The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-31
Gossip and Gleanings.

The Germans like Whittier.
Dickens new novel is completed.
-Cruikshank is illustrating Coughs life.
There will be fifty-three Saturdays in
1870
Successful plays are first cast and then
run.
Rolling stock-capital invested in bowl
ing alleys.
-Serpents on the Hearsh-Eels on a grid
iron.
Hard to match-the stone giant and the
double-headed girl.
Two genuine Japanese keep tea store
in Chicago. Of course they draw.
Young men at Montreal velocipede on
the ice, making their bicycles icicles.
They call the $4,000 deficiency in the
Howard Bank, Boston, a Clerical error"
The Erie Railway Company is said to
have bought the Adelphi Theatre, in Boston.
Indiana harvested its last corn in Q
snowstorm, and the voices of the harvesters
were husky.
AN Indifferent actress-one who does not
learn her part and pays no attention to stage
business.
The proposed new park in Boston makes
as smuch noise (there) as if it were park of
artillery.
Why is an overcoat like baby? Be-
cause one is what you wear, and the other is
what you was.
Several Senators have introduced long
bills, but of course Senator Drake presents
the broadest bill.
Seventy-fve dollars is the estimated value
of broken heart, according to an Illinois ju-
ry in recent breach of promise case.
-Pere Hyacinthe kindly answered fve
hundred applications for autographs in this
country, and his hand delighted many hearts.
Admiral Semmes, who has failed as an
editor, naturally discourses about "the present
demoralized condition of the Southern press"
Coughs and colds are prevalent. The ap
plication of a wet towel to the forehead before
retiring is the safest remedy and the surest
preventive.
We saw horse on the street the other
day so poor that the owner had tied knot
in his tail to keep his body from slipping
through the collar.
There are only seven hundred women to
vote in Wyoming, and young women in that
territory must become twenty-one before
they attain majority.
The new buildings erected in New York
during the year 1869 are greatly in excess Of
those of last year. The total number built or
begun during this year, 2,32o.
-Jo. Jefferson sung comic songs in tfe
loft of a pork house in Terre Haute twenty
wears ago, and he goes shortly to the same
place to open the new opera house with his
Incompatible personaticn of Rip Van WHO
kle.
Somebody revives an old saw to show
that there will be good crops in 1870:
"Should December be cold with snow
On every height fair crops will grow"
These old saws can be brought out and used
at any time, because they are carefully filed.
Treasurer Spinner, it is said, wrote his
own report. Whereupon the New Orleans
Times remarks: "What jolly time the
clerks must have had reading it. Egyptian
hieroglyphics are not to be compared to his
writing, judging from his signature on the
greenbacks, which looks like Chinese pre-
scription for chills."
After an intermission of eighteen hun
dred years, Lauginireopens the Pempeii Thea
tire with "The Child OF the Regiment solicits
the continuance of the patronage bestowed
on his predecessor, Marcus Quintus Martius,
and PROMISES to equal the efforts Of that emil
nent manager.
AN Iowa Editor Acknowledges the re-
ceipt of Congressional documents in advance
of the regular mail. The way 1t occurred was
this: A wolf chased the mail carrier abou'
four miles. They want the government
put on the route number of able-bed'
wolves to facilitate matters.