The Portland daily press., 1872-10-10
THE PR ESS,
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.


You may rely upon it that fortune does not
change men, it only unmasks them.
DIR. Hollister, of Iowa City, refused to pay
| toll and forded the river. He reached the OPP
posite side wet, but alive, and at once proceed
ed to buy another horse. Iae,
Two Cinnamon took their beer at Detroit,
Mich, the other day, wearing paper collars
and parting their hair in the middle
The Springfield Republican describes the
new hat as a kind of movable tower of Ba-
bel, with deep ditch around the base, for
purely defensive warfare.
The boys in Peoria, ILL.,, have invented a
sling that will break any average window at
forty yards. Their elders appreciate but do
not admire it, I }
1t is pleasant to go to a fashionable church
and be languidly escorted to back seat by
the tranquil sexton because he does not think
your broadcloth sufficiently fine for the wor-
ship of God. s-...
''Do you prefer Newport, this season ?''
asked wife of her husband. No, ma'am,
said the husband, 81 prefer old port" The
wife smiled, and SO did her husband, soon
AFTER
At Mankato, Mimi, a woman was accused
of throwing baby into the river The river
was raked by an incensed community and
dead cat brought to light.
1t may not be generally known that the
beautiful little cnromO of dolly Dimple,"
| published by Williams and Eyeritt from a
drawing by Elizabeth Murray,is an actual por-
trait from life. The original is the daughter
ofa resident of North Conway, where she is
an object of interest to manv visitors of that
attractive locality who have seen the copy of
Mrs. Murray's charming picture. .f.
Awar between two sections of the same
county melted by an effort ON the part of one
section to remove the Courthouse, is always
fierce and bitter one. Hell hath no fury
like unto it. The next thing to it is an effort
to remove the State Capitol Texas is now
torn by adissension of this kind, and the Tex
as papers-which under the most favorable
auspices, are by no means mild-mannered pa
pers-are waxing warm on the subject. An
effort is being made by the city of Houston to
| get the State Capital from the city of Austin,
\ and offers material inducements in the form of
grounds, money, etc., TO secure this removal.
Wherenpon the Austin papers denounce the
mean and dishonorable attempt to bribe the
/, sovereign people Of Texas; and the Houston
papers retort with equal ferceness. 1t is
feared that it will be impossible to compose
the wordy duel without blows. %.
An upper ten Fall River bridegroom left
several hundred guests at his wedding in
| state of suspense, recently, while he repaired
| to the pantry to lay in a stock of edibles that
he might save the expense of a supper for
himself and wife on board the steamboat.
c Sicilliennc brocade is one of the novelties
in dress material 1t is French silk fabric,
with ground much resembling ormure,
thickly set with satin figures. Camel hair
cloth is also something new. 1t is ecru col
ored with rich corded stripes, and is intended
for overskirts. Cost ten to fifteen dollars a
yard. z
A Western politician is said to have suffered
in a discussion upon which he rashly entered.
1t is said by local paper that he was flayed
alive, thrashed into jelly, and ground into
mincemeat. His antagonist is said to have
held him up before the crowd and pulled of
his epidermis as easily as if it had been the
skin of light fig.
Saturday was a grand September day. The
country people were in town trading, and
the town people were in the country shooting
bears and wolves and woodchucks. The sun
shone like pair of clerical pants, and the
air was as clear as the pockets therein.-Dan-