The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-02
PERSONALS.
VariefieS.

Varieties.
"A new Annexation paper called the Blue.
Nose is to be commenced at Digby. N s., ON
the 4th of March. 1t Is announced that IL will
be devoted to the advocacy of the union of
these provinces to the American republic"
In the New Brunswick Legislature, notice
has been given of motion against newspaper
postage and the stamp act; and OF another in
favor of the revenue being raised from articles
OF luxury rather than from the necessaries of
life
-The New York Times ventures to suggest
to the women who aspire to the honors and
emoluments of the platform that they should
give the public something like novelty in the
selection and treatment of their subjects, and
not all rush into the field of politics and state
manship. Whereupon the Independent re-
spends that the Times may console itself with
the assurance that no woman who has sense
enough to make public address will rush
into politics and statesmanship" of the sort
advocated in its own columns. Think, il ex-
claims, of woman apologizing on a public
platform for Andrew johnson, and courting
the applause of the Democratic partyi
"A man who had been swindled by extor-
tionate charges at hotel in Indiana, took re-
venge by sending the proprietor telegram
which cost one dollar.
"A couple of boys, in Ohio, have been
caught placing Instructions on the rails of the
Dayton & Michigan Road " to make the cars
jump"
Cincinnati has given over $4,000 bushels Of
coal to the poor this winter.
NO less than seven women are now play
ing leading male characters at the Paris thea
tres.
The Legislature OF the Cberokees, as its
late session, passed an act appropriating S1O,-
600 for the erection of a building suitable for o
Capitol at Tahlequab, the Capital of the nation.
The Monroe Ua) Telegraph says the boats
from Arkansas come down piled up with cot
ton as long as it will stay on. 1t was coming
down at the rate of 5000 bales per week.
Queen Isabella is frequently insulted when
she makes her appearance on the streets Of
Madrid.
There were only four people at the largest
hotel in Venice at last accounts.
Queen Victoria's journal is to be printed
with embossed letters for the use of the blind.
"A German doctor has invented an appara-
tus by which thunder is made visible through
the object glass of telescope.
Attention is being directed to immense
deposits of copper in the Northeast corner Of
Tennessee.
The master masons of Hartfort, c., have
formed protective association, designed to
assert the mutual dependence of capital and
labor.
kirkland, Ohio, once an important seat of d.
Mormonism, has still small remnant of the
faithful" who worship in their original tenn
pie.
The people of Canada find to their aston
ishment that certain publications (which are
the avowed organs of Fenanism'' are openly
sold through the Dominion, and intend to
take measures to stop their further circulation.
Editor Tilton of the independent, was in
Washington the other day, and exploited the
following simple remark to rather dull mem
ber ofthe House who, elevating his glasses to
the gallery, said: What would you do, Mr.
Tilton, if you could not distinguish your
friends in the galery?" "Why, Sir" replied
Mr.. T., II would try to distinguish myself on
the fioor.'
Punch has 'charade for costermongers"
My first is uDiathomable, my second odorifer-
ous, and my whole is people of Africa
Abyss-inians.
"A $500 greenback was accidently blown
into the fire at the office of the State Treasury
of Indiana, few days ago, but was not en-
tirely destroyed.
AT meeting of the Royal Edinburgh So
eiety, on the 81 inst, Professor Blackie said
he was not worthy the name of man who
would not stand his chance of being shot for
the sake of science.
Rev. DR.. Scudder, of San Francisco, stated
to his congregation, at Sunday evening SER
vice. that he had in his hand paper which
deserved to be printed in letters of gold. 1t
was protest of the actors of San Francisco
against the repeal Of the Sunday law.
A prominent journalist in New York, who
is perfectly bald, has offered reward of one
thousand dollars for tale that will make his
hair stand on end.
Sparta, Wisconsin, has carried of the
palm for cold this winter, reaching the lowest
point ever felt in the United States-fffy-one
degrees below zero. No one but a Spartan
could stand that temperature.
"A torrent of boiling water burst through
the shaft of an artesian well, which was being
sunk at La Crosse, Wis, scalding several men,
melting off the snoy for SONS six acres, and
boiling things generally.
The Second Adventists baptized q young
lady at Salisbury's pond, Worcester, Mass,
last Sunday, after cutting through ice 10
inches thick.
The school boys in England have taken to
playing the game OF Fenianism. 1t would
seem to be sport not wholly unattended with
danger. At the National School, at Newbury,
for instance, the lads were amusing them
selves with mimic representation of the
Fenian execution at Manchester. Three Of
them volunteered to take the disagreeabis
parts of the men who were hanged. The re-
suit was that one of the foolish fellows was
nearly strangled.
The Chicago Advance, the new religious
organ of the Congregationalists in the North-
west, admits that theatres might De tolerated
under rublic censorship OF plays and per-
formonces The Advance thus comedies the
fundamental principle that theatrical repre-
s.ntations can be allowed under certain cir
cumstanees. Its idea OF public censorship.
however, is widely atvariance with American
and democratic notions, and even with the
theory which underlies Congregationalism.
Why theatres should be submitted to an al BIZ
trary censorship, more than newspapers or
public speakers, or preachers, 1t would be d ara
to tell. If a high standard of free public sem
timent will avail to save the press from iii-
moralities, why will it not eqnai'y Pro'S'' ~
from demoralizng playsY