The Portland daily press., 1869-04-02
Gleanings and Gossip.


"A very good mot of Lamartine's is in cir
.culation. Somebody asked him if he was not
spending too much money in advertising his
publications. No, he replied, the good God
himself needs Advertising; else wherefore
church-bells. L
There is, says Irving q healthfnl hardness
about real dignity that never breads contact
and communion with others, however humble.
ltis only spurious pride that is morbid and
sensitive, and shrinks from every touch. lo
-Ofsnbach's opera "La Vie Parisienne"
was presented for the first time in America at
the French Theatre, New York, on Monday
evening. 1t is called the coarsest and most in
decent of all the productions to which Often
bach has furnished music. The Tribune says
that it is hardly tolerably amusiag except in
few scenes, which "are eertai My as funny as
anything we have yet seen in the way ofopera
bouffe." f...,..- t.a
"A Philadelphia reporter correctly predict
ed the storm OF Monday by "the cereal barom-
eter in our left boot" ast.f
Miss Mary Grant, of Richmond, was mar
ried in that city on Thursday of last week to a
Mr. Ford, of Gooehland county, Va 1t viii
be remembered they were the subjects of the
articles in the Southern Opinion which result
cd in the killing Of its editor, H. Riyes Pol
lard.
"A Western journal inquiries about the
other partys candidate for district attorney,
Is he necessity, because he knows no lawT'
-Rochefort says he has no more faithful
subscriber and reader Of his Ld,iterne than the
Emperor Napoleon.
l. \. -. l. a.
Siamess twins. 'Observe, Prudence, my
DEAR he remarked to her. observe the care
exercised by Providence which united thes
two citizens; and think what a heavy and
wearisome fettsr might that membrane which
attaches then together have been, II, instead
of being brothers, they had been strangers to
each other u lt lIl
"A down easter who heard Of the fabulous
wealth to be found in the sewers of New York
recently "went for it." When he emerged
from the filth, his peculiar appearance proeur-
ed his arrest. His high rubber boots, leggings
and overaIls were removed vevy carefully, and
the contents Of wsll-filled carpet sack con
tanning medley Of articles were poured out
before the astonished eyes Of the superinten-
dent OF police. Old watches, silver spoons,
es, pencil cases, rings, &c., made up the lot.
One of the rings is supposed to contain very
valuable diamond. Upon the whole we rather
think he must have earned them.
Byron once royalty snubbed young
American in Genoa, who called on him, and,
during the conversation, was compelled to ae-
| knowledge that he had never seen Niagara
"Nevsr seen Niagarai And travelling abroad
| Good evening, sir"
The complimentary dinner to Charles
Dickens, soon to be given in Liverpool, will
number among its guests Lord Duffsrin, Lord
Houghtsn, Major General Sir Edward Gust
Mr.. Anthony Trollope, Mr.. Mark Lemon, Mr..
George Augustus Sala, Mr.. Hepworth Dixon,
Mr.. Charles Elliot Norton, Mr.. Chorley, and
others. .,
"A ne W periodical, the Journal Of the Social
Science Association ia to be started in May. 1t
is edited by DR.. Eliot, the president of the
American Social Science Association, assisted
by Messrs James NJ. Barnard and Henry viii
lard of the executive committee, and will be
issued frem the Office Of the Association, 1s
Pamberton square, Boston. Among the pa
pers in the first number viii be those Of Gold
win Smith, John Stanton Gould, Charles
Francis Adams, Jr. and Mr.. Brace, read at
the recent Albany meeting, and an interest
ing ESSAY of Mr.. j. d. Philbrick read at the
annual meeting in October. A paper on Rus
sian emancipation has been contributed by
Count Tourganeff Of Paris, and other foreign
communications may also be published.
Over the gateway of the famous French
monastery, the Grand Chartreuse, is this in
scription,-
Stat crWr dun Uolvitur or6is,-
which an American traveller translated aud
wrote down on the wall of the monastery thus,
"The Church stands still while the world
moves on" rnE
"A bill is now before the New York Legis-
lature making it an actionable offence to
charge a woman with unchastity when the
charge cannot he proven.
Jenny Lind's daughter, twelve years old,
exhibits much of her mothers great genius as
a singer. ilr0 ts-a
"A New York paper announces that the
"nunc divinities was sung at an up town
church in that city last Sunday. r
"A man in Philadelphia chopped his wife
and two children to pieces with an axe on
Tuesday, and then drowned himself in the
Delaware river; and the reporter who sends
the intelligence characterizes it as an Gun
reasonable actr' lta
Perfect limitations Of carved wood, fire.
proof are now made in Paris by combining
fine sawdust or wood -four with glue or size,
and casting it in moulds.
Two Nashville schoolboys eloped last week
to Cincinnati with twin sisters fifteen years
old, and there had the hymsneal knot tied
hard and fast.