The Portland daily press., 1873-01-15
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IH M ID PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. -. 80
Gossip and Gleanings.
Dumas has written his last play.
Mrs. Charles Sumner lives in Venice.
Beecner's pews rented for $50. 230. 30 for
this year.
Mrs. Wharton is cheerful and confident of
acquittal.
Abigail Dodge tGail Hamton) is reported
to be dangerously i'll.
Mrs. Charles Moulton is i'll, and has can
eeled her engagements.
Mrs. Mary E. Nealy, the Washington poet
ess, Is called second Alice Cary.
a man accused OF bigamy said his only
iaoue was an appetite for spare ribs.
A bad wind up ofthe week-reeline home
on Saturday night.
A Scotch justice has decided shat the ami
thet puppy is not libel.
Julia Ward Howe is speaking in Boston in
behalf of the young women who were I'M
employed at the time of the fire.
Algernon Charles Swinburne is evidently
breaking down. His latest short poem is
composed of only forty-nine stanza.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons, whose classic features
grace every well-regulated album in the coun-
try, is giving matinee readings in New York.
A Fair Haven lady mourns over the loss of
canary twenty years of age, who has become
incorporated into cat
1t was the only regret OF an Albanian that
he did not live five years longer and become a
centenarian.
Since his sentence was pronounced Stokes
is spoken of as ''that unfortunate young
man.
Bret Harte's latest batch of stories are bar
ren of plot, but strikingy effective as speci-
mems of descriptive writing.
Ex-Mayor Hall is obliged to nurse his frac-
tured tibia himself His wife and daughters
are in England.
A writeri in Temple Bar makes Talleyrand's
success due to a lame leg. The accident
which caused it changed the course of his life.
Nilsson will exchange notes with Ameri-
cans again before the year expires. Musical
notes for greenbacks, four of the latter per
capita.
Mr.. James Warren of Louisiana, was re-
Gently married to Miss Angeline Bread, of
the same State. Having got bis Bread,
James gays he doesn't want any but her.
The New York theatres have taken down
their bill boards-but we don't hear that the
New York hotels have come down any with
their board bills.
Ifyou want to know how to get rid of
cold, ask singer. Those people have more
colds and get rid Of them more easily than
any other class living.
Two men escaped from the Pittsburg Jail
the other night, after digging six months to
make tunnel one hundred feet long. They
left note telling the sheriff they would meet
him in heaven.
An Indianapolis editor Is represented as
mourning and refusing to be comforted be-
cause he received no invitation to funeral.
He's not alone in his troubles; there are null
titudes ofpeople in this world who would like
an invitation to somebody's funeral.
Some st. Louis boys snowbalIed man who
had the impudence to object. Then they
| threw bricks at him, and cut him with knife
and he win know better than to interfere
with the sports of artless childhood again, he
will.
New York fashionable mammas have sue
ceeded in establishing peculiar style of dress
for the school-room. Merino is the standard
material and Scotch plaids of every variety
come next Jewelry is very sparingly used,
aud the hair is either braided at the back or
allowed to flow over the shoulders.
Some of the Philadelphia papers arc angry
over the idea that the President viii proba-
bly, be kind to Mr.. Smith. Is not their anger
unreasonable? Mr.. Smith is one of the pur-
est men in the Republic. We have known
him for great many years, and have never
heard lisp against his character.
The.Boston Traveller and other virile, vi
vacious journals at the Hub must plead guilty
of most scandalous act. They have been
striking their grandmother-even the vener-
able Boston Adrertiser-and so thoroughly
aroused the old lady that she glares at them
over her spectacles as if she would like to
give Providence piece of her mind r ever
merci0l Advertiser.
A Washington belle was troubled by the
unsympathizing conduct of the mamma who
took occasion upon the thirty-first of Decem-
ber to indulge in an attack of confuent small
pox. However she put the old lady into a
back room and had her New Years reception
according to rule. When the yellow flag was
flung to the breeze the next morning, there
was rush for the vaccine matter among the
lady's friends and her list of acquaintance
will be small in future
De very pleasant to the cat
Remember if bereft
OF one life which is dear to her
She only has eight lett.
Or If, supposing life is sad,
(And often it is SOY
fond r1vb HON E,ol