The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-22
THE PR ESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 22, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Uossip anu Gleanlngs.
Napoleon's dinner service is advertised for
sale IN three different places.
IL Is reported that Samuel Bowles seriously
thinks ofremoying his paper, the Springfield
Republican, to New York city.
Mile Alboni has sung in Paris with CanonI
in" La Sonnambula," but not with mncb
success.
Terre Haute girl exlaimed, when she saw
a Thomas feline elevate his back: ''Ohl
wouldn't he make lovely bustle?"
Two plugs of tobacco in a mans pocket ill
terrupted bullet and saved his life. in a
fight in Carol County, Ky. The moral is
obvious.
One cathartc pill killed Denver man, and
the doctors are congratulating themselves
upon the growth of science.
Two gentlemen from China were welded
TO two ladies from Ireland, at st. Louis, last
week.
indianapolis young men make things pleas
ant for successful rivals by stealing their hats
and coats from the entry of ''her'' house.
Louise Kellogg will close her season in
aoout month, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding This one is a canal boat
on the Deleware and Hudson canal.
A SKY viii be one of the adornments of
Fechters stage. 1t is constructed on a new
principle, is aome-like in shape and movable
at pleasure.
The Peoria Review judges from the amount
OF pad poetry that is sent to it that an im-
preston is abroad that it has offered a prize
for the worst poem on autumn.
The boy who sits on the street corner and
laments that he has lost the ten cents that his
father gave him for medicine has opened
business for the season in Detroit.
A man was shot at Atlanta, Ca, the other
day, and now, according to the local paper.
"fears of his permanent recovery are ex-
pressed"
Somebody enquiring at the Springfield, ILL.,,
post-office for letter for Mike Howe. receiv-
ed the gruff answer that there was no letter
there for anybody's COW.
The meek-eyed OK has enjoyed the reputa-
ton OF being STEADY" but pair in Chicago
took fright, the other day, and spread con-
sternation and dry goods in their path for
half mile.
In New York, on Tuesday morning, Mrs.
Margaret Betz, who had been only six weeks
married, fell down stairs at her Husbands
house, and breaking her neck, was almost in
stantly killed. The mans previous wife was
burned to death only six months ago. Betz
is unlucky in wives.
The latest accident from misplaced
switch, occurred at the Detroit opera house.
young lady sat for two hours with her
switch and her winter hat reposing on the
back OF her neck, while the audience giggled
around. At last her escort informed her of
her misfortune, and she reconstructed her
self
The university of Philadelphia" is the
title of swindling institution which used to
sell Tor hundred dollars or so apiece medi-
cal diplomas, by means of which Ignorant
upstarts often imposed on eredulous public.
year ago the Pennsylvania Legislature took
the matter in hand and revoked the charter,
but the swindlers who used to run il, baffied
at home, have commenced plying their trade
abroad. Parties in Hamburg have been ad-
vertlslng in the German papers to furnish
diplomas of the institution for S12O, but our
consul is trying to block their little game by
informing the German public that no such
thingas the university of Philadelphia now
exists.