The Portland daily press., 1869-04-06
Gleanings and Gossip.

Ao OWt, VI AOuuou, ud3 y cOIte3pOu0euco
from Constantiuople, stating that tina Sui an
has written to the Pope letter, in which be
asks His Holiness information concerning GER
tain points of the Catholic religion. This let
ter has created great sensation in Roma. I.
is generally looked upon as a first step ON the
part Of His Hghness towards his conversion to
Christianity. l4 .-saa
"A Paris correspondent says: "OLall the
Bourbon Princes and Princesses now in Paris,
there is only one who, If suddsply dep lived OF
his fortune, could make good living by his
own efforts. It is Don Sebastian, the Infan.s
who is capital portrait painter"
-Daliance with the Bourbons is said to bs
the occasion Of the late splurges Of Sprague.
-"Do you say your prayers regularly every
night and morning?'' asked sympathetic
lady of q little shoe black to whom she had
Just given tribe. "I allus sez 'um at night
mum. bat any smart boy can take oare of hfs-
self in the daytime, was the little sr0suSs
reply. ~
The heights OF fashion-ladies hair.
Punch.
The end of EAST life-starvation. [Frn.
-Gladstone's hand-"I, Lowe, Jack and the
game" [Judy.
"A party of young men were surveying for
a railroad, and of course they were entitled to
the best there was along the line. At one
house they thought the proprietor was little
tardy in producing the cider. 1t came at last,
and was tasted by one of the party with great
deliberations "How much cider did you
make this yearp' he asked. Fifteen barrels"
was the answer. Another sip. "Wsll if you
had had another apple you might have made
another barrel aira
"A lady in this city whose conversation is
usually rational, aud, we may say, intelligent,
shocked aud friends the other dayby asking why
cork-screw is like one of Dickens novels,
the answer furnished by herself being,-''be-
cause its all of tsoist'' (Oliyer Twistl
There is passage in the opening part of
Victor Hugo's new novel, By the Kings Com
naGnd, which will doubtless once more arouse
the Pennsylvanians and Quakers. In speak
| ing Of the man-stealers and man sellers Of the
seventeenth century, Hugo says: "Bargaini
they are for sale In England, under Jefreys,
after the tragical adventure Of Monmouth,
many lord and gentleman was decapitated
and quartered. These victims left wives and
daughters-widowsa and orphans, whom james
II. presented to the Queen, his wife, The
| Queen sold these ladies to William Penn.
What Is surprising is, not that james IL
should have sold these women, but that Will
| lam Penn should have bought them. Ths
bargain by Penn is excused or explained here
in, that Penn, having desert to SOW with
men, had need Of women. The women were
part of his implements. These ladies were
good thing for her gracious Majesty the Queen.
The young ones brought high price. ons
has the uncomfortable sense OF the complies
ted scandal, in rejecting that Penn probably
got the old dowagers very cheap"
Several English and German savants have
pronounced against the adoption of earth in
place Of water closets as q sanitary measure
The Butchers Association of Chicago have
caused to be made splendid belt Of solid sill
vsr with huge clasp of pure gold; which
they propose to present to the butcher who
will kill and dress a bullock in the shortest
time. The trial will take place in this city Ia
May, probably at he packing yard of Reid &
Sherwin, and will be open for competition to
| the world
The Roman Catholic hierarchy summoned
to Rome to attend the Ecumenical Council
| next December numbers more than thousand
prelates. They are to be accommodated BY
the Holy Father as well as circumstances win
permit and he is already making preparations
to receive his guests
A burglar at st. Joseph, Mo-, carefully Sc
cretsd himself under . bed the other night,
and would have been successful in his opera
tion had he mot unfortunately fallen asleep
and avakened his victims by his snoring.
1.oaa y ~l-cIsl.
hard name, thas be spoils gross of steel pens
endorsing bill.
in personal appearance Lamartine might
have been mistaken for an Englishmln, es-
pecially as he spoke the language with cor
rectness and fiuency. His genius and temper
ament we're essentially and entirely French;
and, like many French writers, but more than
most his statements caunot be relied on even
when he describes what he saw. Many things
in his history Of the revolution of 1s4s are posi-
lively contradicted by Louis Blanc, who Is
q practiced historian and man OF honor
But it was in matters relating to himself that
Lamartins was most thoroughly incapable OF
distinguishing between truth and ialsehood'
His vanity was marvellous in its extent ana IN
its candor. In the account OF ms ua'e,s IN
the East he relates how Lady Hester s'annops
deduced from the beauty of his arshed instep'
which to uninspired observers seemed prosaic'
ally tiat the prophecy that he would be the
first man in France.
Insect bites, and even those of rattle-'
snake. have passed harmless by stirring
enough of common salt in the yolk of good
egg to make it sufficiently thin for a plaster,
| to be kept on the bitten parts.
COL James Fraser of the London Police
suggests that all habitual offenders, before be-
| ing discharged from prison, shall be indelibly
branded. What fine chance this would leave
| for reformation.
Gov. Bullock Of Georgia, in a recent letter.
says of the Republican State Committee mum
bering thirty-oue members, residing IN the oii-
ferent Congressional districts Of the state, not
exceeding two are persons who came to GsOr-
gia from the North since the war OF VINO are
of that character denominated by the Opposi-
ton as "carpet-baggerA"