The Portland daily press., 1868-02-12
Varieties.

ty-two passengers. Perhaps if the Auti-Cru-
elty-to-Animals Society follow up their pros.
ecutions they may succeed in abating the nui
sance of over-crowded care A better vay
would be to pass law permitting conductors
10 collect Fares only of passengers for whom
seats are provided. There would be q pev
supply of cars directly
-rhe simple and expeditions plan for OBJ
tanning water, By driving into the earth An
IRON 1une having numerous small holes near
the bottom closed by an inverted cone of steel
which was used with great success by the Un.
ion army during the late rebellion, has been
put in operation in France under the Empar.
or's personal supervision. The British Gov
ernment, after testing them at Aldershot bavo
sent special brigade having charge of these
portable wells with the Abyssinisn exned;-
ton.
colonel Edward Maynard, United States
consul at Turks Island, and the eldest son of
horace Maynard, of Tennessee, died of yellow
teVer at Turks Island on the 10th of January.
He served his country through the war. sbar.
ing, rs commander of the Sixth Tennessee
REGIMENT IN the hcnors and perils of the bat
Ties nom Chattanooga to Atlanta and of Sber.
mans march to the sea.
"A bookseller of Wellsville, N. Y, recently
oyerhauling his stock, found neatly made
mouse nest composed of about $50 worth Of
bank bills and postage currency.
AT a recent conference on technical edn-
cation, held under the auspices OF the London
Society for the encouragement of the arts.
manufactures and commerce, Earl Russell ex-
pressed nls satlsfactioa that at the Harrow
school they had left off teaching the bows 10
write longs and shorts in Latin verse. and
were beginning to teach them physical science.
he reloiced over the same tendency at the mi.
| versities.
The University of Zurich has recently in
vested young Russian lady, aged twenty
four years, with the degree of Doctor of Med
iclne. Professor Edmund Rose, son of the
celebrated minsraiogist, made a speech on tho
occasion, which might encourage the advo.
Gates OF women's rights in America. For fif-
ty years, at intervals, women have taken de-
grees in the medical schools Of Germany:
though they have not attained the distinctive
privileges of the profession. Professor Rose
compared the slavery of sex to the slavery of
color, and hoped the one would not long sur
\ Stve the ether.
-1oseph smiths widow has RECEIVED nv n
revelation from the soul OF her departed nus
band revised edition of the Mormon Bible,
and it has just been published at Piano, Illi-
nois. 7
Paris street railways have q fiat rail with
no fanges on the wheels, but instead small
rail in the center on which an extra grooved
wheel runs that can be raised by the driver. in
order to run off the track to pass a car coming
in an opposite direction.
In Norway every child is Obliged to attend
a national school at least twelve weeks in ev-
cry year after it is eight years old. This provi-
sion is suspended only when it is proved that
child is receiving proper instruction at homo
or in private school, The national school
system was introduced in 1739-nearly hun
dred years ago-and has been thoroughly re-
vised within the last ten years.
-Chdricdri tells funny story of 0 man in
France whe was attacked by four or i've rob-
bers while returning to his home at night. A
bright idea flashed upon him, and he began
shouting Vice Ia RepubRquel" Instantly the
police gathered from all quarters, the robbers
dropped their plunder and fled, the shouter
was seized-of course-but, on making expla-
nations, was allowed to depart. The Empire
is peace.
-Iturbide, son of the ex-Emperor of Mexi-
co, has enlisted in the Papal Zouaves at
| Rome.
The lady proprietors of the Revolution in
New York have employed Madame Demorest
to fit out q squad of little Irish girls in tho
Fenian colors, and send them into the street
selling the "woman's paper" They call on
| tIo ,ol:o a., 81, I;tkl
The Ohio River Bridge, at Louisville, will
be finished in 1869; it will cost $1,6C0,OOO, bo
ninety-fve feet above high water, and be ono
mile long. .r.5.
-Artemus Ward said that the man who
wrote "I'm saddest when sing" was a fool
| to sing much.
-Extremes meet Thus, in nine cases cut
of ten, says the N. Y. Commercial, person
who relates to you how he slipped up follows
that information with tho fact thai he fell
down.
An absent-minded tobaeco-chewer in New
buryport had been in the habit of improvising
a spittcon by opening the door OF the cooking
stove, to the manifest danger of extinguishing
the fire. In the course of human events new
stove was purchased. in which the oven door
fuel door did in the old one The next day,
momentarily forgetting the change of base,
our friend opened the door, and discharged an
enormous effete quid into a squash pie that
had just been placed in the oven by the good
housewife. There was a domestic explosion.
"A Minnesota land speculator, in describ-
ing lake in that State, says it is so clear and
so deep that by looking into il You can see
them making tea in China.
The Southern papers are still clamorin5
| for literature of their own. From most of
| the specimens we have seen, we should think
thev would want some one else's literature.
"A little boy in Lowell was asked how
many mills make cent. "Ten, sir" was tho
prompt reply. Immediately q bright-faced
little girl held up her hand in token of 6issa n.
"Well, miss, what have you to sayP" please,
sir, ten mills don't make q cent. Pa says all
the mills in town don't make cent"
"A friend of ours has two boys, aged respec-
lively six and eight years. The younger was
partaking pretty largely of the good things OF
this life at the dinner table Immediately on
their return from Sabbath school last SuEday.
The elder, after eying his brother for some
time, said: "Charlie, you were to eat much
more, and it should kill you, you would weigh
40 much that the angels could not carry you TO
Heaven" Little six years old hesitated for a
moment, and then, looking up rephed: '"eil'
;e4ta,, could not do it alone, God would send
Samson down to help them
~. Cooke of London has Just completed D
o,-;ncb obiect-glass, tho largest yet made.
Tho telescope has been subjected to tho usual
tes. in resolving celestial objects, and is pro
nounced OFFICIALLY excellent.
The Vicksburg Times speaks of General
Pope as "that contemplate liar and brlggart,
the man of the slapped face" Of other Gtn
erals it mentions SHERIDAN, Schofeld' anu
Ord. scoundrels ALL" General Ord IS again
honored as shat ridiculous knave and fool, the
Haynau of Mississippi, and the GesleF Of ARK
ansasD The St. Louis Democrat censures tie
sd,tor . Of the vicksburg Times for using Ian
ruage unworthy of gentleman-and calls
him l,snatic and bIackgudrd; also an idiot
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