The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-10
Gleanings and Gossip.

"A Gipsey predicted to the Empress of Aus
tria, during her recent journey through Gro
alta, that she would become over eighty years
old. But not right away.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sis
ter Catherine Beecher have selected Aiken, s.
c., for their proposed "school of Agriculture
for girls"
Charles Cole, is appointed post master al
Rochester, Mimi, vice Mrs. Fay, removed.
This removal occasioned something Of furry
in the otherwise quiet town of Rochester; to
allay which, Mr.. Cole is to marry Mrs Fay,
thus conciliating the Johnson-Grant appoint
ments.
San Francisco isito have an India-rubber
factory.
The North has GAL cotton mills and the
South Sc.
-Chinamen ars beginning to some from
California to the Atlantic cities.
Among the new round hats worn by ladies'
the " beehive" the "Shepherdess' and the
''bomb-shell,'' are said to be the most popular,
White Feather. an Indian chief, is lectur-
ing in the West on "the American Indians"
and dresses and sings in illustration.
"A clergy man at Kingston, England, refus-
es to admit young ladies to confirmation unless
they promise never to dance.
The estate of the late Baron Rothschild
has just been settled. 1t amounts to !, zoe, ,00O,-
900 francs.
Franklin could never have been born in
Spain, nor would any Spaniard understand
the meaning Of his saying that time is money
We doubt whether an equivalent Spanish
phrase exists. An express train is a thing un-
known in that country.
The largesse of the Royal Family of Great
Britain, down to its youngest members. it
seems, comes out of the Civil List, and some OF
the English papers are commenting on the
fact that the gifts and presents made by Prince
Alfred'in Australia, when visiting that remote
colony in the Galatea, cost the nation the pret-
ty little sum of three thousand FIVE hundred
pounds. Princely generosity with the peoples
money.
Napoleon III. has determined to complete
the Arc de Triomphe in Paris by placing ON
the summit the colossal bronze group which
the first Emperor intended for the crowning of
the edifce.
John G. Whittier's remarkable and beau
tiful poem, "The cry of lost Soul" founded
on tradition of northern Brazil, that the lone
ly night-cry of certain bird is not the note Of
q bird, but of
ssThe aimed soul Of some infiGel,
VI cursed hereto that cries nom nell,
has so pleased the emperor of Brazil that he
has made translation of it into Portuguese,
and has sent to Mr.. Whittier an elegantly
bound copy of his version, together with two
finely stuffed specimens of the bird, the Alma
perdidd, or Lost Soul.
When Gen. Sherman was at Fortress
Monroe the Lother day he visited the house
where the steam fire engine is kept Here
was portly specimen of-the New York fire.
man. who oficiates as engineer. "What is the
name of your engineer asked the general.
ssTbe name is B. f. Butler" "Humph, an
odd enough name fer fire engine" returned
Sherman. "we want to change the name.
general" said the engineer; cant You sug-
gest a name for it?' mo, no." answered
Sherman, "let him squirt"
Emile de Gradin has just been challenged
by Anatole de la Fargo. In reply he proposes
that each should take ream of paper, bottle
of ink and box. of pens, and that tAe combat
should last till paper, ink and pens are used
up.
Among the incidents of the late storm in
st. Louis was the return of sportsman with
five dozen snipe, which he had found killed by
the hail. A pigeon was brought down in the
city by hailstone,