The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-19
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are larger, and the piece feels as if of hollow
er substance than the genuine.
The latest pedestrian feet in England was
Anovel one. Ona wager of e20 man accom-
plished five miles in one hour. One of these
was run, one was walked, third be wheeled
; barrow, the fourth trundled hoop, and the
fifth was hopped on one leg He had two min
utes to spare.
! The Pope is said to have offered the conn
mand of his army to a prominent general of
the Confederate army, at an annual salary OF
ten thousand scudi. The Pope is unwilling to
entrust the place TO a French general plenty
OF whom are anxious to obtain it.
The editor of the Springfield Republican
cannot understand the crop reports He says
the effect on the mind of trying to make head
or tail of these documents is very much that
expressed in the childrens rhyme,
"You nor nor no man knows
How oats, peas, beans and barley grows"
| "A statue of Charlemagne was inaugurated
at Liege recently, but without any great cere-
monial. The local authorities were present,
and, after short address from the Governor
OF the Province, the linen cloth was removed,
and the figure exposed to public view.
The strike OF the miners in the Mahonine
Valley (Ohio) is now entering on its fourth
month, with no prospect of reconciliation.
The workmen prefer to lie idle rather than to
accept the present wages, and the mills prefer
to lie idle rather than add to their losses by
raising wages; and so both remain idle The
Mahoning Register says Gov. Tod addressed
the miners at Hubbard on Saturday, but with
out any apparent effect.
The Egyptian Governments, it is stated,
has appointed the English traveller, Sir Sam
uel White Baker, to direct an expedition to-
wards the sources of the Nile, with view of
establishing commercial relations with the ma
tives.
An exchange says the Chicago Common
Council has voted to appropriate quarter of
a million dollars to the proposed Illinois Poly
technic School, on condition that the board o {
regents locate it within half mile of the geo.
logical centre of the city" By what species
OF survey the point in question is to be ascer-
tanned we are not told.
The Sisters of Charity ride free on all the
street cars in New Orleans.
-Augustin Iturbide, brother of the Prince
Iturbide who was adopted by the Emperor
Maximilian, now keeps beer shop at Courbe-
| NVC, III Iuo SuDuTDS OF farlS.
Nearly million dollars worth of lumber
and forest have been burned the last fortnight
in Canada, and the fires are still raging.
| Professor Elias Loomis read a paper npon
the Influence of the Moon upon the Wealth
Ell" before the American Association for tho
Advancement of Science, at Chicago, and at
its close exhibited table of results which he
had deduced from seven years observations.
de drew the conclusion that the moon did af-
feet the weather, and maintained in direct on
position to Professor Herschel that the moon
just before its full influenced the weather to-
ward cloudiness rather than clearness, and fol-
lowed the same law as the sun. t
-Ststuettes of Edwin Booth as Othello and
Isgo attract the admiration of Boston.
The New York organ of the Womans
Rights movement, the Revolution, is in fair
way to do more injury to that cause than all
other agencies put together. BY renourcing
the restraints of decency it succeeds in excit-
ing the disgust of both women and men. The
last number contains a letter from George
Francis Train in which that shameless noun
tebank asks, in capital letters, the question,
Have not women the same right to have par
amours that men have to keep mistresses"
and then proceeds to answer the query in o
way which would make any father or mother
burn the paper rather than have it read by
young people. The wrongs and inequalities
under which women labor are bad enough in
all conscience; but there is no woman worthy
OF the name who would not rather endure
them forever than to be rid of them by Trains
methods. The real friends of the cause of wo-
mans advancement are heartily ashamed of
the Revolution.
The Prince of Wales lately gave Mile
Schneider, the French actress, a pair of da-
mond earrings which cost $1,000 No wonder
that the Prince is deep in debt, and that Par
lament is to be called on to increase his allow
ance.
Russia already admits to a bad wheat har-
vest. Her immense fields have largely failed,
and her teeming millions must be fed this
year. to considerable extent, on imported
grain. All this, however deplorable, is grist
to the mill of our farmers. The market will
yet be equal to their bountiful crops.
The Mankato (Minnesota) Record says
that in jackson county, in that State, there is
baby only nine months old which is curios-
ity. 1t is 26 inches in height, "a inches around
the chest, and % inches at the hips, 10 IL
inches at the muscle of the arm, 8 1-2 at the
wrist 2 inches at the thigh of the leg, and IL
inches at the calf Its head and body are well
formed. The weight is fifty or sixty pounds.
The little fellow stands alone, and is just be-
ginning to walk Both the parents are of or
dinary size the father a slender man.
-Brindisi, Italy, and Marseilles. France,
are contending for the English overland India
mails. The route by way Of Brindisi saves
about twelve hours, which is unavailable by
the French authorities in Paris, who retain
the Italian mails for that space A new route
to England is under the consideration of the
Italian government, by which French inter-
ference will be totally avoided.
The chief Post Office in Paris, according
to the papers of that city, will soon be remov-
ed from the present building, in the Rue Jean
Jacques Rousseau, to the huge edifce of the
Magasins. .Reuns, on the place Chateau
d'Eau. The spacious courts each contain
three hundred vehicles and stabling for Eve
hundred horses. The bllding is large enough
to allow the Post Office and chief central tele-
graph to be united under one roof.
The best time for watering exposed plants
is early in the morning, as the suns rays are
then beginning to be felt, and to exert their
counteracting influence. The darkened sur
face-that very condition which made the soil
throw off its heat more readily during the
night-causss it to absorb the heat OF the sun 5
rays by day with increased facility; so that
we thus secure the greatest amount Of the
fostering agencies of heat and moisture to
push on the growth of our plants.
THE new switch does me no good" said
passenger at the tea table, last evening, who
had thereby lost his connection on the rail-
road. "Quite as much as the old one did IN
your YOUTH" said his pretty wife, with a snap
in her eye-wbich, though seen but rarely,
is always expressive.
The most popular virtuoso in Paris, just
now, is Delgardo, negro, who plays the vio-
lin remarkably well He was formerly slave
on Louisiana sugar plan tation and his mas
ter once threatened, if he ever touched his fid-
die again, to cut off the fingers of his left
hand. The master was shot while bushwhack
ing, and Delgardo escaped to Mexico, where he
became the leader of Maximilian's orchestra.
The story which has been extensively pub
lished about proposed surgical operation for
the severance OF the Siamese Twins, has en-
cited public interest anew in them. and has
furnished an excellent advertisement. for their
forthcoming exhibition by Barnum. Whether
the story has any other foundation, will be