The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-06-09
Miscellaneous Items.

h Advice by writer in the Paris Journal Amusant-
IF lady says to you can never love you,' wait
little longer all hope is not lost But if she says
one has more sincere wishes for your happiness tina
l. take your hat
The most impairment joke current in the newspaper
is this It has been suggested that the inventor
crinoiEe did more to enlarge the sphere of woman tina
any reformer of this or of earlier ages
The Richmond Enquirer says it is the last ostric
feather that breaks the husbands back
If you are truly benevolent and charitable perhap
you will when you neighbor in distress, ask som
other neighbor to help him.
Years ago Pennsylvania farmer stabbed his youn
wife in fit of drunken insanity and fled to the West
supposing hmselfa murderer. The woman recovered
and after FIVE years solitary life, married again. He
/ second husband died in few months, and she ais
went West. There she met prosperous and wealth
merchant, wooed and welded; and upon disrob
| ing in the bridal chamber the bridegroom saw upoI
her neck the of the wound he himself had made
and recognised his wife of years before.
| English publishers sometimes bargain with authors
to pay certain sum for copyright and e100 more
if the book should be reviewed in the Times. The yer
dict of the review is not taken into account 1t il
stated that scarcely one in thousand of the books
sent to the paper is mentioned in its columns in any
way
The Cincinnati Commercial speaks of Solomon as
an individual with whom wisdom specially"
brother editor tells when he was in prison for
libelling Justice of the Peace, he requested BY
the jailor to give the prison puff.
The men who will never die are the man who voted
for Washington !; the who first nominated Grant ;
the eldest Precursor the last soldier of the Revou-
ton Jeffersons body servant the oldest American
actor and the who originated the idea of the Pa
cfc railway.
knowledge is a companion which no fortune can de-
n,1;,
ensave. At home friend-abroad an Introduction
in solitude solace-and in society an ornament
A 500, 900 diamond has been found at the Cape Of
Good Hope The native who picked up sold it for 500
sheep, 10 oxen, and horse.
A new piece was recently produced at one of the
minor theatres III London which so atroeious that
when live donkey was introduced the house re.
sounded with cries of Author! author !"
The Picayune has been luxuriating in figs. Was the
basket accompanied by note written after this fashion:
4" a fig for the Picayune"
contemporary says of an eloquent preacher: "Dur-
ing the sermon be paid high tribute to the character
of Christi
THE LAST RAGE-The portrait painters Of Paris now
represent the ladies' whose likeness they have to paint
in the attitudes and costume of certain NEUROLOGICAL
characters painted BY famous masters 1t is strange
but true, that Leda portraits are most in demand
among the fashionable ladies of the French capital
Leda portraits limitations Of Correggios famous
g Leda and the Swan" The women sitting to paint
ers for these kind of portraits lie in paris aatai6us
on divan, separated from the painters by screen,
but surrounded by mirrors in such manner that the
painter sees their image before him. Michael An
gelo's " Leda is also in demand for this purpose.
ADVENTURES OF A BIGAMrsr.-The London CORE
'pondent of the New York Times in his letter of
April II, says
Perhaps you may remember that Sir Eardley c. |
Eardley was convicted not long ago of bigamy and
sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment. One of
The ladies whom he beguiled into false marriage was
IN American am sorry to say that the rascal has
released from prison by order of the Home Secre
AIRY, of course long before the expiration Of his SEN
ence 1t is scandaous business, and the Pail Mall
Iazette has done good service in calling attention to it.
sir Eardley T. Eardley was, it appears pning in prs-
,n-poor injured innocent! 1t was necessary that he
mould 60 abroad in order that he should preserve his
precious health and have another opportunity of rem
erng himself eligible for transportation His failing
eaitb however, might not alone have procured bis
eease from prison. but he happens to be relative
# the present First Lord of the Admiralty Mr. Child
rs, one of Mr. Gladstone's principal colleagues The
screw was applied to another member of the Min
stry, and the felon let loose again upon society,"
ou complain of the facility with which criminals are
lowed to evade justice in New York, but | DEFY
There was no circumstance in Sir Eardley c. card.
eys case which entitled him to mercy-he was as de-
lberate bigamis lived, and as the Pail Mall
ruly says his sentence regarded as light one
y those who followed the details of the case, and es-
eclally by those who believed that on that occasion
If Eardley was not tried for his first offence" There
no knowing how many women this villain had en-
raped Yet, because he is the relative of Cabinet
what other is there ?-he is lber-
ted from prison when less than three months of his
entence had expired.
The man is now showing himaelf off all round Lon
on and had the mpudence, the other day. to present
mself to aclub He seems to be far from having any
ltention of going abroad. "Of course" as the Pail
all suggests, 1T may be that the interesting criminal
only waiting to redeem his promise of departure till
e is married again." There will, trust be some in
liry made into this objectionable exercise of official
emency The case can never be allowed to rest
here it is.