The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19
THE PR ESS,
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1872.

THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
held that a city has title enough in trees
standing in its streets, though put there by
abutters who consent to their mutilation and
when Immediately threatened, may resist
through its mayor and aldermen without
waiting for the City Councils action.
An old minister in New Hampshire once
adduced, as proof conclusive Of the doctrine
of native depravity, the addictedness of chill
dren to eat green apples. He might have
strengthened his original argument by adding
and steal them also.
Since the Maine election, Horace Greeley
has taken to agriculture again. He has Just
sent circular to his friends at the South ad-
yisins them to plant corn and sugar cane to-
gether, so as to raise johnny-cake with the
molasses on. a.
There are those who are so fatally bent on
reconciation,-so fierce and violent in the
pursuit OF it, that they seem ready, if you
don't reconcile at once, to knock you down.
There was one pun of Sidney Smiths that
Charles Lever never tired of telling. Mrs.
Grote, the wife of the distinguished historian,
appeared once at a soiree with queer sort of
turban on her accomplished head. ssLook
at thatE' said Sidney; 'that's the origin of
the word grotesque." Hs.
In Cincinnati they introduce hog, run
him through and shuttle him off iii three and
traction minutes, mean time. In Chicago
they try and convict murderer in twenty
minutes, and he has meaner time than the
other. 7tnse
A prompt way of realizing handsome inter-
est on money-Take Greeley bet, and then
accept portion of it for release. -
A young man named Alfred Young, who
made an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide at Virginia City on Sunday week, left on
his table a note to friend, as follows: "Jim,
i'll die, lay me away quietly and say nothing
about it. have killed five men,
Andy johnson is again wrestling with the
Constitution. In recent speech he request
ed his hearers: ''In the event I should perish
and fall, all l ask is that you would lay my
bones among you, wrapped in my country's
flag with her Constitution"
Stanley has concluded to come and enter
the lecture field, and will commence telling
the story of his adventures in search of Liv-
ingstene, under the auspices of a Boston
lecture bureau in January,
Perhaps the strangest domestic pet ever
heard of was recently exhibited at the meet
ing of the British Association by Sir John
Lubbock. 1t was tame wasp, which had
been in his possession for about three mouths.
1t now ate sugar from his hand and allowed
him to stroke it. The wasp had every ap-
pearance of health and happiness; and
although it enjoyed an "outing'' occasionally,
it readily returned to its bottle, which it
seemed to regard as home. a 'f
1t is satisfactory to learn from the London
Times that the 'old English gentleman did
not drink so much port as he is charged
with. f-tNln8s-a. -rf uf
''Throw physic to the dogs when the pa
tient is given over to die, and administer
marriage in mild doses and she will recover.
At least, this was the case in st. Louis. re-
Gently, when young attorney was married
to lady who was supposed to be in her last
illness, but SO salutary was the effect of the
marriage that instead of dying she rapidly re-
covered, and is now able to be out.
The ladies in Europe are wearing wide
brimmed hats, a Ia Pompadour, caught up
on one side with ostrich feather accompani-
ments. These hats are much more pictur
esque than the turban shape.
One of the amusements at Chicago pic
mic was to place silver dollar in dish con-
tanning about an inch of molasses and let
squad of boys compete in trying to take out
the piece with their teeth.
An Illinois boy has been bitten six times by
rattlesnakes, with no resultant injuries, and
now defies the Fates, unless they can punct-
ure him with something sharper than ser
pent's tooth"
There is just one little drawback to the
complete enjoyment of our National Park in
the Yellowstone Valley. The Indians are as
thick as fieas and as active. They would not
leave the back hair on single lady of the
party who would be tempted there to pic
mic. Doubtful if seal skin trunk could get
through with any hair ON it.
-s5as .Hsa4 aue.U nsT
The German Band which played at the Ju-
bilee is having row in Berlin upon the di-
vision of the money made in this country.
Herr Saro, the leader, claims so large por-
tion as his share that the matter and the
money is now in the hands of the authorities,
with some prospect that the latter may ap-
propriate the whole amount for the benefit of
the public service.
The Cincinnati editors are getting into the
tantrums again. The Enquirer sarcastically
remarks that it would be ''to paint the lily
and gild refined gold to characterize as a liar
the man who adds forgery to theft;' but
Enowinp dnnn down into tbo;r ad;tor;oI