The Portland daily press., 1872-11-05

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. S, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

A woman who tells fortunes from teacuI
need not be sauceress.
Carpets are bought by the yard and worn
by the foot.
They have "insane lunatics' on the Pacific
coast.
Kansas is raising cabbages and bald eagles
four feet high. ffH
Lo, the pecuniarily deficient Indian, has en-
bra bbraced rag-picking in San Diego. 8
The conversation of English society girls
ventures into the region of blasphemy," ac-
cording to writer in the Saturday Reriev.
The latest reason given for advising a
woman to spend her time over her dress, is
that it develops the artistic faculty.
A rising artist is painting for next years
Royal Academy Exhibition a picture of Death
as large as life.
The exasperated farmers of Minnesota are
feeding the predatory dog on poisoned NUT
ton.
Complaint is made that society is very dull,
all the gentlemen being interested in poll
tics. t f
Remember know morality" said an ac-
tress toDumas fills. eyes, Madame, as rob-
bers know the police" was the reply.
Levi Brown of Poygan, Mich, thought he
could hold playful young bull by the tail,
but his widow now says che never could
stick to anything ten minutes in his life."
A countryman and his wife attending the
"opery' in New York left in disgust when
~Lucca, in ''Fra Diavolo,'' began to disrobe
before the mirror.
A gushing poet asks in the first line of
recent effusion, 'How many weary pilgrims
lie" We have given it up, but experience
has taught us that there are good many. q
A young man whose religious education has,
we fear, been somewhat neglected, was heard
saying yesterday, as he ruefully surveyed his
wallet, sit makes an L of difference wheth-
er ones pocket-book is fat or flatp'
Providence paper says that Connecticut
ought not to be so bitter against Rhode IS
land as the proximity of Little Rhody is all
that keeps Connecticut on the borders of civ
ilization. Isn't that rather leaving Massa-
chussetts outin the cold?
Can't think Of anything good to say of g
person you don't like? Nonsense. Take
the case of house or horse which you have
to sell because you don't like it, and how
much may be truthfully said in its favor in an
advertisement!
The liquo1law being enforced in Chicago
last Sunday, a heartless saloon keeper hung
out in front of his place beer bottle, dressed
in mourning, underneath which was bucket
of water, with the generous invitation
'Help yourselves, boys"
Little Daisy, who lives on hill overlook
ing Springfield, usually takes midday nap
and the other noon she asked her mother 81
she sood say her pares." She was told to dc
just as she pleased, when she replied, 'Den
dess ont, for l tan ia care myself in day
time"
An old citizen of Kansas eloped last Thurs
day with his niece. He has been married
fourteen years, and leaves wife who, in
stead of mourning his absence, has sold out
her household furniture and proposes to fol
low him as long as the proceeds of the cook
ing stove and bedstead last
Scroggs has been 50 much nagged for part
ing his hair in the middle (he says it is hair
splitting business any way) that he now part
his front hair just over his left eye, and hi
back hair just behind his right ear, and say
he leaves the medic tutissimus plan to the ibi
and the other birds of a feather.
Always, said Curtis, avoid the company il
which you are willing to tell coarse jes
because for you it is demoralizing company
Grossness is never humorous, profanity il
never admirable; and if your manner ant
speech once begin to ravel out on that edge
all their manliness and charm are in danger
y Ar,o 81,
tain features of the English railway system
The English road-hands are not allowed tt
whirl over the track in hand-car, but are
compelled to walk over the line, inspecting
each rail as they go. Very few unsound rail
escape detection, and the liability of an &C
cident is greatly lessened, This method o
track inspection is more costly than that pur
sued in America; but John Bull has Learned
the meaning of ''penny wise and pound fool
ish." r.
Mr.. Charles Mathews, who is now in Lon
don, has written an amusing letter, in whicl
he ''presents his compliments to the who'll
human race, and begs to state that, much a
he loves his fellow creatures, he finds it i'm
possible to provide for the necessities of evel
the small population of London alone, TIL
enormous number of applications for assis
tance he daily receives, chiefly from tota
strangers, makes it necessary for him to apol
ogize for not entirely supporting the appli
cants and their families: and it is with sham
he is obliged to confess himself unable to ac
complish so desirable an object"
Polygamy seems to be favorable at least Il
gorgeous rhetoric: The editor of the Sal