The Portland daily press., 1868-04-14
Varieties.

When will journalists cease the use of the
nonsensical word 'lengthy"? 1t is no more
correct than widthy or breadthy would be, and
is, besides, utterly useless when we have the
true word-loDg-which expresses, fully and
briefly, the whole idea.
"A good old minister in Western Massa-
chusetts thought to economize by making his
own sugar. After the first run from his sugar
place, he called on parishioner and told him
that while every one else got much sap and
nice sugar, Providence frowned on his trees;
they gave little sap and very queer sugar. The
parishoner visited the minister's orchard, and
found spruce, hemlocks, birch and all suitably
large trees included in his operations.
T "A story is going the rounds of the minor
English journals to the effect that Mrs. Ten
nyson is responsible for the appearance of the
Poet Laureate's late weak effusions in "Good
Words" and elsewhere. According to this sto-
ry, when Mrs. Tennyson is short of funds, and
don't care to apply to her husband, she ran
sacks his papecs till she finds any stray verses;
those she seizes on and sends to a magazine,
receiving therefor the hundred pounds, al
ways gladly paid for poem signed "a Tenny-
son." If this were true, (Which we doubt ex-
ceedingly) it would not in any way account
for the aCTiting of such twaddle by Mr.. Ten
nyson.
-Solomon's Temple, so says a French sa-
udnt, wa furnished with lightning rods. Will
mot the Massachusetts, Historical Society vim
dictate the outraged memory of Benjamin
Franklin? We shall next be told that there
was of old an electric telegraph from Jerusa-
lem to Jericho. "''~
/ Three Moors arrived at New York last
week among the immigrants from abroad.
Two of them bore the historic names of Add
el-Kader and Mahomet, and being agricultur-
lists, the whole of them obtained immediate
employment from a farmer.
"A "Linen Wedding" is the latest invented
occasion for celebration. A couple in New
buryport lately celebrated under this title the
thirtieth anniversary of their marriage, en-
tertained party of four hundred guests, and
laid in stock Of one kind of dry goods large
enough to last lifetime.
"A judge in Ohio has just decided, as
judges elsewhere had previously decided, that
man may provide that, if his widow marries
again, she shall lose all his or their property.
Here is a case for Gail Hamilton. She should
bring out the keen, trenchant blade OF her
wit and demolish this Ohio Judge whose mind
seems befogged by the bad education and bar
barc traditions Of the past. We seem to hear
her ask, with overpowering earnestness and
pertinency, why dying wife may not similar
ly tie up her first sorrowing and then solacing
"relict?" Is not sauce for goose equally fit
sauce for gander?
The following funny advertisement is from
Paris dailyI'A young gentleman upon the
point of committing matrimony, would like to
find some actress who would get that notion
out of his head" H.L - t.
The Austrian government has just made
arrangements with several Hungarian and
Polish nobeman a i'd capitalists for the build
ing of railway between Hungary and Gala
cia, 1t will run through one of the most ter-
tile parts of the Austrian empire. Its strate-
gical importance can hardly be overrated.
The act of incorporation will be obtained from
the Hungarian Diet at the next session.
The professors of medicine in the Michi-
gan University threaten to resign, because
school of Homeopathy has been established
| therein.
One NJ. Corneille, member OF the French
Corps Legislatif, who claimed to be a decend-
ant of the author of the "Cid" has just died.
The only time he opened his mouth in the
Legislature was when he moved an indemni-
fication for the damage inflicted by cockchaf-
ers in Normandy. 1-
.-Cardinal Antonelli telegraphed to NJ. de
Bismarck to know if there was any "incon-
venience" in the King of Hanover's going to
live in Rome The answer was brief and TO
the purpose-"Rome or elsewhere, it don't at
all matter"
The secret diplomatic history of the Con-
federacv states that Sir Henry de Houghton,
one of the wealthiest baronets Of England,
contributed in all over 100000 to the Confed-
crate cause, and that he held at the close not
far from one-tenth of the whole Confederate
cotton loan.
"A Frenchman, who was arrested in 1S4e
for crying ''Vive PEmpereur," was sent to
prison the other day for shouting "Vive la
Republique" The judge told him he must not
only learn what to cry, but when.
An English magazine has an article on
some of Tennyson's late poems, entitled
"What is the Laureate About?" The Boston
Advertiser thus answers the conundrum'
"about exhausted"
Nicholas Smith has been arrested IN Du
falo. and eonfesses to having nreu
| different buildings in that city ana Vicinity.
O'-',' ~A French paper states that an analysis of
,,;o;ao elbows that married men ana women
spoluo spe more liable to make way with themselves
thon bachelors and maids
'N''I ,,,,.y Ward Beecher is the author Of the
| &c. "Wben the millennium comes, it
O'', ,.o Lnown by the universal prevalence of
s,raet pure butterl But so depraved are peo-
nle now, that myriad pounds of execrable
grease are patiently consumed by people,
whose degraded taste submits to this enorm
ty without gasp, a resistance, or even an AT
| tempted reformation"
1t is proposed in Chicago 10 ou,u ss,s;,,,
have sPsn separate % suite. q sssSss .aa a
heated and supplied alike WIN A'''''
laundry for common "'
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