The Portland daily press., 1869-05-19
Gleanlngs and Gossip. /.

0W0 NIOS9ARs
A s'Hearth and Home'' correspondent
whites this about the poisonous qualities Of
rhubarb: "On April 22d prepared for mar
ket twenty y-ive lunches Of common rhubarb,
or pieplant, by stripping the leaves from the
stalks. These leaves, being rubbish. were
thrown to the hogs, of which had nine, Of
the white Chester County bI eed, " which would
have dressed 100 pounds each, The result was
that five died, three are convalescrpt and ole
is doubtful. They died with every Symptom
OF being poisoned"
-Castor-o:l is recommended for chicken
cholera. Dose-a desert spoooful to table,
spoonful twice day.
-Iu 1910, a correspondent set two oak fence
posts from the same tree-one butt-eud down.
This decayed In thirteen years, while the other
is still quite sound. AZ
Mrs Moulton that vas Miss Green
nough, of Bos.on-is coming home from Paris
to sing for charitable objects. Her voice is
described as "the finest that America has pro-
duced, and her face as one that throws trouble
into the innermost depths OF the soul of man."
-On the 5th of May, the first day OF the
Mohammedan new year, the Sultan OF Turkey
made speech, in which he said that he would
Continue TO insist on economy in the admin
istration, the mDrovement OF the judicial pro-
cedure, the exteasion Of the railway system,
and the equal pacification OF all classes IN the
obligation and benefits of these reforms
"A countryman who had never paid more
than twenty-five cents to see an exhibition,
went to view the Forty Thieves" The tick
ct seller charged him seventy five cents for q
ticket Passing the pasteboard back, he quiet
ly remarked, Keep it, mister, 1 don's want to
see the other thirty mine, and out he went.
AN attachment to achampagne-bottle. pa
tented in England, permits a part of the con-
tents to be Withdrawn without in the least in
juring the rest. The attachment to cham
pagne bottles in this country is such that not
a single drop isleft in them after they are once
opened. -if
The Paris correspondent Of the Pail Mall
Gazette presents the following picture of the
crisis in France: we have here large guam
tity of dangerous compounds lying about in
fearful juxtaposition. These are the occult
brain workings of an almost omnipotent ruler,
at once the most irresolute and the most obsti-
nate OF men; the implacable hatred of an op-
position numerically weak, but most formida-
bic in intellectual strength, and the covetous,
sensual aspirations of larger popular class
totally ignorant of the first laws of political
economy, and yet, by national temperament,
irresstiby inclined to systematic theories,
generalization and blind logic. When win
these elements come into collision? or may
they not explode any day by accidental con-
cussion? or less than that by mere atmospher-
ic infuences?'
There is conductor ON the Fitchburg
railroad in Massachusetts who always carries
in his mouth or about his person blossom,
fresh and perfum,d. The spirits told him
that was the only condition by which he could
hope to meet his wife in HEAVIER.
-Of the eight colleges in Indiana author
lied to confer the degree of Master Of Arts,
six admit women, namely: The st to Univer-
sity, Asbury, Northwestern, Christian, Me-
rom, Earlham and Notre Dame
"A New York paper says: Doctor Bayes
wishes to go North again. No Arctic explorer
back. a
There was thoroughness about practical
iokirg in the middle ages. When Pope Adrian
died, the Roman people, who hated and des-
pissed him, determ ined to testify their pl asure
at the event. They therefore adorned the
door Of his physicians house with garlands,
adding this inscription: ''To the deliverer Of
his country"
Henry Ward Beecher, apropos Of getting
hold of men, thinks that 'people are ike old
stockings; if the right person comes al ,ng he
can unravel them. NJ skein was ever tangled
S, badly but that it might be untaug ed, The
fishermen does not jerk every fish out on dry
land as soon as he catches it. Some have to
be worked one way, some another, lest <he
line or the hook break and the fish escape. To
be successful fisher of men, one must under
stand human nature. Many persons give
freely to one what they more than maze up 10
another. One man hates everybody but his
children, while is neigbbor loves only art ami
science. Every man has his soft spot"
Man may be worm, but very often
glance at his whiskers proves that he Is not
the worm that never dyes.
The New York Commercial says it was
curious to note how quickly the women In
convention listened to tho women speakers.
Mrs. Stanton had but to rise, when the storm
was quiet at once. 1t was like virgirs
description OF the CONSERVATION produced
by the sudden appearance of Neptune, when
all the winds together set upon the ship Of the
picus Aueas.
John Stuart Mil, released from his less
parliamentary labors, 10 getting
through an enormous quantity OF work, for
which his readers in all parts Of the world
will be grateful Since bis defeat Mr. Mill has
published his edition OF his fathers Analysis
of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, the
notes of which by Balm, Grote and himself
cannot well be neglected by any student Of
philosophy; an Essay on Endowments, and
review Of Mr.. Thornton's treatise on Labor,
In successive numbers Of the Fsrtnightly
Magazine; aud now his publishers announce
as nearly ready his promised book on the Sub
lection of Women.
Among other "reminiscences in which
President Grant indulged, during a recent
was his lameness at the battle of
Shiloh, caused by his having been thrown from
his horse. He was unable to walk without the
use Of crutches, but ne rode with eese, and
was in the saddle nearly all the time for some
lays.
"A chance for Geo Francis Train. We
learn from the last Imperialist that the ranks
Of the at. @. 1. O." are full, and that it re-
mains only for some zone strong-minded, in
tellgent man to declare himself the govern
ment," for them to take hold and try to make
him such