The Portland daily press., 1872-08-20
THE PRE ESS
TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 20, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

NJ. Thiers has made a mot. Speaking OF
the dangers which threaten France, he has
said, There are three dangers and three on
ly-radicalism, Bonapartism, and my death.
The first do not think very menacing; the
second requires to be watched over carefully
and a. for the third, there is no question
of it,"
Spanish bull walked into the editorial
sanctum of the Reese River RereiUe the
other day, and the editor heat cowardly re-
treat. The "deviP' drove the bull out, and
he, (thel devil" not the bull, now claims to
be the fighting editor Of that paper.
st. Louis reporter says that Timothy
Reardon's heart was lonely, an sad, an for
lorn so he went and got beastly drunk and
laid down and wrapped the sidewalk about
him and gave himself up to pleasant dreams,
for which the Judge fined him So.
A witness, in describing certain events,
said: ''The person l saw at the head of the
stairs was a man with one eye named Jacob
Wilkins" ''What was the name of his
other eye?" Spitefully asked the opposing
counsel. The witness was disgusted at the
levity of the audience.
The Globe neatly says, "Wendell Phillips
yesterday illustrated that letter writing was
not one of the Lost Arts "
Mra Wnn1bull has 20 yUo
heartily sympathize with our English cousins
in their great infiction but we can congratu-
late that she didn't take her dear Tilton with
her.
Some ingenious observer has discovered
that there is remarkable resemblance be-
tween baby and wheat, since it is first
Graded, then threshed, and finally becomes
the flower of the family,
A London clergyman has recently publish
ed an interesting little pamphlet on "Repair-
ing and keeping in repair city missionaries"
Three popular kings-Smoking, drinking
and talking.
A very good way to muzzle dog is to
place the muzzle behind the ear and pull the
trigger.
A Mrs. Klock is the candidate for school
superintendency in Kansas If she keeps
going and don't strike, she'll do.
The statistician of an Eastern newspaper
AYERS that the flies are so good-natured this
season that a well organized one will allow
himself to be brushed off ones nose eighty
seven times, and not show any temper.
A man in White street store Saturday
night having stated that Mr.. Greeley always
did right, wretched man in the party
promptly shouted, ''Iti is lie; Greeley never
did write. He was thousand miles away at
the time, and knew nothing about it until he
saw it in print"
The secrets of health are: Keep warm
Eat regularly and slowly. Maintain regula
bodily habits. Take early and very ligh
suppers. Keep clean skin. Get plenty o
sleep at night. Keep cheerful and respect
able company. Keep out of debt. Don't SCI
your mind on things you don't need. Mine
your own business. Subdue curiosity. Avoit
drugs.
The proprietor of Danbury boarding house
solves the doubt a customer may have
about the temperature of the soup or tea BY
putting his finger in it. The first trial invari
ably satisfies the boarder for the balance O
his stay at the house.
Bayard Taylor, who is true gallant, a;
well IS true poet, writes of having exchanged
saddles with lady friend in 1860, in order to
relieve her from the tortures of side-saddle,
while ascending Mount Pleasant
A gentleman, addicted to scientific inquiry,
has discovered that thirty-thres days COM
plete the cycle of the potato bug generation
that seven hundred of the critters are the
average product of one female, from which
the family grows in the second generation tC
| 245, 900, and in the third to 100000
Men who think that there is not much
summer travel this year, should go to a hote
at one of the watering places. If they get q
cot in the bowling alley and chance to brush
their teeth at the pump during the first week
| they would be lucky.