The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-08
Gossip and Gleanings.

ell. II not, we have a curious case OF dupli-
| Gated invention.
Gossip and Gleanings.
A London man rewarded the person who
found his pooketbook by offering to ..sbake
for the d ~ with him.
| Georgia issues invitations fer ''your ccm
pany on Friday even ing te a candy yank. No
persons car. yng shot guns admitted"
Courting is not much INDUCED in in Ken
| lucky, from the fact that the old man is ls-
Bile to enter the room with preacher and
shotgun and get up wedding.
| The Methodist confesses to being little
astonished to see show patronizing the new
school of scepucal science is to the Al
mighty"
| The lesson of the late fires seems to be that
tn oniv -eally incombustble materials in The
world are those of which are made the ffic-
ton-matches which one finds in holels.-
| World.
A playful young man named Luck pointed
gun at negro boy in Fayette county, Tex,
when, to be IN fashion, it went off; and he
negro, hom his bed of pain, says he dol't
want any more such luck.
| Columbus has boy who would not 90 70
the circus when his father wished him i, do
So He preferred to remain in school and
read in Ills little book. The boy is not
healthy.
The Pittsfeld Sun notices no the GENTLE
men involved in the Credit MobIier scandal
''squirm." They suit the word to the act on
when they explain that t.ey tcok the stock
for eety-mosynary purposes.
The New York correspondent Of the Mis-
sour Republican learns that the murderer
Simmons is to have piano in his CELL The
I public would doubtless be much edited by
his execution
| In Pesth, the otter day, youthful prodi-
gy repea ed the Lord's Prayer in twent,-two
languages. Itis getting TO be difficult to find
youthful prodigies who have repeated It
twenty-five times in any language.
A man in Keokuk undertook to smoke eut
the ra,s from between the floors ard aIti-
tions OF his house. He made it veiy hot or
the rats, but the next time he tiles the ex-
pertinent il will be in another house
4 Tho
are running their hoses against that port, n
of Rhode Island that sticks out into tie WI
ter, and the inhabitants are troubled W. b
ca, thquakes."
The Chicago Tribune ventures the conun
drum, "why do flourmills burn?' Wenever
knew they did, says the Peor Reuietc, Lav-
ing never be- Ell burned by one, but sLpl O. e
its because they 'fecombustiEe. Hell's Gle
for the Tribune. ''Why do summer lo.es
fade?'
The young people of Portland, Me-, have
their own little sCciabies, and married pe.-
sons are not allowed admission to them This
IS well enough: but it Is dit1icuit to tell how
those young people iIanage to anuse them
seives.-RocheSter Democrat.
There has been shamefully thin attend
ance upon the Rubinstein concerts at Bos-
ton, and Wleniawski is credited with saying:
"Our only troubl. is, that ii we stay in Bos s.
ton much longer we MAJ become unaceustom-
Ell to appearing in public.
Among other things that Wells & Fnrgo's
hrm is irresponsible fer as carriers is couch
ed IN the following language in their regula-
ions: IN or Tor any loss or damage by fire,
the acts OF God, or OF indians, or any other
public enemies, Of the Government"
The wife OF railroad employee in Atlanta
thrashed barkeeper for selling him whiskey,
treated the master of the machre shops TO
similar dose for giving him money. and
took the inebriated individual home bv one
OF MS ears What she did with him has MT
been reported.
A Wisconsin woman is known who, when
she discovers burglar beneath her bed. does
not yell, but kneels aud prays Tor him. This
has worked well on one occasion, but her
husband has purchased horse pistol th t
carries ball as large as doughnut, and
says: "Get the drip on him before you DO
anything elsep
Jersey journalism is not wholly without its
incidents OF ferocity.. An Essex County po-
ct has bump on bis head hitherto unknown
to phrenologists. He was the aJthor of an
"Oce to the Dying Year. (the 9th of I, G
kind that the editor had received in one
week. and was foolhardy enough to present
it in person.
The following is the account of q it'll
trouble in Louisville as given bv a no,icn Of
ficer: Far as knows, your Honor tnev h,
very good young men. On Sunday morn,
ing they started to lake their cla,se, in snn-
day school, wich think be VERY GOOD for
them; but they fell in with a West Ender.
That's what beat EN-, and they didn't 20 to
school. They .aised row, may it please the
COURT and Mr.. Green he stuck his thumb in
to MIR. Nobb's mouth, and that thumb hasn't
never been seen nee. That's all | know
about it,
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