The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-10
Gossip and Glennings.


Gossip and GlenniDgs.
-Tennyson sings bass.
Americans are the champion skaters Oh
the ar.stocratic Paris Bois pond.
| Rev. E. p. Hammond, the great revival
| ist, has gone to New Orleans.
"A topper in Evansville, Indiana, fell dead
| while drinking glass of liquor.
| The Queen of Madagascar wants to marry
an American clergyman.
| There are $4,000 tenant farmers in Ire
| land.
| North Brookfeld, Mass, has baby born
| with only one ear.
-Bismark is reduced to severe economy by
unlucky speculations in stocks.
-" La Grande Duchesse" has been PLAYED
at Constantinople and earned success.
Sunday evening discussions are being
held in New York Oh the subject of " The BIZ
bic in Public Schools"
Rev. DR.. L. Ii. Garlick prominent mem.
ber of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, has
resigned.
There are now twenty-one colored clerks
employed in the Departments at Washing
ton.
"A colored EDITOR has beea admitted to
the Philadelphia Press Association without
opposition.
-Eusenie is becoming economical. She
has sent word to her miIliner that hereafter
she must employ less expensive one.
"A Catholic woman boasts in the Tribune
that there is not single Catholic woman con-
nected with the woman suffrage movement,
nor one in the harems of Utah.
"A man recently hanged for horse steal
ing in Missouri town has been proved limo.
cent, and his murderers are now trying to
raise money to buy him a tombstone.
A man in Roxana, Easton County Mi
chigar, tracked a fox to his hole the other day,
dug him out, and found that be had company
in the shape of thirteen full-grown skunks.
The new hall of the locomotive engenae,s
in Rochester, is capable Of holding nine hun.
dred persons, and its ante room abou. one
hundred persons.
| The milkmen of Rio Janeiro have discoy.
cred way TO convince their doubling Gu =
toners of the purity of their milk. The COW
is led by slave around the streets, and the
milk supplied from the COW in front of the
| premises, milked by slave.
Miss Williams, employed in hoop skirt
| factory in Worcester, caught her hair in a re-
volving shaft, Friday, and saved her scalp ca
silly through the promptness of one OF the 9th.
er girls who with sharp knife severed the en-
tangled hair, which unfortunately was genuine
growth and not Japan switch.
Salt Lake, in Utah, is seven feet higher
than it was ten years ago, and is constantly
rising 1t has been urged by those who have
paid attention to the subject that the rise of
| the water there would produce a solution OF
the Mormon question berore Congress would
act upon it.
| "A fellow under arrest in New Hampshire
for setting fire to two barns, said he was hired
to do the work for three dollars by q wealthy
farmer who had quarrel with his reishbor,
and that the wealthy farmer, after all, paid
him but two dollars and eishty-fve cents.
The Springfield Republican says that a
| well known citizen of North Adams has bean
cured of lameness of several years standing
by carrying potato in each pocket. He SUI
iered terribly the first night after trying the
prescription, but his pains and aches all lett
him, and haven't returned during the subse-
quent six months. Anybody who don't be-
/ lieve this may so to North Adams and see ior
| themselves.
Al the funeral of 'BufI.lo Bill" noted
and desperate character on the Plains. short
time since, his wife bent over the corpse, and
said, in tones of infinite sorrow and tender
ness. II know he bore hard name among
men; but loved him. He was all had 10
love-"
"A Methodist minister in Vermont has
forbidden any one to play bass viol in hi,
church. He says, however serious his
| thoughts may be, the moment he hears a fid-
die he goes to thinking how he used to dance.
-Andover, Vt, has elected Mrs. Miranda
| S. Carlton, superintendent of schools, and
| Miss Eliza NJ. Clark and Miss Ellen A. Drim-
hall have been chosen to similar Offices in
| their respective towns.
| "A rustic youth in st. Johnsbury, recently
used a powder store house of the Portland &
Osdensburs railroad as a TARGET for his rife
practice at three rods range, and very oddly
shot through several kegs of powder without
creating an explosion. The contractors otter
him few kegs for his private amusement in
a less exposed situation.
MIR. E. Jones, formerly of Addison, Vt,
and veteran of the war of 1872, in early lie
married young lady in Addison county, In
opposition to both his and her parents. Dur
ing an absence from home his wife was spirit
ed away and her whereabouts could not be
Mi,
went TO sea and for thirty years was wan
derer on the ocean. Returnins, he succeeded
in finding his wife, who in the meantime,
supposed him dead, had been married, but
was then widow. They were again married
and lived happily together for many years.
She died last April
There are two firms in Springfield that
are doing thriving business. The concerns
"a beer shop and reireshment stand-own
between them fifteen Of the old fashioned
large cents, and they pass from one to the
other five times daily; in the morning they
are spent for sausagss, and at eleven o'clock
they are returned to the beer stand, aud thus
they revolve until the fifth time is passed
when they are laid in the drawer for fresh
| start the next morning.
The English correspondent of an Ameri-
can paper, speaking of the approaching ajop-
ton OF vote by ballot in that country, says:
The ballot will be adopted, and a most it,
| genious smachine has been invented to work
it with. The voter steps into a box, and the
door closes behind him. Then, in pereet Sc
curity, he drops balls into tubes. Inc Vo'es
are registered by machinery; ano'nss uoor
opens and he comes out. NO one Knows
how he has voted-he cannot prove how be
voted himself He cannot give an extra
vote, Supposing he is the right man, and
will not vote again, the system is perfect"