The Portland daily press., 1868-04-18
Varieties.


-Thiers is writing an article on the i'm
peachment of the President, for the Revue
des Deux Mondes. He approves the impeach-
ment.
The death of Capt Hartstein is announc-
ed to have taken place at Paris. He was an
officer in the American navy, and made the
celebrated voyage to the Arctic Ocean in
search of DIR. Kane and Sir John Franklin,
and was successful in finding DIR. Kane and
bringing him home.
The last recipe for keeping eggs is, to place
them in boiling water twelve seconds This
thickens the inside skin, and keeps out the
air.
The present is the greatest maple sugar
season Vermont has experienced 'within the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant" One pa
per says that Sylvanus Morse, of East Mont
pelier, is the maple sugar king of the State.
He has 2,75O trees tapped, and thus far has
made 700 to 1000 pounds. His total product
this year will probably be from five to six tuns.
The sugar product is equally great through
out the whole State
The Country Gentlemen says: If COWS are
fed on early cut timothy, put up in good or
der, the butter will come with little trouble.
Horses are so scarce in Japan that cows
take their place, and the war horse" of an
army officer is one of these animals shod with
straw, and musical with little bells.
In his admirable article on quotation and
Originality, in the last number of the North
American Review, Emerson sententously re-
marks: 'In literature, quotation is good only
when the writer whom follow goes my way,
and, being better mounted than I, gives me a
cast as we say; but if 1 like the gay equipage
so well as to go out of my road, 1 had better
have gone afoot,"
1t is stated that among the papers of the
late Alexis de Tocqueville has been found an
entirely new edition in manuscript of his
Democracy in America, which shows in sew
eral respects important notifications of his
former views.
"A writer in the New York Tribune esti-
mates that the agricultural press of America
is equal in ability, circulation and capital to
what the newspaper press in the whole world
was at the commencement of the century
"A Greek coin of great age has just been
brought to England from India, where it was
discovered. 1t is of gold, and is by weight
worth eleven guineas. The owner has refused
e7O0 for it.
-Bismark has been quite badly beaten in
the late parliamentary elections in South Ger
many. Out of eighty deputies elected in Ba-
varia, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt and Wurtem-
berg, only twenty belong to the National"
party.
Admiral" Semmes has received a letter
from Lieutenant John c. Brain, who is still
| confined in Brooklyn prison, appealing for
| aid. The Southern papers all urge their read
ers to contribute.
Mr.. Hendrix Conscience, the celebrated
Flemish story-teller, seems to have followed
the example of Mr.. Dickens, for he is reciting
his own tales in Amsterdam, just now, to
crowded and gratified audiences. The FASH
ion, instead of being new unworthy thing
in literature, is very old and perfectly classi-
cal thing. No need to speak of Herodotus
reading his own history, or of the poets, ora
tors, and some of the Emperors of Rome who
delivered their compositions before large au-
| diences. The fashion has also a romantic
| prestige, for the best OF the old diseurs and
troubadours followed it. The custom is good
enough to be generally revived and made
| popular feature in modern literature, tending
as it does to bring the people into contact with
the finest intellects of the time.
| The author of "Proverbial Philosophy"
recently contributed poem of seven stanzas
to newspaper called the Rock, which high
critical authority declares to be more inefflble
rubbish than Tennyso rs latest lyrics. The
theme is the bones of some assumed martyrs
recently dug up at Smithfeld. Subsequent
investigation and scientific examination dis
closed the remains to be those of a martyred
| pig.
Eight hundred women sang the "Marseil-
laise" in Marseilles the other day. They were
employed in a Government cigar manufaeto-
nv, and as the tobacco leaves served out to
them were too dry to work with, they chose
this way of asking to have them dampened
Eight hundred French citoyennes singing this
omiuous chant is a fact OF fearful significance
Will they dance the CTmagnole next?
"A case of genuine ancient leprosy exists
in the Montreal Hospital, the patient being
lumberman, who has been Frustrated with the
loathsome disease for eight years.
In New Bedford, while workmen were re-
Gently repairing the bottom of the bark Napo-
leon, plank was removed in which was found
the sword OF billfish, which had been thrust
through the plank three inches, and three anu
half inches into the timber.
| The ghost business is extending III Minhe-
sota St. Paul has started ghost but unilke
his Minneapolis brother he refuses to make
himself visible.
in Quincy, ILL.,, an eagle swooped down
upon baby that had been left alone by the
r;ver hank by its mother, and carried it away,
and it has not since been seen.
Sham diamonds are now made to deceive
even experienced jewellers, who trust to the
eye alone, and the only means of detecting a
spurious gem is by weighing it and ascertain
ing its temperature.
The Tetofsky is a new apple from Russia;
is sour, of fine quality, hardy, grows nearer
the north pole than any other, and blossoms
and ripens within sixty days.
"A lady who was startled out of sleep by
some one trying to enter the house, cried out,
"Who is there?" "Your late husband" was
the impertinent reply.
A Turkish bath (for ladies only)-the Bos-
phorus.