The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-30
THE PR ESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 80, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 80, 1872.
-., s.. Gossip and Gleanings.
The substance of Brigham Youngs- lee
lures in his new lyceum tour is an exhorta-
ton to young men and maidens to marry.
He can'tb accused of preaching what he
doesn't practice. e.. .fs gutrlt,a-.
The other night, the Kansas Pacific passen-
ger train lost its sleeping car, and the con-
ductor discovered it and went back sixty
miles before he found it, and the passengers
were sleeping in peaceful innocence waiting
for freight train to run into them.
A little paradoxical, perhaps, but it appears
that 'blunt'' people say very sharp things.
The New York papers now designate fights
in grogshops as spiritual knockings.
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The last sad case of fearful evil resultant
from the use of tobacco comes from Detroit.
A poor old gentleman one hundred and five
years of age, is losing his eyesight, and his
physician feels obliged to sadly but firmly tell
him that this is caused by the use of tobacco
for ninety years.
Ina MS. in the British Museum, descrip-
tive of Hungary, the writer says: SIT hath
been an ancient custom among them, that
none should wear feather but he who had
killed Turk, to whom onlie il was lawful to
show the number of his slaine enemys, by the
number of fethers in his cappe." Thus we
get the phrase, ''That will be feather in his
cap" a1 fe 'I1 a--a-ita. iH
Whether person paying for photograph
has right to the negative, and whether an
artist who has an eye for fine features has a
right, in case one of his customers happens
to be woman of peculiar beauty, to execute
large painting OF her for business purposes,
are questions under consideration by Judge
Fowler of New York. ..-l.'..
A Memphis local editor who got drunk was
fined five times the usual penalty, on the
ground that it was his place to set good ex-
ample.
Neck-ties made of leather, with gilt buck
les, are said to have been proposed as the
fashionable novelty for gentlemen's wear the
coming winter. SIS thy servant dog?"
A whole prayer-meeting was arrested in
Richmond, recently, ,-parson, deacons, con-
verts, penitents and sinners, on charge o.
disorderly conduct. owen H.a .s.
We, are told of an editor at Montrose
Pennsylvania, who has gone insane, and i'm
agines himself mule.' We know of peo
pie with whom we should regard that notioI
as an evidence Of dawning reason. 7E
The height of fconservatism-An old frieni
resists all change, even the change of an olt
toothbrush for new Que. Better, says he
to introduce under his very nose wretcheC
innovation. .s. ......r t.l...-t
Trenton, N. j., has an old woman news
boy, who is at the depot in all weathers, ant
who, according to local paper, 'with he
gray hair and large hoop skirt, presents 4
very weird appearance" .s l....g..g z' &
During the scorching days of last week g
gentleman remarked, as an enormous fat
lady entered bus, that mastadon's ought to
be excluded. The lady overheard him, and
regretted that she found the bus Noah:
ark, where every beast was encountered.
Johnny says, ''Won't we have bang-uI
time in our shed if we draw the big drum al
the Coliseum. @ eafa aa +fil 'i1'-
er sad "vll - it 'vi
Chattanooga chicken-coop has the fol
lowing sign on it: ''For sail-Chickens in
the blume of yuth." fg9Jrl i .-df f "
@Turkish ladies are discarding wells and using
lily white instead , r.r5afar l...I .'f
The editor of the indianapolis Joupndl i,
learning to fiddle. The agitated neighbour
soothe their nerves by applauding him witt
A Chicago reporter announces that "th'
receipt of another ship-load of blackberrie
from st. Joe on yesterday created pereepti
BILE ripple in the toothpick trade. g. INA