The Portland daily press., 1869-05-27
Gleanings and Gossip

Fifth avenue will soon have another hote'.
The oldest woman's club-the broomsitck.
"A woman has been presented to the grand
jury of Owen county, Kentucky, as a witch.
-"Ma, make Bob have hisself; every time
hit him with the hammer he hollers''
= Many of the farmers in the vicinity OF Sac
ramento, Cal, are haying
The numberless itinerant street musicians
are slowly numbering Offenbach
= --Newburyport, Mass, has a surplus Of
houses to rent
Miss Anna Dickinson declares that she is
"a sufferer from the imporntuities of love-sick
swains.''
The Syracuse Police Court fines all spec
tators as vagrants.
---All cities in the West with any self-re-
spect now have spirit photographer.
: NJ Victorien Sardou, who is unquestiona-
bly, the most popular living French dramatist,
pays very high compliment to Mr.. Motley.
Only thirteen of the one hundred and six
ty-six registered distileries in Indiana are in
operation, and some of these will soon close.
dayton, Ohio, claims 800 liquor establish
ments, 80 cigar shops, and 70 retail millinery
establishments.
The Empress Carlotta has written ;thein-
scriptions for her husbands monument at
Trieste
Miss Martha Biddle, Maryland school
teacher, whose salary wasn't paid, argued her
claim in court and got the money
The lawyers in st. Louis have adopted q
new fashion, that of wearing swallow-tailed
coats
Property in and about Yankton, Dakota,
has increased in the past year from 800 to 500
per cent
"A gravestone in Maine has the following:
"Our little Jacob has been taken away from
this earthly garden, to bloom in a superior
iowerpot above.'
In Laporte county, Indiana, eighteen mar
riage licenses were issued in the month of
April, and the Circuit Court for the same
County granted twelve divorces.
"A whale and q number of sword-fsh had
battle in Bodega Bay, CAL, which resulted
in this defeat of the whale, who threw himself
on shore and died.
Two men sent to the Michigan State pris-
on last winter for burglary, have Just had a
new trial, proved an alibi and were released.
while the real criminals have confessed.
The Emperor Napoleon in his early davs
was an enthusiastic student Of engineering
science and an engineer Of no mean acquire
ments.
Tho suppression by the Italian government
of the traffic in organ boys will be considered
by the merchants interested in its perpetual
tion grinding exaction.
In Madrid, the Republican newspapers as
sert that the recent vote OF the cortes has only
deferred the scheme for Federal Republic,
not defeated it,
The skin of the salmon can be tanned. 1t
makes soft but not very tough leather. Ed
ward III. of England used to wear slippers of
it.
"A Belgian bell founder has cast a large
church bell of aluminium. The sound Of the
metal is astonishingIy clear and penetrating,
resembling that of glass harmonica.
An Iowa temperance paper recommends
/ the keeping of small pox patient in each
lookup, as means of preventing drunken
ness.
The humorous papers Of Denmark are
publishing caricatures OF Uncle Sam in the
garb of a penniless confidence man, who buys
everything and then refuses to pay for the
goods
The Springfield Republican tells of an ex
traordinary youngster who does not want TO
be the last angel God makes, because he
wants to see how he makes em.''
There seems to bs little danger Of psuch
loss by the suspension of the Royal canadian
Bank at Toronto; and hopes are'Sn''r'ained
Of resumption of business.
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