The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-09-27
Gossip md GIeauiags,

Austria has 100000 German subjects
Six French Catholic priests passed
through Omaha Wednesday for Japan.
The production of Lake Superior cop
per is this year estimated at 100000 tuns.
The Bois de Bo1ogne, contains 21l5
acres, and cost the city of Paris 14,352, 900
francs.
California is largely cultivating. besides
the grape, oranges, lines, citron, figs and
walnuts.
1t turns out that the woman who has not
spoken to her husband for twenty years, is an
old maid.
The Democrats of Maryland are irving
to secure part OF the negro vote. 1t is said
to vary from $4,000 to $4,000.
One blessing that thrifty husbands will
appreciate is that the war has put an end TO
French fashion newspapers.
"A London paper declares that England
could not get 10000 troops ready for foreign
service within month.
The census returns indicate the popula-
tion of San Francisco to be 100000, and that
vi Iut tutiTc olule 10 De DOU,UUJ.
"A three masted French bark, picked up
abandoned at sea, was brought into New
castle, Delaware, Monday. She is loaded
with wine and apparently halls from Dor
deaux.
An interesting little boy, the son of Jo
seph Goodrich, Ripley County, Ind, amused
himself few days ago by making a bonfire
with $4,000 worth of United States bonds.
the property of his father.
1t is said that the only public building in
Paris where the Imperial arms have been a.
lowed to remain is the Morsue.
Montreal claims that $4,000 strangers Wis
tied that city to witness the boat race be-
tween the st. John and Tyne crews.
-Ihe mitraillense has been beaten by the
head of the Printing Bureau of the Treasury
Department, who recently discharged forty
printers in less than a minute.
The patrons of husbandry in Missouri
have side degree into which the initiate
horse thieves After the ceremony nothing
can be seen of the candidate.
Here is Western obituary poem:
Grim death has taken darling little Jerry-
Inc child OF Joseph and oyrena howelIs
NINE Gays be wresrled with the dyseniary
And 'hen expired in hi littls bow els :"
1t is asserted as remarkable pbysiologi-
Cal fact that the Common Council of Cbicaqo
are laying theiI heads JUseruer In sn-Snas--
vor to secure suitable wooden pavement fer
the city.
There are at present six Catholic bishops
in New England. So late as 1925 there were
only four priests in the New England States.
Now there are $50, and Catholic population
OF 100000.
The Paris Liberte..of the 9th inst. con-
tained letter from j. de Armas .Cespedes,
assuring France OF the sympathy of the Gu
ban Republic.
There is lamentable want of organiza-
tion among the members of tine Christian
Church OF Lynhvile, Illinois. Half of them
desire to have an organ, and the other half
prefer to sing without it,
A young noodle in Ohio, recently caused
the arrest of his sweetheart for biting bis lips.
He was rallied good deal by the Police JUS
tice, and finally left the Court, feeling very
"cheap" indeed.
The stockholders of the Rutland (Vt.)
Railroad Company regard the construction of
the Caughnawaga Canal as of very great i'm
portance to the business interests of the
State.
An exchange says that the frogs of Con-
necticut have worn the skin off their noses Ia
the vain attempt to find water.
-Three-fourths of the pictures hitherto ex-
bibited in the Museum of the Louvre, at
Paris, have been carefully packed up and sent
OIL from Paris to an unknown destination
There now no longer remain any but pictures
of the French school.
"A foreign mail OF 100 bags passed through
Joliet, on the 18th, on the Rock Island and
Pacific Railroad. The mail was from New.
Zealand, and was destined Tor London, Paris,
etc.
They have noselesss street pavement
in London. A part of Holborn has been laid
with smooth "patent asphalt" over which
the wheels of cabs and wagons roll without
clatter.
u Society, whose members cal them
selves "Sanaritans." has been organized In
Berlin, whose specially is to supply refresh
ments and aid to the wounded on the battle
held. Each member carries valise weighing
some twenty or thirty pounds, in which i.
slowed bottles of water, wine, colog ne, COOLING
mixtures, lemons, sugar, &c. They are au
thorized to receive for safe keeping, valuables
such as rings, money and watches.
The war enthusiasm among German
operate singers is intense. Lucca, whose
husband has been reported wounded and dead
passes her spare time in picking lint; Mic
mann, the celebrated tenor, has Joined the
knights OF st. John; while Beck, at the head
OF party of his musical conireres, boarded
The refieshment trains going to the front, and
went in person TO dispense good cheer among
the soldiers.
line war minister of Prussia publishes
special lists of the Germans wounded during
the present war, which lists, of course, are re-
copied by most papers. Still, the curiosity Of
the people is naturally so great that there
are at present over $4,000 subscribers to the
original list, and the number is daiiy ipcreas-
ing. Beside the lists TINS sold, large numbers
are sent away free by the authorities.