The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-04-03
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Gossip Z. Ordinary.
At church, on Sunday, Felix, hearing the
minister real. "How beautiful are the feet OF
those who bring glad tidngs," remarked to
Isaac, ssthat must mean the feet or the men
who comes into the office to pay years sub
scription in advance 7" The book which
has the widest circulation Of all-the pocket
book A well-msde girl-one who has
made her market. The reason why the
Emprcss Eugene Is never out Of fashion Is, that
everything she wears is fashionable. On like
principle a really pretty woman always looks
well, whatever she has or has not on; and the
les the prcttier E. The lady who wears
lon. skirts in the street at the present time
should be Judged as short OF brains.
Whether sell-male people amount Ito shucks"
or something else according to the Boston Posts
Minor ftsms, quite depends upon how they are
made In one sense every man is self-made,
with no particular credit in the making to the
proportion Of eight in ten. The man who makes
himself, No TO speak, in the fhce Of uncommon
and untowarl difficulties, and lifts himself above
the level Of the crowd--providing always the
lin Is in the direction Of decency and goodness
has achieved crclitable thing, and should be
complmentel. The nan who has made goose
of himse,f-he too, is "sclt-msde"-and the
make in this class is everywhere eStensive-is
not likely 70 aid 70 the COOL If the race or the
distinction OF his name. Self-made women are
little better, unless after the molel stamp; and
the latter Is the rare exception, rs the world, or
the sex, goes. 4 sclf-maae woman Is TO be sus-
pcctel. Into her make there is too much cotton,
whalebonc, steel. She may be well made arts
ticaly considered. but then she seems rather more
than she il; that il, she Is not-not the "thing
you thought" All effort onward and upward
Is sclf-culture in the right direction, and all
such Is commemorate. II the reader has never
male any Of this sort, the sooner II is tried the
better. Courage is rs much a matter of
the stomach rs Of the brain. No man feels
tightly anil defiant ON an empty paunch, and no
great battle was ever won just before dinner
time. To carry out all measures of account
with success the brain relics as much on the
stomach as a nan does woman when he gets
married. The two things are as inscparable rs
sunshine and light. :. Nine ladies' out Of
ten wear corsets. The tenth does not; first, be-
ciuse she don't need them; and second, she
does not like to be s1ueczed. The inference is
that the rest do like it-and the more the bet
ter. These articles may be found in all their
varieties, at Cook Bros. City Building, Bidde-
fort.
Felix SAYS the long curl worn by ladies' at the
base Of the head reminds him Of "crookcd pigs
tail I" he meant to say pigs crooked tail i
The city council Of BillefOrl are discussing the
Of building clock up" Not that
such place Is nee,lel for our own citizens, but
folks win get intoxicated ut Portland, Boston,
etc., AMI when they come here in such n condi-
ton they necl place Of rest AMI repose..
The bOarling houses on one of the corporations
mr., turning out all their men AMI boy bosrlers
not employed in the mills. Felix says, "the
girls don't want 'em round, because they want
10 run al over the house in their--stcckinS
feet" VIII Btllci5rl purchase steam
fire engine! She ought TO, sure. ltockland sared
enough In one LAY TO twice pay for ono, and
Bidiefbri has doubtless more eombustible mat
ter than Rockl,nd. D.. Mr.. Smith has lost
his ..tlorg'; Mrs. Smith hopes he (the dorg,
not Smith, will stay lest. Smith thinks Bos-
ton '.runner" Kidnapped him. anil wishes he'd
Kidnapped Mrs. Smith instead. -. Alarms OF
Rrc have been very prevalent Of late, but except
the damages done to the "maehines" AMI the
legs of the firemen. no losses have occurred. ;.
"Runners" are plenty in Sieo and Biddetord.
-. .Did you rest we'll, Mr.. Brown" "Rest!
No, sir, do YOU expect man could rest when
the bells commence ringing ut half past ten Mt
night and keep II up till six o'clock the next
morning." Agentlcman recently inquired
why. while there were so many parties somebody
dtln't start 'The Lunk-hcad party" a lady
of the democratic persuasion suggested that he
would he SURF Of an election rs its president, but
he thinks his election woull he doubtful, since
there would not be Republican votes enough to
elect him. =. NIoulton and BOdweH make
quite sprcil in our columns, but 1t is not
eaud 10 the spread Of nice SOoils upon their
counters. Frvl Day Is also spreading out
nice assortment Of ladies' goods, which II the
ladies' are wise, they wiz be spreading in gooi'
made up. =. The best matches In the
country are the Eureka matches, always except
the matches male by gentlemen and ladies,
some Of the latter, however, never 20 oil. Not
NJ with the Eureks's.