The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-14
Varieties.

-CahfOrnla now owes S5,l26yoUO less than
she did four years ago.
1t is said by an Indiana paper that up
wards of ten thousand persons have become
church members In that State as the 'esuls
of revvals experienced there.
1t is a pity that in the distribution OF seats
the other day in Congress, q few of the mem
bers did not draw seats altogether outside the
building.
"A Canadian makes an appeal through the
columns of the New York Times, in behalf Of
the fishermen of Nova Scotia who are snffsr-
ing for the means of subsistence.
Some Of the crowned heads of Europe re-
ceiye very large pay for their services. A Ger
man statistician has made tabular exhibit of
their salaries from which we learn that the
Emperor Alexander II. receives daily sum
equal to the annual compensation of the Pres
dent of the United States. Louis Napoleon
gets s14,24O dav; Queen Victoria, S6,O27;
Francis Joseph, S10,950; and the King Of
Prussia, SS, ,2l0. OF the nine sovereisns men,
toned, the smallest salary is paid to King
Leopold, of Belgium. and is only 81 ,648 day.
According to Professor Delisser the fiery
shapes that filled the front of Heaven when
Glendower was born were harmless portents
compared with the conjunction of the moon
with Jupiter and Venus on the 9th of last
month. The result is to be earthquakes, per-
turbations, heavy gales, high tides, inunda-
tions, electrical discharges aud countless woes
during the whole year 1869. But this crying
philosopher is not so far gone with 'the jim
jims" as to predict a Democratic adminis.ra-
ton and "we mag be happy yet"
Where is Mr.. Bates who started some days
ago to walk from Vicksburg to Washington,
carrying the flag? His progress is not report
ed
An exchange. referring to a late accident
to Secretary McCulloch, regrets that gold
doesn't tumble when he does.
The London Star is humorous in relation
to very serious matter: The land in Eng
land is said to be owned by some thirty thou
sand men. We have heard of person who
was awfully uneasy in his mind lest theso
thirty thousand, out of patience with strikes,
disgusted with reform, worried by railroads,
shocked at the increase of population, should
one day combine and give the whole British
nation notice to quit"
- At the soup stations in Boston about two
thousand INDECENT persons are supplied with
food each day.
We find the two following items in pOr-
tentous conjunction in an exchange:
A Denver (Colorado) paper says that o thou
sand Yankee girls could get good husbands
and homes in Colorado-before spring.
The Governor of Colorado won't sign bills
| of divorce, and there il great amount of suf
| fering in consequence.
That Governor ought to be removed as an OBJ
| stacle IN domestic reconsideration
"A tipsy loafer mistooi globe lamp with
letters on it for the queen of night. "Wen,-
said he, "if somebody amt stuck an advertise
ment on the moon!"
| Before the trial of Rev. S. II. Tying, Jr..
| for preaching in a Methodist church in New
| Jersey, was commenced at New York, Mon
day, letter was read from Jay Cooke, the
| great Philadelphia banker, affirming that
| Bishop Potter, In his own ministrations at st.
| Adams, confirming classes after the Romish
custom, was guilty of the same violation OF
the canon, for which he was trying Mr.. Tying.
Mr.. Cooke says that three-fourths of the lalty
sympathize with Mr.. Tying.
"A Philadelphia news vender has been hsId
in $1,000 bail to answer for selling the two new
indecent illustrated weeklies.
The cable brings US the news Of the death
of Sir DAVID Brewster, the eminent English
| physician and distinguished scientific author
and lecturer, which occurred at London Mon
day night. He was born in Jedburgh, Scot
land, in 1881. In 1903 he directed his atter.
ton to optics, and soon after independently
| made several discoveries in regard TO the po-
larization Of light, which were also made by
| Maixs and Arago. His contributions to the
Edinburgh and London philosophical transac-
tions record many of the most brilliant mod
ern discoveries in optics. His experiments In
the absorption of light, in passing through va
rious media, have also led to singular results
His valuable additions to many other depart.
ments of science, among them meteorology
and thermotics, have immortalized him among
sayanti; and his popular fame, arising from
his invention of the Kaleidoscope, his Lite Of
Sir Isaac Newton, and an elementary treatise
ON optics, will long endure. He edited the
Edinburgh journal of Science" begun in
1924, and the Edinburgh Encyclopedia" fin
ished in 1880, after % years labor.
How pressing the necessity for free lodg'
ing houses during the winter months is may
be seen from the fact that the number OF
dodgers in the oyercrowdcd station houses, last
year, was 1O5,46O.
"A question tor the staustieians; winch
cause the most broken bones, railroad aeei-
dents or slippery sidewalks? We know Of
several entirely new consultations that were
discovered in this city Wednesday evening by
persons not previously having the slightest
knowledge of astronomy.
The Richmond whig thinks that grape
raising and wine manufacture viii become al
no distant day "a leading interest" in Virgin
ia. II says hundreds of iudiy iduals are turn
ing their attention to tho matter, and when ie
becomes known how favorable are tho SOL
and climate, thousands of Immigrants from
abroad, as well as skilled grape raiseTs in the
Northern States, will flock thithe-.