The Portland daily press., 1869-04-10

The Boston Advertisers London cores
pondent says Mr.. John Stuart Mill is at pres
ent engaged upon a work which treats of wo-
man, her position and her duties. We are
glad to hear it. No man living can speak
more worthily than he upon this topic, which
we are so constantly compelled to hear dis
oussed in a manner perfectly unworthy.
The correspondent adds that when this work
is finished Mr.. Mill proposes underta king a
tour through the least known parts of Russia.
He has travelled over Europe as few have done.
For some time he has lived in tent in a wild
and distant part of Greece. He rejoiees in
long walks and has a calm love of Nature
which is more fruitful in pleasure perhaps
than even philosophy.
-Parepa is recovering She has engaged,
it is said, Castle, Campbell and the sseuins
for her new English opera company.
Mrs. Somerville. who is now in her s8th
year, is an advocate for woman suffrage,
though she can hardly expect to live to vote
in England where she was born. Nearly for
ty years ago this remarkable lady published
her first great work, "The Mechanism Of the
Heavens" 1t is translation, or summary of
Laplace's Aecaniqus Celeste, and was complet-
ed four years after the death of the great as
.ronomer. In 1884 she published "The Con-
nection of the Physical Sciences" which was
followed by the physical Geography" aud
other works. She has all along been in the
vanguard of human knowledge and scientific
investigation.
"A Heine revival is taking place just row
in the best literary circles of Paris. Herri
Heine, the great German poet, who spent the
last thirty years of his hfs in Paris, W as so
much neglected there during the latter part of
his literary career that, when Hector Berlicz
one day called upon him, be exclaimed, Yes
Ber:ioz has always been an eccentric fello W
He pays me visitp' Just now new transla-
tions are issued OF Heins's works, and the
causeries in the feuilletons are full OF Heins's
droll witicisms.
An old woman in Que of the French de-
| partments has just died and disinherited her
nephew because he sung the Marseillaise in
| 1889.
Instead of building sidewalks an Indiana
town appropriates money to furnish those who
must use the streets with cavalry boots.
The Marchioness de Boissy, Byron's old
| fame, gave last month her first reception in
| Paris since the death of her husband, the old
| English-hatiDg marquis She wore gray silk
| and point lace and, even at her advanced age,
retains much beauty
Domestic trouble recently drove the Queen
| of Holland to attempt to take her own life. She
was prevented, however, and the whole matter
| was hushed up.
| A shrewd farmer in rhe Vermont Legisla-
ture declined answering the speech of mem-
L hor rlrofl Init
| aud pugnacious impudence and selfconceik
thus: Mr.. Speaker, I can't reply to that are
speech, for it always wrenches me terribly to
kick at nothing"
| The abatement of velocipsdes as sidewalk
nuisances is exercising the authorities Of sew
| eral cities and towns.
| The first child born in the White Pine has
been presented with several thousand dollars
| in silver bars by the delighted miners.
The story that there was a man in Wash
ington hailng from New York, who was not
an applicant for Office is authoritatively de-
MED.
"A Mormon Bishop sells liquor at Ogden
ON week days and breaches religion to the Pa
ciic railroaders on Sundays.
"A Western farmer recently inquired at
book store for "Gray's Eulogy on Grave-
yard"
| "A man in Independence Mo-, was tried
| for stealing a mig. It was proved that the
animal was hog and the prisoner was DIS
charged.
Great interest is felt in the French Legis-
| lative elections, which take place this month.
| The opposition expect to add largely 10 the
number of their Deputies.
| -Ursus, the itinerant cynic, introduced in
| to the opening chapter of Victor Hugo's new
novel, "The Man who Laughs" has printed on
his crib, or cabin-carriage the following in
scription: "Gold loses annually by friction
one fourteenth hundredth OF its bulk this is
what is called the wear and tear; thence it fol-
lows that, out of fourteen hundred millions of
gold circulating throughout the world, every
year one million is lost. This million of gold
goes off in dust, flies away, hoats is an atom,
becomes breathable, loads, doses, burdens, and
impairs the conseience, and amagamates it'eh
with the soul of the rich, which it renders
| proud, and with the soul OF the poor, when IL
renders savage.
Industrious people at Rishmond earn
good living by gathering bullets Shells &c.
| from the battle fields around that CITY, and
| Selling them for old metal.
In Switzerland watch passes through
hundred and twenty hands beiorsit is fnish-
Certain parties in New York have issued
the prospectus of a paper, to be published in
that city, under the the name of the Imperial
ist which, while holding Democracy to be
failure, will demand that, on the ruins OF
this unfortunate Republic, shall be reared the
firm and substantial structure of an Empire
The Times nominates President johnson as
suitable candidate for the Imperial ofhce. A
]. apparently has somesuch idea himself as
in his speech at Knoxville last Saturday, .