The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-20
Varieties.

- N~~S-~s~AG
duced into the Senate, establishing woman
suffrage in Utah, says: 'This is bold stroke
at Brigham Young and his uxorious elders.
Give the wives of these men q chance at the
suffrage, and they would soon vote their hus-
bands out of house, home, and harem. II
Mr.. Pomeroy's bill passes, Mormonism VIII
receive its death blow at the hands of its un-
happiest victims" We don't believe it. The
women whose mental and moral development
fitted them to become occupants of Mormon
harsms will never have the courage or the in
teligence to vote themselves out of their bon
dage. They are too weak, and the influences
which would be brought TO bear against them
are quite too strong to make such result
probable. We protest that if the experiment.
Of female suffrage is to be tried, it ought to be
tried fairly, among women who are at least
not beloO the average in intelligence and NOR
al elevation.
"A new journal is announced in Madrid en-
titled Desagravio, the object of which is to
promote the interests of Isabella and the Prince
of Astufias.
The Italia of Naples announces that at
Pompeii there have just been discovered two
marble busts-one Of Pompey and the other of
Brutus. They are both of fine execution, and
have been placed in the national Museum.
The long promised volume of Bayard Tay-
lor, ''The By Ways of Europe" will he ready
about the 2OGh of the month. 1t has been de-
layed by the arrangement for Simultaneous
London edition.
The second and concluding part of Miss
Alcott's Little Women is in active prepat-
alton for publication in April, in volume uni
form in size and style with the first. These
'Little Women and Teddy" are every
body's favorites.
"A son of the celebrated Davy Crockett,
a Confederate officer during the war, died last
week in Kentucky
1T is an invariable custom to present the
doorkeeper of the Indiana Senate with q suit
ofclothes at the end of each session.
AN Italian composer has idealized the sew
en- cardinal sins in a series of dances. One of
them is entitled the ''Lazy March"
A New York firm have invented curious
and ingenious swindle They promise by cir
culars, to send, for SIS "exact copies of o, S.
Treasury notes representing $500" The po-
lice arrested the operator the other day, when
itwas found that the ''exacs copies" were the
photographed specimens authorized for sale
by the Government, the usual price OF which
is ten cents each.
st Louis authorities are attempting to
break up gambling establishments by seizing
the apparatus. In consequence, the cheapest
sort of tables, boxes and wheels are used IN
some PAGES carpenter being employed dur
ing the day to knock together tables for the
police to seize at night When the stars enter
the proprietor politely assists them to carry
| the rough boards and ''horses' down stairs,
and then brings another set from back room,
| when the play is resumed.
| A company has been formed to recover the
bullion and treasure said to have been lost in
| the Spanish galleons which were sunk by the
English in the harbor of Vigo, in the year
| 1702 The vessels are believed to have had on
board, when they sank, treasure to the value
Of upwards of fourteen million pieces of eight
Colonel Gowen, who was SO successful in rais-
| ing the Russian fleet at Sebastopol, has exam
ined the vessels, and reports that he "is com
pletely satisfied as to the practicability Of re-
covering the treasure" TIE Spanish Govern
rnent is to receive % per cent, of all treasure
recovered.
-Brignoh is organizing an opera troupe
with Louisa Durand and Ronconi.
Lowell is said to be preparing another
edition of his "Fable for Critics" which first
appeared twenty years ago, and had great
success then.
"A Missouri preacher descended from the
pulpit last Sunday to spank couple OF unruly
boys.
Henry Taine, the philosopher and histori
an, is blind of one eye, and his physicians have
told him to write and read very little, lest he
should lose the other eye, too.
AT the Covent Garden opera house in
London the musical season is to open on the
Both inst, with company in which are Aae-
lima Patti, Tietens and Mile Nilsson. Tn,
managers have decided to lower the mitch. "a
has been recommended by Mr.. Sims Reeves
and other musical authorities in England.
The French standard will be accepted, and the
Italians are already congratulating their
singers on no longer being subjected to tho
hard test of the English diapason.
"A new shade and costume in Paris is cali
ed prison door," 1t is very brown claret,
and is always trimmed with black. The cos
tune is tight to the figure, as prison doors
usually are, and there are buttons of garnet
are suggestive of heads of nails and altogether
the wearer looks ponderous under na'eu ot
adem of the same, with pale flower dr9opi's
ON one side as if no sunshine had warmed IT.
"A Chicago paper having asserted that
Chicago will have, in the year 1860, foriy-niue
millions of people, Toledo paper assures
ns that at the same time Toledo will
contain twice as many inhabitants as
Chicago. Thus nearly one hundred oni fifty
mi .liops of people will be gathered in these
two Western cities-unless there should be
some error in the calculations of the statis,i-
cians-and the rest of the country will be a
desert, an uninhabited wilderness. What
fearful fellows these Weste-ners are.
The Emperor Napoleon has just received
from the king of the Birmans," present oi
twenty-eight volumes of Buddhist manu-
script. They are supposed to form WORK en-
titled ''The Triple Basket" written Oh paln
| leaves and bound in cedar wood