The Portland daily press., 1870-03-26
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson Is to be married.
The Worst Tax-At-tacks on ones
purse.
chaser.
Dogs beat dentists-they insert natural
teeth.
Mr.. Dickens made $4,000 by his last
series of London readings.
Only two intentions of marriage were re-
corded at Lowell, last week.
They have man named Horace Greeley
in the Detroit Tombs for disturbing the peace.
M. Guizot, at SO, has re-entered active
life. He looks about so.
AN Ohio girl has poisoned hands from
wearing green kids.
The male snobs of New York wear brace
lets on both arms.
The Emperor Of Austria Is said to be the
most profaue mouarch in Europe.
Chicago expects to oe the most populous
city in the Union in 1890.
In Liverpool, a boy of eleven earns liv-
ing by delivering curbstone chronological lee
lures. -5 .tr..
An exchange wants the government to
issue stamps for kerosene inscribed Prepare
to meet thy God."
The Irish absentee landowners spend
s40,OOO,OO0 gold annually outside of Ireland,
to the impoverishment of that country.
Labor is the law of the world, and he
who lives by other means, is of less value to
the world then the buzzing, busy insect.
The French Countess OF Begorien, less
than thirty years of age, has perfectly white
hair, made so by watching single night by
the bedside of her dying child.
Coupon says some OF the fractional cur
rency must be at premium, for there Is
worth OF it.
IA citizen of Washington recently refused
to buy Mark Twain's book, because 'the man
who could weep at the tomb of AGam must be
an IDIOT"
George w. Pierce, who is accused of at
tempting to extort $4,000 from James Fisk,
Jr, was Saturday committed, in default OF
$4,000 bail, to await trial in May. of
-Ladislaus Ujibazy, ex-governor OF the
Amsterdam fortress OF Comorn and Hunga-
rian compatriot Of Kossuth's died recently at
San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 80.
| AT the recent municipal election In the
small town Of Pertuis, France, only twenty
nine voters out of eighteen hundred register
ed their votes. Without loss of time the
whole twenty. nine voted themselves unani-
mously into Office.
AN old lady in Alabama not long ago
agreed to dispose of her estate to a young
man, at her death, for $4,000, and the young
man Immediately insured her life for his ben
eht for that amount. She died in short
time, whereupon be collected the policy ald
paid for the property.
"A financial curiosity is the strike of the
English woikmen in the chemical works Of
Jackson, Mich, they claiming that as gold
goes down wages should 60 up. They pr obs-
bly, brought over specie with them, ahd find
ing that 1t sells for less in greepbacks, con-
clude that their pay ought to be raised.
"A new fashion is being introduced. La.
Sies are now having fans made in the shape
of pistols and daggers. 1t is rather curious
sight to see the blusbing, timid Mss Fawn
drawing her "ivory revolver" or Miss Stern,
a strong-minded young lady, toying erocious-
ly with her dagger, which she Suddenly turns
| into fan. Ax,a s ~,t,tN,
| Lake Ontario was frozen q u a Few davs
since irom the Canado to the 1 4e ID Ks N ott
and as far east and north as tie css Soaid
reach. This is the first time tins great lake
has been ice-bound for many years.
A man went from New York to Philadsl-
phia and opened saloon with tree luz ch
counter connected with 1t. He lasted ten
days. He says that though the Quakers ere
very mild ordinarily, when 1t comes to free
lunch they are not standing back looking en-
much. What they can't eat they carry off in
their umbrellas.
The question whether women shall be al
lowed to pray in public Is discussed in several
OF the Protestant papers of France. Rev, J.
r. Cook, leading Methodist preacher of
Paris, says iu the Eglise Libre that his expe-
rience authorizes him to say that there are
more brethren, proportionately, than sisters
whose language in public worship is NAL ap
ropos, and not to edifcation.
"A lady who, through the autumn Of life,
had not lost all dreams of its spring, said TO
Jerrold: 81 cannot imagine what makes my
hair turn gray. 1 sometimes fancy 1t must be
the essence OF rosemary With which my maid
, !, in the habit of brushing 1t. What do you
tbinkpv II should be afraid. madame" re-
nlieJ the distinguished dranatist, dryly, shat
il is the essence Of thyme"
Paris is having a vaccination furore. A
letter thence says: "The single heiier in Paris
supposed to have the genuine COW pox Is at
this moment rival Of the Bouf Gras. By
order of the project Of the Seine, this heifer-
this one little COW upon whose benefcent NAL
adv, according to the theory, the health of
this vast metropolis greatly depends-is to be
led about from and after tomorrow, March 2,
to the mayoraties of all the twenty arron-
dlssemepts. The precise hour at which be is
TO arrive al each municipal centre, supported
by attendant knights of the lancet, IS indicat-
ed in proclamation. Save US Bramahl V,re
the God Apis This Is the real "colden calfn
in which all Paris is now Summoned 10 be-
lieve."
The New York State Superintendent of
| Public instruction has Just made his annual
report. The value OF school houses and sites
In the State is $l2, 2,449,04S; the expenditure in
| iSov, $2,45o, ,453 O1 the number OF children
in tue State between five and twenty-one
years old, / ,463, ?99; and the number OF PuPllj,
instructed in the several common ana normal
schools, academies, colleges, u ana Pr'L,e pr AZ
schools during the year as iohows' IN lne
common schools, 99s,6o4; ;ss 10 s'e On Isi.; a.
schools, 3,541; in the acaue, oo,iSi ~
total The Zen entire amount os
9 ',',catioual system, but not Including the
onnronriatlons our in aid Of orphan asylums and