The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-16
Gossip and Gleanings.

-Pittsburg Pa, contemplates 500 acre
park.
"A Louisville dandy is dying of the dye In
his scarlet French stockings.
Levy, who plays the cornet in the Seventh
Regiment band during its Saratoga visit, gets
$3.50 per day.
"A deceived Pittsburgher advertises that
'Ba ptist preacher, with long pair of whisk-
ers all over his face" has eloped with his wife.
Mr.. Lewis of wakeman, Ohio, scared
some wool thieves so badly the other night
that they ran away and lett a $500 team be-
hind them.
Alexander Il. Stephens writes another
letter saying he will never re-enter politics,
and that the country is going to the bow
vows.
The Sun says ex-Minister John Bigelow
has been offered $4,000 annually and = large
interest in the Times to become its manager.
He holds the offer under advisement.
"A mean Christian, who loved money and
hated missionary societies, wound up his
prayer at foreign mission meeting thus:
"Ohi Lord, may we all act in such manner
that by our lives we may preach Christ and
him crucifed to the whole world, and thus
save considerable expense" $500 ~
Henry Ward Beecher has given in the
New York Ledger his answer to many letters
asking his opinion of billiards. As to playing
the game, he unhesitatingly says Yes as to
frequenting Saloons" he even more emphati-
cally says "No." Young men can now take
the cue discriminatingly. ~
"A promising young shaver Of 6ye or six
years was reading his lesson at school one day,
in that deliberate manner Of urchins OF that
age. At the passage, Keep thy tongue from
evil and thy lips from guile Master Hopeful
drawled out, "Keep-thy'-t -tongae-from-eyit
-and-thy-lips -from-girls." llf
There is story that Spurgeon was once
asked by q stranger how he managed to get
the material for SO many sermons, and how he
had arrived at SO great knowledge Of the
spiritual needs of the people. He replied;
sswhy sir, 1 will suck sermon out of you be-l
fore We part, lalsT si=f attet
There are twenty-ssven ''schoolmarms"
rusticating at Donner Lake. The Truckes
Tribune announces itself in the following lines
as candidate for the position of ehaper.n: eoa
Oh. want to be an angel,
And with an angel stand,
Or sit along with schoolmarms,
And hold 'em by the hand.
Some grudging misogynist asserts that q
woman never took out patent, save for q
dress-making device, but that isn't true Of
Helen Dougherty Of Western New York. Az
ter o long contest she has secured in the su-
preme Court the inventors title to machine
which cuts splints from board in bevel form,
producing cut hoop ready to apply at once
to barrel; which patent covers monopoly Of
the manufacture, and o pretty penny for the
inventress.
The soundings for the French cable are
said to have demonstrated that the suppos ed
gaunt spires of rocks in the Atlantic called the
SThree Chimneys,'' and which, as laid down
in the Admiralty chart, were confidently be-
leved in, do not exist, at least in the latitude
and longitude in which they appear in the
charts. The surveying party went over the
exact spot and found more than two thousand
fathoms of water, with deep water al round,
and not the slightest trace of rock or shoai IN
any direction. .as.. II she.s,
Three murderers under penalty Of death
in Utah have been permitted to select their
mode of execution, and have chosen to be shot,
We suppose that next to tho garrote and the
euillotine, this is the most desirable form Of
execution for the victim,-particularly il the
military order be adopted BY which twelve
men fire simultaneously, and thus an instant
ly fatal result is assured.
The Massachusetts Medical Society offer
ed a prize for ready method of ventilating
sick rooms. The Medical Gazette of New
York replied ''Pull down the window-sash
and leave the fireplace open" and claimed the
prize. An old lady writes to the Boston Med
ical and Surgical Journal, thus: "The New;
York Medical Gazette omitted one essential to.
the final success of his way Of escape from the
closeness of the 81 .k-room viz, to let the pa
tients have the gates ajar,' or the gates wide
open.'"
Deacon B., of Ohio, q very pious man,
was noted for his long prayers, especially In
his family. One Monday morning the deacon
and his wife were alone, and as was his GUS
tom. after breakfast q prayer was ohsred.
There being an unusual amount Of work that
day, the deacon's prayer was short, and seiz-.
ing his hat and milk pail be started for the
barn. His wife, being deaf, did not notice nus
absence, but supposed him to be ssiii engaged
in nraver On his return from milking he was
surprised to fiud her still kneeling. He step
bed up to her and shouted "Amsn," when she
;mmsdiately arose and went about her work
as il nothing had happened.
One Of our theatrical companies enacted
.snoraD the other night in q neighboring city,
and when MARY Morrison" made her exit to
bring ON her little willie" of four years, she
was shocked to find iubberly boy OF at least
fourteen, and as he was the only Willie at
hand, on he must go, well nigh as big as his
mother The Farmer Allen OF the play be-
inc eoual to the emergency, instead Of inquir-
inc saow old are you, my little man9" en-
dsavored to remedy the matter BY saying,
How old are you, my strapping boyr But
| be failed for the boy who was instructed 20
say from -four to siz" said 4 IL suon a coarse,
sepulchral tone as to drive the good