The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-18
Varieties.

-AprOpos OF the dispute as to whether the
word "its" is or is not in the Bible, a CORES.
pondent writes that he has in his possession an
old BLACK letter" Bible, Imprinted at Lon
don by Robert Banker, Printer to the Kings
most excellent Majestic, 16O5,' in which the
seventh verse of the third chapter of Genesis
reads thus: "Then the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked,
and they sewed fgge tree leaves together and
made themselves breeches"
One Mr.. Thomas jackson Marks has late
ly brought suit in the Court OF Queens Bench,
Dublin, against Mrs. Rowland, formerly Miss
Smith, for breach of promise of marriage, lay
ing his damages at $4,000. Plaintiff was a
farmer in British Columbia, had been engaged
four years. In 1867 he sold his farm and went
home to get married, but the tickle lady had
changed her mind and was no longer Miss
Smith. 1t was alleged that the plaintiff dis
posed of his farm and left Columbia only be.
cause he expected to marry the defendant
The jury found verdict for plautiff-dam-
ages two hundred pounds
Among queer wills may be named that Of
Sir Joseph Jekyll, who lett his fortune 10 pay
the English national debt. When Lord Mans
field heard of this he said: "Sir Joseph was
very good man and good lawyer but his be-
qnest was very foolish one; he might as we'll
have attempted to stop the middle arch OF
Blackfriar's bridge with his full-bottomed
wig" Lord Pembroke gave nothing to Lord
Say, which legacy L give Linn because know
he will bestVw it on the poor" and then, after
giving equally peculiar legacies, he finished
with: "Item-I give up the ghost"
Travelling in Norway is cheap. A trav-
eller writes: SAT some of the stations we were
charged for two persons four marks (eighty-
eight cents gold) for supper, beds and break
fast. A horse and carriage hired from station
to station cost about thirty-eight cents gold a
Norwegian mile, which is seven English miles.
On the steamers man and his wife travel at
fare and half"
MIR. Howard Paul, who is now in Paris,
has offered NJ. Offenbach 25,0Q0 francs (s5000)
to write the music to a sequel to the Grand
Duchess" under the title Of "The Grand
Duchess more Married than Settled" and NJ
| Ohenbach has the proposal under considera-
tion. Mr.. Pauls suggestion is that the viva
cious duchess should marry Prince Paul and
henpeck him; that a blacksmith should be
sent for to put straight the twisted sabre de
mon pere, and that legend of the celebrated
sabre should be given.
"A Texas editor, ON being asked how he got
along with his paper, said he had written one
editorial and shot three men in The previous
twelve months.
"A Chicago paper says The Chicago Gem
mon Council have indefinitely postponed, by
an almost unanimous vote, the ridiculous
fn . fI,a Ill a
State street to the borrowed plellation OF
Broadway in imitation OF an eastern frontier
city"
Here is receipt for cocoanut pudding for
which all our lady readers who try 1t will
| thank us: Pare the dark rind from one cocoa
nut and CRATE tie meat. Break into bowl
| six eggs. adding heavy tablespoonful of sugar
for each egg. When very light pour IN pint
of cream or milk and stir in the cocoanut. Melt
a teacup half full of butter and add to it, with
small portion of soda. Put puif-paste into
your dish, and fill with the mixture
What should clergyman preach about?
About quarter of an hour.
The mitten that never fits-the one YOU
get from lady.
The latest case OF absence Of mind Is that
of a careful gentleman whom an acquaintance
found marking his paper collars with iudelli.
BILE ink. The visitor made no remark until the
job was finished, when he inquired, in o sepul.
chral voice, But will they wash?" This
woke up the dreamer to worldly things, and
he was greatly embarrassed when he found
himself the victim of self-imposed sell"
In one of DR.. Letheby 5 lectures it is stat.
ed that the following practices are great aids
to digestion; First. Proper selection OF food,
according to the taste and digestive power cf
the Individual. Second. Proper treatment of
it, as regards cooking, havoring and serving
it. Third. Proper variations OF 1t, both to It's
nature and treatment, SO that the appetite
may not fail. Fourth. Exercise, warmth, and
genial disposition. How many Of our in
valids who complain Of injured digestive Or
gans can place the source of their disease in u
neglect of some or all Of these simple prsoau-
! tions!