The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-01
THE PRES So,
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 1, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and GIeanings.
The river is so low at Pittsburg that milk Is
rising.
Nasby is to lecture in Portland soon. Here
are circumstances under which Lock,jaw may
be accepted as pleasant thing.
The New York Erening Post says Mr..
"mood." Let us have it right. .ta
The epidemic laryngite is not new dis
ease, for it will be remembered that Richard
I'LL, once when he was in much trouble, of
fered kingdom for horse, and no takers.
Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte Davis, of East
Saginaw, tried to discipline Nap. with the aid
of shotgun, and when he took it from her
she had him arrested for assault and battery.
A most alarming phase of TIE horse dis
tempsr-the atrocious jokes to which really
well meaning persons resort to keep up their
spirits. To laugh or weep at half of them
would cause serious interruption to business.
Young men under age are not allowed to
smoke in the streets of Halifax, and, quite re-
Gently, ayoung man was fined 81 for VIOLA
tion of this law. Where is their boasted civil
ization?
Albert Mellen, an old st. Louisian, was
married in Massachusetts last week, to Miss
Fannie L. Gardner. 1t is eminently proper
for this Gardner to devote her energies to
Mellens. a.....
The wags now miss the entertaining pen
cip' of the "arithmetic man. of the New
York World. Could he not be induced to
give the world at large new specimen of his
inventive powers?
An Atlanta, Georgia, man thought he had
reached his couch the other night, when in
reality it was nothing but soft ditch. He
undressed, however, and slept peacefully un-
til morning.
Olive Logan having herself been brought
in her pocket, had she taken to millinery
instead of literature" the popular regret on
that score must now be considered unani-
nous.
There is one young lady in town who ate
oysters all through the month of August
when she could get them, under the SUPPOSE
tion that there was an ''r' in that month.
''Orgust" was the way she spelled it.-Titus-
rille Press. l...l
ga wedding is to take place in Philadelphia
in December, with twelve bridesmaids, all
attired by Worth, of Paris. The BRIDE sdress
will be of Belgian lace, and cost $4,000 in gold.
The danger is that the worth of the brides
maids may be too great for their wealth or
the BRIDES worth.
Indiana, according to the Courier-Journal,
''feeds daily at her groaning tables two mil
lions of prosperous and happy children, bloat-
ed with plethora of wealth." This does
not include the Indianapolis Journal man,
whose bloating material is taxed at the rate
of seventy cents gallon.-St. Louis Globe.
Mr.. Dickinson, of Pittsburg. put his pipe,
containing sparks of fire, in his vest pocket,
hung up his vest, and with his wife went
down town, leaving the children locked in
the house. The house was insured for a
small amount, but the children were not, al
though the doctor thinks they may recover.
st. Louis Globe.
This is how the Louisville Courier-Journal
looks at it: They should quit abusing Pere
Hyacinthe for marrying. They should re-
member that the destinations of Yankee
widow travelling as the agent of patent cor
set are not to be whisted down the wind as
you would the charms of an ordinary woman
travelling merely for fun
Daniel Thatcher, Of Paoli, Kas., loved Miss
Ellen Pine, and so did l. NJ. Purcell. Daniel
collided with Purcell and gave him tremen-
dous thrashing. Somebody laid" for Thatch-
er and blew off the top of his head. When
the fair Ellen was taken to the house where
the CORY remnants of her dead lover were laid
out, her first remark was affecting. She said
"Mrs. Shipman, have you put up any apple
butter yetp'
Are there any Burnhams in this locality
1t appears that, A. d. 1885, Benjamin Burn
ham died in London, leaving by Will certain
amount of real property, situated in London,
Smyrna, and elsewhere to three brothers,
who are said to have come to this country
and to have settled in Ipswich, Mass. From
these three Burnhams very many Burnhams
have come, and they are necessarily scattered
over the country, like the relatives and
mourners of Anneke Jams. Many of them
met at Mayfower hall, In Boston, last Tues
day, to organize measures for the recovery OF
the property, which is variously estimated at
from $2,000,000 to the combined figures of a
large arithmetic.