The Portland daily press., 1868-03-16
Varieties.

gustus Dickens, sister-in-law of Charles. ia
keeping boarding g-house in that city, and is
very poor. The paper says: "The lady in
question is certainly not in want, being COM
fortabiy supported by her own relatives; and
in Justification of Charles Dickens, we would
state that of this fact he is well aware"
One of the latest Yankee inventions is a
moustache spoon. Every young man is ex-
pected to carry one in his pocket The inyen-
ton consists in a movable cover so combined
with the bowl of the spoon that it may cover
the greater portion thereof when the same is
filled. 1t further consists in the combination
OF lever and spring with the spoon and
the cover, IN such manner that the latter may
be very readily manipulated to close or open
the bowl OF the spoon when the spoen is in
| use.
William Henry Augustus BisseI, ID. D.,
Rector of Trinity Church, Geneva, New York
was unanimously elected Bishop of Vermont
by the Episcopal Convention in Burlington on
Wednesday.
| Letters from Florida say that the cotton
and lumber business in that State, as con-
Quoted by Northerners, has not been success.
The business was overdone, and the returns
pressible Yankee is not discouraged. Many
cotton-planters have returned, it is true, but
many more remain, and are turning their at
tention to other products. Here we see the
| difference in the character of the people, The
| Yankee is man of resources. Cotton failing,
| he tries something else. But the Floridian
who has lost faith in cotton, folds his hands
| and lets his fields lie waste. He may talk of
sugar or oranges, but he does not show his
| faith by his works. Of the new enterprises
and new experiments in the State, nine-tenths
| are made by Northern men, who form but an
inconsiderable fraction of the whole popula-
| ton.
| The Rev. Temple Cutler late of Skowhe-
gan, was on Wednesday installed as pastor (
the Congregational church at Athol, Mass.
Rev. j. D. Emerson, was installed as pas
to of the Second Congregational Church, at
Biddeford Thursday evening, March 8.
Mr.. John Stuart Mill, in his recent PAM
phlet, says he shall not believe, until he sees
it proved, that the English and Scotch people
are capable of the folly and wickedness of car
rying fire and sword over Ireland in order
that their rulers may govern ireland contrary
to the will of the Irish people.
Rev. DIR. Huntington, of Boston, has
adopted the practice of reading a hampton
lecture to his people, on Wednesday afternoon,
instead of an original DISCOURSE
Rev. Mr.. Speke, a brother of the African
traveller, who mysteriously disappeared in
London few weeks since, has turned up, hav-
ing been arrested in Cornwall. He says he
had wandered over England in hopes of get
ting out of the way and avoiding detection
he wanted to get to some country where no
body knew anything about him, so that he
| might work for his living and preach the Cos
| pei. The real reason for his freak is believed
| to have been unwillingness to fulfil matri-
| monial engagement. Mr. Speke processes to
be ashamed of what he has done but it does
not appear that he has concluded to marry.
Perhaps the lady objects now.
The Pope's commissioners have selected
the American Remington rifle as an infantry
arm, passing by the Chassepot, which did
such wonders for the Papal troops at Montana.
"A fast young gentleman in Paris recently
made bet that he would secure his own arrest
without committing any crime. He won, by
| going to fashionable cafe dressed in
| shockingly rakish costume and pulling a roll
| of large bills from his boot when called upon
| to pay for what he had eaten and drank Not
withstanding his protests he was carried before
justice and had to procure testimony to his
respectability.
Notice is taken of revivals in a large num-
Der of Congregational churches in various sec
tions of the country East and West, and large
| additions to the membership are reported.
Rev. A. Gunnison of the Canton Theologi-
cal School, and son of the Rev. N. Gunnison
of Norway, in this State, has been called to ths
charge of the Universalist Society in Bath
| He enters on his duties there in July.
M. Stephan, director of the observatory at
Marseilles, has just discovered a new asteroid
the ninety-sixth of the group. 1t is the Sc
cond discovered by him since the opening of
the new observatory. 1t appears like star of
the eleventh magnitude.
| General Cullum, in his Biographical Reg
lister of the West Point graduates, states that
| of those appointed in the army from civil life,
nearly one half joined the rebellion, while but
little over one fifth of the West Point officers
lett the service for this purpose.
| The Southern Methodist church is making
| vigorous efforts to retain the German Method
| lists of Texas, whose loyal sympathies during
| the war alienated them from the Southern
body.
| Echoes from the Clubs says that when
some young and excitable clergyman express
ed wish in the presence of the Bishop of
Exeter that there were preachers in the
Church of England as eloquent as Spurgeon,
the prelate drily. remarked: "Thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor's ass" The paper from
which we quote very irreverently adds that il
Episcopal development continues there will be
no need of such covetousness.
The Ottawa Indians, in Kansas, now re-
duced to less than 200, and mostly Baptists
have given 10000 acres of the best land in the
State to endow Ottawa University.
The reports of revivals and additions tc
the Methodist churches since the year began
show an increase exceeding that of all the 9th
er denominations in the same time
The Irish have very particular way Of
boiling their potatoes. They never boil them
A large pot is always on the fire. steady
slow fire,-and on every occasion when the
contents come up to the very verge of boiling
point, cold water is dashed in, and the opera
tion is, in Irish kitchen phraseology, backed
, The process is continually repeated till the po
tatoes are cooked. The result is said to bt
highly satisfactory, but we are quite willing
to take it on trust
Punch prints the following mot by a fash
ionable young married woman: "The lates
thing out-My husband"
An English journal is authorized to stat,
shat Lord Brougham has not enjoyed bette
health in every respect during the last eigh
teen months than he is doing now"
"A Countess of Anjou in the fifteenth cen
tury paid for one book 200 sheep, five quarters
of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and
millet; and in early times the loan OF book
was considered to be an affair of such impor
tance that in 1893 the Bishop of Winchester
on borrowing a Bible from convent in tha
city, was obliged to give bond for its restora
tion. drawn up in the most solemn manner
and Louis XI, in 1471, was compelled to de
posit large quantity of plate, and to get SOM
of his mobiles TO join with him in bond. mn
der heavy penalty, to restore it, before h,
could procure the loan of book which n,
borrowed from the faculty of medicine a
Paris.
"A movement is said to be on foot in Rome
to canonize Christopher Columbus The ad
vocates of the plan take the ground that the
biographers of Columbus, being chiefly Pro
testant, have wilfully concealed his zeal in the
cause of the church, although the discovery Oh
| hava haqn the result OIL