The Portland daily press., 1868-01-21
Varieties.

the gentler sex appeared at the poll as rate
payers, assessed to the required amount to en-
title them to the exercise of the franchise The
School Act making no distinction of sex as far
as voters are concerned, the Returning Officers
accepted their vote without hesitation"
The Paris Rothschild recently had royal
shooting party at his country seat, the peculiar
feature of the entertainment being the engage
ment of the celebrated surgeon Nelaton, who
presided at pavilion where all tho wounded
hares, pheasants, etc., were conveyed by a reg.
ular ambulance service, their limbs reset, their
wounds dressed, and themselves put in condi-
ton to serve another time.
-GdHgaani says: "Our mourning for her
Maiesty's Theatre would be turned into glad
ness could the confagration produce another
volume Of Rejected Addresses When Fair
Augusta's Towers and Trees Redeemed under
the glare of 'Drury's fame, this volume rose like
a Phenix from the ashes. We can find the cap
ital andsenergy 20 rebuild the opera, but when
are we to fnd Il Horace or James Smith,
"A Deputy Sheriff atsKeene, \. "a, some years
ago, had habit when anything occurred to
him which he had forgotten to state, of quickly
raising his right hand with lore finger extend
nation, "By the wayr' 1t being once his duty
as crier to give notice of the opening of the
court, he began, 30, yes, all persons having
anything to do before the court of common
pleas will draw nigh and hearken to the evil
dence!" Here he sat down, but remembering
he had forgotten the finishing touches Instant
ly rose and exclaimed, "By the way, God save
the State
The gallant Arctic voyager, Captain sher-
ard Osborn, has met with little encouragement
from the English press in his endeayors to get
up an expedition to the North Pole.
b Russia is still very generally credited with
the design of forcing on a settlement with re-
gard to tue fate of Seryia and Caudia which
shall cripple aud demoralize Turkey yet fur.
ther, and to be prepared TO disturb the armed
peace OF Europe If that be necessary to the
attainment ut her object. A Russian army
Is lowering about the line of the Pruth, and
Russian diplomacy is as bold and threatening
ut Constsutinople as before the Crimean war.
Russia, Prussia and Italy may one day
be ranked against EHgland, France and Aus
tra in the last Eastern struggle, and the ex-
peetation OF some gigantic struggle of this
kind has become almost a fixiiy ia many OF
the money markets of Europe. Low
"A rich man in. Massachusetts made his
brother present OF AN old suit of clothes the
the other da3; and the b7other, who is in poor
health and has close work to make both ends
of the year meet, appreciated the gift when he
found in the pocket mortgage on his house
for 500, which had been paid off and dis
charged by the donor. r5s
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says with the terrible severity Of truth: "Ths
Boston papers are conducted on strict cash
principles. No credit is giyen-to exchanges"
"A lady in Lawrence, Mass, awoke the
other night with a feeling that her child was
in danger, and on going to its crib found
large pin in its mouth. -15 slcs5rss
{ -Thieying and thief-killing, according to
! the Houston Telegraph, are going on at a
shocking rate in Texas. The stealing of stock,
provisions, &c, is rapidly on the increase, and
never was lynch law executed with such Sc
oresy as now. Not even the thieves know
with what rapidity retribution is visited upon
their class, as care is taken to keep the facts
out Of the papers. The people of Texas, being
completely without the protection Of law, have
taken the matter into their own hands.
, The Prussian Chamber of Deputies has
ruled that members cannot be prosecuted for
words spoken in the hall of legislature. Count
Bismarck had previously decided that they
could. This is a small nut for this minister to
crack, and may be only the first OF a good
handful to be flung at him by the representa-.
tives of the German people. IT this freedom
from prosecution is to be applied to words
spoken by the members to each other, the
Prussian Legislature should be called the Pick
wick Club. .ss1aasF ..tL ..a..ah
The Paris wits have not done yet with
Marshal Mel, who sought the other day to
prove that the forced celibacy to which the ar
my is subjected for six years greatly contrib
utes to the general welfare. He denied that
the marriageable girls in France had any rea.
son to complain that the CONSUMPTION deprived
them OF eligible husbands. He laid down that
the young men rejected by the military boards
of inspection as unfit for soldiers, through the
loss OF one eye, of several teeth, other bodily
infirmities and weaknesses of constitution,
were not by reason of these disadvantages un-
tit for marriage. Never perhaps in French
assembly has marriage been so severely reduc-
ed to a simple question Of the reproduction Of
the species. Can one-armed, one-eyed young
man produce healthy children? Yes, says SCI
ence. The qsestion Is then settled, and what
have the young girls to complain Of? Such ia
the argument of Marshal Mel Man is a re-
productive animal and nothing more
The unfortunate ship carpenters of Que
bee have been starved into yielding, and the
yards are again opened. The men have gone
to work-the laborers for half dollar, and the
carpenters for is aud As per day. No wonder
they emigrate. - a
The Southern idea of "chivalry" is we'll H.
Illustrated in the account of aduel at Paterson.
N. j., which we printed yesterday A South
ern gentleman" goes to ball in New York
and insults a lady there present. The lady's
brother objects, and the chivalrous Southron
insists on shooting him for his impudence.
The works for bringing the waters of the
Vannes to Paris are to be Immediately COM
menced. The course they will have to follow
viii be nearly across the department Of the
Yonne, ard portion Of the Seine-et-Marnc IN
tie neighborhood of Moret, to reach the great
reservoirs of Montrouge, whence they will be
distributed through the quarters of the capital
on the left bank of the Seine. The cost of this
undertaking is estimated at S40OOOO0.
Z "A paragraph has been going the rounds of
the papers to the effect that Mr.. Nasby was
about to give readings from his letters. A
correspondent of the Springfield Republican
says this is a mistake. DTr Nasty has deliver
ed, with gratifying success, lecture which
bears the attractive title of "Cursed be Ca
naan, Sin several Western cities but does net
propose to read" Ia a recent private letter
he SAYS: There IL q good deal of oratory in
n,e, but don't do as well as can in any one
place, out OF respect to the memory OF Patrick
Henry sas saf 5i srft Oh ala
Kenny sons new poem," The Victim" 10
much talked RbOut--or rather the manner In
which it got before the public is much talked
about. 1t had been given out that the laureate
had agreed to furnish several poems exclusive.
Iv for the Atlantic, and that the first one,
nriuted from the original manuscript, would
aonea, IN the February number of that maga-
zine. 1t came to this country in the January
number of Good Words from an early cory
of which Roberts Brothers furnished il to the
Boston Transcript, aud 1t has since appeared
in all the papers in tue country. The Atlantic,
which is supposed to coutain ii, has not yet
appeared. The poem win seem like an CID
friend when seen in the pages of that perioo'-
cal. .-- ID .ssstt -f.ar
= We are 10 have a fine uniform edition OF
Tbackeray's works at last. The only wonder
is that we have not had one before. The first
volume. containing Vanity Fair" is Issued.
+, haor. tbe imprint OF Smith & Elder, Lon.