The Portland daily press., 1868-04-28
Varieties.


books in Roman type. 1t is found much clear
er aud less trying to the eyes.
The Rev. S. NJ. Merrill, formerly OF North
Adams, whose escapade in connection with a
young lady of that place was the subject of so
much comment a year ago, was formally ex-
PEELED, at the recent session Of the Troy Meth
odist Conference, from its membership and
from the church.
The general prospect for a large yield of
fruit this year in the West is favorable, al
though early strawberries, peaches and cher
ries have been somewhat damaged. The grain
crop is equally promising, and gives assur.
ance of excellent and cheap -four.
No fewer than six women have recently
been elected on parochial boards in various
parts of England.
"A full-grown male panther was killed in
Mobile on the morning of the 10th inst. He
measured six feet six inches between the tips
of the snout and tail. 1t is supposed that re-
cent rains and consequent high water drove
him from the swamps around the city.
The men who fiatter women do not know
them sufficiently; and the men who only
abuse them do not know them at ALL
"A new book on America is soon to be pub.
lished in London from the pen of Mr.. Went
worth Dixie, under the title of "Greater Brit
ain." Mr.. Dixie was companion of Mr..
Hepworth Dixon during part of his tour,
but his tastes did not lead him to an examina-
ton of the mysteries of free love.
Mr.. Frederic Harrison, in The Fortnight
ly Review for April, tells this good anecdote:
He was the other day exploring coal mine'
and CHANGING 10 ask some grimy bare colliers,
hewing away in the dim air. what was that
part of the workings, they told him with some
pride that they called it the "Mill End" af-
ter the member for Westminster. A matter
for thought, remarks Mr.. Harrison, that these
rough hewers, cropping all their night of days
in those choking cells of coal, could be think
ing of the author of System of Logic" and
of the pamphlet on the condition of Ireland.
AT recent meeting of the Reform Club
at Manchester, Mr.. Goodwin Smith made a
speech in which he said: "Whether the law Of
primogeniture and the principle of entailing
and settling property be good for England or
not, one thing is quite clear, that they are bad
for Ireland. They maintain there an absentee
aristocracy, drawing money out of the coun-
try, not discharging their social duties, and
the constant object of odium and irritation
among the people"
-Bayard Taylor writes from Italy: "Powers
is now employed upon q statue, to which he
has not yet given name. 1t might be called
"The Last of the Race" A tall beautiful In
| dian woman is represented as in the act of
running, but with a WEAKNESS of body and
limb which indicates that the end of her fight
is near. Her head is turned to one side, as If
listening to the sound OF pursuit, The face
expresses both fear and pain, not sharp and
desperate, but dulled by the knowledge of an
inevitable fate"
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, says "a celebrated English physician
recently visited the Tuileries and spoke with
tSe physicians of the Emperor. From their
| conversation he learned that the frequent
| fainting fits to which the Emperor is subject
are the consequence of a disease of the heart,
which might bring about his sudden death,
though it does not exactly exclude the
possibility of a long life. In reference to the
Prince Imperial, hear from the same rather
reliable source that the constitution of the
| heir to the throne does not give promise OF his
reaching his majority"
| "A facetious doctor having been asked how
| to commemorate the discoverer of ether, re-
| piled, every simple. One pedestal Two stat
uesl Morton herel jackson therel Under
meath the simple inscription, To EtherP"
| Nobody can deny that the late Lord Car
digan, the leader of the charge at Balaklava.
| was man of nerve. 1t is related of him that
he cnce squeezed the hand of Queen Victoria
tor the purpose of making Prince Albert jeal-
| Gus!
Emperor Napoleon completed his sixtieth
year on Monday, April Goth.
"A London paper observes: "The female
communicates of several large American
churches are asking whether they also have
not souls, and if so, why they are excluded
from choosing their minister? twill be very
difficult to answer that question, more espe-
cially as the average woman of America
knows more theology oil kind than the aver
age man, and subscribes quite as literally.
The London Spectator says: "Gilts OF
r,;pcelv amounts-amounts which would
Weld fortunes in mere interest, have been re-
peatedIy made to great American cities, to
colleges, to libraries, and this during the life
time OF the donors, but we can scarcely recall
an instance Of the kind in Great Britdin.'
"A new class of houses, styled "aerodomes,"
are to be erected in Paris with the approval of
the Emperor. The streets are to be widened
and the houses to be from 100 to $50 feet high
having eight OF ten stories. The framework
is to be of iron. At the fifth story there will
he a terrace ten feet broad, which forms a sort
of base for the "aerodome" above, and the
rooms on this terrace can be occupied for
/. stores, as is the story next the ground. The
other parts of the aerodomes may communi-
cate with each other by means of bridges
thrown across from terrace to terrace, and in
, this way there would be two towns one above
! tie other; large amount of traffic WIN 20
carried on without descending into the s'se1's 20
! at all, provisions, fuel, Sc, being oota'neu
means of the lifts. Each aerodome may Oe
nSaote% fals cd by sgg people and more all enjoy.
e inc commodious apartments, pure amos, .S
If nhsre and abundance of hshs wniio 'n'
prs ltreots below will be wide aud airy
The new French cannon, worked by one
s. lii send out at least fifty balls min
l. Au'"' - down men at the distance OF