The Portland daily press., 1869-06-29
Gossip and Gleanings.

~ tit 81 Ht.i -l.is HN I1
Williamsburg, L. l., has a man 127 years
old. The same town also clearly possesses the
greatest liar alive
The members Of the female, or hen con-
60 Cluckers.'' 10 hlaits l.fr. .f i.sr
-"Cory oLanus" has good joke about the
yelocipede. He thinks Mexicans ought to be
the best riders, because the more revolutions
you make the faster you go. d f'e.,
John Deter, an Indianapolis thief, after
having broken jail several times, was caught
again last week and sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary. On his way thither he Suddenly dashed
a handful of Cayenne pepper into the eyes of
his conductor. The man was completely
blinded that he could not see to shoot, but fol-
lowed Deter by the sound of his footsteps, and
with the help of others secured bis prisoner.
y "A heathen suggests that the Jubilee re-
calls Horace Walpole's irreyerent criticism
upon an oratorio given in London, to the effect
that he supposed "the singing was heavenly
because in heaven everybody gang whether
they could or not" ~, .f...
"A diamond ring, which had been lost since
the fall of 1928, was sound in well in oswego
few days ago. The well was being cleaned
"a process which it had undergone several
times since the loss of the ring. Forty-six
years this jewel lay at the bottom Of the wen,
and it came out as bright and pure as the day
it sunk The granddaughter Of the lady who
lost the ring is now its owner and wearer.
The Duluth Minnesotian has the follow
ing warming: swe repeat it, we don't want
anybody but building mechanics, railroad
workmen and farmers to come to Duluth at
present. We are not ready for any other kind
Of people. Besides, we warn everybody of ev-
cry grade, to bring two blankets with them.-
We are scriptural here. Every man takes up
his bed and walks
While the Convention Of anti-ritualistie
Episcopal clergymen at Chicago resolves that
"a careful revision of the "Book Of Common
Prayer is needful," Bishop Potter breaches
sermon to maintain that the Book of Common
Prayer is practically infallible 4@~.
In cemetery at CollinsviIle, the follow
ing can be found on a gravestone:
Ann Lavan is my name,
rti a ireland is my nation. L<-
Coliinsyilie my Interrirs place,
S,s Heaven aa L mE Efssn ssaaiSn Snd rose. red
Ihi5 Is my name whom am dead.
And all my bones are rotten,
On this stcne my name shall be . .f
When am quite forgotten.
What is the best method Of inducing a
taste for physical science has been answered
by Kant in favor of the study OF physical geog-
raphy; and in this age this idea has received
the Endorsement of no less than Hux-
lev. Recently, at the banquet of the Royal
Geographical Society, he stated that he had
experimenting on a large class OF boys, some
four hundred in number. He found, first, that
physical geography interested them exceed
ingly, and secondly that was admirably suit
ed to further interest them in special and sci
entifc subjects. 4, ......
Can we ever forgive the State where An
drew johnson spent his boyhood for furnish
ing SO few educational facilities that he was al
lowed to grow up in ignorance? In recent
speech at the Howard female college in Ten
nessee, Mr.. johnson said, II he had enjoyed as
good educational advantages in early life as
the students then were having. he should have
passed his life as a schoolmaster and not as
public man. The State and community in
which be grew up certainly has good deal to
answer fcr. .t
Austria has taken another step in the
way Of defining the relations of the State to
the Church., Some days ago the government
showed that it was determined to enforce civil
penalties against ecclesiastical violators Of the
new constitution, and now it has nulli6ed &C.
clesiastical power in another direction by for
bidding the civil authorities to enforce ecclesi-
astical sentences. r.sI...f, .........-.
THE New York Sun arraigns the managers
of fashionable church in that city for open
their new edifce to the public before the oil
on the seats was dry, causing ruin to all dress
es ard trowsers brought in contact with the
said seats. The Sun says: "We are sure that
the original cost of the dresses ruined in
church on Sunday would pay fair proportion
Of the debt remaining thereon" Those dress
es must be in a sadly incumbered condition,
with so much fabrication added to ''the debt
remaining thereon
-Packard's S Monthly for July is out with
one of the best Of its seven numbers. Olive
Logan discusses the Nude Woman Question,
and the veritable p T. Barnum gives an ac-
count of the courtship and wedding of Gener-
al Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, in which
we learn that Commodore Mutt was a rival for
that lady hand and so Jealous q rival that it
came to wrestle once between him and the
General, in which the latter was floored, the
Commodore being man Of science.
in card Mr. Goodwin Smith denies that
he ever said, as was reported by telegraph,
that, "the American Press was not universal
ly celebrated for its intelligence"