The Portland daily press., 1869-05-22
G1eanings and Gossip .

Five cases of twins occurred last week
among the emigrants ON the Peruvian"
"A St Louis grocer has received an invoice
of Japan tea via the Union Pacific Railroad,
only thirty days from Yokohoma
An English engineering Journal says that
potatoes will prevent the incrustation of steam
boilers.
The COrriere pi Sdrdegna, OF the 10Th ult,
states that Garibaldi has had fresh attack of
illness, and is suffering severely.
1t will be two years the coming October
since our purchase of the Island of st. Thona-
as, and yet the Senate has taken no action
concerning the treaty Of sale, neither rejecting
nor ratifying it.
Just as st. Louis is trying to get away the
upper Mississippi trade from Chicago, the lat
ter city opens two railroad connections with
the upper Missouri, ard puts in peril the
trade of st. Louis with that region.
"A sign in Pittsfeld, Mass, which until re-
Gently read as follows: "C0blin dun heer, " has
been changed to read as follows: aMaid and
repaired"
The long promised chrome from Thomas
Hill beautiful painting of the Yosemite VAL
ley has been published by Prang.
"A Wisconsin child has come into the
world prepared to hear what was said behind
his back His ears are set on "back to 'front.'
On very old man:
"He lived to los because he was strong,
100 to you don't live as long,"
-Habitual drunkards in Illinois, by recent
act of the Legislature, are hereafter to be sub
jected to very stringent course of treatment
Pennsylvania has at last succeeded in
proving charge of corruption upon one Of
her legislators, and newspaper was the
means of effecting that benefit to society.
While bellies their lovely graces spread;
And tops around them hutter, - g.
I'll be content with Anna Bread,
And won't have any but her."
Mr.. Smalley writes to the New York Trib-
une from London, that although the English
are fighting mad over Mr.. Summers speech,
they are not indisposed to reopen negotiations.
The Legislature of Michigan passed a law
a year or two since, that there should be at
least one Professor of Homeopathy in the De-
partment of Medicine of the State University.
Judy says the spread of the, practice OF
auricular confession is evidenced by the fact
that many public speskers-even in the House
Aesoh-Aafo AoCcutiJ auhisecu er@e s-SS 49,
free to confessp sa.1l ~
An English clergyman identified his bt
BILE in Court from the marks of its having been
used as a razor strop. Sea 10 ,..sss o..r
The latest thing is proposition to pray
by telegraph. Doubtless little more light
ming and less thunder a0ould improve some
prayers. sef,
-One New York exchange says John Rus
sell Young is going to Europe at the heal of
the Tribune's correspondence, and another
says he goes as the agent of Jay Cooke & Co.
One of our Western contemporaries
speaks of "Fiskville, formerly known as New
York Cityl'
Cyrus w. Field who failed in 81 has paid
mp and owns million now
About this time look out for the annual
stories about the cotton worm, the death Of
fruit buds, &C., sc. $3.50.
The Swiss Government have prohibited
Mazzini the Italian patriot, from taking up
his residence in any of the cantons bordering
on France or Italy.
Vermont has just had grand lottery by
which 5000 gilt rings worth half cent apiece
had been distributed among the Green Noun
tain Maids.
The singing societies Of the State of Wis
consin and adjoining States, called the North
western S@ngerbund, will hold singing fes-
tival at Madison, from June 23i to Goth next.
The Louisville Journal says that if a
"large portion of the immigrants now coming
here would go to the South it should greatly
rejoice both for their sakes and for the South's
sake, but they have not as yet sufficient conf
dence in the future prosperity of that section.
But the confidence and prosperity will both
come, and stay"
The fountains at the Crystal Palace, Lon
don, have Jets that play to a height OF $50 feet,
and when in full operation consume 100000
gallons of water daily.
The Christian Freeman says Ritualism in
the Episcopal church is but wet-nurse for
Romanism-all the children it brings up be-
long to the latter.