The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-26
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

Smith johnson of Detroit, driven to despe-
ration by the wiles of widow, promised to
marry her, and then attempted to get out of
it by tipping her out of boat into the river,
but she wouldn't drown, and so, rowing into
marsh, he helped her out upon log, under
the pretext that the boat needed bailing, and
then, jumping into the boat, made for shore.
After much screaming, the deserted woman
was rescued fsom her damp and perilous po-
sltlon, but johnson has not been heard of
since.
A Western editor speaks of fine gardens
surrounded by mountains all grown without
irrigation. 1t would have been pleasure to
see these mountains growing.
A Memphis man has been jailed for firing a
pistol to frighten his wife. If he had only
killed her, he would have beeu insane and
got off.
There is hotel in California, composed of
ten immense hollow trees, standing few feet
apart The largest of these is sixty-fve feet
around, and is used as bar and kitchen.
For bed-chambers, there are nine great hollow
trees, whitewashed or papered, and having
doors cut to fit the shape of the holes. Lit
erature finds place in leading stump,
dubbed ''the library"
To jump into the bins of Grain elevatrrs,
and to be sucked down the spout, is a style of
suicide developing out West, which laughs at
probes and stomach pumps.
A French physician has written a long dis
asertation on ''the advantages of groaning
and crying in general, and especially during
surgical operations"
Was Springfield healthy atmosphere for
college boys? A dispatch says, ''Pool-sell-
ing this evening, brisk as ever. Friends of
crews not yet staked all their money. Odds
as before. Men who buy, in great measure,
are college undergraduates and alumni; also
shrewd minority of sporting men," 1t is
slngularly unfortunate that so fine sport as
boating, especially among men of culture,
should be degraded to the level of horse races
and cock fights.
The tendency of woman-kind is to magni-
fy trlf1es. There's a woman in Illinois who
wants divorce simply because her husband
beats her with an iron bootjack.
A Sunday school in Wisconsin has been
called to account for making a recent excur-
sion to "Devips Lake"
The shrewd Carmichael did not find it very
difficult to make the slight change of Horace
for Horatio. The former proved a willing
Barks and the other ready to use him for a
stepping-stone, and improving his chances
for '76, perhaps.
The old story has been repeated at Matti-
tuck, l.. l. Dramatis persona: A wealthy
gentleman, rich and pretty niece, and
handsome coachman. The latter bags the
niece and her fortune. and the old gentleman
isn't consulted
Green fruit being in season, people are
more than usually bu-colic in their feelings.
The manner in which Horace Greeley has
heretofore shown his regard for political con-
sistency suggests the inquiry, how long after
being elected President-supposing such an
event possible-he would be the advocate of
the "one-term principle?''
The drum on which the devil beats his tat
too-New Englan' 'drum,-[Fat Contributor
A somewhat singular episode of real life oc-
Cured on the piazza of the Union hotel at
Saratoga, the afternoon of the great race. A
somewhat noted woman, formerly singer of
some prominence, while walking with her
present husband, CHANGED to pass in her
promenade directly between two of her for
mer husbands. The three men, each of
whom loved the same woman, and who hated
each other morterally, glanced at each other
for moment, the woman in her beauty, her
diamonds and her airy summer dress, eyed all
three curiously, there was momentary pause,
then the lady and her escort resumed their
walk, the other men stepped forth in diverg-
ing directions, and the episode was over.