The Portland daily press., 1869-12-10
Gossip and Gleanings.


Wisconsin has raised its Governors SAL
airy to $500.
Winnie Ream is said to be engaged to
Roman nobleman.
The Irish girls of San Francisco have Civ
en- Train 500 emerald.
The General Rawlins family fund now
amounts to s43,20O
Paris, It i. estimated, constantly contains
au average of 10000 strangers.
"A woman recently died in Boston who
had borne twelve children and buried them
all.
"A boy on Long Island hung himself to
death to ascertain how 1t would feel.
Governor Pages residence at Rutland,
which is nearly finished, is the finest in ,Ver-
mont.
There are forty-one regiments in the
Russian army, in which every private can
read and write.
The ceremony of self-immolation In Jap
an is called Hara- -Kira, and not Hari-Kari as
1t is generally written.
"A man in Cincinnati advertises for sit.
uation: "Work not so much of an object as
good wages -.......
1t is generally believed that Cowper was
a Free Mason, as he wished to erect 'lodge
in some vast wilderness"
One of the heaviest speculators at. the
Paris Bourse is coal-black negro from Port
au-Prnce.
One old woman now alone remains to
represent the aboriginal race of Van Dieman's
Land, the Tasmanians. The last man died
in March.
Referring to the recent sale of ocean
steamers in Boston, the Providence Journal
is afraid that city will soon be a mere way
station between Providence and Portland.
Think Of the conductors crying out "Boston!
ten minutes for refreshments.'
An Englishman advertises in the London
Times for haunted house for the purpose OF
scientific observations.
England has spent 100000, gold, this
year, in sendeayoring to ascertain who swim
died the most in contested Parliamentary
elections.
In New York city there are three thousand
candidates for clerkships in the police and
civil courts.
-Strakosch refused S700 for his Carlotta
Patti concert at Springfield, Massachusetts,
and only took 500. He charged two dollars
for tickets.
New York has 200 gambling houses,
5000 professional gamblers, and s1,500,OOo
capital invested in the game, while $4,000
changes hands nightly over the cards.
Josh Billings Allminax says John Smith
was born for the first time Jan. 2Sth, which
settles a long disputed point in chronology
that is gratifying.
"A Detroit woman was arrested on Thurs
| day week, and on being searched it was
found that she had twenty-three pounds Of
butter concealed under her clothing, which
she was smuggling across from Windsor.
"A man in Gloucester. few days since,
while smoking his pipe in the street, stum-
bled and fell. The pipe was broken off and
the stem driven into the roof of his mouth an
inch and quarter
Two years ago Mr.. Bergh was invited to
come to st. Louis and be ducked in the Mis-
sissippi Now he goes there to address new
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails.
| Mrs DR.. Walker was arrested in Kansas
City for wearing the breeches, and, as her
case was dismissed local paper adds:
Policeman, spare those pants,
| And don't make any row;
In youth they sheltered mo, .
| AT sale Of costly foreign clocks, bronzes,
ct cetera, last week, in Boston, a bronze fig
ure of Jean Gougon, the French artist, brought
| of tba N n
playing eight airs, sold for sos. 81 s,',
How full of sad meaning was the remark
of the young girl In Providence, who, while
working in a cotton mill, caught her hand in
the machinery, and so lacerated it that two
fingers had to be amputated. Speaking of
her loss, she said; SIT was my thimble finger"
then iadded cheerfully, "but must learn to
| use my left hand"
"A New York paper says that the drawing
rooms and long, dimly-lighted corridors of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel are conducive to
matrimony, and adds that two engagements
are known to have been made there last
week.
The following dialogue was recently
listened to in New York in an Eighth
avenue car First young lady-So poor Su-
san is dead? Second young iady-Yes, poor
thing. She suffered terribly, didn't shss And
only think, she couldn't wear that beautiful
silk dress her mother gave her, and 1t is too
short for her sister.
"A Toronto gentleman unwittingly hired
! an escaped lunatic as a kitchen domestic, and
did not discover his error until the next day
when he discovered the girl in the kitchen
dancing an Irish breakdown, attired in an
opera cloak extemporized from sundry towels,
and head-dress of a band-box, ornamented
with egg-shells.
Mr.. Roebuck, the other day, gave this ad-
vice to company of English working-men;
depend upon it that, if you would induce
good and kindly manners among you an
think YOU well of this-be you all ceremoni'
Gus gentlemen. to your wives, and 10 al Wo-
monOJ u,;,, use that good old English phrase
-bo ro,, gentlemen to them, and you will be
J far happier in your fanny
THE lady in the Richardson case is slight
~ above the medium size. She has light hair,
fair complexion and the rosy hue of vivid
health. Her voice and her expression denote
exceeding gentleness and modesty, and she
shrinks with pain from the publicity to which
she has been subjected. She at once impress
es beholder as possessing lovely and inter-
estng Characterization Post
A master carpenter in Toplitz, Germany,
lately made bet of ten forins that he would
eat twenty-five liver sausages and ten rolls of
bread at one meal. He managed to get down
twenty-three of the sausages and eight of the
rolls, when he had to give up the task. He
lost not only his bet, but died in consequence
of his gluttony shortly afterwards
An old miser in Ireland LETT Will be-
queathing "to my sister-n-law' Mary Dennis'
four old worsted stockings which she will find
under nv bedn to a nephew two other stock
mos to the housekeeper, ''for her long and
faitbful services, my cracked earthen pitcher"
and other legacies of the same character to
, other persons. The legatees were in high
state of wrath, but one of them having kick :
ed down the pitcher, and found it full Of
,, guineas, the others examined the stockings