The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-27
Varieties.

TO such OF our readers as can enjoy real
ly beautiful thing, we would suggest that they
step into Hale's picture store in Free street
and look at those two lovely ideal heads, "The
Present" and "The Future" which are exhib-
fted there. They are of very different order
from the ordinary "fancy" heads which crowd
the print-shops. The design is as simple as it
is beautiful: and the delicacy with which the
theme has been handled shows the hand of
the true artist. These heads are the first pub
lished works of young lady artist of Boston,
who has DEVOTED TO them many months of la
bor 1t may perhaps not detract from the
general interest in these pictures to know that
a romance as tender and beautiful as the faces
themselves is said to connect itself with their
origin and history. .,.-....... hras
The Louisville Journal says woman, with
all her beauty and worth, should remember
that man was the chief matter considered at
the creation. She was only side-issue.
Mount Hood, Oregon, threatens to have q
new eruption. .lfl1r .tos
Fifteen hundred miners in Mahoning VAL
ley, Ohio, have gone to work again after an
unsuccessful strike of four months
On the upper Missouri are meadows many
miles in extent covered with an enormous
growth of sunfowers. The Mormons carried
the seed when emigrating westward from
Nauvoo. 4.a .lias. ......
One of the horses attached to the Bridge
port tCt.) horse is stamped with the ini-
tials ~. S. A, &c. s. A" and 81 H." Two
sided politicians can, with propriety, ride in
the car drawn by that animal ..
The taste for locomotion by velocipedes is
making decided progress in France. The lat
est illustration OF its development is the an
nouncement of arrangements in MarseiIes for
a long journey with this new means of loco
motion. The velocipedes are to start from
Marseilles for Genoa, by the Corniehe. From
Genoa they are to proceed to Turin and Susa,
over Mount Gents, and return to Marseilles by
the valley of the Rhone. In Paris velocipedes
are all the rage, and they are constructed so az
to combine great speed with economy of mo-
| tive power. .,........... ......s. ..oa
General Lee has written letter declining
| to address agricultural society in Georgia,
but expresses his belief that agriculture is the
main hope of the South.
| The Sacramento Bee defends the practice
of shooting real or suspected thieves on sight,
| whether necessary or not to prevent loss or
| protect life, and concludes its article with
these questions: "What is the necessity of
thieves living? Are they not better dead than
alive; and will not society be improved by
their absence?" "a. .... ...... ..
1t is said that Oliver Dalrymple, who is
the largest farmer in the State of Minnesota,
having ZOO acres devoted to wheat, will have
cleared 100000 from the last two harvests
| which includes the one now being secured
Here is very Frenchy story. A worldly
cure was offered seat in the box OF certain
French senator, to witness representation of
La Belle Helene" He replied to the offer:-
ut is impossible for me to go. The ecclesias-
tical rules prevent me. But if NJ le Senateur
wishes me to confess him, 1 might get an idea
of the piece in that wayF
| Figs of a very good quality are now raised
in Ohio.
| -Ebenezer Irving brother of Washington
Irving, died at Sunnyside on Saturday last
He was ninety-three years OF age, quiet citi.
zen, and not known in the world of letters
Miss Kate Fields say she never went to
Donnybrook Fair, but she thinks attending
the Saratoga Races must be cousin-german to
it. The same lady says that Saratoga was
| once whited sepulchre now it is a sepulchre
without any whitewash whatever
| -AMobile paper says of guitar player in
that city, that Ibis playing would give any
well.conducted sawmill the toothache."
Mr.. Beecher's recipe for making coffee is
as suggestive as it is Beecherish: "The best
way know of to make good Coffee" said he,
sis to go to the principal hotels, restaurants,
railroad eating houses, ETC., and ascertain just
how they make coffee-then make 10 as they
| don't"
If few awards for deaths resulting rom
railway accidents could be made in the U niteu
States like that recently rendered in England
our companies would probably exercise mucn
greater degree of caution The one in ques-
tion amounted to s4s75O, in the case OF a Mr.
Howard killed ON the great India Peninsula
Railway.