The Portland daily press., 1873-02-10

MONDAY MORNING, FEB. o. 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.


Gossip and Gleanings.
NJ. Samuel Cook, of Iowa, sold his wife to
Mr. Josiah Delmer, fer S52 81.
Mrs. Sally Cooper, of Baltimore. has tack
led the fiery gasoline for the last time.
Rhode Island is almost rid of smallpox.
1t didn't take much of it to go round.
The generic title of small 'jobs'' is now
"Credit Mobilier, Jr.
| ''Max Adeler' is the pseudonym of Charles
Heber Clark, who with his brother edits the
Philadelphia weekly To-Day.
"You quack too much" said the dog to the goose,
And the goose replied ''you bark too loud"
| Neither, the fact was, willing to lose
The sound of his own voice over the crowd
Senator Bogy is described as a''political pet
rifaction." He will then probably treat all
corrupt suggestions with ''stony indifference.
"a tedious and exotic mud-slinger'' is the
Worlds latest pet name for the editor of the
Times.
"Send Us wives!' Is the piteous plea that
comes from Washington Territory, and natu-
rally the question arises, "Whose wives shall
we send%
The Connecticut Democrats talk of run
ming Gid. Welle5 for Governor. Neverthe-
less, we still adhere to our belief that Mrs.
Partington would make better candidate.
She isn't so old as Gid, but she knows more.
Com. Id.
Beliere.-The old writers use 'to leve" and
'to believe" indiherently, az we use the verb
"to live." Believe was written 'by lyve,"
and recurring to old authorities we find the
verb by leue denoting to lire By.
When western paper, says the Herald,
announced that the daughter of an Ameri-
can ambassador abroad is the ''fnanciere'' of
foreign nobleman it probably. meant fancee.
But the mistake is quite natural and very ex-
cusable. She will be bis financier sometime.
Amerce or n,erce expressed the exacting or
imposing fine. To be subject to the Kings
grieuous mercy was to be subject to heavy
fine payable to him. The remission of
which came finally to be called his mercy, for
clemency is compassion.
A timid resident of Ridgefeld, Conn.,, be-
ing Unexpectedly called upon TO address
Sunday school, rose to his feet in some con-
fusion, and, after several desperate but vain
attempts to say something appropriate, |
hoarsely muttered, s'Dear children, never
fool with powder.
Mr.. Bellew, the English elocutionist, who
is delighting the Gothamites, is described as
"a very handsome man, young looking in
spite of his white locks, graceful in every
movement, and natural in action; this made
the English ladies so like to see him, and his
white and jeweled hands were their admira-
tion.'
About this time, or between now and the
opening of the travelling show season, look
out for trouble among wild beasts. 1t 10
nearly time for Forepaugh's lions to devour
couple of canvasmen; Barnum's elephant
will suffer from emotional insanity shortly,
and other dire calamities may be expected.
The dog that enjoys coasting so much THAI
he steals sleds and tugs them by bis teeth to
the top of the highest hills, sliding thence, is
filling brief engagement at Leavenworth. |
That dog, however, cannot adequately en-
joy the fun like the boys. He cannot have
the supreme luxury of wearing out his new
trowsers.
A Western editor reports as an extraordi.
nary circumstances the fact that General
Leslie Coombs has been for twenty years in
the habit of taking twenty minute bath in
the morning, and adds that he ''has not worn
an overcoat during that time" Whether the
wonder to the Western mind lies in taking q
bath without an overcoat or in taking bath
at all is left to surmise.
The Hartford Courdnt has this cheerful lit
tie item: Mrs. Sherman, the lady who has
survived several husbands, as is quite gener-
ally known, reached this city yesterday after
noon from New Haven at quarter Of five.
Five other prisoners (men)came up at the same
time. Quite crowd gathered about the
sleigh before it started, and Mrs. Sherman
was the observed of all observers till she drew
thick veil over her eyes. She has sharp,
hard face, with a terribly cold eye.
Appleton's Journal answers ths question,
"Who deserves hissing9'' by saying: "At the
theatre let them indignantly hiss the musi-
clans who come stumbling noisily into their
places in the midst of the important scene at
the close of each act. Let them hiss late
comers, who heedlessly hustle into their seats
to the disturbance Of the whole assembly;
hiss the men and women who rush from their
places before the play is over; hiss, relently
hiss the chattering and noisy groups so often
assembled in the private boxes
lFrom the Danbury News.
A German psychologist has discovered that
tobacco smoking by boys sinterferes with the
molecular changes coincident with develop
ment of tissues, and makes the blood corpus
cles oval and irregular at the edge" Any
parent can thus ascertain If his boy smokes
by merely taking out handful of his blood
corpuscles and observing their edges.
The green paper window curtains contain
poisonous ingredients, and children should
oil fol f.rSf Nf thoxx~