The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-01-18
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"A little boy in New Bedford, Mass, in Civ
ing an account to his brother of the Garden of
Eden, said: "The Lord made a gardener and
put him in the garden to take care of it; and
to see that nobody hurt anything, or posted
bills on the trees"
Basil w. Duke, of guerilla memory, famil-
iarly known out West as the brains Of John
Morgan, has kindly published letter OF IN
struction to the Democracy OF the Southwest,
in which he suggests MIR. Pendleton as the
proper candidate for the Presidency.
Victor Hugo gave his usual Christmas
dinner to forty poor children of Guernsey.
-Englshmen have just found out that
John Bright is collapsed bagpipe."
Are our girls fitted for wives?" queries a
sober exchange. "Are they fitted for hus-
bdnds?" retorts young itemizer.
Brigham Young says he will exeommuni-
cate those brethren who don't contribute 10
the support of the poor.
A French paper says NJ Dolfus Assuet
has determined to erect chalet on the sum-
init Of Mont Blanc aud establish therein a me-
teorological observatory, which will therefore
be placed at an altitude of 1890 metres above
the ordinary level of the earth. Two guides,
paid and supported by NJ. Assuet, will spend
the summer in this glacial habitation for the
purpose of making meteorological observa-
tions.
Professor Palmieri, of Naples, who is max
ing rigid scientific investigation into tue
phenomena accompanying the eruption OF We
suvius, states that he has never seen the mag
netic needle so frequently and SO seriously
disturbed as it is at present, and that the seis-
mogrsph records at least ten distinct earth
quake shocks daily.
The project of erecting statue to Vol
talrc' started by the Paris Steele, has proved
success. The list of subscribers already
amounts to 2O2 ,5O9
"A Neya Scotia paper, speaking Of the fact
that the reporters gallery at Ottawa is called
the third house" sharply adds that in mental
capacity il would rank higher-perhaps as ths
first.
President Haven, Of the University OF
Michigan, is lecturiug to the people Of that
State on Dreams and Dreaming"
The Paris papers report that the utmost
activity prevails in the French dockyards,
where there are no less than thirty-nine ves-
sells in course of construction, including four
srmor plated frigates, the same number of cor
vettes aud of guard-ships, likewise armor-
plated, and formidable armor plated floating
battery. Besides the foregoing there are 9
screw-frigste, six screw corvettes, and screw
transport, none OF which are armor-plated.-
The actual sea-going force of the French navy
now amounts to 343 steamships and 116 sailing
vessels, which, with the thirty-nine in course
Of construction, gives total of 5Oi ships of
war.
-Rumfrez, foreign minister under Maxi
milan, is about to publish important docu.
mentary correspondence between Napoleon
and Maximilian rr
A Paris landlady requested Christmas
party ON the third floor to cease dancing, as q
man below them was dying. The guests ae-
quiesced. Returning an hour later, any dear
children" she exclaimed, with the most beney-
Olent smile, "you may begin again; he is dead"
Mrs. Jones, farmers wife in Connecticut,
says: 81 b'lieve I've got the tenderest- hearted
boys in the world; | can't tell one of 'em to
fetch pail OF water, but what he'll burst out
crying"
M Flourens, who lately promulgated the
theory that man ought to live to the age of
two hundred years, has, with singular incon.
sistency, died at the age of seventy-four years.
"A very important decision has been made
by the Superior Court and Court of Appeals
of New York, after litigation OF nearly nine
years. The case was Joseph Burnett & Co.
against Edward Phalon & Son." and the de-
cision finally settled affirmatively the question
of the right of party to compose word new
er before used in eur common language, and to
adopt and enjoy the exclusive use of the same
as Trade Mark. The word in the present
case was "Cocoaine," applied by Burnett &
Co. to their preparation for the hair, which the
plaintiffs in the suit alleged that Phalon &
Son., the defendants, had pirated in their Go
cOine."
= Carlyle is learning to like pumpkin pies.
II he continues to eat Yankee dishes he may,
after while, understand through his physi-
cal, ii not mental digestion, something of
American institutions.
"A project is in the hands of the school
teachers OF Baltimore to remove the remains
of the poet Edgar Allan Poe to Green Mount
Cemetery, near that city, and to erect over
them a suitable monument.
"A Paris letter says: 1.-The French audi
ence is not especially appreciative; but when
Patti sang you could hear the bravas running
around in a suppressed voice, and two or three
times she was encored. With 5oquets they are
very liberal; should say that they threw two
barrels full of them ON the stage, of an average
diameter OF fourteen inches"
There was fox hunt in Genneseo, n. Y,
on New Years day. The fox was turned loose
in the street of the village and soon run down,
"two miles start"
"A private letter from Italy, Published in
the London Daily News says: "To the great
delight OF the Italians, the crops all over Italy
this year have been more than abundant-they
have been overwhelming. Hay, corn, pulse,
fruits, wine, oil and chestnuts, all equally as
tonishing in quantity in quality. This, at
ter the clericals had predicted scarcity and
famins owing to the sales OF the Benz De
maniali, has set the Italian party GROWING a.
you may suppose and there is no denying tue
fact, as II is delightfully."- patent to tine mum
blest Contadino. At Mazzadi' III the hoinag-
ma, there are not barrels sufficient 10 mold the
wine nor watts for the oiI'
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in
So Andrews aud Montreal, about midnight OF
the 18th The noises accompanying the phe-
nomcnon in Montreal areidescribed as unus-
uslly loud
Thomas Carlyle has just been made JUS
tice OF the Peace for The county of Dumfries.
Tue New York Commercial Advertiser says
"it will be remembered that Dogberry attain
ed like dignity"
Madame Ristori win begin an engagement
at New Orleans on the 7th OF March, IN the
coarse Of which she will bring out the famous
French drama of Beatrice" In conjunction
with the regular French company at New Or
leans.