The Portland daily press., 1878-06-14
Men and Women.

A correspondent writing of Mrs. John G.
Fremont, says she 'has what rarely falls to
the lot of any one-a beautiful youth followed
by a no less handsome middle age. Her hair is
now as white as snow and very abundant, and
her fresh complexion and animated play of
features combine to make her one of the most
MISUNDERSTANDING women have ever seen.
Her conversational powers are unrivalled, no
less for her ready flow of choice language than
her selection of topics of interest"
1t happened lately in one of the Berlin hos
pitfalls that girl about twenty years old was
about to have her nose, which had been badly
damaged by scrofula, reStorei by means Of
plastic operation, the operator making use Of
some skin from the cheek and forehead for
that purpose. The patient lay already upon
the operating table, and the chi oroform had
just begun to overcome her co usciousness,
when with gasp she managed to sigh out to
the surgeon: sob, Doctor, if you please, give
me Roman nose if it be possible
King Humbert of Italy sent to his mother
one of Victor Emmanuel's toe nails, set in gold
and enriched with diamonds. 1t seems from
the Paris papers account that Victor Emman-
uel let the nail of one toe grow all year, cutting
it only on New Years Day, when he had it
polished and set by jsweler and presented to
his morganatic spouse, who made collection
of these priceless relics. The fifteenth had not
been ready when, on the 9th of January, the
King died. Figaro imsgines that this was
sort of fetch against sudden death, and further
imagines that fifteen years before a popular
prediction had been uttered that the King
would die in his boots.
Christian ministers with one consent are ex-
pounding Socialism and warning their focks
against the revolutionary teachings of beer
cellar philosophy. DR.. Webbsr, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Troy, preached
forcible sermon on the subject last Sunday
evening. He defined Communist compre-
hensively as a leveller, who inveighs in
monarchical countries against all hereditary
and class privileges, and in republican states
looks enviously on all eminence of individual
culture, influence, wealth or superior elegance
of living as "fraud on the poor" Socially,
he hates the laws that guard the purity and
unity of the family. The principal object of
attack in this country is the right of property.
1t is this which allies trades-unions with the
Commune. Capital is regarded as q sort of
incarnate demon, instead of an Indispensable
cofactor in production. Communism would
abolish capital and reconstruct society on a
new property basis, transfer lands, railroads,
manufactures from private to public owner
ship. Neither Christianity, reason, conscience
nor history, has word of approval for the in.
sanities of the Commune, which, with blud-
geon in hand, says to the rich, "Divide the in
heritauCe with me-"
When an accused murderer is worth $4,000
in hard cash, he is justified in predicting that
there will be something of a lawsuit before he
is hanged. This was the remark which Con-
tractor Billings made in strict confidence to his
keepers after he had hummed several Metho-
dist tunes on his way to jail in BAllston' n.
Y. He is the husband of the woman who was
assassinated SO mysteriously one night last
week while she was sitting in her parlor. On
Thursday gun was found in covered well
near the house, and was identified as breech-
,oader which Billings had kept in his store.
The empty cartridge-shell which had held the