The Portland daily press., 1868-05-30
Varieties.

-Skeptics have hitherto objected to the
crediblity of the Scriptural account of the ad-
ventures of Jonah with the whale on the
ground that the throat of that mammal was
only a Few inches wide, and therefore, too mar
row to admit of the passage of a mans body.
But Professor Waterhouse Hawkins says that
there is no need to assume that Jonah was
saoalloaoed by the whale. The head of the ma
rine monster is two-thirds as large as its entire
body, and was, therefore, sufficiently commo-
dious to serve Jonah as an abiding place for
several days.
Two young ladies living in LeClaire, Iowa,
row boat across the Mississippi to Port By
ron, ILL.,, every morning, teach school all day,
and row back in the evening.
-Reade and Boucicault have offered Kate
ReignOlds the role OF Helen in "Foul Play"
1t is said on good authority at Vienna
that Baron Beust has decided. in the event of
a satisfactory reply not being given by the
Rouman government to the last despatch of
Baron Elder, the Austrian Consul-General at
Bucharest, relative to the prosecutions of the
Jews, to refer the matter to the decision of the
guarantying powers. This course is rendered
necessary by the Treaty of Paris, which for
bids the Intervention Of any single power in
the affairs of the Principalties.
Judy congratulates Dickens on his "large
profits and quick return"
The Saints of Utah catch the grasshoppers
in traps and feed them to chickens.
The Lafayette Indana) Journal says
that an endemic has broken out among the
cows in the northeastern part of Tippecanoe
county, Indiana, and they are dying off very
rapidly. About one third of the cows in the
neighborhood OF Lafayette have died within
| ten days. The same disease is affecting cattle
| in other por rtions of Indiana, and is thinning
| out the stock in several parts of Illinois The
| first symptoms noticeable are stiffening of the
legs and inability to walk. Death ensues very
| speedily, and the body becomes very offensive.
Gen. Fleury has actually routed out at
Orleans an heir to the honors of La Pucelle,
and presented him to the Emperor and EN-
press as the descendant of Pierre dare,
brother, and brother-in-arms also, of Jeanne
| He is lieutenant in the 9th regiment of the
Line.
Once a Week says that the following rid
| die was written by Archbishop Whately who
offered in vain ESQ to any one who would
| guess it:
''when from the Ark's capaeious round
| The world came forth in pairs,
| Who was it that first heard the sound
| OF boots upon the stars?'
| An ingenious correspondent of Once Week
now solves the enigma thus:
''To him who cons the matter o'er
little thoughtreveals,
tie heard it first who went before
Two pairs OF soes and ees."
The evening of the 14th, Mr. George Fran
els Train delivered the first of two lectures in
the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on English
and Irish-American subjects. charge was
made for admission, but the attendance was a
| miserable failure.
New Orleans is investigating au outrage
Gus report that there are colored children in
some of the public schools for whites.
New York is to have weekly paper next
month with the dainty name of Everything
Nice"
"A secret has been admirably defined as
anything made known to everybody in a
whisper"
1t has rained on twenty -one different days
in May this year.
The tallest soldiers in America come from
Indiana.
Chicago has "Printers' Coliax oluo.
"A lady of Fauquier county, Va,' was par
alyzed few days ago from use OF hair eye
containing sugar OF Ieao.
IT is pretty we'll settled that steel is des-
.;,od Mt no distant day to entirely supersede
;ron ON railroad tracks. Steel rails not only
endure the wear from friction better than iron
ones, but they offer more resistance to the
crushing action of the heavy locomotives now
in fashion.
Commodore Vanderbilt's only daughter
died on Sunday.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has sub
scribed to erect a statue to Schiller.
"A young woman in Iowa tried TO klndie a
fire with gunpowder, and made an item OF her
SELF
"A mortgage executed by Stephen A.
Douglass on some Chicago property has just
been foreclosed.
The Pope sent Marshall Narvaez absolu-
ton by telegraph.