The Portland daily press., 1868-06-20

The Hartford Post says some genius has
solved the problem, What is to be done with
hoop skirts that have outlived their usefulness
as articles of wearing apparel? He hangs
them up in his corn patches as scarecrows,
and they are said to be effectual. Modest
crows have special aversion to filters.
Poor Lamartine has lost his reason and
his death is daily expected.
After fashionable wedding in Philadel-
phia, the carriage of the happy pair, which
was on its way to the railroad station, was de-
layed by the narrow streets being blocked up
Dy TWO loads OF cradles and baby-wagons, to
the great amusement of the spectators.
The Abyssinian expedition is reported to
have cost the British government S27 ,5s6, $40,
which is little over three millions of dollars
each for the prisoners rescued from King The
odore.
Marrying woman for her beauty is like
eating nightingale for its singing.
-"Will you have some grapes, Monsieur?''
asked a gentleman of a Frenchman. "No,
saire; don't swallow my wine in ze shape of
pills."
"A gentleman remarking the other day
that Poe distinguished himself in his earlier
years by his proficiency in mathematical stud
les, was asked to explain the seeming paradox
in the union of figures with stanzas. at is
very plain" he replied, "for does not mathe-
matics have to do with numbers?"
-Senor Romero, the Mexican Secretary of
the Treasury, now a visit to this country,
will soon marry a lady who resides in Phila-
delphia.
The Pope is reviving the project of hold
ing n grand panaraI aounc;I Of Tho NatboI;o
church, the first since the celebrated Council
of Trent. 1t may be deferred till the winter
of 1869-70. The object of the council is po-
litical rather than religious, and according to
Archbishop Manning, the church is to stake
ground once for all against the alleged infidel
and revolutionary tendencies of the times"
Colonel Milward has left Abyssinia for
England. He carries the crown, robe and
State seal of Theodorus for the Queen as a
tribute of respectful duty and affectionate 10y
atty from her Majesty's army in Abyssinia.
-Commencements and school exhibitions
are the order of the season now. The Boston
Transcript well says that speakers on such oc-
casions will do well to initiate Prof. Coppee's
address at West Point as a model of brevity.
Civilians are not any more partial to wordy
harangues than soldiers. In these telegraph
and cheap postage days, sentences should do
the work of paragraphs.
One of John C. Breckinridges former
| slaves who bears the full name OF his old
master, is making Democratic speeches in
Virginia.
Madame Ristori leaves to-day on the
steamer Napoleon.
The Rev. Mr.. Punshon, being requested
to address the Methodist Conference at one of
their recent sittings, said: Speech is silver,
silence is golden, says the proverb. do not
happen to have any small change about me
this morning. Will you accept the gold?'
On Tuesday the Governor of Connecticut
signed bill incorporating an Inebriate
ASYLUM, to be called the Turner's Retreat, To-
Gated at Wilton. Conn, with capital of $780,
900. 1t will be organized Immediateiy' There
| is only one similar INSTITUTION IN tne United
| States and that is at Binghampton, New
| York.
| sh.v;ne. Wall street shark, "it is time for us
10 get up; the day is breaking" "Well, let it
break; don't hold any of its paper"
-Au old man named Ward was killed in
Tecumseh. Mich, a few days ago. He had
lived in that place, entirely alone, for thirty
years: no one knew whence he came, and
about the only fact he communicated to his
neighbors, was that he was in constant dread
of the Masons. Some ingenious theorist has
started the story that Ward was the original
and veritable Morgan, whose mysterious dis
appearance some forty years ago supplied the
raw material for some of the bitterest political
campaigns in our history
Grapes grow only on one year old wood
As TO pruning, do the best you can, for there
are as many ways as there are to get religion.