The Portland daily press., 1872-11-13
THE PR ESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 1s ,7e
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
country weekly talks about the epizootic
that cut off the cabbage crop.
Miss Belle Siva a native singer of Toledo'
is going abroad. She will next be heard of as
Signora Angelica de Correllssmi.
| The last conundrum is-Where's Gratz
Brown? For answer, apply to the ''Little
Brown Jug.r
The last words of little Noah Powers of
Lansing, Mich, were II didn't know it was
| loaded"
The Philadelphia Telegraph has discovered
''The Way to Heaven. But what's the use
OF communicating the secret to Phadel-
phians?
Europe is disturbed over apprehended
complications with Turkey" Happily for
America, its complications with turkey do not
begin until after the middle ofthe month.
A woman in Kansas drowned herself the
other day and copied the letter of the Alice
Blanche Oswald who committed suicide in
London few months ago.
The following prophetic warning is pasted
over huckster's table in Stanford, Ky.
'any Man or Boy that takes One APPEL With
n 20 l. i'll
Three stars of the operate stage, the tenor
Lotti. Mrs. Clara Brinkerhoff and Madame
Adelina Celli, are teaching music in New
York.
A Detroit boy has started goat express
and conveys the baggage of travellers to and
from the hotels and railway stations with
great promptness.
Alligators are so thick around Richland
county, S. c., that they trip up horses in the
streets, and then extend their jaws in a gen.
ial smile
"Meet me at the gate, love-" has been
changed to 'Meet me at the CRATE, love-"
The cool weather has necessitated the
change.
The COurier-Journal supposes that the in
crease of suicides throughout the world has
arisen from the number of letters written by
the inhabitants of Chicago about their fire.
| otar,r TOM, l.at 80 t. IL L..
made fortune by his pen. His father-in-law
died of grief after reading one OF his leaders,
and left him s19O,0OO.
Where words weak, and foes encountering strong
| Where mightier do assault than do defend,
! The feeble part endures enforced wrong,
And silent sees that speech could not amend.
Yet, higher powers must think, though they repine
When sun is set, the little stars will shno
The Boston Post accuses the jealous NUM-
cipalities of st. Louis and Chicago of ''blow-
ing up Duluth's dyke" 1t is with such char
acteristi. and diabolical ingenuity that the
Post betrays the secret that Duluth even had
a dyke.
Dobbs made bet of dinner with Gree
ley enthusiast ON the result of the election.
They met yesterday, when the latter said !:
"Dobbs, my boy, apprehension has ripened
into narrowing fact. Let us adjourn to the
nearest peanut stand" He is supposed to
be the meanest man in New York.
An honest and industrious man in Indiana,
who was doing well exhibiting himself as a
| living skeleton, has commenced to grow fat
and has now got to learn another trade or
starve. Thus fortune jihs her followers, and
crushes humble ambition.
His mother, who dresses herself in furnace
colored satin, green shawl and golden chains,
remarks, on being introduced to her sons tu-
| tor, who is brother to lord, ''You'll excuse
meif l don't raise, honorable aud reverend
| SIT, but after dinner, and being stout, body
feels sitsome. ."-lR Recent English Novel.
| Reubinsten visited the Peabody Institute
Academy of Music at Baltimore, on Saturday,
when, after an exhibition by the students, he
seated himself, and in few moments handed
the Director little composition, dedicated
with his autograph to some young ladies
whose performances had pleased him.
''Come in, there's a fire in the parlor,"
were the whispered words we heard while
| passing house on one of our principal streets
last evening. 1t is such little courtesies as
these that increase the coal Dealers profits,
and tend to make the baker sweat over six
story wedding cakes before the winter is
| over.-Titusrille Press.
An indianapolis lawyer thus briefly de-
scribed a witness :-'That fellow is an epit-
ONE of sublime stupidity; he is an army of
exclamation points pounded into a column of
blurred Typography; he is conglomeration
of chaotic nonsense; he is prismatic idiot; !;
| tions."
| 1t is doubtful whether any professed atheist
| can at all times keep within the bounds of
his belief There is a society of atheists in
Venice, and in sending its congratulations to
Victor Emanuel, on the escape of his son
from assassination, it curiOusly enough
thanked Divine Providence for the miracu-
lous escape" etc.
1t requires good deal of skill and good
taste to write a neat puff for an undertaken.
A newspaper editor in Council Bluffs says
''Since We have to use coffins, we prefer those
which Riley furnishes. We took view of
his supply of the commodity, yesterday after
IT,
pretty well through an average siege of
cholera