The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-17
Varieties.

Father Seeehi, the eminent French savant,
has communicated to the academy his diseov-
cry of aqueous vapor in the vicinity of the So
lar spots. rtrf
There was curious incident at the Balti-
more banquet. Immediately after Mr.. John
SON, with sharp hit at his successor, had said,
81 would rather be free man than q Presi-
dent and slave" the second toast, 80 the
President of the United States" was given,
and "warmly applauded and drank standing"
This demonstration was what lawyer would
call a non seQuitur.
College life is one Of those perennial inches
in the sunset where mems memories live.
What canine latin we used to writsl What
hecatombs of Jokes about "verbum sat" and
"NiAil fit," and "Sic sunni" How many times
we have been posed, and posed Others, with
"Mus cucurrit plenum sed contra mean mag
mum ad," and "Mea mater est mala sus," and
dozens of others. Here is prose macaronic of
those jolly days: 80 ununa sculls. You dam
mum sculls. He didn't do any such thingl
Sic transit drove tpo pone tandem tenao rir
from the North. BE is visiting his ante, Mrs.
Dido Etdur, and intends remaining till ortsn'.
He ct super with us, last evening. He 10 ter
rible rowdy, Old Transit is. He lCnsbda man
almost to death the other evening, but he got
his match-the other man cutis nos of for him,
and noctena fiat urna founder" t.rrr
La Vie Parisienne says that the necessity
of classifying French novels has at last been
recognized. A lady entering circulating IL
brary asks for novel: II don't know how to
tell YOU exactly the kind want" she says.
"Oh, think we shall be able to suit you" was
the reply. II mean something lively" ex-
plains the intending reader: "ths sort of book
that would not be precisely suitable for the
library of a young girl" "Marie," cries the
keeper of the bookstore to her assistant,
shovel for q woman of thirty fve"
-Gounod, the composer OF Faust, whose
bealth is failing, thinks of following Listx's
shown an edifying piety, going to confession
often and to mass every Sunday. Like the
Marquis of Butte, he has lately received the
elements from the hands of the Pope' ana
means henceforth to consecrate his person and
his talents to religion.
A singular event recently happened at st.
Georges Church, Antwerp. The Deadle there
bas the custom of preceding the principal
narsons of the parish in order to make way for
them A decently dressed woman whom he
wished to move aside refused, saying: 81 am
in the house of God, where all are equal. If
those ladies wish to pass, let them 20 round.".
The functionary, little habituated to such OBJ
servations, took her by the arm and tried to
force passage; but she raised her hand and
gave him such slap in the face as no dgni-
tary Of his kind had perhaps ever received be-
fore. He was SO thunderstruck at the attack
that he never thought of persisting.
The minister who boasted OF preaching
without notes doesn't wish to be understood as
referring to greenbacks.
"A proposition is once more on foot to dram
the Zuyder Zee. which before the foundations
IN the 18th and 18th centuries was pastured Dy
focks and herds. The Dutch S0ssrnnsA
and people have taken up the MATTER anu
succeeds they will convert some SV,VoV acres
of stormy sea into rich aluvial SOIL Inc cost
has been roughly put at ten millions OF pounds
(English.)
Father is much annoyed at the project to erect
a statue to Voltaire in France. In a recent
conversation with foreign diplomatist Plus
TX. declared that he saw with pain the little
hold religious sentiments had on that portion
of the French nation which appears to be the
most firmly attached to the present regime.
He also remarked that during his journey to
Gaeta he learned that the French tIoops not
only had no sczuplss in propagating prinoipies
contrary to the temporal power of the cnurcn'
but that they even spread abroad ansi-oatn-
ollie theories in the capital Of the Holy Zee
irself