The Portland daily press., 1873-05-17
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY II, 1878

Gossip and Gleanings.
An Ohio clergyman demands an increase of
his salary for the past five years.
A corner lot in Chicago is own by an asso-
citation of fnewsboys.
An Indiana man has invented spark ar
rester." 1t is presumed he has family OF
daughters.
The jude ofa Kentucky court has decided
that newspaper reporter has right, under
the statute, to carry arms at all times.
Fort Scott, Kansas, is to have a castor-oil
factory, and already the corners Of youthful
mouths are drooping.
Girls under ten years of age are not re-
quired to work more than fifteen hours and q
half per diem in the mills of Lawrence, Mass.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned last Tues
day to go to a circus, not having ring of
their own convenient.
1t will take four entire evenings to produce
Wagner's new opera, ''The Ki of the Nibe-
lungen," which is to appear next year.
Scottsborough Ala, encourages pedestrian
ism by ordaining that no bar shall be set up
within five miles of its corporate limits.
The murderous Modocs should be extermi-
mated in the lava beds, and remembered here
after only as the extinct craters.
| The suicidal modification of Indiana's d.
vorce laws is reported to have already nearly
| doubled the nominal population of Connect
| cut.
The American plug hat is used to measure
potatoes in by the Sandwich Islanders, while
in San Domingo it serves as nest for setting
hens.
The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks the
sight offour able-boded men playing croquet
is the sublimest spectacle that ar impoverish-
ed country ever behed.
The motto of the Good Templar girls of Sa-
lem, N. j., is: "The lips that touch wine
shall never touch mine" If they are as
sweet and exhilarating as some girls lips, We
wouldn't care for any wine.
Many of the newspapers are frightened lest
somebody should write abusive or insulting
messages on the new postal cards. What is
to prevent it from being done now on the out
side of envelopes?
While a Texas man was trying to anchor
his mule to stake recently, the animal man
aged TO get the rope around the mans neck
and then ran away at then top of his speed.
The widow wants TO sell the mule.
The marquis of Queensbury believes in
''the still noble art Of self Defence" and
thinks that England may regret some day
that her sons should substitute for the use
Of their fists the first deadly weapon that
comes to their hands,"
A North College Freshman captured sever
al mice not long ago. 1t is said that he now
sports an impressive scarf manufactured from
their skins and trimmed with blue silk,
which is the envy and admiration of every
school girln New Haven.
A lady recently applied to the office of a
life insurance company for a situation as an
agent. When asked what her qualifications
were, she answered that she had had consid-
cradle experience in soliciting contributions
from tradesmcn for fancy fairs. She was en-
gagged.
Mr.. Somers, of Newbern, having read that
we are going to have spell of frightful warm
Summers, concluded he would rather face
the ills he knew not of than go through
another bsterng season like the last sum-
mer was. Mr.. Somers, ere thus, has doubt
less discovered the truth of that aphorsm
a'out jumping from the flying pan into the
fire.
The bridge disaster at Dixcn, says the De-
troit Post, promises career and sphere Of
usefulness for the elephant beyond the wild
est dreams OF This vagrant and indolent an
cestors. The Safety instinct of this animal
is notorious; and by careful breeding on the
principle OF fnataral selection, herds of them
might be trained into beasts with infauibe
Judgment upon architecture of all descrip-
lions, and employed as ''edile.," as the Ro-
man building inspectors were called.
Rochester man got into trouble tie 9TH
er day, by being an Odd Fellow. He met
Mrs. Scott in butchers shop, and mlstakins
some motion she made for sign used Id the
order of Rebecca, a woman's degree IN odd
Fellowship. h. went to her, and offered his as
sistance ifsbe needed it. She didn't seem to
need II inst then, for she grew red in the face
and told him to mind his own business; yea,
more, for she put an ayengirg husband on
his trail, and for man who meant 50 well
the poor Odd Fellow Jared badly.