The Portland daily press., 1873-02-05
THE PRESS
MORNING, FEB. s, ,7s.
Gossip and Gleanings.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. S, ,7s
Gossip and Gleanings.
Tire receipts at Mark Twan's charity lee,
ture in Hartford were $3.50.
A genuine Lord in England has just been
sued for SO washing b u.
Mrs. Fitzhugh, of Virginia, who claims
S350,000 for wood cut from her land by the
Union army, is a cousin OF Mrs. Grant.
s'Grace Greenwood relieves one OF her
lettels by the remark: "a little marriage is
dangerous thing"
A profound thinker says that artists in hair
are no better than thieves, since their princi-
pal occupation is picking locks.
( Why does a retired confectionsr resemble =
ai.hless lover? Because he leaves his sweet
'art to the care of another.
A Chicago judge has decided that mar.
ried woman may make business contracts
with her husband. and enter into partnership
with him, according to the laws of the State. |
Professor Agassiz says the 'trilobites are
not any more closely related to the phyllopods
than to any other circumstances or to the
isopod." Thank heaven, that's settled.
The incest muffs are reported to be made
now of the ''iridescent feathers of pigeons
necks." The trouble with them is that they
lead to billing and cooing"
. The Nursery has been introduced among
the youngest readers in the primary schools |
of five Massachusetts cites-New Bedford, |
Salem, Newburyport, Worcester and Cam
bridge.
Captain Jack is said to have captured from
ou troops "a goody store of loot" II he |
had only captu.ed the galoot who precipitat
ed that ''forced reconnaissance" nobody |
would have cared.-Commercta Adrertisor |
A Mon real virago was before ''his honor,"
charged with being drunk in the street, and,
just as he was about to pass sentence, she /
''shied'' large piece of coal at his head.
She got two months more for that.
A pleasant little affair came off at Pekin |
saloon, the other ght, in the course Of
which James McCarty had knife inserted
between hts ribs, and had one ear nearly bit
ten of.
Election frauds have even invaded the sane
tuary. At recent election of wardeus in
an aristocratc Pittsburg church, the elders
did not dsdain to use vain repetitions as the
heathen repeaters do, for the votes outnum-
bered the voters by 20.
A curious parasite is found upon the blind
fish of the Wyandotte Cave. The female is
attached. by pair of altered fore limbs, 70
the vicinity Of the mouth of the cave, while the
male is supposed to be very small, and free
swimmer, as il has not yet been found attach
ed in the vicinity of the female.
That was brave and good little Ohio boy,
who sat on the fence for two hours in the
freezing winter cold, and watched broken
rail on the railroad track, so as to carry the
latest news of the impending accident to his
father, who was local editor
After that Richmond young lady's resigna-
ton, let it never be said woman is not otpatient.
She sat down rather a,rupty in basket of
eggs, but arising with calm expression, she
simply scraped the eggs from her dress and
without saying word, reandered.
1t is said that Phelps, Dodge & Co., Of
New York have given more money to foreign
missions than any other commercial firm in !
the cnI1nfru They COY, affilrrl To do some