The Portland daily press., 1869-02-05
Varieties.

One Mr.. E. d. Roides, of Athens, has
written in Modern Greek a book entitled
"Pope Joan; Study of the Middle Ages" in
which he shows, according to the London Ath-
eneum, Sin manner at once lucid and con
vncing that the evidence for the existence of
the Woman-Pope rests upon grounds not easi-
to to be shaken. First, from the acknowledge
ed Irregularities, in the election of Popes dur
ing the Dark Ages, he argues the a priori like
lihood of tine fact; then he adduces parallel
examples of women who, concealng their SEX
attained to high positions among monks and
churebmen; and, finally, he shows that con-
temporary historians attest the existence Of
Pope Joan, and that Catholic tradition receiv-
ed their testimony without question until the
sixteenth century, when, goaded by the taunts
of ProtestaLts, the Catholic theologians sud
denly discovered that the evidence consisted Of
interpretations, and that the history was fl-
ble"
king John of Saxony has just published
popular edition of his verse translation of
Dante" Contrary to the rule in the case of
royal authors, his Majesty, it is said, has pro-
duced a work which is considered excellent,
and deserves the esteem in which it is held in
Germany. .I.s- ...
-Hydrophobia has been successfully treated
with iodine by DR.. Mussey, of Chicago. He
has published paper detailing his experience
in eight cases in which the patients were
thought to have been bitten by rabid animals
He makes the important statement that in not
more than one case out of twenty does hydro
phobia result from the bite of animals suppos-
ed to be rabd. OF the eight cases promptly
treated with iodine not one resulted fatally.
"A Massachusetts, man has made a model
for one-wheel velocipede. 1t is to be a
wheel eight feet in diameter, with convex
spOkes meeting at the extremity of the axle
The seat and the treades which move it de-
pend from the cranks on the axle, inside fthe
wheel, and the rideris theoretically, to guide
his steed as simply as o wheelbarrow is steer
ed.
"A New Orleans burglar was frightened
out of sleeping apartment by the supernat-
ural CLEAN from glass eye which had been
discarded by its sleeping wearer and left on
| tie table.
1t is told of Billy Hibbard, the Methodist,
that once when roll was called in the confer
ence, his name was read "William." He rose
at once and objected, saying that his name was
not William, it was Billy. "But, Brother Hib-
bard,' pleaded Bishop Ashbury, BILLY is
little boys namep "Yes, Bishop" was the
| quick reply, "and 1 was little boy when my
father gave it to meP'
| "A confidence man in New York attempt
ed to blackmail a wealthy jeweller by threat
eping in an anonymous note the disclosure of
an alleged criminal intimacy with the latter'S
wife. The merchant pretended to be frighten-
ed and led his correspondent on until he fuily
committed himself and was caught.
| "A party of hunters had feariuI encoun-
ter with a ull-grown American non, near the
Belt range of mountains IN montana Terrific
ry one day last month. Inc animal received
seventeen bullets before he succumbed. He
noosnred eight feet from nose to tip of tail,
and was nearly four feet high. The contest
was desperate and protracted, and several of
the hunters received ugly wounds.
"A celebrated cliff in Denmark. the
| Queens Seat" recently fell bodily into the
Baltic from shock of earthquake. The rock
| about 400 feet high, was an object of great in
terest to tourists from the magnificent view TO
be had from it. Everything has disappeared
| except some masses of chalk, which form a SORT
| of island near the shore.
| A little Bactrian camel was born in Gin
| cinnat last week. the first to see the light on
this continent. 1t is pure white and "a little
larger than a yearlpg calf The mother be-
longs to a travelling menagerie."
The adjutant general of Iowa, with view
to beautify the State arsenal grounds at Des
NIoines, has asked each of the one hundred
counties in the State to furnish single forest
tree to be trausplanted therein and to bear its
name.
A street preacher, recently sentenced to
fine or Imprisonment in London chose the lat
ter, on the ground that "Bunyan was locked
up" and left the court singing a hymn, the
burthen of which was, "My old companions,
fare you well; will not 30 with you to hell a"
-Assassinations, garrottings, an1 rob6eries
have become SO fearfuliy frequent in New
York that the journals ofthat city call with ap-
parent seriousness Tor vigilance comml''ee "
protect the lives and property OF olnzens'
The Dominican Father Mnleard' ie"
, Years ago celebrated in France for his preach.
ing, has become insane.