The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-25
THE PR SIS.
MONDAY MORNING, nov. 25, ,7s.

MONDAY MORNING, nov. 25, ,7s.
Gossip and Gleanings.
NJ. Taine is writing history of the French
Revolution.
Three-card monte is devOuring everything
green on the railroads entering Kansas City.
st Paul schoolmastAr have become so ty-
rannical that they won't allow boys to carry
bowie-knives and revolvers any more
James Russell Lowell has settled down in
the Latin quarter, Paris, where he intends to
spend the coming winter.
Joaquin Miller has gone to Europe again for
an indefinite stay. For this and all other
blessings may we &C.
The last aspirant for the rights of the fair
sex is a Cincinnati lady, who has challenged
her rival to mortal combat.
Nathaniel Hawthorne had this one pecuIi-
arity alone among all the tribe of authors he
never spoke of a literary work of his own un-
til it was finished
An 1lliterate man says the only safe rule to
follow in pronunciation, is to call word
what it would be the least likely to sound
like.
A Pittsburg cow, being harnessed to
wagon, took her driver down a steep bank
and upon the track of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road.
g. Cincinnati editor asks, ''Are we fire
proof"' Undoubtedly you are. Any man
who can drink Cincinnati whiskey for ten
years and live is nitro-glycerius-p -prooi.-Lonis-
uttle COurier-JOurnul.
Potatoes are going up in price. We regret
this move, especially as this isn't the week
our engraver has the tremens, and conse-
quently we cannot give a map of the disaster.
Donbury Ne,cs.
England has another Froude (W,), who
stands in the front rank of scientific inven-
tors. He has invented an important and very
complicated apparatus for measuring the
height, shape, and movement of ocean waves.
1T is said that many of the fashionable
young ladies of New York make and trim
their own dresses and are paid by their par
ents the money which would otherwise go to
the dressmaker.
An orator, getting warmed with his sub
ject, exclaimed: ''There is not man, woman
| or child in the house, who has arrived at the
age of fifty years, but what has felt this truth
laundering through their minds for CEN
turies.'
A young woman lately committed suicide
in Vienna VINO was entirely justified in that
proceeding. The message which she left was
this: my last cigar draws badly, therefore l
am tired of life. Good night" The most
sensible thing that woman could do was to
get out of world where such Affections are
| found, but the wonder is that she should have
reached so just an estimate of the value of her
life.
| From the icy North come whispers of
skaters, thin ice, and consequent baptismal
fatalities; ere long all parts Of the country
will be contributing these little episodes. A
mans Oldest boy, and he was only 16, was
skating at Thurso, Canada, the other day,
and pushing his little brother and sister be-
fore him on a sled; the ice broke, and that
mans family was suddenly reduced to its
original and lowest terms.
After the terrible fate of Harris Maynard,
the trapezist who was shot at Cleveland re-
Gently, no loving swain should ever permit a
woman to sit in his lap. Minnie Fish, the
girl who shot him, had come in fiom a walk
and found Harris calling on her, so she sat
down in his lap, first removing her revolver
from her pocket and laying it on the table.
She says that she and Harris were fooling
and he tried to kiss her, and she playfully
snapped the revolver at him. The next mo-
| ment she cried out, 'sMy God! l have shot
Harris" and the circumstances fully justified
! the exclamation.
Fun, lots of it, out in Kansas. They mix
the tragic, the tender and the solemn in the
most unscrupulous manner. A young mu-
latto named Drake, Of Lawrence, in whose
path of love some asperities were thrown by
the opposing parent of his intended, with his
three brothers, attacked a funeral cortege of
which the proposed father-in-law formed a
rart, shot him, abducted the girl, took her
back to the city and was married in the street,
the constable generously declining to arrest
him until the conclusion of the ceremony.
Fechter's new theater at New York is to
number among its company, this winter, a
young lady, ''gifted with beauty and a fair
share of talent and moving in our best circles,''
according to the Home journal, who has
adopted the theatrical profession for love, and