well-known ope-
ra singer. Her mother married Gen. Sackett
fot her second husband aud her child took his
name.
-Harper's Bazaar has this story of a bright
little girl: The family were dining, when the
conversation turned upon an excursion about