The Portland daily press., 1869-01-29
Varieties.

n "ElteH III LHe OHldflO LINES proposes TO
stock Canandaigua Lake with three million Of
young fish; and Seth Green says it may be
successfully done.
s-The PdsqIino of Turin caricatures the
present state of Europe by ballroom in which
all the Powers are represented waiting for the
next dance. The musician (Napoleon) is re-
placing the "Moustier Polka" with the ''La
Vallette Mazurka." although the dances
vary the musician is still the same"
Mrs. Cady Stanton is described by a re-
porter as "a gentlemanly looking parsonage
AT Newport hotel is a famous dog called
Darkness" which, by turning a wheel with
his feet, pumps all the water required by the
establishment, and thus daily does the work OF
two men. On recent night the dog escaped
from his kennel, got into the wheel and anus
ed himself with pumping water until the tank
overhowed.
AT Drury Lane Theatre there is a take-off
on the great railroad scene. The victim is
bound in the track of line of wheelbarrows,
but is saved from destruc cton by q cat which
bursts out OF a basket.
An employe of the Bank of France has
calculated that the number Of twenty franc
pieces in circulation at present, if piled up in a
pyramid in London and then toppled over, the
topmost coin could fall some miles beyond
Calais. In his calculation he allows interest
on eacn coin from the date of coinage.
The editor of "Our BOYS and Girls" ac-
knowledges the reception of monster trout,
the largest ever caught in this country, so far
as the piseatory experts have any information
on the subject. He is forty-one and a half
inn nhao E.
inches GRIT de was caught in Grand Lake,
between Maine and New Brunswick, and was
presented to Oliver Optic by DIR. A G. Ham
lin, of Bangor.
-Parke Goodwin is stated to have sold his
one-third interest in the Evening Post to its
publisher, Mr.. Henderson, who already was
the owner of one-third, and who was formerly
Navy Agent at New York.
Letters from France mention a prema-
ture growth of wheat on account of the mild
weather.
"A recent English writer says that the dis
tinctive difference between an English and
purely Irish face is, that the former looks as If
the hand of nature had been passed over it
downward while coming into the world, while
the Irish face looks as it, on that occasion, the
hand had been passed over the features in a
contrary or upward direction.
Madame Audouard is charmed with
American women and disguised with the men,
who are not fit for the angelic creatures that
sweeten their cup of existence.
The director of the Indiana Asylum for
the Insane says, in his recent report, that next
to i'll health, the principal causes of insanity in
the West are domestic troubles and religious
excitement The victims of these disorders
are nearly equal in number-27 of the former
and 80 of the latter-in the Indiana asylum.
Mr.. Leo Pierce of Houlton in this State
has an old plaid cloak which was made for
him in Eastport on the 9Th Of January, 1915.
| 1t is a whim OF his to wear this cloak on each
succeeding anniversary of the battle of New
| Orleans, and he has never failed to do so in
the fifty-four years which have passed since
| then.
"A School teacher in Western New York
was recently fined ten dollars for whipping
one of the female scholars, and the residents OF
| the district, satisfied that he was justified in
the act, promptly paid the fine. We infer
| that girl-whipping suits the taste of that com
munity; but what sweet girls they must raise
| by such methods.
"A lively tiger in the Madras presidency
| has eaten two hundred natives in less than two
years, ..c-, q
wild honey were recently found in a tree by
wood choppers, on the west side of the Sierra
Nevada mountains. The accident is recorded
as the first discovery of the kind on the Pacif-
ic slope.
"A seal, measuring FIVE feet in length and
weighing about two hundred pounds, was shot
in the Thames river, Connecticut, last week.
An Irish sailors wife had just received in
teligence that her husband had perished at
sea- She was visited by aneighbor, vino sym
pathised with her in her loss, and expressed
fear that she would be poorly Off Deed
will" said the widow, shut he did all he could
for inches saved me the expense OF his bury
| in"
-Justus Won Liebig, the celebrated German
chemist, recently told friend that, during the
last ten wears, he had received seven calls from
| American universities, and that twice he felt
strongly tempted to go to the United States
and accept there proiessorship.
There was number of shawls which cost
from $500 to $500 each, worn at recent fash
ionable ball in Albany. The estimated value
of diamonds, emeralds, and rubes on exhibit
ton on the same occasion, was $4,000. Text
for young marriageable ladies, who don't care
about being old maids:-'Why the deuce don't
our young men marry?'"-So much we lind
4 in an exchange and we suggest as a counter
query: How much attention did the PLAINLY
dressed girls at that ball receive from the VIZ
tuous young men who "eant afford TO ma
because women are so extravagant! -
the capts that are canted in this can'iHs g
there is none more absurd than 'no - e
economy in the mouth of the
'"0 ne Tonis of New orleans has dissec'ed
- a~I cot good thing on buhon oy
acaiiei an a,omachs instead OF five.
hnu,ns s1oidered tulle is one Of the prettiest
1.n,s in use for tunics and overskirts.-
MAJ. - ihe gossamer silk tulle so thin as to be
..arcely perceptble, yet richly embroidered
with satin floss patterns of white lilies, tipped
with silver or blue bells with gilt stamens.
The latest literary intelligence is that Ap-
pleton & Co., are to begin next month the
publication of a new weekly journal The
size and style will be somewhat different we
understand. from our other periodicals, and 1t
will he illustrated in an original ana dlstnc
tive manner. Victor Hugo's new romance
"Rx Command of the King" is to be rul
through its pages