The Portland daily press., 1872-10-07
THE PR ESS.
MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 2, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.


punster challenged sick mans vote at a
late election on the ground that he was an
Slip legal voter.
dlVlng belle from New Orleans won a
wager, last week, in swimming match at
Mississippi City. ...
Most OF the churches in Brazil are used for
election purposes, and it is necessary some
times to have the churches reconstructed, on
account of the blood that has been shed dur-
ing the elections.
"Never put anything on paper if YOU can
avoid it," is maxim in which that witty old
diplomat Prince Gortschakoff freely believes.
He has just expressed his profound relief and
satisfaction that the recent imperial confer
ence at Berlin has resulted in no written
document
The Polish Countess Maria Vera Kaminski,
thirty-one years old, was hanged at Kloy, in
Western Russia, recently, for the murder of a
Russian priest, who had tried to convert her
two sons to the Greek religion.
e That was very good conundrum we read
somewhere. Why was George Washington
unlike Horace Greeley? Because George
hacked trees in his first childhood and Horace
hacks trees in his second childhood.
The occupation of the watering place Jen-
kins being gone, her sister, who goes about
asking ladies' maids to show her the wedding
dresses of their mstresses, has made her ap-
pearance. .
Two long, hungry Americans, two Irish
men, one Indian, two cadaverous beings of
unknown nationality, John @. A. Carter, and
an Indian dog, are said by Texas paper to
make up the census of Red River City.
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
Perhaps twill cost a sigh a tear;
linen steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good night" but in some brighter cline
Bid me Good morning Mrs. Bdrbduld.
1t is proposed in Paris to designate the
different business houses and offices::by means
of colored lamps. The doctors would have
green lamps, telegraph stations and post of
fees blue, hotels and boarding houses yellow,
etc. 0
An Indiana farmer, that it may continue
on the defensive probably, has bought the
Cardiff Giant for gate post. 1t may thus
become historical, after all, as relic of stu
pendous hoax.
Too full for utterance-The boy who filed
his mouth with hot baked apple
''What are you drawing, Anna?" ''Pse
making your pictur." So the gentleman sat
very still, and she worked away very earnest
ly for while. Then she stopped, compared
her work with the original, and shook her lit
tie head. 81 don't like it much," she said.
''Taint a great deal like you. dess Pll put
a tail to it and tall it dog"
An old bachelor got married. Fifteen days
after-mind you, fifteen days-he met a
friend, and said to him: 'Why is my wife
like baker who is making small gooseberry
pie?" 81 don't know" replied the friend.
''Wel," said the disagreeable creature, '.it's
because she is growing little tart.'' -----
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A subscriber wrote to the editor of a New
ark paper to ask the meaning of the phrase
mors omnibus conamunls. The editor said it
was French sentence, intended to explain
something about Morse's omnibus being OF
service to the community. At the same
time, he said, the sentence was evidently con-
structed by some idiot who thought he knew
French, when he didn't, and consequently
several important words were left out.
A gossiping correspondent says: princess
Metternich has declared against the modern
fashion of ladies' dress. TUNES and polonaises
her soul abhors, and the modern bonnet she
will have none of. She has had her dresses
made recently in the manner known to ladies
as Gabrielle long, straight and untrimmed
and over her head, in lieu of the designed
bonnet, she pins Spanish lace veil.
Stories about the sagacity of cats and dogs
are always acceptable, and that is why so
hA"hy oiS AhFShuOus N 5Oou OAAO SVibSo AAOhi
Kentucky about what might properly be called
feline Nimrod. A sick lady at Lebanon
was required by her doctor to eat wild meat
only, but as the cedar forests of Lebanon did
not abound in game there was some difficulty
in obtaining constant supply The family
cat, noticing this, went forth and soon re
turned with wild rabbit, which exploit she
repeated every day until the lady recovered.
She never INDUCED in rabbit herself, and dis
continued her hunting excursions as soon as
her mistress desired no more of that kind of
''wild fowl.' @
Our aesthetic contemporary, the Arcadian,
says that 'woman suffrage is the d@ross
that cuts the conjugal dipthong into two dis
tinct vowels." The propriety of using the
word ''vower' here is evident from the fact
that "consonant" cannot be applied to ele-
ments SO antagonistic.