The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-19
THE PRESS
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 10. 1874
Gossip and Gleanings,

are in the market
indianapolis is counting the 100000 inbob;-
tants she is going to have in five wears.
A man up town calls himself an "intesti-
nal taxIdermist." He stuffs sausages.
Inc title OF Mr.. Lewes's new philosophical
work is Problems of Life and Mind"
New way to pay old debts-Settle them in
full.
| An uncivil ghost in Evansville, Ind, goes
about clearinghouse slamming the doors.
Serenity of min I is nothing worth, unless
it has been earned; man should be at once
susceptible of passions, and able to subdue
them.
1t IS estimated that there are hundred
and seventy thousand amateur billiard play
ers in New York.
Bricklayers are the most unfortr nate of all
mechanics. Iu the struggle for life they in
variably go to the wall
| We are getting back in fashions further
| than ever. Ruffs are now worn so large that
| they have to be stiffened with wire
| Despondent Western agriculturists talk of
establishing an eye and ear. infirmary for
their potatoes and wheat
"Turf and Towers is the less puzzling
subtitle of Robert Brownings new poem,
"The Red Cotton Nigh:cap Country
| 1t is good in fever, and much better in
anger, to have the tongue kept clean and
smooth.
There is Peoria confectioner who sells
candy so cheap, that one cannot help think
ing of dirt while eating it,
The japanese have decided to call the sew
eral days OF their new week Light, Moon.
Fire, Water, Metal and Earth.
The mania for old laces again RACES; cold
coffee produces the desirable tint of age quick
ly and effectively.
| A proposal to issue the works of Dickens in
Welsh has been made to Messrs. Chapman G.
Hall, and Professionally accepted by them.
How would it answer to rate buildings: IS
they rate ships, beginning with the stanchest
and safest as A l. and so downward?
Alas for the Hartford Boston chlorolorm
quarrel. The Chinese now maintain that
they have used anesthetics ever since the third
century of our era
| The difference between a country and city
green-horn is, that one would like to know
everything, and the other thinks he can tell
him.
There are only nine cities in the world with
population of more than a million. Lon
don leads the list with its three AID quarter
millions.
| A watering-place fashion itemiter writes
that dresses are not to be worn any longer
for summer" And are gentlemen to go in
! their shirt sleeves?
The Sandusky Register has just discovered
that Christopher Columbus is dead, and the
Louisville Conrier-Jovnal thinks the event
will cast gloom over the entire community.
A Yale Freshman, being treated by friend
to dose of paregoric, pronounced it exce.-
lent sherryl That Freshman evidently pass
ed healthy infancy
An engineer has invented a design which
| will cut off the genial reporter from many an .
item. 1t is hot-water pump, with which
to squirt hot water on deaf persons who walk
| on the track.
| A coquette of Fond du Lac accepted the
matrimonial offers of six Simultaneous swains,
and then made them fight for the preference,
in order to show the neghbors how much
she was fit for.
1t is reported that somewhat Juvenile
dandy said to fair partner at ball, Miss,
| don't you think my moustaches are becom-
ingT" To which Miss replied: swell, sir,
they may be coming, but they haven't yet ar
rived.''
Princess Furstenburg, as Austrian, has
been the bell of Rome the past season. She
is described by the Italian Jenknses as one
| of the loveliest women of her time, her eyes
heavenly, her mouth bewitching, her figure
| ravlshing, and her voice the softest seduction
| of music. What dangerous creature she
must be to meet alone on moonlight night!
| Twenty years ago the son of widowed
| mother was an uneducated, and half cared
| for youth. BE went into store as an errand
boy, saved up his money, worked hard every
day, limited himself to but few amusements,
principally fishing and seven-up, which he in
| dulged on Sunday, SO not to injure his en-
ployer, and is now worth S260,000.-His
mother enjoys luxurious home, with every
want attended to, and the young man is now
In Europe waiting for the affair to blow over,
-Danbury Netcs.
San Frar cisco furnishes us with new
word, exceedingly genteel and refined. This
time it is beverage manipulator," delicate
little euphemism for bar tender 1t will be
seen that it has great advantage over
drink-mixer," 'benzine provider," slight
ming singer" and the various other syno-
nyms for the busy being who serves out
drinks to customers over a bar.
1t is difficult to see why person bent on
committing suicide should have the perversi-
ty to cause other pf ople unnecessary trouble
and annoyance IN the matter. Now, here is
woman at Pembroke, N. H., who went and
jumped into the well from which the family
drew its supply of water. OF course it is
squeamish and fastidious and all that, but
some people would not like to drink that
water for day or two, to say nothing OF the
trouble of getting the foolish woman out
Experiments at the New York State Luna.
tic Asylum have resulted in proving the great
value of conium-the hemlock of the an
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