The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22
PERSONAL.

Hans Anderson has sufficiently recov-
cred his health and his eyesight to re.
sumo his literary labors.
Mr.. Billings, sometimes called Josh.
is about to celebrate his fifty-ffth birth.
day. As Artemus Ward said of Chaucer,
He has talent, but he can't SPELL
A bricklayer, recently deceased, in
London, was found to have the heaviest
brain on record. It weighed sixty-seven
ounces. The man could neither read nor
write.
Edwin Forrest offered Parton $4,000
If he would write his life. Mr.. Parton
declined. Doubtless he remembered
Mr.. Forests brutal assault on his bro
ther-in-law.
Carlotta Patti declines an offer of 800,
OOO gold, for ten concerts in Havana, on
account of her engagement with Max
Strakosch. After the present season she
will retire to private life.
Senator Sumner thinks that two gen.
eralizations might safely be made about
our countrymen, viz, that we eat more
oysters and do more hand-shaking than
all the rest of the world put together.
The Queen of Belgium has five train
ed horses, which are said to be the most
valuable animals of that kind in the
world. She has refused one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars for four of
them.
Concerning rings: a gentleman resid-
ing IN Portland, Maine, hasa ring con-
tanning hair of Washington, our Federal
parent, and Jefferson. The ring was
once possessed by Monroe, and subse-
quently by Pierce.
1t may interest our clerical readers in
the country to know at what figure the
Gospel is dispensed in Plymouth Church
Brooklyn: The salary of Mr. Beecher
IS $50, 900; Mr.. Halliday, $4,000; Mr.
Weld, first sexton, $500; Mr.. Raynor,
second sexton, $1200; music, $4,000; in
surance, $500; current expenses, $1,000,
Plymouth Library, 500. Total, S43, 800
Francis Joseph of Austria has done a
good thing. He offers a prize of five
thousand hcrins to the journalist who
Will write the best editorial on Austrian
affairs in the German language.
Said editorial is not to contain more
than one thousand words. 1t is imma-
terial what political party the writer be-
longs to. The Vienna papers think that
there will be several thousand competi-
tors for the prize.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest was one of those
who attended the funeral of her hus-
band. A reporter says when she arrived
at the house she moved nervously toward
the rear parlor, where the remains were
'Ihara hr,f
sons IN the room. Throwing aside her
veil, she stood for nearly ten minutes,
placed her hand upon his head, and fol-
lowed the arm down to the hand, which
she grasped for few minutes. Then
she gllded toward the foot of the coffin.
and plucked one or two flowers from the
cross which lay upon the dead mans
feet. She then moved rapidly to the
front parlor, where she was seated until
the coffin left the house.
An American adventures, giving her
name as Maria Graindorge, has been ar
rested IN Paris on the following charge
OF lmpudent and ingenious swindling:
She appeared, well dressed. and with a
very handsome baby in her arms. at the
houses OF wealthy Parisians, asking to
see the proprietor. As soon as she was
admitted to his presence, she would rush
at him, exclaiming, ''Traitorl wretch!
villain have l found you at last?" At
the same time, the handsome baby, hay
ing been trained for that purpose, would
extend its little arms to the astonished
gentleman, and cry, " Papa, dear papa!"
1t may be imagined that papa" prefer
red to give the swindler some money in
order to make her leave the house.
When she was arrested at her residence
IN the Rue Duvivier, no less than seven
trained babies were found in the house.
also nine or ten thousand francs in mon
ey Mdlle- Graindorge, upon being
closely pressed by the examining magis-
trate, confessed that her real name was
Oaks; that she was native of New York.
and that she had been before at the Saint
Lazare prison. The Paris Assizes found
her guilty, and she was sent for seven
years to New Caledonia.