The Portland daily press., 1868-11-10
CHURCHES.
YariGtieR.

The Paris Figaro denies the report that
NJ. Rochefort had fought duel with Mariod.
Two tipsy fellows were rescued from
drowning at Havre by the custom-house ofi.
GERS, when one of them, as he emerged drip
ping upon the wharf, tried to persuade his de.
iverers TO dive again for his hat.
Carleton of New York sends US the pro-
spectus of new magaz ne, the pui LEGATION OF
which he is to eommence in January. 1. Is
designed "for the youth of America" is 10 be
conducted by Captain Mayne Reid, and will
be entitled Onoard. Two stories by the editor
will begin in the first rumber.
The publishers OF the German magazn es
are overwhelmed with letters from their sub
scribers to publish more and better articles on
American topics.
The wild geese are reported flying south.
ward earlier than usual, aud the weather
prophets say this is another sign of a hard
winter.
A Philadelphia reporter recently saw the
moon shining so brightly that be could trace
the movements of base ball club playing Q
match on the surface of that lovely satellite.
A French com 1any has rented tor sixty
years the right to plant fruit trees the slopes
of railway embankments.
In Milwaukee they call harness makers
'horse mliners."
-Signor Mangioli, an Italian journalist.
who spent two years in America, has written
book on female beauty, in which he says
| that Boston can boast the most beautiful wo-
men in the the United States. Signor Man2i-
oil did not visit Portland.
The daughter of Professor Francke, Of
Gottingen, has committed suicide by leaping
into the sea from q steamer on the passage
from London to Hamburg
Large, imperfect cabbages can be made to
| head out during the winter, if transplanted
| into trench, and covered with boards, corn.
| stalks, and earth.
| When butter was ten cents o pound
pound of it would bug a yard of good cot
ton cloth. In these days a pound will buy
| two yards. The truth is, farm labor will
bring in more money than mechanical labor.
The prospectus of the Atlantic Monthly
for 1869 contains the news that Col. 7. W.
Higginsons serial s,ory will be entitled "Mal.
hone: an Odport Romance that Hon. J.
Lothrop Motley is to contribute some histori.
cal articles; that Professor James Russell
Lowell will have both an essay and poem In
the January number; that DR., Il. /. Bowditch
will write series of articles on "Consump-
tion;' and makes a variety of other announce
ments which promise brilliant vo lume.
Minnesota has Just been having its Gus.
tomary Indian summer storm. A ST. Paul pa
| per says that Tor thirty hours 1t rained, tbun-
dered, lightened, and blew, without the slight
est intermission, and then, as a slight varia.
| ton, it showed "biowed," "lightened" and
rained, with occasionally a growing report
from the upper regions Land slides occurred
upon some of the railroads, and some of the
trains were considerably delayed.
AT this season, when green plants are be-
coming daily more desirable, the following
suggestion is timely If the top of carrot,
cut off at this season, or later, placed in q
saucer of water, with a few bits Of charcoal to
sweeten it, it will form a radiated feathery
plant by no means unworthy to grace ladv's
table.
We hear expressed the wish that the talk
ing American Minister at the Court OF st.
James would initiate the reticence OF the
American President elect.
1t is mentioned as a remarkable fact that
son OF American parents, who was born In
California, has attained his majority and voted
at the recent elections. He is believed to DO
the only case of the kind. California has thus
Int one voterwho is not "carpet-bagger."
In Sbakasneare's time no women appear
| al an tho stage: the female paris in all dra-
| - concentrations were enacted by boys.
T.av have changed all that with vepgea lce
| - vienna, where a theatre has been fitted up
| at which women ouly are to perform. All the
male characters are to be personated by wo-
meu, and even the orchestra is to be composed
exclusively of female musicians.
MIR George Rose, who came to this "blarst-
ed country" last year to give an entertainment,
under the name Of Arthur Sketchly, and who
made a conspicuous failure, has taken sweet
revenge by writing and publishing book on
the Tinted States, in which he surpasses even
most of the British travellers who have pre-
coded him in grumbliug, scolding and lying
He evidently feels both sour and sore.
The physicians Of the young Prince Royal
of Belgium begin to have hopes OF his rec2v-
cry.
The ciuchona trees OF South America are
dying out, aud f,ars are entertained that the
worlds supply of quinine may be cut of. The
ciuchona grows well in Jamaica, and the gov
ernment of that island Ia urged to encourage
and assist in its cultivation on an eAs'ndeo
scale. 1t seems, however, that only upon
mountains from 500 to 1000 feet hieh. where
a. t.asts - off,u bedewed with mist, 'oeS
thi 80 ar,;va 10 a perfection tnaI VIII maze
i,s cnitivation profitable; but there are several
sactions On this and other nelgnoorlng isisnosI
which will answer the requirements