The Portland daily press., 1872-07-01
THE PRESS,
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.

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News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
Tennyson is not a heather, though he i.
welded to his Idyls."
Under the present system of decorating 9
criminals quarters with pictures, flowers
&C., opinion is about equally divided as tc
whether the place of confinement is or is moi
a Irregular CELL" ds rlasrr
Not content with having burning itself to
the ground, Chicago thinks of ruin
ing itself more thoroughly by getting up a
jubilee after the Bostonian pattern, but with
out Gilmore, Grant and company.
An Indiana woman got nine glasses of lem
onade for nothing at a circus by pretending
to faint. '- +a
Sacramento offers what it emphatically en-
titles Sacramental wine, for twenty-five cents
gallon.
The Biddeford liquor dealers calmly sub
NIT to see their liquor taken from them and
stored, and then steal it back.
The editor of new paper in Kentucky
states for the information of fault-fnding
readers, that he stands six feet in his stock
ings, and his principal amusement when a
boy was to throw 100-pound anvils over his
head, hold barrel of -four at arms length,
and practice similar muscular feats.
Agassiz requires us to believe that the
primitive oyster was a foot long. What a
mouth for oysters our ancestors must have
had. s- @
''Dolly Warden" has now taken possession
OF the envelope manufactures. Post Office
clerks and Others have to creep among the
vines and flowers to ascertain the address of
a letter-which is delightful task.
An unjust acquisition is like barbed ar
row, must be drawn backward with horri-
BILE anguish, or else win be your destruction.
A man in Oregon sues his father-in-law for
$1,000, because his wife has been sick ever
since their marriage. She had been ''war-
ranted' well and strong.
Massachusetts, lawyers are discussing
whether it is libellous for liquor dealer to
speak Of distinguished teetotaller as ''rum
customer" p
The indianapolis Ne,os says: A Lafay-
ette lover seated himself on barrel turned
on its side while serenading his hearts mis-
tress. In his ecstasy he rolled the barrel over,
slammed his guitar against a shutter, in his
efforts to regain his balance, and disappeared
in the cistern. The bubbling cry of the
strong swimmer in his agony brought out
the entire family, including the bulldog, in
various brief and picturesque costumes,
ranging all the way from an elaborate robe dc
mutt and curl papers, worn by the innocent
cause of it all, to simple yet serviceable
collar, ornamented with spikes worn by the
bull dog.
The mystery about ''Lord Gordon" is dis
PEELED at last. He says he is a stepson of ''tht
great English italian Count Henry De Grano. y
All right. Now won't somebody tell us who
Count De Grano is?
Ex-Governor Vance, of North Carolina, il
trying to advance the Cincinnati ticket il
that State; but it is said that the negroes lool
very black at the Greeley and Brown nomin
| alton.
A good, finished scandal, fully armed ant
| equipped, such as circulates in the world, il
rarely the production of single individual
or even of single coterie. 1t sees the ligh
p tied, developed and attains its growth in |
third; and receives its finishing touches onll
| after passing through a multitude of hands
1t is child that can count host of fathers
already to disown it.
Now it is potato and frog. A woman
of England was cutting boiled potatoes re-
Gently. She took up one that was large
mealy, and inviting. She laid it on her plate
this story which is at all strange or singular
But here comes the wonderful part. So soo1
as the potato was cut, out jumped a frog
which threw several summersets, and thel
croaked pean of joy at its delivery. Tn
woman has declared her readiness to swea
to the truth of this story. The scientistist
are all agog with excitement over this won
full freak of nature. What they consider tn
most extraordinary part of the story is no
the fact of the frog being inside Of the pota
to instead of the potato being inside Of tn
frog, but that it was not even parboiled.
seems to us that a frog which had ingenuit
sufficient to get into potato without cuttin
the skin, would be able to sit in melting fur
mace and croak ''God save the Queen" wit