The Portland daily press., 1869-03-23

"A game of "poker," in which the stakes
amounted to $40, 900, has just been played at
White Pine. The game lasted three days.
The st. Paul Pioneer speaks Of drunken
man as having been found on the street,
with limbs of ungovernable fexiDility."
They mix things in Cincinnati. One Of
the local papers has what it calls stale of
tar, eggs, love and jealousy"
-Murska, the prima-donna, is described as
having 'blonde hair with greenish tinge.
Lord Lyons and the Prinsesse dc Meter
mich dispute the palm for the neatess pris''e
carriage in Paris.
The clever story of ''The p>ags oiuo'
which appeared in Harper, magazine TWO
wears aoo is TO he publisb< IN book form.
A professional nu,> >ein provincial town
= u.osoo ~. ~ convicted Of drowning
a;nht hah;as .,(initted to her charge, in
pail of w,>
hoo has fled Paris to escape his creditors
Id brought up at Havre, where he has plac-
arded the streets with manifestos, reading
"Men of Havrel the author of Monte Christie
is among you. Come and see him." When
they come he sells them his autograph.
Professor TyndaIl is celebrated Alpine
tourist, and has visited the Alps every year.
He has found among them, he says, refuge
and recovery from the work and the worry,
which acts with far deadlier corrosion on the
brain than real work. of London.
The authorities of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
are taking praiseworthy steps for the destrue-
ton of the gophsrs that infest that section Of
country. They offer twelve and a half cents
for each one "kilt," provided that "the tails
be decapitated and presented Tor redemption,
That ought to bring them.
| A Wisconsin preacher, who 10 sharp and
shrewd at a bargain as he is prompt to attend
| to the spiritual requirements of those In al
Fiction, was recently called to attend funer-
cal, and on returning home remarked, with no
small satisfaction, that he had improved the
time by making fifteen dollars in wood trade
while the mourners were viewing the corpse
A certain Western merchant, being un-
able to live as comfortably as te desired and
at the same time pay his debts, failed several
times in business, and made assignments Of
his property. Not long since this merchant
prince died. Among those who had cause to
remember him was Mr.. B., who, meeting
one of his neighbors, was informed that
Uncle C--was called, was dead-had posd
the debt of nature SIS that so?" replied D.;
"why in thunder didn't he make an assign
ment?'
John G.. SAKE is responsible for thsioiio"-
ing paraphrase from Martial:
Your nose and eyes your father gave you say ,hsv
Your mouth your grandsire; and your iHV'"''
w.. 49, tall ma now. pray,
Where in the name Of heaven, you got y'~'
cheek?
The announcement that Woods Museum
wifi hereafter contain no more "living cur'Os.-
ties sends a pang to the heart Of Dl'sHo'''
who was rapidly fitting himself for an engage
ment as the champion fat boy.
German Professor MARITIME, reVlew'ns
Gladstone's Homer" says that the freulst
classical knowledge is as inpe'ie''
anxiety to display it Is great
Dickens is going to give morning
re aiding" at the request of the actors Of Lon
don, whose professional engagements pre-
clude their hearing him in the evening.
Anthony Trollope's industry Is amazing
The greater part of his writing is done os'wsen
and o'clockin the morning. be mas suese
frequently at his house who enjoy ns
and are not particularly struck oy .ne I
which he leaves them for the night ., ou 80
are strangers. they are astonished inassa "
And at breakfast the following morning .A"
their host has been up ioui
| written more than dozen P"s