The Portland daily press., 1873-05-13
THE PRESS.
UEsDAY MORNING, MAY 1s, 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 1s, 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.
mha' did the spider do when he came out
VI the ark9 He took ly and went home.
N o.ica paper declines to publish . LITTLE
STORY ABOUT hog, through fear of oessnd;nr
the anilial. oue"ainS
a fossil ham, discovered in the plei,,oo.r.
deposits of California, is adduced to nroxo ,Ss
existence of fpre-Adamite boarding house.
Mile Schneider is no longer queen of oner,
bouffe, in Paris. She has been displaced NV
Nidue Judic, who has set naughty Paris wild
with enthusiasm.
1t is Mr.. Carlye who remarks that men who
can have communion in nothing else can
still commune at dinner and still "rise into
some glow of brotherhood over food anc
wine."
"What time is it, my desr?" asked a wife
OF her husband, whom she suspected of be-
ing drunk, but who was doing his best to
look sober. "Well, my darling, 1 can't tell;
cause you see, there are two hands on my
watch, and each points to different figure,
and don't know which to believe"
A commercially neat Massachusetts, man
having occasion to cut his throat last week,
considerably went out on the back piazza
with pail, over which he held his head dur
ing the operation, in order to avoid making
muss.
A young lady OF this city was recently
struck with the uselessness of her life, and
immediately went to work to learn plain
sewing. At latest dates she had hemmed
one side of towel, which the proud parents
have framed and hung in a conspicuous posi-
tion.-Ne,o York Mail
The student eiitors of small Western col
lege having printed some remarks in ridicule
OF woman lecturer, have been sued by her
for 1000, which sum, remarks the Detroit
Tribune, 'sis an easy thing to get out cf al
most any college paper"
The story is told, illustrative of the effects
OF Concord atmosphere, that little chap who
lived next door to Emerson wa, engaged one
day in digging hole by the roadside. A
worldly triisr, passing by, asked him, ''What
are you digging after, little boy?. With
gravity be answered, "After the Infinite
Pittsburg firm claims to have discovered
Russia sheet iron. The latter is made in Si-
IBERIA by secret process which no other ma
tion has hitherto been able to obtain. The
British government has offered e5O,0OO for
its discovery, but even the stimulus of that
large sum has failed to achieve the result.
The Vindicator, published at Boggy depot,
Choctaw Nation, contains the following start
ling and thrilling paragraph: ''Nahullo miko
ilvppr vita chatuk vt ilikohchi na inla hosh
vihtoba tok. Yhomi TUX osh miko himonr
Albert Parsons vt ant falamvt ia kyt nitak
chekosi falamvt via hihosh ia tok himonasi
ka miko vt ikshoshke." We are very sorry
that Albert Parsons should have been mixed
up in this affair, but people who will do such
things must suffer the consequences.
There is nothing so true, 80 sincere, so
downright and fortnight as genius. 1t is
always truer than the man himself is, greater
than he. If Shakespeare the man had been
m q n fIrra fha x,st,o haf
wrote the plays, that genius o ccmprehen-
sve in its Intelligence, so wise even in its
play, that its clowns are moralists and philos-
pliers, so penetrativc that single one Of its
phrases reveals to US the secret of our own
character, would his contemporaries have left
us so wholly without record of HIM as they
have done, distinguishing him in no wise
from his ftlloI-players Flames Russell Lotc-
eH
An eminent London oculist W. recently
requested to operate upon two grizzly bears
at the Geological Gardens, for cataract
Chloroform was administered, and the oper-
ations were successful, but unluckiIy one of
the patients recovered from the anesthesia
too quickly, and considerably mauled his
keeper Some time after ward the same oc-
S'.Ss "oo oShSI W OpctdtC Ou Ouo vi tuc
but he respectfully declined the proposal,
saying that he must draw the line some
where and he drew it at grizzly bear.
The London Calcraft is about to suspend
his profession instead of criminals, and psss
the rest of his life in seclusion, sweetened by
the cultivation of roses, dahlias and tulips.
When he hanged Mrs. Cotton, at Durham,
he remarked she was the last OH which he
should ''put night cap" though he would
like to have ended his official life with apply
ing his ''noble art" to newspaper reporter.
His successor is to be Robert Packard Evans
a well-to-do Welsh farmer, who, out Of the
pure love for the "art'' of hanging, has as
sisted Calcraft for fourteen years.
THE POET TENNYsoN AT HoME.-A gen.
tleman who recently had the pleasure of
meeting Tenuyson, at his own home, in COM
pany with few bright people and hearing
him read, describes his manner and style Of
talking as quiet and gentlemanly, with a
slight dash Of what looks like Incidence, aud,
especially at first, a stiffness and reserve that
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