The Portland daily press., 1868-06-30
Varieties.

1t appears that Disraeli is duelist. In
1S41 he challenged political opponent and
upon another occasion challenged Mr.. O'Con-
nell. ..r." ..t
-Talleyrand's memoirs, for which the whole
literary world has for so many years been max
ing up its mouth, will not be published for
twenty years to come. The general impress
ion has been that the time fixed by the emf
nent author had already expired.
"A New Haven paper states that four reg
ular physicians in Connecticut, all brothers
possess an infallable remedy for hydrophobia,
but will not divulge the secret. The rack
should be employed.
"A crazy man in Western New York is try
ing to go, without food till the 4th of July.
He is now on his third week and quite hum
cry.
I -Strasser, the executoner of Pesth, who
did Haynau's murders in Hungary, has COM
mtted suicide through remGrse, in his seven
tieth year.
Two very respectable gentlemel of Auburn
N. Y, recently eloped, each with the others
wife, on the same train and the same dark
night. A recognition ensued i'll the waiting
DOM at Syracuse, an exchange was effected,
and there is no division in those households.
The occasion OF Mile Tostee's farewell
benefit crowded the New York Acadamy of
Music on Thursday evening, and the great ar
tist never appeared at better advantage before
the public. She takes her departure for a
brief season only, and will return to this coun-
try about the LIST of August.
One Woodhouse of England lately ran
from Newington to Croydon and back twice,
fo:ty miles, on wager that he could accom-
plish it in five hours. He won, with seven
minutes to spare,was not greatly fatigued, and
pocketed the enormous sts kes, e20. r...
The most valuable wedding present to the
bride of Senator Henderson was a massive
silver service. weighing over 40 pounds, the
gift of o. N Cutter, Perry Fuller's rival for the
internal revenue commissonership.
Prof Fowler, of Hillsdale College. has re-
covered $25OO damages from the Chicago Jour
nal for paragraph stating that he had seduc-
ed one of his pupils.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Commonwealth objects to the recall Of
General Lawrence from the Costa Rican mis-
sion because he fought duel while Reverdy
johnson, "a man who carries in his face per-
petual reminder of the reprehended practice
an eye made sightless and unsightly, by the re-
bound of bullet while practicing at target
in prepar alton for duel" is appointed and
confirmed Minister to England
The New York Sorosis club is soon to give
a dinner to the gentlemen of the press, at
which the ladies are to do the toasting and eu-
logizing.
Senator Hendricks, the coming man of the
Democracy, is thus described by Agate, of the
Cincinnati Gazette: "Mr. Hendricks is plain,
heavily-bult, substantial-looking man, show
ing his Scotch Irish descent in appearance
and habits, as well as in mental characteristics;
is smooth-shaven, dark haired, with large head
and high forehead. He is reputed the best
lawyer, next to Reverdy johnson, on the DEM
ocratic side of the Senate, and is clear, forci-
BILE and pleasant speaker Politically, he is
not quite SO obnoxious to the war wing of the
Democracy as Mr.. Pendleton, though it might
puzzle his adherents to show where there is
very much to choose between them"
Walter Brown denies that he had any
| fight after his late race in New York with Ty-
er. He also states that the race was fair
and square one and that Tyler can beat any
man in the world on a two or three mile race.
The American heiress, for whose attempt
| ed abduction Chevaier Wikoff was incarcer-
ated for some two years in Genoese prison,
is residing in London, still, sin maiden medi-
tation fancy free"
Eugene once called Madame Ratazzi "an
old coquette," and now the Italian lady in.
tends to return the compliment. She has a
novel in press, called "The Empress Bibi,"
| which is nothing less than clever and Dalic-
ious satire upon her enemy. Bib is the name
of Eugenie's favorite dog.
M de Lesseps, contractor for the Suez ca
nal, has invited everybody to go and see it
formally opened on the 1st of October 1869.
Mike McCoole says that the failure of the
contest between himself and Coburn has kill
ed prize fighting in this country.
Two more weddings on the Washing
ton tapis viz: Senator Norton, of Minnesota
to young lady of Baltimore, and Mr.. Speak
er Colfax, to Miss Perry, of Keokuk.
That extraordinary American Humorist,
Henry W. Shaw, (whose nom de plume is Josh
Bnlngs,) will publish in few days, through
G. w. Carleton & Co., his new book, Josh
Billings on Ice, with many comic illustrations
by Howard. ...- ..
The editor of the Gardiner Journal warns
his fellow-citizens that burglars are abroad,
and adds sly notice to ''vagrom men" that
there is nothing worth stealing in his house
and he hates to be walked for nothing. Be-
sides he says he is very ferocious when his nap
| is disturbed.
"A Tribune philosopher holds the theory
that the immediate cause of the cold and wet
| spring and the incessant rains is to be attrib-
uted to the presence of so many icebergs on
the coast and the immense fields of ice which
| have been met between degrees of latitude 40
and AZ north.
Mrs. C. A Soule relates in the Ambassa-
dor pleasant incident. On the last Sunday
| in May she met in the church of Our Saviour,
an old lady who had gone in there supposing
from the name, it was an Episcopal Church
She was profoundly astonished to be told that
she was in a Uniyersalst church and had lis
| tened to a sermon from Universalist. These
are her comments, as reported by Mrs. Soule:
-.Universalisti Universalistl Well you've
cot n very eloquent minister. good man he
must be, too, or he couldn't have written and
preached that sermon, AMI | am not sorry
happened in here, though never thought that
I in my old days should 90 to Universalist
| church, .#.. -
| Edward A Pollard, who is responsible for
the now well-known title, "The Lost Cause"
having sold nearly hundred thousand copies
of that remarkable book, has just finished the
proofs of his new work, The Lost Cause Re-
gained, which G. w. Carleton & Co. will pub
lish in few days.
-Commencement at TUFTS College on the
9Th of July. On the 7th William r. Alger de-
livers an oration and David Barker poem be-
| .la Golla0a SociatieS