The Portland daily press., 1872-11-30
THE PRESS
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. so. 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Glean1ngs.
The st. Louis Globe says it was Chicago
an who inaugurates Boston fire poems, and
he makes sea rhyme with agony.
The millennium has begun in Vermont,
where they recently hung man in efigy for
slandering his neighbors.
'Dyxmith'' is name given street in
Cincinnati, in compliment to Mr.. Richard
Smith, an esteemed citizen.
Tne muskrat refuses to break ground for
his habitation this season, and conseauently
we are to have an open winter.
An Illinois man, while drunk, fell from a
wagon and died. The man who sold him the
whlskey compromised by paying to the dead
mans heirs 81 900.
Before sleepingin a strange bed, the Chin
ease burn piece of paper covered with ca
balistic signs. After trying to sleep in an ami
mate Louisville bed. strangers content them-
selves with mentally burning the landlord
A California Tenton having accomplished
the feat of drinking 4s glasses of lager in five
hours, an envious eompatriot is on his way
from St. Louis with the resolve to sviIl so or
burst in the endeavor.
The Chicago Post infant exclaims: s'Oh,
to be forever a child and read the Nursery. y
Such emphasis is unnecessary, as it viii be a
long time before he will be expected to read
anything else.
"Can you tell me where can get horse,
sare?' asked an individual, disappointed at
half dozen livery stables. sect horse
shoer? Why at the blacksmith shop to be
sure" was the answer, given with a hoarse
chuckle.
Indianapolis boasts of a leading contractor
who can neither read nor write, and who
does not know one figure from another vet
can accurately estimate the number of bricks
for wall, or shingles for roof, of given di-
mensions, and the cost of construction.
The authorities of San Francisco, deter
mined to reduce the labors of census-takers,
have offered a reward of So for every human
body recovered from the bay. The streets
are assuming vacant appearance, aud the
treasury is bein, exhausted.
The Boston Post says: ''Miss Faithful Is
is lecturing in Chicago On sGlimpses of Great
Men Ihave Known in which she alludes to
'arlotte Bronte, Lady Franklin and Flor
en- Nightingale, but doesn't say anything
about Miss Anthony"
A field officers title is necessary for an in
dividual who seeks the inner circles of Louis
vile society. A colonel, major or judge
can go any where, while captain skirmishes
on the outskirts. 1t is getting to be almost
the same in Maine.
This is from Nashville paper: ''1he lady
members of the First Baptist church in this
city have agreed that they will dispense with
all finery on Sunday-wearing no jewels but
consistency-and hereafter appear at church
in plain calico dresses.'' And they expect
people to believe it.
Tlsa st. Louis Democrat says: '.Bids are
being received in Chicago for the construction
of shingle bearing the inscription, L.
Trumbnll, Attorney at Law which is to he
flung to the breeze on the 4th of March next.
In his capacity as journeyman jury-whack-
er L. 7. is not likely to receive any $4,000
McArdle fees"
The driest of all dried apples in the coun-
try is in the possession of Kentucky fami-
ly- 1t was given to soldier by his be-
trothed just before he entered the revolu-
tionary army, and after carrying it through
all that war, he returned and married the
donor, and the apple has been kept as a fam
ily heirloom ever since.
They attempted to kill book agent in
Omaha, last week. He was robbed, thrown
into the river, knocked off the cars, pitched
from high bridge into the river again, but
in two hours after came around with new
illustrated edition of the Bible, and tried to
get the subscription of the leader of the at
lacking party.
A man at indianapolis disappeared one
night, taking his valise and clothing from his
home; in three days he came back. He said
he dreamed he packed his valise, walked to
the depot and took the cars. The first thing
he knew after the dream was when ne came
to his senses, seventy-five miles from home,
and found he was just waking up to break
fast.
Mark Twain and Charles Sumner have
each had an experience in saving life at sea.
Mark says he stood around without an UNI
brella and yelled at the proper time. On the
strength of this he asks the Royal Humane
Society to reward those who were active in
the good work. Mr.. Sumner, on his steam
ship, made speech at table, and solicited aid
for the shipwrecked and those who saved
them. The results were most happy. The
Senator goes to Washington and Mark to
his profitable fancies.-N. Y. Commercial.
The paper having the largest circulation
the paper oftobacco. Paper for thu roughs--
sand paper. Paper containing many fine
po ts-the paper of needles. Rnled paper
the french press. The paper that is full of
rov.-the paper of pins. Spiritualist's paper
-(w)rapping paper, Drawing paper-the
dentists bill. A taking paper-Sheriff,s war;
rant The paper that most resembles the
reader-'Tis You (tissue) paper.
The Pittsburg Commercial says: ''Here is
one of the soundest temperance arguments we
ever came across. The only temperance rail-
road in the United States-indeed in the
worlds said to be the Marietta and Pitts
burg railroad, running from Marietta to Cam
bridge, distance of fifty-nine miles, Every
officer and emr 'oyee of the road is practical
temperance man, and not single fatal acci-
dent has ever occurred upon it since it was
first opened. This is suggestive as far as it
goes. and it goes fifty-nine miles"
A minister in Aberdeenshire sacrificed so
often and so freely to the jolly god that the
presbytery could no longer overlook his pro-
ceedings, and summoned him before tn EN- to
answer for his conduct. One of the elders,
and constant companion in his social hours,
was cited as witness against him, ''Well,
John, did you ever see Mr.. c. the worse