The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-11
THE PR ESS
MONDAY MORNING, nov. IL, ,7s.
Gossip and Gleanings.

MONDAf MOkNING, NOV. IL, '72
Gossip and Gleanings.
Alexander Dumas has had Paris street
named after him.
Athens, Ga, has paper named the Cat,
with the motto, 81 can scratch"
Paper houses are being made practicable,
habitable and comfortable.
travelling pillows, to awake the sleepers
at given time with music" are advertised
in Paris.
The Arizona diamond excitement is over,
and the spectators are now looking for a
suitable place to locate large gold hill.
The Express says DIR. Holmes ''shoots folly
as it flies He only shoots at it, and is un
happily not dead shot.
Gilmore has been robbed of his laurels by a
recent discovery that Giuseppe Sarti, an Ital-
ian, used cannon as musical adjunct as ear
ly as 1888.
Henry Clews has begun five libel suits
against the New York Tribune, and Oakley
Hall threatens similar attentions to the Times
and Harper's Weekly.
A congress has recently been held at Venice
to arrange for the publication of general
catalogue of works printed in Italy. Musical
publications are to be included in this huge
list.
A valuable collection of ancient Norwegian
related to have been discovered sewn as but
tons on the coat ofa recently arrived emigrant
from Norway.
An exchange says, ''This is the fifth trout
caught this year from the same hole the
total weight of which is six pounds"
"Good," says the Ottawa Citizen, "now we
know what hole weighs
''How have you been able to escape all the
catastrophes of the Com mnune?'' said the
Russian ambassador to Baron Rothschild
because we Israeites have the privilege of
crossing the Red sea with dry feet"
A troublesome echo in new court house
at Bloomington, ILL.,, has been stilled by
stretching several small wires across the room,
at different nights. The sound waves are
thus broken up, and reverberation prevented.
The quickest route from India to London
is by way of this country. TIE last mail
for England by way of San Francisco reach
ed London from Yokohama in SO days, while
the Yokohama mail via. the Suez canal was
53t days reaching its destination.
A recent writer asserts that certain plants
have a natural antipathy to each other; as,
for example, the oak and the olive. If these
are planted near together, it is said that both
which the other has been taken, it does not
flourish.
Two very high-spirited lads at the Georgia
| State University became involved in quarrel
recently, and concluded to settle it according
to the approved code. Arrangements were
made for the contest, but the surgeon to
whom they applied dissuaded them from their
fell intent, and now they have been expelled
from the institution, and gone crying home
| to their mammas.
One of our most highly respected citizens
trkN, l,-,xI e -
| front of the post-Office yesterday, and imme
diately executed some very astonishing evo-
lutions. His hat flew off, and then he made
up face that started his spectacles after the
hat. Both of his arms went above his head
as if started by springs, and he turned around
two or three times without stopping to think
how it looked, while one leg shot out spas
medically through the air, and one eye turned
completely over. We hope never again to
Macaulay's conversation appears to have
partaken very much of the character of his
writings. 1t had about it too much of that
impetuous volubiity that we find in tie es-
says; there was too much glitter, too much
of the rhetorician about it, to be at all times
enjoyable. His great memory was overflow
ing with anecdotes, literary and biographical
He could repeat snatches of satirical poetry
and old English ballads by the hour.
little boy was playing with couple oi
nickle five cent pieces, the other evening"
which friend had given him, and putting
his finger on one of them said: "This one
am going to give to the heathen." He kept
on playing, till at last one of the nickles roll
away and he could not find it. (which one
have you lost ?'' asked the friend. 'The one
1 was going to give the heathen," replied the
cherub.