The Portland daily press., 1873-11-17
Gossip and Gleanings.


Not patriotic smoker in The land but is in
favor of reducing Havana to ashes.
No less than twenty-seven "American
sculptors" are reducing the general average
of art in Italy.
Spicer's son, VINO works in a candy-shop,
says he prefers handmade kisses to machine
made ones.
Iceland holds out almost irresistible induce.
ments to emigrants from New England in
the announcement that there isn't solitary
lecturer within its boundaries.
"The Innocent Criminal is the slightly
contradictory title of forthcoming Southern
romance written. we scarcely need add, by
lady.
A Rochester editor went hunting the other
day, for the first time in twenty-five years,
and he was lucky enough to bring down an
old farmer by a shot in the leg. The dis
tance was sixty-six yards.
The times are so out Of joint it is but little
wonder that croakers should abound, and
there is reason for the suggestion that the
saying, "All the worlds STAGE" should be
changed to "All the worlds frog pond"
A Kentucky druggists clerk only charged
civ c. = xsal~ H.
dispensed in mistake for castor ditto, and now
the ungrateful widow seeks to extort S25, 600
damages from him.
A political orator, sheaking of certain
General whom he hroffessed to admire, said
that on the field obattle be was always
fonnd where the pulets were thickest
"where was that?,, asked QUE of his auditors.
In the ammunition wagon" led anotbe.
''Shoot bad men if you would reform vie
ious women" shouts the Louisville Courier
Journal. We have no positive knowledge as
to what remedy is best suited to the needs o.
Louisville, but it seems to us as if Herod's
plan would be the only effctual one,
As consequence of the panic the price o
yellow seal Johaanisberger, which is sold''on
ly to crowned heads and Americans" has
fallen to SIS bottle. This will be grateful
news to many of our unfortunate bankers
and brokers whose suspension forces them to
economize even in the necessaries of life.
An inbecile correspondent endesyors to ex-
plain that the practice of banking firms in es.
tablishing branches here, there, and every
where was one of the principal causes Of the
late panic, because, as every botanist knows,
when thing is Irregular plant" to begin
with, and has slbdivided branches, it is ipso
facto ''panicnia.e.'
Sunday was the anr iversary of the birth
day of the Prince of Wales, but out of defer
ence to the we+known ,ious character and
religious scruples of the Prince, the cele
bration didn't come of until Monday
His Highness passed the Sabbatp in solemn
meditation, according to his usual custom
and subsequently informed the Dean of West
minister that if he hadn't had the Soisfortunt
to be born the heir to the British throne, he
would have taken holy orders upon attaining
his majority.
Naturalists are at issue whether the "veg
etable wax" so-called, which China iurnishe:
for the manufacture of can, dies is produced BY
an insect which stings the plants or by til
plants which are stung; whereupon oul
youngest messenger remarx KS that any on
who went to his school ould have known
that vegetable whacks may ne prodoced b,
the birch and other varieties of native plant
without the Intervention of any insect at al
the singing being subsequent occur
renee.
ssOur Grls'' was the subject of a lectur
in New York the other evening by DIR. OH
Lewis, and the doctor opened his discourse
we are told, s'wth violent attack upon Tn
vile habit of tobacco-chewing Our read
ers will bear us out in the assertion that W
have long la bored against this habit on IN
part of the girls, and that we nave warne
them that f they continued it DIR. Lew
would hear of it one of these days and civ
them the prst lecture they ever had in the
life.
Thousa nds of women, says Mrs. Live
more, arr |, married to men for whom tne
don'tcal e a copper. And what Is 10 ill., S.a
them rom getting divorces? lts NJ
country 70 some extent; and we nave IL