The Portland daily press., 1872-07-10
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, '7e.
Gleanings and Gossip.

GleaningS and Gossip.
The Oxford students, at their Commemora-
tion the other day, hissed the name of Glad
stone, Lowe, the Claimant" Dixie, the
Emperor of Germany and Bismarck, and
Justify cheered those of Disraeli, Napoleon
Ill, Mr.. Ruskin, the Duke of Cambridge
and. DIR. Pusey; so it would seem that
''Young Oxford is not less conservative
than in those old days when Gladstone was
the chief pet of the University, and the
Duke Of Wellington, her veteran hero.
An editor commenting upon the Importance
OF small things, says he does not even slight
straw, if he has a sherry cobbler at the end
of it.
From the way the lightning is behaving,
the theories and supposed facts about it will
need to be reconsidered. A goose has been
struck in North Carolina, and the question is
naturally raised what are those to do who
have taken to fuss and feathers for safety in
thunder storms?
There is so much of weeping and then for
getting, that use may be made of what Miss
Mulock says: "When God takes our dead
from us, he means us not to grieve forever,
only to remember"
A Newfoundland dog in Florida killed
rattleshake seven feet long last week. 1t is
due to the snake to say that the dog also
perished.
1t is said that men. who never drink be-
tween meals are less troubled with thirst, and
generally less distressed by the heat than those
who drink freely.
"Patience on monument has no refer
ence to doctors patients. You will find
them under monument.
At Hamilton, Ontario, a commercial traveller
from the States named Marshall, while riding
IN a cab in state of intoxication, fancied
that the driver and another man who was on
the box with him were plotting to rob him
and shot at them from the inside of the ve-
hicle to let them know he was armed, mar
rowly escaping committing murder. He was
committed for trial.
Punch thinks it 'happy thought and
"true division of labor in picture gallery I;
"A-look here, Miss Bonamy! S'pose you
look at the pictures while continue my at
tention to the catalogue! Get through the
job in half the time, you knowp'
North Carolina has new chronological
mystery, consisting of countless thousands of
worms that march in single file and seem
just to be lookingaround, as they do no dam
age.
think that to have known one good old
man-one man who, through the chances
and mischances of long life, has carried his
heart in his hand, like palm branch, waving
all discords into peace-helps our faith in
God, in ourselves and in each other more
than many sermons.-[G. w. Curtis.
A Utica girl at the proper hour pulls a
string which reverses picture, on the back
of which appears in huge characters the
words, 'Ten o'clock is my bed time," and
her admirer takes the gent e hint and de-
| parts.
The Paris Presse is the last victim of the
practical joker who manufactures American
news for European papers. We learn from
it that Congress has just passed law for the
better observance of the Sabbath. Opening
a store on Sunday, travelling without a spec
ial permit from the police, attending con.
cert or ball, an absence from church, except
when caused by sickness, are punished by a
fine of eli ght to ten "shillings" each. Trans
| gressors will take notice and mend theil
ways.
A five-year-old visiting at the seashore and
obliged to sleep three in bed, d,Enarrated hei
| dream, which being unfinished she accounted
for fully, by not having room to dream the
rest of it.
The most shocking case of dyspepsia YET
recorded is that of the chickens of Cape May
county, New Jersey. They prey upon rose
bugs and eat them so fast that they do not Kill
them. The lively little creatures repay the
favor by eating their way out through the
throats and hides of the birds. 1t is fatal.
Henry Ward Beecher is now writhing un'
der the reproof Of a mild, tolerant, charitable
brother in the Christian ministry, who says
that he (Beecher) is responsible for the foul
murders which Crowned the orgies Of New
York non-Puritan, German, park-riding, Ii
brary and picture-gallery opening Sabbath, {
week ago."
| Col. Higginson, who is now sojourning il
London, was very much disappointed in thu
morality of that city, that is, he found it Sc
much better than he expected-so says Mr.
Mr.. Conway. Having always read and heart
of the Dangerous districts" of London
where no respectfully dressed person was safi
from affront, at least, if not absolute assault
he, Yankee like, sought them out, investigat
cd them for himself He walked alon'
through "Seven Dials," but was unnoticed
although dressed in irreproachable black
next, he tried st. Giles, with the corner o
his pocket-handkerchief temptingly displayed
but he came out with pockets unpicked, hav
ing encountered nothing more formidable
than "some old women peering at him owe