The Portland daily press., 1868-05-07
VarietieS.

An impudent Chicago editor recently
wrote and published in his paper a statement
that half the people who attend the opera in
that city don't know the difference between a
symphony and sardine.
kissing factory girl is a mill privilege"
Yes, when she is satisfactory girl.
Daniel Drew has been elected President
of the corporators of the Drew Theological
Seminary. The Boston Transcript thinks this
is singular appointment for mar who con-
trols broad gauge road which leads to de-
struction.
-Harper's Weekly has a very good drawing
representing the astonishment OF Mr.. Charles
Dickens at the Press dinner on the 18th of
April on listening to a speech from his own
Mr.. Pickwick. The design represents Mr..
Greeley in the garb and attitude which Sey-
mour's sketch has made immortal, with one
arm extended and the other holding back his
coat-tails, his spectacled face beaming with
truly PIckwickian benevolence and beside
him the innocent water-bottle from which his
mild inspiration is drawn. The way in which
the artist has hit off the character without
losing the likeness to Mr.. Greeley is partcu-
larly happy, and the astonished expression of
the guest of the evening" is capital
james Russell Lowell has been for some
time engaged on new poem of considerable
length. 1t is to appear in the June number of
the Atlantic Monthly, and the title of it is
ga June Idyl."
AT Florence caricature is now much in
vogue, representing Europe in the person of
an old woman, with her eyes bandaged, dane
ing the cdncdn on spot spread over with eggs
marked with various questions, such as the
Eastern, that of Abyssinia of the Rhine, of
Schleswig, sc. A Frenchman, an Austrian,
and Prussian, with others, look on, and ex-
claim; Let us see whether the old one will
finish without making an omelettef"
When Moore was getting his portrait paint
ed by Newton, Sydney Smith, who accompa-
MED the poet, said to the artist, Couldn't you
contrive to throw into his face somewhat of
stronger expression of hostility to the Church
Establishment?"
"A cockney being out one day, amusing
himself with shooting, happened to fire
through hedge, on the other side of which
was man standing. The shot passed through
the mans hat, but missed the bird. "Did you
fire at me, sir?" he hastily asked. "Oh no,
sir," said the shrewd sportsman; 81 never hit
what fire att
"A writer in the American Journal of Hor-
t!cuiture adopts plan in budding roses which
greatly expedites the work, and is attended
with complete success. Instead of paste or
worsted, common adhesive plaster is substitut-
ed. In this method no tying is necessary, the
plaster adhering at once exactly where it is re-
quired. The plaster used is the common ad-
hesive plaster bought at the shops, and the
writer states that by its use the budding is
performed with greater neatness and exact
ness as well as rapidity.
An Ottawa dispatch of May first SAYS:
"Advces have been received here to-day from
the Nova Scotia delegates now in England.
The address for repeal had been received ut
the Colonial Office through Lord Monck, and
the delegates waited on the Duke of Bucking.
ham at the Colonial Office, on the Sd of April,
to state their case. The Duke recognized the
gravity of the subject, and was to bring the
matter under the consideration of the Cabinet
after the Easter holidays"
Over thousand coal miners in the Ma
honing Valley, Ohio, threaten strike unless
their wages are raised twenty cents per ton.
"A Mr. Collins and his wife have made the
overland journey from Bangkok to Moulmain
in forty-three days. The distance travelled
was six hundred and fifty miles. Mr.. Collins
says the journey ought to be accomplished in
from fifteen to eighteen days.
-Four young women are preparing for the
practice of medicine at Zurich. in Switzerland
Three of them are English and one a Swiss.
Mr.. John Brown, an American living in
valparaiso, Chill, has lent that city s25OOOO
IN goid for internal improvements. The his
tory OF Mr.. Brown, says Boston paper, is a
remarkable instance of the force and persevsr-
anee OF the Yankee character. 1t is but few
years ago that he landed at Valparaiso from
ship where he had worked as one Of the crew,
and with nothing but the clothes he had ON
commenced work as a journeyman carpenter.
To-day his property is valued at five millions.
He has an interesting family lives in princely
comfort, and stands at the head of social and
financial affairs in Chilli.