The Portland daily press., 1872-07-19
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

The perils of swinging on gate were il
lustrated at Troy, Thursday, where a little
girl, Emma Lander, was so severely crushed
by gate giving way, under the weight Of
children swing upon it, and falling upon her
that she is not expected to live.
| A troupe of Mexican vaqueros at Buffalo,
who had been giving an exhibition of lassoing
wild cattle at the West by operating with
mustang and moose on a herd of Mexican
steers in the driving park in that city, were
all arrested for crulety to animals.
A rhinoceros escaped from a menagerie in
| Vermont recently, and gave the farmers
free show by wandering through their mea-
dows.
Valmaseda, the retiring captain general of
Cuba, is said to have accumulated fortune
OF s., 100000 during his term of office.
Several North-German governments having
requested Prince Bismarck to issue an order
prohibiting the sales of certain German
American newspapers in the German Empire,
the chancellor declined doing so, and said
simply, "That would only increase their cir
culation in this country tenfold."
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte is the social lion
at Newport.
The latest style in beards-the Elizabethrn
ruff, a la Horace Greeley.
"Massa Christopher Columbus was a queer
man." said negro orator; "a notion crossed
him one day, and den he crossed an ocean,"
Only think of it! Madame Leutner had
only 500 people at her concert at the academy
of music in New York ON Monday night. A
stormy evening and the absence from town of
all the most fashionable concert goers probably
furnishes an explanation.
All of the New York Tribune Employees are
said to have promised to vote for Mr. Greeley.
with the exception OF the man who has been
doomed to ''setting up'' his copy. Revenge
is sweet.
Work on Commodore Vanderbilt's under
ground railroad in New York city will begin
in September, and the work be pushed for
ward in mile sections, as fast as possible.
A German poet has recently written a
touching poem, in which the hero is repre-
sented as devoured by an alligator, under a
palm tree on the shore of Lake Erie, in
America. The heroine hears of the terrible
fate of her lover down in the everglades of
Florida, near the banks of Lake Superior,
where she is living. and rushes down South
to Lake Erie, and lies in wait for that croco-
dile, captures him, cuts him open, extracts
the bones of her dead lover, purchases rich
coffin and has him inferred in magnificent
style, in Greenwood cemetery, New York, in
the State Of st Louis. The poem is truly
affecting.
The Register informs us that General
Love will remain in Paris until the end of
July" The Parisians have been addicted to
general love ever since we have known any
thing about them, and we very much doubt
if they will consent to part company so soon.
A thrifty Bostonian recently ''placed"
$4,000 insurance on the life of his wife, took
home box of little red Maryland plums and
enjoyed whole evening in watching his wife
eat them. His enterprise had its reward.
Deducting $500 for funeral expenses, he is
now SO, 700 richer than he was week ago.
A street temperance speaker in Albany
clothes himself in white gown reaching
from his neck to his feet, with sashes of red
and blue about his shoulders.
1t is rumored that Mr. Colfax's retirement
into private life portends his editing the st.
Louis Democrat.
The Saturday Reuiesc thinks that both
reading and writing novels is favorable to a
flabby condition of the mental fibre.
Among the more interesting collections
lately received at the Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, is mummied head, retaining
all the form ande features of life, including the
hair, lips, etc., but reduced by some peculiar
process so as not to exceed the size of an Or
binary fist. These heads are found among
the Javaro tribes, in the province of CHM
borazo, in Peru, and are said to be of very
great antiquity, there being no indication of
recent preparation. They are believed to be
the heads of enemies slain in battle, and pre-
served in this way as trophies of victory.
A slander which needs only to be stated to
be refuted-A curmudgeon of bachelor says
that if you hand lady newspaper with a
scrap cut out of it, not line of it will be read
but every bit of interest the paper possesses
is centered in finding out what the missing
scrap contained.
One of the improvements introduced in
Chicago since the fire is in the street-cars.
These useful public conveyances are now fur
nished with double cane-seated chairs, so
that each passenger knows exactly how much
he or she is entitled to. The utmost supera-
bundance of feminine skirts cannot in these
cars interfere with the comfort of male pas
sengers.
The three stages of Darwinism are now
said to be positive, tail; comparative, tailor (;