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

-Des Moines, Iowa, was ,On Monday great
ly excited over the demolishment, by a mob,
of house of ill-fame, within mile of the city
limits. country girl, aged thirteen, was, on
Saturday, decoyed into the baguio. The far
mers, some sixty strong, banded together, and
made a raid upon it, but did not find the girl.
The keeper and his bullies showed fight,
whereat the "vigiants" turned men and wo-
men out of doors in their night clothes, when
they burned the whole institution down to the
ground. The building was new and well-fn-
ished. The loss is probably over "a 900.
-Berryer's son forged his fathers name to
numberess notes and disposed of them to un-
scrupulous brokers at fearful discount. Ber-
ryer has turned the tables upon the note sha-
vers by promptly paying the forged notes as
soon as presented, and then prosecuting them
fer usury. A score OF them have gone to pris-
on, and the Senator is no longer troubled with
his sons paper.
The famous new French journal, La Ian
terne, is in the shape of little book, with a
very distinguishable red cover, and the con-
tents are precisely those of newspaper, cut
up into pages, with the advertisements at the
end.
Two crumped hats, the wreck of wagon,
and what appeared to be brains, were found in
a street of Trenton, N. j., early on a recent
morning. There was intense excitement for a
time, but an investigation proved that the sem
sation was produced by mishap to the city
bill poster, and the "brains" turned out to be
paste.
Last year the deficiency in the Postofice
Department was something over $4,000, 900.
This year it will reach nearly $4,000, 900, owing
principally to the reopening of routes in the
South and the increase of ocean mail service.
The Princess D'Eckmuhl, widow of Mar
shall Davoust has presented to the Museum of
Vary, France, the sword which was worn by
her husband at Aboukir, Ulm and Austerlitz
The San Francisco Bulletin says the fruit
crop OF California was never finer in quality
or larger in quantity and variety than it is
this summer. Many large growers intend to
pay more attention to driving and packing tor
export this year. Ruling prices are more rea-
sonable to consumers, yet sufficiently profita-
BILE to producers. The experiment of shipping
grapes to Atlantic ports will be tried on a
larger scale than last fall.
"A very excellent imitation of meel schaum
is now made from the starchy pulp of raw po-
tatoes. which has been subjected for some days
to a steady pressure. Artificial horn is made
from turnips; and carrots macerated in a
solution of soda, and then subjected to strong
pressure at a high temperature, furnish very
pretty artificial coral.
The inventor of a new style of horseshoe
has sent to a soliciting firm in New York
model made of solid silver. The inventor lives
in Colorado and could not afford to use iron.
There is an evident determination TO abol-
ish sutteeism in India. For participating in
a recent widow burning case, fourteen men
have been transported for life, thirty for ten
years, and eleven are sentenced to five years
Imprisonment
Our readers will remember Heller, the
magician, who alternately played the piano
and performed the most wonderful feats of
necromancy. 1t seems, however, that his
sleiobt-ot-haud could not save him from the
claws of merciless creditors, who have forced
him to take advantage of the bankruptcy act
in London. If magician like Heller can't
keep out of debt who can?
Josh Billings says that bed bugs must
have been made by accident, like slvers, on
purpose to stick into somebody. The same
high authority declares that it is impossible to
do anything with fleas except to swear, and
that the fleas are not afraid of that; and that
the alligator is not native of New England
hecause he is too useless to have been born
there.
"A French journalist writes the following
geographical paragraph: Paris chatters, Mu-
mich drinks, Marseiles sings, Rome prays, Ly-
ons works. Leipzig reads, Madrid smokes,
Manchester packs, Hanover sleeps, Edinburgh
dreams, and Constantinople bathes.