The Portland daily press., 1873-05-27
THE PRESS 6.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY s7 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.


With most men life is like Backgammon,
half skill and half fluc6.-Holmes.
Methods are the masters of masters.-Tal-
leyrand.
The MSS. of Bale, which his widow lately
presented to the British Museum, fill SO vol
umes.
Miss Harriet Fenimore Cooper, the novel;
lists daughter, is writing a history of the
Oneida Indians.
Two white oxen appeared in Louisville the
other day, and they looked so like small snow
drifts that every man who saw them sent
home after his overcoat.
The city marshal of Eutaw, Ala, has Loaf
his Office for starting lottery, whilst in nro.
hibitory Massachusetts a man would st.nd =.
chance of losing hia Office If he didn't start
| lot O rye.
We knew the fnol would turn up some
where who would put his postal card il. ,
stamped envelope and mail it that wav.
Oovngton, KY, is responsible for him. and
ne thinks the cards are great convenience.
a New Haven tobacconist has offered s12
lor the petrifed Indian lately sent to Yale
Cohege from California TO use as a cigar sign.
and the faculty think some Of realizing on the
corpse, K owing that at simple hint the
students would steal it back for them.
The Oberlin New Era saws of a suicide
lhere that "a pair Of shoes belonging to the
deceased were found sitting on the ground
near the cistern" We hardly know which to
admire most in that pair of shoes, their in.
telligence or their touching devotion.
The Ann Arbor Mich lecture association
took just $40 less than expenses in Is lectures,
last winter. They cleared an even 25 cents
on Edml nd Yates, so cents on James r.
Fields, came out square on George w. Curtis,
and made $S4 on Beecher.
Covington, Ky, is wondering at the queer
antics Of an old couple in its streets. Every
day venerable dame appears with ham
mer and nails, and securely fastenJ up the
gates in her locality. In her wake follows
her aged consort with a crowbar, who pa
tiently undoes the work of his predecessor,
keeping abont three gates behind her.
Haverhill has somnambulist, who gets up
and does the weeks washing, hanging the
clothes on the line, and returning to bed be-
fore A. VI. Last Monday he did the wash
ing all right-bst on Tuesday he rather over
did the business.by washing again the clothes
he washed on Monday, and his wife has TAX
en- precaution to check his propensity.
Western editor, who received half doz-
en- soft-shell crabs the other day, says in the
next issue of his paper. ''Tt ey were indeed
delicious, but were evidently intended to be
eat n when dead, as one of the cusses vent
skittering up and down onr throat two or
thre times before we could mash him with
our boughten teeth"
Apropos of Pullman in London, they tell
story over there OF an uncultivaed New York
er who received the IA ewel card of friend
with the cabalistic .'P. P. Co. in the corner,
and after long puzzle as to what IL meant,
finally had the bright idea that it meant Pull
mans palace car, and that this was the pho
nographic way his friend had of telling him
that be had gone to San Francisco.
Cham, the clever caricaturist of the Chari-
vari, has discovered way of overcoming one
difficulty in the organization of second
chamber. He represents, in the CHAR 'ari,
one Assembly above the other, with a trap
door in the flooring that separates them, and
NJ. Theirs perched on ladder, with the up
per part of his body above AMI the lower por-
tion below. By this means he may be present
in both chambers at once.
Always carry u revolver when you go out
horseback riding with youn. lady. Mr..
Bragg of Visalia, CAL, carried one when he
took Miss Kemp to ride, the other day, and,
as they were both on the same horse, when
the weapon we mt off, the bullet entered the
young lady's knee and came out at the an
kle. Her dress was set on ire, and size was
seriously injured by the falling from the
| horse, but such incidents are trivial in COM
parison with the sense of security which an
able-bodied man derives from the possession
of pistol.
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