The Portland daily press., 1870-02-26

Gossip and S:ieanings.
Wheat is an inch high in Kansas.
-Preutices poems will soon be out.
The snow is ten feet deep in Nevada.
Canada has fifty seven snow shoe clubs.
Pineapple fritters are Florida delicaey.
Missouri eats venison at four cents q
pound.
Saratoga has produced another mineral
spring.
Jenny Lind's eldest daughter is studying
for the opera.
The Saints of Utah are just beginning
spring gardening.
The petroleum men are great bores, but
they mean well.
Santa Anna is stumping along through
his seventy-second year of revolutionary ex-
istence.
"A single Paris firm has sold 200, 900 copies
Of Traupman's photograph.
The question of to-morrow-What shall
we have for breakfast?
"A Buffalo man has sold 10000 valentines
this season. Fools are plenty tbereabout.
The village Of Sweet Home, in Missouri,
containing two houses, has been consumed by
fire.
"A student from the College at Irkutsk,
Siberia, was lately admitted to Cornell.
Gen. Pratt has been elected President BY
the students of Amherst, but he declined out
of regard for President Stearns.
Partisan women suspend hideous-looking
toads and frogs by one leg from their ears, and
call 1t ornamental.
Gladstone recreates himself on the saw
horse, and is said to be skillul with the axe
and carpenters tools.
Three American Generals have entered
the service of Ismael Pasha-Generals Mott,
Loring and Sibley.
Ten George Washingtons are in the Lou
isiana penitentiary. They celebrated Tues
day with great magnifcence.
Two Florida deacons rode thirty miles
the other night TO steal the Sunday Schcol
library of rival church.
Some paper has started the funny story
that one of Fl. W. Beecher's sermons is 10 be
dramatzed for Fechter to play in Bosom!
California paper reports recent fish
shower near Monterey, in which the fish va
ried in length from six inches to three feet!
"A sturdy butcher had to be removed
from Cincinnati theatre, his sobs disturbed
the audience so much.
"A lady physician of Lafayette, Ind, is
honest enough to return her professional In
come at $2,5OO.
-Eighty-nine dozen Of hens eggs coosti-
| faJ of fba nlo
lion, Herkimer county, the other evening.
He was Hard-Shell Baptist.
Philadelphia hesitates to make the atten-
dance of children at school compulsory, for
the very good reason that there are more chill
dren than there is school-room.
Queer mistakes are made in telegraphing
Norwalk family were asked 10 meet Wis
itor with "horse." The wires carried the
word "hearse," much to the visitors disgust.
The National Education League OF Great
Britain states that there are more than mill
lion children in England and Wales who
ought to be at school, and who are not at
school.
"A Louisville paper called an establish
mept in that city candy house, and the pro-
p.etess has recovered $40 at law for the libel.
She struck ior $4,000. 1t is we'll to aim high,
for there's no knowing where you viii bit.
The lumbermen of Wisconsin agree in
pronouncing the present winter the best for
logging purposes known for many years. The
farmers in the northern part of the State also
report it favorable for winter wheat. An
early spring is predicted on all sides.
The Emperor of Russia has conferred the
medal of the Order of Merit on Nine. Patti
upon appointing her first cantatrics to the
Court. The medal is surrounded with dia-
monds, and surmounted with the Imperial
crown.
style in Paris consists in not is
suing the billet de mort till month alter the
death, and then enclosing photograph, tho
size Of a postage stamp, of the departed, with
scriptural extracts suitable to his lite, and
with request to pray for the reposs of the
soul.
AS several prominent New York city Of
ficials were standing on the platform of the
Hudson River Railroad Depot, the other day,
on their way to Albany, the conductor OF
train sang out, GAIL aboard for Sing Sinsg"
All made q rush and secured their seats
Queer, wasn't it?
There is a great confusion OF names
among the Scandinavians in Mnnesoea' aiis-
inc from the fact that many oil toem nave no
family names. At Red Wing the titles TO q
farm consisting of three eighty-acre lots are
in three entirely different n'mes, one for each
eighty and yet all belonging to one and the
same person. r.l-l
Mr.. John LIE Roy, of the Isle of Jersey,
enclosed his wifes iace in an iron mask, fas-
tened at the back with an iron paddock, to
prevent her from indulging taste for alco-
holic beverages. For similar purpose he
sometimes confined her in a cage. Ha seems
to have been unsuccessful in his object, and
was besides fined ten shillinss.
in book on the exercise OF arms, print
ed in 1908. we read: General Command
Hold up your musket. And in regard it Is
matter of no small consequence, command
our shall alvvayes have spechall care and
eve to hi: soldiers to accustome them to hold
ever the musket with the mouth vp, the bet
ter to prevent all mischief"
The first dance in the White House, 1t
seems, incurred in this wise: Som, indian
chiefs had come to see President Madison ana
a party of young people were invie' -
them. The chiefs executed war dahes on
the lawn iu front of the house, 70 sno" sAo'i
c,ooes ~ the male faces; and Inc ia'tsr' IN
.,.,ed In the hall within to the
sA@A. 49,, a-,pent banl Of these days.