The Portland daily press., 1872-10-24
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. "a, 1879,
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
Neck-ties of very gay colors are once more
fashionable
The worst yet is a mud dredge named
"Lucca.'
jackson Wempler, Maryland boy, escap-
ed from his stepmother by hanging himself
Inc new Russia leather belt-bags worn by
ladies are considered by the pick-pockets in
the light of a Especial providence"
Coopers Leather Stocking Tales are hay
ing great run in Russia, and several rival
translations are all selling well.
Anna Dickinson, in her lecture, wants to
know ''What hinders." Some say it is her
advanced youthfulness.
Miss Belle silva, native singer of Toledo,
is going abroad She will next be heard of as
Signora Angelica da Correllisimi.
A Pennsylvanian's election bets yielded him
$4,000 in cash, eleven suits of clothes, and
two hundred kegs of nails. He was Re-
publican, of course.
Titssville women write sentimental COM
munications to the Press when their poodes
die. large amount of female affection
often centres on puppies.
An Othello and Desdemona case is report
ed out West, in which both parties found
themselves outside the ''pale" of society.
Othelo was there before.
Lucca is the innocent cause of some of the
worst puns in the language. The World
joker twists her name into lucre, and the
Cincinnati Enquirer thinks she is lucky.
The Denver Tribune talks about the Sem
boweled wealth" of Colorado Next we shall
have it prating about "argentiferous viscera,'
and ''auriferous entrails''
The Lafayette, Indiana, Dispatch Demo
cratic) confesses the defeat of its party at the
November election, and hauls down the
names of Greeley and Brown.
A Polish nobleman, with six-cylinder ro-
tary name, abused the memory of George
Washington recently, in public speech. A
patriotic and artistic American illustrated his
frontspiece for it.
Several large parties are talked of for Hal
low Fen, when all the mystic ceremonies
proper to the occasion are to be kept up in
due form. Hallow Fen parties properly
managed are the greatest fun on record.
The Louisville Journal, commenting on
the statement of the Philadelphia Press
that Cincinnati editors are the most unhap-
Ply men in the country" says: "And no
wonder. Ifyou drank half as much Cincinna-
ii whiskey as they do you would be unhappy
too; but in another world"
Terre Haute boy of tender years and
heart has drowned seventeen kittens, tied
pans to the tails of nine dogs, brushed his
1atners new SILK hat against the grain, and
blown up pet canary with fire-cracker in
the last month, and still his fond mother in
tends him for the pulpit.
1.-TWO thin, white, chalk-like wrists" are
what Mrs. Fair clasped round her Judges
neck at her acquital, according to San
Francisco reporter. ''Chalk-like wrists is
pretty good, and we commend the phrase to
novelists as fit accompaniment to "alabas-
ter brows'' and ''marble bosoms," with
which romances of the day are overstocked
Tableau in front of Springfield cigar store:
In the doorway, sport of the period putting
cigar; at his right hand, the representative
of his red brother extending bunch of ci-
gars; on the step, at his feet, an ancient
negress calmly smoking long clay pipe,
and in front Chinaman gazing in admiration
at the group.