The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-28
Varieties.

"A letter from St. Petersburg states that
the Governor of Eastern Siberia has received
orders to 90 to the Chinese frontiers to arrange
with an envoy from Pekin the common line of
denmark alton between Russia and the Celestial
Empire. -Jlol .l .f-nra2 rpJ
in connection with the Suex Canal line
of railway from Suex to Ismailia has been
opened. .l e. nt -1 aaa4e11.I
The male prisoners In the Rhode Island
State Prison are working entirely on shoes.
and the women make brooms. There are two
workshops for the men, and in one heavy work
is done, and in the other light goods are manu-
factured. The contractor furnishes stock and
tools, aud pays the State forty cents day for
the labor of State prisoners, and twenty cents
a day for common jail labor. te. sels
The Meriden (Miss.) Mercury swears an
oath to the following effect: 'with the skull
and cross-bones of the lost cause before US,
we will swear that this is a white N ans gov
ernment. We must make the negro under
stand that we are the men We were when we
held him in abject bondage, and make him
feel that when forbearance ceases to be a yir-
tue he has raised power that will control kim
or destroy him." 4s6 aa a..l.-la. .-.s
An abundance of hawthorne berries is
considered in England to indicate a severe
winter. Once Week says: IF this SUPPOSE
ton is well founded, and part of the county
of Kent may be taken as representing the rest
Of England in that matter, then the approach
ing winter will be very hard indeed. Long
hedges and trees may be seen so thickly cover
ed with berries as to be of bright red, in
some cases entirely obscuring the leaves, not
withstanding that very large quantity was
shaken off by the high winds lately"
A meeting of the Association of German
Civil Engineers was recently held at Dussel-
dorf. The Association numbers 1,5O0 MEM
bers, OF whom about 500 were present. Among
the most important motions was one TO the ct
feet that a series of experiments on very
large scale should be undertaken with view
to the investigation Of the whole subject Of
the bursting of boilers, and the means for its
prevention.
The London Missionary Society is making
a new ship in place of the John Williams,
which was wrecked last year among the is
lands of the Pacific She is named the Samoa,
from the socety's principal mission in Poly
pesia. which was founded by the Rev. ). Will
liams in 1890 She will leave England about
October 1st, and commence her voyage among
the islands from Sidney at the end of March.
Josh Billings thinks most emmy man will
conceed that it look very foolish tu see a boy
drag heavy slay up steep hill for the feetin'
pleshur of ridin down agin; but it appeers tn
me that boy is a sage by the side of the young
man hoo works hard all the week and drinks
his stamps up Saturda mite.
AT Vienna, for some time past, an orches-
ira. exclusively composed OF female execu-
tants has been giving concerts with success
According to the latest foreign reports
France has called for 293,2l4 conscripts. OF
this number 60, ,266 can neither read nor write.
The Emperor Francis Joseph and Empress
are to visit the Poles of Gallicia on the 26th
inst, the Emperor desiring to enter into per-
sonal relations with all the Gallician notsbili-
ties.
"A New York paper calls for city market
so regulated that lady can go through 1t with
out policeman and bottle OF cologne water.
The evacuation of Rome by the French
troops is once more the subject OF diplomatic
communications between the French and Ital-
ian Governments. MOI ...
Two mansions in New York have parlor
furniture covered with cashmere shawls.