The Portland daily press., 1869-01-15
VarietieS.

Varieties.
The Chicago Tribune laughs at the discov-
cries of adulterated whiskey in New York, and
adds: 1t takes moral courage TO drink our
beverages. There is heroism in a man who
can face tumoler of our poison when he
knows the chances are nine to one he will new
er get home, If he lives mile away; that he
may drop like shot before he gets to the bot
tom OF the tumbler, or quietly fall into the riv-
er as a cockroach does off your table to the
floor under the influence of the exterminator,
and point the moral OF a pretty paragraph in
the next mornings paper"
The pistols used in the Burr and Hamil-
ton duel are in the possession of a gentleman
in Newsurg. Burr's is marked with an X,
They are of the old style of manufacture, flint
locks, mahogany stocks, the barrels carving a
halt-ounce ball. The barrels are OF the double
and-twist" make; they bear Tie mark of"J
Twiggs, London. The pistols resemble each
other exactly. These weapons have been used
in some ten or dozen other duels, beside the
one which has made them historically famous.
Mr.. j. S. Mill, writing from Avignon to
one of his friends in London, assures hln that
in the event of vacancy in Westminster, re-
sGlting from the petition against Mr.. w. II.
Smith, he has no wish again to offer himself
for tie seat. at was not" he says, "from any
personal preference that exchanged more
agreeable, and hope not less usetnl mode Of
serving my opinions, for the position OF mem
ber Of Parliament, and the return 10 my for
mer occupations is SO great pleasure that it
would require a clear case of public duty to
induce me to quit them. L do not think such
an obli CATION exists in the present case"
Miss Kate Reynolds returns to America
in the steamer Tripoli which was to leave Liv-
erpool on the 9th inst. Her success in Eng
land has been very gratifying.
Mr.. Lecky, whose "HistoIy OF Rationalism
in Europe" made such sensation when it
first appeared, has now in press a work on the
history of morals. 1t will be published in this
country by the Appletons.
Sir Culling Eardley has been granted a
free pardon, provided that he absents himself
from the country until the period of his SEN.
tence shall have expired. He has therefore
left for Madeira. 1t will be remembered that
Sir Culling Eardley was sentenced to impris-
onment in January last for bigamy. The rea-
son for his release is stated to be that iurther
C confinement might probably kill him. With
poor devils who commit bigamy and other
crimes that consideration is not allowed to
have much weight.
The Prince of the Austurias sent the
French Prince Imperial a splendid writing
desk for a Christmas-box on December %.
Fhe present was returned the next day by a
large cargo of toys, which the Prince imperial
took to the pavilion Rohan himself. 1t is
sravely announced that these and similar in
terchanges of courtesies "have no political
meaning"
Robins have already appeared in Iowa and
are causing great agitation on the part OF the
weather prophets.
San Diego County, California, produces
tin. The first bar has just been turned out at
Temascal, and California now expects soon to
drive the foreign article from the market
domestic cats have gone wild in San Joa-
quin County, California, and are making great
trouble.
"A Philadelphia publishing house has pro-
duced history of hats From it it appears
that hats we've used by the Dorians probably as
long ago as the time of Homer, but only by
the better classes of citizens when on distant
journey; the Elgin marbles show that the
same custom prevailed among the Athenians.
The Romans used cap at their sacrifices, but
hats with brims when journeyiDg. In the
thirteenth century Pope Innocent allowed
cardinals to use scarlet hats, and about the
middle of the fifteenth century hats became
common in France, and soon after in the rest
of Europe.
The leading illustration in the lastnum-
Der of Punch is entitled Under the Mistle-
toe" and represents old John Bull and Miss
Columbia with clasped hands in the act of
kissing each other under the mistletoe bough
which the good-natured Reverdy johnson is
holding over their heads It's all very nj e.
especially for old John Bull.
We commend the following to young gem
tlemen as very suitable thing to whisper in.
to Beauty's ear just before whirlins her off on
the ice:
Thy heart Is like a frozen lake,
On whose cold brink stand;
Oh! bLckle on my spirits skate,
And take me by the hanJ;
And lead, thou living saint, the way
70 wne the ice is thin,
That it may break beneath my feet
And let q lover in.
-Parepa Rosa was lately to give concert
at Erie, Pa, and when she arrived, at P. NJ,
with her troupe, she went to a leading hotel,
where she called for dinner but was told that
the dinner hour had passed and the dining
room could not be opened. Madame called
carriages, took her troupe to the depot, aud
went to Buffalo by the first train.
The "two sexes of man" have gotten into
the United States Land Office, as appears
from the late report. The question being
raised, whether an unmarried woman, over
twenty-one years of age, not the head of a
family, had right to pre- smpt, the law ex-
tending that privilege to L. Every person be-
ing the head of family" 2. "a widow" 8.
"A single man over the age of twenty-one
years." decision was rendered that, in the
spirit of the law, the unmarried woman" was
"a single man. in other words, that single
woman over the age of twenty-on years, not
the head OF family, but able to meet all the
right to claim its benefits.
A Rocky Mountain paper publishes an
obituary notice Of the famous Jim, chlet OF
the IWashoe Indians Jim seems TO have pcs
sessed many virtues. He is said to have been
a good though very dirty red man. He pos
sessed a well balanced head of hair, and stom-
ach enough for all he could get to eat. His re-
gard for truth was notable-he never meddled
with it. He lett no will, and his estate, con-
sisting of pair of boots, will have to be set
lied by his heirs, through the medium of "old
'ledge." After life's ftiul ''fever and ague'
Jim sleeps well.
Charles Dickens is suffering from the
'scriveners' palsy" malady affecting the
muscles of the arm and hand in consequence
Of long use of the pen, and is able to do but
a small amount OF work.
= Heidelburg is to have a protessorship of
American history and distinguished Ameti-
can scholar will be invited to Ill the chair