The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-01
TIL d PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 1, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

as, with one arm tossed over its little curly
head, it prepares for the next days gymnas-
tics, A busy creature is little child.
The Lacustrine House, Central Africa,
New York Herald daily, fine view of Nile
fountains from back windows) is to be the
fashionable resort next summer. Society the
most select. Reliable camels in the stable.
Interesting races. "A celebrated English doc
tor and an interviewer located on the spot.
Sand-spouts ten feet in diameter and one
thousand feet in height, waltz about deserts
in Nevada for hours at time. They cor
respond to the waterspouts of the ocean.
A yonng man in Franklin, Ohio, calculates
that during period of five years he has walk
ed 1928 miles in visiting his sweetheart.
Walker! - r'.' -A'7 shi'T
The item about the three young ladies of
the best families, who are seen drunk on the
street, is going the rounds again, Every edi
torswho sees it locates in some town to which
he has special antipathy, and then starts it
on its rounds again.
A writer in the Gentlemen's Magazine says
there has been no artistic swearing in England
since the days of Sir Lucius O'Trigger.
Tennyson smokes. He smokes excessively.
He smokes Virginia tobacco, and uses a COM
mon clay pipe, like Celtic laborer. He sits
in his study, with box of white clay pipes at
his feet. He fills one, smokes it until empty,
then breaks it in two, throws it out of the
window, and takes out another. He never
smokes pipe second time. The poets
den is on the top of the house. His hours of
labor are in the early part of the day. He
would not hesitate to take the life of any one
who ahould intrude ON his privacy at this
time. Afterwards, if you are an interesting
person, he is ready to sit and smoke with you
all the rest of the day.
do you enjoy good health, Zachary" ?"
''Why yes, to be sure who doesn't?''
Quaker Bitters is new appetizer. The
name is very suggestive of the "still." (Dan-
bury News.
An Indiana matron has fed from her
home, presumably because she could no long
er bear her husbands name, which is Hellsh.
She wanted him to assume his mothers title,
but he logically argued that it wouldn't mend
matters to give up his sire's internal patrony-
mic and take that of his dam.
We have received from the publishers a
Horace Greeley March, dedicated ''to our
next President" Why a Horace Greeley
March should be dedicated to President Grant
we can't quite see.
A young friend of ours whose opinions de-
rive tinge of bitterness from the beer he inn
bibes, says that although it is quite true that
zone swallow does not make a SUMNER" q
summer like this makes one swallow good
deal of liquid.
The Ida Greeley Grays of Baltimore, after
mature deliberation, have changed the name
of the organization to Monumental club, on
the very sensible ground that a young lady's
name could not be introduced into a political
canvass without its becoming liable to be
treated with disrespect or attempted ridicule
by opponents in the rough contests of politi-
cal campaign.
DR.. John Murray, one of the best European
medical authorities, asserts that the progress
of consumption can be arrested by taking
snuff. He says that by tickling the lining
membrane of the nostrils, snuff acts as pow
erful derivative and counter-irritant, and its
use will tend'to preserve the more important
susceptible pulmonary mucous membrane
from harm.
Miss Maggie Haggerty ofTarrytown, N. Y.
recently horsewhipped a man because he had
named his mare after her, and then entered
the beast for Q race with another mare named
Josie Mansfield, and placarded the two names
side by side oil over town, which Miss Maggie
considered an insult and an injury.
Garibaldi, though suffering from rheumatic
pains, is still as laborious and active as in his
best days. He rises early, every morning
takes his usual ride on horseback, inspects
with care the rural Improvements he has un-
dertaken, and writes and studies necessarily,
A Peoria lady lately gave employment to .
gorgeously-clad and tremendously pig-tailed
heathen Chinee, and the entire family turned
out to see the new girl work. He broke
plates, smashed lamp-chimney, split dish
water on the floor, and swore in good English
when he scalded his fingers. Then, to her
great disgust, the lady found that the sup
posed exile from the Central Flowery Land
was, in reality, her Oldest son, wearing her
best Dolly Warden and her last new switch.
He wont do that again, just yet.
A man in Wilmington, DEL, whose feelings
have been disturbed by the mpertinonce of
the local press, writes to the Commercial, of
that city, to know if he has right to white
wash his chicken-coop.
'You can make your young man very hap
py, dear Susan, by never letting him out of
your sight. That is to say, he will be happy
very soon, for he will leave you and go to
some one who will be less exacting."
Sunday. The Journal says
truly and soberly-
Thousands Of our citizens were absent, yes
terday, at the seaside, the mountains, the
springs, or elsewhere in the rural districts !;
but no envieus feelings vexed the hearts of
their friends in town. When one can, amid
the comforts and conveniences of home, en-
joy such delicious temperature and restful
Sabbath-day quiet as prevailed here, he need
not repine for the joys of watering-place
hotel or the comforts Of boarding house in
the country.
By series OF observations made in Phila-
delphia last summer, the singular fact was
ascertained that the advent of peaches cur
tailed by full one-third the sale of alcoholic
and malt drinks in retail establishments, and
that the cheaper peaches became, the smaller
were the receipts at drinking bars.
The daughter of poor widow in Berlin,
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