The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-11-04
Gossip and Gleanings.
A coign of 'vantage-The silver dollar.

A coign of 'vantage-The silver dollar.
Japanese sashes are the latest. They are
gaudy and peculiar in pattern, but very rich
and handsome in quality.
New Haveners, now they can't have new
State House, are to have new morgue, and
they are happy-cause why-Hartord hasn't
OF q morgxe!
We are all right. The Carlyle Club at
Chicopee, Mass, has decided that 'stock
operations do not work the ruin Of a coun-
try" We breathe freely once again.
An elderly widow of Cincinnati has
brought suit for breach of promise against a
tickle sexagenarian sui'or, which, from the
effective use made of the old beau, reminds
local reporter of the battle of AE-in-court.
The price OF Goals in England goes steadily
up and scientists are now at work devising
some some cheap labor-saving process for con-
verting Diamonds into an easily inflammable
form OF carbon. This will only relieve the
richer class of sufferers.
| After the conclusion of the performance OF
Richard III. at the Bosten Theatre, Satur-
day evening, a lady from the country was
heard to remark that "The play was splen-
did, but it was too bad that they couldn't get
anybody but hump-backed man 30 take the
part of Richard"
When an enthusiastic editor describes .
bride as .bonny, and an envious cenpositor
sets her up as bony, as was done at Jackson
vile the other day, hope for season bids the
world farewell and freedom shrieks as the
compositor falls at his form, Drained by the
brother of the blooming bride.-ChicGgo
Post.
When the late king of Saxony (peace to his
ashesD didn't come in to supper promptly
in the days of his youth, his father would
go to the back door and would cry sharply to
his son and heir. ''You John-Nepomue Ma
ria-Joseph- avier-Vincent-de-Paul-
Stanislaus- Bernard Paul Felix -Damans, come
in out of thatp'
Walter Savage Landor's picture of Curl
osity": 'Her lips were half open; her hair
flew loosely behind her, designating that she
was in haste; it was more disordered than
the hair Of Hope is represented, and some
what less glossy. Her cheeks had very
that fell upon them"
Abiding to the report that the Boston
tailors propose to publish the names and resi-
dences of delinquent customers, the New York
Commercial says, They hope thus to obtain
pay for their suits more quickly than by bring
ing them into court. Bat the new measure
vHf be apt to limit the young mems invest
ments in vestments.
An amusing anecdote is told in connection
with one of the Arundel owls. On one occa-
sion, at Arundel Castle, the butler caused
great merriment by coming into the room
and saying, in solemn voice, ''May it please
your grace, Lord Thurlow has laid an egg
! The late Duke of Norfolk was asked if the
story were true. HIS grace said, "Yes, we
have always believed it in the family; but do
you know why the bird was called Lord
Thurlow? That is almost the best part Of
the story. Lord Thurlow and his daughter
were once staying at the castle, and the
young lady went to see the owls. On passii G
one of them, she stopped suddenly and ex-
claimed, "Oh! how like papaN and the bird
was ever afterwards called Lord Thurlow."
1t must have been a very wise looking bird,
| for Lord Thurlow looked exceptionally wise,
| even for a judge. Fox, the statesman, once
said, 81 suppose no man ever was as wise as
| Thurlow looks"