The Portland daily press., 1868-08-21
arieties.

"A letter from Jerusalem states that the
grand cupola of the church of St. Sepulehre
(which had fallen in) is now entirely covered
with lead and surmounted with an elegant
cross of gilt bronze. In the interior the mu-
raj printings are being rapidly restored, and
about the end of October the whole of the re-
pairs will be finished, and the scaffolding re-
moved from the edifice.
Red ants are decided nuisance. We End
the following simple way to exterminate them
in an exchange: Procure large sponge. wash
it well, and press it dry; then sprinkle over it
some white sugar and pace it where the ants
are troublesome. They will soon collect upon
the sponge, and get into the cells. Then dip
the sponge into scalding hot water, which will
wash them out-dead. Put in more sugar and
set the trap anew. -st.-stt
The Chateau de Beauregard, formerly the
property of Miss Howard, and now belonging
to her son, the Count de Bechevet, is for sale.
Four millions of francs are asked for it, The
ex-King of Hanover, who wishes to reside in
France, has some idea of buying the place.
"A lady teacher in one of the Sunday
Schools of Lockport, Niagara county instruct
ing the infant class in Bible history, asked the
question, "Who was the first murderer" For
a moment there was no answer, when up cam
the hand of a little fellow of five years, with
Il know" "Well who was it?" "John Wilkes
Booth'
The friends of homeopathy propose to es-
tablish in Detroit free dispensary
The man who throws lemon or orange peel
or banana or melon skins on the sidewalk, isa
beast, and deserves to be impounded, or pound
ed, it don't matter which.
A drunken Chicagoan chastised his wife
with an iron kettle. The wife was killed and
the kettle spoiled. .....
"A Cincinnati man has found o way Of
making his old potatoes look like new, and he
does it.
Carl Rosa made speech to a serenading
party in San Francisco.
Punch predicts great reign-fall in Spain.
The friends of Madame Parepa- Rosa fear
that her health is breaking. The California
doctors have ordered her to the White Sui
phur Springs.
"A letter from Saratoga informs us that
''the ngliest and Oldest straw hat" at that place
is worn by John q. sake.
An engineering firm in San Francisco,
wishing to discover the depth to which a pile
could be driven in the mud which once form
ed the bed of the bay, sank one on top of an
other until the depth of LOG feet was reached,
when they stopped for want of more pile to
pay out 1t appeared probable that they
might have gone ON sinking inde6niteIy-pos-
sibly till the Chinese on the other side got
hold of the end and pulled it through.
The first volume Of a work which will
make great sensation-"The Memoirs Of
Prince Metternich"-has been published at
Leipsic. 1t contains part Of the correspond
ence of that celebrated statesman with his
private secretary-the aulic counselor, NJ de
Cent?, celebrated publieist. The other vol
umes will follow in the course OF the year.
"A novelty in photographs is promised us:
pictures visible only in the dark-portraits that
| must be taken into the coal-cellar to be admir-
ed There are certain compounds Of phospho-
| rus, which. after short exposure to light, re-
| tain certain amount of luminosity for days
and even weeks sfteryard. 1861
Father Fisher, who was charged by the
Emperor Macmillan to publish all the docu-
ments relating to the Mexican expedition, is at
present in Vienna. He is steadily proceeding
with the work, and thinks it may be ready for
| publication in tour or five months
1t is announced that history of Charlie
magne, by Napoleon III, will shortly appear.
| "A joker in San Francisco recently appro.
| priated horse in the middle Of the night, and
charged about the city, calling up hotel-keep-
ers and hackmen with the intelligence that
the steamer Golden Age was coming up the
harbor. In this way he secured many free
drinks. The haekmen waited at the wharf,
and the hotels kept open till morning, but no
steamer appeared. Meantime the Joker was
| picked up, very drunk, and the next day pros
ecuted for horse-stealin - -. ..,........
"A Texas correspondent tells of school
| girl whose name is Dionysia Boadicia Jeffa-
linda Jacobinda Chrstiana Buckiana Caledo-
MIA Susannah Emily Wyatt Wilkinson Moore
Wynne. This young lady is a cousin of q
young man in that village, who, in the short
span OF his life of % years, has done and suf-
tered the following things: He has had ovel
\ 100 personal encounters; has shot moFtally
three men; not mortally, eight; is now resting
under seven bail bonds; has been through tht
war from the beginning; has been married and
buried an infant daughter, and separated from
his wife who is now going to school, and he i,
now living on his fathers substance, in pos
session of pair of fine boots, a spawned horse
Mexican saddle, silver watch, three revOl
vers and derringer, and 81 in specie.
The scenery on 1.-THE Eastern side of tn.
Sierra Nevada mountains presents a striking
contrast to that upon the Western side. Cross
ing the Sierras from California, the characte
of the scenery and mountains suddenly chang
es. The forests, says correspondent, dsap
pear as if by magic, and grass gives place q
sage brush. The landscape wears sallow
unwhoesome look, as if sudden blast ha,
blown from the Valley of Death and blighte
and withered everything. No more soft yer
dure, no more noble pines no more health in
spring breezes. Some of the geological phs
nomena of the valley are strange beyond de
scription. The rocks have the appearance
masses of lava thrown out of the earth. /
some instances they rise in eolumnated masse
hundreds of feet high, shutting out the vier
and contracting the valley to gorge a fe,
hundred yards wide. Again they recede
gentle slopes, nntil the valley broadens int
an nndulating plain.
The editor of the Galaxy has seen
French hthograph, very exquisiteIy executes
of Hamlet ct Ophelia," which represents tl
two figures with various anachronisms of CO
tune and accessories. but the great marvel
S which is the inscription, This ID translated
J. follows: although Ophelia was the daugt
ter and accomplice of Polonius, the assassin {
a the king, his father, Hamlet sought in her eI
. amored eyes an assuagement of his grief an
e a vengeance worthy of that crime, which P'
| lonius expiated with his life before the yer
eyes of the queen, who thereupon went mad
{ This extraordinary exposition of the plot {
Hamlet" causes Mr.. Richard Grant White
hair to stand on end.
Prussia is utterly regardless of expense
J the matter of constructing navy Jande
to be made a naval station of the largest siz
t and complete in every respect, and orders nav
been given for the building OF four large iror
r clads at Dantzig. Experiments with gur
e and defences have also been entered upon o
e large scale.