The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-28
Varieties.

olive Logan tells of a suffering Southern
woman who "had not eaten bite for nearly
four years, and who had not slept a wink
since the first gun was fred on Sumter" who
received thirteen dollars from some charitable
ladies in New York, and immediately satisfied
her terrible cravings of hunger by the pur-
chase of point-lace collar at Stewards.
The ladies are all ordering Celadon dresses
and coral jewelry. Celadon is dull sea-green
"a mixture of pea-green and oraRge-some.
thing like the tint OF brown kittens eye in a
coal cellar. 1t is pretty color for those who
like it.
"A divorce was dispatched in a manner.
short, sharp and decisive, in tho supvtior
Court at Chicago one day last week. Mary A.
Howard brought bill charging desertion
against David A. Howard, who answered by
indorsing the truth of the statement, and with
in an hour the decree was copied and the
parties separated.
-G. A. Townsend thinks Millard Fillmore
remarkably handsome old man. Among the
specifications to this charge are these: that
his neck and shoulders are like those of a
champagne bottle, and that he "looks like
~~-> - NAN"A SASAiJJ HuACdJ iipcuiuSy WHICH
the country had tasted and put away for the
next generation"
Wmle country parson was preaching,
the chief of the parishioners, sitting near the
pulpit, was fast asleep; whereupon he said
Now, beloved friends, 1 am in a great strait;
for il speak too softly, those at the further
end of the chdrch cannot hear me, and if 1
tllk too loud shall wake the chief man of the
parish"
The cable gives suggestive hint of the
usual effect of precautionary police measures
In ireland. Noticing George Francis Trains
first lecture in Dublin, the dispatch says: at
was very thinly attended. There was no riot
ing, though measures had been taken by the
authorities for the preservation of the peace"
My dear" said rural wife to her hus-
band, on his return from town, what was the
sweetest thing you saw in bonnets in the
city?" THE ladies' faces, my love-"
An English Journal named The Bee, has
just been commenced in Florence. In addi-
tion to political news it contains artistic and
scientific information, and promises in future
to publish tales and rOmances. The Malone
gives its new contemporary a very friendly
greeting.
DIR. Mackay, the correspondent of the
London Times, who travelled in this country
ayear or two since, is lecturing in England on
his 1.-TWO Trips in America" In this lecture,
he says that Boston is pleasant city, "on
the high road from New York to Niagara
Fallsl"
The marble columns OF the building in
Philadelphia once used for the United States
bank are to be given away to be reeut into
soldiers monuments.
B. 2. Shillaber, Esq, who is afflicted with
the very unliterary disease, the gout, AYERS
that he inherited it from his wife's ancestors.
The request made by a well-known lady
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are requested not
to touch the fowers"-is matched by a society
story from Troy, New York. A lady of that
city prints in local paper an announcement
to the effect that her parlors have been made
unseemly by oily heads. Tue young gentle
men who have attended her receptions have
rested their heads against the wall, like Mr.
Jellyby; "the oil is taken off by the paper, and
the entire repapering of the room is frequent
ly necessary" Oiled and curled young men
will take warning.
The triumphs of Ristori in Havana have
been somewhat unprecedented. She was
called out seven times before the curtain one
night, which, considering the fact that an en-
core in Havana must be responded to only
with the consent of the authorities, is an un-
doubted triumph. Ristori's success and genius
have induced the Emperor of Brazil to invite
her to his country, engaging to pay all her ex-
penses, besides offering her handsome terms
for the season.
The auction sale OF the celebrated Demi-
doff collection of ancient and modern pictures
took place at the Hotel Drouot in Paris on the
4th inst. The collection was chosen by the
Prince, with the greatest taste, and with little
regard to cost. The sale called together such
wel-known amateurs as Rothschild, Pour
tales Duchatel, Pilfet and others, who were
among the bidders for the most costly pic
lures. The total sales of forty-four old pictures
including a number of drawings, amounted to
325O0O francs; 35 900 francs was the highest
price paid for any single picture
There are now published in the city of
New York fourteen morning papers-of which
two are French, two German and one a legal
organ; and seven evening papers-of which
one is German; making total of twenty-ons
daily journals.
What was recently said of a fsyorite
actress, any one might desire to have said Of
him OF her after shutting off this mortal coll.
"She is happy in leaving name that VIII
often be thought of win sigh, and that viii
never be mentioned without smile. 1t
is well when sorrow il for remembered sun
shine.