The Portland daily press., 1869-04-03
Gleanings and Gossip.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have
Just visited the great Temple Of Karnak in
their voyage up the Nile. The Avenue Of
Sphinxes aud the ObeIisks and Temple of the
Pharoahs, thirty centuries in Dust were ilu-
minated with that fixed lightning, the mag
nesium wire.
The New York Sun says that Henry Ward
Beecher ought to be in the United States Sen.
ate.
Two ounces and half of magnesium will,
when burnt, give q light equal to twenty
pounds weight OF stearine candles.
The Hudson river, above Newburgh, is
just now favored with an immense supply of
aquatic fowl. Wild ducks and geese abound
without number.
Collectors OF postage stamps should secure
specimens of all kinds now in use in this
country, as they will soon be among the
things that were
Immense quantities of snow have recently
fallen all over the south of Europe, and the
telegraphs have been interrupted in many
places
Alabama has new State seal, bearing the
motto "Here we rest"
An Ohio man recently made the run from
Akron to Toledo ON a velocipede, about ninety
miles, in fifteen hours.
"A grand exhibition Of implements Of war
win take place in April in Amsterdam, under
the patronage Of the King of Holland.
"A man in England has at last got eayy
damages against woman for breach of prom
Use of marriage
The New York Heyald last week spoke OF
the Passover as "a "feast in commemoration
of the passage of the children OF Israel over
the Nile"
"A rich old Frenehman met lady of honor
of a foreign princess at Baden fell in love with
her, proposed, and was accepted. Soon after
he repented, and early one morning left for
Paris. The lady followed with her big broth
er, the major Again the old fellow hed, and
was followed over sea and land to Italy, Spain
and Algeria. At last the poor man, returning
from the latter country, tired Of his fugitive
life, wrote to his pursuers:-"Come along;
won't travel any more. would rather marry
you" The marriage has taken place.
"A Georgia minister has discovered that
tie forbidden fruit which Eve gave to Adam
was tobacco.
-''If you want anything from Bismark, you
must have very good cause, or be an Ameri-
ean," is proverb in Berlin.
The New York Worlds correspondent,
having said that Mr.. james NJ. Seovil was Q
candidate for the Mission To Switzerland, Mr..
Scovil writes: 81 am not, never have been,
never will be- candidate for Minister to Switz-
erland My mission" is to remain in New
Jersey and continue to fight ''the world, the
| Hesh and the devip' as embodied in the Dem
ocratic party, till victory burns upon our
| standard 1t may be q long time, but will
serenely wait. do not hesitate to say that IL
| Cen. Grant offers me an office in the line cs
| NV profession, and inside of New Jersey, I
think would be like Oliver Wendell Holmes,
when offered fifty dollars to lecture later two
weeks illness). He said he felt too weak to
refuse"
"A shrewd old gentleman once said to his
daughter, "Be sure, my dear, you never mar
| ry poor man; but remember that the poorest
| man in the world is one that has monty and
nothing else"
Queen Victoria stiIl wears the deepest black
| for her "blameless prince"
-One Mr.. W. Gilbert has written Diog-
raphy of Luorezia Borgia, from wnicn we
learn that that maligned and misunderstood
lady was a good wife, a good princess, and
good friend.
A latter to Boston banker from Frauk-
fort sovs. aThe rise Of United States bonds Is
on;te a fortune for Frankfort, every one pos
ssssipg more or less bonds; and besides it is q
| Great m oral satisfaction for you viii remem-
ber that it was Frankfort which gave the ex-
ample when neither London nor Amsterdam
1
ventured to buy. You, too, may be proud to
see realized what you always prophesied. If
1 had acted on larger scale, ON your opinion,
should have made more money; however, 1
have no reason to complain"
"A man at Paducah, accidentally discharg-
| ed pistol, the other day, and the ball struck
| him in the abdomen. He at once showed
| symptoms of intense suffering, and said hc
| should die. as he felt the bullet in the region
of his back; but when he was examined, 1t was
found fiattened against one of his buttons
"A Swiss professor has discovered simple
ga afysc,;va nrocess to charge with naptha
and bitumen the vast but heretofore useless
fossil coal deposits of the valley o' tue APPS.
A Montana editor, describing young lady
from New York, says she Is AL sorts OF q
lovely girl, sharp as frosty morning, full Of
tricks as deer, and as happy as a whole hock
of snow BIRDS
Two snakes which were caught in Msrd-
en-, Conn.,, the other day were pat in glass
case. One Of them bit the other and it died
Immediately afterwards. 1t then bit itself and
so committed suicide.
| "A writer in the Prairie Farmer calls at
tention to improvements in varieties OF eorn'
He says that if as much attention was paid
to this subject as is paid in improvements IN
POTATOES and grapes, hundred millions OF
bushels might have been added 70 'no st'p ~ vn
great wants early varieties