The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-18

The Westminster Review, referring to the
"Infelcia" of Adah Isaacs Menken, SAYS:
Fancy combination OF Ossiau, Walt Whit
man, and Martin F. Tupper, mounted Mazep-
pa-wise On a wild Pegasus, and we have fair
idea of the effects OF American education on
this poor impulsive girl" american educs-
ton" is rather hard, we should say
1t is said that Rossini, like Meyerbeer, has
left posthumous opera.
The lady who calls herself the Countess
of Derwentwater, and who has been encamp-
ed on the road leading to Dilston Castle, Eng
land, for several weeks, has at length been
summoned by the local authorities Tor an OBJ
struction of the highway. The Countess"
meets with much sympathy in Tynedale, and
a meeting has been held at Corbridge to sup
port her claims to the Derwentwater estates.
In consequence of the great diminution In
the working population in the suburban prov
inces of Mechlenburg Schwerin, the land
owners have for some time past been making
arrangements to bring over Swedish peasants
of both sexes. A first convoy of about sixty
individuals has just arrived at Grevesmuhlen.
"A Swede arriving at Minneapolis, Mnne-
sofa, the other day, had with him chest the
-"No presents received" is printed on the
cards issued for a wedding to take place In
New York ON the 18th instant.
The old publishing house OF Crooker &
Brewster, in Boston, celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of the formation of their partner
ship, a few days ago.
-One OF Sylvanus Cobb's mysterious tav-
erns has been found in Illinois, with eight sksl-
etons under the cellar-hoor, and bloody corpses
| in the barn.
Mrs. Yelverton is coming North to read in
| the holidays
| The Madrid papers announce the arrival
at the "real palacio" OF four large cases. On
being unpacked they proved to be the sksls-
tons of four saints, dug out of the catacombs
for the special use of her Most Catholic ex-
Majesty. The Provisional Government viii
| forward them to Pau, for her Majesty.
| Italy is TO take measures to stop the ex-
portation of organ and guinea-pig boys.
| "A gentleman went to a masked ball quite
unexpectedly, arrayed in gorgeous costume.
An acquaintance addressed him: "Glad to see
you here; but did not know you were to come,
sir" "Tecumseh be blowed," calculated the
disguised man. "Don't you know your Eng.
lish history? I'm the Duke of Buckingham"
An English lady observed to Philadel-
phia lady "How beautifully your city must be
situated, with the De la War; on one side and
the Squirlequeue the otherl"
The last argument in favor of the theory
that man is only an improved ape is found
in the fact that Senior Gorilla has been appoint
ed minister of public works in the cabinet Of
5 the Spanish revolutonlsts. He is supposed to
be a lineal descendant of Du Chaillu's pets.
"A New York paper suggests as a means Of
having the national debt, that every office.
seeker pay a dollar a week towards its Hquids-
ton until he gets an office.
A person who had visited Annapolis on
business was preparing to depart after he had
concluded it. You are not going away al
ready?" said one of his friends. Il thought
Won would spend the day here" "Oh, no"
answered the stranger; life IS 100 SNORT W
| spend a day in Annapolis.
The New York Sun1ays: What with one
johnson abroad and one johnson at home, the
United States has too many Johnsons by two
to-day"
A Chicago girl is announced as the belle
of Dresden. The Saxops imagine her 10 own
all the grain elevators.
statement that Mrs. Montgomery Atwood,
married at the British Embassy of that city to
a Mr.. Horne Payne, had been declared on her
wedding day to be no other than the celebrat-
ed "Ouida," the author of "Strathmore" and
"Under Two Flags" Whereupon "ouida"
writes to the newspapers that she is not Mrs.
Montgomery Atwood, and never was, that she
has not been married in Paris, and that some
body is masquerading under her name
-"Sojourner Truth" the "Lybian syoil'
now 81 years of age, has recently Oeen ies'ur.
;nr 70 crovvded houses in Erie and Cortland
oo,,n.;oa " she relates her experiences
~, :, s,averv and freedom, and shows much
80 Energy and fire of youth She main
- that men cannot be Christians and belong
80 the Democratic party. She means, II her
life is spared, to go to Washington and greet
Gen. Grant, as she did Abraham Lincoln, in
the White House.
There have been few better illustrations Of
the spirit of blind, hunkerish conservatism
than that given by the fierce iconoclast, Paul
Louis Courier "on the day of creation" says
he of some bigoted defender of existing insti-
tptions. "what a hubbub he would have madsl
He would have exclaimed 20 God, let US save
chaos, Mon Dieu, conservons te chaos =" 1t u
oos,, 70 see the arguments and catch-words By
srh;cb such man would have resisted the In.
novation: Light is revolutionary-Light 10
Utopan; only brain-sick dreamers and blood
thirsty ruffians want it; every vrtuous and re-
spectable man will stand by 'the Chaos OF his
Forefathersl"
"A San Francisco paper, describing the re-
cent earthquake there, says: "The German
Abend Post newspaper was not issued yes.er'
day evening, on account of the forms oeins
.nisd' by the earthquake. The aOor Of their
composing room settled about six inches s., 9S. ss
wcrkmep feared to enter the office and the
"'iAnien I'D not induce them for money to