The Portland daily press., 1873-05-30
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM in ADVANCE.
PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 80. 1874.

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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 80, 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.
They are encouraging indigestion in North
ern Iowa by offering prizes for mince pie at
the fair.
Plain white note-paper, very thick and
heavy, with crest in black outline. is new
declared to be the proper thing.
'rm not getting married so much as L
was" is the latest way of saying "no" to an
impassioned sutor.
Potatoes are to be raised at the frontier
army posts to give a-mealer-ration to the SOL
diers' fare.
A young and happy widow in Paris re-
Gently remarked to a friend: II am now in
the honeymoon of my widowhood."
1t only costs $40 to lounge on street corners
in Oswego; which is much cheaper than
hanging around Corners in Wall street.
The Countess Guiccioli has left an auto
graph copy of "Marino Faliero," "Dante's
Prophecy" and several cantos of 'Don
| Juan.''
Twenty pupils of Pittsburg female college
| having become converted, declare their deter
mination to flirt with none but young divini-
| ty students hereafter.
Spriggins innocently asks why Emma
Grant, who is doing more for the West than
all the rest of the Pre- sident's family, is not
oftener heard OF at White House receptions.
Ladies' waterproof cloaks so light that
they can easily be folded into parcel small
enough to be carried in the dress-pocket, are
now sold.
Herr Rade, a German anatomst, has spent
some eight years trying to find some fixed
type OF the Caucasian, and declares that
such has been the mingling of races that NO
| pure specimens exist.
The bent of the infant Americans mind
was well illustrated in Troy, the other day.
Two boys, each aged about ten, stole six dol
lars, and made all possible haste to buy two
large dirk knives, two pistols and one bullet.
The Milwaukee School Board includes the
following euphonious names: ''Hundhausen
Kuenzle, Wasweiler, Zeigler, Schnurstein,
Freitag, Koetting, Meinecke, Runcle, Ober-
mann and Trumf"
Humboldt, Tenn, is building up fast. A
local paper says: ga man lay down on va
cant lot the other day to sleep off drunk.
He was astonished on awaking to find fine
two-story house built over him.
W. S. Barber thought to particles pate in a
boiled egg for dinner, Monday noon, and on
opening it found perfectly formed egg with
in its yolk. 1t was hens idea of a prize
| package.
Some of the newest things in jewelry are
ladies' rings to be worn on the little finger
The collet is made very long, so as to cover
the first joint, and is studded with gems ac-
cording to the taste of the wearer.
A Danbury man who has been visiting in
place where the cemetery was provided
with many private vaults, is very much
pleased with the idea, as it enables man to
visit his own grave and weep.
A society at Bayville, Georgia, resolves
upon the death of a member "that we buy
all our groceries and tobacco of his estimable
wife, who has our sympathy in this dark
hour, but who should at once restock the
store for the spring trade"
A Nashville young lady explains that she
writes to the man she likes best only once a
day, and says she doesn't think that any too
often, now the days are so long. She is will
ing to admit, however, that it would be too
frequent for the short days of winter.
A Collinsville mother gave five-dollar
gold ring to worrying child, and having quiz
eted itself with it the child generously gave it
to an uneasy dog, which promptly swallowed
it. Any one finding ring in his sausage,
will please return it to the lady.
The extent of the sale Of popular books is
much less than is generally supposed. How
elps '.Venitian Life,' for instance, which ev-
erybody is presumed to have read, and which
has Transatlantic as well as national repu
tation, has not yet sold 5000 copies, instead
of ten times the number, as is usually
thought.
The borax INDUSTRY is attaining importance
in Nevada. Nearly all the assay offices, fac