The Portland daily press., 1873-05-20
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.

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Inc article chiefly sold o. ,.
The visitor. "' most iancy fairs
VINO breaks pays. This doe. -. ,.
to railroads, as they pay men to br.ta Nrp'
Mr.. Henry J. Byron has written
comedy called ''Fine Feathers"
A pure style in writing results fiom the rs-
ject0n of everything superfuous .-Mms.
| Neckdr.
The Spectator thinks that Prince Bismarck
is as nseparable from King William as Me-
phistophiles from Faust.
A popular parlor magazine-A big kero-
sene lamp. They furnish reading matter for
the million.
A cheap issue of Richardson's novels, "Sir
Charles Grandson Pamela" and .'Clar-
issa Harlow is announced in London.
Gustave Dore is overworked, nervous mel
ancholy,and morbdly seli-crilical, and talks of
taking voyage ro.nd the world.
The Spiritualists OF marlborough, Mass,
"'sh, inconsstenty, to make themselves .
corporate body according 20 legal form.
prudent man, says witty Frencbman,
is lie pin; his head prevents him from 60
ing too far.
Ubassy, the New Orleans billiard prodigy,
made the unprecedented run of PA in a re-
cent mach at the three-ball game.
Shakespeare would never have asked.
Whats in an aim,e if he had been hit on
the head with brick. . f>@r..-
A California firm recently shipped one
hundred ba es OF cotton to Liverpool, being
the first consignment of California grown cct-
ton. m
missing man was lately advertised for,
and described as having Roman nose. He
won't be found. Such a nose as that will
The "Ugly Girl Papers" on cosmetics which
have been published in Harper's Bdzor for
two or three years past are to be collected In
book form. cr l.arH
Mrs. Emma Warren of Chicago gave her
IA year old boy a pistol to play with. and
three doctors were poking her over all the af-
ternoon, trying to find the bullet.
GAINESVILLE, o., woman has a treasure OF
husband who has fur shed her with ma
terial for seventeen suits for damages against
as many different bar-keepers. s
The Worcester Press says, Two medical
societies met iu this city yesterday A car
load of grave stones also arrived during tho
day. 1t is net often that the eternal fitness
Of things sticks out in this Manner
One of the female charact,r rs In the new
play called "The tender Chord" on the Lon
don boards, is described as "oveIfowing with
impulses, hysterical emotions and romantic
imaginings." --..>
When two are fighting with shot-guns,
don't interfere till after the pieces have been
discharged. Ephraim Bivens of Kirkmans-
vile, KY, did, and now there is no Ephraim
Biyans.
An auctioneer, at late sale of antiquities,
put up felmet, with the following candid
observations: 'This. ladies and gentlemen, is
helmet OF Romulus, the Roman founder; but
whether he was brass, iron or type founder,
l cannot tell"
A New Orleans child, whose death had
eeen formally certified by the family physi-
clan, was frightened out of its coffin by clap
of thunder last week, just as the hearss drove
up to the door.
The pale sad looking young men whom one
occasionally meets in the street are not
cousumptive, are not mourning the loss of
friend, and are not divinity students. They
are breaking in tight boots.
So great is the popular indignation against
the Indians in Western cities, that the wood
en- red men in front OF tobacco stores are
often attacked by persons afflicted with anti
Modoc enthusiasm.
1t is not commonly known that General
Meade was Spanish on his mothers side as
well as by nativity. BE was born in BARGE
Iona while his father. having married Cata-
lonan, was Consul there in 1916. =
The new planet, whose existence seems
now to be placed bevond doubt, will bear
the name OF Vulcan, after Venus's ill-favored
husband. Its orbit lies within that of Mer-
curry, and its revolution about the sun is ac-
complished in thirty-four days and some
hours Think Of a year that sholtl Every
body can be Lis own Methuselah to Vulcan.
IhNre IL thought to be another planet in the
neighborhood of Vulcan. and both together
serve to account for certain pertu. bations IN
the orbit of Mercury. 5
Providence policeman, passing by barn
the suburbs, heard a voice say, Take of
that coat, young man." There was pause,
and about the time the coat was off the
father continued, you've needed tanning
Ibis long while, and I'm ready to give it to
you; you've been (whack) going out (whack)
nights, and (whack an1 how'll you sassed
your (whack) mother. and you've sassed
(whack) me, and you We been trying (whack,
jump and how'll to run the house; but (whsck
aud a yelp) you can't do it, He was con-
yinced that fatherly admonition was in pro-
| gress.
| The most accommodating man VIC ever
saw, says the Danbury News, was he who
! was th' captain of steamship which piled
Letween New York and Port Royal during
the war. One day soldier lost his cap over
board, and went 10 the captain about it, The
old gentleman said it was impossible to stop
the vessel 10 recover 1t, but he kindly offered
to make mark on the rail where It went
overheard, and get it VIII, n he came back.
| We saw him make the mark ourselves. and