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SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 1e, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 12, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.
The autograph letters, orders, memoranda,
etc., of the Car Peter the Great, including
those Of public as well as of private char
acter, are shortly to be published under the
auspices of the Russian government.
AT this season of the year just before sun
set, the sparrows congregate amid the low
bushes in large focks, giving utterance to
loud and continuous chirps, the blending of
which forms no inappropriate hymn to the
setting sun.
primrose buff and "dandelion'' are the
new fashionable colors for evening gloves this
season.
SparkinS looked at painting of pig and
pleasantly asked who is thatpigment for?
The Chinese theatre of San Francisco has
opened for the season with play illustrative
of Celestial history, during the 18th cent Try,
and as six weeks is required for its entire de-
livery, it behooves those desirous of preserv-
ing the thread of the narrative to procure
seats at once.
The concluding parts of ''Middlemarch,"
by George Eliot, will be issued monthly in
stead of every two months.
The laureate's brother, Mr.. F. Tennyson,
will contribute poem entitled ''Love and
War;" to the October number of the Craze
and Gay magazine.
Mrs. Washburne and family left Paris ten
days since to pass the winter in Germany.
Madame George Sand is going to lecture in
Belgium and Holland.
The new diet for babies in France is butter
milk, thickened with rice meal, on which ii is
said they thrive and grow fat.
Every new article of wearing apparel that
appears is Immediately named 'Lucca."
..
We hear Of men confessing on their death
bed to the crime of murder, abduction and
incendiarism, but who ever heard of dying
man confessing to stealing papers? Nobody.
Death cannot scare that man.
The friends of the late Alice and Phebe
Cary will be interested in learning that me-
moir of them is now being written. Their
biographer is Mary Clemmer Ames, who was
very intimate friend of the Cary sisters, liv-
ing for weeks together at their attractive lit
tie home in New York, and knowing, as but
! few Others could. their inner lives.
A Solitaire diamond with jet pendant is
the most fashionable thing in earrings.
Jane Howard of Dubuque wants $4,000 be-
cause John Collins said she would carry off a
stove if it wasn't too hot and too heavy. Peo-
pie should be careful when they converse
about stoves.
we learn from an evening contemporary
that "The route of the Portsmouth and
Dover railroad will transpire in a few days.
The residents are doubtless in a terrible state
of suspense and anxiety.
A piscatorial party is what they call it now.
When we were boy they called it "goin' a
fishing"
Dom Piatt has been to Cincinnati, where
he found an intelligent colored man black as
the hinges of midnight, This is darkening
counsel with words fearfully We fear we
shall never be able to swing through that
simile.
| 1t is the part of wisdom to keep the COM
Portable things in memory; make q note,
therefore, that there has been little occasion
to complain of dust on railroads or any other
roads this season.
Arthur Dardenne, the last survivor of the
band which, at the beginning of the first
French Revolution, stormed the Bastile, has
just died in one of the hospitals of Paris.
The origin ofslang phrases is often very GU.
rious. We quote the following from recent
article by Rev. C. A. Bartol: AL serene
cries the Spanish sentinel, walking the
rounds in the city of the Holly Cross, in the is
landof Teneriffe."
The N. Y. Sun describes Herr Rubenstin's
playing in the following manner.
Herr Rubenstien is clearly one of the phe-
nomena executants of the age Massive force
clearness of phrasing, the most wonderful
clearness and definition in rapid passages
and the most resonant and vibrant elasticity
OF touch-all these, with delicious silvery
trlckle Of cadenza and pianissimO as soft
yet distinct as the microscopic plumage of a
| butterfy's wing, make his execution one o
the marvels of modern artistic development
The Detroit Post says: kalamazoo locals
after lavishing all their poetic adjectives on the
bulls, rams and such at she State Fair, are
letting themselves down gently again to the
prose of everyday life, in this wise: ''The yea
grows splendid; on the hilly steep now linger
long the warm and gorgeous light, dying b,
slow degrees into the deep, delicious night
Paris matrons of unimpeachable moralit,
are to be preserved in places of public en-
tertainment from contact with the demi-mon
danes, but inasmuch as the responsibility O
separating the sheep from the goats is to b
thrown upon the vendor of tickets, the ques
sion is how can the thing be done. The bes
of the matrons will array themselves in tn,
gaudy plumage which is supposed to charac
terize the other class, and there is always
debatable land between them, where, a
Lamb hath it, ''both seem either and hoy
shall the poor ticket man know whether h
be not condemning an 'angel unawares."
Deep in my heart a Birding dwells,'' i
a new song, and not case for the doctors, a
| might of FIRST be suooaS+ad