The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-20

Continual cold feet are cause of divorce
in Indiana.
Etruscan cloth is a new dress material
woven from linen thread
Is it not in philosophy as in love? The
more we have of it and the less we talk about
it the better.
Brides now have their robes made OF two
different materials, the back OF satin and the
front of velvet. French, they say.
An absent-minded man who went for a
square meal was absurd enough to call for
three rounds of toast.
San Francisco restaurant-keeper has got
himself into disgrace just by being detected
In serving up gulls as quail on toast.
The GAINESVILLE Courier claims that that city
has more youngsters in training for the posi-
tion of "Bones" in minstrel troupes. than
any other place on the continent.
The new hotel at st. Louis, built on the
site OF the Lindell, will be known as the
Ames House, having been ''placed where it
would do most good."- Chicago Times.
When Brigham Youngs children sing
eFather, dear father, come home," the effect
is said to be wonderful. The old man comes
home without delay.
Floating down the sea of matrimony, by
tho I0ht of tho ;s +I,a xyo,, , o;t "a,
editor touchingly alludes to the marriage of
his son.
Vermont forgets all the hardships of the
past winter in jubilation over its maple sugar
season, and cheerfully asks, what's the odds
so long as it's sappyP
The Boston Watchinan says that many sor-
rowing, s. sympathetic Christians are following
Colfax and Patterson. This is the first public
announce nent of the formation of the funer-
al procession.
"Do you like Browning2'' asked reading
man of young lady whom he had taken
down to dinner. The fair creature by his
side twho was no bookworm) answered,
"Yes--that is, like cracking"
Women in Martinsbnrg, Ind, carry a lit
tie hatchet when they go out in the evening,
not to show that they cannot tell a lie, but
for the benefit of scamps who speak to them
without an introduction.
The latest novelty in skirt trimmings is the
"circle founce," which, being cut bias in a
circle shape, has no fulness at the top, but
hangs full at the bottom like a circle cape
1t is necessary to have pattern to cut
this founce.
1t is curious fact, remarks an exchange,
that the early English kings used to lie in
state after death. It is even more curious
than the fact that later Christian statesmen
can't wait until death, but lie in Congress,
and out of it, upol the slightest provoca-
ton.
) There are evidences of growing civliza-
ton in Texas. Her towns are beginning to
enjoy the excitements of the Oldest and best
established cities Of the Atlantic coast. A
banker in Denison lately absconded with all
The deposits on hand, amounting to nearly
$1,000 and yet the people are not content
ed or happy.
Mr.. Wright johnson, a venerable gentle
man of six years, and Miss Bertha Sykes,
whose locks had been thinned and sill
vered by the 1ighi of five years, arrived by
r. ilway in st Louis, recently, having fed
from the tyranny of their parents in st.
Charles, NO., with the intention of being
matrimonially united. A kind-hearted po-
liceman who knew how, took them in charge
and dosed them with lollypop and sweet
things until they cluld be sent back home.
The importations of pictures for private
galleries in New York last year were enor
nous, reaching over $1,OOO,OOO. One gen.
tleman paid duties on his importations to
the amount of $40, 900, and .he disbursements
Of others were almost in equal proportion.
It is estimated that about $2,5OO,00 was
spent by persons residing in New York and
other cities throughout the United States last
year for oil paintings and statuary alone, a
large portion of which amount went to Eu-
rope.
In speaking of Rev. DR.. Moses Stuart, th'
venerable Rev. DIR. Todd of Pittsfield says
professor Stuart was decided dyspsptic
and now can see that he was injudicous as t.
the amount. and the violence of his exercise
and also in the time of day when he took it
1 have no doubt that he and the good DR.
Payson often mistook the miseries of a weak
digestion for the hiding of Gods face; and
that they uttered many groans OF agony over
their sins, which groans were really the re-
suits of morbid state of the stomach"
Large and attractive signboarcs are a great
feature of Chinese shops, and the words upon
them are strange mixture of the fowery
literature of the land and the advertising in
stinct of a commercial people. One or two
Pekin signboards viii illustrate their general
character: 3Shop of Heaven-sent Luck 2
''Tea Shop of Celesti,l Principles "'The
Nine Felicities Prolonged;' = Mutton Shop OF
Morning Twilight "The Ten Virtues all
Complete;'' "Flowers rise to the Miky-way.''
In these signs we see that the Chinaman can
! combine the soul of poet with the pocket
of shopman.
A g'lar built' vampire came on hoard
the steamship Nevada, somewhere on the Pa
cific, and daring sailor basged him. He is
said 10 resemble pterodactyl, but that is
rather indefinte,as no pterodactyls have been
observed about here for several seasons. 1t is
more satisfactory to learn that it closely re-
sembles black-and-tan terrier dog, with
wings stretching three or four feet from tip to
tip, and teeth half an inch long, with the use
of which it seemed quite familiar. 1t resent.
ed all attempts al familiarity, and is supposed
to be full-rigged vampire, of the species that
put man to sleep with their wings and then
suck his hearts blood.
Iloved him not-and yet, now he Is gone
feel am alone.
For reasons not to love him once sought
| And wearied all my thought
| TO vex myself and him;
| now would give my love could he but live
Who lately lived for me, and when he found
Twas vain, in holy ground
He hid his tace amid the shades of death.
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