The Portland daily press., 1873-07-24
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. JULY "a. 1878
G0ssip and Gleanings.


Gossip and Gleanings.
President Mcmahon smokes upwards of
thirty cigars day.
-Four white roses growing on an aprle-tree
are astonishing the natives in Eyola, Minn.
A Massachusetts, paper declares that Ben
Butler hasn't any friends.'' 1t will be great
relief to him when he's President.
A student at Cornell University sells lem
onade in one of the college balls to save mon
ey to pay his tuition.
This is about Memphis baby that died
''Sh. rose as a star and beamed lucidly with a
meteoric resplendency along the horizon of
her parents, tightening their pathway with
the sheen of hope.'
The shower of strange reptiles that fell
few days since in Shelbourne County, MIMI,
has just been followed by shower Of the
boots in which the strange reptiles were
Matched.
General Brinkerhoff, chairman of some
Ohio liberal Republicans, proposes to '.jon
hands with the Alien county deserters and
march to the millennium" And now we
know, for the first time, wherein the hopes of
these singular politicians are centered. But
it's long look ahead.
An exchange remarks that Notwithstanding
the fac. that the recent tornado in Iowa blew
the feathers off from poultry, we have yet to
hear single instance of woman losing her
false hair. The moral of which is, that
chickens should use hair-pins, when venturing
out in tornado.
The clown of circus exhibiting in little
Virginia town made an exhortaton to his au-
dience last week. in which he took them to
task severely for paying 81 to see him act the
tool, wheu they stinted their preacher. 1t
had marked effect. Tie Christians left the
local preachers got up revival, several earn
est men took hold, and in less than three
days he sum of 81 had been raised for for
| eign missions.
| 1t is very inconsiderate in the friends of
man in swoon to pack him in ice and send
| him hundred miles or so 20 attend his own
funeral, without first ascertaining his inclina-
ton on the subject Some thouehtless peo-
pile in Fort Wayne did this thing lately, and
| ha foil e. -
oD his arrival, was so badly frozen that the
funeral was postponed only for u day or two.
Alfred Earnest Albert gets good thirg in
his Maria. It's enough TO make any fellow
'e'rnest.' A million rubles for dowry, and
one hundred thousand year, to keep the pot
a-bilin'. Add 10 this, Alfred's own private in
come, and we have business capt. which
would justify any young couple in going to
work wi hout any apprehension that the re-
sponsibilities OF life might accumulate too
rapidly for their means of subsistence.
Five foolish young Belgians lately laid a
wager that they would remain awake contin-
uousy for seven days. They kept up all
manner of exciting exercises and drank large
Quantities of coffee and one of them won the
bet though with the loss OF twenty-five pounds
in weight. Two fell asleep after 100 hours,
one was seized with lnfamma alton of the
lungs and had to give in to save his life, and
the other fell asleep on horseback and then
fell off and broke his arm. Next that we
know, some rash New York youth will be
betting that he can live month without TAX
ing the matutinal cocktail or laying some
equally absurd wager.