The Portland daily press., 1870-03-17
Gossip nnd Gleanins..


| Gossip and Gleaning..
Vegetable extract-a spring pulled pars-
nip.
Utah has comic paper. That is the
most comical of all.
The Chinese could not send out their
wisdom except in junks.
-"Red as a rose is she," because she al
ways rose and read early in the morning
probably.
Extracting bullets from mems brains,"
says prominent New York surgeon, is the
only evidence 1 possess that some men have
any,"
The Roman Catholic Church is probably
the most Democratic in the world, since it has
such confidence in the masses.
Prince Arthur talks glibly in the Gaelic
language.
Chicago has "new American religion"
The town of Peabody has voted to have
the rails of the horse railway removed from its
streets.
| An award for damages may be called a
court plaster.
| Cider brandy is yielding to liquor made
from sweet potatoes in New Jersey.
The lifting cure" for impecuriosity--
raising the wind.
"A young man at recent fire in Rutland,
threw away pail of water because "it was
too hot to do any good"
Sixty thousand copies of German news
| papers, printed in this country, are taken in
| Fatherland.
| The wealthiest merchant in Ru' Mr..
Gromof died lately and left his heir .ba uo--
dest fortune of 100000 roubles.
| Paris has 1900 chifonniers (r picseUl
5000 of whom are licensed, and :, aler
lopers. Their aggregate gains are 81. $40
| francs per annum.
The congregation of the Brooklyn Cen
tral Presbyterian Church of New York, have
purchased the big organ Of the Boston Coli
scum.
ga Louisiana man has a tame alligator
which he uses to decoy others within reach OF
| his rifle.
= One of the colored pages of the South
Carolina Legislature saved all his earnings
that he might acquire an education at Howard
University, Washington.
| One Of the greatest proofs of friendship
that one woman can bestow on another, says
the Saturday Reuie,u, is to give her the pat
tern Of some udhackneyed, unpurchasable ar
ticle of dress.
A little boy of Hudson, N. Y, couldn't re-
member the text exactly but thought it was
something about hawk between two pi-
geons." 1t was "Why halt ye between two
opinions?' ..-.
At Stralsund two schoolboys quarrelled
lately and fought duel with pistols at fifteen
PAGES. One had bullet through his jacket,
and the other would have been killed but for
a cigarcase that he carried in his breast
Registration in Connecticut closed on
Saturday. The colored voters of that State
have been Professionally registered, and if the
proclamation be issued any time prior to the
2Sth it will enfranchise them in time for the
election.
A Pittsfeld man lost his hammer. He
gave one of his boys sound thrashing for
losing it. Not long after the father found the
missing hammer where he had left it. "Nev-
| er mind," said he, trying to console the boy
and his conscience, whippings never come
| amiss!"
VIM. Morris, the poet, is said to keep
genteel upholstery shop in London, and not
to be ashamed of it. He is a university grad
uate and often employs in his business W.
Burns Jones, the rising artist.
-Igualada, town in Catalonia, is under
a reign of terror, caused by band of forty
robbers, who murder and steal wherever any
thing can be found They live in the town and
are well known, but no one dares to arrest
| them.
Charles d. Kirk of the Louisville Sun,
who fell dead on recent night while on his
way home through the snow, had selected for
publication in the morning issue poem enti-
tied Found Dead in the Streets"
| "A jewellers assistant was recently robbed
in the streets of Paris of $4,000 worth of
jewelry by man and woman. The latter
threw herself around his neck and the man
felled him by blow on the lead. Most of
the property has been recovered anu the gull
ty couple arrested.
The assassin of Henri de Bourbon is a
; candidate for the Spanish throne. He Is GER
tainly proper subject for Elevation"
| Miss Julia Coleman is discoursing in
Brooklyn upon the subject "Why God made
Alcohol" Her lecture is said to be in the
true spirit.
| "A providence Baptist has written to his
church to "cut him off as dead and barren
branch" 1t is natural he should ask for per-
mission to "leave"
The Chicago Times says that thus far
there has not been the smallest evidence i'm
plicating any Democratic Congressman in the
sale OF cadetships. 1t takes your old and ac-
complished rascals to securely cover up their
tracks.
Miss Phelps's "Hedged In" bids fair to
become as widely read as her "Gates Ajar."
Fifty thousand of the latter have been print
ed, and the new story, though not week old,
has already reached third edition.
| The Parepa-Rosa Opera Troupe has had
wonderful and most fabulous success in
their wanderiSgs. In Chicago :hirty-three
performances brought them $4,000. In Bos-
ton twenty-one brought $4,000. In Phila-
delphia eight brought $4,000. In Baltimore
they took S11 900 week. ....
That fat boy in Ohio is now fifteen and
half years old. He is six feet high, weighs
25O pounds; measures three feet six inches
around the breast, three feet six inches around
the waist, two feet three inches around the
tbiab. and one foot three inches around the
| arm near the shoulder.
One of the delights of living in Kentucky
is limited at in the following: Captain Fidler
issued warrents for the arrest of outlaws who
now threaten his life. He therefore sleeps in
room. apart from his family, with guns and
pistols containing not less than ninety-six
shots, while careful watch is kept upon his
house by the soldiers.
| The Water Street Mission has converted
one female Her name is Mary Hanford, or
as she is called affectionately during prayer
meetings "Sister" Mary Hanford. She re-
lates her experience as follows; Il dropped
into the mission as girl of the street; stay
cd prayed; I got sick; I thought it was no
use praying, that had gone, too lfar, and
said so Rev. Mr.. Boole came to see me, and
| know am saved"