The Portland daily press., 1873-10-03
T HE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 8, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
The first postal card received at DUBUQUE
was from lady, and marked ''Private."
When the Philadelphia lover wishes to
honor the dearest and the best he calls her a
centennarian.
We learn from Western paper that wild
geese are on the move; but we b ;ar, alas
nothing of John Coct ranes pra're-hens.
A Tennessee paper says the ten command
ments may be found in the New Testament,
being unaware of The fact, evidently, that
tney have been crowded out of the later edi-
tions by press of other mattar.
The British Association to the Crown is
earnestly discussing another Arctic expedi-
tion The zeal in behalf of science which
induces these men to sacrifice other mems
lives regardless of expense is truly noble.
A man in New Orleans is the proud pos
SCISSOR Of an educated monkey, which washes
its hands and face with soap and wafer,
brushes its hair, and, after dinner, picks its
teeth with a regularly organized toothpck.
Peace hath her victories, etc. General
Beauregard visited tie Bull Run battlefield
the other day, and, bis horse falling upon
him. had his leg severely bruised and his
thumb dislocated
The fact that nature is full of compensa
tion is beautifully illustrated by recent bit
OF sci ,ntific Information, which announces
that the house fly is tormented by parasites,
of which it cannot get rid. and that it suffers
dreadful agonies from their tickling.
A bareback circus rider lately had 81. 200
diamond bosom pin stolen at Dayton. Ohio.
We should like to know what right bare
back rider has to own $1,000 diamond pin.
He ought to have sold it, and got some thing
! to put on his back.
The Quaker nose is said to be peculiar.
Very like Why should it moi be? Indeed,
who can tell what even a Donnybrook nasal
| organ might become f exempted. for an
equally long series OF generations, from pull
ing and pounding9
The time of the year has come when peop'e
who, coming from out doors, enter a room
| where there is genial and cheerful fire in
the CRATE, are pretty sure to exclaim, That's
| good! A fire really feels comfortablep Well.
it does.
During the la e war DR.. -, entering the
hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle,t the order
| ly, and asked him which he considered the
| most dangerous Of the many cases then in
the hospital. "That, sir,'' said Paddy, as,
with an indicative jerk of the thumb, he
pointed to where, on the table, lay case q
surgical instruments.
Somebody has been publishing school
book history OF England, and spelling zeal
endar' with ''k," after the Greek usage
Although there were no Greek kalends; ant
| the SprinSHelu hepuOttCtU pertiueuI'y dSh'
if we must write 1.-THE kataracts of the Nile
ana speak OF sad ''katastrophe?' l. not
why not? Why render unto g, sir, the thing
that never belonged to c, sir?
In Galloway large crags are met with hav
ing ancient writings on them. One on thu
farm of Knockleby has cut deep on the uppe
side, ''Lift me up, aud l Il tell you more.
Anumber of people gathered to this crag
and succeeded in lifting it up in HOPES OF be
ing well repaid; but, instead of finding any
gold, they iound written on it, clay me
down as l was before"
The man who looks at the soups on bill
OF fare and incontinently orders one withon
looking further, even to the very end OF tn
entertainment promised by the pro ramme
is an inconsiderate eater, and has yet to grow
to the full stature of round, well orderet
and symmetri al dinner; one of those sanat
les who think that food is 'ood. no matte