The Portland daily press., 1869-06-26
GIennin@s and Gossip.

They retire officers in the United States
Army for ''chronic alcoholism"
The new paper projected by Dom Piatt in
Dayton, Ohio, is said to have ''gone up
Its proposed that the base ball clubs Sc
cure ice pitchers during the warm weather.
Mr.. George d. Prentice has almost abar-
doned writing altogether.
-Ramie rani6es encouragingly in Texas.
Why is a bullock very obedient animal?
Because he will lie down if you axe him.
1t is reported that the Jubilee big drum
has been let for boarding house.
-Meriden aspires to be the capital of Con-
necticut.
johnson says the greatest magicians of the
age are the paper-makers. They transform
the beggar's rags into sheets for editors to lie
on.
Bismarck is credited with translation of
the Eneld, which is proclaimed to appear in
the fall.
San Francisco's Sunday amusement is the
riding of a wild buffalo by Mexican
Lettuce" shouts boy at the kitchen
window. "Haye peas, shouts a woman at the
door.
NA4ANe5S tCstCA NtthAAGAo SUI pootstrc otslulpo
Mr. Boswell Baden, of Indiana, has had
so many wives that he can't remember their
names.
"A Middletown undertaker's sign, recently
erected, reads, ''Cofins made and repaired"
Chicago proposes another and bigger
Peace Jubilee in 1S70-after the war with Eng
land.
Carleton promises for this week "Artemus
Wards Panorama" (as it has lately been de-
cded to call the book, with fifty pictures anl
memoir by A. Head.
MY DEAR" said traveller to little red
headed girl, ''can 1 procure glass of milk
hereP" mo, thir," was the reply; ''thth ith
temperance houth.''
-"Sure, an 1t wasn't poverty that drove me
from the ould counthry," said Michael the 9th
er day, "for my father had twinty-one yoke of
oxen and COW, and they gave milk the year
round
- AUNT" said a three-year old one day, 81
don't like my aprons to be starched so much.
scratch my baroness"
Handsome is that handsome does is the
current joke apropos of the three hundred
Hanson cabs ordered for New York.
"A few months ago Dutch jew appeared
in St Petersburg as General Sherman; next
he played himself off ON Stockholm as the son
Of Secretary Seward; and now he is picking
oakum in his real name and character in an
Austrian pcnitentiary.
The Russian church ut Sitka, Alaska, was
recently robbed of copy of the Bible richly
studded with valuable stones, crosses, and 9TH
er ornaments, and worth $40 900
"A politician who recently returned from
Washington, in reply to question as to
where he had been, replied, II have been after
an Office and got the refusal of it. .
The El Dorado, the women's paper in San
Francisco. has been suspended for want of pat
ronape. The Saturday Evening Mercury is
the only Womans Rights organ now printed
on the Pacific coast, and it isn't published very
much.
-Flibbertigibbet is a new magazine that Is
for the avowed purpose of pro-
claiming war to the knife against humbug,
snobbery, jobbery corruption, sensatonalism,
sensualism, extremes, and extravaganee.
Hanging has come wonderfully into fash
ion since the negro secured his civil rights
We scarcely hear OF moral insanity" 10 the
last case the Sheriff and his subject were both
of the dusky race.
"A few days since, a little ragged urchin
was sent by mechanic to collect small bill,
which had but just become due. He began in
the usual way, but becoming more and more
importunate, at length the gentleman's pa
tience being exhausted, he said to him, "You
need not dun me so sharply am not going
to run away at present" II don't suppose
you are, said the boy, scratching his head
'bat my master is, and he 'cdnts the money"
1T has been proposed to consolidate all the
principal insurance comapnies of the West
and South West, with central Office at st.
Louis, and branch offices and Boards of Direc-
tors at various central points in the Mlssissip-
pi Valley.