The Portland daily press., 1870-01-03
Gossip and Gleanin gs.
Sheet lishtning-Caudle lectures.
Bear hams are a Western luxury.
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Bear hams are Western luxury.
Boston has five musical journals.
The Emperor Napoleon hates poetry.
Napoleon III. now goes to bed every even
ing at ten O'Clock.
Paradise is to have a foundry. Paradise
is town in California.
Miss Henrietta Titus is blind, and lee
lures in Minnesota
Julia Grisi leaves fortune of half mill
ion francs.
A glass piano has been invented by a Mex
lean genius.
Miss Redhead is the poetical name Of Q
histrionic star, now shining in La Crosse.
"A drunken fellow, who was found lying
in graveyard at Pottsville, Pa, claimed to be
petrifed giant.
Laramie, 600 miles out on the Union Pa
eifc railroad, is enjoying 80 degrees below
zero.
In Albany, Ca, a very satisfactory ar
rangement prevails by which you eau get two
drunks for twenty-five eents-club rates.
A hotel at Red Oak, Iowa, advertises:
"The most polite ladies will act as walters,
dressed in pea-green jackets, fitting hoops,
and high-heeled buttoned CATERS"
During the past two years the citizens
Of Lawrence, Kansas, have succeeded in rails
ing eighty-seven cents toward $4,000 mon
ument for Jim Lane.
Half dozen Southern papers call their
short paragraphs "chips," and a malicious
man says it is because the writers make them
out of their own heads.
"A San Francisco paper reports that
number Of skilled workmen in that city are
making preparations TO return to the Allan
tic States, in consequence OF want of en-
ploylnent.
"A French paper proposes, with most
palpable allusion to John Bull as detractor
from the glory of the Suez Canal, that the
partisans of the water lire adopt as their
motto: "Au Nil sol qui NAL q pensew
Prentice said one day last week, when a
| journal entitled the Morning Patriot was
placed upon his table: 81 have no faith In
patriotism that don't last all day." The ven
cradle wit had his joke, and pointed sound
truth at the same time.
| The story started some years ago in Par
is by the enemies of Napoleon that the little
| Prince Imperial was not his son, has been re-
vived, with the alleged discovery of evidence
to prove its truth.
| A welldressed female walked into Sag
\ i.-A-s -AiAAn tha other day. with all the digni-
| nifty of Miss Anthony or Mrs. Stanton, laid
fractional currency on the counter, and
called for drink with all the nonchalance of
4 topper of long experience. The Enterprise
thinks the woman's cause is progressing.
A small fatboat containing a rude cabin,
and guided by two steering cars, one operat-
ed by an old man and the other by an old Ia
dy and her daughter, landed at Hannibal,
Missouri, few days ago. The Captain was 3
German named Heck. emigrating from Wis
consin with his wife and eight children to the
sunny South.
"A man out West got his back up at his
wife and locked her in her room. wishing
to aegravate her, he sent his son to her room
with bone The youth innocently brought
it and said, "Mother, father sent this up, and
saws there is bone for you to pick" The
mother replied, "Take it back, and tell him
| say he IS not yOui i"eHS', "iiu euSAS q NOhS
for him to pick"
-Fireproof furniture is the latest scientific
announcement in Germany. 1t is said that
German chemist acting under commits
sion from fire insurance company, discov-
cred that impregnation with a concentrated
so,,t;on of rock renders all timber fireproof
~Ceorge Peabody is said to have bequeath-
ed $4,000 to Mrs. John Wood, in acknowl-
edgment of her many charms as an actress,
| and her virtues as woman. While posthu-
nous honors have been decreed to ether me-
tables in bronze and marble, the great phil.
anthropist seems wisely to have adopted this
means of preserving his memory in wood.
| Mother" saidI a young seven-year old
Sunday School scholar, "mother, think God
should have Sunday all to himself" "Why
do you think so, my son?" Because, mother,
Sunday is the longest day of the whole week.
and God does so much for US, think he
ought to have the whole day to himself" anu
Charley walked up to the window to look at
his sled, which bad been carefully placed on
the porch.