The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21
Varieties.

Tine Sydenham Crystal Palace directors
have announced that no person viii be allow
ed to ascend the towers until a railing has
been erected upon them. Judy suggests that
the railing will have to be erected from bal
loon, in that case.
in Baltimore, on Monday, lad of IA, in
attendance on one of the city schools, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in an out
house attached to. the school, for the reason
that, having been guilty of some misdemean-
or, he was interdicted from playing with his
| schoolmates.
The people of Colorado complain of
scarcity Of female help. Several girls get
prices ranging from ten to fifteen dollars per
week, and they are scarce at til ose figures.
"A number of Germans, lately hired to go
into Woodford county, Kentucky, to work,
have already tired of their bargain, and are
on their way black to America" The Lex
ington Statesman says they complain that they
were "treaued too much like negroes"
Henry Kingsley says, in the introduction
| to new edition of Defoe's masterpiece, that
| the wonderful romance of Robinson Crusoe"
! is no romance at all, hut merely an alegorical
| account of Defoe's own life.
1T may not be known to many of our read
| ers that Signor Brgnoli, the best tenor singer
in this country, is also composer of no mean
merit. He has produced symphony, called
"The Sailors Dream" which has lately been
| brought out in Philadelphia and is to be per-
| formed next week in Boston. The critics
| speak of it in high terms of praise.
DIR. Howe of Boston, who is authority on
| Cretan matters, writes that the instruction is
not at an end; that the war is suspended only
because the Turkish soldiers no longer venture
out of the fortresses upon the coast into the in
| terror, and that as soon as they do the Cretans
| will again assail them. He also says that the
| "bloody instructions" to starve the whole
| Christian population of the island by destroy
| ing all vegetation, are returning "to plague
| the inventors" and the Turkish garrisons are
| suffering from scurvy and like disorders. Their
only supply of fresh provisions is from Asia
Minor and Egypt. How much longer is this
sort of thing to last2 The "sick man" of Eu-
| rope has become an insufferable nuisance.
Mrs. AIues, the Boston artist, is giving
public readings. "They say" she is only Sec
ond to Mrs. Kemble. But then, says one crit
ic frankly, she is such pretty woman that
you can't tell. She began in Philadelphia,
and is going to the Western cities.
The Toledo Blade tells of a dog in that
city accidentally shut up for tweniy-eight
days in an unused room, without food or wa
ter, which came out emaciated but healthy.
"A writer in the April Atlantic advocates
the establishment of an old peoples gymnasi-
UNI, to which no one shall be admitted who is
under seventy-fve years of age.
The drain of silver to Asia is exciting
great attention in other parts ofthe world In
fourteen years, upwards of six hundred and
fifty million dollars were exported from Eng
land and the Mediterranean alone to Asia.
The paper that has the homer of being the
smallest and most expensive in the country is
published at Brce City, idaho. 1t is not so laree
as an eating napkin, and sells for fifty
cents copy.
Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon
Church, in Illinois, writes long uaper where
in he revses the history of the Mormon
Church, and seeks to prove that the original
leaders were free from the sins of the latter
day san.s, and am3d at no such Innovations
and excuses as have been brought about by
Brigham Young and his followers in Utah.
He asserts that one of the first and chief OBJ
jects of the original church was, and contin-
ues to be the reclamation of those who have
plunged into error and vice, and the recalling
OF those wbo supposing that there was no
other way followed the lead of ambitious
and INSCRIPTIONS men, who fiLurIshed for "a
time, and then failed" Another object 'has
been and now is, an open, fearless, and I'M
A. i
amy, and others of like demoralizing tenden-
ces, held and taught by Brigham Young aud
his adherents." A Minnesota paper states
that there is an industrious settlement of Nor
mons near Otter Tail Lake who, while they
believe in Joseph Smith, do not hold to the
plurality of wives,