The Portland daily press., 1869-07-22
Gossip and Gleanings.
Florida is raising first-class pine-apples.
The Cleveland young ladies have organ
lied "White Stocking" croouet club s..

The Cleveland young ladies' have organ
lied white Stocking croquet club.
Don't blame the ssEries driver
Because he closed his peepers
For does not every line
Depend upon its sssleepersrs
The science Of veloipede riding is most
ly comprised in a few words: 'sYou straddle,
paddle, and then skedaddle.
The belle of Saratoga this season is Cas-
tlian damsel from Madrid. She knows of
English not a word. Her foot is said to be but
six inches in length.
"A sentimental editor says: 'sIt Is comfort
ing to know that one eye watches fondly for
our Coming, and looks brighter when we
come" A contemporary is grieved TO learn that
his "brother of the quill has wife with ons y
eye."
"A Newark young lady wanders about the
streets in the evenings writing upon the pave
ment, in chalk, warnings to the impenitent.
Said Lord John Russell to Mr.. Hume at
social dinner: "What do you consider the OBJ
ject of legislation?'' "The greatest good to the
greatest number" .What do you consider the
greatest nunber?" continued his lordship.
Number one," was the commoner's prompt
reply.
AN army lieutenant in Detroit has been
making some experiments in torpedoes. He
procured a few very loud ones with which to
scare his juvenile friends on the 4th of July,
and on taking his seat rather emphatically in
horse car, off went the torpedoes and up went
the lieutenant toward the top of the car. No
lives lost, but some fun misappropriated-
As twilight hours like birds asw by,
As lightly and as tree,
Ten thousand stars were In the sky,
Ten thousand on the sea-
For every wave, with dimpled face
That leaped ito the air,
Had caught star in its embrace
And held 1t trembling there.
"A man and woman living at La Crescent,
in the State of Minnesota, mutually disgusted
with the state of celibacy, were recently mar
ried on the ferry boat, within a few feet Of the
Wisconsin shore, to avoid the necessity of
trip Of twenty-four miles to the county seat of
Houston county for license, as required by
the Minnesota law
There was what was called by courtesy an
international "ocean" yacht race on Saturday,
between several noted English and French
yachts, one hundred miles from Cherbourg
and back. The Cambria, MIR. Ashbury' yacht
was the winner, In forty-six hours. This is
called good time in England. Tna Henrietta
has made two hundred and eighty miles In
twenty-four hours.
Mr.. Richardson tells of a California wo-
man to whom he showed twenty-five cent
note of our postal currency, specimens Of
which are rare in that hard money region. She
turned it over and over with keen curiosity.
1t seems very strange to me that this should
be money" she said. "It don't look like
money" ''What does it look like?" eWell,"
(hesitatingly, and with the utmost sincerity
"it-looks- -like-a label for an oyster can P'
HThe sails are set and the breeze is up, 81
And the Prov is rurned Tor northern sea;
kiss my cheek and " me VOW
That you win ever be true 70 mel"
81 kiss your cheek, and kiss your Nos:
Never change this heart shall know,
Whatever betlde-come lite, come dsAth--
Darling, darling, love you sol'
Oh, but the northern nights are keenl
The sailor ciings to the fIoEen shrouds:
A kiss bu, ms hot through his dreams OF home,
clouds.
The maiden laughs by the garden gate
Dreams OF love are the soonest o'erl
Kisses Iall on her lips and hair,
And the world goes on as IL went before.
Hiram Walbridge is going to import Chr
namen for the South.
A revenue officer charged Noah with brew
ing beer in the ark, because he saw kanga-
roo going on board with hops
Ara housekeepers aware that foul air
enoneh to seriously taint whole house, rises
from the drains Of stationary washstands left
open over night9 The lecturer at the Frank
lin Institute, Philadelphia, censured this care
lcssness of leaving sink and basin drains open
in strong language. In this warm weather,
when every possible miasmatic germ develops
quickly, this point ought not TO be neglected.
An exchange says: Iowa is teaming with
grasshoppers." We knew there were large
bugs of this kind in that State, but did not
know they were large enough to do team
work.
Some of the. truck horses in New York
city work under tents. That is, an awning
that extends the whole length Of the horse Is
affixed, with iron stanchions, to the harness,
thus forming a very effectual shade. ss
Lake George first smerges upon the page
OF history in the year 1646 1t is true that
such writers as Losing tell US that the lake
was discovered by Champlain in 1909, whom
he represents as penetrating southwark to tne
vicinity Of Glens Falls, and almost shaking
hands with Henry Hudson, who sailed up 70
the neighborhood Of Albany during the same
year. Yet such does not happen to Do the case
4 fact that the whole tribe Of picture-book
makers might have learned with very little