The Portland daily press., 1868-12-14
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I'm Saxony new criminal code has been
| published, in which great humanity is shown
in regard to the punishment of O lines.
MIR. Lewis Gaylord Cllrk met with a ss-
rious accident at his house in Piesmout last
week. He was going down stairs to dinner,
when his foot caught in the stair carpet, and
he fell to the bottom Of the stairs, distance
of about thirty feet. He was taken up sense
less and has, with brief intervals. continued
| so. His physician doubts the possibility Of re-
covery.
A distinguished visitor once entered the
counting room of Rothschild, who was very
much engaged. Without looking up be said,
"Take a chair and be seated" The gentle man
addressed feeling ag2rieved at such a reception,
remarked, "You did not perhaps hear my
name. ] am the Count" "Oh, yes" re-
piled the banker, "take two chairs if you
please"
There is a common notion that frequent
cutting of the hair is favorable to its growth.
This is an error. The most beautiful and
abounding heads of hair 1 ever saw" says DR..
Cazenave, "were those which the sci, sors | I'D
never touched. Mothers not satsf, d with
trimming the hair of their children, often have
1t shaved or cut it close to the scalp, when they
find it losing some OF its brilhancy or falling
out. Except in the rare case of disease. the
total sacrifice of the hair is unnecessary, and
the second gro With is never equal TO the first.
Getting the hair trimmed from time TO time
may be allowed as a matter Of coDveniel ce,
but it does not produce the benefit generally
attributed to it,"
-"I fear must begin to feel old" said Au-
Der when he heard OF Rossini's death.
The Grecan bend gees by the name Of
"the camel" In Paris.
There is a young Russian in Cornell Uni
yer.ity who speaks fuently English, French
and German, besides his mother tongue.
"A proof-readers' society in Boston calls
itself tie blouse Of Correction"
Punch has this conundrum. When does
a he like beer? When she has little brood.
The following epiiaph in Pennsylvania
churchyard toucbingly commemorates tie
.gluttony of q husband and the grief Of his
widow:
"Eliza, Borrowing, rears this marble slab
To her dear John, who died OF eating erab!"
The iucendary fires in Poland, which
have been so frequent of late, have III no de-
gree diminished in number. Tho Rus ,iaus
canr OF be driven out, bu the Poles are ener-
gelicaly trying to burn them out. MuscOvi,es
who have settled in Poland suffer from h.e
almost daily.
1t is stated that the Freshman Class oi the
Cornell University il already the largest ever
admitted into any American coiege'
A.. It'll was greeted dnriDg recent Wis
:. Az. Liverpool Exchange with hcorinss
..J cries of "what about the Alabama?"
DIR Bellows has an interesting litter in
the Evening Post on the struggle in Crete. -
He says that Turkey has announced hirty-tEo
times that the rebellion was ended, and the
last announcement is no better iounds1 than
the first. He speaks with enthusiasts OF :he
heroism of the Cretans. and says, "The Chris
,iau people of the world are traitors to their
faith, if they do not give their prayers, their
sympathies and their support to the efforts Of
the Cretans to maintain their Christian creed,
their Christian churches, schools and ciyIliza-
tiop in the face Of Turkish heathenitm."
AT Stettin the imports oi petroleum ffcm
the United States have largely increased this
year. That port is the most important for the
importation of petroleum on the Baltic Seal
1876 vessels have arrived there this year, loaded
with oil and the merchants there are stll un'
able to nil their orders, but draw large guam
titles from Bremen.
There is a negro woman on Long Islard
1os wears old, and the tough story is added
that, from extreme age, her skuil mas oe'ome
softened SO that her head appears 70 We CUT
mass of pulp. ply seian stating that he con
squeeze it with his hand the same as be ~ooIa
piece of sponge. We know any nun Dr St o.
people, not near a century 'ld' whose heads
are nearly as sefs as thiA