The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-16
Varieties.

-Ine IOmanaWk gives some goOu auNlCe lo
those who are about to go to law-frst, ask
yourself this question: "Are you morally in
the right?" If the answer is "No," go to law
by all means, you'll be sure 10 win.
Lord Monck, late of Canada, told the
House of Lords the other day that the State
cripples the true life of a church Just as pro-
testion cripples trade.
-"How are you, handsomei" said one gen.
tleman to another in public place in Boston.
The person addressed looked inquiringly into
the face of speaker, an utter stranger, who
continued, "you are handsome, are you not?"
"Well," said the other smiling and rather puz-
zled to know what his interlocutOr was aim
ing at, "my friends tell me sometimes that 1
am not bad-looking." A hearty laugh follow
ed the explanatory answer-it was not hand
some man, but man by the name of Hanson
that was wanted.
"A case of domestic scandal was under
discussion at tea-table. "Well, let US think
the best of her we can" said an elderly gossip.
'Yes," said another, "and say the worst"
"A peddler in Connecticut sold his dog to
stranger for eight dollars, and lent him
piece of safety fuse to lead the animal home
by. By the bribe of dollar boy was induc-
ed to fire the fuse, and the peddler netted
seven dollars on his trade.
Earl Delawarr died in England, February
23d, after a long illness, in his seventy-sigth
year. At Harrow he was the schooliellow and
friend of Lord Byron, who addressed to him
two if not three OF the shorter poems in his
"Hours of Idleness."
Queen Victoria has another grandson.
The Princess Christian, an,-Princess Helena of
Great Britain,-is its mother.
"A man in Detroit has a snake in the
stomach which he can quiet only by drinking
large quantities OF whiskey. Queer, but that
kind of snake seems to be common.
"A foreign paper relates that when poor
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, arrived at
Korsoer, during her recent trip to Denmark,
the King and Queen, her parents, awaited her
at the landing. The poor lady seemed to have
grown twenty years older since she had left
Copenhagen in 1868, and her mother shed
tears as she saw her painfully and slowly
stepping on shore. Not word passed be-
tween her and her parents for several minutes
after she had embraced them, the Queen try
ing to restrain her tears, and the King holding
both the hands of his daughter in his own, aud
gazing tenderly at her. He then lifted her
into the carriage, handed the Queen inso it,
took his little grandson on his lap, and drove
away with them. The sympathy felt through
out Europe for this victim OF royal p-ohigate
is universal.
"A couple "of high social position in New
Orleans recently appeared at one of the
churches in that city and were married. AT
the close of the ceremony the husband inform
ed bis bride that they parted there, and that
she would never see his face again. He
walked off, she tainted, and there is mystery.
Mud is so tough and sticky on Missouri
roads that horses leave their hoofs along the
route.
Religious intelligence is under the head OF
Theological Hash" in the Chicago Times.
The London papers are excited over re-
port that the Prince of Wales will call on
Garibaldi on his way home. The general
opinion among them seems to be that such
eondsscsnsion would be improper and dan
gerous..
"A Houston genius ssws cows tails ON old
horse hides and thus converts the latter into
merchantable article
The .Broad Gauge Church" is the name
which Chicago paper applies to "a Free Re-
.lip;op,, society lately formed in that city.
-Tarring the front door of a rival establish
meut is the favorite manner of revenge among
a certain class of people in Cincinnati.
Count Platter, the celebrated Polish patri-
OF, has lately died in Paris.
There is in London a Museum of Econom-
ic Fish Culture, under the management of the
scientific naturalist, Buekland, which is
great object of attraction and interest. The
hatching troughs are filled with salmon and
trout raised from eggs brought from Scotland,
Sweden, Switzerland, the Rhine, and tAe
United States. The brook trout OF America
hitherto unknown in England, is about to be
introduced into that country as an exceeding
ly handsome fish, and one that gives good
sport with the rod.
The principal avenue in New York IS sup
posed to be corruption or eontractlon Oh
BROAD is the way"
A New York contemporary thinks 1t re-
markabls that the authorities there cannot
arrest for gambling any one of ia more mature
ace than boys ten to twelve years OF age.
"A little girl was very fondof preaching to
her dolls. Her mother heard her one day re-
proving one of them for being so wicked. "Oh,
you naughty, sinful child" she said, shaking
the waxen limbs, you'll go to the lake of fire
and birthstone, and you won't burn up-youll
Just sizzle"
In Paris and some other cities dealers In
jswelry made of materials that resemble goid
and silver, but are neither, are required to put
the word 0imi4ation' in such conspicuous
places in their windows and shopS 10 10 %
seen by all who enter, and that word IS seen
in some of the finest looking shops on the con-
tnept.