The Portland daily press., 1868-06-12
VarietieS.

-One great thing for which L envy the
Americans, said De Tocqueville, is the ease
with which they do without being governed.
An enterprising quack has contrived to
extract from sausages powerful tonic, which
he says contains the whole strength of the
original bark. He calls it "Sulphate of Ca
nlueP He anticipates great popularity for it,
AN urchin crawled into a sugar hogshead
at the steamboat landing at Troy His first
exclamation was, 90 for thousand tongues!"
"A short time ago Roman widow, who re-
joiced in the name of Bonbosi-Frattochi, met
the Pope in the streets, and made gesture
familiar to all Italians, which is popularity sup
posed to avert the peril of the evil eye The
antidote was powerless to overcome the dan
ger; for as i'll luck would have it, the Pope
saw the gesture, and being much annoyed at
the superstition which gave rise to the prac-
tice, he ordered the offending lady to quit his
territories. ta
DIR. w on one occasion received no fee
for isarrying parsimonious couple and meet
ing them several months after, at a social
gathering, took up their baby and exclaimed,
L believe L have mortgage on this ehildl''
Baby's papa, rather than have any explana-
ton before the company, quietly handed over
aV.
The birth of an heir to the throne of the
Gar OF all the Russias, which took place on
the 18th ult., was received with great reioic-
lngs. A salvo of 301 guns announced the
event. The capital was Illuminated at night.
and the public buildings gaily decorated with
flags. The young child received the name of
Nicholas, after his grandfather He has re-
ceived the title of Imperial Highness, and has
been named chief of the Sixty-fifth Regiment
OF Infantry of Moscow, which is hencefortb to
be called His Imperial Highness's Own"
Rather an infantile commander of infantry
In consequence of this event, it was reported
that general amnesty would be granted to
all offenders against the state
The Boston Post thinks there are enouob
OF live fossils in New Jersey to make another
present to Yale College Museum.
"A letter from Melbourne says that nearly
Sl'5OO,OOO was spent by the government, pub
lie bodies, aud private persons on the fetes
given in honor of the Duke of Edinbureb's
visit.
That was good prayer which old Sir Ja-
cob Ashley made before the battle of Edeebill.
"Oh Lord!" he said, "Thou knowest how busy
must be this day; if I forget thee, do not thou
forget me-" Then rising from his knees he
gave the command, "March on, boysp
Washington sculpture gets this honorable
mention in recent letter from the capital:
THE town is full of statues of dwarfs, cripples.
rocking-horses and drunken Indians. Wash
lngton, nearly naked, sits out in the rain CO.
lossally, pointing TO the Patent Office where
his breeches are. Lincoln is a base ball pitcher
on the top of column. A pea-green Jeffer.
son, deaf and dumb, is asking aims. with pa
per, before the White House. Near by General
jackson is riding to victory in landscape of
foaming mugs of lager beer"
"A writer in Echoss from the Clubs thinks
the Prince of Wales has a difficult part to play
In the future. He says: Everybody is agreed
that there must be no disturbance of existing
arrangements while lady occupies the
throne. But the leaders of the revolutionary
party have NO tenderness towards the Prince
OF Wales, and regard the seventh Edward as
royal morsel to be rapidly devoured as soon as
he is the representative of monarchy"
-Alluding to the story of grass-seed sprout-
ing on Sleeps backs, which we published a
day or two since, the Newburyport Herald
says, similar case was reported at Dogtown
some years ago-the sheep were yarded and
lived all summer by feeding off each others
backs, and in the fall a good crop OF hay was
cut which kept them through the winter!
"A letter addressed to Miss Van Hoosen,
Shodack, and postmarked eleven years ago,
was found recently by mail agent on the
Hudson River Railroad. 1t had slipped into
n fol 1o4e ctl,o I;ek, sH,,N;o AoLIo
which, with the car, had been laid up for sew
eral years. The owner finally received the
letter. similar case occurred some time
since on the Long Island Railroad.
There is story of man who bought q
lot of logs in Illinois and drove them SLOWLY
to Chicago. He was compelled to sell at a loss
of four hundred dollars. Returning home he
was asked by his neighbors what were the
profits of his operation. "Wel," said he, 81
reckon didn't make much money out of the
trip, but had the company ofthe hogs dO,cny'
The New Orleans Bee thinks there is too
much truth in Wendell Phillips's statement
that the South has no business brains"
"A clerk just dismissed for political reasons
from position in the Treasury Department
writes glowing letter to the Assistant Secre-
tary, accepting the situation, and begging to
assure him, that ".whlle his discovered head
rolls upon the pavement, it still shouts the
battle cry of freedom" Dismissal from Office
evidently does such head no hurt; perhaps
it may shout all the louder.
The La Grange Brignoli Company are de-
lighting the people of Toronto.
If Colfax has ever been a printer, he'll know
what 1t is to have a form pied next November-Neto
York Leader.
Exactly so. The Democratic form is already
so badly squabbled and off its feet that the
strongest chase in the country can't hold it to-
gether, and there are clear indications that 1t
will be in h-the receptacle for broken forms,
very early in Neutrality-suspicious. journal
One Arab child is the sole representative
of family of five Algerines, who mutually
ate each other during the famine.
Napoleon wrote twelve different drafts of
the insipd little speeches he made at Orleans
before he could get one to suit him.