The Portland daily press., 1872-12-30

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The chapeau Rubens is said to be the fa-
vorite style for ladies' hats
i An Indianapolis writer is firm in the belief
that Rubinstein has but few equals on the
lecture platform.
Elijah Somers,a colored Marylander, is
credited with one hundred and fifteen win
ters. Smokes and drinks.
| 1t is said that Lucy Stone will not lecture
this winter. Her little boy is only four weeks
old
The Norristown Herald man speaks of
cell in the Montgomery county prison as pre-
senting to his view '.quite cheerful home
| like look
You see thai Thurlow Weed has given up
smoking, my son." remarked gentleman to
his son. 'Well, Imean to do the same" re-
piled hopeful, ''when reach his age' The
boy had read the newspapers
An Iowa schoolboy recently killed his IA
ther for telling him to behave himself, and
the average jurymau can't make up his mind
whether the provoeation was sufficient to
constitute justifable homicide or whether
there was insanity prepense.
Hugh s. Brown, an English reverend, has
just finished tour of observation through
the United States, and the result of it is that
he now thinks we are taller, soberer, leaner.
more affable and fonder of finery than his
countrymen.
Springfield, Mass, talks of put inc the num-
bers on its houses in the usual arithmetical
succession; which the conservatives oppose
as being new-fangled innovation on the
time-honored custom of letting each house
holder put up any number he likes.
''You should live within your income,"
said harsh oil capitalist to clerk who
asked for an advance of wag s. SITS easy
enous b to live within an income" modestly
replied the clerk, 'but what should like to
know is, how fellow is to live without
one.
The New Y ,rk clergymen are going 70 pa-
tition the Legislature not to allow newspaper
reporters to witness and report executions.
They think it barbarous, and believe it leads
to further crime. Why not lay the ak at .he
root of the tree and abolish this thing which
is too bad to describep
| Somebody writing in the London Globe
talks about the ''unpopularity of women"
He declares that there are more bachelor.
| than there used to be; that women have lost
the charms of patience, modesty, unselfish-
ness and tenderness, and that consequently
''old maids are swarming everywhere and
| making the earth hard and dreary desert.
Seal-skn has latterly become so fashiona-
BILE, and the garments made of it are so beau
tlful and serviceable, that should its popu-
larity continue, the increasing slaughter OF
seals will produce scarcity of fur. Reason
ing from these premises, an astute Yankee
has under taken to b.eed seals for the market.
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easily tamed;a seal pond would be vastly
more profitable than a trout pond.
The Louisville city council has passed an
ordinance in reference to small poA, that,
whenever any policeman finds patient on
the street, it shall be his duty to take him or
her o the pest house. The policemen are
] f1u Of
good looking, and they do solemnly affirm
that they will behold the city council, one
and all, sweltering amid the thermal discom-
forts ofAvernus before they will thus invite
contagion, and then they won't.
A New Orleans man saw the figures of a
man and woman in disguise sneaking out of
his back yard, the other night, and, suppos-
ing the woman to be his wife, followed the
pair till they brought up at a masquerade
ball. He thought to confound them in their
meditations, and struck the gentleman a
heavy blow and tore the mask from the wo-
mans face; when he found himself confront
ed by his maid-of-all-work and her athletic
Hibernian cavalier. His injuries were seri-
Gus, but not fatal.
A Paris correspondent argues that mar
ried woman on the stage exercises less mag
netsm over an audience than single woman
does, that the fact that she belongs to an
other, that the brightest glances, sweetest
dimples and most musical tones are for him
unconsciously diminishes her influence; ant
states in illustration that there were offere,
in aris what were called Christine Nilsson
watches, which had great sale, but whel
she took husband their demand so sensib
diminished that the proprietor changed thei
name.
GFrom the Danbury News.l
A little Danbury girl told a visitor that he
grandmother chewed tobacco with her nose
T. A Danburf youth carries one Of his girl
teeth as fond RENE ubrancer. When he j
married he can have all her Jaw.
Eight yards of tippet wound about on
yarl of boy, tumbled off White street bridg
this morning, but we're not hurt.
A Brookfie'd gi dares not use her father
paper to make up / er "bay window with
because there is so much due on it,
An anxious gentleman bargaining for
rent from old McMasters, Monday, asked hir
if the 'use was cold. "Well,' said the oil
gentleman aui,usy, II can't say as 10 that
it tands out DOORS"
rural gentleman standing over registe
in one of our stores attract ted general atten
tion to himself by observing to his wife, ''Ms
riar, guess I'm agoin' to have fever. I fe,
such hot streaks a runnin' up my Iegs.''
j. NJ. Ives returned Friday night from
three weeks effort to kill ducks in Mort
Carolina. He could have killed hem her
just as well, perhaps, but he went to a sec
tion less porulous, and his prudence is to b
commended.
The remarks relatives and friends who a
tend a funeral make upon the merits of tn
deceased, are frequently instructive. At th
funeral Of an ancient resident of Slawsons
Saturday, neighbor feelingly observed tina
the departed wouldn't rare and cuss abor
taxes any more"
The sleighinS never was and never can
! bpttpr than IL was Saturdou afforpoon NJ;