The Portland daily press., 1872-09-07
THE PR ESS,
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 2, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
Although Germany is compelled by her pc
sition to keep large standing army, she
turns them to account, the heroes of Sc
dan and Metz having been detailed to assist
in gathering the crops where war and emigra-
ton have made labor scarce. Never before
has the world seen the bayonet turned into
the scythe at the command of minister OF
war.
Prairie chickens are waxing fat on potato
bugs out West, and they say that the most
frightful symptoms arise from eating those
birds and potatoes at the same meal.
The paternal author of this years belle, at
the Virginia springs, was approached by a
youth who requested a few minutes con-
versation in private, and began: 81 was
requested to see you, sir, by your lovely
daughter Our attachment" "Young
man. interrupted the parent briskly,
iy, Il don't know what that girl of mine is
about. You are the fourth gentleman who
has approached me this morning ON that sub
ject. l have given my consent to the Others,
and give it to you. God bless you.''
Another christening in Maggie Mitchel's
family at Long Branch.
Somebody says that Stanley won't
take Noe for an answer. And Noe says if he
had to stake" Stanley at all, he'd take him
to the nearest station house. What they
know about each other seems to be worth
knowing.
Mr.. Tate, of Illinois, attempted to steal
water melons. The proprietor saw him
through his telescope on his rifle. The es-
Tate goes to his widow.
The California farmers are fooling the griz-
zlies by sailing the dead bodies of their cows
with strychnine.
"Blasted slow''-They put blast of pow
der into rock in Kentucky in the year of
grace one thousand eight hundred and fifty
one, before the popular non-explosives were
invented, and it went off the other day, kill
ing two men who happened near. Having
reached the age of twenty-one it felt free to
go off on its own account.
can immense affair, with flags and trans
parencies, torch lights, drums, brass bands,
glee clubs, cheers, yells and eloquence," is
the description of a political meeting in a
Western paper.
Highwaymen still make travellin: danger
Gus in California.
People are rushing home from summer re-
sorts, and the baggage-sma.her was never so
happy as now.
He is said to be entirely covered with hair,
and as wild and as fleet as a buck. When
first seenhe was feeding on whortleberries and
raw fish, and as soon as he caught sight OF
his pursuers he fled with prodigious leaps in
to the swamp, emitting frightful yells. This
at San Pedro, Florida.
He who betrays another's secret
because he has quarrelled with him, was new
er worthy of the sacred name of friend; a
breach of kindness on one side will not justify
a breach of trust on the other"
A Southern exchange admonishes its read
ers to mot forget the execution Friday, at
two p. IN.
One of the wittiest sayings of the week 10
the statement that while Mr. Greeley is going
to Vermont to tell the farmers what he knows
about farming,-in November they will re-
ciprocate and tell him what they know about
threshing.
Mademoiselle Celeste, the tight-rope per-
former, broke her leg in Kentucky, recently,
and it was Improperly set by the surgeon,
and she has shown her spirit by going to her
home to have the family physician break and
reset it properly.
A man ran through Detroit ON Thursday
shouting that he was looking for ''the road to
heaven" The crowd called him. crazy for
looking for it in Detroit.
Shakespeare was married at 1S; Dante,
Franklin and Bulwer, at "a: Kepler, Mozart
and Walter Scott, at 26; Washington and
Napoleon 1. and Byron, at 27; Rossini, the
first time at 80, and the second time at "a 4;
Schiller and Weber, at 81; Aristophanes, at
So; Wellington, at 81; Talma, at 80; Luther,
at AZ; Addison, at A; Young, at Al; Swift,
at 40; Button, at SO; and Goethe, at 81.
INQUIRER.-We cannot say what the
Queen intended to imply by her gift of a fine
snuff box to Stanley. 1t may be that she
meant to say he was wanting at pinch-or
she may have intended to convey an impress
ion that his discoveries were subjects fol
sternutatory reports.
| DUNDREARY.-We fail to see the point OF
your question whether Stanley is not one OF
those hard subjects that Noe fellow can find
out !" Be more explicit in your next.