The Portland daily press., 1873-09-02
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 2, 1878
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
Neveda has named new county s'Brandy''
to arouse the spirit of immigration.
When he to whom we speak, and he who
speaks, do not understand, that is metapby
sizes.
1t is with our judgments as with our watch
es, none go just alike, yet each believes his
own.
1t seems that some brains are smooth and
Others folded. That accounts for some hav-
ing more wrinkles than others.
Jenny Lind's hair is brown and white. She
might edo it up brown" entirely, if she was
one ofthose who were not born to dye.
A country boy who went to Louisville for
an education, was asked by his teacher in
geography, "What is strait ?' and Mortified
her by replying, SIT beats two pair"
a young Atlanta (Ga.) lawyer, who was
conducting case in which his father was to
make the plea, gracefully alluded to the old
gentleman as ''my distinguished associate"
A Brookfeld man who came to Danbury
for f0rtnight's visit and was obliged to leave
at the end of the first week, told his host that
he would take the balance in money.
The toad uulgoris hath for its Christian
name Buto Americdnus, and if the half that
is told Of him by a savant at Portland is true,
he is well named, and is very prince OF buff
fos.-Commercial Adrertiser.
The Yankee barber's chair has been intro
duced with great success in London; show
ing that, in one instance at least, the civilized
Briton may profitably initiate the American
shavage.
Ruskin declares that, in color, robin red
breast is ''outshoneby brickbat;' and he
might add that room red-breast frequently is
outfown by a brickbat, particularly when
wicked boy projects the bat.
They talk of business men as lacking in
proper appreciation OF holy things, and yet
English tradesmen centuries ago valued an
''angeP' at 10 shillings sterling, whilst .theo-
logical etymologists define it as zone sent"
The Troy Press says a shrewd (unmarried)
damsel of that city invariably carries a DUN
my baby with her while travelling on the
horse cars. so as to get seat. No matter
how crowded the car may be, compassion tor
the sawdust baby does it.
The last of the Chattaquiddic Indians died
lately at Marthas Vineyard camp meeting.
He was an interesting member of the ''Lo"
family, and would make modern Cooper.
He was very religious and devout, and during
the camp meeting attended all the services.
The rest of the year he was mostly drunk.
A Cincinnati police arrested an early rising
but otherwise inoffensive German citizen,
the other day, because the latter failed to re-
spond to his salutation, "Good morning.1
The morals of that city are not quite what
they might be, but observance of the minor
courtesies of life is rigidy enforced.
The statstician of Poughkeepsie news
paper mas Degun 10 reCkUn. NE says Jnv- rco-
pie there eat 900 ears of green corn daily
for six weeks, making $4,000 ears. The cobs
would reach from New York to PcughheeI,-
sic, if laid lengthwise over that space, and
a fnpt Tho off fba his
the only reason the work is delayed at all.
When there is not a breath of air stirring
and you are in danger of sitting, attempt to
light cigar out doors, and you will be sur
prised at the breeze that will start up. We
have seen man try this experiment, in a
dead calm, and by the time he had scratched
thirteen matches it was really so windy as to
be uncomfortable.
Says the crisp Saturday Rerie,c, upon the
literature and early rising question, 'These
early risers gain so many hours over us who
lie abed, in proof of which they point out that
the Waverly Novels were all written before
breakfast. Very good; let them produce their
Waverly Novels. But it is the early birds who
get the worms" WE'LL for our part, they
are welcome to it; we don't want worms"
The Rev. DR.. Fowler, President of the
Northwestern University, in recent sermon
on the occasion of laying the corner stone of
the South Evanston M. E. Church, commend
ed the idea of having basement and parlors
in the church for social purposes. In answer
to the objection that boys and girls will do
| their sparkling at the church. the Doctor
said: 81 say, Amen. / have daughter
whom cherish dearer than the apple of my
| eye. When she is of suitable age, l had rath-
er my daughter would be courted in the
house of God than in theatre"
Nature gives intelligence pleasant to the
vindictive and those who justly feel indigna-
ton against the pestering house fly during
the weary weather we are now going through.
Most flies have from one to twenty parasites
to bite their bodies, ard the observation of
theseis an Interesting microscopical study."t
People will be anxious to learn at what hour
in the morning these parasites get up, and
would be pleased to hear that they take no
rest at all, 1t seems probable that when the
flies seem to be sharpening their bills-the
commonest of practices among them
they are really scratching themselves and us
ing profane language.
Grace in women has more effect than
beauty. We sometimes see certain fine self
possession, and habitual voluptuousness of
character which reposes on its own sensations
and derives pleasure from all around it, that
is more irresistible than any other attraction.
There is an air of languid enjoyment in such
persons, sin their eyes, in their arms, and