The Portland daily press., 1869-12-30
Gossip and Gleanings.
,reatures-Dairymaids.

Pail acknowledgements.
The woman question-is he rich?
From fame to infamy is beaten road.
"A water-spout-A temperance grafton.
-Drawing-rooms-Apar of dem
tist. .,....
Steady work-Walking on the tight-rope.
"A two-cent clay pipe formed the subject
of Buffalo lawsuit the other day.
Green peas was on the Christmas dinner
bills in Florida.
Difficult punctuation-puttinga stop to
gossip's tongue.
Horses freeze to death in the streets Of
Montreal.
Why are jokes like nuts? Because the
dryer they are the better they crack.
-Napoeon's State dinners cost $4,000
apiece, which is $50 a plate.
Miss Kate Reynolds had an $500 house
in Worcester, Christmas.
The man who works with a will-the
probate judge.
Pride goeth before a fall. 1t also goeth
before waterfall.
An Illinoisian is in Washington after
$500 office with petition ninety feet long.
-'Plenty-as- admirers Of female beauty
round-a-dollar-store is California adjective.
The Paris Mint is about to issue new gold
coin of the value of 81 each, TO be styled Gin
ternationals."
They have establishments in France for
curing consumption by feeding the patients
grapes. ..... ........
-Colfax's and Summers autographs sell for
81 each in Leipzig. They are worth more at
home. ..
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has written
book on Job. 1t was probably great job
for him. s..- s.E ~
Compressed air is used to propel the
New Orleans street cars. 1t saves 50 day
on each car over the old method. 7l L-
The Empress of France spent $4,000 per
day in seeing Sicily, and her average expenses
in her recent trip were $12, 900 daily.
The murderer Traupmann said recently,
with a gratiied air, to fellow prisoner, Il
am certain that am now as we'll known as
Alexander Dumas" ~ e.. 81
"A woman living in Wabash, Ind, was re-
arrested for baking biscuits ON Sunday. 1t
was thought proper that she should take
rest on that day. lse.la asT
-Grisi, in the delirium of her last hours.
sang the "Casta Diva" from Norma. The
prima donna was taken i'll at Berlin while on
her way to st. Petersburg.
The young ladies of the Treasury Depart
ment are forbidden, by a printed placard, to
whistle while at work-a most tyrannical in
reference with women's right. s r
The young ladies of the Rochester Free
Academy write their lessons on the "broad
hens of their white aprons, which they refer
to during rectations with admirable success
Madame Anna Bishop has sung in Engs
h, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, DAN
Russian, Bohemian and German. Some
languages will stand good deal of hard
usage.
"A Cincinnatian who recently had stone
foundation laid for house refused to pay his
workmen. A few nights since they assem-
bled and silently took down the walls, leaving
not one stone upon another. t. t
"A Pittsburg young man asked girl whom
| he had been following, and an entire stranger
% MN, to see her home. She accepted, and
on arriving at her home, she set her dog on
him. .I. YltF
MIR. Greeley announces series OF weekly
essays in the Tribune, next year, entitled
'What 1 Know of Farming. We do not
know of any man whose agricultural expert
ences will make more interesting reading,
| unless it be Mr.. Beecher's.
The controversy between the Harvard
h0o hat haa int ha Eno
and their Secretary, Blake, is not interesting
to the public, and we agree with Chicago
paper that hopes when VIC have another In
ternational race the crew viii talk less and
| row more.
An Irishman of Dunmore, Pa, on oelng
appealed TO for his signature on petieicn ior
| the recognition of the CUBAN insurgents, ex-
| claimed ssFree cuba, ah! I-know what you
wan, Won want TO annex Canady and git Gu
~ I'm. when there comes another draft, we
n,or divils will have no pace to go to. IN
not do it,"
A gentleman of Buffalo has engaged to
perform the following difficult feat: A cork
will be loosely placed on the neck of an ordi-
nary bottle, and on the top Of the cork bull
| let will be rested. The gentleman will then
undertake, at distance Of twelve PAGES, to
fire pistol so that four times in ten trials he
shall shoot away the cork and drop the bullet
| into the bottle.
A man can give his neighbor promisso-
nv note moistened by fluid just invented by
French chemist, and in month afterward
the holder will have nothing to show for 1t
but little dust. If this becomes generaliy
known, short credits will become the rule-in
order that the borrower may be compened 10
come down with the dust before his note
| does. -...- .s,s ..- +
The Adcance says that Sunday school
was lately started in neglected part OF
SCHUYLER County, Illinois, known As Gin
Ridge.o Fifty of the inhabitants have been
converted. All the liquor dealers but one
gave up the business of their own accord; and
he succumbed when his old customers waited
| - b;,,, Il, a hodv The place has acquired