The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-13
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THE PR ESS,

THE PR ESS
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 13, 1879.
Gossip aud Gleanings.
Fairfield County, Connecticut, is hand
place for cheap spree, on cider. The be,
erage, fresh made; is sellin. for five cents
gallon, and apples are so plenty that they ar
rejected at the cider-mills, and can scarcel
be given away.
Another fashionable peril has been discov
cred, which will doubtless frighten the ladie
little. Silks which are colored with pierat
OF lead are liable to explode at any moment
subjected to too great heat.
Mr.. Conway sketches the baptized-by-iir,
(Mr. Louis Napoleon Jr.) in this fashion
'The lad who was once prince imperial ha
grown into long, lank fellow, with swarthy
complexion, long, narrow, unprepossessins
face. He parts his hair in the middle. Their
are some elements of strength about his face
and should not wonder at bis trying som'
day to claim throne"
Scroggs says he is ready to make as large ;
sacrifice. he hopes, las the next margfor his conn
try, but ''don't ask him to vote for Greeley
He would prefer to make his sacrifice il
some other form.
The English Wesleyan Conference has pass
ed resolution approving Bismarck's polio,
towards the Jesuits in Germany. "Alas fo
the rarity of Christian charity" ...
Have you seen the very best Dolly Varder
patterns calico print, one stripe covered
with white hats, spectacies, axes and scythes
the next with white coats, boots, etc. 1t i,
thought to make an excellent fiirbelow, be
cause the candidate represented in this cam
paign document is so ''furbelow" his compet
itor.l
The cheapest meat is deer in British Colum-
bia. You can buy whole carcass for two
dollars.
1t has been noticed as fact that during
the recent terrible thunder storms the light
ming has never done any damage in cities o
any considerable size. Undoubtedly the iroI
which enters SO largely in the construction o
cities, in buildings, railroads, telegraph lines
etc., dissipates the electric fluid so rapidly AM
completely as it approaches the earth that i
is rendered harmless.
They have curious inscription on a fia|
floating from the top of the Tabernacle" at
Massachusetts camp-meeting, where the!
also quote the price of lots, somewhat as fol
lows: " THE earth is the Lords at $3.50 ;
lot, forty by sixty feet.''
A contempory of the zebra stripe in politic
proposes to roof the White House with cop
per in anticipation of the Horatian epoch
Query-Because it will be copperhead quar-
ters?
They put blast of powder into rock ii
Kentucky in the year of grace one thousan
eight hundred and fifty-one before the popu
lar non-explosives were invented, and it wen
off the other day, killing two men who hap
pened near.
A New York physician said the other even
ing that he had penniless patient, to whom
he showed every attention, because ultimate
ly he hopedto become tfe owner of a remark
able tumor which was slowly wearing tn
mans life away.
Dead Beat is said to be excellent eatin
with ''biled crow,"- getting to be quite
favorite order at Greeley restaurants.
In Mobile there are twin sisters who can
not be punished for any offence, becaus
neither can be identified. Recently, one o
these young ladies put to flight two do
catchers, and policeman. In court sh
proved to be her sister. A policeman ar
companied her home to arrest the other, bu
on arriving could not tell which he ha
brought and which had already been there
and went away sorrowing without either.
The New York Tribune is disposed to glo
rify itself over the achieveme mt of Juliu
I Chambers, one of its reporters, who succeed
ed in breaking into the Bloomingdale Insan
Hospital. If the young man had made an al
tack on the Idiot Asylum he could have sue
ceeded with less trouble.-MissOuri Demo
crdt.
An "Indiana lady" announces the speed
publication ola work entitled .'The Declen
sion and Probable Fall of the Great Repuf
lie of the United States" The work wa
probably suggested by the authors fear tina
the Cincinnati ticket would be successful
The Maine election comes just in TINT t
calm her perturbed soul. As to the book
| by all means let her burn it.
A tombstone has been lying on Bate
street, Detroit, for some months, and no on
knows how it came there. The inscriptio
reads, 'In memory of Henry L. Hall, VIII
died 18th December 1S29 A handbill hs
been pasted over it so that the words read
SIN memory of the steamer Riverside, VIII
Sugar Island James L. Hall every day th
week 18th December half fare. A fine bra;
band to heaven has scared, and no pleasantt
route can be found to sleep forever beneat
| the sod.''
The Ocerland Monthly makes some intel
esting statements concerning the chirol
raphy of some well-known magazinis st
writers, and authors of the day. Joaqui
Miller's hand writing is said to be the vel
worst; ''his lines resemble dilapidated hede
fences" Bret Hsrte prefers violet ink; ''h
a writes a legible, uniform hand, is
slow producer upon unruled note paper, an
seldom leaves page without some eras III