The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-07
Gossip and Gleanings !.

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Field hands in Illinois get four dollars
day. .f ..s. efa
a Alabama school teachers cannot get their
pay.
Sheridan, Kansas, is village of fifty
houses of which forty-three are whiskey-shops
Wales netted $25, 900 on the Derby, and
his advice to young men is, 'sYou bet"
The Rothschlds have shut down on the
Pope. sdl tD9 fa-aA y $50 sfaii.lia .si lai
( General Frank Blair has gone into the
Lille Insurance agency business in California.
There is no doubt that exclusive Clerical
Representation in the Methodist General Con-
ference is Lay-ed out ~ .tH eaN
Zee Madame Demorest leaves for Europe on
the Sth of July, to visit Paris, on fashionable
thoughts intent. itl
Jennie June sums up an article on the wo-
man question in these words; "The modern
wife, who demands everything, but gives moth
ing in return, is libel upon womanhood, and
has claim upon nothing but liberation or con-
tempt"
"A spider has killed negro in Whining
ton, N. @. Spiders will be popular with the
Democrats" henceforth.
Chicago boasts of its big strawberries,
which have attained to that degree Of size that
they are sold at so much tore or hind quar-
ter sH t'aif
"A case of strange cruelty is related on the
part of mother, at Leonding, in Austria
Wishing to get rid of her child, scarcely five
months old, she placed it close to beehive.
The poor infant had alrendy been stung se-
verely, when gendarme who was passing
perceived it and carried it away. The woman
was soon after arrested.
Henry Ward Beecher invites Bonner to
come out aud take an interest in his farm He
says he has thirty-six acres of land, which is
too much for him alone 1--WE will carry it on
jointly" he tells Bonner; @l will lay out and
superintend the work, and you shall pay the
bills 4,
Francois Victor Hugo, writing to the
London Times from Brussels, disposes of the
report in circulation that both he and his
brother Charles had lately sought refuge in
that city from recent prosecutions in Paris.
The truth is, that they have been settled at
Brussels for the last four years. gfsase
"A while ago Miss Hammel, of New York,
married Prince Louis de Bourbon, and now
Miss Payne has spliced with another Of the
same Bourbon family, named Henri. Are not
our American girls initiating the vices Of the
sterner sex little too freely BY taking to Bour-
bon in this way? ~ rff Aafr.
Frank was in the habit Of falling out of
bed during the night, and his father, to break
him of the habit, would remind him of it the
next morning. One day, as usual, his father
said to him, Here, Frank, you fell out of bed
again." "Oh, no, father,'' said Frank, 81
didn't; it was the pillow; for went up to see,
and the pillow was on the floor beside the
bed" "What made you cry, then?" said his
father. swell, you see," said Frank, in the
most sober manner, sit was dark, and could
not tell whether it was me or the pillow"
1t seems that an American Anonyma has
appeared in Paris, where her remarkable beau
ty and dash have created notable sensa ton.
At the last Longchamps races she appeared in
an exquisite dress of peculiar style. Leaving
her fourteen blood horses in her stable, she
rode to the course on q tricycle., with a blue
satin cushion and silver mountings, followed
by groom ON bicycle. His duty was to look
after her vehicle while she was engaged in the
more fascinating task of making book. Her
chief object on the course was to out-brazen
the Queen of Holland, who is not friend of
hers. otita easi
Tue frusslan neaasman mas peen iofDia-
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