The Portland daily press., 1875-06-03
About Women.

Queen Victoria has Just passed her fifty sixth
birthday, and has now been Queen-of England
about thirty-eight years.
Upon the death of her husband the lady
married his brother, and when a friend saw the
portrait of the first husband in the house, he
said, us this member of your fam'ly?" cit
is my brother in,law," she said.
Donna Maria, wife of Don Alfonso, is said 10
look the very reverse of the savage Amazon
she might be supposed from accounts current
about her. She is slim, fair-hared, and has
lively dark blue eyes.
A French statisican claims to have discovered
that. given hundred blonds and hundred
brunette women, more of the latter than OF the
former will get married.
Ex-Queen Isabella is eaten ont. Her lover,
hartford, has wasted her treasures in riotous
living, and all she has left is twelve thousand
dollars year. She contemplates selling the
pawn ticket for her jewels-or what there re-
mains of it. To the beggars who importune
her she replies, "No tengo nddd"-Pm beggar
myself.
There sare times when all of woman's self
possession and dignity are required. That is
one when she shows her first baby, a bair-lipped
one, to an old beau, whom she had J'lted for
the sake of her present husband.
A Dubuque printer received the following
note from his girl: "May git yanked out of
bed at midnight every mite by cuss like Theo-
dore Tilton, an carried up million pare OF
stares, iff ever L sese to love you, Jim"
A Brooklyn girl said to her dressmaker the
other day, "If women are ever allowed to vote
what do you suppose will be the fash ion for
20 ing dresses?'
Ida Greedy Smith is very petite, and her
form is as fragile as girl of twelve. She has
light, soft brown hair, a good complexion and
beautiful teeth.
If you haven't bought your new hat yet,
young woman, shroud your old one in grena-
dine VEIL look as distinguished as you car, and
no one will know the difference.
Mrs. Nancy Madison, widow of brother of
the President, died last week near Lancaster, o.
She was Revolutionary peDsioner.
A pious young widow in Milwaukee, speak.
ing ola handsome young fellow who lives in her
neighborhood, says: 81 feel set back year in
my religion every time meet him.
The wedding was to take place on Christmas
day. Three weeks before that date the Aft
anced husband sought out Minnie and told her
he had deceived himself: that he could not and
would not abandon her; that he loved her ten
times more than he ever could love any other
woman. Minnie was happy, and yet she was
wretched She declared she ought not to keep
him; that she must not keep him. Finally
he told her that he did not believe his be-
trothed really loved him. This shook her reso-
luton, She said no more. She determined,
however, to see and judge for herself. She had
learned where the fair Bostonian was residing,
and making some anxious excuse, gained an
interview, without revealing her true charac-
ter She found the American lovely; that she
was well nigh heart-brcken at the neglect of
her lover; that she knew he had had a mis-
tress that she suspected he was still bound by
his old attachment; that she was the barrier
between her and happiness. The grizette
went away. She saw the artist no more, but
she wrote him long letter, telling him how
much he had wronged the beautiful girl he
was engaged to; that she worshiped him and
would make him happy. The next day Minnie
was dead IN her lodgings, asphyxiate ted by
charcoal. She had deliberately destroyed her.
self 10 insure the happiness of another woman,
and that woman her rival. Paris correspond
ent st. Louis Globe.