The Portland daily press., 1868-06-18
Varieties.


lowing placard attached to his side-show:
Subject of the r-Transubstantiation
and the mass. The lecturer will dress in
priests robes, and will give a burlesque of the
mass, with bells, candles, incense, and other
fiummery." Whenever the cheerful and hu-
morous Flynn arrives at a strongly Catholic
town he is greeted with paving-stones and
brick-bats.
During recent storm in Charleston, s.
g., which blew down the mammoth tent of
Ame's Circus, one of the spotted leopards,
which had been lett in the same cage with a
tiger, was killed by the latter and half eaten
before the occurrence was discovered. 1t had
been usual to separate the animals for the
night Immediately after the evenings perform
ance, but from some oversight this was neg
lected
Mrs. ROda Berg, 76 years of age, died in
Chelsea, Mass, on the 7th inst, from the eff
fects OF slight scratch made upon her hand
by tame rabbit. AT first nothing was thought
of the matter, as the skin was scarcely broken,
and no blood was drawn. A short time after
wards the arm began to swell with excrucia-
ting pain, and continued to do so until the
skin burst and death ensued, ten days after
the occurrence.
There is an uncommon rush of New
Workers to Europe this summer-the steam
ships go out loaded.
There is nothing stirring but stagnation"
in English literary matters at present.
Alex. II. Stephens advises the young men
OF the South to remain, and if need be "go
down with the ship" But there is no need of it.
Grape and lace neckties of various colors
are now becoming very fashionable for gentle
men.
The following capital story is credited to
Garrison the abotionist An unlucky fellow,
who may as we'll be called John Brown became
the subject of church censure and discipline;
and vote of expulsion was about being pass
ed, when messenger came in and announced
that an outside meeting had been held, and
that the outsiders had resolved not to receive
Mr.. Brown back among them, unless returned
in as good condition as when the church
took him.
The road to wealth, there is no doubt
about it, is through advertising. If you doubt
it try it.
Philadelphia has $4,000 pupils attending
its public schools.
Since the commencement of the present
year, over $1,000 emigrants have arrived at
New York.
New figs are selling in New York at 10
cents per pound.
-Adelina Patti is to sing in New York next
winter.
"A curious case of somnambulism occurred
at Richford, Ct few nights ago. Alvin Gof
OF that village got up in his sleep, dressed him
self, spoke TO his son in law and obtained per-
mission TO take his horse to 90 after his (Goff's)
cow, which he said had broken out of the
pasture. He then harnessed the horse, and
after dri ing mile hitched it to a fence while
he started on an imaginary pursuit after the
COW. But she was terribly obstinate, he
thought and after chasing her long distance,
he sat down to rest, and then came to himself
He found his horse hitched, and his COW
which had caused him so much anxiety and
fatigue, safe in the pasture.
According to London letter writer, Mr.
Disraeii lacks only 142 hairs OF being bald
There is tree in Illinois from the trunk
OF which eight varieties of wood branch out.
Napoleon wrote twelve different drafts of
the insipid little speech he made at Orleans
before he could getone to suit him.
-Nine-tenths of the newspapers in Ger
many are in favor of General Grant, and so are
all the Liberal papers in France.
Hundreds of Mormon mechanics are grad
ing the Union Pacific Railroad east of Salt
Lake City.
The Philadelphia Gazette says the mosaui.
toes are so thick at the sea side that the resi-
dents can only breathe through wire strainers
"A Connecticut congregation has passed a
resolution that no voluntary pieces shall be
sung by the choir unless the ords shall be in
telligbe to the audience.
One of the Prince of Wales's horses re-
ceived first prize at the great Horse Show
week before last and the crowd hissed the
fortunate animal.
The wedding dress of the daughter of the
Queen of Spain was all lace and pearls, and
she rode to church in a tortoise shell coach.
"A Coburg paper says that the story of ne
gotiatiOns between Prussia and England, look
ing to the incorporation of the duchy of Sake
Coburg-Gotha with the former kingdom. are
merely idle inventions" The story is be-
lieved in England nevertheless.
king Ludwig of Bavaria, on the Goth of
May, issued a proclamation in commemora-
tion Of the fiftieth anniversary of the granting
of a constitution to that kingdom. In this
document he promised to uphold the cOnstitu-
ton, and declared that he finds his highest
happiness in that of his people.
Washington sculpture gets this honorable
mention in a recent letter from the capital:
'rhe town is full OF statues of dwarfs, cripples,
rocking-horses and drunken Indians. Wash
ngton. nearly naked, sits out in the rain col
ossally, pointing to the Patent Office where
his breeches are. Lincoln is base ball pitch
| on the top of column. A pea green Jeffer-
son. deaf and dumb, is asking aims, with
paper. before the White House. Near by
General jackson is riding to victory in land
scape of toaming mugs of lager beer.
"A new way to collect old debts has been
found in Kentucky. The creditor had his
debtor arrested for possessing counterfeit
money, and when the officers made search
and discovered $1,000 in genuine greenbacks,
he attached the lot, securing his amount.
The French Government is doing very
popular thing by shipping female convicts to
| CAYENNE and marrying them to the male con-
| victs out there.