The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-15
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. Is, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

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.. Gossip and Gleanings.
Virginia has seventeen sumac mills, anC
iatters herself on sumac-tivlty in that line.
No moose is good news, as the man said
when he was reprieved.
Stray aigators are put into the same
pound with lost dogs at St. Louis. 1t saves
paying and feeding an executioner.
Philadelphia proposes to cover fifty acres
OF herself with the building for the great cen
tennial exhibition.
The cigar makers OF Havana are stopping
work and demanding higher wages. IT they
do not get high wages enough it is not the
fault ofthose who pay for the cigars.
1t is in order for Mr.. William Wallace Har-
ney, the Florida poet, to rise and enquire,
"What is fame ?" His remarkable little poem,
''The Stab," is going the rounds, signed
William Wallace Harvey"
A Georgia paper boasts of nine-year-old
compositor, who "sets $500 ems day with
out an error in his proof" He will recover
from that last symptom of disease before long !;
it seldom becomes chronic.
A man lately made wager that he lad
seen horse going at its greatest speed and a
dog sitting on his tail, and strange as it may
seem, he won, but the dog sat on his own
TAIL ..- ........ ...-.....
A student who had been afflicted with a
sermon one hour and a halflong, grumbling-
ly says that these professors study so much
about eternity that they have no conception
oftime
In Major Moreau's speech at Paoli, he
says: "Ah, how we pressed our wives and
our little ones to our breasts, etc., etc.
Which one of''our wives' does the major al
lude to?
The phyllOxera vastartx is devastating the
vineyards of Schaffhausen. Don't write to
this office to know what phylloxera vasta-
trix is; apply to the postmaster at Schaffhau-
sen, who will be charmed to tell you.
: Prof. Plantamour's August comet was sick
and couldn't come, but as compensation fol
the disappointment he has made an arrange
ment with the sun by which that luminary is
to gradually shut off its heat so that we shall
be frozen in the year 2011. ..... ...
"Her face is delicatcly cut, set off by a
wealth of natural curls, splendid rivers OF
crows wings light, threads of black glory
which drop over her shoulders, and her eyes
beam with SOUL" Which her name is Min
ME Myrtle Miller. Good notice, isn't it?''
Tershack, the great Hungarian futist, il
the next musical celebrity who will visit thi:
country, and we expect to hear soon tina
some unrivalled master of the KamschatkaI
sackbut or Peloponnesian timbrel is about t.
lift the light of his tuneful presence upon on
gullible shores. . --. -.....
An Indanapolitan named Hagan, latel.
went home drunk, and, being refused suppe
by his wife, proceeded to break things Will
she sat calmly singing 'sHome Sweet Home.
She did this until he upset the cradle, whel
sne arose, drew map of Indiana upon hi
noble brow, borrowed lock of his hair as
tender remembrance, and sent him out o
the house; now he wants a divorce.
Some young fellows out West when the,
once become addicted to eloping can hardl,
restrain themselves within moderate limits
A youth in Detroit lately took maiden ant
a large sum of money and eloped from the ia
ther and owner of the same. Having accom-
plished this much he next took the money
and eloped from the maiden, and thus secur
ed the object ofhis affection without encum
brance.
A Scotch paper describes curious animal
the like of which was never before seen in tn,
United Kingdom, brought there by gentle
man just returned from Buenos Ayres. 1t i
nutria or coypr, an amphibious nnimal
holding position between the beaver ant
rat, about two feet long, having the hind fee
webbed and the claws of the fore-feet divided
using the latter in dressing its coat, of whicl
it takes excellent care. 1t is strict vege
tartan and has very gentle disposition.
A- William Allen, d. D., SOL
LATE PRESIDENT OF BowDoIN COLLEGE
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