The Portland daily press., 1869-03-13
Varieties.

Queen Isabella is expected shortly to visit
Rome, and apartments are being prepared for
her reception al the Farnese Palace.
An Irishwoman was recently arraigned
before New Orleans magistrate for some ordi-
nary offence. While nature had munificently
endowed her with health and physical
strength, the question Of good Iooks had been
neglected in the haste with which she had
been prepared for the world. ~what are you
up here fOr?" inquired the magistrate. my
beauty, 1 reckon ''Your what7- "My
beautyl" "Are you certain Of tbat9" ~Ohi
bsdad, there's no mistaken ~Then Idiseharse
you-yOu ain't guilty." and the acquitted lady
took her departure.
Josh Billings says: "when young man
amt good for anything else, I Ike tew see hin
carry q gold-headed cane. II be can't bay
cane. let him part his hair in The middle"
--Blask coats" says q Paris paper. "ars
disappearing, women are wearing powder. and
now vs have . resuscitation Of sedan chairs
four of them have been seen in the cd Faa-
boark One vas observed al ths hofei Of the
Princess De Mssiernich. second a. that of
Nine. d Ia Rochsfoncaalt. Bisaccia, third 5f
The Princess d Ia Trsmsaills. and ths loafth
Of The Marquiss Dc Fanosnsa Up 10 this time
the chairs In question have enly hsen usea fas
going 10 eharch and for short norsisg visits.
A special toilet has been invsnisd for this ssrt
81 conveyance, essslsting - blark mantiil-
trimmed with EuipuFe, and the costuwe is
called . sorsis dssiis.-
"A nesly married pair In Ohio wsst ~
OAKLAND sa their bridal tour. shortly after
they bad retired % their room. strong smell
81 gas sent the night vatehman hunt,ng ior
the kak. It vas traced % the room Of The
uewly married pair. Demanding admission
and asking the cause of the escaping eas, tks
rural swain replied, pointing 10 the gas burner.
that he blew it out, and the darned thing
smelt 20 bad that he put his stocking over H."
Sure enough. there was the stocking drawn
over he burner and tied down with a shoe
string.
There has always been supposed to be an
intimate connection between wine and cour-
age. The London Court Journal says that
within the last two years, thirty-fve officers
have retired from the British army and enter
ed into the wine trade. Retired prize fighters
keep ale houses.
The Pail Mall Gazette notices at eonsid-
cradle length the introduction OF bill In Par
lament which marks a new era in the crimi-
nal iurisprudence of England. 1t proposes to
throw upon persons reasonably suspected of
crime the burden Of proving their innocence
The object of this is to enable the police TO
bring to justice the professional criminals.
The Transcript knows little four. year-old
who, having been taken on the water, was told
by his mother that they were now on the sea.
"Who will take Of us?" said he. "God will
take care of us, said his mother, 80 yes"
was the reply, she's one of them kind" The
same youngster could not understand how the
two little boys who had died before he was
born, could be his brothers. His mother ex-
planned that they were her children, and con-
sequently his brothers, though God had taken
them to live with them, before be was born.
He thought a moment. and then. as he sup
posed, having got clue TO the relationship,
exclaimed: 80 yes, fused to play aofh 'e"' up
there in HeaUen before came dorm.
Seven thousand eight hundred and TWEEN
tv charity hads for the lame and intirm are
maintained in Paris by penny tax on opera
tickets. 90 vota ara aV.
messing their opinion to that effect in the
pswsnansrs in various parts of the country
suob women ought to remember that on their
own theory it is highly improper lot 'noni 70
have any opinions
When pious English or Amerlcan onris
tians arrive in Paris, they ask; whicn Is tne
most improper play now running anu 'ney
go to see it. 80,
There is a proposition from Scotland to
have great celebration in the various lands
in which the English language is spoken and
read, en- the hundredth anniversary OF Sir
walter SCOTS birthday, viz, on August Is,
1871