The Portland daily press., 1869-05-12
Gleanings and Gossip.


"A courtezan drew the grand prize in the
Hamburg lottery, and immediately had twenty
offers of marriage.
OF the eight colleges in Indiana authorised
to confer the degree of Master of Arts, six ad-
NIT young women.
Mr.. Thackeray is, perhaps, the only man
Of letters who ever dedicated a book to his
tailor.
An excursion party left indianapolis,
Tuesday, on velocipedes, for Richmond, seven
ty miles east.
"A German named Ehrenberg died recent
ly in New Orleans, leaving one of the briefest
wills on record. 1t consisted of five words
''Mrs. Roper is my heiress.'s The Court af-
firmed its validity.
"A physician boasted at dinner that he cur
ed his own hams, when one of his guests re-
marked: doctor, would sooner be your
ham than your patient
The Egyptian ladies in the days of the
early Pharaohs had many of the toilet articles
now in use among fashionable ladies.
Douglas Jerrold was compositor; Charles
Dickens, reporter; John Kitto, editor of the
pictorial Bible," a shoemaker; DR.. Living
stone, factory operative; John Cassel, q
journeyman carpenter; aud William Clifford
the founder of the Edin burgh Review and one
of the most powerful journalists of his day, a
cabn-boy and afterward a shoemaker's ap-
prentice.
"A horse-doctor, stopping at the City Hotel
Cleveland, left the following notice on his
slate on Wednesday morning. "Gone out viii
return in one oir."
Ladies dom know whether they like smok-
ing or not With special favoritss they like
it, with general favorites they don't dislike it,
and with no favorites they desest it.
"A love sinitten swain recently sent some
verses to Milwaukee paper, and they were
headed, 81 kissed her sub rosa" They appear
ed as 81 kissed her snub nosa." The young
lady did not much admire the poetisal genius
of her inamorata.
"A New York man has recovered from the
inner reeesses of a rag doll, eight one hundred
dollar Treasury notes, which had been stuffed
therein by his little daughter assisted by ter
rier dog.
The Mount Vernon estate originally con-
sisted of about twelve hundred acres. The la
dies, with the aid of Mr.. Everett, some years
age, bought two hundred acres, including the
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one thousand acres which are now advertised
for sale by auction next week.
Professor Blot is delivering series of lee
lures on cookery in several of the young la
dies schools in New York.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has arrived in
Hartford from her winter residence in Florida.
The story that she found the title to her
Southern estate insecure is untrue.
The Commercial Advertiser, in reporting
the speech of Senator Sprague at the lecture
by George Francis Train says, at is seldom
New York is blessed with the sight of two
Presidential aspirants on the same platform"
Rev. DR.. Chaplin has so far recovered from
his recent illness that he preached on Sunday
morning.
"A young lady at Troy, while engaged in
conversation with a gentleman q few days
since. smoke of having resided in st. Louis
"Was st. Louis your native placer inquired
the gentleman. "Well, yes-part of the time
responded the lady.
-Duelling, it is stated, is becoming more
than ever the fashion in Paris, as hardly a day
passes without one or two duels taking place.
The results Of these encounters, however, are
seldom serious.
The high price asked for piano-fortss, ii is
stated, is due to the great strength required
siu the frame of the instrument to resist the
tension of the strings, which, in some in
stances, amounts to sixteen tons.
George Larman, who personated General
Sherman in St. Petersburg, has been person
ating Mr.. Stewards youngest son in Stock
holm with such success that he has been
chosen to pick oakum in the penitentiary.
Prim and Dulce first planned the Cuban re-
volt.
Among those who applied to be registered as
voters in Washington were Miss Clara Barton
and Miss Mary Connor 1t will be remember
ed thai Miss Connor was instrumental in get
ting a law passed in Ohio year and hal
ago for the protection of the property of mar
ried women.
A professor Of magic, while performing at
the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, desired one of
the audience TO fire gun at him, which was
soeffectually cone that the poor man fell down
bathed in blood. 1t proved that the ramrod
had broke and piece was left unobserved in
the barrel.
Fisk has leased one of the finest Offices In
San Francisco, Cal, for general ticket once
for the Erie road, and he has sent out SIX PICK
ed men to take charge. His purpose Is 10 ini-
mediately commence the sale OF through ucK-
cts from California to New York and Boston,
over the Erie railroad and connections.