The Portland daily press., 1869-05-25
Gleanings and Gossip.


Everything is so K-sow with farmers now
Tomorrow is the anniversary of John
Smith
Rev. Robert Laird Collier of Chicago, goes
to Europe, June 1, on six months frlough.
All the bridal chambers at the Union Ho-
tel, Saratoga, have already been engaged.
Very many brilliant compilations are the
results of arsenic eating.
Saratoga hotel keepers have come down
from last years prices.
The fight between Jonathan and John is
"off.'
-Bores are called by a magazine writer
"Human Augurs."
The Paterson press mourn the decline of
their race-course.
Not fake of snow fell at Portland, Ore
gon, last winter.
The Denver (Colorado) News says that
beets the size Of hams grow in that county
The Empress Of Austria counts her beads
on a rosary worth $4,000 forins.
Lake Shad have been caught in Lake On
tario and brought to market from Braddock's
Bay
Whatever Gov. Sprague's luck with his
enemies may turn out, he has already proved
q terror to his new-found friends.
"A convention of Shakers is to be one of
the new features of the Boston anniversaries
this year.
Wall street continues its demonstration
against Secretary Boutwell, and his supposed
policy.
New Hampshire farmers complain of the
lack of laborers, and planting is backward in
consequence.
There are 16O students in the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, and thirty applicants have
been rejected for want of room.
The Pope dictates to an amanuensis four
hours day, and to the rest of tae world the .
rest of the time
-Piau, the gymnast, treats his audience
about fortnightly to an extra sensation by fall
ing and breaking a limb or two.
Mr. Louis A. Cooley, the popular publish
er of the Lady's Book, is for the second time
making the tour of Europe.
General Hancock has authorized St.
Paul paper to deny that he protested against
being sent to the Northwest.
The London Standard, Conservative pa-
per- warmly presses upon the government the
necessity of assisting emigration to Canada.
German papers state that the whole tract
upon which the city of st. Petersburg is butt
is sinking slowly but with fearful regularity.
New York professors Of dancing have in
tooduced the "kiss eotillon," the peculiar fea-
ture of which is that the partners osculate as
they swing corners.
The Importance Of the result of the recent
elections in Bavaria can scarcely be over esti-
mated in its relation to the question of Ger.
man unity.
Three men in Pittsfield caught 237 trout
in Barnstead and Strafford, last Tuesday, and
two other men caught T5 pounds of trout in an
hour and half, on Saturday last
The sword presented to Washington by
Frederick the Great, and the original draft of
the Farewell Address, are now on sale at~New
York. The owners ask $4,000 for these arti-
cles, and they propose to send them to Europe
if they cannot be sold in this country
The ex-Johnson postmaster of Helena.
NJ. T., is nearly $4,000 short in his accounts,
but there is small prospect of recovering any
of the plunder, as the official put all his prop
erty out Of his hands on the very day that his
successor was confirmed.
The Pennsylvania Legislature at its re-
cent session passed an act to prevent the pub
lication of obscene advertisements and the sale
Of noxious medicines. But through some
trickery the bill disappeared and did not net
receive the approval of the Governor, without
which the law will be no terror to evil 1oers.