The Portland daily press., 1868-06-19
Varieties.

The locusts in Tennessee have the letters
IN" and "W" on their wings, and the knowing
ones are disputing whether they stand for "no
wal" "nother war" or "nigger war"
The New Orleans Crescent, in speaking of
the late President Buchanan says: The false
expedency, of which he was the personifca-
too, played its last card when he was elected.
1t could no longer satisfy the pride, ambition
and animosity of one section, or allay the fear
and resentment of the other. 1t was clear that
after Mr.. Buchanan's term would be the del
uge. 1t came: it has not yet subsided. -sf
The British military railroad in Abyssinia
is failure. In six months their engineer
corps could build only eleven miles over a
dead level and that was two miles too short to
be of any service. DO saHHet
Americans are trying to make Australia
yield petroleum. H'H -sHif
Mr. William T. Adams, solver Optic"
has written forty books for boys The aggre-
gate sale has not been less than $4,000.
DR. j. Y. @. Smith, now of New York,
says it is evident that animals understand two
or three languages; mules in New Orleans
know what is said to them in either French.
English or Spanish. ~1
-Fastidious person on car to German, smok-
ing: "Here, sir, I'll make you a present of
good cigar" Grateful Goth: "Yahl ferry good
cigar; Ischmodes him after mine supper."-Er
Mrs. Gaines is being anonymously threat
ened " ith violence at New Orleans if she pros
ecutes her claims
California promises to be one of the chief
raisin producing countries in the world The
best grape for the purpose is one of the Malaga
variety. Last year single farm raised 5000
pounds.
The Memphis Post says that the colored
men leasing small farms in that vicinity are
making themselves very comfortable.
The Mississippi river is depositing a sand
bar in front Of the northern part of st. Louis,
which threatens to make that city inaccessi-
BILE for considerable vessels, the channel tend
ing more and more towards the Illinois side
of the river. ..-tf.. . t... -.
The Mobile Tribune confidently looks for
ward to the day when the South and the vast
empire of the West shall control this govern
ment and New England shall have no voice in
it, Except whining" l-.r
The New Orleans Times claims that the
white superior to the black electors in
that city, because "no white man ever yet fol-
lowed the business of backing boots on st.
Charles street, or any of the public streets of
the city,"
Miss Josephine Lapham, graduate of
Antioch College, Ohio, has just appeared at
Dayton as Universalist preacher and created
a sensation.
"A Mr.. Spencer has announced to the Ero-
nautic Society of London, that he has discov-
cred the means of raising himself in the air
and guiding his course; the trial trip to come
off in London on the 18th inst. He further
offers to bet $4,000 that within year the omn-
bus service in London will be done by omni-
buses passing over the houses. Time will
prove. s.Ha .s.s. . SAD .#
"A French actress more celebrated for her
beauty and her frankness than for her intelli-
gence and her virtue, was in the habit of at
tributng her INCONSISTENCY to her bad luck
"The moment 1 really become attached to
anybody" she used to say, 81 am certain to be
introduced to somebody else whom like bet
ter" .r.....-.. .......F
1T is proposed to establish in New York
National Institute, similar to the French
Academy, for the promotion of the highest
culture in the arts and sciences 1t Will serve
as the final authority on disputed literary and
other intellectual points. and will encourage
by its recognition and its prizes, poets, paint
ers, playwrights and seulptors.
"A gentleman o nhis way to Philadelphia
attracted much attention Tuesday by his i'm
meuse beard, and the way in which he carried
IL. 1t extended as far as his waist around
which it was folded once, and thence carried
across his breast and thrown over the left
shoulder, the point terminating about half
down the back. He
Senator Salisbury of Delaware in his lucid
moments says some very good things. He
recommended that the new territory called
Wyoming be called I'D Interim.
Plus TX. entered on his 77th year on the
o5th Of Nav. He is fond of mentioning that
his father, Count jerome. died at "a; his
mother Countess Catherine, at 50; his paternal
ancestor Count Hercules, at 9e; his brother
Gabriel at 81; his second brother at eighty
three.