The Portland daily press., 1873-02-13

How to turn peoples hcads-Comc into
concert late in thick boots.
Young ladies in Kansas sign pledge not
to marry any man who drinks the ardent.
T Tor sne had taught him by her silent talk
40 40 sread the safe-and dangerous ways to balk.
anu brought 1s his God with him. him with his God to
Inc rivers in the northern part of Maine
are frozen solid down to the bottom, and the
people are blasting for fish,-World.
A western paper speaks of Young lady
who has sued the city of Des Mones for
'side-walked arm"
For never resting time leads Summer On
10 hideous winter, and confounds him there
Bays checked with frost and usy leaves quite gone
Beauty o'ersnowed and baroness everywhere.
Shakespeare.
Colonel Forney offered to donate free Ii
brary to a Texas town. The citizens voted
to accept buckshot and shot guns instead, if
it was all the same to him.
As Valentines Day approaches the little
birds are already beginning to do an active
business in hops, in preparation for their
home brood.
The Atlantic Monthly is published in Lon
don simultaneously with its appearance in
this country. Both editions are printed in
this country.
Mrs. E. B. Washburne, wife of the Ameri-
can minister, has returned to Paris from
Nice, and resumes her receptions at the Le-
CATION Monday afternoons.
The antithesis OF him who ''died of a rose
in aromatic pain'' is furnished in the case of
Colorado youth who recently deceased from
the bite of a skunk.
Strauss anticipates making great deal of
money during the Vienna Exhibition next
Summer. He says the Yankees will be sure
to fill his concert hall every night
We are sorry Dixon isdead. Had he lived,
he might have made another charming dis
covery. He has just died in Maryland, and
his chiefearthly glory and honor was the dis
covery that oysters are eatable.
Mr.. Bellew, the English elocutionist, ac-
coIding to New York critics, had altogether
too much of the below when he read ssVital.
Spark with organ accompaniment and the
of tba An e
An old lady in Springfield, Ohio, who read
in the telegraph dispatches that the cholera
was ravaging Turkey, went to work and
slaughtered her entire flock of seventy tur-
keys, so as to get the start of cold Asiatic"
There is woman in Baltimore who locks
the house up, and, when her husband tries to
enter by the window, fires a pistol at him,
under the impression that he is burglar!
Of course she thinks SO.
A writer on physiognomy sagely says: ga
human face without a nose doesn't amount
to much," Whereupon another writer OBJ
serves that "a human nose without face
doesn't amount to much, either"
The Western youth amuses himself in the
'sdull waste and middle of the night" by
pasting 'Ismall pox" notices ON innocent
mems houses. The discovery of the little
game had very noisy effect on the Western
youth.
The Boston Aduertiser says: February is
sometimes called the German month, because
of the many German festivities by which it is
marked. There are commentators, however,
who suppose it is dedicated to the Germans
on account of there being bruary in it,
Angora cats, which used to be common
pets in the days of our grandmothers, are
said to be coming into fashion again. They
are valuable in proportion to the pure white
ness and the length of their silky hair, and
their purr is softer and more musical than
that of the ordinary cat.
Madame Demorest writes to the New York
Sun insisting that Madame Loyson, while
she was Mrs. Emile J. Meriman, was inter-
ested in the manufacture of corset and that
she Travelled in behalf of the same. And this
is the latest regarding controversy of tre-
mendous Importance.
An American found himself brought face
to face at Rome, last month, with an old
school-felow whom he had not seen for years.
"You here!" eyes, my dear fellow, 1 have
| just been married, and am come to pass the
honeymoon in Italy, Sand your wife ?''
"My wife? Oh, left her in New York;
| Henry Clay once accused John Randolph
of being an aristocrat. In voice whose
shrill, piercing tones penetrated every ear in
the House, Randolph exclaimed, eff man
is known by the company he keeps, the geu-
tleman who has just sat down is more of an
aristocrat than / claim to be; for he spends
most of his nights in the company of kings,
queens and knaves."
In letter to his friends at home, an intelli-
| gent foreigner states that "when great man
dies in the United States, the first thing done
is to propose fine statue in his honor; next,
to raise part of the necessary money; next to
forget to order any statue, and last, to Won
der what became of the money" The re-
mark show close observation and clear judg-
| ment. 1t4 ses
At Nice there is Russian who made many
millions of roubles by railway speculations.
lie refuses now to 60 into society, and re-
ceives at his house none but the persons
whom he knew in the happy old days when
he had not sou. To them he makes little
presents of a thousand or two thousand rou-
bles and SO on. He is an uneducated man,
but passionately fond of music, and his one
pleasure is to maintain an orchestra. He en-
/ cages by the year the best musicians he can
obtain. In the morning they take up their
| position at one end of the salon in his villa,
he sits down in his arm chair at the other end
/ and thev nlav tn him all day. This is luxury