The Portland daily press., 1868-06-09
" NarietieS.

The women's club in New York has split
in two. The more refined and earnest nor
ton of the ladies objected to the show and fuss,
che extravagance in the lunch and dress, and
mos OF all to the publicity which exposed
them to the peeping of vulgar reporters anx-
ious to air their wit in "spicy" paragraphs.
so they had recourse to secession, leaving the
more gay and festive members in possession of
he-fieid. Whether new club is to be formed
of those desirous of carrying out the original
scheme, or whether the seceders propose to
wait until the New York press gains higher
standard of gentlemanly courtesy we do not
know
The New York Evening Post speaking of
Harriet LivermOre's visit to Lady Hester
Stanhope, called the latter "that eccentric sis
ter of the younger Pitt"-and in copying there
from we inadvertently reproduced the blunder.
Lady Hester was the niece of the younger Pitt,
as she was the daughter of his sister Hester.
who married Charles, Earl Stanhope. The
same writer says that Lady Hester married
Sheik of the mountains" (which, we believe,
is also an error.
"A lady friend informs us that few slices
of pineapple stewed with rhubarb or dried
apples makes delicious sauce Thus prepared
it also makes excellent pies. The pineapple
requires to be cooked longer than rhubarb.
The Marquis of Hastings, who committed
suicide because of his losses on the Derby, had
been very unfortunate in his sporting career.
In 1867 he ostnearly one million dollars, for
which his notes remained unpaid. He staked
his reputation on the last desperate cast and
wit fha NJ D.
of age.
Miss Lotta, the actress, has not been rob-
bed of $4,000 by her father; the paternal
orabtree was arrested, when his daughter ap-
peared in court and denied the whole stcrv.
Punch pictures Gladstone and Bright in
the character of boarders, clambering over the
bulwarks of vessel on the deck of which
stands Disraeli, with one hand on the wheel of
Government" and the other pointing a cock
ed pistol down the opening of the powder
magazine dissolution" saying: "Give up the
helm? Resign the command? Neverl Come
one, come all, stick to my craft. Back, 1
say! and step in-board, and / blow up the ship.
Hal hap
"A brass band was arrested in Savannah.
by order of the Mayor, few nights since, for
lican newspaper.
king William of Prussia gave $4,000 tha-
lers to aid the German Arctic expedition
which recently sailed from Bremen to deter
mine the exact position of the magnetic pole.
The Norfolk Virginian says Dr. James
McAlpine, who owns farm upon the Eastern
Branch, has raised this season one thousand
three hundred quarts of strawberries, already
picked and shipped to New York, and ex-
poets to gather at least one thousand quarts
more. These berries will average him for the
season forty cents per quart in the New York
market They were raised upon a quarter of
an acre of land, and the net proceeds were
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The Australian Churchman, which circu-
lates among the churchmen and educated
classes of Australia, has a poem on the shoot
ing of Prince Alfred. The following speci-
men verse will give an idea of the standard of
poetic taste in that country:
australians, we have a weight to bear
That in this land of gold
An act most foul, most terrible
1t makes your blood run cold
To think that our beloved Prince,
so gentle. good, and kind,
Should in the act of benevolence
BE shot at from behini."
The will of M. Comte, the positive philoso-
pher, is again brought before the French
courts, on the ground that he was not of sound
mind The will has once been proved and al
lowed, but the French law does not make sucb
decision finality Until fifteen years from
the death OF the testator have elapsed
The British Minister, it is said. has ad
dressed letter to the Secretary of State. call
ing attention to the fact that the Canadian
Government admits American coal free of du-
ty; that it has resisted the pressure of Nova
Scotia coal interests to impose o duty of so
cents ton on foreign COAL which would ex-
clude American coal from Western Canada,
million dollars worth of which was consum-
ed in that section last year, and that this
course has been adopted by the Canadian
Government in the hope that the Government
of the United States would sanction some re-
| cprocal legislation. The British Minister asks
whether this Government is prepared to con-
| slider the question. The matter having been
referred co the Secretary of the Treasury, it is
said he replied that Congress having abrogated
| the old Reciprocity Treaty, he did not consider
it proper that the Executive should reopen the
question unless Congress shall give some in
dication ofits desire to do so. The papers are
before the Committee of Ways and Means.
The new fountain on Boston Common,
presented by Gardiner Brewer, of that city, is
the only gift, except the deer given by the city
of Philadelphia, which Boston has received
for the Commons decoration. Its original was
executed for the Paris Worlds Fair in 1856
This copy in bronze was cast in Paris. Its de-
sign is by Lienard, and the statuary by Math-
urin Moreau, the large figures at the base rep
resentng Neptune, Amphitrite, Acis and Gal
atea. Its height is twenty-four feet, and the
diameter twenty-eight feet