The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-07
THE PRESS,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 2, ,7s.
Gossip and Gleanings.

1
An English magistrate terminated a suit at
the Clonmel assizes recently, where young
man and young women claimed the same
landed estate, by suggesting that if they
woald only marry they could both live on the
farm and leave a clear title to the next gene
ration. To this the couple agreed, much
to the disgust of the legal fraternity.
Miss Emily Faithful, the English champi-
ON OF women and philanthropist, is coming
to this country this fall on a lecturing tour
An industrious and gentlemanly appearing
bug, with Grip saw in his mouth, is de-
lighting the Ohio farmers by his expertness
in saving up the Colorado potato bug. He
does it for fun, only, and it takes just two
seconds to cut potato bug into kindling
wood after he gets. his .mandibles fastened on
the latter.
Niagara Falls have been stormed by bridal
parties of late, and their Romeo and Juliet
exhibitions in public have disgusted bache-
lors, and driven old maids almost crazy.
1t is not enough that we swallow truth !:
we must feed upon it as the insects do upon
the leaf, till the whole heart be colored by its
qualities, and show its food in every fiber.
-COleridge.
Chinese physicians in San Francisco use
medicines that one would naturally prefer to
take in homeopathic doses. Hundreds of pack
ages containing dried lizards and venomous
serpents are imported from China and con-
signed to Chinese doctors, who use them in
their practice.
The Darwinian theory receives a new I'M
petus from the story that a monkey in the
Paris Geological garden is developing into a
tolerable tenor singer. We are told that she
has chest voice which many brilliant tenors
of the opera might envy, aud his falsetto is
not disagreeable."
The Grand opera house at New York, un-
der Mr.. Daley's management, bids fair to be
the most gorgeous and uniqae theatre in
America. The lobby has been converted into
a spacious picture and art saloon, where the
most perfect works of the known artists of
European and American celebrity will be on
constant exhibition, works by Bjerstadt,
Dubute, Launt Thompson, Brion and other
equally famous artists having been already
secured for it.
Susan B. Anthony is looking for the ungal-
liant naturalist who says that the male mus
keto lives short, idle life, doing little harm,
and subsisting upon the sweets gathered from
flowers, having dainty preference for lilies,
in whose creamy petalled bells he pensively
swings. The female is the noisy, aggressive
sex, and makes life burden to those unfor-
tunate mortals encou1tering her. She stings
them and "brags" about it, and, not con-
tent with her own evil career, every month
deposits one hundred eggs in some cool, damp
place, thus multiplying and perpetuating her
kind.
Sozzle, who was standing lost in admiration
before the ostrich cage at the caravan, ejacu-
lated at last, as the bird lifted its head up to
ioo iuh hOiSht, ooOu SidSiOuos Wudb d uCSh
that would be for a gin cocktailp' 1f.
We are not aware that we have read till
now of the use of hot starch as a weapon of
offence or defence, but a gentle wife in st.
Louis, while engaged in little domestic skir-
mish lately, poured a dish of this substance
over her husband. We presume it stiffened
him, for he had to be done up by the city
physician.
A Richmond (Va.) man lately objected to
to seeing "Othello," on the score that the
spirit Of the play went against Southern in
stitutions. He said play in which ''nigger
in old Voginy, no how"
Mr.. Baker of Hiawatha, Kansas, an impair
tial patriot, has named his twins Grant and
Greeley.
Where else than in Cork could such de Ii
cious legal bull as this be erected? We copy
from the Telegraph of that city: Tim Field
was fined Is Cd for attempting to drown him.
sell, the magistrate believing that he had no
intention of committing suicide"
Professor Fawcett, the famous blind Liber-
al member of the British Parliament, was at
the house of friend on the evening of the
day when the death of President Lincoln was
announced, and heard girl of eighteen ex-
claim: 'It would have been less loss to the
world if every crowned head in Europe had
fallen? He asked to be introduced to this
girl at once, and she has now been his wife
for five years. Mrs. Fawcett is one of the
cleverest and most popular women in England.
TRIPLES.
The griefs that fall to every share,
The heavier sorrows that life brings
The heart can nerve itself to bear