The Portland daily press., 1869-03-04
Varieties.


Births, marriages and deaths in an Ore
gon journal are arranged under the respective
heads of "Come," {" Fixed to Stay" and
"Gone." The second would not do in Chicago
"A Chicago paper sneers at Milwaukee as
small town because it did not have women
enough to get up a quarrel at the recent wo-
mans conve ntion in the latter city.
East Indian papers report the upsetting of
railroad train by coming in contact with a
large elephant.
"A monkey in the Paris garden of plants
got hold of the queue of one of Burlingame's
mandarins the other day, and made him howl
with anguish.
Louis Blanc has just completed, in his vol
untary exile in London, after nearly twenty
years of !labor, his "History of the French
Revolution" in twelve volumes.
AN interesting observation in regard to
the extent of the earthquake-wave has been
made by Herr Wagner, at the observatory of
Pulkowa, near st. Petersburg. On the 10th
of September last he noticed a sudden oscilla-
tion of the spirit-levels of the instruments,
which, it was afterwards ascertained, took
place in one hour and three minutes after an
earthquake shock had been felt in Malta. Sub
sequently, an earthquake at Tashkend, in Cen
trail Asia, was almost simultaneously indicat-
ed at Pulkowa.
There is pending in the Legislature of
Ohio joint resolution providing for the read
ing of the Declaration of Independence in
the public schools and to have it put in all
school reading books, together with the Con-
stitution of the United States and the Consti-
tuition of Ohio.
"A story is going the rounds of q party of
ladies who were caught in a shower having the
color washed from their cheeks. A lady at
our elbow thinks the color OF some Of the gem
tlemen's noses would not be washed out with
cut water-spout.
"A new rifle is being brought out in Prus-
sia with which, at a recent trial, thirteen shots
were fred in thirty-six seconds, and all the
bullets struck the target. Goodbye, Chase
poti
New Orleans papers print startling stories
of the ravages Of tiger in Jefferson Parish,
La. His last victim was q girl of eighteen
years, of whom he left only waterfall.
"A new process for printing photographs
has been devised in England. 1t is said that
light is not needed, but that impressions can
be struck off on an ordinary printing press
Such an invention will create an enIire revo-
luton in the matter of illustrated books.
A Southern paper is opposed to the edu-
cation of women surgeons. The reasons
for ia objection must be admitted to have
great weight Suppose, it says, that one were
mt under the influence of chloroform by such
a doctor. "what isto prevent the woman from
kissing you?"
1t is stated that there is lady now living
in Nashville who has descendant in the fifth
generation, and she is lively yet. Her age is
stated at one hundred and fourteen years.
The Countess Guiccioli, now Madame de
Boissy, in her recently published Recollec-
tions of Lord Byron" charges Tom Moore
with destroying five unpublished cantos OF
Don Juan, besides private journal of By
ron's fatal expedition to Greece, because they
contained some violent structures on English
society .,
=" What's that?" asked Mrs. Partington
looking up at the column of the Place Ven-
dome during her late visit to Paris. The
pillar of Napoleon" she was answered. well,
I never didI" she exclaimed; "and that's his
pillow-he was a great man to use thatl But
it's more like bolster. And it's made of iron,
1 do believe. Ahl Isaac, see what it is to be
great How hard his head must have rested
on his ronical pillow"
Anthony Irolope says American ladies
"are clever and pretty, but they are exigeant,
and hard. They fear nothing, neither you nor
themselves-and talk with as much freedom
as though they were men" This is very
mild description of Mr.. Trollope's own mother
The Steubenville (ohio) Herald thus de
fnes Grants radicalism: "Radicai economy
radical retrenchment, radical reform IN tne
collection OF revenues"
The Celestials of the Chinese Embassy
are seen at all the grand balls; theyl evidently
have gone to Paris for social as we'll as poll
teal reasons.