The Portland daily press., 1868-05-14
VarietieS.

The famous Rowland will case has lust
assumed new aspect b. the reported death
of the complainant, Mrs. Edward FL. Green
nee Miss Hettie II. Robinson, in Paris, from
fever incident to childbirth. 1t is said that
her offspring is living, and if he or she lives to
attain the age of twenty-one years an enor-
nous fortune will be in waiting Should this
cuse be decided in Mrs Green's favor, it would
make her fortune equal to $S,5OO,0OO AS
money at interest doubles every ten years or
SO, this infant, il it lives to be twenty-one
years of age, will be worth about s35 ,OO0 900.
Mrs. Green is said by lawyers to have been
perfect monomaniac in regard to money get
ting, and was, in fact, insane upon the subject.
She kept but one servant, and lived much the
same as Thackeray makes Sir Pitt Crawley in
Vanity Fair" The case in court is finished,
but the decision has not been given.
Jacob Barker, aged 90, hopes to resume
business in few years. 1t will probably be
in another and better world.
Echoes from the Clubs says it would
scarcely wonder were the lightning to shiver
the sceptre in Britannias grasp"
A confidence woman in Cincinnati has
been outraging the feelings of the mayor of
that city by representing herself as his wife.
English critics differ as widely as our own
in their estimate OF Walt whitman. Carlyle
elegantly likens him to a"buffalo useful in
fertiiizing the SOIL but mistaken in supposing
that his contributions of that sort are matters
which the world desires to contemplate close
ly." The London Atheneum quotes freely
from Whtman's poem "a Word out OF the
Sea-" and says: "Ofthe sublimated passion
| and sweetness of the above, of the minuteness
| with which the most delicate transitions of
feeling are caught, and Of the grand yet mel
ancnoy suggestiveness which sets the whole
| picture, as it were, in frame OF sad sunset
glory, we can hardly speak in terms OF praise
100 high. That Whitman can write noble po-
etry, this one example couclusively testihes."
"A Paris correspondent describes a robe
made for a ball at the Grand Hotel: "It Ia
! white tulle, worked with Persian lilac In the
natural tints. The clusters are performed in
floss silk and form a founce round the bottom.
The under fabric is almost invisible, so that
the flowers appear to hang on air. There is
no trimming beyond two lilac branches work.
| ed behind instead of sash ends, and in the
| place thereof the green leaves tower up to the
| waist, from which they seem suspended also.
| The bodice is Persian lilac satin under white
tulle futing, in which artificial lilac blossoms
taper to the shoulders. where spray curls
around the armlet instead of sleeve. Frost.
ed lilac leaves are to be worn in the puffs on
the hair.
Wheat prospects are very fattering in
| western Missouri and Kansas. Oats are look
ing finely, and there will be an extra amount
| of land sown. Corn is backward, owing to
the cool weather, but the farmers are strain
| ing every point to get in as much as possible.
In California and Nevada the grain and hay
| crops promise an unequaled yield this year.
! An English paper gives this paragraph to
show how corruptions of language creep into
! use: "When King Edward, with iron-gloyed
bsnds, he'd up his newborn son before the
wild sud warning chieftains at Carnarven Cas-
tie, he said to them, not Ich Diem, 4 serve,
v uhich is "A later Transformation of the Princes
motto but Eich Dyn which, in the tongue of
the Cymry means This is your man." This
| is nut for the curious IL such matters to
crack.
| An impatient couple in Chestcr6eld coun.
ty, Va, were married in q buggy few days
ago. The affianced bride made a journey to
L
Richmond to select the wedding trousseau.
When she returned by rail she was met by
her lover with a top buggy to carry her nome.
On the road they met the pastor OF their
church, and as the license had siready Deen
obtained, the eager bridegroom INSISTED upon
the ceremony being performed at oncs-the
preacber on horseback and they in she carriage
with n farmer and his wife who happened to
be passing as witnesses.
The London Spectator says thss Sir Rob-
srt Napier in his Aby,siniau eseeditios, COM
nelled "a lofty African descrs tn ysid psser BY
an American device not twelve ncesN old. .
A half dozen mules, it SAYS ''ss. drs~s up,
loaded with thin steel tNces. S-e. 80 ep,
goes hammer. rissed NJ in Gee - sasss. ara
in ten the curse OF Africs hss hes" soaessrsd
as if new Moses hsd sraitisn tss 'ocs. sra
pure water for an army % 'ros. sn'sS tss
stones" So it seems thas Ass-cs - sayoa
the mart of Nose. for sn nae Oh a'n,
Lovers of .tripsed instrussns . ess'
To hear that the violincello OF sers NsSnih'
an Robrer. the rsno~ned GsnSr Plays, WEI
.old recently Ct Stuttgart, to an amateur a
Frankfort, for a,oOo francs.