The Portland daily press., 1870-01-26
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
Tom Thumb and party are on exhibition
at Yokohama
bismarck has lost heavily, lately, in corn
speculations.
Actors don't often fight duels. but they
dearly love to be called out.
What portions of the body are the hest
travellers! The t,co-prists..
There is a sixteen-year-old girl in Iaf,v-
cite, Indiana, who is nearly six feet high
SHE told me-" says Artemus Ward. "to
| git cut Of the office. pitied him, and went"
Wyoming offers to send Anna Dickinson
to Congress if she will come out there and
| live.
Charles OConors new Fifth Avenue
mansion will only be equalled in magnifcence
by A. T. Stewards.
"A Western paper says of an evening
dress, "it busts open at the top and foams
over.
Abiding to chignons, Mrs. Clever said:
"a girl now seems all head" "Yes, till you
talk to her." growled Mr.. Clever.
AT Akron, Ohio, man is in trouble be-
cause in saving young lady from drowning
he pulled her out by the ankle.
All the Boston wholesale branch cloth
ing houses in Chicago have settled up. and
closed up, with the exception of one.
The last years sales of copies of the Dus-
seldorf paintings amounted to s270,O0O-
Americans took $4,000 worth.
Marshall, who first discovered gold in
California, is so poor that the miners are tax
ing up contributions for his relief
The public schools of Minnesota will In
few years be wholly supported by the interest
of the permanent school fund,
-Grundy county, Iowa, bought s27O0
safe last month, and at the beginning of the
year its treasurer had just eleven cents to put
into it.
The dull times are driving hosts of dry
goods clerks on to the street in New York
Stewart has discharged sixty since New
Years.
"A correspondent says that there was one
thing about the recent French ball in New
York suggestive of Paradise: They were all
naked and were not ashamed.
|
to revive the following puzzle for the juve-
niles: If the B empty put : If the B putting:
How can put: when there is such a der?
"A wellinformed Democratic Ohio paper
| informs its readers that the French Emperor's
little son shot and killed an editor, and then
| gave himself up.
"A Kansas County Treasurer recently
made tour of his county to collect the taxes
and succeeded in raising $780, He will send
out his deputy next time.
"A husband in st. Joseph, Mo-, patiently
bore his loss when his wife deserted him, but
when dry goods firm sued him for goods
bought by her as an outfit, he stoutly resisted
the claim, and the Court sustained him.
| Some ass has sent Henry Ward Beecher
a asixteen-page letter containing instructions
as to how he should preach. We expect 10
see marked improvement in Mr.. Beecher's
pulpit efforts, hereafter.
"A handsome young lady is running for
engrossing clerk in the California legislature.
The danger is that she may engross the at
tention rather than the proceedings of tina
body.
| "A New York paper wildly describes
dog fight for $1,000 side that happend near
| that city on Wednesday. The contest was
between representatives of the nutmeg State
and the metropolis. Gotham won.
The Governor of Ohio offered to pardon
man convicted of manslaughter on condi-
ton of his taking the temperance pledge.
The prisoner after some consideration ac-
cepted.
Let us" said the Hon. James Brooks at
recent Democratic gathering, shave every
thing as nearly as possible as before; but
suppose it is impossible to re-establish slay-
cry" e1
AT colored meeting few nights ago, a
| worthy brother, whose piety exceeds his learn
| ing, rather astonished his hearers by quoting
during an exhortion, from de 'pistle OBJ 81
Paul to de Canadians" cc2J
"A young gentleman at Charles City, Iowa
sent seventy-five cents to New York, recently
for a method of writing without pen or ink.
He received the following inscription, in large
type, on card: "Write with pencil"
An ex-United Stats Senator is candi-
date for County Attorney in Kentucky, but
we have not yet heard that our ex-President
is again candidate for Alderman 10 Ten
nessee
The new government telegraph system
under which all the private offices were clos
ed went into effect in England at the begin
ming of the new year. The Morse system of
telegraphing will be used exclusively here
after. .
"A little girl at Elmira got her evening
prayer somewhat mixed the other evening
She kneeled down and gave vent to her feel
ings as follows:
Now lay me down to Sleep
Yes my darling daughter,