The Portland daily press., 1872-12-23
THE PRESS
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
otanieys Livingstone hunt is being dram.
atised "'''i'''
WIS onsin paper advertises for sale g.,
%" mat gives milk five years old"
Mdme. Patti has consented to :ppe,r a,
LISA 10 Wagners 'Lohengrin'' at ST Peter,
burg. 0''i''
James Fisk, pere is the travelling agent Of
Connecticut firm which manufactures c.r
pet-tacks.
Ihose who are found of light literature for
long winter evenings, will be pleased TO learn
1nat the Commissioner of Patents Is getting
outa new publication.
chicago police sergeant, who had ioinea
ene iorce twelve years ago poor man. has
accumulated 100000, and resigned to give
another poor man an opportunity.
AAu""iu a. follard, who died at LYNCH
purg on Monday of Brights disease of tba
kidneys' was in his fortieth year and unmar.
ried.
ine Boston Post says: "The female stu
dents OF Western college are said to be
'hoidlng their own Which means nrobablv
that none have married and cbanged tbei.
Names"
Ihree grown children, known as the ALI.
gator children, from their resemblance 10
'na' genial animal, are on exhibition in Geor-
sla An alligator that smiles is bad enoncb
but one that talks must be insufferable.
San Francisco has a papa who adver,,s-,
ior soninIaw. The fact is encouraging
for the ordinary mamma has had her hands
full OF this sort of business for a good m,nv
years.
DIX says It's discouraging on your first yis-
it toa young lady whom you wish to impres,
with your fitness for Sunday school teacher
70 nave big brother who knows you ''down
town ask you for ''another chew of that to-
bacco' in her presence.
A Chicago reporter, who by some accident
happened to stray into church, recites in art.
less language that during pause in the SER
vice the silent solemnity was broken nv
an oscuatory explosion in the gallery like the
report Of q petronel.'
A Dublin operate audience amuses itself
by throwing bouquets ON the stage which are
attached to the end of "a fine cord. As the
gratified prima donna stoops to pick it I'D. it
is Tipped away from her, amid roars of laugh
ter from all parts ofthe house.
Miss Nelson's speech at Booths the other
night reminds correspondent ofone ofFan.
ny Elssler's at the Park theatre on the occa-
sion of her temporary departure from those
boards, viz:-"Goot pye. go way now but
come back soon and taxa you leetel dos
lare."
The Dansville Express man has magic bar.
rel. He took two barrels of cider on SUBJ
scription and poured the contents of both in
to his magic barrel, and, although the latter
was smaller than either of the gift barrels, the
cider did not fill it. AS soon as he finds Blitz.
he is going to give that barrel to him, for he
fears 1t will impoverish its present owner, if
he keeps it any length oftime.
The Herald describes Bret Harte as "a
gentleman about five feet nine inches in
height, with distinguished dark face, dark
nair sloping down on his forehead, large,
lowing and silky black mustache, and attired
in exceptionable evening dress, white tie,
having gold studs in his shirt bosom, and a
watch-chain pendiny from his vest pocket"
An investigating youth of fourteen from
the country, recently took look up coal
shute at Elizabeth, N. J. Just then he re-
eeived three ton anthracite shower bath.
He was considerably taken back and got his
good clothes dusty, but came out alive, and
asked tho rnanipulators of the slide if they
wanted to make 'sfnep' of him.
A standing antidote for poison by ivy, &C.,
is to take handful of quick-lime, dissolve in
water, let it stand half an hour, then paint
the poisoned parts with it, Three or four ap-
plications will never fail to cure the most ag-
gravated cases. Poison from bees, hornets
spider-bites, &C., is instantly arrested by an
application of common salt and BILE ar-bonate
OF soda, well rubbed in on the place bitten or
stung.
In Bret Harte's lecture are given good
many illustrations of the California humor
OF 40, but none mork striking than one rela-
tive to the trial of horse-thiei. The jury
had occupied for an unpleasantly long time
a room adjoining the one in which the trial
had taken place, when the judge, becoming
impatient, opened the door and remarked,
"Take your time, gentlemen; but remember
that we want this room to lay out the corpse.,'
The teachers in the Louisvilleschools are
an enterprising and ingenious set; they have
just got patent on peculiarly effective in
trumentof punishment. 1t is simply strap
with the end split, so that every blow counts
as two, and the tally is kept by a little metef
in the handle. They have another mode CT
punishment which is to pick up boy by his
ear and sling him around. One of them
caught hold of an ear, the other day, which
didn't grow on very strong, and the boy
dropped off; since then there has been an
unaccountable prejudice against this method
of correction.
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