The Portland daily press., 1868-01-06
VaH.ietieS.

the skin and woolen socks outside of them,
One singular consequence ensues; at night
the cotton socks (next to the skin) are quite
dry, while the outside wooden socks are damn.
Rev. Henry A. Sawtelle, a graduate of
Watervlle College in the class of 1854, and
subsequently of Newton Theological semina-
ry afterwards q Baptist missionary in China,
and now settled over a church in San Fran
cisco, where he has created some little excite
ment by declaring for "open communion" is
sued, on the fist of January, the first number
of a monthly religious paper, called The Spare
Hour, and designed, as he says, to serve "as
newspaper help in his pastorate."
Not less than twenty American sculptors
are practicing their art in Italy. They are Mr..
Story, Mr.. Rheinhart, Mr. Ives, Mr.. Rogers,
Mr.. Mosier, Mr.. Haseltine, Mr. Horatio Stone.
Miss Hosmer, Miss Whitney, Miss Foley, Miss
Lewis, Miss Freeman, Miss Stebbius, Mr.. Ball.
Mr.. Hart, Mr.. Mead, Mr.. jackson, Mr.. Powers,
Mr.. Colby and Mr.. Connolly. Some of those
at Rome have commissions of the value of
many thousand dollars, and none of them are
without engagements which will keep them
for some time employed.
"A correspondent of the London Times
tells how he served quack doctor who an.
noyed him by sending him pamphlets through
the post. Il got large hamper, filed il full
of rubbish, bricks and straw, &c., and in the
middle | 1ut the last book I had received, and
outside the book l wrote Sold again. di-
rected the hamper to the author of the book
DIR. So-and-So, &C., from grateful patient
stuck some hare's legs under the lid, so as to
let him see what was inside, and sent it by ex-
press train. 1 never had another book" The
suggestion may be useful to Americans pester-
ed in similar fashion.
The Duke of Edinburgh, on leaving Aus
tralia, is TO visit Tahiti and then Valparaiso,
after which he will sail round the Horn.
Mr.. Beresford Hope, NJ. p, the owner and
editor of the Saturday Review, viii stand for
the University of Cambridge at the next cleo
tion.
The Lille papers state that guns are about
to be mounted on the Notifications of Dun
kirk.
The Charleston Mercury advises the peo-
pie of that State to go to cutting lumber. 1t
says: Wood cutting and the lumber trade are
leading pursuits of the people of Maine, and
her resources being properly developed ia that
direction, the State has grown prosperous and
wealthy. Yet when we consider the differ
ence of climate, and the more favorable char
acter of our navigation, South Carolina has
natural advantages which should make it rival
Maine in the successful pursuit of this busi-
ness. Within a short distance of Charleston
are miles of original forest, containing the best
quality of ship timber, as well as of lumber
for building and wood for fuel.
"A correspondent of the Pail Mall Gazette
thinks that Spontaneous combustion is fire.
quent cause of the fires which so often occur
in theatres. Large heaps of the debris and
refuse of the painting and property rooms are
often swept up together, and left to accumulate
for years. He relates one instance in which
such heap had stood in a theatre for long
period, and after many complaints he induced
the authorities to remove it, and the moment
spade was thrust into it it burst into flames.
Scene painting is done with water color, which
is not infammable; but the danger, though
sometimes existing even in the painting room,
lies more particularly in the property room,
where varnish and oil colors are largely used,
and where scraps of oiled rag, tow, varnish,
sawdust, and flue or fluff are sNe Nept up togeth-
er with other matters. They only require 10
be damped, as is not an uncommon practice =,
for the purpose of laying the dust, to induce
eventually spontaneous combustion.
"A new article of manufacture has Just
made its appearance, which promises to oceu-
pya wide field. 1t is called "Hot-east Porce-
lain" and while containing the ingredients of
which porcelain is composed it is worked like
glass and can, like glass, be blown. pressed or
rolled into any desired shape.
"A foreign paper tells good story which
is lesson to the young who imagine success
in life to be the result of mere luck General
Lefebvre, as is well known, enlisted, in a regi-
ment of the Line, and ended his career as
Marshal Duke of Dantzie An old comrade
congratulated him in q sneering tone on his
high position. "Yes,' said Lefebvre, "I am
Duke OF Dantsick Che never spelled his Duchy
correctly. I am marshal, whilst you are a
clerk; but if you wish to change places with
me, will accept the bargain at cost price.
Do you know how many guD-shots have been
exposed to before ] won my epaulettes?-20,-
coo. / have heard more cannon roar than
there are stitches in my uniform. 1 will Just
place you in the courtyard of my hot,l L. and
expose you to the chance of 10000 shot and
she'll, at hundred PAGES. If you escape, well,
you shall have my sabre, plume, scarf and or
ders. Every one of them shall be yours"
Germany has ever been famous. for its tt
ties. A new one las been added TO the already
long list. For the Duchy of SAKE Coburg, a
DIR. Bromeyer has been appointed to the Office
of "Trichine-seeker" for certain district.
-"Curbstone" mal ketmen have lately effect
ed great revolution in the prices of meats at
Hartford Ct Persons from the country and
importers of meat by the carcass from the
West have filled their carts with beef, mutton,
| pork, and poultry, backed them up by the side
walks in the public streets and cut up and re-
tailed the contents at 25a50 per cent cheaper
rates than the indoor marketmen have been
charging; such as zoe for turkeys and sir
| loin beet and 10c for fore quarters and 10 for
headquarters of mutton, and other meats in
proportion. The poor people are in ecstacies;
only the fat fellows behind the regular stalls
complain at the innovation. But it is only by
such ways that the chronic high prices of food
can be broken down.
| In the Russian town Kasap, new theatre
has been built, and the governor has now is
sued an edict according to which once a week
ION FridayO piece must be given to which
mothers can take their daughters. Who now
shall say that the Russian system is lot that
of paternal government?
On Christmas day Judge Allison of Phila-
| delphia gave a dinner to the boot-blacks of the
city, and Geo. o. Child gave the use of the new
press-room of the Ledger building as the din
ing hall. About fifty boys were present as
guests, and they sat down with appetites that
would have done credit to Aldermen.
The list of the distinguished dead of the
past year includes the names OF N. z. Willis,
| Washington Hunt, Professor Bache, John A.
King, Miss Catherine NJ. Sedgwck, Jeremiah
Day, Charles Anthem, Thomas f. Meagher
Elias Howe. Charles A. King, "Artemus
Ward" Admiral Palmer, Charles G.. ioring
General Griffin, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Prof
! Chester Dewey, Chancellor Wallworth aud
John A. Andrew. Among the prominent
Europeans who have died in 1867 are Sir Arch
ibald Allison, Professor Faraday, Louis De-
sire Veron, the Archduke Macmillan, Lord
Rose, Sir Frederick Bruce, and Pancini, the
composer.
-Iu the January Harper is the first install
ment of a new story by Miss Muloch which
she calls, "The Woman's Kingdom" She an
nounces that it is to be "a thorough love
story" "There are other things in life be-
sides love-" she says; ''but everybody who has
| lived at all knows that love is the very heart
of life, the pivot upon which its whole ma
chinery turns; without which no human ex-
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