The Portland daily press., 1873-06-26
PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE %. 1s7a
Gossip and Gleanings.

Chantilly gauze is one of tbe popular ma
terials just at present for both house and out
door costumes.
South Bends "freak of nature" is chick
en- with four legs, which walks backward or
forward, and has been known to walk both
ways at once.
No fashionable house is complete without
its conservatory. 1t is to be noted that in
the range of modern fiction, the great major
ity OF the love scenes are located in conserva-
tories.
1t is easy in the world to live after the
worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to live
after your own; but the great man is he who,
in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.
1t must be rather embarrassing for dead
man in public morgue to be claimed by
three different widows as their long lost hus-
band. His reputation is likely to suffer. A
Brooklyn corpse is now in this unhappy con-
dition.
Don't let your little children play alone in
the barn. The only son of Mr.. Prosper Keep
of Erie county, Pa, got hung in the barn,
the other day, and as ne hung four days be-
fore they found him, his usefulness as an on
ly son was pretty much destroyed.
The rage for the 'ie'' termination to girls
names has come to a disastrous conclusion in
one Oregon family. A farmer named AXE
christaned his eldest girl Belle. She had
some cards printed in the sic" fashion, and
well, after looking at the result she concluded
Belle was pretty enough for her and burned
them.
Now a man in San Francisco has taken oc-
casion to do his numbering while asleep. He
thought he was being robbed, and so got up
and shot his room mate without delay. He
was dismissed on the ground that the shoot
ing was entirely accidental, which will be a
comfort to his future room mates.
Oshkosh has no very old living citizens, but
when Chicago drummer gets to blowing
around about the centenariaus he knows,
they lead him out into the village cemetery,
by the ear, and silently point to tombstone
on which he reads, Jeremiah Madden, aged
107 years, months.
The Chicago board of education voted to
raise the salaries of certain Experienced
women teachers" mentioned by name, and
the munifcent result is, that one gets $3.50
and the others $3.50. What's the use in
squandering the city's money in that reckless
fashion, just to keep few undeserving young
women in pampered luxury? ..-.
Since Astronomer Watson of Ann Arbor
discovered his last planet, the friends of As
tronomer Peters Of Hamilton college have
been urging him to oil the bearings of his tel
escope and try and bag another, just to keep
up his end. 1t may be said for him, by the
by, that his worlds are generally superior ar
ticles,-he doesn't trouble himself much
about two-cent planets.
A lecturer once eenvulsed his audience
with an incongruity of which he seemed at
the moment almost unconscious. He was
talking of affectations, and particularly of the
one which induces people to sign the initial
of their first with the whole of their middle
name. Sometimes, he said, this sounds well
enough. but these cases are exceptional. We
all like ''E Pluribus Unum," but who could
stand Up. Jonathan Pillsbury?"