The Portland daily press., 1868-11-20
Varieties.

An Ohio girl astonished the handsome
young men of a Cleveland dry goods store, the
other day, by asking for "three yards of Gre
clan bend"
-Pike's opera house at New York, which
the Erie railroad has Just bought, will be used
this winter for musical performances as usual,
and the company will sell tickets good for both
| railroad fare and admission to the opera.
The cook is continually occupied In de-
stroying our health, and the doctor in restor.
ing it. But there exists this great difference,
that the former is much more likely to sue
oeed than the latter.
"A quaint expression of Nasby's is the fol.
lowing-"the ckild-like confidence Of apawn-
broker"
The funeral of the wife CT Judge Samuel
NJ. Blatchford, of New York city, took place
Saturday morning. Secretary Seward, Thur
low Weed and William B. Astor were among
the pall-bearers. Mrs. Blatchford was a grand
daughter of Alexander Hamilton.
Lawrence county, Ohio, claims to have
much the largest Republican gain OF any In
the country, having changed $50 Democratic
majority last year into 1916 majority for Grant.
Miss Julia Drome, a young lady from New
York, now residing in Berlin, is said to possess
vocal talent of great promise.
The fires in the Oregon woods are driving
the wild beasts into the settlements, endan-
gering the lives of the people. Children are
attacked by cougars, and in Lynn county a
girl nine years of age was killed and eaten by
one of these animals.
In recommending the Worlds Marble for
the mayoralty, the New York Sun evidently
desires to have the City Government of the
Commercial Emporium based upon the cor
ner stone of New York Democracy.
Short dresses are good things for the shoe
makers and bad for the doctors The ladies
buy and wear better shoes, and the doctors re-
port noticeable decline IN the diseases among
women coming from cold, damp feet. When
long garments prevailed women were very
careless in this respect, often wearing thin and
broken shoes, and this, together with the
| dampness always clinging to their long skirts,
brought ON illness, which not unfrequently
terminated fatally.
The New York Times says: "Why is coal
so high? That is one of the questions OF the
hour. The dealers tell you, strikes at the
mInes.' Bah! that may have accounted for q
rise in the retail price from So to 81 or So per
ton; but what caused the rise from $S to S127
The strikes took place last summer, were linn
tied in range, and brief in duration; afterward
work went on without interruption. The Bal
timore Gazette declares that coal was sold at
the mouth of the mines sixty days ago at $3.50
a ton, and now from $3.50 to "a too; and.
figuring up transportation and all costs, IL
shows that there is no reason in coal costing,
more than from $3.50 to 81. The same is true
of New York. How, then, do you account
| for its actually costing from 81 to S12 ton9
| 1t is very convenient to put this matter on the
backs of the strikers-but the Striking that
hurts the people most is from the hands Of the
| coal-dealers."
"A recent reviewer says that Husbands like
| to snub clever, superior wives by fiat contra
diction, with an impression that they are as
serting their rights, and divertiug respect and
attention into their proper channels"
-Thurlow Weed, it is said, does not intend
| to resume either his editorial labors his ac-
tive participation in public and political af-
fairs, but WILL however, spend portion Of the
| coming winter in Washington.
Our bonds in the London market have not
been in the slightest degree affected by the rise
in gold on this side, which is purely of spec
nances, business or exchanges of the country.
Instead of suffering depreciation, our securi.
ties abroad have advanced and strengthened
within the last day or two.
The final illness of Rossini was inflamms.
| ton of the lungs About three weeks ago bis
| infirmities increased so that he was obliged to
take to his bed On the 2Sth of October the
celebrated DIR. Nelaton, with other physicians,
held a consultation at the house of the patient,
who h;msalf was very weak and had no hopes
of his own recovery. From that time to his
death physician remained constantly AZ MS
bedside 1t is understood that at the funerai
the last composition of Rossini, his petfb
| f1adsse written for the banker Pillet, VIII %
| performed.
"A clerk in New York mercantile estah-
lishment relates a colloquy from which
sprightly youth in the same store came on sec
ond best. A poor boy came along with ms
machine, inquiriug: "Any knives to grindY
| "Don't think we have" replied the young gen
| tlemap facetiously; "but can you sharpen
witso" eyes, if you've got any" was the
nrompt reply leaving the interrogation at loss
70 produce the article.
There are but few people capable of the
candid operation thus suggested by Haw.
thorne: "a perception, for moment, Of ones
eventual and moral self, as if it were another
person-the observant faculty being separated,
and looking intently at the qualities of the
character There is a surprise when this hap
pens-this getting out Of ones self-and snsn
the observer sees how queer a fellow ne IS
Miss Adelaide Phillips has returned Honn
Europe. She goes back in the spring 70 sing
in opera under a long engagement Europe
is robbing us of all our singers