The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-17
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| Dy gentleman recently returned from Paris,
IS pair OF lady's earrings, representing two
little yachts, ful-rigged, with all sail set aud
ring at the masthead by which to attach
| them to the ear.
AT the end of the reign Of Frederick the
Great there was only one daily paper in Ber-
| lin, the IntelligeRzblah. There were also two
| tri-weekles, two weeklies, and one monthly
paper in that city. But how is it now? There
are at present in Berlin sixty-one political, go
cial, and official papers; one hundred and
thirty-seven news, scientific religious, art, aud
entertaining journals, and fifty-three agricul-
tural, commercial, industrial and advertising
papers.
| Two Chicago boys about eight years of
age, were wrestling on Monday, when ons of
them seized the other by tle throat and throw
him. The boy did not endeavor 10 get up, but
lay upon his side gaspng for breath; and up
on examination of the child's throat, it was
| found that the windpipe was ruptured. The
| little fellow is in great danger.
Cardinal Bonaparte's health continues to
decline. His Eminesce grows more and more
emaciated every day, and it is suspected by his
medical advisers that he is attached with the
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| proved fatal to Napoleon l.. and to his father
| before him.
| "A new Paris brooch is an enamelled
branch of fig leaves bearing fruit Esch fc il
a stumpy, pear-shaped pearl. A thick serpent
of precious stones coils in the centre, but in
stead OF splitting out venom it holds a large
diamond out Oh its forked tongue.
| The tomb of William Rufus, in Winches-
ter Cathedral, has been opened, and the bones
of the red-haired monarch, with the veritable
| arrow OF Tyrrell, found resting quite comfort
| ably
The most sensible thing Napoleon's minis
ters have lately done is to allow young Cavaig-
ma to go back to school just as if he had not
snubbed the Prince Imperial.
"A singular procession was lately noticed
passing through NIoreka street. in St. Peters,
burg. Twenty Jews, each with white cross
chalked on their backs, were carried along un-
der strong military escort, It appears that
these wretehed beings had been condemned to
deportation to Siberia but had prayed 30 be
converted to the orthodox church, in order
that the usual pardon might be granted thsm.
Instead of being Obliged TO work in the mines,
they are allowed to settle" in Siberia as a re-
ward tor their faith
The ladies are fairly outdoue in what has
been deemed their own domain. An exquisite
at the White Sulphur Springs has wardrobe,
carried in seven Saratoga trunks, containing
90 full suits Of clothing, II dozen shirts, 25
gold and diamond shirt sleeve-buttops, IS
breast-pins, and enough rings to keep two of
his fingers closely hooped all the time az =
wine cask
There has been report in Paris, that q
statue was to be erected to the Prince ImpsEi-
al, which, naturally, the Opposition press has
much ridiculad. The truth is that the Project
of the Seine ordered bronze copy Of Car
peaux's exquisite group of the Prince and his
fathers dog Nero for the salon at the Hotel dc
Vile, where are already statues pictures of
all the Imperial family, and where is likewise
statuette of Henri ", when Prince of
Bearne, aged twelve years, by Baron Bosio.
1.-THE modern Gulliver among tho Lillipu-
tians" Is represented in Harper's Weekly, by
| a full-length picture of a well-known General
| carelessly smoking in sight of a ,ign labelled
"To the White House." while he unconscious
ly treads under foot a myriad of small people
designated as the World" Express" Daily
News" ""Democrat," and SO on, each of whom,
| mounted on wooden-horse velocipedes, is try
| ing TO make an impression on the .egs OF the
| giants seven-leagued boots, with quIlls as
| lances.
The feudal aristocracy of Austria treat
Baron Won Beust and his colleagues of the
Liberal Cabinet with the utmost disdain. His
wife is not recognized by the high born ladies'
as their equal, and when they happen to meet
her in public, they treat her with offensive
| rudeness Few wealthy aristocrats have ever
set foot in Beust's house. When be Issued in
| vitations fer his first public dinner, three
| fourths of them were returned. Most OF the
Archdukes, too, treat Beust and Giskra with
| ridiculous hauteur.
| The Paris Libert6 is assured that the Queen
of Spain, foreseeing general revolution, the
| imminence of which can no longer be conceal
| ed, is seriously contemplating the formation of
a new Cabinet. Marshal Concha is spoken of
as the President of the new Ministry, which
\ is to be chosen from the most moderate parti-
| sans of the Liberal Uuiou.
| Though the talk of Customs Union be-
| tween France and Belgium has passed away,
| the Times is persuaded that the BelgAans can
| not be fully reaSsured as to some desiga OF the
| French Government on their commercial and
military independence. The bare mention of
contemplated cesslon of Savoy to France
was secuted both at Paris and Turin up to tbs
very eve of that fagitious transaction.
The present French Emperor was a first
rate swimmer, and upon one occasion, while
riding i'll winter in the neighborhood OF Aren-
enburg with one OF the Princesses oil Baden,
nleoe of Queen Hortense, who accldentahy
drop ped her glove into the Rhine, he plunsed
into the icy river, and recovered the lost arti-
Gle, although wearing paletot over his ordi-
nary dress The sdecdote is authensc. His
Majesty has taken care to make good swims
mer of his sou.
"A late number of the Scientific American
contains an account of experiments now in
progress by Captain Ericsson, in the construc-
ton of solar engine, to be driven by air, heat
ed by the direct action of The suns rays, which
makes three hundred revolutions per minute,
without the consumption Of any fuel whatev-
er. The inventor a serts that before the lose
of the present season Dre1d VIII ps oaHeu irom
Aonr Ground by the new motor.
a man in Berlin lately, during the great
boat experimented on the Matching OF hens
COOS in sand On the 22d of July he placed
six in a cigar box filled with that material,
and exposed the case to the sun on that and
the following days. The irsG chick broke the
shell on the 9th of August, the second on the
10th, the third and fourth on the 11th and the
other two on the following day. They are all
going on well being fed ON boiled eggs cut up
small and mixed with millet. The average Pc
riod of Matching chickens is twenty-one days.
/ in the present case the first was produceu III
nineteen.
The Moscow Gazette is the most lhhuen :
tial journal in Russia. The editor escapes an
trouble because no one can pronounce MS
,,..,,., or ,,-rite an order for his arrest.