The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-20
Varieties.

"A lady in Washington undertook to be-
lieve everything that Planchette said TO her,
and became insane in consequence. -rscI .
-Garibaldis are now worn open down thu
left side, instead Of down the front. and thar q
opening is trimmed with lace ruchine, yeYv /.
becoming style for slight figures. Bodice,
open down the front are again in favor, worn
with lace chemisettes underneath and lace
bow cravats on the back .s ..IaY f-a 81 T ,
The fools are not all dead yet. A female
tortune-teller at Saratoga is said to have made
twenty-five dollars a day during race week. ..,
"A Paris correspondent writes that an at
tempt is being made 10 restore the high tor
toise she'll comb of our grandmothers. saI.fts
dynamite" is the name Of the latest in
vented explosive. 1t is a modified form of nj
ro-glycerine. -tFa'rrr.r Isr.fg % Ee
AN Ohio exchange says something is the
matter with the bees this summer. They re
fuse to send out swarms or make any honey.
Perhaps they are on a strike for higher wages.
"A drunken fellow in Montreal got into a %.
row with his wife, and threw her out of a
third story window. She was not much hurt.
Charles Lamb has beautifully said: "It is
a trait of human nature, for which 1 love it,
that man wars not with the dead, for the dead
are no mans enemies" s .- ..-, .s.. ..If d51
1t is said that Napoleon !, il he wanted a
man for great enterprises, always chose one
with large nose. The Talmud contains .
similar hint. t. 81. ss.ssa. H-.. 4.s Zoo .
Mr.. R. H. Newell orpheus @. Kerr,) sends
to the New York Tribune a comm unication.
over his own initials, in which he generously
defends the late Adah lsaacs Menken, one Of
whose husbands he was. He says that, "com-
PEELED while yet child to go upon the stage
in New Orleans as an operate danseuse, that
her widowed mother and helpless younger sis
ter might be saved from want, she knew
henceiorth no other school, no kinder home
than the theatre" She was deprived of every
sacred influence by which the female charac-
ter is guided and guarded" and taught only
by her unschooled impulses to distinguish be-
tween wisdom and folly" Mr.. Newell we'll
says that in this homeless and unfriended life
there was much to claim the forbearance of
every Just man, and make every woman's un-
charity for woman melt in q relenting tear"
A veritable monitor has been ordered by
the English admiralty. This time all expert
ments and improvements will be avoided and
the ship will be constructed on the American
plan pure aud simple. f..I ..s.E El..l. ...
"A reader who spent Sunday reading mis-
sionary intelligence from India, writes that
"the British made a mistake in abolishing the
law that compelled the widow to burn herself
with the remains of her husband. II such
rule were applied here, the ladies would take
better care of their husbands health"
AT a picnic near Manchester, N. H., last
week, man, one of the party, was intoxicated
and became noisy, trying to disturb the party.
He was taken and tied to tree and kept there
until he became sober
The Pope gives audience to about hun
dred persons daily. At these audiences, to
which often persons half crazy with religious
excitement gain access, it is very seldom that
the Pope, even under the greatest provocation,
loses his temper. Sometimes, when visitor
proves too troublesome, Plus TX. rings the
bel, and says to the cdmeriere who enters the
room, stake this man into the fresh air. he
Is unwelr' .I
Having been greatly troubled by the un-
usual heat of the water, the fishes In the great
lakes are now experiencing the evils oil a sud-
den change. The cold has driven them in
shore and they are easily captured IN great
numbers by means Of nets and spears.