MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1061, 8 April 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

This is the manner in which a 'Cali%rnian shipping reporter notes the arrival of two or three coasters: — '" The commerce of Sacramento is developing to unprecedented proportions. 'On one day this week three schooners from the port of San Eran'cisco, and two scores from MaTysville arrived, imparting to the water front an air of unwonted bustle and activity. The roar of traffic, the crashing 'of loaded teams, the cries of their excited 'drivers, the screams -of struggling horses, mingling with frenzied shrieks of the steam whistle, swept in widening circles frdm the busy city till they •broke in hoarse murmurs upon the ■slopes of the distant Gieras, and the 'blue 'foothills of the Coast Eange." To'this'is appended a footnote by the ■editor, with the following terse re--mark :— *' T)rurik again.—Ed." •An aristocratic New York tailor is •engaged in evolving a suit of clothes to consist entirely of a 'cravat that will Wind about 'the 'body, from neck to ankle, and l will be ■fas'tened with a diamond pin. Milwaukee enjoys 'its 'own fat woman Her name 'is -Fraegar, and ■Fairbanks' scales hardrydo her justice ■at 535 pounds. She girths five feet 'eleven inches over the bosom, ( nVe feet' "two around the hips, two feet four •around the arms, and when she laughs' her chin wrinkles down into the dark -like cellar stairs. A Chicago girl with her clothes all : ablaze was skinned out of her outside

•apparel so quickly by her lover that 'she was not singed. So much for 'keeping a-spry young man about the 'house.

Among'£he'incidents of the late gas •strike in London v was one which was well worth recording. One of the 'first persons whom the Gas Company 'made aware of the 'coming difficulties ! last l week was the Postmaster-General. 'Orders 'were immediately issued from ■the 'Post Office for 2500 candlesticks, 'and something 'like a ton of candles. •As a precaution against the increased •danger-arising from the use of candles : as compared with gas, the floors of ; the Post' Office were covered with sand, •and buckets 'filled with water were 'placed under the sorting tables. A 'large staff of men and boys were employed as snUffers. These preparations 'had the effect of very considerably lessening the inconvenience caused by the strike.

A barber, while cutting the hair of •a rural customer, ran his scissors •against some hard substance, which 'proved to be a whetstone. The old 'farmer : said he " had missed that whet-■stone-ever since haying-time last July, ; and had looked over a ten-acre field 'for it, but now remembered sticking it 'up over bis ear. We have heard of prizes for the 'finest 'baby, but never for the best 'looking bachelor. At Grass Valley, •California, it appears that upon the conclusion of a phrenological lecture, "" five beautiful young ladies" were appointed a committee to award a prize to the handsomest youth present. The ambrosial being stepped gracefully forward to receive it. Blushing sweetly to the foots of his sunburnt hair, "which parted in elfin locks upon ; a mahogany brow, and twined in wild ■entanglement upon the collar of his scarlet flannel blouse, he sprang lightly over the benches to the lecturer's table.

His limbs encased in pilot duck trousers and ponderous cow skin boots, displaying a mas 3 of calf unknown to ihe mannikins of an 'effete Eastern ■civilization. His massy neck, columnar •and corded, supported a head of spheric symmetry, in the front of which flamed ■& feature, marked with the crimson

scars <of confluent «mall-pox—remind-ing the beholder of the ripe wild raspberry 'of the Tosemite Valley. A prolonged and Vacant snigger bespoke the pride and pleasure of the moment more forcibly than the showy but meretricious rhetoric of the East. The five beautiful young ladies bent upon him looks of appreciation, blended, we are proud to remark, with dark malignity and ferocious bate for each ether. Michael declared Adonis of Grass Valley, no longer to be known by the soubriquet of Big Foot Mike, * is the principal owner in the Jovial Jay Hawk hydraulic claim, and accounted the wealthiest bachelor in Nevada county.

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