The Portland daily press., 1872-11-15
THE PR ESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. Is, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
An epidogis is rapidly killing the CANNES
in East Tennessee.
lhe sister of the little how who got hold of
i"e AT greenwood, o., has been translated
to happier sphere.
barhuni Digger Indian pitched into a ne
gro who had insulted him, the other dav.
and lively war of the races ensued
Pittsburg latest claim to energy and enter.
prise is the possession of a one legged pick-
pocket.
Now that the pronunciation of Froudes
name is settled, the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal wants to know whether Bradlaugh rhymes
with "a bad saw or a sad calf''
An enraptured critic says that Lucca's
voice has not a flaw nor scratch in IL.
and is pure, warm and ethereal as a rosebud
in the Northern Light.
The editor Of the Rome, Ga, Commercial
has had one ofhis boots stolen. He promises
to give the thief an introduction to the other
boot if he can catch him.
George Sand, alias Madame Dudeyant.
proposes to start female Masonic lodges. An
exchange maliciously says: ''They would not
be Objectionable great while-as secret
societies.
Ben Abdallah, leader of an Arabian troupe
now mystifying New York, has whiskAd him
self into the unsearchabe, together with a
certain $500 belonging more particularly to
the troupe than to him.
The first lightning rod peddler eyer known
to be thoroughly killed is William Mckee of
Monticello, KY, who yielded up his checks
after being shot five times by merchant of
the town.
Not always fall of leaf nor ever sprinp
Not endless night, yet not eternal day;
Ihe saddest birds a season find to sing
Inc toughest storm a calm may soon allay.
LINUS, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all,
Ipat man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
Robert SoutkgeH, in 18Th century.
A religious paper observes that the virtues
are regarded as expensive luxuries, all of
which no man can afford to possess; so the
cheap ones are picked out, as that of wearing
3 benevolent countenance, or of admiring
I goodness, or of being indignant.
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Middletown, Ct, nice young man jumps off
and kisses the best-looking girl at the depot,
supposing her to be his sister. He apologies
so nicely that the girls are getting so that
they look for him regularly.
A young officer of the British House of
Commons wore tremendous pair of ''mous-
taches," on which one of the members said,
my dear fellow, now the war is over, why
don't you put your moustaches on the peace
establishment Had you not better put
your tongue ON the civil list p" was the prompt
and happy retort.
A very pretty election bet was ME in
Bridgeport Conn.,, between young LADY and
gentleman. If Grant were elected the Young
man became the happy possessor of the young
woman; If Greeley were elected the young
woman was to be the proud owner of the
young man. Neither party is dissatisfied
with the result.
The Chicago Times says that when the
sheriff appeared in the editorial rooms of the
| journal to serve summons in the contempt
case, in which that paper is involved, .h,lshy
head appeared for an instant at the door, an d
in whisper loud enough to be heard across
the street, the owner asked ''if he should
bring in the boys and bounce the intruder?"
Paris theatres are supplied not only with
"claquers," whose duty it is to originate tu-
multuous applause at specified places but al
so with professional laughers, who engage for
few francs night, to indulge in the most
contagious hilarity, the time for the merri-
ment being previously arranged. A few
nights since the program was changed with
out the laugher's knowledge, and when ha
burst forth uproariously in the midst of a
touching couplet about Alsace and Lorraine,
the audience nearly killed him.
A New York reporter rhapsodizes over the
Young Ladies' College at Poughksepsie in
this wise: ''Vassar is a wonderful seat of
learning, in fact, all the learning worth a cent
is stored up there, and it is shovelled into
these delicate young ladies in immense guam
titles, to fatten them up intellectually for the
market. Mentally they are perfectly obese;
in truth, one Vassar girl has enough learning
to share with all Fifth avenue.
and then enough left to start twenty
academies of the common order, and still
enough to spare to run a religious newspaper.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
CHAPPED HANDS, face rough skin, pimples,
ringworm, salt-rheum and other cutaneous af-
fections cured, and the skin made soft and