The Portland daily press., 1868-10-24
" arieties.

Louisa Muhlbach's daughter, an actress In
Berlin, was recently hissed on the stage. She
sat down and cried, when the audience good
nature1ly dried her tears by substituting ap-
plause for Kisses.
New York is soon to have a representation
of "La Granae Duchesse" by amateurs, for the
benefit of the poor.
I'm connection with the alarm OF the Eug-
lish about the Russian couquests on the from
tier of India, the newspapers are discussing
the propriety of removing the seat of govern
ment of India from Calcutta to some point In
the interior. Sinla has been proposed
The family of Nathaniel Hawthorne left
Concord last week for Germany. 1t Is said
that the youngest daughter, Miss Rose Haw-
thorne, gives promise of becoming distin-
guished as an artist. She has a right, by di-
rect inheritance, to such talent. 1t is not gem
orally known that an edition of Hswthorne's
story, "The Gentle Boy" was published many
years ago, with illustrations by Miss Sophia
Peabody, afterwards his wife. Chis story, thus
illustrated, led to an intimate acquaintance
between the author and artist, which ended in
their marriage. They went alnose immedi-
ate.y after their marriage to live in the "0d
Manse" at Concord, and it is there that SO
much of Hawthorne's journal was written.
Among the passengers in a stage coach
was little gentleman who had possibly seen
five summers. The coach being quite full, he
sat in the lap of another passenger. While on
the way, something said about pickpock.
cts, aad soon the conversation became general
on that interesting subject. The gentleman
who was then holding our young friend re-
marked: my foe fellow, how easy ! could
pick your pocket" tNo, you couldn't" repl:-
ed he, "I've been looking out for you all the
tIme!"
"A female Fagin has been arrested Ia Gin
cinnat. Her name is Thomas, and she teach
es little girls to steal, and causes them to pass
counterfeit money. The Commercial say:
There is a regularly organized band OF pesty
counterfeiters in this city, consisting of few
very bad men and women, and number OF
helpless children, who are held in the clutches
| of these miserable wretches and maze to do
| their bidding"
The Boston Post thinks Ii eviden that the
| Queen OF Madagascar. with her presents Of
teapots and bedquilts, has matrimonial designs
upon our Secretary of State.
| Indians in Omaha wear paper collars fas-
tened with shoestring, because they have no
| garment on Whlch TO button them.
"A member of the Vermont legislature re-
Gently astonbhsd the lower house by intro
ducing this remarkable bill:
A bill for an act to protect fish in Chandler
Pond: A bill providing for an act entitled an
act to protect fish in Chandler Pond, IN
Wheelock, to be parsed by the members OF the
present legislature, suitable to protect fsh In
| said pond, said act to take effect from It's par.
| sage.
| Lord Lytton's translation Of the odes Of
Horace is pronounced to be polished without
being poeticaL 1t is now in the press.
Prince Humbert would not go to Paris on
his wedding tour, by reason that town was
populated with the creditors of his Royal
Highness.
| Queen Victoria remains at Balmural Cas-
tie. 1t is said that HeI Majesty's health is still
in so precarous state that she will not bs
able to bear the fatigues of receptions and en-
tertainments next season. Some little myste-
ry prevails as to the precise nature of the
| Queens ailment, and there are ominous wis.
perings Of her grand malady.
| -Vesuvlus is in rage again, and 10 vomit-
ing lava at a terrible rate. Tae eruption Is Q
grand one, and it need only destroy q city or
two to become immortal. But there's no such
luck, and European volcanoes never will come
up to the line established by the late South
American earthquakes.
The last number of the Pail Mall Gasetts
has communication taking the ground that
| Mr. Reverdy johnson does not speak the feel
;nos of America towards England. The wri-
ter insists that the people OF the United States
are more enraged with the mother country
than the mo,her country conceives.
| MIR. Nathan Hale, formerly editor of the
Boston Daily Advertiser, has accepted an in
vitation to tee Professorship of the Engl sh
language and English Composition in Union
| College, Schenectady, New York. He has en-
inent qualifications for the place.
The Spanish Provisional Junta published
in full in the Madrid Gazette the weak and IN
solent protest of Queen Isabella against the
revolution. They prefaced it merely with
these dignified words:
Douna Isabella de Bourbon has addressed to
the Spanish people the subjoned IN lnfasto.
| The JuntI abstains from Qualifying it. The
| nation has pronounced a severe judgment on
the acts OF her who calls herself ITS Queen.
Letit now Judge her declarations.
"A Montana paper, recounting the shooting
of catamount found prowling in hotel near
Helena, points the humorous moral that tnis
should be lesson to imposters trying 70 pass
themselves eff as members of the press
The Annual Wreck Register of the Brit
ish Isles, Just published, shows that 2ols ships,
Representing a registered tonnage of upward
Of 4e4Ooo tons, were wrecked in the seas and
on the coasts Of Great Britain dartng the past
| wear. with loss Of /, ,sss lives.