The Portland daily press., 1869-04-14

"A lady guest at . Paducah hotel =as tsrri-
bly, frightened, the other evening, By . negro
dropping through the ceiling into her apart
ment The landlord had been informed that
thieves were secreted In the house, and sent
one Of the negro walters to search the garrett
The darkey made misstep. and the plasteriDg
giving way, was precipitatsd into the lady's
room.
The last pensioner OF the revolutionary
war has died again. This time he was Daniel
Bakewell, Of New York State, aged III.
-Wh;ttier's poems sell better in France and
Germany than the works of any other Ameri-
can poet.
AN avalanche suddenly fell few days ago
on the Simplon road, near the Galsrie d
Faux Froides, and buried thirty italian work.
men coming from Dorno d'Ossola and their
two guides The latter and ten of the former
have not reappeared, only twenty having sue
ceeded in saving their lives.
1t was lately announced on posters to the
people of South London, that at a revival
meeting to be held in hail, certain convert
ed burglar would "break open the doors of hell
with gospel jimmy"
"A young man fell dead in the whirl of a
German waltz, at Chicago, last week. The
shrek of his partner, as the lifeless body drop-
ped dead on the crowded ball room ioor. was
the first warning the jewellers had that death
was among them.
The present English War Minister dis
sents from the hitherto universal opinion, that
veterans, or old soldiers, are more desirable
than new recruits. No inducements are TO be
hal mt for 20,
viii be preferred.
"A Trinity College (Dublinl man was talk
ing the ether day upon the small value attach
ed to life by uncivilizsd nations. Somebody
remarked that in China, IL a man were coa-
demned to death, he could easily hire a suhsti-
tute to die for him. "Ah, yes" said T. C. D.,
u believe mauy poor fellows get thar living
by being substitutes that way"
The Marquis de Carracoli, Embassador 10
England toward the end Of the last century.
was famous for his wit The Eng lish King ad-
mired him greatly, and knowing that he spoke
with great contempt Of the damp and mists
climate of the English capital, he chose ono Of
the finest days of summer to ask him IL he did
not think himself at Naples. "Ah, sire,'' he
replied, "the moon Of the King, my master, is
worth more than the sun Of your Majesty"
He used also to say that the only ripe fruit he
had ever eaten in London was baked apples.
"A very eulogistic obituary OF lady says:
''She was married twenty-four years, and in
all that time never once banged the door,
-Bierstadt has sold in London his great pic
ture, "a Storm in the Rocky Mountains" for
$4,000.
"A poetical New York barber, ambitious of
being considered an artist, advertises his shop
as Studio
king Victor Emmanuel cannot boast any
great scholarly attainments. He lately had to
confess that he did not know who Pliny was,
and thought that it was but four or Ave centu-
| ries since Herculaneum and Pompeii were
buried.
"A little girl at Keokuk, Iowa, was discov-
cred recently giving trapeze performances in
harm. before an admiring audience Of school
fellows. They had fitted up trapeze with an
old clothes-line and broomstick. The eleva-
ton was twenty feet The party was broken
| up before anything else was broken.
I'm 1859, the then Prince Regent, NO"
King of Prussia, said to one of his conhdants
that there was one member Of tbe FrussiS-
diplomatic corps who was, owing 70 ms is
less and domineering spirit, 50 dls.as' Ths
him that he hated the very sight OF .1a,,,.T n,n
unfortunate diplomatist of whom 49, :.
an.a-.a,-,o5 .,oh an unfavorabe opinion AZ
- no other than Otto Won 6is'
maIsk.