The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-17
Gossip and Glenni1gs.


Lydia Thompson's whole troupe.
Iowa boasts an editor, q years old, who
weighs only SO pounds.
Msroon colored bonnets are becoming
popular. b."
An Iowa man aptly advertises: "Kero-
sene and coffins"
-Petrified wood is beautiful carved into
jewelry, and is becoming quite fashionable.
"A Californian is raising crop of poppies
which covers thirteen acres.
boston has an agency for Koopmanschap
d Co., importers of coolies"
"A Philadelphia family left the gas burn
ing while they went to Europe and back.
Mississippi is to have no less than forty
agricultural fairs during the coming ausumn.
Canadian poets are celebrating the hero.
ism of their volunteers in the recent Fenian
war.
"A New York street car conductor is able
TO collect the regular fare in five different Ian
guages.
San Francisco has three women wood en-
sravers, who are skilfnl workers and well pat
ronized. 9-' --t-.
"A suspicious clipper built schooner is un-
der surveillance in the Delaware river below
Philadelphia. ,-..5 y -...-......
And now a "hational' bee-keepers' asso-
citation is holding its annual session at In
dianapolis. -.. .-
Opposing congressional candidates are ar
ranging joint political discussions in all parts
of Indiana. -.-...
"A Baptist minister is about to publish a
novel; in order to advance his views against
close communion. .... s-
- A series of letters "From Paris to Ber-
lin," commenced in a Paris. newspaper, has
been abruptly terminated. .,....
"A placard bearing the words "This estate
will be sold for unpaid taxes,n is ON scores of
buildings in Boston. ..,... ......
"A Schenectady man kennels his black
andtan in cigar b. X, and muzzles him with
a thimble. .
"A man was lately hanged in Ohio whose
scahold was covered with flowers presented
by sympathizing young ladies. 81. L .-ll...
The Hartford Post says there is a porter
in one of the hotels in tnat city who can read
"Homer's Iliad in the Greek" 4..-...
The hut on Mount Washington known
as Tip-Top House, rents for $4,000 the season
about six weeks usually. .. t.. .-
The Prince Imperial was ''baptized by
fire." and the Prussian victory has been con-
irmed. This makes both sides about equal,
enthusiastically. 1 lt.. .tu .... ,.... ..a..
"A devout New York Catholic considers
Napoleons recent reverses a divine retribu-
ton, for his withdrawal of the French troops
from the holy city. .,.
An Indiana couple, who had for 40 years
resisted the divorce epidemic, yielded at last
to public opinion, the other day, and separat-
ed over the sale of a COW. ...s-.... 4..
The Providence Press says that it is re-
ported that the leading ice-dealer in that city
uses none of that luxury in his own house
this season, on account of the scarcity.
speaking ofpoor Provost Paradol, Paris
correspondent says he leaves three children
entirely destitute. 1t is said that subscrip.
tion will be opened for his family.
"A young lady about to be married, saws
she will not promise to Glove, honor and
obey" but will say instead, "love, honor and
be gay"
"A blind man in Grafton, N. H.. excels as
checker player, He has his own board
with sunken places for the checkers, tho
blacks having round and the white square
holes. .... ... ...
A notorious brothel-keeper of Kansas
City promises to give $1,000 toward home
for fallen women, on condition that the citi-
zeus of the town will raise an additional sum
of $4,000. .t. .. u.... -... ,.....
"A Missouri "grass widow" recently mar
ried, on condition that her new husband
should consent to resign his position, in case
her former spouse should at any time make
his appearance. -. ...,..... a.......
The marriage of Edgar T. Wees, eldest
son of ex-Secretary Welles, with daughter
of one of the wealthiest families of Hartford,
is announced as the coming sensation for
September.
The female sensation brokers, Woodruff
| C Caflin, are now in the papers as having
| paid $4,000 for brownstone mansion in
New York, $4,000 for mirrors, $4,000 for
carpets, and $4,000 for furniture. ..
"A little Hartford four yearold, repeating
the Lords prayer at his mothers knee, came
to The petition "eive us this day our daily
bread" aud aided, soto uoce, "canny too"
An example of faith.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery
will visit the camp at Concord on Friday, the
9th day of September. 1t is expected that
the President of the United States will be
present on that day and review the troops.
"A German gentleman of Terre Haute,
Ind, in confederation of the statement that
lager beer may be classed among temperance
drinks, states that he can imbibe from sixty
10 seventy glasses Of it in a day, and so TO
bed with clear head and a clean conscience.
George Francis Trains last folly, before
leaving California on his trip around the
world, wss to advise the Irishmen of San
Francisco to seize the British iron clad Zeal
Gus, in that harbor, and with her aid, destroy
the rest of the English fleet in the Pacific.
A gentleman recently returned from the
White Mountains, states that tue weather
at the top of Mt Washington has been the
warmest known for years, In the ravines
where the snow has not melted within the
recollection Of the Oldest inhobitans, it is said
| that no snow can be found.
Recent excavations in Chicago street,
for the laying of water and gas pipes, pro-
duced very offensive odor, which proved TO
come from wet and soured flour, which the
contractors had obtained from a burned build
ing, and used to fill up the street, when it was
laid out, few years ago.
The Laconia Democrat says that couple
recently married in Clifford, after two weeks
experience of the sweets of matrimony, have
dissolved partnership without the interven-
tion of a court. She said she wouldn't live
with him, and he said he would give her a
hundred dollars to quit She took the gree7
backs and went
The indefinite pstponement of the General
Evangelical Conference which was to have
taken place in New York in September, was
made at the earnest entreaty of the German
and French delegates. This is one of the
first decided results of the war. ........... ..