The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-14
Gossip and Gleanimgs.


Mrs. Hembold is the champion dressist at
Long Branch. .s,' ~. ~ ~
! AN Illinois farmer has willed $40, 900 to
the Pope. APius will. ''" ''.
"A young Kentucky lady advertises for
s'sealed proposals for her hand and heart"
One of the ,Appenines-The Cincinnati
First Cincinnati Commercial.
When COW or OK gets choked, strap up
fore leg and compel the animal to jump. This
will cause the obstacle to fly out. -.
ID The Chicago Post POLITICALLY remarks that
"a. J. created less of fuss in Washington than
if there had arrived frst-class squash in
town."
> Why are young ladies at the breaking up
up of la party, like arrows? Because they can't
20 off without beaux and are all in quivef
until they get them. '9i'' '9e7a QUE a'p'e q
. n was an apt answer Of young lady who,
being asked where was her native place, re-
Piled: 81 have none;I am the daughter of a
Methodist minister a'i q 'i''H"
The latest Undergraduate joke at Yale
College, was the transfer, at midnight, Of
florists sign-''New Haven Nursery'-to
conspicuous position on fourishing young
ladies' seminary. ~, brs s5aosr 4. 4s
Five hundred dollars reward is offered In
London for tive. young ladies, who have alb
seconded with the supposed intention Of pro-
ceedipg to Rome for the purpose Of .eonvsr-
sion.' ~ ~. ,-..,.r, .,,,.,.. 4,
are probably not less thaa one hum
dred colored men in Rome preparing for the
Catholic priesthood. The majority Of them
- ~ fhn
South h7l'-if ~ y
a7 we we're going to write an article on Tho
,"Rights OF American Citizens Abroad, but
we fud, on examination, that they haven't got
any. % "'-'.' g 81 "''t .,-s.-4s -.~t
John T. Alexander's forty thousand acre
farm in Douglas, Champlain and Ford coun-
ties. includes five thousand acres IN corn, three
feet high. and three thousand acres In wheat,
harvesting twenty-five bushels TO the acre.
THE trsouent marriage of widows seems to
have been always more or less discouraged,
man being allowed in this respect much great
or liberty; but St. Jerome mentioned a widow
who married her twenty second husband, he Z
in his turn having been married to twenty
successive wives. The championship appears
howevcr,to belongto q Harlem woman spok-
en- OF by Evylya IN his Diary, whose propensi- I
ty for marrying hac 20 b checked BY law;
sshe had been. married to her twenty nth
husband. and being now a wicsw, secs prohib-
tied 10 uarrv in tHture.' somnlo
Ii IA curious case Of somnambulism occurred
:, paw Paw, Mich, a few nights since. A
little girl Of eight or nine years arosein her
sleep and crawied through a window Of her
bedroom in her night clothes, and taking the
family dog with her, went to neighbour, (,
some forty rods away, and into their straw
berry patch. She was seen by some one amer
to 90 home. Her parents were awakened
by her crying at the front door, and on letting
her in. she told them where she had been. oss
was still asleep, as she knew nothing OF 'ns ~ -
fair in the morning. u .-. q es..
Z s-.ar have very little respect for the ues oi
~. wor,.a !. as the chap said when tne rope
was put aboct his neck
-Tbe sorator of the Day at Lansinourgn'
asvotsd the most ct his eloquence to pnio-
ssnbical suggestion az to "the quantity Oh pea
unts and pop corn which was to be consumed
in Albany during the day.