The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-02-01
Gossip md Gleaaings.

| The Chicago vigilance committee died
before it was born.
st. Louis is trying to get the branch
mint away from New Orleans.
| st. Mary's Catholic church, in Lafayetts
| Ind, has been purchased for an opera house
Not member of the Wisconsin LecisIa-
ture can claim that State as his birth place.
The people of Holly Springs, Mississippi,
held meeting recently to encourage Scotch
emigration. --
The jack-knives furnished to members of
the Illinois Legislature, last year, cost the
State 1926 apiece.
A Kansas city tMo.) paper of the 18th
instant, prints marriage notice followed by
the words No cards, no cake, nobody's busi-
ness"
The king of Portugal recently had Ais
ears boxed at the theatre by an unknown la
dy, who made her escape.
Kentucky has just set an example to Del.
aware by abolishing flosging for crime and
substituting Imprisonment.
A gigantic @rolite fell on the Table noun,
tain at the Cape of Good Hope on the 9th Of
November, with an explosion which was
heard 25 miles. .-.r.-
Mr.. Dalrymple, the great farmer of MIN.
nesota, is said to have made one hundred and
| fifty thousand dollars, clear gain, In three
years of farming.
The first number of the Minnesota It'd
ming, Swedish newspaper of Republican pol
itics, has just appeared in st. Paul
ba uyin fIxua sid Ia .,f Co I.ap-
Dor is filing up with the sand and dust drilled
into it during the prevalence of the westerly
winds which last through half the year.
Il saw Esau kissing Kate.
And the fact is we all three saw:
| For / saw Esau, be saw me,
| And she saw saw Esau.
Rye Beach, N. H., is enlargingits accom-
modations for summer visitors. The Shoals
also Will double their room for entertainment
and lodging. 1t is thought that hotel viii
| be erected on Star Island.
Last year 46 persons died in New Hamp-
shire who were over 90 years old. The aver.
age was 94 years; 80 were women and IL
were men.
Although the snipmenJs from Havaua
fore, the stock on hand at the beginning of
the present year was over double that at the
same time last year.
The appearance Of printed matter seen
throueh a narrow slit is very curious. Close
along the edges of the slit, above and below,
the lines of the letters were distinctly seen,
while the central portion is heap of short
| lines in singulor disorder.
An urchin of seven years went into bar.
Der shop 10 Racine, Wisconsin, and ordered
the barber to cut his hair as close as shears
could do it. He was asked fhis mother ordered
it that way. "No," said he, but school com.
mences next week, and we've got school
maam that pulls hair"
Nov, sposih you was to be turned into
an ANIMAL" said jim, what would you ike
to he, Billp" 20, I'd be a lion," replied Bill.
"because he's So" 20, no, dor't be Q
lion, Bill" interrupted little Tom, who had
some recent experience at school, abe wasp
and then you can sting the schoolmastsr.'
TO artists, mechanics, and any who have
| occasion to use tracing paper, the sugSsstion
Of foreign scientific contemporary may provs
| a valable one, worth at least trial. Ordlns-
| ry drawing paper, this journal asserts can 10
made transparent by wetting it with bsnziuA
When the liquid entirely evaporates the psper
resans itsopacity. Common writing ink aud
water colors can be used without any tender.
cy to spread or run on paper thus prepared.
There is story of an old hunter whs
came into Chicago one day, and after wan
deriuc about for while, looking at the pIs-
lie buildings and other improvements co' -
to chat with one of the inhabitants, :"
course of which he mentioned tha' 10 n-s
once had chance to buy all the sO.A, sns'
the city wa, built on for pair Sr St ola soote e
And why didu't you buy ite" wei! bag
no, the boots just thar." was the old nss'
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