The Portland daily press., 1868-10-15
arieties.

| ar1et1eS.
Mile. Clozelle, who played the leading fe-
male part with the elder Booth in New Or
leans in 1880, is still living in that city at tha
advanced age of seventy-two
twenty-five thousand Irish left Ireland
during the quarter ending June last.
| -Phiadelphia proposes to bridge the Della
ware with an arch 4, 400 feet long
| The Supreme Court of Michigan has issu-
ed a mandamus directing the regents Of the
State university to show why they do not obey
the law of 1856 requiring them to appoint a
professor of homeopathy.
"A Salt Lake paper concludes a marriage
notice: "The convivialities of the evening, we
are informed. were chaste and exhilarating."
| -"God save the Queen" was hissed in q
Quebec theatre the other evening.
| "A Paris fashion writer says that Mon
signor is the name of the full dress velvet man
tie for next winter. 1t is a full, long cloak be-
| hind, with pelerine ON which are satin bows
and plain mantle with square or round ends
| in front.
"A religious paper is announced in Mon
treal, entitled the "Ave Maria, to be published
in the interest of the Holy Virgin" A grand
mass in requiem and, certain number OF COM
munions will be given to persons subscribing
| twenty dollars
Madam" said an old gentleman to his
housekeeper, Gin primitive countries beet is
often legal tender; but" said he, emphatically
thrusting his fork into the steak, call the law
in Christendom could not make this beef ten
deI."
| "A portrait o. DR.. Guillotin, after whom
the gullOtine was named is announced for sale
in Paris. 1t was painted by Canot, pupil Of
| David.
| "A young American travelling in Belgium
passed night at the best hotel in one of its
| villages, and was only charged thirty cents for
supper, lodging ION an excellent, comfortable,
clean bed), and breakfast. At Spa, fashiona-
BILE watering-place one is well cared for at
$l75 per day, he says.
| The question OF woman's rights and
wrongs has recently been warmly debated at
succession of public meetings in Paris Mile.
Maxine Breuil achieved the great success of
these meetings. She was listened to and ap-
plauded; her speeches have been reprinted,
and have been reviewed by divers newspapers.
Mile. Breuil insisted that women have the
same rights, without exception, as men, but she
was not in hurry to see them invested with
the suffrage, fearing that, in France, at least,
they are not yet educated for it; and this is
the stinging way in which she addressed her
male auditors on the subject: 'Y ou have learn
ed yourselves, and at your own expense, what
is the cost OF handling, without previous in
struction, this dangerous weapon, for each
time it has exploded in your unskillful hands
| it has wounded your children and your best
| friends. Before you conffde it to women
and it will be your duty one day to do so-you
must enlighten them; and, in the meantime,
| you must continue TO bear alone the RESPONSE
bihty of the lamentabe incapacity of which
you have given proof hitherto. In presence
of this incapacity, and while bearing with you
the burden of its grievous results, We may
without temerity assert that women might
have done better, and there is great consola-
tion in thinking that at any rate they could
not have done worsel Be that as it may, their
moral atrophy (the result of prolonged state
of tutelage) renders them unfit to use their
civic rights; they must, therefore, abstain un-
til such time as they are better prepared.
Nevertheless, those rights are indefeasble."
Putting questions to audiences is some-
times hazardous. Thus Frank Blair, trying to
pass himself off as a champion of order, asked
the other day at Columbus, "Where are the
revolutionists?" Here we are, sir" shouted a
good Democrat from the crowd.
| The valuable library of the late Fitz-
| Greene Halleck was sold by auction in New
York this week.
| The surpliced choir of boys at Trinity
Chapel, New York, were invited to absent
themselves on Saturday, "for the sake of
peace" as certain delegates to the Episcopal
General Convention would not attend the re-
ligious services at the opening of the sessions
while the "boys in white" paraded and sung.
AS an inducement to the Democracy to
read Pendeton's speeches, the Cincinnati En-
quirer offers them at the rate of four for a
cent
"A sailor, exhorting at prayer-meeting in
London chapel, said that on dark, stormy
| nights, while on the sea, he had often been
greatly comforted by that beautiful passage in
Holy Writ, Faint heart never won fair lady"
Booth, the tragedian, had broken nose.
A lady once remarked to him: 81 like your
acting, Mr.. Booth, but to be frank with you, I
can't get over your nose!" "No wonder, mad
am" replied the tragedian, "the bridge is
goner'
One of the metropolitan journals narrates
relative to a "widow woman, elegantly attired
| in gross state of ofintoxication." This is equal
to the advertisement: ''Lost, an umbrella be-
longing to gentleman with curiously cary-
ed ivory head. Whoever returns it will be
literally rewarded with the thanks of this
owner"
AT Norwich, recently, after Sunday
school missionary had closed an appeal 10
congregation for five dollars, with which to
purchase a library that he might start school,
| o,d ,ybia all we're unmoved by his enthusi-
osr, n little girl arose and offered him her pet
I,nb which she said would bring the desired
amount. The sheep was sold and the books
bought. a kind gentleman hearing of the af-
fair redeemed the lamb and sent him back to
his little mistress.
"A venerable Freewill Baptist minister in
Virginia writes to the Morning Star, COM
planning thus of the injuries done by the YAM
kee vandals: 81 am now 6S years ould begun
in life with nothing-have been preaching 40
years raised family of IA Childring OF them
you killed in the ware-by hard labor had
got 13 negroes 10 of them working hands Just
got so coutd live comfortable now am Rob
ed of the whole is this rite; no conside rations
you may boast and Insult and puff to tho
world about the create worke you are doing in
shenandoa valley-but your day is coming
Asserian was used to inhict Sion and Jerusa-
Iem-pharao might be raised up to purseu the
childring of Israel but they had there day
A representative of the rural distric's
dropped into one of our city restaurants "o1
long since and ordered what he heard tne ma"
seated opposite him call for-"Appie dumping
both" Having managed to MAKE way "'s>
the sauce he was asked by tue ""''o, o., - Ho
: would "Have some more dumping, SUI. w.
w. t,,onl,ee . was the reply; "but will thank
, YOU for a little more of that ere intment'