The Portland daily press., 1870-08-22
Gossip and GIeauinss.

-Beecher, having pitched into tobacco
smokers and chewers quite savagely, sudden
ly turns with pity on "the woman who mops
up" and threatens to write an article about
her.
The shoe makers of Marblehead, Mass,
having recently struck for higher wages, re-
fuse to compromise, unless assured that their
demands will be complied with. They are
resolved to hold out to the "last."
They are building iron river steamers al
Dubuque, Iowa. A fine handsome vessel,
nineteen feet beam and three feet depth of
hold, was launched there last week.
Eighteen hundred persons slept on one
night recently at one of the Saratoga hotels.
"A Wisconsin paper mentions a case where
burglars entered store, but the goods were
marked so high that they would not take any
away.
The relative positions of Napoleon and
the wife of one of the victims of his luckless.
"ideas" are singularly changed. The Emper-
or's illdirected; ambition made Carlotta in
sane, and now she is restored to reason by
simply witnessing his madness.
"A curious story is told Of Nathan, the
murdered New York banker, who passed last
summer In Stamford. When he leased the
estate, he expressed his fear that the house
was not sufficiently guarded against burglars,
and told the owner that if he wished to see
house perfectly secure against robbers, he
should examine his residence in New York.
The story of Frederick the Great, that on
one occasion, while walking out, he found
crowd reading something posted upon a wall.
Upon examination he found it to be a sour
rilous attack upon himself, whereupon he
good-naturedly remarked: "My people and /
have an agreement which is satisfactory to
both. They are to say what they please, and
l am to do what 1 please" Now, however, the
King and the people of Prussia are in most
perfect accord, saying and doing the same
things.
Il: is remarkable that none of the depart
ments at Washington were represented at
Admiral Farragut's funeral, not even that to
which the illustrious admiral has brought so
much honor.
"A Saratoga servant girl sweeps the side
walk, washes dishes, makes beds, aud talks
seven languages. Goodness gracious!
"A New York tailor was startled, the other
day, by the return OF bill which he had sent
to magazine editor, with notice that the
manuscript was respectfully declined"
The absence of Scottish characters is
noticeable feature in the works of Charles
Dickens. No novelist of the present day has
abstained so regularly from sketching Scottish
men and women.
Thomas Hughes has reached Quebec on
his way to the United States A hearty well
come to the sturdy and faithful friend of our
country. A beartIer wcreou--y-A----.:.lo,, q,
noble "Tom Brown" the true friend of all
young men the world over.
During the prevalence of the cholera in
the summer of 1882, the Old Artillery of Troy
was sent down on the road between that city
and Albany to fire cannon to keep off the epi-
demic. As cannon-fring impregnated the
air with sulphur, the philosophers Of the day
supposed that the disease could be success
fully resisted with siege guns. The firing did
not amount to much. The cholera was not
frightened by the artillery. The pestilence
invaded Troy and remained there for over
two months.
"A lunatic in Ripley, Indiana, has subsst-
ed for three years on boiled corn, and believes
he is carrying out the Instructions Of vision.
-- riAaro is mt n sinnle resident minister in
the town of Whitewater, Wisconsin. Tne
pulpits are supplied with tolerable regularity
by neighboring or travelling preachers.
"A young man recently married in Beloit,
Wisconsin, helped his wife, while courting,
to sew together rags enough to make sixty
yards Of carpet.
A certain young woman of Columbia,
Ohio, has not soured her. temper in signing
over fanced wrongs, nor does she bewail her
sad estate, because having been born a wom-
an, she cannot act the part of man. When
her fathers thirty acres of grain, however, was
spelling to be cut, and there were men to bind
II but no one TO drive the team, she tied her
hat down under her chin, donned her garden
gloves. mounted the seat, and drove and work.
ed the reaper over the whole thirty acres.
"A curious discovery was made in the Ash
land IOhiol Jail, the other day. A boy prison.
er, apparently about sixteen years of age, who
had been arrested for stealing S107 in Sulli-
van, from farmer was discovered to be wo-
man of about twenty-three years of age. She
had for the past three years successfully dis
guised herself, passing for boy. For over
year, we understand, she was bell boy at the
Burnet House, Cincinnatti, and has worked
on farm in other parts of the state, always
passing for boy, and doing a good days
work, Her reason assigned for adopting the
male attire,is that boy can get along through
the world so much easier and better than a
poor friendless girl. 1t is said she is good
looking in female attire, and is smart. She
assumed abe name of Johnny Gardner.