The Portland daily press., 1873-06-16
IHE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 10. 1s7a
Gossip and Gleanings.


Gossip and Gleanings.
A Cincinnati man, who is going to get
married in September, sits around boiler
shops so as to get his ears trained to it.
Lucy Quin of Philadelphia, sold her new
bonnet so that her lover might purchase a
ball ticket. That's true love-
The title of Mr.. Stokes's lecture will prob
ably be, "The Judiciary-The Palladium OF
our Liberties.''
An Iowa man has nursed to vigorous
growth $50 mullen Plants, under the halluci-
nation that they we're tobacco.
The Memphis Avalanch is contented with
the knowledge that "Betsey and are Out"
and so far as its columns are concerned, ''they
shall stay out"
The voice of wisdom is the voice of the
Toronto Globe; and when we repeat its con-
cusion as to our Indian difficulties, that they
are the re suit of national disease, there
ought not to be dry eye in the house.
Captain Jack, the Buffalo Express thinks.
is the author of "Betsey and 1 are Out. {"
That, then, accounts for his surrender. and
the sooner he is hanged and put out of his mis-.
cry the better.
A Chicago paper anxiously inquiries, care
shirts necessity ?"We should say they were
with the two-button style of coat in vogue
though the people who wear dresses might
possibly get along without them.
The editor Of the Fredericksburg IVA.
News was asked by stranger ''if it wa posi-.
BILE that little town kept up four newspapers -
and the reply was ''No, it takes four news
papers to keep up the townp'
The family motto of Marshal MacMahon il
"J'y suis;j'y resterai," which in every da,
English means 81 have come to stay
Whether this will bold true of bis accession
to the Presidency of the French Republic re-
mains to be .een.
A peddler at Canaan persuaded a French
woman to buy dress pattern OF him by kiss.
ing her. Since the indignant husband over
took him with revolver and wormed S1O(
bill out of him, he prefers doing business b.
some other method.
The Courier-Joumal says that the reason
why Captain Jack surrendered and did moi
die in his tracks was because upon he hard
barren, desolate lava beds to which the Gov
ernment confined him as a reservation it wal
impossible to make any tracks in which t.
die.
The New York Central ra lroad has adopt
ed new rule in regard to transporting tn,
bodies of deceased persons. Every corps
must have its ticket, hereafter, the same as
live passenger, and every corpse caught evad
ing this requirement will be summarily eject
ed. The usual fare is charged.
Visitors at Niagara must gay for all thei
enjoyments, this season. The rear window
of all the hotel rooms have been boarded vi
to prevent patrons from seeing the falls, ant
all travellers are compelled to pay so cent
for hearing the roar or have cotton cramme,
IN their ears. +
That'sa quotable thing that Russell Low
ell says about Noah: 81 sometimes sit and
pity Noah; but even he had this advantag
over all succeeding navgators, that whereve
he landed. he was sure TO get no i'll new
from home. He should b, canouized as th,
patron-saiut of newspaper correspondents
being the only man who ever had the YER
last authentic intelligence from everywhere.
The season of the year having arri. .eG
when sunst. okes are to be looked for, physi
clans are publishing rules for the guidance o
persoi who don't want to be struck. The,
are told to wear straw hats, sponges on th,
head, keep in the shade, drink but little
keep off mental excitement, never run no
walk fast. eat spar ngly and sleep in coo
rooms. There's only one recipe which car
be added, let your wife saw all the wood.
A Nashville young lady renders wretchet
the existence of the man who adores her. b,
referring to him as her "scapegoat," he
''decoy duck" her lightning rod," etc. Not
withstanding the fact that these pet name
are spoken in tones Of endearment and un
dying affection, they do not satisfy the long
ings Of his nature, and he at all times ex
peliences feeling If loneliness and desolo
ton really distressing.
A scientific paper says: "If man had al
arm long enough to reach to the sun, ant
we're to touch tnat body with his finger, b,
could never find out whether it was hot o.
cold, for he would be dead bef re the sensa
ton arrived at head quarters, which would
require a hundred years. This is very in.
teresting and highly important. But now
We wan, to know what it would cost tina
man annually for coat sleeves; how long i
would take i'm to put on clean shirt, th,
number of ceoturies he would have to expent
to feel in his pocket for his handkerchief, ant
whether he could ever hope to part his hai
properly while his arm had only one elbow
When light is thrown on these branches o
the subject. we shall be better prepared t.
- Al