The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-15
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY Is, 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
George Eliot gOt $4,000 for writing "srid-
demarch."
A JugSler cannot act well unless be is In
'he VEN 1.-THE juggler vein, of eourse). This
remark is made in joc'lar vein.
Within about fortnight there have been
five murders in the Indian country. all of
them committed by Cherokees.
"Carabo Spencers menagerie" is what .
Sioux City telegraph operator made out Of
cerebospinal meningitis.
Bierstadt is trying his hand at portrait
painting The head of California River Ia
his latest.
| A veteran observer says that umbrellas
have gone up more than any other class Of
goods this spring. --.....
A young mans friends object to his being
loose, but, somehow, they have an equal cb-
lection to his being tight.
In Paris the ladies have adopted the Louis
All. vest, curious garment, trimmed with
a band OF feathers of every imaginable color
Clifie Leslie is preparing for the press =
work entitled ''The Two Sexes in English
Legal and Economical History"
Little Rock, Ark, has adopted "mus,i- and
milk at church festivals as a rare OCCASION
al diversion, but adheres to whiskcy as the
staple element of private entertainments.
Mr.. Grote was a strong eyolutionist, but
had no sympathy whatever with Comte's
Religion of Humanity" which he consider
ed an entire departure from the principles Of
the Philosophie Positive.
Some curious old musical manuscripts, in
cluding the Gospel of st. joan set to music,
apparently of the fourteen tn century, and in
good preservation, have been discovered at
Harderwick ir Holland.
The Meriden, Ct, Republican got so ami
mated over the coming Of Barnum that It
published Saturday afternoons paper at noon
SO that its editors, reporters, and compositors
could see the show
A fashion writer says that "Of course dia
monds are always acceptable ornaments, but
just now pearls take the lead; with turkoises
the setting Of the last-named stone Is very
difficult, hence the rather high price of tAis
unique and pretty style ofjewelry."
| A poor, blind beggar had his eyesight sud
denly restored in East Saginaw theIother day,
by being pushed head over heels into mud
puddle, but showed his ingratitude by chasing
the man who did il ronnd half the blocks in
| the city.
Pauline Lucca has already cleared In this
country, it is asserted, considerably over $780,
! 600. She's Lucca one. No marvel she
thinks of remaining in land where all her
notes are redeemed at hearing, instead Of
sight, in gold.
| five hundred hornets over Caleb Cushiug's
structures upon his mind aud manners. He
threatens to demelish Gushing in work of
nine hundred pages, but he doesn't care for
! the effect upon his readers.
snow, missy, you've seen me shave, so you
must just skedaddle, please, as Pm going to
take my BATH"
Il won't tell if you don't take it, Uncle
| Rowland. Let me stay, please"
Wont tell9 What do you mean, missy?''
''Why, nobody wouldn't go into cold water,
Uncle, if they wasn't made to, 1 suppose.
Nobody don't make you, do they?"
| The practice of sending floral offerings to
place over the remains of a dear friend or ac-
| quaintance is touching aud beautiful mark
| OF respect; but it is much more touching and
| much more beautiful when you append a
| card, indicating that the gift is yours: and
thereby the world is apprised of what a
thoughtful and sympathetic creature you are
"A fact which it might otherwise have lacked
the discernment to perceive.
Mr.. Mott, of st. Louis, went to concert
and heard some one sing, 'I'd like soldier
die" He went HON counted up his change,
| but had not enough to take him to the Modoc
country. His impatience was so great, he
| could not await shipment as United States
| soldier, so he borrowed an old musket from
friend, and blew the top of bis head of,
thus killing and scalping himself quite as sue
cessfully as Captain Jack could.
''She beckons to the great marts beyond 3.
the vast Pacific, and their teeming stores will
soon stream along the great highway pro-
mise under the soIemnity of law. She lies in
| the valley of the vast gorge down which the
wealth Of a boundess range of States pours
| to her without costa climate the most Sc
ductive on earth, a soil fertile, exuberant, of
inexhaustible richness. At her threshold the
great Gulf Stream takes her commerce in its
sweeping tides, and carries 1t toward the
chief marts of earth. The trade winds wait
on her with all their wealth of breath and
breeze" This is all about New Orleans.
| The epizootic, that cast off New York SEN
sation, has for several days been prevalent
! among the horses Of San Francisco and of the
| Pacihc slope generally. The descriptions Civ
en- by the San Francisco papers Of the meth
ods employed to substitute human Drawn and
muscle for animal labor in the transportation
of goods abont the city's streets read very
much like chapter from our own cxperien-
ces of the past. The Cinnamon especially
distinguish themselves in this work, and ap-
pear to give all satisfaction by the celebrity
with which they trot around town with ex-
press wagons trundling at their heels.
In Prince Edward County, Va, lives GER
tain old queerbones who is not intensely 10y
al. He is farmer, believes in the old Vir-
ginia rotation of Scraps" and eschews all
| novel notions Among the rest of the ssnew-