The Portland daily press., 1873-03-28
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING., MARCH 20, 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.

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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.
Some Of the spring bonnets are of the
most curious description and style. They
form almost point over the forehead, and
are a fine combination of lace feathers, flow
ers, jet and hair pins.
The Marquis de Chambrun, long and favor
ably known in Washington, where he has re-
sided for nearly fifteen years, has written
book, entitled ''Le Pouvoir Executif aux
Etats-Unis; etude de droit Constutionnel."
The Duke of Argyll once asked Edmund
Stone how he, a poor gardener boy, had con-
trived to be able 10 read Newton's ''Princ;p-
ia'' in Latin. To which he replied, "One
needs only to know the twenty-four letters of
the alphabet in order to learn everything else
that one wishes"
President Thiers replied to French poll
tician, who, in speaking of Spain, called her
ga sister republic" of France, ''You may saw
what you please, but she is younger sister
that may cause her elder to miss her mar
riage and prevent her from ever finding an
establishment
AFrench vital statistician notes as a sig
nifcant coincidence the fact that the dimi-
| mutton of the size of fashionable cravats has
been accompanied by corresponding increase
in the rate of mortality; which, he thinks,
shows conclusively that the ssgood old stock'
was characterized by greater longevity than
is attainable by the small beaus of the present
day.
Last Friday week the Clerk of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives was re-
quested by one of the members to read pas
sage from the Scriptures, but after a dilligeut
| search he was unable to find Bible any,
where upon the premises. This upsets the
beautiful tradition that the members of the
Massachusetts Legislature always carry
pocket edition of the Sacred Word about
them.-Commercial Advertiser.
The King of Bavaria has given commits
sion to the celebrated sculptor Halbig for a
colossal group representing the Crucifxion,
to be erected on mountain commanding the
valley of the Ammes, in the Bavarian High
lands, the scene Of tine decennia Passion
Play. The figure of the Saviour is to be
carved out of an immense block of marble
of upwards of fourteen hundred weight
Frills for the neck are exceedingly fashion
able. They are made of Swiss muslin, bob
binet lace, and very fine cambric; some have
a lace edging; all are made quite full, and are
handsomely fluted. The same style of linger-
! lie is worn around the wrists, and produces a
very neat and pleasing effect. These plait-
| ings are made of doubled tulle, muslin and
bobbinet lace, the two former edged with VAL
enciennes lace.
Western women think that people are
growing over-fussy now-a-days. If man
dies, and two or three grains of strychnine,
or halfa pound Of arsenic, or an ounce or 50
of antimony be found in his stomach, his
poor wife has to 60 off to prison, and go
| through q trial and see her name in the
newspapers, and be acquitted, and neglect
| her sewing until she has not thing fit to
| wear. a yf.at.f-i -s.. 10
The Rev. George C. Harding, according to
the Louisville Courier-Journal, is one of the
| most remarkable men of the age. Regularly
| once or twice year he starts new Sunday
paper at Indianapolis. As soon as the enter
prise bankrupts him he goes to st. Louis or
Cincinnati and connects himself with one Of
/ the daily papers there. And then, when he
! gets money enough to pay his railroad fare,
he goes back to indianapolis and starts anoth-
er Sunday paper. M
1t will be surprise to many to know that
Washington Irving was confessed orchard
thief Once, when picking up an apple
under tree in his own orchard, he was ac-
costed by an urchin of the neighborhood,
who, not recognizing him as the proprietor,
offered, to show him tree where he could
| .'eet some better apples than those" 'sBut,"
said the boy, eve must take care tho old
man doesn't see u.s. 81 went with him.
said Irving, "and we stole dozen of my own
apples.' 1nu .sE a11 Earas sd
1t is not quite certain that our boys are
| very much smarter than those who grow up
| under the effete monarchies of Europe To
be sure boy in Lowell yesterday knocked
| his father down with club and robbed him
| Of $S6, which shows boldness and enterprise
in the pursuit of gain, but juvenile French
man lately attempted to kill bis father in or
der that he might be the only son of widow
and SO escape conscription, which shows more
subtle reasoning and fnesse. On the whole,
we think the superiority in this case is with
the foreigner. f
A solicitor who had recently been engaged
by a prominent life insurance firm returned
to the office of his employers the other day,
and complained that he had been snubbed by
a gentleman on whom he had called.
''Snubbed?'' cried the manager, "snubbedP
Why, what did you do that he should have
snubbed you? have solicited life insurance
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and
have never yet been snubbed. have been
kicked down stairs, beaten over the head with
chairs, and thrown out of the window, but
snubbed have never been." The solicitor
is driving coal wagon.
Another clever gentleman has been deceiv-
ed by the hydrants. 1t was New ! ears, and
he was rejoicing under the influence of about
| 1000 drops of joy. he ran against hydrant,
xyh;lo bo,,oowor ri horpd xvorkipo lopo Lowell