The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-08
Varieties.

The Minneapolis Tribune says latest ad-
vices from the logs of the most encourage
ing nature. 1t is said to be the best season
for driving that the lumbermen have had for
| years.
| Sixty school teachers in Hartford, Conn.,,
are now at work taking drawing lessons, the
city government having decided to introduce
| drawing a necessary branch of study in the
| public schools.
The Philadelphia Press has decided not to
notice base ball games unless it is paid for it.
Farmers in western New York, writing to
the Buffalo Express, make very favorable re-
ports OF the crop and fruit prospects of that
section. Their work is already well advanced,
| having been begun about the middle of March.
| They are sowing largely to barley. The win
| ter grain looks remarkably well. Fruits are
/ enough advanced to show that there will be
an abundant crop, with the exception OF the
| peach.
| Brown, on his first journey per coach, not
| long ago. worried the driver, beside whom he
| sat, with incessant childish questions about
| everything on the road. At last he got his quiz
| etus thus: Driver-"There's been awoman ly-
| ing in that house more than month, and they
haven't buried her yet" Brown-"Not bur-
led her yeti pray tell me why not?" Driver
| Because she isn't dead"
The Saturday Review admits the sins of
| the "British tourist in America, but thinks
Mr.. John w. Forneys Letters from Europe"
| afford evidence that we are about to practice a
| stern retaliation. If ignorance, prejudice, su-
| perficial observation and hasty generalization
have been the qualities prominent in English
books on America, says the Review, "Mr. For
/ Sd ;1a,, 10 I1qn
ropeans how easily they can beat us in our
own line when they try"
The Charleston Mercury says there is q
great freshet on the Santee, and all the rice
plantations are under water to depth of from
| five to seven feet. This quantity of water,
however, was regarded as but the beginning of
a serious overflow. The present mark is con-
| sidered within three feet of the highest ever
known. Great damage, if not total destruc-
| ton to the crops, must result.
| Three men are in custody at Hull, Ehg-
land, for throwing an unfortunate" into the
river during spree; the woman was drowned.
"A retired farmer living near Carlisle, Eng
land, was fatally choked by trying to swallow
a quarter of pound of raw beet. The world
\ is well rid of one foolish brute.
| They pretend to have a man in Kansas
City, Mo-, III years old.
| THE Pail Mall Gazette says: Except to
persons interested in the rate of exchange, the
| Atlantic telegraph, as far as it has to do with
| public interests, has hitherto been simply
A correspondent writing from Rome as
serts that the Emperor of Austria has refused
to sanction the new law tending to invalidate
| the Concordat. This determination OF his
| Apostolic Majesty is attributed at Rome to the
| influence of the Empress, to whom, in her
present interesting situation, the Emperor
could refuse no boon, and who is said to have
| entreated her husband to refuse, OF at any
| rate suspend his signature to the new law, at
the instigatiOn of her sister, the Queen OF Ma
pies. ,rorodo NAV
| oo, booome celebrated for its precious stones.
The Reese River ReueiHe of the 9th ult., gives
.o,,,o accopnt of the gem called turquoise, and
| g : +,,rouoise mine existing in the Columbus
| s:atu;ot The turquoise stone is susceptible of
81, ,,olsb and is much esteemed by connois-
-. Of nrecious stones. The choicest speci-
roons are of a pale blue with the faintest tinge
Of Green: but in turquoise of an inferior kind
tbe Green predominates. In Persia this gem
is most highly priced and the choicest speci-
mems are obtained there.
-"Pm afraid you don't like babies when
they cry said matron to a gentleman, as
she tried to soothe the darling in her arms
"Oh, yes,' said he, II like them best when they
cry, because I've always observed tna' 'nen
they are invariably carried out OF the room.
-People fond OF orange marmalade ana otn-
or confections will doubtless enjoy the gllmpse
into the mysteries of their manuiac'ure 70 De
obtained from the following notice 10 eoniec-
t;onors y nublished in London paper 10 De
ia ohaop several cwt. of orange peel IN good
'oi' -. ,be advertiser having the contract
cOnr .,,a s1veepings of all the metropolitan the
ior '"' "a rlaees of amusement, is in posi-
a'ie9 +reat for it on unusually advantageous
tarms. Address =
termDS j. Walton Harris, a gay Lothario, has
come TO grief in Springfield, Mo. He married
an interesting widow, and upon the principle
that "her things were his'n," undertook 10 oe,
camp with 5000. He was overhauied anu
made to disgorge, and set adrift, a poorer Il "''
wiser man. - tool. nlace in
"A marriage on horseback 'ooN piaoe -
front Of one of the stores, on the PuO"C 80
Of Otterville, Cooper county MO- ie" u"y'
- Young couple had come 10 'o"n
t: tbe parson, and hearing ne was az
huh'ins a.oras doing some trading, they rode
, one OF tne '. Of II and without dismounting pro-
up ~ III 20 have the knot tied, to their great ue
0 Geeueu GeS. nj the amusement OF the numerous
! spectators