The Portland daily press., 1869-04-01
Gleanings and Gossip.

"A few days ago there was wedding party
at the house of Mr.. s., who lives in Indiana,
near the line of Preble county, Ohio; indeed
the house is in the Hoosier State, while the
garden which supplies its occupants with sass,
and the orchard from which they draw their
fruit and cider is in Ohio. The bride was
daughter of Mr. j. The ceremony was CON
cluded, and the young folks in the midst of
high festivities, when the minister bethonght
him Of the statutes touching marriages, and
he concluded that the license, which was pro-
cured in Ohio, wasn't authority for marrying
a couple in Indiana; and he created sensa-
ton by communicating his doubts to the
young couple. A council was held, and it was
decided that to make sure thing, and leave
no room for unpleasant doubts, the party
should repair to the orchard, which was known
to be in the State of Ohio and the marriage
ceremony be repeated. THIS was done, and
the nervous bride and groom, standing there
in the beautiful snow" in the orchard, flank
ed on all sides by a crowd of shivering wit
nesses, were again pronounced husband and
wife. That marriage ought to be divorce
proof.
"A case which involved the character of q
bull, was tried at Loudon, Va, last week, the
bull being charged with goring and killing .
valuable horse. After hearing the testimony,
the jury returned the following verdict in favor
of the bull, and believe him to be highly re-
spectacle animal" The bull was acquitted
and the plaintiff lost his case.
The Russian journals announce the burn
ing down of the theatre at Nijny Novgorod
after performance in which Bengal lights
had been used, and which, the supposition Is,
pnt the scenery in flames.
Colorado intends to make large business
of shipping vegetables east, when the railway
is finished. No such beets, potatoes or cab.
bages can be raised here as they produce there.
Somebody has invented patent medicine
to make fellow rise early in the morning. A
correspondent says a six-nonths-old baby can
beat it to DEATH
AN Iowa paper informs us that "the work
men ON the bluff improvement, west of the
city of Davenport, recently found gigantic
tusk of the dinotherium." We haven't the
slightest idea what dinotherium may be like.
"A poor woman in Ohio chopped her hus-
bands head off the other day as the only means
of preventing him from starving and kicking
her to death.
According to the usage Of Lent, the Pope
has blessed the symbolical golden rose which
it is the custom to send annually to some sove-
reign servant of the church. Isabella recsiv-
ed the last, but the destination of this precious
flower is unknown.
I'm Oregon drinking is said to be q pre-
ventive against small pox, and the present
style of invitation is ''let's disinfect.'
1t is certain that the great majority of our
people sleep too little. Psychologists have de-
cided man requires seven hours sleep, and
woman eight, Notwithstanding the old adags-
six for man, seven for a woman, and eight
tor fool" Napoleon demanded but five.
But then, there is only one Napoleon in gen.
GRAFTON, and the Emperor died before his prime.
We see men around u.s. hard brain workers
too, who devote only four, five or six hours 10
sleep. There must, however, be drain on the
physical constitution to compensate for this
deficiency of Sleep 1t will reveal itself sooner
or later. 1t is rarely that overwork breaks
down the constitution when one obtains his
required amount of sleep and exercise He
can then multiply the amount of his work
with impunity. Sleep is emphatically "Na-
lures sweet MISUNDERSTANDING rest both to
the body and to the mind. No one can expect
to curtail the number of hours of sleep which
Nature demands, and yet retain his health for
any long period.
In London, new club, to rival in all re-
speets the gorgeous joint stock palaces in Pail
Mall. is to be started by and for ladies. 1t will
be very exclusive; the entrance fee win bs ten
guineas, the annual subscription five.
Colorado journals have been compelled to
suspend publication. The snow blockade
stepped their supplies Of paper.
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph says: "We
noticed fellow yesterday wearing a very
large ring with brilliant setting; but he wore
it in rather aqueer place for ring-around
his eye."
Two ofthe Rhine fortresses, Rastadt, ia
Baden, and Landau in Rhenish Bavaria, are
receiving extensive additions to their works;
and as the line between those two cities covers
Carlsruhe, the capital of Baden, from attack
on the part OF France proceeding from stras-
oourg, the transaction has received serious at
tention. 1t is, however, stated that the only
object in this suspicious movement is to exsr-
else the German soldiers in building torti6ca-
tions
Some one who claims to know the lack of
enterprise of the wealthy men of Cincinnati
and ST. Louis says that "the great want OF
each city is about thirty-five first class funer-
ais"
"A sea captain just arrived at New Orleans
reports that when off Tortugas he steamed for
two hours and half through tangled mass
of snakes of all sizes and colors
"A novel way to prevent a theatrical panic
was that adopted by the facetious Joe Hail,
tthe original Lockit in the Beggars' oDeral'
In the year 1870, when the scsne-room at Co.
vent garden was on fire, and the audience
greatly alarmed, Joe was ordered by Rich, the
manager to run on the stage aud explain the
matter which he did in the following extraor-
dinary address: Ladies and gentlemen, for
heavens sake don't be frightened-dOn't stir
Keep your seats-the gre is almost extinguish-
od-but ifit was not, we have reservoir OF
one hundred hogsheads of water over your
heads that wonId dro,pgl Won all in q lew min