The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-05
THE PR ESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 5, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
The fashion of hanging handsome apart
ments with tapestry has been revived, much
to the delight of antiquarians and upholster-
ers.
Rev. DR.. TAFT did not speak any too soon
about the ''heathen in England, as there is
actually subscription on foot in Bombay to
build pagoda in London for the worship of
Vishnu and Siva"
Prejudice is consolidated by outside pres
sure. Like the iceberg against which nayies
may wreck themselves in vain, it melts noise
lessly away in the glow of the sunlight and
disappears in the warm flow of the gulf
stream of generous public sentiment.
There is still one slave owned in Washing
ton. That is the property of the banker Cor
coran, and is popularity known as Powers
Greek slave.
"Unexampled activity in cheese is neat
way of putting an item in market report. 1t
is a mite suggestive.
just enough sickness is reported in West
ern town to make the physicians happy"
This is rather an indefinite statement.
Trust man who goes cheerfully to his
work and whistles while he is at it.
Those who persist in thinking that the
world is growing worse and worse, should re-
member that the people and the rest of man
kind have become rather numerous, and that
the steam engine and the telegraph concen-
trate intelligence of the wckedness scattered
over wide spaces aud among vast multitudes !;
enabling them to read at breakfast and at tea
time OF the crimes committed in Japan, San
Francisco, New York and London, daily.
San Francisco is indignant at Mrs. Fairs ac-
quittal; but what is San Francisco going to
10 abott it?
A poor young man remarks that the only
advice he gets from capitalists is to ''lve with
in his income" whereas the difficulty he ex-
periences is to live without an income.
Mosquitoes are reported so thick at Key
West that it is something impossible to see
person across the street. That's probably
when. there is no person across the street to
be seen.
A st. Louis rat made a comfortable but
expensive bed out of $500. l3i
When a man feels within him the approx
ing thingumbob of justified what-you-may-
call-it, he enjoys himself, amt it?
A woman who always adds postscript to
her letters may not be fool, but woman
who underlines a large part of hher words
must be.
A FRENCH HoRN.-A Frenchman, whose
English was still rather imperfect, was one
evening in company where two parties were
playing the same game. A gentleman of one
party happened to observe with respect to the
score, ''We are two to two.' i. iu. sa
''Tu-tu-tu," muttered the Frenchman
what dat mean?' I#aL
"Two to two, are you?' replied one of the
other party; why we are two to two too"
'sTu-tu-tu-tur' exclaimed the Frenchman
what language! 1t sounds like the horn
of my native land.'
In reply to the anxiously inquiring and
agonizing "Young Husband" who writes to
know what he shall do to his six months
wife, to prevent her flirting with the male
boarders, who are single and bettre looking
than himself, we would say that we are not
welded, and cannot speak from experience
(for which we are thankfully; but if he will
place the cruel tormentor of his jealousy un-
der trip hammer in the Rolling Mills, for
five minutes, his troubles will end.-N B. We
do not know the exact cost of a high-toned
funeral. a..
Mr.. Reinbold, of Nauvoo, thought he
wasn't safe without pistol in the house.
Last week his two little boys found it and
played with it. Mr.. Reinbold has but one lit
tie boy now.
A young married woman in New York
wears breast-pin which excites great admir-
alton. 1t is apparently beautiful carving in
some dark, glossy stone, of lions head heav-
lily set in red gold. In reality it is the front
of a favorite meerschaum belonging to her
husband. He was an inveterate smoker, but
to please her gave up the habit, and she
wears this peculiar ornament as trophy OF
her victory.
"Speech is silver, but silence golden" Hence
the expression, hush money.
Nineteen young ladies have been admitted
to the freshman class of the Michigan Uni
versity.
The following placard appears in Paris
confectioner's window:
PEREs HYAcINTHEs.
New Sweetmeat for Weddings
(Highly Recommended to NM. les Fiances.)
The Greenbush Gazette is responsible for thu
following: A prominent citizen of this vii
lage went home few nights since at late
hour, and gently tapped on the door. "WhC
is it ?'' inquired the better half To which
very proper inquiry the heartless man replied
by asking, ''Who do you expect at this houl
of the night?'
An old man, an inhabitant of Cernay, in
Alsace, arrived at the German office to de