The Portland daily press., 1869-04-29
Gleanings and Gossip.


banquet given in his honor said. among other
happy things, the following: Gas Prof. Wilson
once conf1ded to me in Edinburgh that had
not the least idea, from hearing him in public,
what magnificent speaker he found himself
to be when he was quite alone (laughter), so
you can form no conception, from the spsci-
men before you, of the sloquence with which
shall thank you again and again in some of
the innermost moments of nay future life.''
The Rev. DIR. Chaplin has been seriously
III, and confined to his room for several weeks.
He was unable to speak at Steinway Hall.
New York, on the occasion of the Odd Eel
lows celebration
The grass the grass, the beautiful grass,
That brightens this land Of ours
Oh, why do we rudely let Il pass
And only praise the lowersI
The blossoms OF spring sm an lows ,vorld hr,vo
And NE summer bloom look sad,
Were the earth not green, and the distant seene
In Its eternal robe not clad.
men men sing the grass, the beautiful grass,
For there Is not blade by natnre mada
Less perfect than the flowers.
Professor Huxley, at the recent annual
dinner of the Liverpool Philomathic Society.
spoke on the subject of the introduction
Of scientific training into the general educa-
pon OF tne country. Among other good things
ne SAID ne hoped the time would come when
It would not be regarded as blasphemous
proposition that there should be opened in ev-
cry parish in tho country Sunday schools for
science, in which people shoald be taught for
the purpose of reseuing themselves from mis-
cry and ignorance. That might be supple
mentsd by series of Sunday evening discourse
es upon secular matters, and upon topics
which would enlighten thsm and enable them
better to bear the toll of daily life
The Royal College of Physicians of Lon
con has published nomenclature Of diseases,
a work which has been in hand for more than
ten years. To each English name of q dis
ease they have supplied ON the opposite page
the corresponding Latin designation, and the
equivalent terms in the French, the German
and the italian languages. The classification
adopted Is based upon anatomical oonsidera-
tions, and Is so framed as not to imply any
doubtful theories. The work is the result of
the labors of joint committee.
An Iowa paper, in order to be even with
contemporary who told marvellous pin story,
youches for the truth of statement that la
dy in that village, when quite child, accident
any ran splinter in the thumb of her left
hand, and was astounded the other day by
having saw-log ten feet long and twenty
three inches in circumference, jump from her
heel
Three card monte men travel the lower
end of the Hudson River railroad, pluckine
the students on their way to Eastman's college
at Poughkeepsie, who are usually flush with
money and foolish in its exhibition.
Somebody down east has invented a new
plan for cheap boarding One of the boarders
mesmerizes the rest, then eats hearty meal
the mesmeriEed being satisfied from sympathy
"A Salt Lake paper finds fault with Brig
ham Young for selecting the eagle for his en-
blem, because that royal bird is strict mon
ogamist."
I Miss Laura Keene has been made widow
| by the death, in Washington, Of Mr.. John
| Lutz.
1T is announced in Paris that new histo-
| ry of the trial of the Duke DEnghein will,
soon be published, with many important un-
published documents. A manuscript of Ma
poleon has been discovered, ordering pay
ment of 10000 francs each to the judges who
sentenced the duke.
The New York papers complain that beg
ging and beggars are increasing in that city.
The First Baptist Church in Newport, r.
l., has obtained a charter which includes both
sexes in the corporation.
AN Iowa woman experienced religion"
at a revival meeting, but when she got home
she was so much in fear of failing from
grace" that she Immediately killed herself in
order to prevent any such calamity.
Another new novel by Mrs. Emma d. e
N. Southworth entitled 'sThe Changed
Brides" is in press and win be published in q
few days by T. B. Peterson s. Brothers, Phila-
delphia.
Positive and authentic information has
reached the Alta California that the President
will visit the Pacific coast this summer. If the
news is trustworthy, California will for the
first time enjoy the sensation of entertaining
a live President. If we are not mistaken, Gen.
Grant is the only President Of the United
States who was ever in the State, and no ex-
President ever visited the Pacific coast.
AN English clergyman took pains to get
the "sense" of his parishioners on the question
of opening museums and galleries of art on
Sundays. He reports that the keepers of grog-
shops were amongst the most savage oppo-
nents'' of this proposition.
The Marquis lie Caux hypotheeates Mad
ame's unpaid wages for ready money where
with to keep up style. This Caux partnership
IS "a disastrous one to Adelina.
"A satirical Democratic writer epigram-
matically observes that ''the war has SO unset
tied values that we call Lincoln saint, Grant
a hero. and Chase hnancier.'
| -Bv his will the late Col. 7. Bigelow Law
renee gave to the Boston Atheneum his valu-
able collection of armor, which he gathered
at great expense while in. Europe.
Wonderful effects of sound have been sb-
tanned by manufacturing bells Of aluminium,
| in France and Belgium. A bell CT eighteen
inches in diameter scarcely weighs forty
pounds.
"A correspondent writes to the Philadsl-
ph;a Press that he thinks Brougham PLAYED
the very dickens with Dickens when he mada
his stage piece of Little Nell" and that now
in turn Lotta is playing the very dickens with
Brougham in acting it.
Mr.. Vallandigham, editor of the DAYTON
Ledger, suggests the name of the gifted ora
tor and glorious patriot, Gen. Thomas Ewing.
Jr., OF Fairfield, as the next Democratic and
anti-Imperial candidate for Governor OF Ohio ="
This is probably by reason of the recent ex-
posure of the gallant Generals lobbying ex-
ploits in company with the notorious Perry
Fuller.