The Portland daily press., 1872-11-14
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THURSDAY MORNING, NOy. Ia, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.
hosa, bonheur proposes to make visit to
this country.
hardening around Paris is dangerous, OH
account OF unexploded bombs in the earth
A Kansas physician lately swallowed a dose
of chloral to show patient that It was DOS
sible to do so, and died of the dose.
Hereafter the worst you can wish your en-
emy win be, that somebody may put man
| sard roof on him.
Mr. Charles Darwin, author of "The De-
scent of Man," is named by the students of
Aberdeen University as their lord rector.
I A young gentleman wrote from Abba to
his wife in Troy 7asfoll6ws = Dear wffs-Dol-
lie has got it, mean the hippozoo.. II am
slowly hauling the buggy IN Home to- NOR
row. .ia - CHARidEs
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The first printing by steam was executedin
the year 1877 by Bensley and Low London.
The first book thus printed was DIR. Elliot
sons second edition of Blumenbach's Physi-
ology.
Rome has new daily paper published in
the English language. 1t is called the Daily
News and is conducted by an American, Mr..
Daniels, brother ofa former minister, resident
OF the United States, at Turin.
Ii it hadn't been for mansard roofs and
the epizoozy, Boston might have been saved.
A mysterious Providence in conjunction with
a mysterious passion for Paris architectural
fashions, did the business.
Pet-Mamma. l want to make little bar
gain with you. Mamma-What is it my
dear? Pet-If you will give me paper of
sugar plums every day, L won't tell anybody
you take your hair out of drawer.
Ye pigge he is pretty fowe,
And wondrous good to eat;
Hys ham is good, lykewyse his jowle,
And exc hys ltte feete.
But though you try thousand yeare,
trow you still will fayle
To make silk purse of hys care,
Or a wissel of hys tayle.
Hudson has young Lady who is practs-
ing preparatory to making her debut as a
vocalist. The Star speaks of the circum-
stance, and adds: "Those who live in her
neighborhood have put weather strips around
their doors and windows to keep out the
melody
In Louisville some kindly disposed people
buy nuts and scatter them in the park for
the squirrels, and it has been discovered that
the tiny quadrupeds are regularly robbed by
boys. When we consider the depravity of
the juvenile heart we wonder where all the
| good men come from.
| The Chemical Netcs gives very interest
| ing paper Son the Presence of Gold in Sea
Water" by r. Sonstadt. The proportion of
gold in sea water is stated to be less than one
grain to the ton, consequently, especial pre-
cautions are necessary to detect and obtain
this very small quantity. The processes given
are said, however, to be very satisfactory.
One of the London newspapers has type
setting machine in Its office by which several
columns of matter are set every day. The
machine is by no means perfect yet, but
demonstrates the practicability of setting type
in this way The success of such an inven-
tion would work a vast revolution in the
printing and publishing trade.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is editing a
Library of Famous Fiction, which is to en-
brace in a single volume ''The Pilgrims
Progress, Robinson Crusoe," "Gulliver's
Travels" 'Vathek," and five other of the
masterpieces of English imaginative litera-
ture. Ford d Co. will publish the bools,with
numerous illustrations, uniform with Bry-
ants Library of Poetry and Song
DIR. Hayman. head master of Rugby School
was served with an inhibition by Rev. John
| Craig, vicar of bennington, on his appear
ing at Christ Church, proprietary chapel in
bennington to preach harvest thanksgiving
sermon, lately, The service of the writ was
quite scene. The interior of the church
had been tastefully decorated with flowers,
wheat and leaves for the occasion. The writ
was faunted iu the doctors face as he was
about entering the pulpit, and an action is
threatened for the disturbance it occasioned.
The Peoria Revieic is responsible for the
following: An intelligent dog, who has the
misfortune to belong to an editor in this city,
after living on what his master left, as long
as his exhausted nature could stand it, and
having at last the dreadful alternative pre-
sented of starving or stealing his living, made
his way into the house, yesterday morning,
| and finding some poisonous cheese on the
| floor, laid out. for rats, attempted to commit
suicide by incontinently gobblng the cheese.
HIS master detected him, and instantly filled
him up with the contents of the milk crock,
broke dozen eggs dowa his throat, and in
duced him to get outside of quart of lard
| oil. The dog recovered, but thinks he has
now found a sure way of getting a square
meal, and spends all his spare time prospect
ing for strychnine.
The first newspaper in England was estab-
lished in 1862. The Oldest paper in France
was the Gazette de France, begun in 1882.
The first Dutch paper, which is still con-
tinued und7r the name of the Haarlem Cour-
ant, was first published in 1856. 1t was then
called De Weekelycke Coorante van Europa
and contained two small folio pages of news.
The first Russian newspaper was published
in 1908. Peter the Great not only took nart
personally in its editorial composition, but al
so in eorrectinsproofs, as appears from sheets
still in existence in which are parks and al
terations in his own hand. There are two
complete copies of the first years edition of
this paper in the Imperial Library at st. Pet
ersburch. The first American newspaper
was the Boston Newsletter, begun April "a,
1904. 1t was half sheet of paper twelve
| inches by eight, two columns on a page. b.