The Portland daily press., 1872-08-13
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 18, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

The Revue des Deux Mondes. after an elabo-
rate criticism of Walt Whitman, has taken
up Mark Twain's 'Innocents abroad" and
seriously remarks that it indicates "hope-
less incapacity in the author to comprehend
art, to sympathize with the antique, or ap-
preciate the aesthetic"
'Just look at himr' exclaimed Liberal
Missourian, proudly contemplating the mete-
oric hair of the tail of the Greeley ticket;
why, he is a whole torchlight procession
himself"
The pews of Methodist Church on the
boundary line between Pennsylvania and
Ohio stand in the former State and the pulpit
In the latter. Pennsylvania couples, in con-
sequence, have to be married in the vestibule.
The man who never stumbles, knows moth
ing of the world of sorrow beneath him, the
wealth of sympathy around and the heaven
OF forgiving love over his head.-W. Z. Clarke
Men are generally like wagons; they rattle
prodigiously when there is nothing in them.
ohiu SIdillnS mas again Deen successfully
accomplished, this time in the case of Anna
Cooper, at Bellevue hospital, New York. who
was burned so severely year ago that new
skin would not form.o On the 10th of July
SO pieces of skin of the size of a three cent
silver piece were taken from the stump of a
mans leg which had that day been ampu-
tated, and applied to the burnt place. Eighty
of them adhered, and Wednesday the cure
was pronounced complete.
The officers of the coast survey and the
naval observatory are engaged in series of
very exact observations to determine the pre-
else difference of latitude and longitude be-
tween Greenwich and Washington. The ca
BILE is being used in these calculations.
The Sultan has sent the Empress Eugene
magnificent sapphire, surrounded by large
brilliants. The value of this splendid jewel
is over sixteen thousand dollars.
The man whose wife extorted from him a
premise not to smoke, finds that, as there was
no government stamp on it, it has no effect
upon him until after October l.
The only industrious loafers are the bakers.
A very enthusiastic Greeley man was expa-
tiating loudly to friend on the ability, etc.,
of his favorite, and closed up his panegyric
with, 81 tell you he's perfect nonentity; !;
he's very peculiar" What he meant did not
appear, but it satisfied the one to whom it
wasaddressed.
The old, old story of the snake and the
female sex comes from Slocum, Pa, where
COW is wont to lie down at the root of a tree
while the snake milks her in the most natural
way in the world. .... ....
Miss Carlotta Patti sails for America with
Maurice Strakosch the 10th of the present
month.
Joaquin Miller has presented Grace Green
wood with pair of earrings made of rattle
snakes rattles, mounted with gold.
The ''heart' is the bess card in the chance
game of neutrality-suspicious. overcome by
diamonds and knaves, often won by tricks,
and occasionally treated in a shnffiing man
ner, and then cut altogether
The latest form of Yankee cnteness has dc.
veloped itself in a town in Massachuse it's,
where small boy has been discovered pur-
chasing eggs from the grocer on his fathers
account, selling them at a restaurant, and
afterward dividing the proceeds with his
mother.
DIR. Mary Walker is unquestionably the
most thorough pantaloonatic of the age
Louisville COarier-Journal.
No man ever did designed injury to
another without doing greater to himself
Henry Home.
Miss Nilsson-or rather Nine, Rouzand-
is passing her honeymoon in Paris. In addi-
tion to her performances in ST. Petersburg,
the eminent artist is to sing in Sweden, under
the direction of M. Maurice Strakosch. In
March next she will appear at the Paris
Opera-house in new opera by Ambrose
Thomas, entitled Psyche. Miss Nilsson will
sing Eros and NJ Faure Mercnr,i