The Portland daily press., 1878-12-25
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Men and Women.

Men and Women.
While teaching the young idea of Master
John Qainn, of Vernon, Vt , how to shoot with
revolver, Mrs. Bosworth shot the child, who
did not know she was loaded with cider.
clergyman in Washington county, Ken
lucky, reads the marriage service with such
power that susceptible reporter says the ga
cred tie seemed to be "graven withpen Of iron
grain and laid in flinty rock"
The Princess Louise, according to q CORE
spondent, has just brought into the Dominion
the handsomest and healthiest pair of red arms
ever seen there. She drinks copious draughts
OF Bass's ale ct lunch and comfortably drops to
sleep thereafter.
A magistrate at Northfield MINI, was ad-
dressed as "Your Honor" "Joe" and ayou
id foop' in the course of an eloquent speech
BY light of the local bar, who was pleading
case before him.
"Yours squeezingly," an English lover
signed his letters, and he and his sweetheart
used to 60 to sleep In the same armchair with
the same handkerchief over their faces, all Of
which the jury took into consideration when
assessing the damages for breach of promise.
Two residents Of Hillsville, Va, disputed
about young iady's age-one holding that she
was twenty, the other that she was eighteen
and fought about it, one being killed.
If they had only asked her they would have
discovered that she will be seventeen next
March,
Theirs was "a clever and amiab!e man witty,
full of esprit, but hardly bit Of diplomatist
too sentimental for that trade. He Is with
out doubt robler character than Favre, bat he
won't do for a negotiator, not even for q horse
oeaier. he Is too easily prOwbea.en; he be-
trays what he feels, and is to be pumped"
Such is Bismarck's estimation of the French
statesman.
The little monody on the immortality of five
O'Clock tea gowns recently published by Ou'da
or Rhoda Broughton. or some similar authority
in ethics, excites some rather indignant COM
meIt in England. So far from being abused
for the improperly of such q style of dress,
says the Court Circular, English women should
be applauded for adopting what is at once COM
Portable, modest and artistic.
AT q late meeting of Sorosis, Mrs. Croly pre-
sided in dark smoke-colored silk trimmed
With Breton bands of moss embroidery. "I
hate room upholstered in red, remarked Mrs.
Croly, in the course of conversation; sit has O
strangely irritating effect upon my temper and
nerves; but delicately blue-shadsd room, ahl
that Is the acme of comfort. 1t rests the eyes
and seems to help ones thoughts and aspira-
tions to flow clearly and freely" The brunette
sisters will think differently.
When Racine produced his esther" IL be-
came the fashion at the French court to call all
the girl babies Esther. After Rousseau had
brought out his "Nouvelle Heloise," as a rule
the eldest daughter Of a fashionable French
was Julie and the next o Glare. Baculard
dArnaud's Indifferent and now forgotten ro-
mances populsrized Bathilde and Ursule; the
Melanies of Paris own Laharpe as their god
father; Madame Coffin stood sponsor for the
Mathildes, and the Atalas are of the gen.ration
of Chsteaubriand.
Mrs Mohun, that Is 10 say "Raymonde,"
writes to the Cincinnati Enquirer that Mrs.
Bruce is slender, shapey woman and wears
costume OF olive silk and velvet, with bonnet to
correspond, and long gloves Of the same shade
Her complexion is thoroughly Andalusian, and
she impressed me before heard her name as
being Mexican or Spanard. She has deli
cate, high-bred features, singularly full of re-
pose, and manner and bearing eminsntly re-
fined; her eyes are large, and have the tender
expression specially the property Of the Moor
ish women.
1t Is told of Mexican Buchanan, the actor,
that at one time his valet came to him, while
at breakfast in hotel, and after reminding
him OF an engagement that would keep him oc-
cupied all the morning, suggested that, In Or
der TO save time, he should order dinner at
once. "What will you have, sir?" inquired
the valet. "What do play tonight" asked
Buchanan. "Richard, sir" was ths response.
"Then order roast beef, very rare" A wonder
stricken youth, sitting near the trsgedisn, and
who was profoundly impressed by the near
presence of the actor timidly remarked: eek
cuse me, Mr.. Buchanan, but what do you eat
before playing Claude Melnotte?' "Wafi,s,
sir; wafles," responded Buchanan in his most
pompous tone.
HE has struck with the axe Of Mahmoud
the Ghaznevide," say the inhabitants of North
ern India When any one meets with unex-
pected good fortune. When Mahmoud de-
scended from Afghanistan upon the Punjaub
the Brahmin priests Of the temple of Somnauth
offered him an immense ransom If he would
| spare it and the idol. Murmurs of approval
were heard among his followers, dazzled with
| the riches offered BY the priests, but Mahmoud,
| pointing to the huge idol that stood In the
| midst, shouted, "God has raised me up, not to
traffic in idols, but to sweep them from the
| earth. Behold my answerp' One downright
blow of his battle-axe sent the hideous image
| crashing on the pavement, and as it broke
asunder out poured heaps of gold and jewels
| worth fifty-fold the offered ransom.