The Portland daily press., 1869-05-21
Gleanings and Gossip.


Alexander Dumas, Jr., will publish, next
fall, a work entitled la Femme Moderne.'
Max Rings "John Milton and His Times
has been issued in an Italian translation at
Milan.
General Prim intended to issue, in 1867, a
work on the Spanish insurrection, but he was
unable to find publisher either in Paris or in
Brussels
Queen Victoria, the King of Denmark,
the Emperor Napoleon, and the Crown Prince
of Prussia, have model farms. That of Napo-
leon alone is very profitable. The others are
losing concerns.
The missal which the Empress uses, when
ever she attends divine service at the chapel of
the Tuileries, is bound in very curious style.
In the cover are to be seen-the three conse-
Grated medals which were presented to the
Empress by Spanish peasants to whom she
gave an audience in the year 1866. The EN-
press is possessed of quite a number Of SINH
lar amulets, most of which she has received
from Spain.
The author of the American novels
"Stormclifr' and @Hotspur," Mr.. Walworth,
will publish this spring work entitled "War-
wick; or the lost Nat;onalities of America"
What the nature Of this book is, we do not
know, but suppose, from the title, that it is a
political fiction, the lost nationalities -
meaning the overthrow 0f State sovereignty
1t is estimated that, in the course of the
last two years, upwards of five hundred thou
sand volumes and pamphlets of anti Bona
partistic writings, such as Rogeard's books,
ETC., have been clandestinely circulated in
France. Three or four hundred peddlers, in
all parts of the country, do a very profitable
business in this kind of literature.
of the making Of verses there proves to
be no end. A late number OF the London
Athen@um has reviews of twenty new vol
umes of poems-an by new candidates for
Parnassus-the greater number of which the
Athen@um considers worthless
We must have the realistic in art, at all
hazards, especially on the stage, where real
streams, real cascades, real ships and real ac-
cessories of other kinds are demanded by a
| curious and unimaginative public. The latest
stretch of realism is that of q Munich theatre
cal manager, who has in preparation grand
pectacle, sin which the waters Of the Rhine
will be seen undulating around rock, and
will be crossed by sa0inaraing nynaph." Here
is a fortune in store for enterprising New York
managers. Think Of the effect of bevy of
swimming nymphs'' or Coney Island beach
scene, for instance, produced with every real
istic aida real surf and real swimmers in CO.
| quettish bathing attire, floundering and strug-
| Cling and painting in the mimic brinel
The Army and Navy Journal calls the Pa
cific railroad ''our military highway"
Mr.. Ehrenberg of New Orleans died leav-
-. =. A.
hsiress." This was signed, executor named,
and the courts have declared 1t valid.
The ten-cent penalty for not buying a
ticket before taking passage on the Boston g.
Albany railroad operates rather severely on.the
short routes. The fine paid by unwary or
careless passengers to Brookline, is an ad-
vance of only hundred per cent on the reg
ular ratel
Water is not costly. The Financial Chron-
icle publishes list of twenty eight great rail-
roads in this country, whose aggregate stock
in 1867 was S2S7 900 which in two years
have watered their stock to the extent Of
S113 6tS OOO their present aggregate valuation
beino s40 .6S4 900. This beats all the milkmen
of the age.
-Some enthusiastic persons in England
sent money and men to Palestine for the pur-
pose of unearthing the ancient Jerusalem;
but to their astonishment their engineer re-
ported that the old city was several hundred
feet below the modern one. The TACT foreshad-
owed altogether too big a job, and the enter
prise was abandoned.
The cemstery near Ssbastopol in which
the British dead of the Crimean campaign are
buried in shameful state of neglect The
Pail Mall Gazette contrasts the indiference OF
the government on this subject with the zeal
GUS interest manifested by the United States
government after the close OF our civil war
A writer in Putnam's Magazine, for June,
remarks: ''There was time when the word
wedding present had charm in 1t. When 1t
meant something fresh, spontaneous, repre-
sentative of the giver's affection. and when
the ciyer was permitted, without creating
scandal, to proportion his gift to his means.
But that was good while ago,
About seven years ago, two sisters-in-law
in Detroit got into adispute over baking they
were engaged in, and vowed never to speak TO
each other again. Though they have both
lived together in the same house since then,
eating at the same table, and engaged in work
side by side, they have never once addressed
remark TO each other, or in anyway recog-
nized each others presence.
"A Minnesota Judge has decided when
man is legally drunk. He says; 1T Is not
necessary that man should be wallowing In
ditch, or humping his head against your
posts, that you may know him to be drunk;
but whenever he begins to tell the same thing
over twice, then he's drunkg