The Portland daily press., 1878-09-27
Men and Women

burned bricks bring to light the revelation that
hlng Ahasuerus hanged Haman because he
invented the accordeon and put the price down
TO Sl75 so that every Young man might have
one.
Inc wiie OF minister residing near Pawlet
.uu.u s:-. n'm ieedlng chickens with dough in the
ns ,oom. she "shoed" the chickens out,
ner husband boxed her ears, she complained to
'ne cnurch and it compelled him to resign
put him out on fowl, as it were.
a young lady at Harwinton, Conn. re.
ceiVed an Admirer the other evening. He sat
GOWN IN newly vanished chair and damaged
MS clothing to the extent of $3.50. The dear
g'ii offered to pay the bill, possibly through
eratltude at her miraculous escape as she had
peen sitting on the same chair.
are you the man who killed so ma ny peo.
pie In South Carolina?' said pleasantly "een.
tieman' to whom Senator Butler was Introduced
In Minnesota 81 presume you have killed more
men than have" the Senator answered light
ly, and he was puzzled to know why everybody
roared ard his interlocutor retire d in confnsion
till he found out that his interlocutor was a
doctor.
When lady and gentleman are riding to-
gether, the gentlem an shonld bs on the near.
and not the off side of the lady. With the
gentleman on the near side the lady runs the
FISH, II he be bad rider, of an occasional iostle
from man or horse, and if the going is muddy,
her habit gets splashed by the action of the
gentieman's horse. Ga the other hand, her
companion riding on the near side could pre-
tect her from far more likely, more frequent
ana more disagreeable risks of being iostled.
and his right arm would bs free and handy, in
case OF her horse becoming awkward and re-
curing stronger hand on the rein. There oc-
ours one remark-that the near side Is not 10
eHgiDle as the oH side for the efficient pursuit
OF that most seductive and dangerous amuse-
ment, spooning on Observation-Disclosures World
Mamma has told it to me hundred times.
but never can remember it," said a little piri
at the Paris Exposition when some o,e asksa
her her fathers name. She may have been
the daughter of Prince Rich. .rd Mary John
BASIL Won Khsvenuller-afstsch-Ach
Count OF Hohen.Osterwitz and AnnabucbI.
Baron OF Landskron and Weinberg. Lord Of
Carlsberg, Hardegg, Fronsberg, Prutzsndorf.
otarrein, Peygarten, Ladendorf and Hammer
ourg' me rest OF whose name is Hereditary
Grand Master of the Court in Austria and
hereditary Grand Esquire in Corinthis, Gran
zee OF Spain OF the First Glass, Magnate of
hungary, Austrian Chamberlain and Heredi-
eary counsellor OF the Empire and Chevalier
Oh tne order OF the Golden Feere. 1t NAV bs
that the little lady was the Infanta Blanche Of
CASTLE, Maria de la Conception Theresa Fran
cesca q Assist Margaret Jean Beatrice Char.
iotte Louise Fernando Adelgonda Elyira ude-
ionsa Regina Josepha Michella Gabriella Ra.
pnaeiia' la Prncesse of ten, who has all she can
DO TO Keep track of her own name without re-
membering that her father is Charles Mariade
los Dolores John Isidor Joseph Francis Ouiri.
nus Anthony Michael Gabriel Raphael, Duke
ot-lConclusiOn in our next
a faris letter says-I wonder if the ging-
nam dress mania has extended as far as your
CITY From the Qleen of Spain (ugly, fat old
1ning] TO Cora Pearl (ugly, thin old thing)
everybody IN all classes of society is wearing
tne e1Igham dress-or at least a dress Of that
cnsfacter. 1t may be percale, It may be linen.
is may be gingham, it may even bs French
calico; but it is always made with the yoke
blouse waist, the short, deep-knitted skirt and
the scarf overskirt kaotted behind. After the
death OF poor little Mercedes, whose photo.
graph placed behind powerful monaces (max-
nIfying glassas) everybody is staring in at the
Boulevard shops, old Isabella whipped herself
Off to the country and I don't know what she
is wearing now. But the last time 1 saw her
at the races she wore one of these sweet sim
pllcty Observation-Disclosures sort of cos
TUNES, and succeeded in looking like a would
be Juvenile washerwoman. Yesterday while
was looking at the crown Jewels at the exposi-
tion, who should come trundling up, dragged
IN rolling chair at q francs an hour bat Cora
Pearl, decked out in one of these same cos
tunes, brown linen with white polka dots:
hat of Lsghorn, with wide brim, trimmed with
nothing but scarf of foulard silk, of. similar
shade and pattern to those of the dress,
A reporter of the New York Herald has been
talking with Mary Anderson. He first describes
her and then tells what she said: Tall as a
Grecian goddess, with limbs marvellousy long
and as marvellously proportioned, sm all head
poised upon slender neck, dark gray eyes
"Irish eyes"-and dark brown hair, q complsx.
ion as clear as alabaster, and a small, De, red
mouth, Mary Anderson has such delicate fea-
lures that she appears even more lovely at q
close inspection than upon the stage. Her face
Is almost aristocratc in its clean-cut profile
and slightly curling lip; but her hands aud feet
are republican in size. Her figure, not yet fully
developed, has the Uniformed grace of girlish.
ness; her frank, hearty, off-hand manner at
once captvates the Interviewer; and although
on the stage Mary Anderson is every inch q
tragedy queen, in private life she is best des-
cribed as representative American girl, full
OF life and spirit, her bright eyes dancing with
fun, and her rich voice, which brings tears to
unaccustomed eyes in Meg Merriles, ready to
ripple from conversation into laughter at the
slightest provoca.ion. As she stands regally
before us she holds in one hsad the fragments
of bisque bust, which exol.in the cry that
accompanied her entrance, and she begins
talking about the broken bust in free, un-
affected style that puts her iuterlocutor at his
ease and necsssitatss the most rapid employ
ment of his shorthand pencil