The Portland daily press., 1872-09-21
THE PRESS.
Gossip and GIeanings.


Gossip and Gleanings.
Gerald Massey is engaged on work to be
entitled Myth, Myracle and Mystery" Por-
tions of the subject will be treated in series
Of lectures, which he is preparing for delivery
in England and America
Sir Charles Dixie is about to become the
proprietor of Notes and Queries, and the ed
itorial department of that journal will here
after be in the hands of DR.. Doran, Notes
and Quereis was established twenty-three
years ago.
James Parton says the first question many
women would ask were they sentenced to be
hanged tomorrow would be, "Have l a
hanging dress?'
A householder in filling up his census
schedule, under the heading "where born,"
described one of his children as ''born in the
parlor," and the other cup stairs" A strict
return.
What Rev. E. E. Hale knows about sleep
he tells in the September number of Old and
Nep. When he says that no mental labor
should be engaged in for some hours prior to
going to bed he forgets the necessity of pub
fishing daily papers.
The punster of the New York World has
been studying astromical chemistry, and says !;
"a fresh lot of magnesiumin the SUMS photo
sphere, we expectroscope."
The disregard of the decalogue, which is
getting so conspicuous, suggests the possibili-
ty that the ten commandments are now con-
sidered as the x commandments.
The managers of George Mcdonald, the
novelist, who is to lecture in this country, are
trying to work on the sympathies of the pub
lie by the statement that he has eleven chill
dren.
Kansas has an editor of only ten summers.
Whitelaw Reid used to be only ten summers,
but he wasn't an editor then. 1t would be
money in Greeley's pocket if he was only ten
summers again, or some'eres else. ..
Investigations near the Sandwich Islands
have proved that choral aggregates at the rate
of seventeen feet in century, instead of
few inches in that time, according to accepted
scientific estimates.
A southern private school teacher adver-
tises herself as Miss Mary Ann Buie, Confed-
crate Soldiers friend. al adf .r...
= /. ODp Mr. nalSnI q tbu
stimulated by Mr.. Stanley's sudden renown,
going to find DR.. Livingstone again.
A fond father in Rochester, says the Courier,
had suspected his daughter OF having stolen
moonlight walks with a lover whom he had
refused her seeing, and in coming home the
other night at a late hour, thought he saw his
daughters arm linked in with the hated low
ers's. The indignant papa took the young
man by the collar, and was giving him good
shaking, when he found he had got hold of
the wrong man, and soon learned that the
parties were highly respectable married cou-
pie, who were coming home from prayer
meeting. -1
nc lu&blOHo vi L lCttcdHb NcW, NO., kctp
their children pretty close, as roaring un-
tanned lion, with no nonsense about him, has
taken lease of the forest about there.
Chicago is improving. "No longer are the
cutters to run with fraternal life-fuid; the
red=hsnded ruffians are to be put down." we
are told by the News.
Week and neck-Barnunl has just importer
two giraffes, making three in the country.
Paper collars are the truest economy for
them.
A gentleman who had been arguing with
an ignoramus until his patience was exhaust
ed said he didn't wish him dead, but he
would be glad to see him knOao more.
Chicago averages new house every hour
Pere Hyacinthe's bride was named Butter
field, and she is native of Seneca county,
ferred to Paris. where she became cores
pondent of the New York Times.
IHe DeCrOlC papers nave ulScOVereu new
method OF driving away the organ grinders.
Every day or two they have paragraph like
this Organ-grinders in Memphis make
about ten dollars per day.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has new lee
ture for this seasons engagements, entitled
''Sir Walter Raleigh and his American Voy-
ages" Her address is 634 Wabash avenue,
Chicago.
A wealthy Paris merchant whose wife was
very ill, shot himself on being told that her
malady was mortal. She died soon after and
both funerals took place ON the same day.
Scribner & Co., expect to publish in No
vember, Stanley's history of how he found
Livingstone and their four months residence
together in Africa, with maps and other illus
trations. 1t will be interesting, but will it be
true?
A German hotel keeper at Pittsfield has lost
half his customers by boasting that he kept
''de pest house." He meant ''the best" but
the stupids thought he kept smallpox hos
pital.