The Portland daily press., 1869-05-31
Gossip and Gleanings.

Davenport, Iowa, has a non-polygamous
Mormon Church.
There is a regular stampede from the New
Dominion to the United States.
The best portraits in this years exhibition
of the French Academy are said to be the
work of women.
Mr.. Evarts has been invited to deliver the
annual address to the Harvard limbs of the
law.
1.-THE original Peak Family Bell Ringers
are in New England and New Orleans.
The injuries sustained by Hon. J. s.
Black are so slight that he will probably re-
cover the use of his arm.
Prince Alfred has $4,000 and his pay.
The Princess Royal has $4,000 to spend in
Prussia, and so on.
The Chicago Tribune complains that the
local charges on grain in that city are so high
that produce is carried by.
DOM Piatt is out with the prospectus for
new daily paper, to be published by himself
and Mr.. L. D. Reynolds, at Dayton, Ohio.
Chairs of Celtic literature are talked of for
Cambridge University, England, and Trinity
College, Dublin.
ton with several leading citizens, are moving
in the matter of removing distractions from
the East River.
-Tamberlik, ths celebrated tenor, has left
| the stage and gone into the business of manu-
| featuring riAed muskets. He has built large
armory at Madrid, where he is now engaged in
filling contract for weapons to be furnished
to the Spanish government.
Experiments have recently been made by
the Birmingham (England) Chamber of Com
merce as to the non-liability of percussion-caps
to explode en- raasse. The fact il, as has been
over and over again established, that percus-
sion-caps will not explode in bulk.
"A Mohammedan nobleman, with two
wives in India, took third when on late
visit to England. He left ber behind on his
return, bat she followed after, and on his prov
ing divorce, she claimed her dowry under
Mohammedan law, and got it.
The height of impudencs has been attain
ed by a Connecticut attorney, who lost all his
money at taro-bank in Hartford, complained
of the place to the police, got his money back,
and took the same money to the same place
the same night to play again.
The House of Commons was receE'ly fa-
vored by Mr.. Synan with genuine and con-
sequsntly delicious Irish bull. Defending one
Colonel French from some remarks which had
been directed against him, Mr.. 8. said, His
right Hon. friend had retained his seat between
thirty and forty years, and was likely, II he
lived as long, to retain it for the period of his
natural lifel"
while velocipedomana is moderating with
MS. Il Is increasing abroad. A party Of Prince
Napolson's aides-de-camp lately made trip
from Nice to Villafranca on water velocipedes.
These machines consist of two miniature par
allel canoes, which support a sort Of chair; the
paddle-wheel, placed between the canoes, Is
propelled by the feet only, and is covered like
the paddle-wheel of steamer to protect the
driver from the water it throws up. The speed
is said to be very great.
"A frightful panther which has been max
ing mischief in Durham and Cromwell, Conn.
of late, among the sheep aud chickens, was
hunted vigorously the other day, and all the
astonished party found when they reached his
terrible den, was notice on a tree thus word
ed: "Owing to temporary illness the panther
will not appear to-day. How is your grand
mother?"
Tho Raleigh Standard, paper W hch we
have several times quoted as having reduced
personality to science and made il the lead
ing feature of it columns, has the two following
paragraphs in its last issue:
Hannibal soft1ned the great stones of the
Alps by building fire on them and then pour
ing on vinegar. The people of Weldon soften
their Stone by pouring a0hiskey into it. 1t is
pretty well softoned now, and the FIRE will soon
come.
There Isl startling rumor that North Car
oina icditOr fell into the water the other day
and had narrow escape from drowning. The
accident proved fortunate, however, as he
found two shirts and pair of drawers he had
lost nearly year before. They were on him.
Gen. Beauregard, who is now railroad
king and consequently very saucy, having
been dunned for $1,000 which he owed the gov
ernment before the rebellion, has presented a
claim in Offset for $i65 80 for transportation in
the spring Of 1861.