The Portland daily press., 1868-07-22
Varieties,

The Boston Post says there is a rumor
that that city is to have magazine to compete
sharply with the Atlantic.
"A ritualistic congregation in New York
has provided silver censers for its service.
The French painter, Gerome, whose
Death of Ney" made such sensation" is
painting another execution, that OF the Duke
d'Enghien.
An American girl has had the honor of
receiving from the Paris police the compli-
ment Of being the most expert thief they ever
met, and of going for three years to French
prison.
owen Meredith's new volume of poems
CHRONICLES and Characters" has been addad
to the blue and gold library of Ticknor g.
Fields
There is sharp chap in Springfield, Mass
who, when patronzing the omnibus, carries
MS pockets full of tickets and always sits near
the forward end, so as to oblige the passed.
gers Dy taking their scrip; but he passes up,
instead of each ten cent bit, a ticket, which
cost him at wholesale but nine cents.
Henry Meiggs, of San Francisco. has
made contract with the Peruvian Govern
ment to build railroad from Islay to Areuui-
large sum of $12,OOO,O00, or $4,000 per mile
Inc contract binds him to finish the road in
three years. The elevation he is compelled to
cross in the distance of one hundred miles
is seven thousand feet above the sea.
The latest Paris horror is the discovery.
from day to day, of various portions of a hu-
man body, nicely done up in silk, in different
parts of the city. The police are putting them
together as fast as found, but the whole man
has not yet been received
"A clerk in the employ of the East India
Company recently penned the following lines
to his official superior: "Honored Sir, hum
bly, beg you will excuse my not attendance Of
flee this date, cause got boil as per margin"
In the margin of the letter a sketch of the
boil was drawn out. and the writer went ON
further to say, "The breadth of paper being
short. have planned the boil small, but it is
bubble the siEe."
An English paper observes that the gist of
the Archbishop of York's speech at a banquet
recently in London appears to lie in an emeu-
dation of a sacred text, which his grace would
have read thus: "And we shall dwell in the
House OF Lords forever"
The Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad un-
dertakes to furnish destitute emigrants who
arrive at Milwaukee with free transportation
to the places which they may have chosen for
their residence, when on the line of that road
"A writer in the last North American Re-
view declares that nowhere else in our jour
nalism is so much truth so amiably vet so
clearly spoken as in the EASY Chair" of Har-
per's Magazine, presided over by George Will
liam Curtis.
Cardinal Antonelf has overcome his diff
culties at the Vatican, and his enemies too;
and will retain his post unless removed by
DEATH The Pope is reported to have said: "I
am too old to change my minister; and after
all, have accustomed myself to Antonell 1t
is not worth while for me to take a new coua-
sellor for the time that remains to me-"
The elevated railway in New York seems
to be a success. Already cars have been run
from ten to fifteen miles an hour with safety
and comfort, it is said. The wheels are of
wood where they come in contact with the
rails. A stationary engine, operating by means
of wheel and endless cord is the motive
power.
The latest gossip assigns to Mrs. Edwards,
the novelist, the authorship of the famous Sat
urday Review essays on woman in her Vari-
Gus Aspects" For her own sake we trust she
did not write them. The wit and the vigor of
style which they display are not sufficient to
atone for their brutal coarseness. They are to
be collected and published in q volume.
An Indiana judge recently decided that q
man might own ten miles of river bank and it
would not give him right of property in a sim
ole fish until he had caughtit.