The Portland daily press., 1869-02-20
XRrietioR.

The New York papers state that one of
the murderers recently sentenced to death in
that city had so much political influence that
even the High Sheriff was recently induced to
become his baill
Two wives of Mormon Bishop lately got
into trouble about their children. Wife Mol
punished the children of wife No q Wife No.
became indignant and held wife No. while
her angry children returned the whipping
which they had received.
There are 289 prisoners in the Brooklyn
jail, Of whom 1856, or nearly half, are women
None are confined for worse offences than
arson, burglary, and for defrauding the gov
ernment.
Daniel Webster is on trial at Chicago for
oounterfeiting.
The World classes Mr.. Pratt, the new In
diana Senator among its slight weights" he
having fallen 100 pounds short of the weight at
which he was first estimated.
"A critic says that the bicycle velocipsde is
distinguished from the horse by the lease with
which it lies down."
"A statue in relief of the Emperor Napole-
on on the iaQade of the newly-erectsd portion
of the Tuileries, fronting the quay, has Just
scaffolding. An inscription underneath runs
thus: Napoleon Ill. Emperor. rebuilt from
1861 to 1858, in the Palace of the Tuileries, the
wing raised from 1907 to 1868 by Henry w.,
Louis XIII, and Louis XIV"
The Saturday RevieaO says; "Girls are cru
ell; there is no question about it. If more pas
sive than active, they are simply Indifferent to
the sufferings of others; if of more active
temperament, they find positive pleasure in
giving pain. A girl will say the most cruel
things to her dearest friend, and then laugh at
her because she cries. Even her own mother
she will hurt and humikate if she can." Of
course the writer of this article refers to his
oWn girls. What a family he must havel
Before the war there was not single
steamer running from any Southern port to
Europe NOW twelve lines and not less than
thirty-fve steamers are running regularly to
European ports from Southern cities. There
are also fifty-four steamships employed in the
Southern eoastwise trade-most of them to
Northern cities. These facts show that recon-
struction has made more than feeble start at
the South.
"A gentleman in Auburn, N Y, recently
dropped his wallet and seven hundred dollars
in the morning while going out of his yard.
His dog saw it drop in the snow and staid by
it all day, until the masters return home,
when the faithful animal attracted his atten-
ton and paved it from under the snow.
Sol Smith, who died the other day in St.
Louis, was connected with the stage for fafty
years, acquiring his sobriqust of "Old Sol" at
the age Of % from his success in personating
old men. Two of his sons are now on the stage,
Mark Smith and Sol Smith, Jr.
"A matrimonial agent in Illinois sued .
farmer for his fee for procuring husband for
his daughter, and procured ten bushels of corn.
Manageable young men seem to be worth
little in that section.
-GuiEot, in his "History of Representative
Government" well says: Liberties are moth
ing until they have become rights-positivs
| rights formally recognized and consecrated.
Rights. even when recognized, are nothing, so
long as they are not intrenched within guar
antees. And lastly, guarantees are nothing so
long as they are not maintained by forces in
dependent of them in the limit of their rights
Convert liberties into rights, surround rights
by guarantees, intrust the keeping of these
guarantees to forces capable of maintaining
them-such are the successive steps in the pro-
gress toward free government"
An irrevsrent paragraphist declares that
Chantrey's statue of Washington at the Bos-
ton State House Conveys to one who looks
upon it for the first time, the un@sthetic inn
preston that it represents a man getting up
in his night-shirt and attempting to light the
gas"
AT Winchester, N. H., recently, little
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Howard coasted over a bank twenty feet high,
into the Ashuelot river. She was fished out.
She was heard to say, while going over the
bank, that she was afraid she would "lose her
sled"
"A fellow in New Orleans escaped the ex.
pense of a"personal" advertisement by drop
ping in the mail letter directed thus - "To
the young lady who sat in Ithe first LETT hand
private box, at the Varieties Theatre, on Sat-
urday, Jan. SOth, and spoke to gentleman
in the parquette. New Orleans, La. If not
called for in one week. to be advertised"
The Live Giraffe is the title of newspa-
per in Raleigh, N. c., and man of the appro-
pirate name of Barnum edits it.
Charles Reade's new story is entitled Put
Yourself in HIS Place. 1t is to begin in the
March number Of the Galaxy.
The dread of highway robbers melted tive
young men of Cincinnati to shoot COW that
advanced upon them the other evening
The Paris Gaplois is under cloud, oeing
prohibited for sale on the streets because IL in-
sinuated that the Prince Imperial was not par
ticularly bright scholar
A Vienna gentleman previous 10 hanging
himself converted all his property into bonds
and burned it up, so as to keep his unpleasant
family ont of an Inheritance.
Angelina Podesta, an Italian lady one
hundred years of age, last week, at Cincinnati,
went to ball, and danced from P. NJ to5A.
M. The old lady was among the first on the
floor and the last to leave it. participating in
almost every dance.
The other day, in private company says
an English paper, medical gentleman anus
his friends by lighting candles with his breath
as fast as they put them out. A cigar which
was very nearly out being presented to him.
he breathed upon it, and it hared up into
flame. He subsequently let out MS secret,
which was that a short time before he had
been inhaling oxygen gas