The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-17
THE PR ESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. II, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
In Arkansas man was sentenced to be
hanged, but all the carpenters in the neigh
borhood refused to build the scaffold. A.
the condemned man was himself carpenter
by trade, the sheriff tried to induce him to
put up gallows, but he steadfastly declared
he'd be hanged if he did.
The editor of the st. Joseph Gdzette saws
he docs not intend to waste his valuable
time in abusing John b. Henderson" Ifthe
editor OF the st. Joseph Gazette wants to put
MS valuable time to the best possible use, he
will tie ten-toot rope to the limb of tree
about eighteen feet from the ground, insert
his neck in moose at the lower end of il, and
spend hve minutes i'll trying to touch the
ground with his toes.-Missouri Democrat.
A little girl, who had been much exercised
in mind in regard to steam boiler explosions,
has hit upon good plan for preventing them
in the future, to wit: ''Fill the boiler with
iced water and set it in cool place.
The Episcopal marriage service at some
churches now has, "With all my love thee
endow, y instead of ''worldly goods" &c. It's
no use; bankruptcy issas sure to follow in one
case as the other.
The Chinese mix willow leaves with tea,
and the British Consul at Shanghai recently
reported that $4,000 pounds of the leaves
were in course of manipulation at one port to
be mixed with tea for shipment.
son of st. Patrick was in charge of fer
ry boat. A lady passenger being frightened
by the waves, asked him, care people ever
lost by this boat? ?" He gave her the encour-
aging reply, ''Not often, madam; we general
ly find them by dragging the river"
During the dog days every one should be
careful what he eats. Watermelons are call
ed extremely injurious, especially when eaten
in the damp night air, and on another mans
melon patch. ButteTed watermelon has not
yet become fashionable.
A boy in country school was reading the
sentence: ''The lighthouse is landmark by
day and beacon by night" and rendered it
thus: ''The lighth ouse is landlord by day
and deacon by night"
Mr.. Lincoln was exceedingly astonished one
day, as he was inspecting the prison in Wash
ington, by prisoner who said to him, ''How
are you, Mr.. President2 l believe that you
and have been in every Jail in the Union"
"This and the Jail at Springfield, are the only
ones was ever in in my life" said Mr.. Lin
coin. Very likely" responded the rogue,
''but Eve been in all the rest.''
An Irish paper publishes the following. ga
deaf man named Taft was run down and kill
ed by passenger train on Wednesday morn
ing. He was injured in similar way about
a year ago."
Men and women make their own beauty or
their own ugliness. Lord Lytton speaks in
one of his novels of man ''who was uglier
than he had any business to be::'' and if he
could but read it every human being carries his
litein his face, and is good looking or the re-
verse, as that life has been good or evil. On
our features the fine chisel of thought and
emotion are eternally at work. Beauty is
not the monopoly ofblooming young men and
of white and pink maidens. There is slow
growing beauty, which only comes to perfec-
tion in old age. Grace belongs to no period
of life, and goodness improves the longer it
exists.
There are indications of the millennium near
Belle Plain, Iowa. A farmer refused SIPS
for wheat, because he had promised it to
another purchaser for $1.-EIchdnge.
1t may be an indication but it will require
million such cases to render the millepnium
an enterprise to take stock in.
Pere Hytcinthe's marriage is reported to
have given great scandal to the Church. 1t
may anathematiZe him, it may excommuni-
cate him, is may condemn him to everlasting
purgatory, but, under the circumsf ances, we
do not see how it can very well prevent him
being pere.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
A man was recently arrested at Pttsbprg
for loading his wife with forty-pound chain,
and burning her mouth with red-hot poker,
to prevent her drinking,
The st. John Globe says st. Stephen
youth, seventeen feet high and seven years
old or seventeen years old and seven feet high,
weforget which, attracted considerable atten-
ton Friday morning on Prince William street.
There is a strong leas lie in New York,
whose object is the annexation of Canada to
the United States. The annexation senti-
ment is reported to be steadily gaining
strength hamongthoughtful people and business
men, whose interests are not promoted by
British alliance,
A Council Bluffs paper has very direct way
of putting llndertakers: ''Since we have to
use cofins we prefer those which Riley fur
nishes. We took view of his supply of the
commodity yesterday afternoon. His stock
would soon carry the city pretty well through
an average siege of cholera"
San Francisco is happy city. 1t has only
one blockhead out of $50 citizens eligible for
jurymen, as the latest Fair trial is showing.
The Chicago public attorney is, we note, NOV
ing against this jury abomination, and will
endeavor to allow newspaper readers the plea
sure of jury duty.
Old JOanthan's Hints.
If only you women folks would learn a lit
tie science in managing these grizzly bears,
your husbands, you would gain your ends
great deal better.
One point wish to impress is, dent ask
for new dresses and dishes and things before
dinner. Just make a rule to wait until your