The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-19
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Marrying for life,'' is phrase which is
coming into use in the West The practice, it
self, is not so common. ~
Says the Boston Post: "The wife of Men
dez is insane; the wife of Mejia is mad; the
wife Of Miramon Is stricken beyond hope of re-
covery; and the Princess Salm-Salm is in Jail
Bad place for unprotected females, Mexico.
Why hair turns suddenly white under ex-
element "During the prevalence of the ner-
vous shock, the normal fluids of the hair are
drawn inward toward the body, in unison with
the generally contracted and collapsed state of
the surface, and the vacuities thus left present
the appearance of globules filed with air"
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+ The Chicago Times says that Horace Gree
ley is wanted in Chicago. He is wanted to
bail out the Board of Trade. lasili - 7s...sla
Prince Charles Bonaparte has come for
ward as candidate for a seat in the Council
General at Ajaccio. oa yiirluila gl.g laalf-C
Java papers of the 18th ofJune give full par
ticulars Of the dreadful earthquake which oc-
Cured in the island on the 10Th ofthat month
1t was very destructive in the districts of Cher
ibon, Pekalongan, Banjoemas Bagelen, Djok-
jdokarata and Sourakarta. The greater part
Of the indigo and sugar manufactures, private
| houses and military establishments were de-
| stroyed at Djokdo, but in the other districts
| the damage was not so extensive The losses,
| however, are incalculable The sugar crop
| which had just been brought into the barns,
was totally lost. A large number of Europe
ans and natives perished-the report says as
| many as three hundred. il5ij rn1t 8 % hiv
The Rochester Democrat has the follow
ing. We copy for the benefit Of young men
contemplating matrimony: "What the law
of ~ssr;ts'son 10 10 the rnaterfal inverse love
is to the intellectual and spiritual. As the
former causes all terrestrial bodies to move in
the most sublime harmony, so the latter is that
all powerful allpotent influence which alone
can cause all celestial and terrestrial intelligent
beings and organizations to move in the most
perfect concert and sweetest harmony
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The Gazette of Cologne has hitherto been
warm admirer and advocate of the policy of
Count Bismarck. Recently, however, it ven
tured in q long leader to criticise very mildly
the treatment of the annexed provinces. The
government censor ordered the suppression of
the obnoxious article. 1t was too late to re-
place it, and the Gazette appeared with its first
two columns blank. uf p "oa' HA
"A party of ladies and gentlemen from
New Haven, Conn, have gone to Upper Um-
bagog Lake, where they will camp out during
the month of August - s'AH'-.i4F
in his Ledger autobiography Horace Gree
ley says; "The current notion that the Puri-
tans were sour, morose, ascetic people, OBJ
jecting, as Macauley says, to bear-baiting, not
that it gave pain to the bear, but that it gave
pleasure to the spectator, is not justified by my
recollections, nor by the traditions handed
down through my mother"
The Worcester Spy demands an abolition
| of the office of Vice President.
| AN elegantly dressed lady, evidently a
| Spanish woman, is attracting attention by
promenading Broadway without any bonnet.
She wears the graceful Spanish mantilla
thrown over her head and shoulders
| The Paris papers object to American and
| English exhibitors refusing to run their ma
chinery on Sundays. They say the working
classes have no other time to see the expcsi-
ton, and they pay full admission fee.
The Erie railroad is to have restaurant
cars. That is a good deal more sensible than
the "silver palace" idea. IT our railroad com
panies would consult the comfort and con-
venience of their passengers more, and dis
play little less, their efforts would be appre-
ciated. 49, ....- r .-,...
The Saturday Review thus discourses con-
cerning croquet: "Sobriety is the prime char
acteristic of croquet. The firtations which it
permits or inculcates to its votaries are thor
| oughly seemly and harmless. 1t is Irritation
in which the curate may indulge without COM
promising the dignity of his austere profess
sion, and at which even rector may smile
| without forfeiting the lefty majesty of his
positiop. A ballroom firtation may end
| in ANYTHING no to an elopement. The fiirta-
tion of the croquet ground is of the modest
kind which cheers but never inebriates"
The Boston Transcript relates of a gentle
man living near that city that when one of his
horses was brought to the door a few days
since ,-he noticed that the animal had lost a
large part of his fine name, and that the clip
ping and cutting had evidently not been done
by an expert. For some time no explanation
of this mutilaton could be obtained. Diligent
and persistent inquiry, however, at last elicit
ed the fact that one OF the maid servants was
the offender, and that she had taken the sur
reptitiously obtained mats of horse hair to her
room to provide herself with "chignonP'-
Herein is a revelation alike of the mysteries
and the despotism of fashion. No doubt BID
dy knew what the waterfalls were made OF as
well as she knew where to scissollze the mate
rial. la1 .s.e.
Sir Frederick Bruce is said to have perpe-
trated the following conundrum; "Why is an
antagonist of Mr.. Gladstone in debate in the
| House of Commons like telescope? Because
| he (Gladstone) draws him out, sees through
him, and shuts him up" ..f-..
The Memphis Bulletin says that shooting
affrays are of daily occurrence in Memphis.-
They are fast becoming the rule, not the ex-
ception. Hardly day passes" &C.
The "easy divorce" business is being
brought nearer and nearer perfection in the
West. The Nation says that in Cincinnati the
other dav n man get divorce from his wife
without her knowledge, upon simple state
ment in his petition that she represented her
self 10 ba thirty-two years of age at the time of
her marriage, when she was in reality over for
tv and that she was confirmed scold." No
papers were served upon her and the necessary
legal notice was published in Price Current
which no lady is presumed to read.
in the British Parliament the distinguish
ed writer on political economy, John Stuart
Mill. has .proposed an educational scheme,
which embraces the idea that adr'ission to su-
perior schools, teaching technical education,
should be made reward for the good use of
the advantages of elementary education.