The Portland daily press., 1872-12-02
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, DEC. s,,7s
Gossip and Gleanings.

Hembold is head clerk in drug store. 1t
is pleasure to know that the shining abili-
ties of man who owes 781 men are thus
recognized.
Notwithstanding the fact that all the New
York papers spell the name of the leading
Louisiana carpet-bagger ''Warmoth," il is, or
used to be, Yarmouth.
The st. Louis Globe puts it in this way:
Mr.. Sumner is on his way to Boston. That
city has the sympathy of the entire country
on account of the fire.
The fact that the attendance in the schools
of Virginia increased over three hundred per
cent. within twelve months speaks well for
the intelligence of the Virginia freedmen.
An old lady was admiring the beautiful
picture called sSaved." 'It's no wonder"
said she, ''that the poor child tainted after
pulling that great dog out of the water.''
Nothing requires so strict economy as be-
ncvolence. # spread a fertilizer too thin,
it produces no crop; if too thick it exuberates
in rankness and weeds.
One man elected to the Kansas Legislature
wishes to be classified alone as ''a Democrat
elected through the efforts of prominent men
in the Republican party"
Stuffed birds are very popular just now,
both for outside or inside wear, and consist
of humming birds for the head, and turkey
for the stomach.
Gratz proclaimed something about Thanks
giving, the other day but it was not very def
mite. Gratz evidently thinks that we haven't
much to be thankful for any way.-St. Louis
Globe.
Chorpenning, the Post-office Department
claim man, intends renewing his efforts,
and is preparing pamphlet in which he bit
terly assails Mr.. Dawes, and connects the
name of Mr.. Sergeant and Mr.. .Cresswell
with the subject.
A poor fellow named Watkins, without
money, friends or influence, gained q night's $
lodging at Hanford, Mich, recently, by firing
hay-stack and then presenting himself at
the Jail, in order to be imprisoned for his
ofisnse.
Three mules that have been at work eleven
hundred feet below the surface of the earth
in Nevada mine since September, 1871, will
soon be lifted up to the level of their fellows.
The have been in perfect darkness all this
time, but are as healthy as ever.
"A Brahma rooster named s'COlossus' died
of aroplexy in Connecticut q few days since.
He weighed over sixteen pounds, doubtless
the largest chanticleer in America, and was
valued at about 800 by his owner. He was
Radical rooster.
The Titusville Press says: San intoxcat-
ed printer in ST. Louis wandered into a shoe
shop i'll fit of mental alteration and set ur
several sticksfnl of shoe pegs, and took a
proof of his matter in the boot-press, before
he realized his awful condition."
A misguided cat whose home Is one of the
Philadelphia engine houses, took possession
OF the fire box of the engine as a suitable
place to rear her progeny, but the proceed
ings incident to the next fire alarm left her
destitute alike of hair and kittens.
Miss Kate Field writes to the American
Register that rather than accept 'shome on
the rolling Deep" she would go out a. gov
erness in an English family, which is the
worst fate she can imagine falling to the lot
of woman.
A writer in the St. Louis Globe says: ''Wo-
man can originate nothing" exclaims rev
erend lecturer. According to orthodox au
thority, Eve originated ''Original Sln." Tha
was the biggest thing ever done since tn,
world began, if the orthodox idea be the cor
rect one.
The 'Friscoans are unpleasantly affected
toward one of their market-men because the,
find boulders and bricks and other foreign
and indigestible substances in the firkins Of
butter obtained at his stall, seven firkins
yielding no less than 35 pounds of these sin.
gular calcareous deposits.
The st. Louis Globe says: SIS it any won.
der that we have smallpox? A member oil
the Medical Society made this startling state
ment last evening: "There are certain hypo
phlogistic and diaphrastic conditions of th,
organism dependent ON the hypodermi,
action of the ganglia of the cerebro-spna
system, which evolve an abnormal diathesi
affecting the levator labit superioris aliqu
nasi muscle, aid producing follicular degen
Grafton of the buccal and gastro-enteric mu
cous membrane
From the icy North come whispers o
skates, thin ice, and conseq uent baptisma
fatalities; ere long all parts of the countr,
will be contributing these little episodes. A
mans Oldest boy, and he only sixteen, wa.
skating at Thurso, Canada, the other day
and pushing his little brother and sister be
fore him on sled. The ice broke and tina
mans family was suddenly reduced to its or
iginal and lowest terms
Out in Kansas they mix the tragic, the ten
der and the solemn in the most unscrupulou
manner. A young mulatto in whose path o
love some asperities were thrown by the op
posing parent of his intended, attacked a flu
neral cortege of which theproposed father-in
law formed part, shot him, abducted thu
girl, took her back to the city and was mar
ried in the street, the constable generously
declining to arrest him until the conclusion
OF the ceremony.
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle has again lectured or
Joaquin at San Francisco, discoursing chief,
Of his younger days, and particularly of thei
courtship. When his eyes first rested upor
the ensnaring Minnie, she was kicking tn,
dog for barking at passing stranger, and til,
succeeding day they took a canoe ride. ant
she saved both from destruction by her quick
ness and muscle, whereat both were disgust
ed, as, according to all the traditions, Joa
quin should have been the chivalrous pre-
server of her vitality. She says he likes ev.
erything the world disapproves of, from Joa-
quin Murietta to Victoria Woodruff