The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-06-17
Gossip and GIeanings

-Ruskin thinks the arts are ia decline.
her affections trifed with.
1T is announced that Mr.. John B. Cough
has for some time been improving his leisure
in gathering materials for his autobiography.
The South Bend Register tells OF a woman
who struck her husband on the head with
rolling pin, after family prayers, the other day,
4 III. j. Barnes, a popular holse-thieI OF
Shelby county, Tennessee, neglected to take
himself in one night lately, and was found
hanging to tree, dead, the next morning.
= The examining surgeons OF the army and
navy need attention. They are presumed to
pass upon the bodily fitness of all who enlist.
Mrs. Stanton says that hundreds of women
served as soldiers and sailors in the late war,
in active service. How is this?
"A love like the ''lava flood that burns in
Etna's breast OF fame "has misled great
many innocent young people, but we do not
feel disposed to weep over the folly of the fair
maiden in Brooklyn, who, rumor says, has
Just decamped with her fathers colored coach
man.
\ The Carson (Nev.) Appeal says there are a
dozen or more camels running at large on the
Carson, near the old overland route, and many
a traveller and teamster can bear testimony
that their numbers have been increased from
year TO year by births.
-Ornithological-Grant travelling on the
Owl train and the Congressman on q lark.
-Caoallero de Rodas is At, and worse fel-
low than Dulce.
"A little girl died recently at Freeport, H.,
from needle entering under her knee Just be-
low the cap, and breaking off So that it was
impossible to extract it.
"A young maa named Walker, of Marion
township, Washington county, Visions n,
was killed by lightning on Saturday. IL pass
ed through his hat, making blue mark down
his right side, and came out at the top OF his
boot. .rlNfl
"A theft of IS is penitentiary offence in
Indiana A man in Union county recently
stole bag of wheat which was proved to be
worth "a 80 7-12. This being only petit larce-
n.y. he was sentenced to Jail for Sky days
Five-tweliths Of cent more would have sent
him to the penltentiary.
"A London street preacher has been fined
for singing lynn TO the tune of "Tommy
Dodd," in which the refrain is irreverently
paraphrased so rs to include sacred name
"A buttiug match was resorted to in
Georgia by a coCple Of hard-headed darkies, to
settle dispute as to which had the harder
head Only one round was fought, for both
fell insensible to the ground after the first col
lision.
The inventor of bed-bug exterminator
has received from Queen Victoria a gold watch
with an autograph letter acknowledging the
g In ell
brown backed midnight marauders which in
tested the royal bedchamber. The gift has
made the recipient proud, and he now struts
the streets of London with all the airs OF
''big bug
"A Chess Tournament has Just been con-
cluded in London, at which Eugene Delmer
came out victorious, having won q games and
lost only 4. 4'
"A professor of magic, while performing at
the Cirque Napoleon, in Paris, drsired one OF
the audience 10 fire gun at him, which was
SO effectuaily done that the magician fell down
bathed in blood. 1t proved that the ramrod
had broL ON and piece was lett unobserved in
the barrel
-Tbe history of the bluefsh is remarkable.
Tn 1764 they disappeared from New England
waters, and were not seen for sixty years.
When they returned-at first to the waters
south of Cape Cod, afterward, in 1s47, to Mas.
sachusetts Bay-they were few in number, and
disappeared with the first cold. Now they are
quite acc imated, comparatively hardy, and re-
main later in the season.
s "A matrimonial match between couple of
Brooklynites was abruptly broken off by
thoughtless remark from the young man.
While walking, one moonlight night, he said
to her that he slowed to linger by her side, as
an antiquarian delights in contemplating some
ancient ruin whose original beauty is only
known through legend." Comparing her to
an old ruin, she thought far IRON complimen-
tary, aod hastily bade him farewell forever
Cory O'Lmus favors the entrance OF
women in.o the political arena, on the ground
that ''every woman is bound to do a certain
amount of scoIding; and, if she does a good
deal in public, she won't do so much at home