The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-22
Gessip and Glcauiuxs,

Gossip and Glcanings.
Washington has green peas.
Envy waits at virtues elbow.
"A pretty kettle Of fish--boiled Salmon.
providence is to have new City Hall.
Hush money--the price of the family era
die.
Madame Tellepson is the latest Swedish
| nightingale that delights Paris.
The Weekly Democratic Phantom has -
appeared in Nevada city. -.
"A Philadelphia paper, which ought to
know better, speaks OF a bank as "bureled." a.
Stephen S. Foster says the conversion of
the rumselers should be the subject of daily
prayers. ~
1t is said that the Boston music publish
er, who published Shoe Fly" has made S1O,-
900 by it.
The southern railroads are brlrdened with
freight, which accumuates faster than they
can move it.
"A Connecticut paper praises highly an
Eastern Anthem" recently sent TO it. Can
it mean Easter?
- The Rev. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia,
is in failing health and cannot live the year
out.
"A Milwaukee paper derisively, but very
unjustly, speaks of one of its contemporaries as
I" the old Straw Blunderbuss."
"A few books, well chosen, are of more use
than great library.
Anna Bishop is contemplating farewell
tour of the United States.
Napoleon the Third eats at the dinper-
table nothing but soup, roast beef and salad.
There is a business association in Michi-
gan known as the Rifle River and Wigwam
Bay Boom company.
In Providence Hospital, Chicago, is an
Irishman named VIM. Byrne, who is supposed
to be 40 years old.
A schoolboy, while playing with his
schoolmates at Wenona, Mich, on Friday,
| fell on his head and broke his neck.
In Williamsburg, Va, on Thursday, a
horse threw two young men, who had mount
| ed him in frolic, and killed them both.
Two competing stage lines in California,
advertise free meals and free rides" each
hoping to drive the other from the course.
The Bessemer patent for making steel ex-
pires in May next. By this process the cost of
steel is but about so per centum in excess Of
the cost of iron.
-"Peter," said pedagogue, "you are such
bad boy that you are not fit to sit in the
company of good boys on the bench; come up
here and sit by me, SIR"
| A Baltimore couple, recently married, ap-
pended to the announcement of the fact in the
papers: Advertised for the benefit Of "a few
of our inquisitive friends"
The Texans are packing $1,000 beeves,
this winter, costing at the packeries from IL
to 8 cents in gold per pound, one beef making
| two barrels. Two-thirds of this amount Is
packed in tierces and sent to Europe.
Barbara Ubryk, the nun of Cracow,
whose incarceration for 20 years and acciden-
tai release created such an excitement, few
months since, died on the oath ult., and was
buried privately for fear of demonstration
by the people. -
The new Senator from Mississippi was
probably christened rereilte, which is used to
awaken the sleepers. He has very efrectually
reused the Democratic Rip Van Wrinkles.
The published report of the suspension
of the North american Rerie,o is entirely
untrue.
Justice Nelson is expected to leave the
Bench of the U. s. Supreme Court, soon. His
example should be followed by some others
of the togies that now cumber the Court, in
Guiding the Chief Justice.
The bill to permit the opening of public
libraries on Sundays passed the Massachusetts
House of Representatives, on Tuesday, by
vote of 121 to "a. Majority 33. The vote of
the absentees, had they all been given against
the bill, could not have changed the result. -
"A resident Of Prospect, Conn.,, claims to
have the oldest set of American manufactured
buttons in the country. They are vest but
tons of silver, made in 1857, and he asserts
that his grandfather "wore out twenty-seven
different vests with them, and that they are
good for another hundred years at least"
Capt. Eyre, of the British steamer Bonn
bay, deserves the treatment Skipper Ireson
received from the women OF Marblehead,
which Whittier has immortalizcd:
"small pity for himl-He sailed away
From leaking ship in Chaleur bay
nLay Syi lay Dyi' ..sS, .ssy ea.d n s,;n to him;
Brag Of your catch of nsh again."
Old Floyd Ireson for his hard heart.
Was tarred and / altered and carried in cart
BY the women of MarbleheadP'
AT the marriage of Overlook, the Aus
trian Consul to China, and Miss Romaine,
Goddard, daughter Of Mrs. Admiral Dahl
gren, at Washington on Wednesday, daylight
was excluded from the house and superseded
by the soft light of wax candles The floral
display was splendid, and the bride wore a
white satin with train and low-cut corsage
tulle veil with orange blossoms and diamonds.
Overlook is man of 40, has splendid resi-
dence in Washington. President Grant and
wife were present and the former led the
bride to dinner.
There Is a smart boy in Waupun, Wis
consin, who obtained some nuts and candy
and then ordered glass Of beer at saloon.
He then deliberately walked off without Of
fering to pay for what he had had. The sa-
loon keeper called him back and demanded
his pay. The boy coolly remarked that, ii he
was made to paw, he would complain of the
saloon keeper for selling liquor to a minor.
He was let of.
| An English clergyman in Lancashire was
lately endeavorins to prove that doers of
| good were always in the minority, and, by
parity of reasoning, that the conservative
party being in the minority, were right. To
| illustrate, he said: "Paul was in minority,
but who was right? Peter was in a minority,
but who was right? Christ was in minority,
but who was right?" But the reverend ora
tor was literally "sat upon" when some one
in the gallery shouted: Judas Iscariot was
in minority, but who was right9" The lee
turer was struck dumb, for some minutes
could not utter a word, and the audience,
roared.
On Monday, in the Dominion Parliament
Sir A. T. Gait moved the following amend
mend to Mr.. Hunting's resolution: That an
address be presented to His Excellency the
Governor-G General, representing that theln
creasing production Of the Dominion de-
mands a more extensive market and
more unrestricted interchange OF COM
modities with other countries; tha1
great advantage would result from plac-
ing the government of the Dominion In ol'
rect communication with all the British f0s-
sessions and foreign States which misn1 oe
willing to negotiate for commercial mia