The Portland daily press., 1869-12-17
Gossip aud Gleanings.

Gossip aud GleaniBgs.
Boomers stud is worth 100000.
-Rare books are sometimes well done.
The greatest of modern composers-Mor-
phine
-Prim, the Spanish general, is little, and
has peaked nose.
Coffee killed little girl in Indiana. 1t
was scolding hot and applied externally.
The Houston Telegraph says that immi-
grafton is pouring into Texas.
The Philadelphia Post Office building is
about to be enlarged.
The Cuban lobby is said to be the largest
in Washington.
The best detective policeman at Philadel-
phia, is one Benjamin Franklin.
"A chloroform mandatory of Edinburgh
makes 100000 doses a year.
| 1t is said that prussic acid Is put into CT
| gars to give them peculiar flavor
Sorghum rum is new article of Kentucky
manufacture.
Jenny Lind's daughter, twelve years old,
inherits her mothers voice.
Woman carries all before her in these
times. Even "Little Women are irresistible
Somebody says that birch rods make the
best baby7jumpers.
Marriage" said an unfortunate husband,
sis the church-ya yard of love-" Sand you," re-
piled his wife, "are the grave-digsers."
in youth, women are our idols; at a ripper
age, our companions; in old age, our nurses;
and, in all ages, our friends.-[ Bacon.
Miss Kate Putnam, daughter of the
New York publisher, has graduated in medi-
cine at Paris.
The New York World occupies a column
in describing the female bummers, a species
peculiar to that city.
There is a store on the Sixth avenue,
New York, where cats are kept for sale-fan-
cy breeds, of course.
-Gottschalk has been appointed Imperial
Director of all the military and naval band
in Brazil.
"A bull fight was gotten up at Guadalaja-
IA, Mexico, in honor of Mr.. Seward, on his
visit to that city recently.
The Sultan of Turkey is the son of
Circassian slave, once noted as the most
striking beauty of his fathers harem.
They are trying, and with apparent sue
cess, locomotives for drawing omnibuses in
the busiest streets of Paris.
-Pocahontas is being unearthed now, and
discovered to be no better than she should
have been.
1t is said that Mr.. Fske of the Galveston
Bulletin, has been shot at twenty -one times
in the last three years.
Miss Lizzie Boynton, of Indiana, an
nounces herself for Congress. She has blue
eyes, short hair, a prominent nose-and
cheek!
-Ajustice OF the peace out West sent an
armless man to Jail for picking pockets. The
jailer sent him back with an abjurgatory mes
sage to the justice.
An admirer of Lucretia Borgia has found
mos. conclusive evidence that she was a
modest, lovable, and virtuous woman, quite
| incapable of perpetrating the crimes populariy
| attribute to her.
Some of the young men in Detroit pur-
pose organizing saving society to cut wood
for poor widows this winter. To be eligible
to membership young man must be unmar-
ried.
in Chicago, husbands are said to be so
much under the petticoat government that
they add to their announcement of future
movements the letters "W. p" which means
"wife permitting"
The President cannot smile upon capital
movement. He remembers that his own cap
ital did not increase by going to st. Louisiana
doubts whether the nations would thrive any
better.
Russia is doing her best to trSmpls the
Polish language out of existence. A ukase
| ordains that whenever Polish parent sends
his child to school he shall pay the authori-
ties sum of200 roubes as guarantee that
the child shall not speak Polish in the school,
Now that Dent has been defeated down
| in Mississippi, the papers there treat him more
| disrepectfully than ever. The Mississippi Pl-
lot, the leading Republican paper of the State,
calls him "Jug" Dent, and offers $4,000 re-
ward for the discovery of the man who first
nominated him for Governor.
Some of the old walters at the Astor
House remember not only the guests but
their tastes, however long the interval be-
tween their visits. Governor Mccormick, of
Arizona, says that recently, after an absence
of four years, waiter asked him at breakfast
if he would have stewed CLANS, "as usual"
Wealth is desirable for what it.enabes us
to enjoy but, it is not desirable at the cost OF
honesty and honor and true manhood. 1t Ia
not desirable when truth and virtue and re-
ligion-when honorable usefulness and hap
piness here, and eternal happiness hereafter
must be sacrificed for it..
| The editor of the Ohio State Journal
who is in Washington writing letters to his
paper, says in one of them: Washington Is
looking well-that is, well for Washington.
Everything has fresh, tidy look, and panty
smell, Yon cannot touch a house, fence,
shop door, OF woman, without getting be-
| daubed with red or white paint"
| "A gentleman of Buffalo has engaged to
perform the following difficult feat: A cork
will be loosely placed on the neck of an ordin-
ary bottle, and on the top of the cork bullet
will be rested. The gentleman will then un-
dertake, at distance of twelve PAGES, to fire .
pistol so that four times in ten trials he shall
shoot away the cork and drop the bullet into
| the bottle.
A most remarkable case of consanguine-
GUS sympathy is that of father and son liv-
ing in Fleming county, Ky. The father Is
about As years of age, and the son is not yet
twenty. When one has any complaint the
other is similarly affected. But yet more re-
markable still is the similarity of their apps-
| tites temperaments and general actions
What one likes and eats the other nNes anu
eats; and what one dislikes anu Wou ! ea'
the other dislikes and won n.n"r e~ 80 the ~ ,,m.
angry or n'Ppy p tho 10 o9ssr e9s sa.
degree and at the same 'iTe Ts = .nSs,s M u at the
urv or gloomy or happy. They sneeze al AZ .ns .ns
same time, sleep at the same time anu sa'
same number of hours, and the mos. reinarA
able of all they dream at the same 'iine sa. os
the dream of one is the same as the ur'~'' u