The Portland daily press., 1872-10-01
THE PR ESS
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 1, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
The 'oldest inhabitant," never before saw
such crops as Western Iowa can justly boast
of this season.
In Dubuque pigeons are shot (and plucked)
in the streets, ducks are hunted on the levee,
and everybody has the swamp fever.1
Mrs. Orphena Teeple of Woodbury., Con-
necticut, celebrated her one hundredth birth
day last week, The golden wedding of her
daughter, Mrs. Bradford j. Hull, was cele-
brated last month. ,es
AT Griffin Ca, man, to settle family
grievance, whipped his wife, her sister, his
sister, and his mother-in-law, and at last ac-
counts was looking for some more of the
family.
Orrin Wade, forty-year-old Montville
| (Connecticut) citizen, entered upon his second
honeymoon just ten days after the death of
his first wife. ''The queen is dead-long live
the queenp
A Boston lady has complained of a man for
'making faces at her." The humors Of the
female toilette are such that is is impossible
to look at some ladies and keep ones count
enance.
A Lexington, KY, lady, distinguished as a
poet, and having reputation for beauty that
is national, killed fifty-seven birds in less than
two hours. What birds they were and how
killed is not yet made public.
AT funeral lately, there stood in the house
an old fashioned clock, which, when it finish
| ed the announcement of the meridian hour,
was made to play tune. The officiating
minister was in the midst of his sermon when,
nooa having arrived, the clock commenced
striking H. In a very solemn tone he i'm
pressed on his hearers the inevitable flight of
| time; but the exhortation was evidently in
| effective, as the clock instantly followed with
the CHEEKY old notes of "Take your time,
Miss Lucy"
| While standing upon the wharf of the Amer
lean Steamboat Company at Providence, R.
L., few days since, awaiting the departure
of the Fifth Rhode Island Regiment and Bat
terry F. Veteran Association, for Rocky Point,
two veterans met. They shook hands heart
lily, when one said to the other, ''Why, how is
this, that you are wearing weed? / did not
know that you had lost any dear friend"
With twinkle of the eye the bland answer
came, SIN mourning for Horace
The farmers of Illinois are at loss for
ground on which to crib their immense corn
crops. The area planted is much larger than
ever before, and the yield promises to exceed
that of any othercr ever raised in the State.
The following ludicrous sentence is the re-
suit of compositor's erroneous punctuation: :
Caesar entered upon his head, his helmet up
on his feet, armed sandals upon his brow, a
cloud in his right hand, his faithful sword in
his eye, an angry glare.
A good old woman once heard the people
returning from church complain that parts Of
the sermon were not to their liking. When
you pare an apple, says she, you cut out a
rotten spot and throw it away. You don't
keep it to put in sauce and set to your
friends. Why can't yod keep the good parts
of the sermon to talk about?
An Ilinoisan advertises for a female ser
want. ''Not,' he says, ''the ordinary girl,
who comes into families and stays for her
board and clothes; bowling infant with a
red face and no teeth, swathed in flannel and
very partial to collie, but broad-shouldered,
deep-chested, two-fsted servant girl-red hair.
freckles, and general ugliness preferred, on
on account of the Oldest boy in the family"
They have new arrangement in France.
they call it rdllie papier. 1t is like fox-hunt-
ing, only lacking the fox element. The COM
pany goes careering over the country in chase
of horseman, who is given ten minutes
start, and whose track is marked out by bits
of cut paper which his motion scatters out Of
a couple of huge bags with which he is laden.
The "bush' or trophy of victory is a white
satin rosette, which he wears on his lef,
shoulder, and which becomes the spoil o.
whoever is lucky enough to overtake and
snatch it from him.
A man with a crutch was admitted to one
= of the Yale secret societies, the other night,
and the members, with more than usual hu-
manity, allowed him to come in without the
customary ceremonies of initiation. But he
proved to be veritable ''heathen Chinee,' y
and later in the evening, when row sprung
up, he ''went through" several sophomores
in manner truly surprising. Since then he
has been seen without cane or crutch, in the
front rank of a ''rush," and the humane feel
ing in his favor has somehow died away.