The Portland daily press., 1869-12-08
Gossip and Gleanings

Fisk must be going into the elothiug
business-he keeps astonishing people with
| his new suits.
= J. Ross Browne says that it is a co,umon
practice ameng the Chinese to steal children
and cut their eyes out for medicinal purposes
Even Mendelssohn is accused of plasiar-
ism. The London Orchestra says: "The
first tenor song in the Elijah is parody
from modern German; the Hammer song
is written upon Handel; and the Hear, ye
Israeli is a close copy of Sebastian Bach"
Mrs. Stanton says that she knows of a
rich lady in Michigan who made will giving
her husband handsome annuity as long as
he remained her widower. "It is EVIDENT
adds Mrs. S., "that the poor white male, soon
er or later, is doomed to try for himself the
virtue of the laws he has made for woman"
- The Buffalo Express contained the fol-
lowing: a . -if stl al
u j. ,t AcSOcOarS0l II ..i.
The next day it explained it thus: "
It's easy-A c-eighty (cat) Caught (caught)
a r-eighty (rat)-A cat caught rat! Amt
t? -.... ..... .ta
You never saw such happy lot of people
as we had here yesterday" said a landlady in
Indiana to newly arrived guest; :" there were
thirteen couples of 'em." What, thirteen
couples just marriedi?" "Oh, no, sir, thir-
teen couples just divorced" ....
A doting mother of waegish boy, having
bottled lot of nice preserves, labeled them,
Put up by Mrs. D." Johnny, having dis
covered them, soon ate the contents of one
| bottle, and wrote on the bottom Of the label
Put down by JOHNNY D-."r .
"A chemist OF Bar-le-Duc, In France, ha !
just invented convenient way ofpetrifying bo-
dies, and thus proposes to solve the troublesome
problem of the cemeteries. Every one NAV
now, with perfect safety to the public health.
become his own monument and stand guard
over his tomb. 1'-
"A handsome, tall, and finely developed
girl at recent masked ball in San Francisco
made herself particularly useful and obliging
in the ladies' dressing-room, turned out to be
beardless young man about town, to the
horror of corpulent lady, whose corsets he
had helped lace, and many others.
: In animals, as birds, which pounce or de-
scend upon their prey, the pupil of the eve is
elongated perpendicularly, so as to give YER
tical sweep to the vision; but in those ami.
mails that ruminate, as the OK, the pupil Is
elongated horizontally, so that the eye may
take in wide lateral sweep of objects-in
both cases powers of the eye being adapted to
| the requirements of the creature.
| "A bottle conjurer announced in London
that he would jump into quart bottle at the
Haymarket Theatre. Ten thousand persons
were found who believed that he could do il.
and came together to gain admittance, and
witness the miracle. He tried, but couldn't,
and the believing audience were so enraged
because he did not jump into the bottle that
they nearly pulled the house down In 'i'eir
indignation.
"A hymn.book lately published oy the
Sn;r;tna,;sts makes an attempt to combine an
;naov of o,,tbors and an index of first lines oc-
M, ohbreyiating the latter to save space
with some very curious results he'eief'
are given to- ,,,ot loves--Der-
'sa @Have aa ye heard of the be''utiful-Amenaa
4. .0b. JT.ef' love the sparEllng-Mrs' Cora Dan
iels." -1r,,5,on Tut