The Portland daily press., 1878-11-01
Men and Women.

In the districs of Panlovsk, in Southern Russia,
Is remarkably handsome peasant girl, and the
| government values her head at 10000 francs
| from which fact it may be inferred that she
| wears her own hair.
II can't lose my dollar and a half" said a
| young man of San Saba County, Tex, when.
with his license in his pocket, he arrived at the
| house of his prospective father.in-law and
learned that his betrothed had eloped half an
hour before. He borrowed spare horse and
side-saddle, overhauled the fugitives and
brought back the lady, and the marriage took
place.
Well-dressed and semi-inebriated man goes
into shop in Ypsilant and sticks his elbow
through glass-case. Druggist collars him and
demands So. Man says: "Thash allri," and
refuses to understand what is wanted of him.
Druggist searches mans pockets, finds $50 bill
puts S47 change in mans pocket-book and ex.
pels him, the inebrate staggering away blandly
femarking: "Ish allri-Do offensh." Next day
druggist finds that the $50 bill is counterfeit
The Countess de Bassanville, in the Alman-
du Savor-Vivre, gives the following very i'm.
portant advice to ladies: when you are past
twenty five" she says, "never let more than
five hours pass without closing your eyes for
short time-say ten minutes; not necessarily to
sleep, but to repose the muscles of the eye."
Inc Countesse's theory is that every movement
and play Of the face necessarily tends to fatigue
these muscles whether it be smile or the ex-
preston of surprise or of fixed action. Tbs
closing of the eyelids at intervals is therefore
recommended "3eauty rest" The mus
cies, reposed, lose their tendency to that ner-
vous contraction which translates itself into
wrinkles.
In her appearance Mme Won Stamwitz is
Jauauschek and Mary Anderson rolled into
one. Her poses aregrace itself-her dressing
an inspiration. The tiger skin which she
wears over her Greek dress in the last act brings
w. w. Story'5 cleopatra" SO vividly to mind
that u seems as though this ''Messalina" must
have sat for the portrait She is a splendid
animal, with instincts that have never been
governed or controlled, and. panther like, her
embrace is as dangerous IS her bite Yet there
is something so dominant In her magnetism,
and in the feast of light and color which her
presence affords to the eyes and sense that one
forgives even her brutality, and gladly sees her
die by her own hand rather than be subjected
Beside this beautiful. voluptuous Empress
Cleopatra pales, and the Serpent of the Old
Nile" becomes mere pollywog. Her art IS as
finished in its way as Modjeska's, but it is
different kind of art. "ModJeska's art as
some one cleverly remarked, sis like skeleton
leaves refined up TO the highest point" Won
Stamwitz is the bold art of the old SCULPTOR
daring in outline and filled in with strong hu.
man passions and emotions, which give breadth
and vigor to the conception, and winch there il
no attempt to conceal Jennie June.
The old lady's translation of "chest of draw
ers' by poitrine de calcon has been surpassed
during the late influx of English tourists bent
upon doing the lioas Of Paris as we'll as visiting
the Exhibition. The p7cvorHia English group.
composed of paterfamilIas portly gentleman)
his wife "a tall thin womal and his daughter
"a fashionably dressed young LADY, were visit
ing the Cathedral of Notre Dame. In one of
the chapels of the choir they were shown the
monument erected to the memory of the arch
bishop OF Paris, who was killed on the barri-
cades of the Faubourg St. Antoine, as he was
endeavoring to pat an end to the bloodshed
The archbishop is represented as lying mortally
wounded on the barricade, his hand holds aloft
an olive-branch, and his last words are carved
above, "Puisse mon sang 6tre le dernier Uersd"
The guide had just read these woIds aloud in
solemn voice. "What is the meaning of that?'
asked P. f.; and Mrs. P. f. looked also enauir-
ingly at the daughter, wno having learned
French 81 school, was supposed to understand
it. She began slowly, "Puisse, the power;
mon sang, OF my song;" and then she finished
up "6tre le der1ster veSe, is in the last verse. o
yes, father: that has to do with the song of the
dying swan"-London World.
One of the recent discoveries made from the
Babylonisn Cylioders may possess some inter-
est for colored readers. 1t is now a pretty ia
miliar African version of the fall of man that
Adam and Eve were negroes and only when
they had sinned and heard the Creator calling
were their faces stricken with that pale hue
which has continued among the more sinful
races. 1t now appears from the earliest tab
let's on the subject that there is more ground
for this tradition than it has hitherto bsen
credited with-as least so far as the color of the
first pair is concerned The tablet is in the
British Museum, bought By the late George
Smith. An inscription marked "K 1864"
contains in it an account of the creation of
man by the god Mir-Ku (uobl, CROWN "To
fear them (the gods) he m ade man; the breath
of life was in him. May he (ths gol Mir Ku)
be established, and may bis will not fail, 10 the
mouth of the dark races which his hand has
made" This is the earliest allusion in exs-
tence to the biblical account of creation, and it
distinctly points to the first race being dark.
This confirms what Sir Henry Rawlinson said
long ago, that Adamn means "dark race in
distinction from "5arku'', light rae; and
George Smith thou hit that the ac,onnt fGon
viz of the sons of God marrying the daughters
of men, meant the Sarku intermarrying with
the Adamn. 1t appears, there, that Adam
was a negro. 1t may be- added that when this
Adam, (not proper name, but meaning dark
mani ha d sinned (the tablet does not say in
what way) the god Hea's liver was angry and
the father Flu pronounced mans curse, which
the sad history of the African race renders
curious "Wisdom and knowledge hostlely
may they iDjure him may
he be conquered n his
land, may it bring forth and he not touch it
his desire shall be cut off and
his will unanswered \ the
opening of his mouth no god shall take notice
of his back shall be broken
and not healed at his urgent
trouble no god shall rece We him /" There is
good reason to believe that, after the dark
race bad been captured, it was found 10 old
times as convenient to explain their subjection
by legendary curse, as it was, some thous-
ands of years later, to claim that America was
Dlousy fulfilling the curse on Canaan in con-
tinuDg the race in slavery.-M. d. Conway.
Interview in indianapolis Journall
How the Key Was Found.