The Portland daily press., 1873-09-13
Current Notes.

st. Louis papers cautiously call place
where unhealthy exhalations from green
hides, tallow and offal poison the atmosphere
for distance of several blocks an ssaleged
nuisance" But then it is over mile from
the nearest newspaper Office, an item of dis
lance which serves to moderate any harsh
judgments they may have been prone TO form.
The New York fashion makers are about to
issue the most wonderful magazine ever seen.
The prospectus informs us that ''We now
propose to issue young mans report, as we
have added an additional man to our corps,
whose business it is to visit refined society,
to make sketches of the habilaments of young
men, of what they are, and write on the sub
ject of young mems dress, what they wear,
what they should wear, how to appear and
act in society, and know that they are prop
erly dressed and properly behaved men," And
the publishers add, Our correspondent has
visited all the different countries, and has
made this branch of business study, conse-
quently will go at it as profession, and not
as necessity" Should the sketches of mas
culine attire prove as correct as the English
OF the prospectus the work will be invaluable.
We learn that owing to the untring zeal of
the secretary and superintendent rare piece
Of handiwork in the shape of an elegant lace
robe trimmed with rye straw will be on ex-
hibition at the coming st. Louis fair. The
suggestiveness of the rye straws will make it
an object Of great interest to the average
MissOurian.
We are told that the latest thing in great
coats is the result of the study of two
of the most distinguished artists of the day."
Mr.. Louis Fechter, the actor, and Mr.. II. M.
Skif, New York tailor. The actor sketched
the style of garment from his wardrobe, and
the tailor launched it in his frail Skiff on
the fashionable waters.
Our readers will be interested TO learn that
masculine styles says it would be as easy to
prevent the tide Of the ocean from rising as
to prevent pantaloons from getting looser
The same dctum will apply to many wea1ers
of the bifurcated garment.
The World thinks that the real trustee of
the Geneva award is the executive of the
United States, and not Congress, and that the
Department of State is competent to institute
measures for its distribution. The World
ralpitates with fear that the wicked congress-
men will obtain control of the fund and use
1t to further party objects.
Foreign correspondents prognosticate a
Bourbon restoration because the portrait of
Louis XVIII has taken the place of that of
Louis Napoleon in the saloon of the Marie.
We only see in it returning sense Of beauty,
TOR the Bourbon king was much the better
looking of the two.
They call it apostal peccadllo in st. Louis
when the postmaster levies black mail on his
clerks for the purpose of defraying the ex-
penses OF his trip east.
Col. W. NJ. Grosvenor of Missouri still Iabors
under the deluson that there is Liberal Re-
publican party. This party he intends to
support, quoting as justification Goethe's
maxim ''Do the duty that lies nearest thee''
An unprecedented observer would consider that
duty consisted in interrng the corpse as soon
as possible,for it begins TO smell unpleasantly.
An exchange has discover ed that American
summer resorts are of two kinds-the cheap
and nasty and the outrageously extravagant
At one your confined quarters give you an OPP
portunity 20 req larly enjoy nocturnal Turk
ish bath. At the other the motto of the wait
er is eff am feed will feed you.''