The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13
Varieties.

Varieties.
The American Waltham watch has sur
passed the English watch in use by The engi-
neers and conductors on the PENNSYLVANIA
Central and New York Central Railroads.
This is another triumph of American enter
prise and skill,
"A daughter Of Charles Lever, the novelist
has been successful as a musical composer.
An Italian canzonette of hers is well spoken
Of
The New York Evening Mail has takGa ~
the sensible step of excluding from its col
umns for the future the society ard fashion
gossip ofa personal character which has been
almost the only drawback to the general
good taste of its management The editor
says that when he commenced giving society
news he did not design to let it wander Off
into private personal matters, and endeavor-
ed to keep it within bounds. But finding this
impossible he has taken the wise resolution
to reform it altogether
We hear more and more Of the agitation
for the re-establishment Of the autonomy in
Naples and Sicily. If the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies should, by any chance. be re-es-
tabfshed, the dispute of parties as to The sov-
ereignty will lie between the younger son of
Victor Emmanuel with Francis II and the
Prince Napoleon.
The Cheyenne Vigilance Committee ad.
vertIse that certain persons win be notified
through the newspapers to leave the Territo-
~, and ii said persons do not leave within
twenty-four hours the committee will not be
responsible for their safety.
Lima, Peru, correspondence of the n. Y.
Herald contains the statement that "since the
departure OF ex-President Prado for Valpa-
raiso, public sentiment respecting him has IN.
dergone remarkable change, and many who
were most clamorous for his overthrow now =
speak of his administration as the best that.
Peru has ever had and admit that he is very
likely to return to the head Of aff,irs again in
a short time. Not voice has been raised VI
against the honesty, the patriotism, and exec
utive abifty OF Prado, and those who partci-
pated in the revolutionary movement are al
ready sympathizing with the illustrious exile.
On the other hand, we have nothing but dis
content with the present condition of affairs,
and glowing predictions for the future" III
In the famous establishment of the Sor- &
bonnie in Paris, founded by Robert de Sor-
bonnie in the 18th century for poor students,
courses of instruction for women have been ID
organized with great success, notwithstanding ~
the censures Of the church. Nearly three
hundred women attend lectures, among whom
are many members of high families, who do
not think they are corrupted by associations b.
with the students of the Latin Qnarter Be-
sides those who go to complete their eduea-
tion, many are being educated for governesses.
The opposition Of the bishops and the clergy
to the admission of women into this time-hon. q
ored retreat has been quite overcome. The
lectures of the Sorbonne are given by the
most learned scholars, and are illustrated with
costly and magnificent apparatus
The editor Of the Chicago Post ridicules
the fine writing of his contemporaries in rela-
tion to the recent great fire in that city. He
declares that there is no "fre-fend," "fre-
king" or demon of dest' uction' in Chicago.
and continues thus: "We were at the IRE on
Lake street, and the nsarest approach to a
fend or demon that we saw was a drunken
fellow who trod on our worst corn and then
threatened to punch our head il we didn't shut
up He had plenty OF lip; but he didn't look
ike the creature that thrust out its fery
tongue until it licked the stars, though his
breath smelled as if he might have been doing
something inhuman." ....
The Legislative AnnuIciator," 4 machine
which takes the yeas and nays of a vote and
prints 30 copies in ten seconds, is on exhibi-
tion in New York
-They have plenty of snow in the Pacific
| States. a recent number Of the Nevada
| Transcript says: "The snow on the Red Dog
road three miles from this place, was I've feet
deep on Monday last. At Bannerville il iell
| to the depth of four feet, and at Blue Tent the
snow was fully three feet deep on a level"
Tho depth of frost in the ground this win
ter is pronounced by railroad men greater than
for any winter for forty years.
| -" Timothy Ttcomb" is still Iecturing on
the "woman question: in various parts Of the
country Rash mani If it should get to the
ears of Gail Hamilton, DIR Todd and DR.. Hol-
land would soon be set in the same pllorv.
-Coasting is the fashionable amusement in
New London, Conn. The Mayor of the eitv
and many of the leading citizens may be seen
sliding night after night. Some of the sleds
are quite expensive.
Il wish you would behave better at the
table, said a boy to his little sister. rather
| hastily, one evining. Don't speak so" re-
piled his mother; "she is a good little girl, ON
the whole" II don'tsee where the good comes
4 in he replied. at comes in right after the
| a. said his sister.
Never mind the cold weather-Diellens Is
| coming next month.
The tax on cigars is to be collected by ofix.
ing stamps to them. In this way smokers v,ills
be constantly and pleasantly reminded that
each puff helps pay the national debt. and
smoking viii hereafter be known as a .,reat
moral instead OF an immoral practice. Parton
| -avaunt 1
The West is making greater progress than.
the East in civilization. A bin nrobibitipo-
| capital punishment has been introduced into
the Minnesota House of Representatives. It
substitutes imprisonment for life, but the jury
can order hanging by unanimous verdict
The people ofMiunesota are evidently begir-
ming to think that the Pennsylvania aud New
Jersey plan of hanging idiotic women and in
sane boys is mistaken philanthropy.
The introduction of females into the lndi-.
| ana Asbury University is discussed with much
earnestness by the friends of the institution,
and the outcry against what is ungailantly
| called "A feminine INVASION Is abundanHy
noisy.
George Francis Train has become rro.
tectionist, since he has been in the old conn.
try, and writes to Mr.. Marble, the free-trade
editor of the New York World, that he is ON
the wrong track a
Edward NJ. Gallaudet, president of the
Columbian deaf and dumb institution at
Washington, after making the tour of Europe
and visiting nearly all the institutions for the
education of deaf mutes, reports that the
method ofteaching most generally in use Is bv
articulation. The institution at Hartford
Conn, where most of the deaf and dumb from
this State are sent for instruction, has reiec,-
ed this method and insists upon ths use OF
signs.