The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24
Gleanings and Gossip.

The ''royal bombardier OF Windsor 10
dead, aged eighty 1t was his duty to fire sa-
lutes at Windsor, perilous profession In
time of peace, which he pursued unwounded
for one-half century.
An irrepressible five year old, compelled
to keep quiet on Sunday, approached his aus
tere papa with the quaint words, "Pa, let's
have little spiritual fun" Beyond which
the father could make 20 appeal
"A Paris Bohemian, just dead, leaves this
will: IT have nothing. leave it all to the
Literary Society," and the rest to my credit
ors."
MIR. T. Buchanan Reid's picture of sShsr-
idan's Ride" is to be reproduced by chrome
TYPOGRAPHY. The fame lof the artists poem
on the same subject will be likely to give The
picture wide popularity. .-H a
Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Chan
cellor, is not the author of any of the famous
dispatches which bear his name. All of them
were written by NJ de Jomini, bis secretary,
and SON of the celebrated chief of staff of
Marshal Ney.
-Ristori and her husband, the Marquis del
Grillo, are writing book on their visit to
America, which will be published in Vienna.
Dean Swift used to say that little sOuled
less they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring it out
MIR. Gladstone, in his great speech on the
Irish Church BILL directed attention to an in
cident in the life of Dean Swift, which Is
equally interesting in political and literary
point of view. In the will of the celebrated
'Stella." written under his dictation short
time before her death, in 1927, she bequeathed
81, 900, the interest of which was to be applied
to the support of chaplain of st. Stephens
Hospital, in Dublin. But, and here comes the
significance of the bequest, if at any time the
Establishee Church of Ireland shall be abol-
ished, then the bequest shall be withdrawn,
and the principal and interest revert 10 her
nearest relation or representative that may be
living. This curious incident shows that
Swift, dignitary of ths Irish Protestant
Church, had such capacity to elevate himself
above the ideas and the routine OF his pro-
fession- as to anticipate, huadred and ffy
years ago, the disestablishment OF what then
seemed firmly planted and most prosperou,
church.
Dumas i.s lately received a manuscript for
examination, with this memorandum from
the hopeful author: ut is the work Of six
days." Dumas sent back the play with the
following note; ''You should not have rested
the seventh f
During the Carnival in Rome this gear,
the English and American ladies, principally
the latter, held fair in the rooms of the Am
erican Club. They had been hard at work
preparing for it during the autumn and win
ter. In order to bring.the fair to the notice Of
the Romans, for the benefit Of whose poor It
was organized, it was thought well to give no
tice of it in the ConserUdtore Romano. This ad-
yertisement was at once responded to by the
Roman police, who instantly forbade the fair
from being held, as permission had not been
asked and obtained for so doing. When Mr.
Cushman, the American Consul, waited gu
the Governor of Rome, he was well rated for
the violation of lawl Mr. Cushman assured
the monsignore that no disrespect was intend,
ed and added that the ladies would never
have thought of asking permission to hold O
fair at home, but was gravely reminded that
America was republic" but that here i've
have a qouernmentr' The diplomat was
by an especial interposition of Providence en-
abled to maintain due gravity. The majesty
of law was appeased, and the fair took place.
AN ingenious writer in Lippincott's Mag
azine gives the names of the principal serials
in our periodicals for this year in this fashion
over yonder, beyond the breakers, at Nal
bone, to-day, Susan Fielding, my enemy's
daughter, lost Marie Antoinelte's tailisman,
the chaplet of pearls, in the mills at Tuxbury.
: The London correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune says that next to the siamese TWINS
the greatest natural curiosity here Is MT Rev
erdy johnson"