The Portland daily press., 1873-08-18
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1873.
Gossip and GIeanfngs.

hAVNDAa MOkNlNG, AUGUST Is, 1913.
Gossip and Gleanfngs
An escaped convict who wants emnlo "
ment adVertises that he has had considera-
ble experience in the ''hide business"
A large part of modern religion consists in
overestimating the apostles and underesti-
mating our neighbors.-G. r. Martin.
A lazy Federal street man, being requested
to stone some raisins, told his wife to try
coaxing first.
Baltimore is exceedingly gratified by the
general patronage accorded to its inebriate
asylum
When the Titusville papers have any pecu-
llarly affecting items, they begin by asking
their readers to heave sigh of sadness.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor says the galleries at the
Vienna Exposition show more clearly than
anything else how enormously modern French
art is in advance of other nations.
A panther in Pennsylvania has been slain
with pine knot by Jerusha Byram. BY Je-
rushal One would pine not for such a woman
in his household.
The two States of New York and Ohio pro-
duce three-fourths of all the cheese in the
n0uutrv Hhns Nom
pounds; Ohio, "a, 153, 600 pounds,
Government has furnished Professor Wise
with charts of the Atlantic ocean an: starry
armament for use in his balloon trip to Eu-
rope.
The sword of Tamerlane is now on exhibi-
ton at Vienna. 1t will be presented to Gen
erai Jordan for his prowess in drinking toasts
to the liberty of Cuba.
Mrs. William Brathe lived to be beautiful
and respected member of the first circles of
Howell, Mich, and the mother of an inter
esting family, and then lighted fire with
coal oil.
The truly happiest family is not attached to
Barnum's show. 1t consists of poor widow,
with eight little girls at ThorDtown, Ind.
She Inherited $97 the other day, and now re-
joices in $75 silk dress, and each of the
girls has a bright pink sash.
A floating item informs us that "Jerusha By
ram slew pantherwith pine knot in Pennsyl
vania. She is not married." And she won
be either, for,all us, says the st. Louis Journ.
al. We wouldn't go home mellow to such {
woman for all that could be offered-no, no
for worldsl Better would be a dinner o
herbs and stalled OK herewith, or some
thirig of the kind.
In Paris all dresses, of whatever material
intended for walking suits, are made of a con-
venient walking length, either just clearing
the ground or, at the most, touching it at the
back. For tetes and garden parties alone are
walking skirts made to trail; /; then, of course.
they come under the category of carriage and
visiting toilets.
Peoria Review: SIN vigorous chase after
rats, Friday afternoon, boy on Jefferson
street broke down shelf in the cellar and inn
molated six jars of preserves, He gazed on
the ruins with sigh. caught and killed the
rat, laid it among the debris, and daubing hi
faithful dogs nose and legs with the fruit
sent him up stairs, while the boy hid in ths
coal shed. He heard feminine shrieks of dis
may; he heard the wrathful objurgations o.
his sire; he heard the unsuspecting dog led
into the back yard and shot, and spreading
forth his hands, said solemnly, 'Another VIC
tim of circumstantial evidence
Col Higginson says he has been reformer
long enough to learn that ''the unconscious
assumptions of the rising generation represent
great social forces" This incident, related
in the last number of the Woman's Journal,
is one Of his Illustrations: A little girl of my
acquaintance, promising scholar in public
school of Lynn, Mass, was asked the other
day whether she expected TO go to Vassar
college, when she grew up,-her aunt being
teacher there. II suppose not" said the
little maiden very modestly,-"mother thinks
sne snail prefer 10 nave me go to some college
nearer home, such as Harvard
In Sullivan County there is published the
Liberty Register, and of those who enrich
its advertising columns is one Dusenbury.
His notice thus begins: SIT is admitted that
we not only love our wives, but also our
children and brothers and sisters, They die.
| We want a suitable coffin or casket for the
| jewel, and tender and careful hand to take
it up and bearit to its last resting place, Who
will do it for us?" Dusenberry answers this
by saying he will, and he further remarks
"a good hearse and peerless team of horses
in waiting at all times TO receive or deliver a
corpse at the railroad station, or go elsewhere
as far as human voice is heard or human
track is rum"