The Portland daily press., 1869-05-29
Gossip and Gleanings.

The Providence Herald says that the ira
peze business is 4 disgrace which should be
abolished by any process short of lynching.
Two persons were killed on q single line of
horse cars in New York, on Monday.
"A Nevada paper reports the passage by its
Office of "drove OF Chinese laborers" Each
carried his own baggage, consisting of an ex-
ira hat.
-"Biddy, has that surly fellow cleared off
the snow?" "Yes, sir" "Did he clear it of
with alacrity, Biddy?" "NO, sir; with
shoUel''
I'm the year 1852, wages paid to haymakers
were one penny day.
When has man a right to scold his wife
about his coffee? When he has more than
sufficient grounds.
Booth has little girl six years old whom
he doesn't allow to go to the theatre
"A European letter has the following gos-
sip concerning q. S. Minister Clay:
"A fight between negro and an Indian
enlivened New Bedford Tuesday. "Mr. Lo''
had the best of it.
MIR. T. A. Seward is not to edit the New
York Commercial Advertiser as reported.
"A tumbler of water drawn from the
Bridgeport Aqueduct lately contained one eel,
one lizard, one blood-sueker, ct al.
Colts armory at Hartford is running day
and night, employing two sets of hands.
Jenny Lind has taken up her residence in
Hamburg.
Farmers in Minnesota are paying twenty
five per cent. interest for money to hold their
wheat, rather than sell it at S5 cents
We saw a fellow going zig-zag up the
street, yesterday, singing, "Money is hard
thing to borrow A wag exclaimed, eyes,
and tight thing to pay back
TEDDY, me boy, jist guess how many
cheeses is in this ere bag, an faith, III give ye
the whole five." Give" said Teddy. "Arrah,
by my sowl, bad luck to the man that toald
yer
An Irishman took the cars at Boston for
Worcester. On jumping from the cars he re-
marked, that, ''if he had known he could have
made the journey in so short time he would
have walked afootp'
Mother, did you hear sissy swear?'' mo,
my dear; what did she say?" "Why, she said
she wasn't going to wear her darned stockings
to church on Easter Sunday"
The last society spoken Of in California is
the "Pay-NOthiDgsl" 1t is said to be alarm
iugly prosperous. The password is, "Lend me
dollar" the response, "Broker'
-On his death-bed distinguished humorist
requested that no one might be invited to his
funeral: Because sobbed out the dying man,
cit is a civility can never repay"
1t is said that bleeding partially blind
horse at the nose will restore him to sight; so
much for the horse. To open a mans eyes.
you must bleed him in the pocket.
"A stage-prompter's duty is not to give the
line but the leading word when performer
wants his aid 1t CHANGED one evening, dur
ing the representation of ''The Poor Gentle
man." the Worthington of the evening found
his memory fail where he should have said, "a
gallant soldiers memory will flourish, though
humble turf be osier-bound about his grave
At the word flourish he hesitated. ssOsier."
cried the pro mpter; on which Worthngton,
drawing himself up with much dignity, pro-
ceeded as follows; ga gallant soldiers memo
ry will flourish, though his father was only a
hosier"
The men who never die are. the man who
voted for Washington, the man who first nom-
mated Grant, the Oldest Freemason, the last
soldier Of the Revolution, Jeferson's body SER
want. and the man who originated the idea of
the Pacific Railway.
The King of Sweden is the most affabe
and approachable monarch in Europe. In his
daily walks, or while going about in the pub
lie steamers that ply through the waters of
the city, as omnibuses do in New York, he en-
ters freely into conversation with the people,
And to strangers, especially Americans, he Is
exceedingly kind, or, as his subjects would say
gracious.
AT the Tenahely Ureland) petty sessions,
the other day, little girl was prosecuted for
taking up when passing through bog, two
wild duck eggs. The bench imposed fine
with costs, or imprisonment, on this little
child of poor laborer.
Indiana is becoming important as a tobac-
co producing State. The soil is we'll adapted
to its growth, particularly in the counties Of
Washington, Oronge, Dubois, Greene. Davies,
Martin, Gibson, Warwick, Pike, Knox, Spen-
Ger, Perry, Crawford, and Harrison, where 1t
is cultivated upon almost every farm. A. the
little town of Huntington, in Dubois County,
there are four extensive tobacco steameriss,
from which were shipped the past year seven
hundred hogsheads Of tobacco, valued at $780,
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