The Portland daily press., 1873-03-31

Full dress for an Apache bride Is an oyster
shell necklace.
2 Before you have digested grief advice
comes too early; too late, whom you have di-
gested it.-Bishop Hall.
Temporary insanity was the excuse Of a
man who said, the other day, that spring had
come.
A Kentucky man committed suicide recent
ly because he was so wicked. Remarks
about the frying-pan and the fire are now in
order. -e -
A Southern editor says that mint julsps are
coming, and they won't be crowded out by q
press of other matter, either
According to Missouri paper, there is
man in that State SO tall he has to get on his
knees to scratch his head.
OF all things in the world that are better
late than never" going TO bed certainly ranks
first.
s'The defects of individuals" writes Jeffer-
son, "teach us to place our hopes of the safe
ty and perpetuity of freedom on the whole
body of the people,"
For should not grave and learned Experience,
That looks with th, eyes Of all the world beside,
Go safer than deceit without q guide?
Which In the by-paths Of her diffdence
Crossing the ways OF Eight runs still more wide.
o-s Daniel.
literary curiosity, "The Poems of Mary
Queen of Scots" is in preparation. The
verses of this queen, collected from original
and obscure sources, will be prefaced with an
introduction by Mr.. Julian Sharman.
A Pekin (Il. woman was asked by the
preacher if her husband feared the Lord.
She replied: Fear hims Why, bless you, he
is so feared of him that he never goes out of
the house Oh Sunday without taking his gun
along"
Hats of cereal disposition, made of coarse
straw and bedecked with ears of wheat aud
other agricultural emblems, are already dis
played bythe wholesale dealers, ,foreshadowing
that rural simplicity is going to be fashiona-
BILE the coming summer.
This is the way the Iowa Code Commits
sioners declare the list Of exceptions from
execution: Fifty sheep, six stands of bees,
and the wool thereon The iovial farmer
will have "a hot" time trying to shear these
latter pets and will probably go home shorn.
Mr. Tweed is going to visit Albany. It is
earnestly to be hoped that none of Oakes
Ames's friends will be there to give him a re-
ception; but if they are let them not forget to
remark, with their usual fine simplicity, that
Mr.. Tweed Is one of Gods noblest works, an
honest man.
The village of Phepix, in Rhode Island,
has been the victim of disastrous fire; but
the name is sufficient evidence that all
damage will be speedily repaired. Let us re-
mark indeed, with that startling boldness for
which this paper is famous that Phoenix will
rise from its ashes.
The magazines now in course of publica-
tion in England, including the quarterly re-
views, number six hundred and thirty, of
which two hundred and fifty-three are of a
decidedly religious character, representing
the church of England, Wesleyans, Metho-
dists, Baptists, Independents, Roman Cath
olics and other Christian communities.
cunning impe and exc witless wighte
Is he that False Appearances has name.
That to deceipte ale menne doth stille invite
And soc for their untruthe they beare much blame;
For that they woulde have praise, they have but
scorne, 1 u
In that they woulde be beste their way is baddc,
For laurel that they woulde ON heade have worne,
For grief of shame, they must strew ashes saddle;
Soc welle is seene that hewho welle woulde shove
Not onlie welle must say, but welle must doe.
The poet tells us that about this season Of
the year young mans fancies lightly turn to
the thoughts of love. We take it that this is
true, and that young ladies are similarly at
fected. We are averaging now about three
pieces of original poetry a day. We approach
our diurnal pile of letters now with feeling
of sadness tinged with suicidal desires.
Medicated towels are the latest invention;
and we can conscientiously recommend them
whenever they are applied after thorough
bath. The inventor is a woman, and one, we
doubt not, who is intent upon putting money
in her purse not only, but who has long en-
joyed the joke Of the physician who prescrib-
ed for lazy man by putting medicine in his
axe-handle.
Sir Charles Dixie, the English radical, is on
ly thirty years of age, has an elegant house at
the West End, gives the best dinners to the
clever of Doth sexes, and is the proprietor Of
the Athen9uns. His book of travel, giving
his impressions of America from his tour
here in 1866. and entitled 'Greater Britain, !"
is the fairest work on America ever produced
by an EngIishman.
They do say that the natural bridge of Vir-
ginia is crumbling to pieces. We fear that,
in the process Of ages, our country may wear
away to very prosaic kind of continent
The noble forests are being ruthlessly moved
down,th natural bridge is crumbling to dust,
Niagara Falls is going to wear away in about
twenty centuries, ard we suspect the Mann
moth Cave will cave in, and the domes of the
Yosemite break into heap Of ruins. Let IN
ho fh N kfi11 that ua iuod ,rlu. A.