The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-30
THE PRESS
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 80, 1872.
Gleanings and Gossip.

TUESDAY MORNING., JULY 30, 1872.
r.H' Gleanings and Gossip. '.l n
m jenkins is alive, and having come out of
the hole where he had hidden himself ever
since the ball season closed, is now at the
watering places. The ingenuity with which
Inc creature contriyes to praise people for
gifts which they do not possess, and the care
with with which he avoids mentioning their best
points, are as remarkable as ever. .r
| Lofty Hough will never lecture any more
IN public. She has made permanent en-
gagement. His name is Gregory. Lofty lee
tured last winter on ''Popping the Question"
telling how it ought to be done. Gregory
did it. This illustrates the influence of the
iyceum and woman's mission in it. r.-
A country editor returns thanks for SER
enade, and says: "In many localities this
might be athin way of expressing ones ap-
probation of favor of this kind; but here,
where the wells are neatly all dry, and the
town is surrounded by prohibitory law two
miles wide, nothing better can be rendered" :"
Somebody having applied to an editor for
a method by which he might cure his daugh-
ter Of her partiality for young gentlemen, is
kindly informed that there are several meth
ods Of reform. One way is to skin the young
person; another is to put her into a well and
drop few loads of gravel on her head; an
other is to bind her ankles to an anvil and up
set her out of a boat. '- '- 3HHi" 'r"
% aliI oil ur1ihlt ---- rsa..-t % mp .uf
I A .sanguine young Ohio blacksmith had
faith in his ability to make himself the recep-
rtaele for. four pints of raw whiskey within
fifteen minutes. IL He wagered twenty-five
dollars to that effect, with a sceptic of his
neighborhood, aud made the village bar-room
the scene of his british performance. Upon
his neat and unornamented tombstone, now
IN process of construction, will be inscribed
the simple epitaph, HE Smiled and died."
A set of paper car-wheels, on one of the
Pullman cars running to Jersey City, have
run over 160, 900 miles of track, and worn
out entirely one set of steel tires, which have
been replaced The ordinary wheels, it is
said, will only run 10000 miles. HlraH'lI
urilnsu reg" 9di ---r-loI f1r'U aill ri
,, rSardines are now packed in peanut OIL
| Young ladies who aspire to be the equals OF
your big brothers and go to fires, don't wear
your paper bustles on those lively occasions
An Oshkosh young lady did SO, and it blazed
up and caught her new long curl and her best
braid, and she is $50 poorer than she was.
lIn Iced water should be drunk very sparingly,
unless the ice is perfectly ripe a'1r'' ln"l
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A Missouri legislator clinched an argument
against dogs the other day, by swearing that
the money expended in supporting q ZOO, 900
dogs in the United States would buy 1,34O,- :
/ OOO, 900 whiskey cocktails every year.,.naQ |
l., . The Courier-Journal wants to know what
| this world would be without beautiful " idows
| The conundrnm is too difficult for the sea
lSGr Sly .uoD lIoqqns Ot---lgi ad iHiif COMMON
Another woman has been found with live
snake in her stomach. She is negro wo-
| man and lives Paducah, Ky. 1t is a hard po-
sition for snake, and it is to be hoped that
long, and then he will look twice before he
leaps again down anybody's throat. .@5iGl
A traveller relates that while he was in
! Utah, Tom Thumb was also there on a visit.
While the renowned dwarf was at a dinner
party he jumped from his chair and said,
with pompous air: 81 cannot understand
this polygamy at ALL" His host, a man six
feet high, therenpon exclaimed: ''Neither
could Tom, when I was your size.'' ,sg
-adItis considered somewhat hilly on the Wesi
Side, Norwich. The height of the average
sidewalk from the gutter varies from nine to
thirteen feet When you see man with q
rope ladder and a life preserver taking tear,
fl1 farewell Of his wife and family YOU may
know that he is going to 'srun across the
street, to a aneighbor's s. li5aU sisa5 l GGiusYy
= One Of the peeuliarities of Colorado appear:
to be that the lakes and streams We're by
some mistake put on the under side. While
the surface is dry and thirsty land there i:
an abundance of subterranean water. The
people propose to..set the matter right by bor-
ing lot of artesian wells into the territory
Why not turn it the other side up?' .,IT
E3a12om9d y9l0s.Fwo FRIENDS lfao3 "Ja 9i.j
had two friends, an mel and both are gone II i'i
In silence, with her white hands crossed, slept
And when / called her name no answer gave :
III NO answer gave when most prayed and wept. ~
with face as cold as stone one went his way. ?" 90
For sweet trust giving treachery and hate;- 3Il
And never more will word of his float back, . i,p
Though to hfes close with saddened soul wait.
Both friends are gone, alas! One still and cold
I9Onei warm with life, and strong, with hearty
1Anli have learned the bitter lesson wen. -IA ''
That Life can hodla deeper loss than Death. ""
To obtain good nights sleep, sponge the
| entire length of the spine in hot water for ter
orfifteen minutes. This will reduce the cir
culation, quiet the nervous system, and in
duce sleep better than any drug.-Healu
| Journal.
9dJohn Morrissey has recently discovered
that man in his employ who had charge o
the game of faro, by collusion with one o
two outside parties, would deal the cards 81
that whenever they played against the banE
the house was always certain to lose 1t i
said that during race-week one of the partie
in the secret with the dishonest dealer woI
upwards of $4,000, which of course was d
yided between them. The losses at the table
when this particular employee dealt, were Sc
iarse- to ATTRACT Morrisscy's attention, TIL,
matter was investigated and the man dis
charged in disgrace. bHa 81 .tla Lt b.iE5D.s
| aAa ..,uaA Mid-Air Compromise. ...'. luI
b Not many. years ago, and not far from the
city of Elmira, at locality known as the
| "FQmale COlleoe.n the circumstances we are