The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-10
Gleanings,

An African giant, eight feet high, is
on his way to America.
New York bootblacks have reduced
their tariff TO five cents shine.
a wife's text: ''The right man in the
right place. husband at home in the
evening.
Thrash your corn as much as you
think necessary, but don't pull its eals
oii-that's brutal.
England loses three yards of coast
land every year, and the matter is Great
ing national anxiety.
Why is 4 soldier who attempts to bay
onet a ghost an unprincipled follew {?
Because he sticks at nothing.
The prejudice against church organs
is still strong in Scotland. Many of the
people will not enter n church that has
one.
An apotheeary in Boston exposes a
cake of soap in his window with the
pertinent inscription: Cheaper than
dirt"
A French BARRIERS sign reads thus:
Tomorrow the public will be shaved
gratuitOusly.n Os course tomorrow
never comes.
4 shark caught of Charleston had n
pair of boots, a scalp, two cannon balls
and package Of Sunday school tickets
i'm his stomach.
1t will be news to many that Wilkie
Collins has become a convert to the
Darwinian theory-he's coming out
with new tale.
1t has transpired that Mrs. Francis
BrOderip, lately diseased in England,
was the lady who five years ago gave
anonymously 100000 to the Middlesex
Hospital.
Louis Napoleon has sent his photo
graph and accompanying autograph to
every French Deputy who voted against
dechodncc in the National Assembly at
Bordeaux.
Five young ladies have been admitted
TO the University of Vermont. The adj
vent Of the ladies at chapel exercises ere
ated quite lluttering among the gallant
sophomores.
Miss Kellogg has received splendid
offer to 20 TO California for twenty-eight
nights. Fifty thousand dollars and all
expenses paid is the price, its is ru-
mOred, the season to commence NOvem-
Der !.
Miss King, who has tasted tea in ev-
cry part of China, says the Americans
will never get the best tea until they are
willing to bid as high for it rs the Rus
SLAMS, who now mOnopolize the finest
growths.
The New Orleans Picdyiiac states that
the cotton crop now maturing will prob
ably amount to 3, 100000 bales, but that
this quantity may be exceeded with an
extended picking season and favorable
weather.
4 Vienna publisher has just issued the
autobiography of LeonOra Christiana,
Countess Ulfeldt, who was imprisoned
twenty-five years, about two centuries
ago, for breaking the crown of the Queen
of Denmark, accidentally.
4 calf kid manufacturer, after expert
menting several months, has succeeded
in bringing out glazed kid, which is
thought by some TO be as goOdas French
manufactured. This is another triumph
of our American manufacturers.
A monster "bird Of freedom whose
wings measured seven feet and two
inches from tip to tip, was caught in a
trap at Coventry, Vt, few days ago.
His love for spring lamb led an indig-
nant farmer to thus plot for his capture.
Miss H. A. Cummings, who gradual
ed last fall at the State Normal School
has made an engagement with the
State University of Missouri, at a sal.
airy of 81 500 per year, having charge o.
the Scientific Department of the lnstitu
/ ton.
London has a radical club, the major
ity of whose members belong to Parlia
ment. 1t is worthy of remark that Mrs
p. \. Taylor, Mrs. Fawcett, Lady Am
berly and Miss Helen TaylOrare member
of the club, and attend its meetings reg
ularly.
The English sparrows-impOrted as al
eXperiment-are very numerous in tn
neighborhood of the New York cit
parks, having bred rapidly and bein
quite domesticated. They fly about j
fiocks of a score or more-a novel cit
feature.
Swiss churches are very peculiar. l
them the men are separated from th
women, and nearly all set bolt uprigl
; People never cough during the sermon
, but at its close there is an astonishin
chorus Of coughs.
An instrument has been invented j
Germany which will measure with pc
. feet accuracy the heat of the hottie
/: furnace. 1t is based on the princip
!: that the resistance OF pure meta
/. to the electric current increases with Il
temperature in a very simple ratio.
There never was a wit at the bar
!, ready as Curran. Upon one occasio
;; he had laid down some points whiC
, did not find favor in the eyes of the pr
C siding judge. 'If that be law" sa
Lord Clare to Curran, 81 may rs WE
burn nv books" "Better read theI
!. my Lord, " replied Curran.
!; There is a great scarcity of facto
> help in Massachusetts, caused in part
alarm at the smallpox. For MAJ
months the mills i'm Lowell have be
n run with only about three-fourths
II their usual complement. The scarei
d may compel an increase of wages, Oi
g reduction of the hours of labor.
i Forty-two students have been admit
: to the Technical school at Worcest,
: double the number OF last year. i
q thousand dollars has been given the
stitutiOn as a graduates aid fund, a
Hon. George +. Hoar has donated
~ valuable collection of minerals a
- technical books brought from EnglaI
H. There i a great deal of superstiti
el among the poor people i'm New Nol
IL \ man making his way with a Jack
through Park street, the other day, v
re delayed for some time by number
Irish women, who were anxious to ha