The Portland daily press., 1873-07-01
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.

6ossip and Gleanings.
beautiful blond sexton renders death at
tractive at Grani Rapids, Mich.
Christina Rossetti, it is said, is suffering
from an illness which causes the greatest anx-
iety TO her family and friends.
The San Francisco Odd Fellows have
named new lodge the Ophir, from "Ophir
a lodge in some vast Wilderness
Female life assurance canvassers constitute
the eliminating misery of human existence
in the West.
A mean old scalawag in Ohio tore his
vines new honeycomb quilt in two and hang
ed himself with the largest half. And she
had picked and dried apples to buy the quilt.
Numerous persons testify to the. existence
of "sea serpent in Lake Ontario. At
least, if it isn't that, it's remarkably large
eel.
Miss Margaret, aged nine Ito mamma who
is widow and has no sons )-"I'm very glad
uncle has come to stop with us, mamma.
It's nice to have a man about the houser'
Jean Ingelow has temporarily forsaken the
poetic muse, and has for some time been en-
gagged on new novel, now about half writ
ten.
Over all life broods poesy, like the calm,
blue sky, with its motherly, rebuking face
one Is the great reformer, and where the love
OF her is strong and healthy, wickedness and
wong cannot long prevail.-LoUeU.
Some woman magazinist has written an
atrocious article recommending the revival OF
pantalets, and whole army of scribblers-
presumably ill-shapen as to feet and ankles
are urging on the appalling movement.
The Shah acted rather unwisely in sending
his wives home after giving them slight views
of other countries; and he will be shocked on
his return to find his household a harem-
scarem institution.
Charles O'Conor asked muatto boy, who
was witness in the Walworth case, "Dd
he give you a cross look?" To which the
lad replied, ''not half so cross as you do
now."
Mr.. Emerson, says an Exchange, was much
r,laacad with Lie xycs 10 Ha
had a particularly agreeable interview with
the Sphinx, which is understood to have re-
marked, with confidential wink, "Youre
another
Obliging Waiter-"Sausages-oh, yes, sir
1 can recommend the sausages. know the
man as makes 'emr'
| Patron-''H'm, it would have been better
if you had known the pigp'
The family of Mr.. McGillis is happy one.
On Saturday evening married daughter re-
| turned after ten years. absence; Sunday
noon his boy received handsome Bible for
faithful attendance at Sabbath school, and in
the afternoon the old gentleman caught thir-
ty-ive perch and six eels in Neversink Pond.
The Tabard Inn, the famous old English
hostelry at which the Canterbury pilgrims as
sembled in the time of Chaucer, was sold by
public auction on the 10th of June. The sale
includes the Talbot Inn and inn yard, with
| several more houses, in all $4,000 feet Of
| ground, in sight of London Bridge.
The success of flying machines is truly as
tonishing. A Mr.. Folger, up in Michigan,
recently constructed one, went to the top of
the barn, sit out" and went with such ra-
| pidity that he only lost his consciousness for
half an hour, when he found himself but a
few feet from the barn. He thinks he could
not have been entirely unconscious, other
wise he would not have returned to the barn,
where he picked himself up.
A Taunton boy, who read for the first time
the story of Putnam and the wolf pitched
his grandmother's most amiable mouser into a
cellar drain, and went in to interview her
with bunch of fire-crackers and a torch,
When the old lady heard the popping, yowl-
ing and splitting, she brought that historical
youth out by his left leg. and Uade it impos.
sibe for him to wear his tight Sunday pants
for the next two weeks, through the warmth
of her affection and the fiat of her hand.
| There is Judge in Rhode Island who is
resolved that the citizens of that State shall
not make themselves nusances to their
neighbors. The other day rash Rhode
Islander discharged his musket in his back
| yard; for which offense he was heavily fined
the Judge observing that he was determined
to ''put stop to this annoyance of people in
a neighboring State, if it cost him his Judi
cial head" That is courtesy which the ad-
| joining State doubtless cannot fail to appre-
ciate.