The Portland daily press., 1868-10-12
V arsietjes.


beard less than foot long. The captains
whiskers reached bis knees.
During the last six months the N. Y.
Working Women's Prott cfive Union has re-
ceiyed $40 applications for employment in
the various trades and eallin.s in which fe-
males are employed; and .s62 persons have
been sent to employment during the time.
These persons have been of all ages, from chill
dren of ten years to gray-haired women of
| seventy years, irrespective of creed or nation
| ality.
"a Holben Society" has been formed in
England with the object of producing fac-sim-
lie reprints Of rare books, in which art and lit
erature were united. Sir w. Stirling is the
| president
| The Church Monthly for October comes
out squarely for Rituallsm, which it says "is a
system that belongs to the Church by the right
of inheritance. 1t is no innovation, but res
direction from the dead"
-Flowtow's recent marriage was hardly on
the square. He procured divorce from his
sixth wife in order to marry her sister
| MIR. E. A. Pollard announces his intention
to write a life of JEFF. Davis
"A moose was recently captured at st. Ma
| ry's, Nova Scora which weighed eight hun
| dred pounIs. The antiers extended nine feet.
The city of Oakland, California, is grow
ing faster, in proportion to its population than
any other city in the State
| An interesting relic OF the French Revnlu-
ton was sent from Paris to Austria lately-the
distaff of Queen Marie Antonette, from which
she had spun when in prison. 1t was exhibit
ed at the worlds fair at Paris, last year, and
declared genuine by the jury. A Hungarian
lady has bought it..
The N. Y. Tribune describes the Southern
Associated Press as "An association formed for
the purpose of applying the principles Of Co
operation to the business If lying"
| "A front pew in an English church is ad-
vertised Tor sale, which will seat seven per-
sons, and commands a view of nearly the
whole congregation"
| In London new illustrated "satirical"
journal has entered the field to con pete
with Punch and the rest. 1t is called .Win o.
the Wlsp, and has large cartoons. 1t is tory
| in politics.
| An old trooper says that holes in carcasses,
not in boards, will have to settle the relative
merits OF the various European breeC h. leaders
There is something painfully Significant in
the reason recently given by the Roman Cab
oiio Synod in New York for urging the estab-
hshment of colored schools and orphan asy-
uuls IN the Southern Sites. They press the
| WORK because from the unsettled condition of
the Southern States IL is to be feared that mdny
children Of the coLOred race DiH be left Crphans"
The harvest in Italy is said to be very sat
isfsctory exceeding the anticipations that had
been formed of it.
The Revolution, referring to the meagis
wages on which poor work ny women in New
York starve, aud the elitterin1 reul ptations Of
tered them in the pretty wsiter-girl" sphere
OF action, very truly says that large establish
ments that will secure to women and girls
profitable empioyments will do more to save
them from destruction than all the prayer
meetings that can be organized in the John
| Al en- dance-hOuses. "Work is worship" saws
| Emerson.
-Ihe hop mania has ruined ma1.y farmers
in Wisconsin. T4ey neglected all other pro-
dGcts TO rush into the hop culture, and the
iaiure OF that crop leaves them without Il cd
or money 10 buy 1t.
--ihe new stamps for United States postage
which are being prepared by the National
Bank Note Company are nearly ready, and
| will be issued in very shol tune.
| "A version of Les MiseraDles," by Mr..
| Bayle Bernard, the adapter OF Faust" Is
among the expected novelties in London.
| The new play by Bulwer, to be performed
at the London Lyceum, is a vamped-up edltlon
OF his "Sea Captain" winch was so cut up in
| the "Yellowplush Papers"
In many OF the Swiss cantons the formali-
| f,aar
| legitimate union is oiteu inaccessible to mod
est purses. The Constituent Assembly of Ia
rich, after having voted by an immense major
ity, the introduction OF the optional civil cere-
mony, has abolished all taxes hitherto imposed
on those who wish to be united; the latter in
future will only have to pay some trillng fees.
The statue OF General Sed swick Is to be
placed and dedicated at West Point on the
2lst of October. George w lliam Gurus is to
deliver an Grafton, and the occasion is expect
ed to draw to West Point large numDe, of
the officers and men OF the gallant Old sixth
| Army Corps
Chicago is an enterprising town. There is
no doubt of that. 1t is prompt to introduce all
kinds of new Sensations" For example, the
Havana bull fight was introduced upon VA
bash avenue few nights since. Two half
breed Mexicans entertained an audience by
entering the arena against buffalo bull. The
exhausted and agonlzed animal, when the few
spectators who remained were satisfied with
the spectacle, was dragged off from the arena.
Just as in Havana the dying bull is trailed
along, dripping with blood and foam from the
scene of his toImenting.
"A traveller in Holland declares that the
house adjoining the Museum OF Amsterdam is
occupied petroleum warehousei Ii such
be the case, no great value is attached to the
Rembrandts, Vandy kes, and other great works
collected there.
General Mcclellan liv.s in New Jersey.
He could not get to the New York Democratic
meeting on account Of the eondhIon tie
roads, and the delay of the Wai Department
in supplying him with pontoons to cross at
Jersey Ferry
Tue desertions from the Papal army have
lately been so numerous that plan of re form
has been submitted to the Pope, which pro-
vides that only those shall henceforth he en-
rolled as soldiers under the banners of the
church who will take upon themselves the
VOWS OF chastity, poverty and obedience
1t the top OF carrot cut off at this season,
or later, is placed in a saucer of water. with a
few bits of charcoal to sweeten it, it will orm
radiated ieathery plant by no means unwor.
thy to grace a lady's table.
The Saturday Review says, "The Enyli.h.
man, as he pa ses through rhe weary wssts. a
American travelling, IS struck princina,lv h,
the absence of Two things. There IS no nover
ty and there is no jovially. OF all counlr,e
that the traveller visits, the Uuited Stat il
the most oomy. Every one in the cars has al
oppressed and gloomy appearance" And 81
ON, through long essay.
1t is reported that the Siamese twins live'
together in great happiness un'il the Wa
broke out, when Chang declar himself
Unionist. Eng seoessionist, and the quarrel
between them became so violent that tn
twins were at one time on the point of & shtin,
a duel.
c - A strange genius has just died in Paris
, Antonin Vechte, known as LIE BenvenutC
Francais, was for twenty-A years a common
artisan. Then he tried bis hand at mud-lh 9
and designing with the chisel but failed bad
ly. A few years later he began 70 decorate
helmets, breast ates, and other military ap-
pendages, and subsequently 20 produce "o' A'
} in metal which were sold for works OF an' 'eN'
art. Iu this way he gained great rSp :,
Cor his heantitnl designs in vases. one Oh
} them ga ned the great medal at tne HreAen OK
-. NanA 1r