The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-03
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THE PR ESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8, ,7s
Gleanings and Gossip.

UlcdHiuSS anu UOSsip.
A new stimuant has been invented in Eng.
land, whose growing use is exciting consider
able alarm. The stuff consists of a mixture
OF fnaptha and ether, and it produces kind OF
intOxication which its admirers find highly
agreeable. No check can be put on the Econ-
sumption of the fluid, for the reason that il
is not sold under the name of any excisable
spirit, and apparently an act of Parliament
will have to be devised to meet the difficulty.
1t was happy thought for DIR. Doremus to
say that if he were challenged to fight a duel,
he would suggest to his opponent that both
should take poison, and then sit down and
play poker for the exclusive use of the stom-
ach pump.
A blundering Dubuque printer alludes to
an attorney-at-jaw.
That was cool Scottish ."'asde' of an old
dealer, who, when exhorting his son to prac-
tice honesty in his dealing, on the ground Of
its being the ''best policy" quietly added,
81 hae tried baith.'
The British Society for the Advancement
OF Art offers five thousand dollars reward for
pigment or covering that will perfectly pro-
tect iron from rust and fouling.
The hall in which the Geneva court of ar
bitration holds its sessions is an ordinary
drawing room, the windows looking out on a
neat little garden in the very centre of the
city. The ante-room which the commission
ers and secretaries enter the hall of Congress
is called the marriage chamber, and is re-
garded by sentimentalists as significant of the
approach OF happy union between the two
great nations.
While new writers of somewhat similar
style are constantly claiming and receiving
public attention, the popular taste is still true
to 'Ik Marvel" whose books, indeed, have
almost classic rank in American letters, and
will be read after many of the favorites of
the hour are long forgotten. In its new and
very neat edition, "My farm at Edgewood''
is receiving gracious welcome from the critics.
A disreputable contemporary very repre-
hensibly remarks thaH' Fashionable young Ia
dies, like letters, require stamps, or the males
reject them"
Leavenworth women keep their dogs from
policemen, by wrapping the precious creatures
in clothes and passing them off as babies.
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their passage up the Rhine in small boats.
Darwin says he is simply seeking for truth I;
admits that his theories are not proven, and
states that he does not offer his doubtful sup
positions as evidence against well-established
convictions.
Mrs. Duffcott writes to Mr. Punch for his
Judgment on a most important question. Mrs
Duffcott is not now in Parliament or she
would not trouble Mr.. Punch. The point is
whether her cook or lady takes pre-.
cedence among the servants in her establish
ment. The unseemly scowlng, not to say
scuffiing, that takes place when they come in
to prayers, is quite shocking!
If thy conscience smite thee once, it is an
admonition; if it smite thee twice, it is con-
demnation.
The Pittsburg Commercial says that when
the drama of the 'Long Strike was being
played at Harrisburg, and in the court scene
the judge asked the question. "Guilty, or
not guilty ?' welldressed, intelligent look
ing gentleman left his seat, in the center OF
the parquette, wended his way through the
crowd to the edge of the stage, and very
calmly called out, 'Stopp' The actor who
was personating the part of M0ueypenny
thinking the man intoxicated, walked down
to the foOtlights, and the following dialogue
ensued: ''Will you oblige me by taking your
seat, sir% The gentleman replied, 81 want
to give an opinion" ''Well," said the wor-
thy manager, 1--WE are willing to hear it"
The stranger proclaimed in loud voice, "It
was not that man (pointing to the prisoner,
Jem Starkie) who killed him. saw who did
it. saw the person shoot him from behind
the hedge" Then turning upon his heel, he
left the theatre, escorted by police officer
and venting his anger in subdued curses upon
the injustice of the English courts, which re-
fused to take the evidence of an eye witness.
The man was not intoxicated, as was at firsi
supposed, but his imagination became excited
to such degree that he forgot where he was
and thought the murder and trial reality.
A few practical women in San Francisco
instead of wandering about the country pro-
claiming themselves as good as men, are quiet
ly proving the fact by instituting an import
ant business and providing for its carrying OF
in so thorough and able a manner as to leave
no doubt of its success. We refer to the
'sWomen's Pacific Publishing Company" in
corporated few weeks since in San Francis
co. 1t has for its capital the sum of $25, 900
all contributed by women-its officers, super
intendent and business agents are all women
the type-setters are women, and so, in fact
are all connected with the concern, with
few necessary exceptions.
A pair of distressed parents in Troy arr
anxious to cure their four-year old son of al
irresistible tendency to commit arson. Th'
New York World wickedly suggests arsenic
The folks that on the first of May, woi,
winter coats and hose, began to say, the las
of June, "Good Lordp' how hot it grows"
A wag affirms that pillows, though not be
longing to the human species, come undel
the head of rational beings.
Decision Of the Law Court ON New Trials
Nathaniel AverM Us. Felir Rooney.
KENT, j.
BY 4 13 ch. II r. s., it is provided that
among the cases which ''come before the Court
as a court of law" are leases in which there are