The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-17
Gleanings and Gossip. !.

Our Portland Society Of Natural History
will be prepared to sympathize with the st.
Louis Academy of Science which lost the
greater part of its treasures by the fire last
week, The Academy has long been the repos-
itory of valuable collections illustrating the
natural history and archaeology of the West,
and its collection also included a part of the
specimens of the old Western Academy of
Science, dissalEed- Avvsrty-fixe vears AGO. to-
gether with the fruits of more careful investi-
gators who have recently worked in that pro
ductive Held. The loss sustained by the Acad
emy can never be wholly replaced.
AN aged, grey-haired and decrepit Lotha-
rio recently eloped from Mississippi village
with nice young girl of fifteen, but the tele-
graph stopped the couple at New Orleans.
When informed at the police station that the
old fellow had wife and family already, 81
know that replied the httle beauty, "but you
see, they don't treat him well; and he's got
the rheumatism and the asthma, and he's got
failing in the back; and you see, sir, sorter
pitied him, and him and me concluded we'd
come away and live by ourselves"
Prisoner, why did you follow this man,
and beat and kick him so shamefullyY' 81
am sorry, your Honor, was little drunk,
and l thought it was my wife,
An exchange remarks that murder and
suicide for love are fast robbing that emotion
of the name of tender passion.
Norwich, Conn, has calf with human
head-a reversal of the usual combination Of
the two animals
"A paper is to be started in Paris which
will be partly engineered by Victor Hugo. 1t
is to be called the Rappel, win be conducted
by M Charles Hugo, and will number among
its contributors M. Francis Victor Hugo,
Rochefort of the LanteT7ae, and other promi-
nent anti-imperial writer's.
Jamie sat in the gallery, wide awake, when
many were slumbering around him. The cler-
gyman endeavored to awaken the attention of
his hearers by stating the fact, saying: ''You
see even Jamie Fraser the IDIOT does not fall
asleep, as so many of you are doing" Jamie,
not liking, perhaps, to be thus designated,
coolly replied: 'And hadna been an idiot, 1
wad ha' been sleeping too
An American minister of fine descriptive
power was on one occasion preaching about
heaven; and to show the absurdity of Eman-
uel Swedenborg on the subject, drew graphic
picture of the great Swedenborg heaven, with
its beautiful fields, fine horses, cows and pretty
women; and in the midst of his glowing des-
cription good old sister, carried away with
the scene, went into raptures, and exclaimed:
"Gloryi glOryl gloryr' The preacher was so
disconnected that he paused, seeming hardly
to know what to do, till the presiding elder in
the stand behind him cried out to the shouter:
'Hold on there, sister; you are shouting over
the wrong heavenr'
Unto each life some rain must fall" sings
sweetly the Portland Poet. A great deal fell
into our lives on Saturday.
Some one in Jacksonville, Florida, stole
tn recently laid cornerstone of new Bap-
tist church, in order to despoil 1t OF the silver
coins and currency closed up in 1t. The stone
was carried away some distance, but the effort
to get the money out was failure.
Miss Kate Field has been completely sue
cessful in the delivery of her lyceum lecture
before large and fashionable audiences in New
York. The papers speak of her lecture in
high terms Of commendation. The Tribune
says: 1T is because Miss Field takes up her
work with quietness and courtesy, because she
does not denounce nor bully nor demand, be-
cause she illustrates her belief that any woman
IKE any man, appearing as a public speaker,
Is bound to give her hearers the highest result
OF her culture, that her appearance on the
platform is earnestly to be welcomed"
The first case to be tried before the Supreme
Judicial Court at Plymouth N. H., is an ac-
ton of trover, brought for an iron kettle worth
seventy-fve cents.
In copying the comments Of the English
press on Mr.. Summers speech the New York
Evening Post says: "The British lion gives
growing concert.
-'Pa, how long does the Legislature sit?''
"Three or four months, my son." "What a
set of geese they must be; our geese sit only
five weeks" at is growing late, my son, 1
thing you had better retire.
The Empress Eugene conyersed few
days since, with some working men whom she
met near st. Cloud. She asked them if they
were making money. The men, who evidently
did not know her, replied in the negative.
Blu" said the Empress" you are not idle.
DO you not get good wages?" "Yes we do
was the answer, ''but under the Empire, ev
erything has become SO dear that we are much
worse off than we were twenty years ago with
lower wages" The Empress, instead of pre-
serving her incognita, was imprudent enough
to saw who she was The workingmen bowed
to her, but said that what they had told her
was nothing but the truth.