The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-05
Gossip and Gleanings.

Skating blindfold for prizes is the latest
thing in Brooklyn N. Y.
-"Write me as one who loves his fellow
men, as the cannibal said 10 the missionary.
-Fifty-one members of the present Con-
gress served in the army during the rebellion,
The Chinese in San Francisco invested
$4,000 IN real estate during the month Of
January.
The horse thieves caught in Texas are
induced to resist little, and then are killed
on the spot.
Ben Franklin visited Madame Heivetine
IN the house in which Pierre Bonaparte shot
Noir.
Hartford; Conn, anticipates the erection
than In any two previous years.
"A Cincinnati confidence man paid his
board bills for several weeks by courtiDQ the
iandlady, but defaulted just before the prom
ised wedding.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the most
perfect description OF a gentleman ever writ.
ten is contained in the thirteenth chapter of
the first Corinthians.
-Honorables Salisbury and Davis find
their high moral tone and fine sense of pro-
propriety offended by the Introduction OF Rev
els into the Senate Chamber. They long for
the solemnity of the Toombs.
hroy mas ueVelopeu the latest thing in
weddings. Man and woman stand up alone
before looking-elass, join hands, and Gin the
presence OF those witnesses" agree to take
each other for husband and wife.
In the increase OF her population. Cuba
IS only second to the United States. She now
has more than two million inhabitants.
Omaha is corruption of Eromaha. Indian
for above the river" referring to its location
above the mouth of the Platte.
A trespass suit is on trial. in Buffalo which
only involves S25 and ON which the costs al
ready amount 5000 and promise to become
double that amount.
r "A Washington correspondent says that a
still small voice" will soon explain the om,s-
sion OF Mr.. and Mrs. Coliax to give recention.
this winter
In Cincinnati the other night JenlSin.
woke up the bridegroom at his hotel in order
tnat ne might procure facts relative 10 a fash
lonaole wedding in another city.
-"Shoo, Fly" is classical. 1t has no less
paternity than that of Homer. In the fourth
book OF the Iiad we find:
50 from her babe, when slumber seals bis eve,
Inc "ateefu' mother watts the envenom'd hy,
Pope
Far as the mother waits the ly asiIe
Inat haunts her slumbering baoe.-t oirper.
AS when mother, while her child is wrapped
In a sweet slumber, scares away the fy.-Bryant
robbed OF an immense amount of diamonds
and Jewelry on the 18th. The burglars en-
tered Lady Napier's bedroom while the family
were at dinner.
-brooks. cane has proved boomranc, and
wise hung himself when he thought he was
hanging John Brown. The logic of events
mas drawn conclusions quite unlike the antici-
pations OF those who perpetrated the brutal
premises.
The Netherlands society for the promo
tlon OF industry offer a prize gold medal
worth loo fiorins and 800 forins in money
for the best method of Illuminating floating
buoys so that they can be seen at night
Competition is to be open till September 80,
1870.
Senator Hendricks m1de speech at New
| Orleans recently, advising the chiyalry to
make friends with the negroes, or they would
all 90 with the Republicans. There il mani
testify wide spread Copperhead intention IN
steal the benefit of the Fifteeth Amendment.
"A gentleman was Gliding his son for
staying out late at night, or rather earIv neyt
morning, and said why, when was OF
your age my father would not allow me 10 20
out OF the house after dark" "Then you bad
deuce OF a father, you had" sneered the
young profgate. Whereupon the father was
rashly vociierated: 81 had a eonfounded
sight better one than you, you young rascal!''
A New York reporter tells the following
upon himself
1 was sent by the editor to report a conse-
Grafton service at one OF the Catholic chnrch-
es in the upper part Of the city, MANAGED 70
note everything satisfactorily until il came 10
the chaunting. When the consecrator. kneeI.
ing before the altar, began with Veni Creator
Spirttas, felt that my knowledge of Latin. n
ever had any, had long since sgone where
tne woodbine twineth." In my despair ap-
Peaied to another repertorial miserable, who
didn't know any mole about it than myself,
but felt his oats" to much to confess it.
g say, Ben, what's that he's singinsnowr
Ben raised his head and cast upon me aiook
of mingled pity and contempt. - ,,,..
"Pshaw," said he, "dont you Know wna'
"No.v said /, changed if do"
"Whyn EXPLAINED Ben with an alr Oh the
most ny, nyotound wisdom, that's the Spfr-
''a' rann,eJ .a1S the thing in q moment, and 10!
| :, anneared the next day that the consecrator
had h dp pehaunted the Spirilus rini GaIiicH