The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-16
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING,JULY 1e.1s7
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
A companion to parlor croquet- cricket on
the hearth.
An Irish horse trainer has just christene
one of his stud ''The Top O. the Morning."
They say it's a roarer.
1t is understood, that several railroad
VIII make imm 'diate application tor the mo
OF the public lands supposed to exist in the
last new comet
1t is believed that the annexation principle
will be warmly agitated in Congress next
| winter in connection with recent and impend-
ing astronomical discoveries.
Baron Reuter-, according to the Times of
that city, has a nephew in Chicago. Proba-
oiy he can't help IL if he has; and what's
the use CT twitting him Of 1t?
John Smith is in Minneapolis now, and ba.
had row in a cheap clearinghouse. for
/
bly, dsp'ses OF Mr. Smith as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for president in
1876,
A preacher in Berkshire county. Mass, last
Sunday observed most of mis- congregation
asleep, and, emitting the benediction and the
communion that should have followed, took
his hat and walked out to commune with ma
ture. That was his method of getting a
summer vacation.
| Lady of the house-Well, Millicent, how
do you like your new horse .'Roland ?'' MIi-
cent-Oh. immensely But he want. firm
hand, you know. He'd very soon run away
| with me IT gave him the cnance; wouldn
he, Robert? Robert first cousin to Milli-
cent)-Run away with you. if you gave him
the chance? By George, if can Judge of
"Roiand's" feelings by my own, / should
just think he tcouid-Puach
One Of the 'reveDges' which are assisted
in their visits by "the whirligig of time," has
arrived at New York in the form of case
now pending in the surrogate court of that
city, wherein an estate valued at S12, ,0O0) Of
fugitive slave is involved, and one of the
colored heirs has employed his forme master
tnow lawyer) as his attorney.
''Do fish hear?' is the interrogation which
starts off an article goirg the rounds of the
press. And veiy exciting one it must be,
we think, as even the masses here hav got
hold of it. Near neighboring pond is
painted on a board: 'sDont fish hearI'
which may be the inquiry of an anxious but
humble seeker, or may be the contemptuous
exclamation OF one who has no patience with
ignorance.-Danbury Neos.
Kate Field writes from London that Mark
Twain has been "eDdeavoring to instill civil
lization into the Shah by sitting on the floor
and playing draw poker, and says that his
august pupil makes wonderful progress in
this great American game, and will soon be
able to play agaii st the American minister or
the brilliant editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, who now pines in May Fair for
partner worthy of his DEAL"
The members of the Slawson SUNDAY
school bad no library on Sunday, and they
were little irtitated. Deacon Hovey was
deputed to go to New York after new books,
and was to have started on Thursday, but he
was two days finding revolver. and lost
another day in looking up suitable dirk.
But be started for the city on Monday, and
the matter will be all right next Sunday, we
hope.
| A queerly mixed entertainment was recent
ly gwen at London theater. Gour cd, the
composer, who never played publicly in his
life, made his debut as a pianist, Wilkie Col
Inns, no elocutionist at all. recited a story,
| Mdlle Desclee, the great dramatic actress,
played the organ, and Hitler, the pianist,
| gave fantasia in the double-bas. Ristori
on the tight rope and Taglioni as prima
donna, would have capped the ridiculous
climax.
| The Telegraph informs us that one of the
Shah's attendants has fallen into disgrace and
will be executed Immediately on his return to
Teheran. Let the poor fellow come to this
count y, get himself naturalized and be an
alderman. This might not be strictly honor
able; but it would surely be better than to be
corpse, And it is not pleasant to read on
| fellows tombstone that he was executed,
when 1t might merely be said of him that
Teheran away.
There is girl in Georgia who extorted a
confession from her lover that he was worth
but s100 aud some clothes, and was too poor
to marry. Now this cruel creature looked
searchingly into his face, aud said: Sand is
this the reason you have postponed so often
our marriage " ''Yes," he replied. ''Then,"
she SAID. lit shall be so no longer--we will get
married" And the poor Young martyr was
cut of in the prime OF youth and single bless
| edness.
| A Nelson street man thought il would be
good idea to call his daughter the LILLY of
the Valley" And so he did. Friday night
the ''Lily of the Valley" ate too many Gu
cumbers and at midnight the Lilly nf the
Valley " was struck with cramps. The old
man was obliged to hasten for the doctor, and
not having time to get his boots on right, bis
step was impeded, and during the trarst to
the doctors office he fell twice, once skinning
his nose, and the second time arousing dog
which bit him on the leg. When the doctor
came he was mystifed as to the course of treat
ment, as he never before saw ''Lily of the
Valley" with the cholera morbus, but he in
troduced a stomach pump, and drew up the
vegetation. She doesn't go by the name of
''Lily of the Valley" now. The old man
caught some practical ideas that night, and
now calls her Cucumber Galch I"