The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-23
VarietieS.

fashions Of dress among women more absurd
than those Of men. 1t thinks the fulness of
the French "panier" may cause remark, but
the tightness of the French trowser is equally
the subject of criticism.
Some of the practical philanthrOpists Of
Boston are moving in favor of a horticultural
school for girls and women, which shall do for
them, only in a more practical wey, what our
agricultural college proposes to do for young
men.
An English youth who thought his mother
ought not not to marry again, forbade the
bans as the clergyman read them for the sec
ond time in church. But mamma declined to
accept his view of the case, and the marriage
took place.
"A man was killed at St. Louis last week
by the bursting of grindstone, a piece of
which dashed him against a wall, and drove
him through it into the street.
AN acute observer has discovered that the
Grecian bend is not INDUCED in by ladies in
straitened circumstances
old residents in the Sandwich Islands say
they cannot remember SO long an interruption
of the trade winds as has been experienced
there for several months recently.
An ex-Supreme Judge of Austria has
been sent to prison for six years for forgery
and embezzlement.
"A stage.struck youth in New Orleans
practiced elocution so assiduously in his room
at boarding house that he was arrested and
committed as insane.
Hawthorne says it is "curious to imagine
what murmurings and discomfort would be
excited if any of the great so-called calani-
ties of human beings were ts be abolished
as, for instance, DEATH"
"A royal officer in Canada recently gave
evidence of his peculiarly English patriotism
by remarking, as he looked across the st
Lawrence at place where it is twenty. one
miles wide: "Ah, this reminds me of the
Thames"
An Austrian hair-dresser has made him
self an extraordinary tenor singer by cutting
his throat just enough and not tco much. II
is an unsafe method, however, OF developing
the voice.
The shrewd oues find something very sig
'hifeant in the news conveyed in a recent ca
BILE dispatch that the Duke of Aosta, the sec
ond son of Victor Emanuel, reuounces the
right of succession to the Italian throne in
favor of his sister, the Princess Clotilde, the
wife of Prince "Plonplon." They see in it in
dications that Napoleon plays the bold game
of utilizing for his own benefit the idea
Italian. unity, and that if his game succeeds
the Bonapartes will yet rule France, Italy,
Spain, and, of course, Portugal.
An Irishman, on hearing of friend hav-
ing stone coffin made for himself, exclaimed;
by me sowl, and that's good idee. Sure an
stone coffin 'ud last man a lifetime"
Snow has covered st. Petersburg and vi
cinity to depth OF twelve feet. Whole VIII
lagos are buried.
The Presbyterians are TO start college or
high school-they're the same thing cut West
at Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"A new invention has been brought out in
Paris, which should earn for its author the
gratitude of millions. 1t consists of an appa-
ratus which, applied to any piano, will desden
the sound emitted. There are few persons
who have not been sometimes distracted by
the practising of some too persevering player,
and who would have paid any price for such
"mute as that described"
-Velocipedes are pronounced a nuisance
whenever they appear in public places.
California is having dry winter, which
means a shors grain crop.
"A letter from San Francisco, speaking of
the richness of the White Pine mining district
in Nevada, says there is now in that city
middle-aged man who year since was at work
by the month as a mechanic, and not worth a
dollar. To-day he is worth at least 81 ,OOO,OC0
in hard coin, and his income from one mine
alone in White Pine is over 81, 500 per day.
He is investing his money in real estate, in
San Francisco. The other day friend was
joking him on the subject of marriage. re-
marking that he could now marry any young
lady in San Francisco, to which he replied:
swell knew gal out West who was willing
so marry me when hadn't cent, and now
I'm able, I'm going to marry her
1t is mentioned as a curious fact that Dar-
win has not instanced married men in his ex-
amples of variation produced by domestica-
ton"
-Auna Dickinson, in reply to the remark
that people call her "man- hater," demurely
says, that sit depends upon the man."
-"Shingle weddings" have been started in
Iowa. to be given by newly married couyles if
they have lived together happily for year.
Signs of summer-geese are flying north
ward, and the Boston Board of Aldermen has
appointed Fourth of July committee.
At private execution in England recently :,
the victim being woman who was iri Ihtenod
out of what wits she ever had by the terrors Of
her situation and who tainted when her arms
were pinoned, clergyman was permitted TO
add to the sufferers torments by importunate-
ly striving to extort a confession.
Mrs Stanton thinks that "womau SUFFRAGE
in 1872 would be as grand card for the Re
publican party as General Grant was in tho
last election" 1t is said the Republicans
made General Grant President not because
they thought him the most desirable man in
the nation for that office, but because they
feared the Democrats would take him if they
did not. She would suggest that there may
be some danger of the Democrats taking wo-
mans suffrage if the Republicans do not
The State geologist of Illinois says that theF1
is coal enough in single stratum underlying
Perry county alone to pay, at the rate OF 81
per ton, the entire national debt.