The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-12

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

Gleanings and Gossip.
An aged African injudciously exhibited
day whereupon he was followed into an alley
and garroted by a few citizens.
In running his telegraph line across the
Steppes the Gar has taken steps to have the
wires ON brick pillars, no wood being avail
able.
That friendly relations will continue be-
tween Albany and Troy is evinced by the
fact that basket containing a very small
child, labelled 81 am from Albany" was
found on his stoop by Trojan, Friday
night.
Instead of dying, as one would suppose he
ought to have done years ago, the venerable
Scion Robinson, formerly agricultural editor
of the Tribune, has been divorced from his
old wife, and married new and younger one
down in Florida, where he now has his
home.
The Young Mems Christian Union of Chi
cago has dropped the restrictive ''Young
MEMS from its title, and admits young wo-
men to its privileges.
Pinklined parasols carried '.into the sun
shine" gives rosy flush to the fair face be-
meath.
An inquisitive Indianian placed an OBJ
struction on a railway track in order to ''see
how high locomotive would Jump when 60
ing at full speed.
Marshal Bazaine, it is said, firmly believes
that his trial will result in his conviction, and
that President Thiers will order him to be
shot within twenty-four hours after his sem
tence has Been pronounced.
Mrs. E, Pitts Stevens, of San Francisco, de-
nies drawing pistol on anti-sufrage Meek
er. She says she is a woman of peace, and
invariably gives the bureau where herhusband
keeps his derringer wide berth.
''Stingless bees" are the latest invention of
an Ohio apiarian, who has at last produced a
superior bee whose foot is not warmer than
that of the common horsefy. Honey thieves
will be glad to learn where these bees are at
work.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker sets TheO-
dore Tilton down for "big baby" because
he deserts woman suffrage in support of the
arch enemy, Greeley.
According to the nineteenth annual report
of the British Anti-Tobacco Society, e1s,-
600, 1000 per annum sis squandered on tObac-
co, that enemy to health, that dishonor to
the Creator, and the derogator from purity
and sobriety."
The talk at the Baltimore Convention is of
the same sort and form that we heard at
President Johnson's Philadelphia Conven-
ventiOn, which was to revolutionize the
country, bridge over the bloody chasm, and
give everybody an Office who wanted one.
Picnics in Pennsylvania wind up with what
is called the Dolly Warden march-the young
ladies standing in row and the young
men passing along the line and kissing the
ladies good night.
The July number of Our Dumb Animals
is full of interesting reading on topics con-
nected with the reform to which it is specially
| devoted.
Probabilities seems to fight shy of un-
certain New England weather; as well he
may; for he were a bold man to predict even
possibilities.
1t was my custom in my youth (says Gel
| ebrated Persian writer), to rise from my sleep
to watch, pray, and read the Koran. One
night as l was thus engaged, my father, a
man OF practical virtue, awoke. "Behold,"
said to him, 'thy other children are lost in
irreligious slumbers, while 1 alone wake to
praise God," "Son of my SOUL" said he,
it were better for thee to be engaged in ire
| ligious sleep, than to awake to find fault with
thy brethren
Carlisle, Kentucky, claims as curiosity a
man born at 6 o'clock on the 9th of the sixth
| HloHtH Ill lOUO, anu now % years Olu, anu
having six letters in each of his names. He
is certainly the sickest curiosity we have
heard of.
Does not Sophie Sparkle draw on her inn
agination for her facts when she speaks Of
hearing ''the plaintive croaks of the dwelers
in the frog pond' on Boston Common?
Here is a hint for housekeepers, and very
important one. Merely covering up bed
with blankets and counterpanes will no more
protect it from dampness or keep it dry than
a pane of glass will keep out light. The at
mospheric moisture will penetrate all woven
fabrics. Hence the Importance of keeping
the beds in spare rooms regularly aired
Many dear friend or welcome visitor has
been sent to an untimely grave, or afflicted
for life with disease by being put into bed
which had been permitted to stand unoccu-
pied. Keep the spare beds when not in use,
free from all covering but light spread.