The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-15
Gossip and GIeanings.

UOSSip anu UitdnluKS
The average Californian likes nothing so
well as what he calls ga square meal" At
Los Angeles lately, poor man, tired of life.
bought substantial luncheon and bottle of
claret, went to an unoccupied building, ate
and drank his fill, then, shooting himself
through the head, went into the next world
comfortably.
An irreverent dry goods dealer, doing bust
ness in New York, announced that his goods
are "going at sacrifice, owing to the expect
ed comet"
Some unscentiic thief recently robbed a
journalist of his valise in a Baltimore train.
He secured about two dollars worth of writ
ing paper.
A French inventor recently made public
trial of boots designed to aid one to walk
upon the water. Nothing ever foated more
beautifully than those boots did, but the
trifing circumstance that they foated wrong
side up nearly caused the inventors death.
Once more, says the Providence Journal,
the earth has safely crossed the path of the
August meteors, passing unharmed through
phalanxes thousands of miles in depth, with
out pausing for second in her career, or de-
waiting hairs breadth from her appointed
course.
Don't believe in animal magnetism? Look
steadily at baby when sound asleep, and it
will wake up; OF, when nervousness keeps
you awake, get some person not nervous to
put hand on you and off you go. Why is
this thus?
The question of single women travelling
unprotected and being allowed accommodation
at first class hotels, is now agitating the
breasts of the strong minded. A Boston la
dy was refused admittance recently at the
Clarendon, Everett, Fifth Avenue and several
other New York hotels, and proposes to sue
the proprictors.
The piety of Cordova editors does not pre-
vent them being wiser in their generations,
in some ways, than their brethren in Buenos
Ayres. In Cordova the '9atest editions are
now cried and sold in the streets by the pref
tiest girls that can be picked out for the busi-
ness. All candidates have a competitive ex-
animation in beauty before the editors.
The editor of the VdncebTg Kentuckian
returns thanks for a handsome rattlesnake,
presented him by an admiring friend.
An Exeter kitten alv ays smells the breath
of a sister-kitten after any absence from ii.
If it finds that stay-at-home has had anything
to take during its absence, the mewing that
arises to get share is really painful to hear.
Madame Nilson Rouzeaud has written to a
friend in New York to say that she will re-
turn to America at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Hawthorne said that Miss Bremen was ga
most amiable little woman, worthy to be the
maiden aunt of the whole human race"
The Toledo Blade says, "When aSt. Louis
imbiber desires bird of feather to saturate
with him, he merely remarks, will you
shake hands across the bloody chasm%
Which is rather neat"
Kossuth declares that he is too dyspeptic
to be representative of the Hungarian Diet.
Two years ago Connecticut man received
gross insult from a neighbor who lives a
| quarter of mile or more from him. After
| long meditation he has now purchased pea
cock and jackass and anchored them in a
field adjoining his neighbors back yard
The editor of the Atlanta Weekly relates
early journalistic experiences as follows: 'Its
no sort of use for an editor to try to please
everybody. Because if he does, he is NOR
ally certain of not pleasing anybody. We've
tried it and know. When we first took the
Atlanta Weekly into our hands, we felt like
| Columbus discovering America, Benjamin
Franklin drawing down the lightning, or the
! infant Hercules in his celebrated snake act.
| We remarked that it was the proudest mo-
ment &C., we said we should run that paper
| in a manner to suit all its subscribers, chill
dren would cry for it, and it should be not
only an ably conducted journal but thing of
beauty, consequently a joy forever, besides
being Palladium of Liberty. The retiring
editor smiled sadly at us, gave us his blessing
and the key of the office and left. We sat
| down in the editorial chair and said we were
where we missed it. The compositor came in
for copy; we had been engaged in the prepara-
ton of our leader for some weeks, so were
ready for him. But not for the way he print
ed it! Shades Of Lindlsy Murray and Web
ster of spelling-book fame! What piece OF
work that compostor made of our carefully
polished phrases. But the paper looked very
well on the whole and we congratulated our
selves. We didn't have many new subscrib-
ers, we didn't get all our pay from the old
ones; but we received plenty of advice. One
man came in and told us to "make the paper
lively, never mind how" So in our next we
told what we knew about that man. The re-
suit was almost too lively. Next young
person wrote us letter asking us to print
more stories. Our sub-editor sat up all night
and wrote "The Black Brgand, Tale Of
Blood and Thunder" and two respectable
heads of families stopped their paper Mex
we hired "a funny man" and tried being face
tious, but of course that couldn't last long
We finally took to staid and serious article:
of depressing tendency. We wrote on poll
tics. If we expressed any definite view;
some man was sure to come into our Office
with revolver, and ask us what we meant
We generally didn't want anything in partic'
ular. If we were non-committal both par
ties made it uncomfortable for us. Now We
run the Weekly just as we please, never TAKE
advice from anyone but ourselves and arr
comparatively happy"