The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-11
THE PR ESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

THURSDAY MORNING, JULY IL, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip. t.|
Live as long as you may, the first twenty
years form the greater part of your life. They
appear so when they are passing; they seem
to have been so when we look back to them,
and they take up more room in our memory
than all the years that succeed them.
Long Branch has reading room and libra
ry this year; and Long Branch needed it
badly, as there are scores of people who go
there every year who can read.
Bathers should not dive in shallow water.
At one of the London public baths recently
man dived in three feet six inches of water,
and, not rising, was found by his companion
to be actually drowning, having struck his
head with such violence as to fracture one of
the vertebrae and cause speedy death.
A Connecticut cracksmen uprooted the
foundations of church at Middlefield to
steal the articles which had been deposited
in the corner stone.
A Western minister undertakes to prove
that lemonade and soda water are as objec-
tionable as mint juleps and brandy smashes.
Alas We shall soon be reduced to the linn
pid water from the spring, and the flowing
Sebago.
All Sin is still at his ''ways that are dark"
A company of Celestial fishermen who catch
trout in Lake Tahoe, CAL, feed the fish with
50 much scrap iron from the Central Pacific
that the stomach weighs more than all the
rest Of the fish, and San Francisco dealers
have learned to be careful in buying of the
heathen. . .-.... ..
Some of Mr.. Bergh's admirers in New
York are making contributions to raise a
memorial of him, and talk of expending the
money in drinking fountains, which would
doubtless please the friend of animals more
than the traditional statue.
4 ibid you visit Rome in your travels ?''
asked gentleman, in the interval of waltz,
OF his partner, who had just returned from
doing the continent of Europe. "Romer'
"Rome p replied the young lady, in hesita-
ting voice, ''let me see. Did we go to Rome |?
Oh, yes! That is where we saw woman
shaving dog on the steps of a church,
And If nntf hot IL -.
cumstantial story of the European adventures
of Fanny Jordan of Cincinnati had not par
ticle OF foundation, but was the clever inven-
ton of New York Bohemian.
June was so hot in England that the papers
said the country was ''enjoying the blessings
and the miseries of a semi-tropical climate"
A nckle Michigan septuagenarian, becom-
ing wearied of forty years. felicitude with the
wife of his youth, paid the o.d lady $4,000
to cancel their nuptial bond and allow him to
wed their waitress, aged sweet sixteen.
The Cincinnati minister who was hatchet-
ed for kissing fair parishioner will recover.
tits paying pretty dear for kiss, but it might
have cost more. II
The auditor of Seneca county, O., is de-
faulter, and has absconded it is supposed to
Canada. He is Good Templar and Sun
day-school teacher. He got drunk, gambled,
lost and fed.
Balzac is to be secuted, of course, for say
ing that the text Of woman's life will always
be ito feel, to love, to suffer, to devote her
self. . -,-t,. -,...,.. 1. .5',.....,.., ~.
saf sis -t..
The labor agitation has reached Peoria,
and the useful and industrious young ladies
and gentlemen who have to put all their time
In at croquet, have struck for ten hours
They want the ten hours to come in
after eight O'Clock, P. NJ, and the old folks
are holding out against the demand.
Fort Wayne rejoices in a citizen who
quenches his thirst with thirty-seven cock
tails between A. M. and p. NJ, and keeps
as sober as the average Fort Wayneite.
A Wisconsin man has at last discovered
some use for the peacock. The ornamental
pathological idiot will actually eat potato
bugs.
A little girl in the New York orphan asy-
lum quarreled with another girl and scratch
ed her face. For this she was punished and
required to learn and repeat verse from the
Bible, being allowed to make her own selec-
tion. She chose the first verse of Psalm IA,
which is as follows: BLESSED be the Lord,
my strength, which teacheth my hands to
war, and my fingers to fight"
Going to bed at midnight, getting up at
five O'Clock and taking walk in the cool of
the morning are exercises INDUCED in by per-
sons who keep undertakers out of bank
ruptcy.
Davenport, Ia, has girl who spells back
wards. We never thought backwards was a
hard word to spell, before.
A Georgia editor refuses to support Greeley
on the ground that it is as much as he can do
to support himself
Under ordinary circumstances, it is danger
GUS for drunken man to go a-swimming, but
doubly dangerous it is for him to complicate