The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-25
Gleanings and Gossip !.

"A fellow calling himself Count Bernard
Leo Aerendes has been arrested in Louisville
for marrying halt dozen women and run
ming off with their money.
Discipline Is maintained in the young fs-
male department of the Hamburg peniten-
tiary by dressing any offender in the costume
ofan old woman and sending her to the aged
ward
Olive Logan responded to the toast, "Ths
Gentlemen" at the Press and Soross banquet
in New York Saturday evening. Olive said
she didn't know anything about them.
The Pope is worried because Paris Is going
to allow statue of Voltaire to be set up
"A louisiana paper has the following:-'tA
mother and her child were accidentally
ground up in Bogg's .sugar-cane mill last
week. We regret the accident, as the quality
of sugar furnished at this place has been very
good"
The New York Times, noting the fact that
Grant has appointed three women as Post
mistresses, pronounces the word abominable,
and suggests "Postoficers'' as substitute.
Louis Philippe's son. the Duke OF Aumale,
writes articles against L. N. B. in the London
Times.
writing London letters, in four OF Ave lam
guages, to continental newspapers
Why will people use lght-colored fancy
inks? They are nuisance. The contrast on
the white paper being less decided, they are
difficult and more painful to the eye to read;
and 1t has been demonstrated beyond all
doubt that some of them at least will not
stand When 1t is remembered what serious
consequences might result from notes. bonds
mortgages, wills &C., being filed up by de-
signing parties with ink that will not live on
paper or parchment, the Legislature might
with propriety, forbid its use by any one, and
it is its duty to prohibit it by any public officer.
A gentleman lately wrote on ordinary cap pa
per few lines in each Of the four or ave
kinds Of ink, and stuck them up against
window, exposed to the sun. After remaining
thus exposed for fifteen or eighteen days. It
was found that the black held its color nearly
or quite as well as ever, and the red was still
legible; but the violet had almost entirely van
ished. Not one single word of what had been
written with it could be read.
Cincinnati has concluded relative to the
velocipeie: ''The sidewalks are too narrow
| for them to move with any rapidity, and, ex-
| cept on wooden pavements, the streets are not
| to be travelled by them. The novelty of the
velocipede is worn of, and people have come
| to look with something like contempt upon
| big, lubberly fellow, who looks as though he
| ought to be out chopping wood, straddling 3
| two wheeled car in the middle OF the day,
making his laborious way through the streets.
| AN English paper says that at Clements
| inn grace after dinner is not said, but acted.
Four loaves, closely adhering together typical
of the four gospels, are held up by the occu-
pant of the chair, who raises them three times,
in allusion to the Blessed Trinity, and then
hands them to the butler, who hurries them
out of the hall with an alacrity which is en-
blematic of the freedom of which the Bread Of
life is given to the world. This acted graceis
of great antiquity, and clearly had a religious
origin.
"A velocipedst in New York has been ex-
hibiting some remarkable feats. such as driv-
ing bicycle and guiding it by the feet alone;
sitting as in a side saddle, and propelling and
guiding the machine with one foot; riding up
short incline at an angle Of forty-five de-
grees and down one Of twenty-five degrees;
vaulting over the vehicle from floor to floor
while in rapid motion, and making an entire
circuit of the room while standing on his head
| in the saddle. 1
| The local of the Milwaukee Sentinel aR-
nounces, relative to the solar eclipse Of next
August, that ''The shadOao Of the earth will
commence crossing the suns disc about half
past four in the afternoon, and will not en-
tirely pass over it until halfpast SIX some
shadow or other must have commenced eros
sing the disc of that young mans mind ana
not entirely passed over it at the m0nsH'
when he grappled his subject. a..
Mrs Paulina w. Davis writes 10 Ine
| Providence Journal contradicting the state
ment 0,ine the rounds OF northern papers
that an attempt has been made to poison ner
In FLORIDA She adds that travelling quietly
in the South for her health she is not hKeV 70
provoke such opposition, If sucn 'neso W. ~nA
is not at all ambitious to seem 70 SunS' psSSs'
cution. She has encountered oniy Aln~uess
and courtesy from all Glasses
| The Toronto Telegraph speaks OF a place
in Canada called Seaforth, where Hour Is only
four dollars barrel The trouble for pooE
man in that place is similar to that OF Patrick,
with his sixpence in Ireland, potatoes can bs
bought for sixpiuce bushel in the ould coun-
try, but the divil Ov it is to git the sixpince."
Mr.. VIM. H. Hurlbut assigned as reason
for his non-attendance at the Press dinner in
New York bad cold in the head, and ex'
pressed surprise that he-a bachelor-snoo'a'
have been assigned to reply to the teast' MAI
rimonial Bliss" However, he conoiSueu'
81 would rather be married month 'nAn nave
a cold In my head week.
The latest case of "swapphs
heard of is that Of two 5ap'is' elu'Sas.
Massachusetts, which propose 70 swap m'h"
ters.