The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-17
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. JULYI7. 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

Vossip and Gleanings.
Ihe shah has resisted all invitations thus
far to leave his 100000 overcoat on hat
rack.
A young lady of this city has got rid of her
freckles without using any of those toilette
poisons so common with the sex. She ad-
mits that her lover gradually rubbed them Off
A new kind of stone mug for lager beer has
been introduced. 1t is so thick that it keeps
beer very cool, but it does not hold much
beer.
Texas paper inquiries with some anxiety
as to the policy of the Democratic party.
We may be mistaken; but il strikes us that
the policy expired some months since, and
has never been renewed.
David A. Wells is in London with fourteen
tons of statistics for the Cob1en Club. David
stands in the same relation to ''s.inging fig
gers" that his Hebrew namesake did to writ
ing psalms.
There is a Bourbon ia Cincinnati who
signs himself can Honest Democrat" The
alias affords such thorough disguise that
even his most intimate friends don't recog-
nize him.
Sixteen gallons of water were taken from q
dropscal patient in Stamford, Ct., recently.
That is to say, abou one hundred and sixty
pounds. 1t seems as if it would have been
easier to have tapped the water and drawn
off the patient.
The ''hard labor" to which Frank Wal
worth is condemned is practically that of
clerk in boot and shoe f;ctory, with the ne
cessity of living near the shop. Many a
young man has been subjected to this dull ca
reer without having killed his father.
The Chicago Post would like to know if
there is aman named William M. Ts eed in
| New York The name has a familiar sound !;
bat it is perhaps safe to say that there ism t
so much of the man in New York as there
was some time ago. Some of him, ii not the
entire body, has probably adjourned
| 81 hope. Mrs. Giles said lady who was
canvassing for choir at the village church,
s'you will persuade your husband to join us.
l am told he has sonorous voice. "a
snorous voice." marm?'' said Mrs. Giles.
"Ah! you should hear it coming out of his
nose when be's asleepp'
An editor in a neighborng city has been
reading one Of DR.. Halls "Heath Tracts, >
in which the doctor proves conclusively that
married men live logger than bachelors
The journalist says he don't know how it is
for he has been married three times. and YET
lie knows bald-headed bachelor who is
twice as old as he is.
The French Academy has been long ruled
by the Orleanist party To get into it, what.
ever qualifications he might have, it was re-
quired of an aspirant academician that b,
should have written something about Rome
that he should hold fast by the English con
stitution and be persuaded that the histor,
| VI IiohCC III lOOU anu enQeQ IN 1915.
| Houghton's "Monographs'' has this new
story of Sidney Smith: ''He was goodnaturet
and tolerant; but when Lord Melbourne
whom he had gone to see upon some busi
ness, interlarded his conversation with mucl
cursing and swearing, he quietly remarked
LET us assume that everybody and every
thing are damned, and proceed to the sub
ject."
For graceful, measured. and modest thins
in the way of puff for your town, VIC sub
init this from the st. Louis Republican: A:
all other Eastern cities are nourshed BY wha
slops over from the swollen current of New
York's trade, so all other Western cities ar,
but side-shows to St Louis. They are usefn
they are prosperous, and St Louis does no
grudge the superfux upon which they thrive
Her patent of precedence is the map of th,
continents great interior basin. Its mines
its forests, its fertile lands, its peerless sys
tenn OF water ways, own her as their q and in
dustrial focus, and the laws of population, at
tested by the census, exalt her above an,
feeling of rivalry.