The Portland daily press., 1873-06-07
IHE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
It is remarkable fact that, although CON-
mon sheep delight in verdant fields, religious
flocks are rot anxious for green pastors.
The Father of Waters is complained of for
keeping his big tows in his uth.-Boston
Post.
The wild man of the woods is in Georgia
now;under the favoring Southern sur, he has
shot up to the stature of eight feet.
The Indiana Democrat makes this confess
ion: eff any antiquarian wants the skull of
mound digger he can be accommodated by
calling at this oflce.''
The action Of Swedish woman in Minnc-
sofa in atte ripting TO poison her husband and
three children is attributed to religious IA
naticsm." sweden-Boreian, probably.
This is Detroit slander: Sincs the strin-
gent temperance law in Massachusetts, BARRIERS
use more bay rum than ever 1t filters
through the scalp. If the average Massachu.
sets head wasn't so thick all would be lovely,
The nervous diseases fashionable nowadays
render apropos the remark of somebody
that ''sawdust pills would cure half the ills of
humanity if every man would make his own
sawdust."
When an Oshkosh editor runs away with
mans wife, the bereft husband comes around
and stops his paper. Some men will with
draw their subscriptions for the most trivial
reasons.
The Saturday Review pronounces "Old
Kensington," which is the longest story Miss
Thackeray has written, to be one that gives
the highest impression of the richness and
power of her genius.
George Faulkner Of Dublin used to sit q
whole night with a solitary strawberry at tn,
bottom of his glass. over which he used gen
orally to pour four bottles of claret, doing it
he would say, ''because doctor recommend
ed it for its cooling qualities"
A Kentucky man has evolved out of his
''dark and bloody" consciousness gun
which will discharge three hundred shots in
minute, and they are now at work raising a
company of three hundred minute men to
man one ofthem.
The Saturday Review thinks that an Eng
lish household, as compared with a house
hold of the corresponding class in most con-
tinental countries, is model school in the
art of throwing away money for an inade-
quate return.
A London correspondent states that Wilkie
Collins feels troubled about the publication,
in England and this country, of some oil his
earlier works, which he would be only too
glad to consign to oblivion.
"The Prelates Puzzled; or What will they
- WIN Vi
'sIf know how to deal with the question,
may l be-ahem -disestablished r'-Arch-
bishop of York: III know what to say in
the matter, may be-ahem ?-disendowed. y
Punch.
The Spectator praises Mrs. Grota's Life of
her husband as being exceedingly agreeable
and entertaining. 1t says egotism in clever
woman generally has an interest, and Mrs.
Grote is both egotistic and clever, and her
egotism adds greatly to the interest of the
book.
The flag which floated over Fort Sumter
in 1861 is in the possession Of Stamford
man. Please remember this, because other
men in other towns all over the country will
be claiming to have that ancient piece o.
bunting in the next six months. tits well tc
know where that flag is, though we doubt i
it is in condition for further use
A Baptist paper in Ohio was sent for nine
years to subscriber who never paid cen
for it. The other day the newspaper was re
turned to the patient and long-suffering pub
Usher with the affecting pencil note on its
margin: "Gone to better world" The
publisher is very pious man, but it is repor
ed that his faith is terribly shaken with regard
to the accuracy of the information:
Schneider very justly remarks that no lit.
tie sartorial art was required in the Eliza.
bethan age. "The close.fitting leg-wear o.
those days." he says, ''must have caused
deep thought and intense anxiety to th,
Poole of three centuries ago. Shakespear
recognizes this when he puts into the mouth
| of Ophelia these words: "Pants is 70
thoughts" .
"a few days ago." says the Journal dc
Lyon, ''the director of the Great Theatre, in
view of the speedy opening of that establish
ment, wrote to General Bourbaki, offering to
decorate for him front box, which should
be henceforth appropriated to the general
command. That officer replied, 4 should
willingly accept your kind offer if had not
promised myself not to return to any theatre