The Portland daily press., 1868-09-02
XarietieS.

Varieties.
-Akers, the sculptor, is meeting with good
success in Buffalo, where he has lately estab-
lished himself The papers of that city speak
warmly of some of his works, and he has al
ready received numerous commissions.
-Pennsyvania is erecting a very large
State hospital for the insane, at Danville. 1t
is to be l, ,l42 feet in length and provided with
all the modern improvements .1.H
"A Columbus paper speaks of an enraged
person as IAN immense quantity of lager beer
and benzine, with a small Teuton around it
spelling for fight" al.IlT E
Quite new plan is proposed in Philadel-
phia to rid horse railroad companies of the
peculatioDs of conductors, 1t is TO fix GER
tain amount which each conductor must take
and pay every day to the company, with the
right to keep all that remains Practically it
is selling to each conductor the right to run a
car for fixed sum. H. -+"
Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago preached
sermon on woman's rights in Faneuil Hall,
on Sunday last. He said it was a disgrace to
us as an educated and enlightened people that
the question of woman's rights should need to
arise, and it was still more disgrace that
those women who sought for equal rights with
men should be opposed so bitterly He con-
tended that there should be instant and per-
feet equality, and that there would be, if the
truth that "God created man in his own image,
male and female" were recognized. He
thought that in the religion of to-day there vas
NJ more urgent doctrine than that of the rela-
ton of man to woman; and said a man was
committing crime if he paid a woman less
for performing work efficiently, than he would
if the performer were fellow man.
The Toronto Globe says the selection of
the longest, most expensive, and most useless
of the proposed routes for the Intereolonial
Railway, has caused good deal of indigna-
ton and alarm in the Province of Ontario,
even among those who have hitherto been sup
porters of the coalition. Some Conservative
journals are asking that Ministers shall make
the Nova Scotia repeal agitation an excuse for
postponing the railway question altogether for
year or two. ....a...-f 5al .sE.arg
"A photographer in Paris has succeeded in
obtaining good photographs from balloon, at
height of 800 metres 1884 feet); this in spite
OF the constant rotary motion OF the balloon.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia are still
discussing the minutes in Council" and the
general aspects of the situation The popular
excitement does not abate Gsf
1t is a fearful thing when royalty dies in
Madagascar. The late Queen of that country
was buried in a silvercoffin worth $4,000, and
box of coin which it took fifteen men to car
ry was buried with her. The mourning re-
quires all her subjects to shave their heads
and go barefoot for ninety days. They must
also sleep on the ground and do no work for
that time. E.y
"A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser,
writing from Martha's Vineyard, says: "As
sat on the beach to-day, watching the gambols
of hundred 'bathists,' inquired of an old
| pilot if there was not danger to be feared from
sharks Not mite,' he replied; mot mite;
! never's been a shark seen here, sir, since them
creeturs,' pointing to the ladies, took to the
water-scared them all t'other side of Gay
| Head. ," ..... ....... ....a.ia.tI
| 1t is stated that the project of uniting Lake
Huron and Lake Ontario bids fair to be
reality. Able engineers have decided that the
work is feasible, and that it will not cost more
than S4O,OOO,O0O. 1t was proposed to raise S2O,-
100000 of this in the United States, and 500
100000 in England. These loans were to be
secured by grant of 10000, 900 acres of land by
the Canadian Government. MIR. Frederick
Capreol, of Toronto, has undertaken the finan-
cial management OF the enterprise, and it is
said that his prospects of success are very sat
isfactory. .. .-.....sEaaa
| "A mighty hunter by the name of Casano-
va recently arrived at Suez on his return from
a sporting tour in the savage wids of Nubia.
| Ha fha African 1acart xri6 IN nj a.
cort of three hundred men and ninety-five
camels. His object was to take game alive;
and the dangers well as the success of his ex-
pedition may be imagined from the fact that he
brought back with him the almost incredible
cargo of thirty two elephants, eight graffes,
lwo rhinoceroses, twelve hyenas and four lions
besides many goats, monkeys, gazelles and
other small deer" -
"A New Orleans woman put a charcoal
furnace in her bedroom to drive out the mos
qultoes, and succeeded in suffocating her fam
lily.
Coal of the best quality sells at the New
Brunswick mines for a dollar and sixty cents
| ton, loaded upon vessels. Inferior Qualities
bring only fifty cents al
Carlyle is preparing a standard library
edition of his complete writings, forming Sc
res of from twenty to thirty volumes in octa-
vo, to be published in London by Messrs
Chapman & Hail. and in New York by Scrib-
ner, Wexford & Co.
Mr.. Mapleson, the London impressario
has leased the New York academy of music
for the fall and winter, and will begin a sea
son of grand opera about the 18th of October
Mile Titjiens and Miss Kellogg win be his
prime donne, and among the rest will be Mile
Sinico, Signor Butlerini, fine singer, and
Mr.. Santley, one of the best baritones now on
the stage, With such principals and the ada-
quate support which IS promised, the company
will be a remarkably fine one
1t is denied by our authorities in Washing
ton that they have consented to the discontin-
nance of the mail service between the United
States and Great Britain by way of Southamp-
ton. On the contrary, our Government will
favor the renewal Of the present contract.
The negotiations between Prussia and the
United States are pushed forward with great
vigor. The Prussian Government has accept
ed the proposition made by the United States,
and the Commissioner appointed by it has al
ready sailed. The eagerness of Prussia to cul-
tivate the most friendly relations with the
Unitsd States is generally noticed 1t seems
to be desirous to bring about closer union
between itself, the United States anu Russia.
Russia must be paradise ior school
teachers, as one hundred and zen Gays Oh tne
year are devoted to instruction. ana the otner
two hundred and ffty-tive to holidays and va
cations :. .ha NIa..o.to.,, hos bsen
,1,ioa reached this yearly Mr. Elliott and
Professor Tyndall.