The Portland daily press., 1872-07-29
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, JULY go, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

MONDAY MORNING, JULY go, 1879.
Gleanings and Gossip.
Louis Ulbach, the Partisan journalist, has
been sentenced to four months imprison-
ment for having written in his newspaper,
La Cioche, that "Rochefort's condemnation
did more honor to him than to his judges"
Lyons has six daily papers, with an aggre-
gate circulation of only ten thousand copies.
Pity there is not a knot-hole or crevice in
that Geneva Board through which an ingen-
uous reporter could learn something. The
strain on the inventive faculty is really getting
fearful.
The Independent is sharply after the New
York manufacturing company engaged in
producing idols for the Hindoo market, to be
worshipped by the heathen in his blindness.
man in Indiana attempted to dislodge
nest of skunks under his barn, few days
ago. He has since been obliged to decline
all invitations to jubiee., funerals, and other
festivities.
A Chicago bridegroom is reported to have
worn ga diamond pin in his shirt bosom and
a sardonyx smile OH his brow.''
The druggists say the demand for fly paper
this summer is unprecedented, and house
keepers say there never were such swarms of
flies.
In the death of Benito Juarez, President
of Mexico, thta country loses its most able
leader, and the world loses one of its most
remarkable men.
A st. Louis policeman is named Walkoff.-
He does, with small boys.
An English constable went to attach fur
niture in a dwelling, when the proprietor
stepped out, in a spirit of accommodation,
and produced box containing valuable as
sets, which ON being investigated proved to
be honey bees. They at once made the house
so warm that the officers were glad to let
things be.
A vinegar-hearted old bachelor says he al
ways looks under the head of Marriages" for
the news of the weak.
The fresh-water college sent the Harvards
up ''Salt River SO thoroughly that they will
have to take sweeping strokes and good
many of them to get back again. More boat
ing and less betting may improve the race
and the race-course of Young America,
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their
ears; the effect of their precepts is therefore
slow and tedious, whilst that of example is
summary and effectual.
The other day some ladies were out visiting.
There being alittle two-years-old present, one
of the ladies asked him if he would kiss her.
He answered ''No." "What is the reason
that you will not kiss meT Pm too little to
kiss you; papa will kiss you; papa kisses
big girls" He was permitted to play with
his toys.
Walt Whitman, with his companion, Joa-
quin Miller, is investigating the slums of
New York, in search of subjects for future
erratic verse.
"One of the Rothschilds," beautiful
blonde, of Williamsburgh, N. Y, is the plain
tiff in breach of promise case, and lays her
her damages at $4,000.
A number of mail trains, to carry no pas
hours between Chicago and New York, are
to be put on the connecting roads between
those two points, the rate of speed to be 40
miles an hour.
Subtract from great man all that he owes
to opportunity and all that he owes to chance,
all that he has gained by the wisdom of his
friends, and the giant will often be left a
pigmy, re
Miss Carlotta Leclercq has returned to Bos-
ton, her home while in America.
Nine. Zananschek, the tragedienne has
sailed for Germany, but will probably return
next year.
Fechter will come back to New York this
summer. t
Victorien Sardon's new play will be entitled
'LAmericaine." The scene is laid in New
York. 1t will be performed ar the Paris
Gymnase in August.
By squall in the Delaware Bay last week,
while sailing in yacht, two young men were
overtaken. At Nazareth Methodist Church,
on Twelfth street, Philadelphia, at public
worship they had occasionally been present.
From the way things looked. the canSiZno OF