The Portland daily press., 1869-01-13

The late warm weather has brought out
the Mayhowsrs in some parts of Massachu-
setts. The editor of the Springfield Republ-
can acknowledges the receipt of a fine speci-
men.
"A monomaniac husband in st. Louis
thought everybody wanted to poison him, and
compelled his wife to taste each dish before he
ate of it. When it came to pills the woman
rebelled.
An attempt to poison q miller in st.
Johnsbury, Vermont, was made few days
ago by leaving plug of tobacco in his mill,
with strychnine enough to kill twenty men
concealed in one end it.
The Boston Post says The Springfield Re-
publican is so non-partisan that it would hard
ly be recognized as a Democratic paper out
side of Massachusetts,.
-"On a trip to Meaux," says Paris CORES
poudent,::I sat, day before yesterday, opposite
middle-aged eutleman, very fat, and very
sleepy looking, thought he would be hardly
able to opeE his eyes. When he left the train
it rained, and he opened his umbrella. There
was name printed on the inside of the UNI
brela. I read it: Edmund About. The fat
gentleman, whom had taken Tor lazy, epi-
curean old bachelor, was no other than one of
the brightest, ablest, and most indefatigable
authors of France, 1 never was more aston
ished in my lite, and would not believe that
it was About until friend told me that it was
he, and no mistake"
Judy gives this conversation; Magistrate
"Well, Patrick, what have you got to say
about stealing the pig?" Patrick k-"well, yr
honnor-r, we see, it was jist this The pig TUX
upon him to sleep in my bit of garden for
three noights, y'r honnor-r, and 1 jist sayzed
him for the rintP'
M. Paul de Cassagnac, in the Pays, warns
the Emperor that his son, when he grows up
to mans estate, will fiud himself without ad-
herents. He takes up his parable from the re-
fusals of the law and medical students to ac-
cept invitations to Compiegne. This season
it was arranged to ask two young men from
every school to the hunting palace. There was
no difficulty in getting cadets from St. Cyr, or
engineers in embryo from the Polytechnic; but
one guest only was recruited from the Ecole
Normale, and twenty invitations were vainy
sent to the future NJ. DIS. The young Saw
bones, fearing the scorn and contempt of their
comrades, pleaded the absorbing calls of study
as a reason for not accepting the unprecedent-
houor of imperial hospitality.
"A Scientific Tract Society has been sug-
gssted as a suitable means for the diffusion of
useful knowledge among the masses.
The Independent calls Carlyle "the arch
hunkey of hterature;" for what, it asks, sis hiS
hero o-worshping of brute force but hunkeyism
raised to the highest power?"
The Wisconsin lumbermen are worried by
mice, which overrun their camps in hosts.
They are importing large invoices of cats tore
move the plague.
Judge McCunn has sworn before the Con.
gressional In yestigating Committee at New
York, that 10000 persons were naturalized in
twenty one days, and that in his own court he
used to turn out citizens at the rate of two per
minute, their examination, cross-examination
and administering to them of the oath requir-
ing only that space Of time
A report having been started that Victor
hugo was about to start q newspaper, he re-
piied:- A false report, my Gear friend. Ihaye,
rs you know, pledged myself never TO cooper
ate with any French political paper until
American, or at least English, liberty prevails
in France. The word Emperor excludes me-
as the fact Empire exiles me-"
The Cyrus w. Field medal which was depos-
tied at the White House, has disappeared,